Sky Dimension Knight 13

chapter 13 how ominous...

Beta'd by: Satsujinki Nanaya

[A few days later]

Naruto woke up in the hospital surrounded by his friends who all had tears in their eyes. "You idiot!" They all cried out before tackling him.

Naruto could only smile as he tried to pat all of their heads comforting them but the pain from his wounds meant that he could barely move.

"Hey girls is everyone alright?" Naruto asked, his voice was extremely strained and the girls had to lean in close so that they could even hear what Naruto was saying over his raspy breath.

[In the girls thoughts]

The girls thought about how they found Naruto, in the dead of the night after the explosion caused by the destruction of Brave Heart settled Laura, Blanc, Uni and Nepgear were eventually joined by Houki, Charlotte, Cecilia, Rin and Ichika, who miraculously recovered from his injuries, and helped Houki and her group in their fight against the damaged CFW Judge.

Together they searched tirelessly for hours for any trace of the GaoFighGar but it wasn't until the sun started to rise did they finally spot the GaoFighGar floating in the ocean, carrying it to the shore the girls gently placed it down on the ground before Nepgear stepped up to it and worked on removing all the armor from around the GaoFighGar releasing the Lancelot within.

Once the Lancelot was free Nepgear quickly worked and got it to return to its standby phase to reveal Naruto who was majorly injured, to Laura she just saw the grievous injuries that Naruto had incurred whereas Nepgear, Uni and Blanc recognized the wounds on Naruto as similar to the one's he got when he fought against the Golem...

[Back in the hospital room]

Naruto tried to move his hand again but just gave up. "So what is going to happen to all of you?"

"Eh what do you mean Naruto-kun?" Nepgear asked while turning to the other girls who were also puzzled.

"All of you left the inn ,against direct orders, to fight Brave Heart right? The school isn't going to do anything to you right?"

The girls simply smiled and thought, 'Even injured Naruto still thinks of other people first.'

"No Naruto-kun the sensei's said that we won't be punished for our actions and just gave us a warning this time." Suddenly the door to Naruto's room opened and in stepped Naruto's and Nepgear's parents.

"Come on kids right now Naruto needs plenty of rest we can always come visit some other time later." The girls nodded and slowly filed out of the room along with Nepgear's parents who closed the door behind them giving Naruto and his parents some alone time.

"Hey there Naruto." Naruto wanted to greet his parents but they pushed him back into the bed. "No don't move we know what you're going to say and we just want to say that you did what you had to do so just get some rest you need it now."

Naruto shed a tear before he nodded and closed his eyes, Kushina smiled and placed a small kiss on his cheek. "Good night Naruto." She softly muttered before both parents left the room and closed the door behind them.

Once they were gone some time passed till the window was opened and in slipped two flying figures, one had clear pink circular wings on her back, held in her hand was a sword gleaming with power while the other figure wore a red dress and held ,strangely enough, flintlock pistols.

The purple girl approached Naruto's bed and grabbing a hold of his iv. drip she inserted a needle filled with liquid and injected it into Naruto's drip before closing off the small hole with some kind of tape.

At the same time the red girl approached Naruto and gently caressed his face.

"Oi Red Heart what do you think you're doing?"

"Relax Purple Heart...it's just been so long since I've seen him I've almost forgotten what his face felt like...when will your plan go into effect? And you do know that Annoydeath can't be trusted right?"

"Yes I know that...I never should have recreated him from the archives project but I thought that we would need the help." Purple Heart answered. "Even Brave Heart and Judge, there must have been mistakes in their programming...thank goodness for the self-destruct commands in their programming so now there should be no physical evidence for these humans to use."

"Still we should check...and what about Annoydeath's insider Purple Heart? Will she pulling out soon? "

"She'll be pulling out soon so I want you and Yellow Heart there to receive her." Red Heart nodded and they were about to leave when Naruto turned in his bed and saw Purple Heart and in a soft and weak voice he called out to her. "N-Nepgear? Didn't you just leave?"

Almost instantly Purple Heart stopped in her track and turned back to face Naruto. On Naruto's end he couldn't make out her facial features as Nepgear's but he recognized that lilac hair anywhere even if he was groggy and way out of it.

Red Heart looked to Purple Heart who was not moving. 'C'mon Purple Heart say something you need to get this off your shoulder.'

"Yeah it's me Naruto-kun...I um I just sneaked back to see you one more time so why don't you go back to bed and I'll visit you again in the morning." Purple Heart answered in a shaky voice, tears were streaming down her face but due to Purple Heart being in the front none of them could see her.

"Hey Nepgear are you alright? You sound like you're crying." Naruto reached forward and grabbed a hold of Purple Hearts hand to comfort her. "C'mon...don't cry Ge-Ge everything will be fine...I-I'll still be here in the morning so go on and get some rest. "

Naruto soon drifted back to sleep due to medication and his arm fell to his side's the morning when he woke up he would not remember this meeting, with Naruto asleep Purple Heart and Red Heart left the hospital and returned to their secret base. Once they landed Purple Heart immediately ran for her room tears streaming out of her eyes.

Once she was in her room Purple Heart tossed her sword to the side of the room and immediately she threw herself to her bed and bawled her eyes out. On the walls of Purple Hearts room were pictures of her with full grown women, two small children and a plethora of other people all of them were so happy even Purple Heart looked so happy...

Whereas in Red Hearts room she simply laid on her bed, she could hear the faint crying of Purple Heart, and she thought about herself. It took nearly all of her willpower not to breakdown and cry as well...but it was Purple Heart who gave her new hope.

Reaching for her cupboard she opened a secret compartment where she pulled out an envelope, emptying its content left a letter, tape and a recorder to play it. Red heart took the tape and inserted it into the recorder and hit play.

At the same time Red Heart she picked up the letter and read it as she listened to the tape, once the tape was done playing Red Heart put the recorder aside and walked over to the bathroom and washed her face.

As tears dripped down her face Red Heart brushed a bit of her left bangs away to reveal that under her bangs was a single yellow eye which was in contrast to her other eye which was red, brushing her hand against her yellow eye the faint appearance of clock hand appeared. "I want to meet him again."

[The next day]

Nepgear and group entered Naruto's room to see that he was now seating straight up, eating breakfast. "Hey Nepgear. Everyone good morning." He greeted before taking in another spoonful of mush.

"N-Naruto what are you doing? Shouldn't you be resting?"

"Well yeah but the doctor checked everything today and they said that my recovery is actually going way better than expected in fact I could be going home in a few days but the doctor wants me to stay here for a few more days just in case."

Nepgear and group nodded before they broke out the games and the age old argument of which was better soon started, even Laura joined in the occasion and they found her to be pretty good at shooter games.

Eventually Ichika and his group came to visit and see how Naruto was doing and they ended up staying for a while to play games together.

Last but not least were the teachers who decided to visit, and there IF-sensei profusely apologized for putting all of them in danger but Naruto brushed it off and said that while it was dangerous at the end of the day everyone came back.

Eventually night came and the nurse had to come and shoo everyone out of the room just so that Naruto could rest.

[That night]

Naruto woke up in the middle of the night and felt rather thirsty so he carefully slipped out of his bed and went towards the nearest vending machine, he slipped in the coins for his drink and took a seat outside in a nearby garden.

As he drank his drink packet a small cat went 'meow' and ran up to Naruto.

"Hey there little guy what are you doing here?" Naruto reached down and scratched the back of the cats head making it purr soothingly while also brushing itself against his feet.

"Want something to drink?" The cat nodded and meowed happily.

Naruto went back inside and came back out with a small dish and a packet of milk, setting the platter down Naruto opened the packet and poured a little for the cat who happily drank it up. 'Hmm I wonder if this cat belongs to someone?'

The cat was there lapping up the milk while Naruto just watched, instinctively he reached for his hand but found that the Lancelot wasn't there anymore. 'Heh of course they would take it away...sigh can't wait to get out of here.'

"What about you cat-san?" The cat looked up at Naruto and tilted its head. "Want to come home with me?"

"Oh Neko-san...where are you?" A voice called out.

Turning in the direction Naruto saw a black haired girl looking for her cat, Naruto looked down at the cat who seemed to be nodding.

Picking up the cat Naruto ran up to the girl. "Um excuse me miss!"

The girl turned around and Naruto saw how beautiful she actually was with twin long tails, one red eye while her other eye was covered by her bangs. "Oh Neko-san!"

The cat meowed and jumped out of Naruto's arms leaping straight into the arms of its true master and snuggled up to her. "Ah where did you go Neko-san I was looking everywhere for you."

"Meow." The cat went before it looked over at Naruto.

"Ah I'm sorry for troubling you." Apologized the girl. "Anyways I'm Kurumi."

"Yeah don't mention it I'm Naruto." Kurumi nodded and accepted Naruto's handshake.

The two of them took a seat on a small bench.

"So um Kurumi the cat you have there is trained really well if it answers to your orders so promptly ."

"Ah thank you for mentioning it Naruto, this cat here is my best friend." Kurumi brought the cat up to her face. "Oh you naughty Neko-san running away from me no treats for you when we get home."

Naruto laughed and turned to face Kurumi, there he noticed that there seemed to be a tear coming down Kurumi's face. "Eh Kurumi are you alright?"

Kurumi reached up and brushed the tears away. "Oh I'm sorry Naruto it's just that you remind me a lot of a person I used to know."

"Oh I-I'm sorry..."

"No it's alright my friend wouldn't want me to be sad he wouldn't like me to be like that."

"What happened to your friend if you don't mind me asking?"

Kurumi laughed and settled Neko-san on her lap. "No it's alright and maybe it's better to get it off my chest. See some time ago I used to be rather crazy but then my friend he saw me for what I actually was and helped me to regain my humanity it was slow but eventually I was willing to open my heart to him."

There was a moment of silence before Kurumi continued. "But then it all changed with this man, he came after me and a few of my friends and he stole something from us weakening us greatly, and I eventually fell into a coma and only when I woke up did I find out that my friend went after the man and he managed to take back just enough energy for us to get back on our feet."

Kurumi started shedding tears by this point. "He wasn't able to make it back due to his opponent and I never got the chance to see him again." Kurumi's tears dripped down onto Neko-san who looked up and licked Kurumi's tears away.

"Ah thank you Neko-san I don't know what I'd do without you." Kurumi patted Neko-san on the head before turning back to Naruto. "This is why I hold Neko-san so close to me, my friend and I worked together to save him from some bullies."

Naruto nodded and smiled, hoping to cheer up Kurumi. "Don't worry Kurumi I may not be your friend but I'm sure that he wouldn't want to have seen you like this after all he fought for you and even if he couldn't be there to see you wake up he must have been thinking of you every moment before his death."

Kurumi held in a cry before nodding once more. "Yeah your right Naruto-kun thank you for listening to my story."

"Heh don't mention it Kurumi-chan." Naruto stood up ready to return to his room. "Anyways I have to get back to my room soon, if not then the nurse may come looking for me."

Kurumi nodded as the both of them stood up and went their separate ways but before they did so Kurumi called back to Naruto. "Wait Naruto-kun!"

Naruto turned around and was suddenly met with Kurumi who gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you soon Naruto-kun!" She happily replied before skipping off leaving a wide mouthed Naruto there.

[Timeskip]

Naruto entered the lone hangar and walked over to the remains of the G-parts.

The front of G-Liner was completely gone and the back was missing portions of its armor and most of the armor was cracked in that final attack.

Both the G-Drill and G-spiral were heavily damaged especially the G-spiral who was missing not only its drill knee but also the claws on the foot.

Then finally there was G-Phantom and what a nightmare it was, the hand modules were on the verge of completely breaking apart with one of them nearly half destroyed after he tried using 'protect on', the body armor was also cracking and part of the left side had also been destroyed, then finally there was the head module and it wasn't any better off than any other part the mask that went over the Lancelot's head was cracked and the left side was heavily damaged.

"Sigh you've been through a lot haven't you?" Naruto thought about the fight against the Golem and then there was the fight against Silver Gospel before the fight against Brave Heart ended it all. 'It's been a long road but it looks like you can finally rest.'

Taking a tarp Naruto carefully covered the G-parts and left the room proceeding back to his house where there seemed to be mail.

"Huh let's see for mom, mom, dad, dad...me?" Naruto noticed that there was a box addressed specifically to him, placing the rest of the letters on the kitchen table Naruto went to his room to open the package.

But before he did so he made sure to check under his bed to ensure that his stash was still here. 'Whew still there...'

Sitting down on his chair Naruto took out a box cuter and opened the box to reveal a statue of GaoFighGar in an epic stance dust and everything flying away from it, Naruto smiled and went in search of the letter for it.

"Hey Naruto I heard about what's going on and I thought this little statue would cheer you up I'll be coming back from the test facility soon and I've got a huge present for you. Your grandfather Jiraiya." Naruto scoffed before laughing out loud.

"Hahaha oh Oji-san...I'm surprised that there wasn't anything perverted in the package."

Naruto placed the letter on the table before going to one of his wall mountings and placing the statue there, stepping back he admired the statue as well as the other things that decorated his room.

On one wall were pictures of his grandfather and him when he was young. The picture was taken back when his grandfather decided to take him and Nepgear to visit an old friend of his.

He couldn't really remember the man's name but apparently he was what was considered a noble, Naruto couldn't remember much of the trip for some reason.

Then there was also the picture of his grandfather in a suit of armor, and that suit of armor became the inspiration for the look of the Lancelot.

But before he could continue to admire his belongings, there was another knock at the door, Naruto opened the door to see another delivery man and with him was a huge upright parcel. "Got a package for one Naruto Namikaze."

Naruto opened the door and accepted the package and once the delivery guy was gone he brought it to his room and unpacked it to reveal a stunning set of armor. It wasn't just any set of armor it was a European set of knight armor but modeled after a samurai. "Wow very cool!"

Inside the box was another letter. "A second gift from your grandfather to you."

"Heh thanks jii-san can't wait for you to be back." Suddenly the alarms of the facility went off.

"Warning! Warning! An intruder has been detected stealing from Vault 10! All Security teams report there immediately!"

Almost immediately Naruto left the house and made his way towards the Lancelot's hanger. 'Vault 10 that's where the plans for the old military projects are!'

In the distance near the vault area there was an explosion as something took off from the vault and soon something else joined it in the air while missiles and bullets were fired upon them and then there was another blur following the two previous blurs and she was firing at the 2nd blur.

'Our IS security teams must be after the spies c'mon I gotta reach the Lancelot!'

[With Nepgear]

She chased after Abnes who she found stealing from the Vault but before she could catch her some girl in an IS suit suddenly appeared and began attacking her all the while declaring herself to be 'Yellow Heart' and the both of them fought with Nepgear using her sword gun and Yellow Heart using a set of claws.

And once the Security Teams arrived Abnes took off from a hole that was created when they fought, Nepgear followed suit leaving Yellow Heart to the security teams but she proved too much to handle as Yellow Heart escaped and followed right behind Nepgear.

"Abnes-san stop there and surrender now!" Nepgear fired two warning shots at Abnes but she dodged the both of them and continued flying. "Have to catch up to her!"

Nepgear accelerated but was stopped when Yellow Heart came diving downwards tackling Nepgear and delivering there fast and rapid slashes Nepgear's chest area sending her crashing back down to earth.

"Yellow Heart take care of her while I deliver these plans."

"Hai!" Yellow Heart happily replied before she dove heading straight for Nepgear.

"No Abnes is getting away!" Nepgear picked herself up and charged at Yellow Heart.

Meeting in the middle Nepgear parried Yellow Heart's claws and fired her weapon multiple times into Yellow Hearts chest blowing her backwards into a patch of clouds.

Yellow Heart groaned with a bit of pain but she managed to recover and charged at Nepgear her claws glowing with power, Nepgear tried blocking Yellow Heart's claws but whatever her weapon was made of, it broke straight through Nepgear's sword breaking it into small shards leaving her completely defenceless.

"Time to finish this!" Yellow Heart performed some kind of X wave attack that headed straight towards Nepgear.

"Not on my watch!" The Lancelot appeared before her and took the brunt of the attack to the front of the suit.

"Gah!" Cried out Naruto however before he could move out of the way Yellow Heart closed the distance between the two of them and used her claws to tear right through the Lancelot's already weakened armor leaving thick scratches in its place.

Unable to control his suit anymore Naruto fell out of the sky. "Naruto!" Nepgear kicked in her afterburners and chased after Naruto who was unconscious.

"Not on my watch!" Yellow Heart was about to go after Nepgear when she was stopped by red beams that blocked her path. "Huh?"

Looking up Yellow Heart saw a girl in a red dress like suit holding two pistols a number of cannons were behind her while a visor masked her identity. "Red Heart onee-chan! What are you doing here?"

"Stop yourself and go back now Yellow Heart!" Yellow Heart pouted but backed off nonetheless.

[With Nepgear]

She had just barely managed to catch Naruto but when she landed, she missed her landing and just crashed to the ground in a pile Naruto's body tumbling off to the side, Nepgear reached out to Naruto but found a sword at her throat.

"Don't move!" Nepgear Feared for both of their lives at that very moment, her attacker sported a black suit, pink hair and a full helmet which masked her identity and voice.

"No...d-don't!" Looking over they both saw Naruto pick himself up and tumble over using his sword as a crutch, to stand in between Nepgear and her attacker.

"Why? You're injured yet you would give your life for her?" Naruto nodded.

"N-Nepgear is my best friend I would do anything I can do to protect her." Naruto brought his sword up but if the shaking was any indication he could barely hold the sword up.

Purple Heart pulled her sword wielding hand back but she hesitated unable to strike Naruto down, when she finally worked up the courage to strike him down she screamed as loud as she could while bringing her sword down, Naruto closed his eyes and waited for the strike. "Ahhhhhh!"

There was an enormous blast and when Naruto opened his eyes again he saw that to his side was an enormous crater, Purple Heart had tears rerunning down her cheek. "I'll let you go for his sake but I swear this won't happen again!"

Taking off with a blast Purple Heart, Red Heart and Yellow Heart retreated into a portal that Purple Heart created.

Once they were gone Naruto fell to his knees before landing face first in the sand. "Naruto!" Nepgear cried out as she ran forward and brought Naruto back to the factory.

[Sometime later]

Naruto woke up and found his chest bandaged up. "Naruto you shouldn't move." His mother replied pushing him back down onto the bed.

"Wh-where's Nepgear?" He asked.

"She had to go somewhere but she left you this." Kushina took out a letter and placed it in Naruto's hands, opening it he found that it was a letter from Nepgear. "Dear Naruto-kun by the time you read this I would have already left along with onee-chan. After the security breach your parents and mine decided that he testing of the new suits should take place at a secret location I'm sorry I won't be there when you wake up but I'll try to get back to school as soon as possible love Nepgear."

Naruto put the letter to the side and looked up to his mother. "What about the Lancelot?"

"I'm sorry Naruto but we can't fix it the damage it suffered was too extensive."

"No damn it!"

[Timeskip]

Naruto approached the hanger where the Lancelot was stored upon entering it there he saw the Lancelot. "Looks like it was your turn too huh? It was my fault I should have reacted faster...still thank you Lancelot for all you've done huh? What's this?" As Naruto was talking to the Lancelot he ran his fingers along the armor and found that it was missing its core.

"The Lancelot's core is missing who took it?"

[At a secret location Play IS S2 OP Blue traveller]

"Acho! Someone is talking about me...anyways c'mon my beauties we have work to do it's time for my department to finally strut its stuff and prove that we're going to be the best IS makers there ever was!"

"Hai Jiraiya-sama!" Everyone in the room who just so happened to be females wearing maid uniforms replied before turning back to their work which was working on a brand new IS suit that was in its final stages of construction.

Jiraiya sat back in his chair and turned to face the construction screen book in hand. "Looks like the King of Knights will finally take to the battlefield again."

[With Nepgear]

She was on a jet heading towards the secret testing location when she thought she heard something, looking out of her window she saw what she couldn't believe.

It was the Lancelot but a sort of green outline not only that but there was also the Lancelot Air Cavalry (I.E Lancelot with the first float system), then there was Lancelot Conquista (I.E Lancelot with the second float pack).

They were all flying alongside the jet on the right side while turning back to the left side Nepgear saw the GaoFighGar and the G-parts. "Eh what is this? The Lancelot and GaoFighGar?"

On both sides the mechs nodded before flying forward.

Nepgear smiled when they returned. 'Heh even now Naruto-kun is sending me off.'

[With IF-sensei and Orimura-sensei]

They were in the conference room with the other teachers deciding their new roster for individual classes.

"So will the males be staying in their individual classes?"

"Yes." Orimura-sensei reported. "Ichika will be staying in class 1-1."

"And Naruto Namikaze will remain in class 1-2 he's my best student after all!" IF-sensei proudly replied.

"Then IF-sensei you will need these transfer scripts since your class will be short a few students." IF-sensei accepted the scripts and saw the first one was for a girl named Nisa.

[With Nisa]

"Hey hold it right there you evil cat! How dare you steal my scarf of justice?!" Nisa jumped from the second floor and landed on the first floor of her home while striking a cool pose. Nisa was currently dressed in a zipped down jumpsuit.

But the cat just ignored Nisa and ran into the kitchen prompting Nisa to run after her while house servants appeared running after Nisa with a rather frilly dress in hand. "Nisa-sama please a lady like yourself shouldn't be doing that!"

"No I'm a heroine of justice! And a heroine of justice should always be clad in her proper heroic attire!"

[Back with IF-sensei]

"Um well I'm sure she won't be too much of a problem...now onto the next student Red."

[With Red]

"Ah finally after so long Ultradimension Goddess MK 2: Hyper Victory edition has been released! I wonder if any other female characters have been added to the roster...ooohhhh I can't wait to go home and make them all my waifu's!" Red took the box off the shelf and made her way to the counter getting weird looks from other customers who stepped aside when Red passed near them.

[With IF-sensei]

"Moving on!" IF-sensei took out another file and this time it came with a noble seal from one of the remaining noble families from the United Kingdom. "Celia Cumani Aintree? Now why would there be a letter for complete transfer of classes?"

[With Celia]

She was seated under a beautiful apple tree drinking a glass of tea, after having just moved into her old holiday home, she took a small sip from her tea before a maid came to her. "Miss Celia everything is all set for you, you may now move into your room I apologize for the wait."

"Thank you Rosetta and please there is no need to apologize it must have been hard for all of you when I abruptly said that I was coming here." Celia walked up to her room Rosetta following behind her carrying her suitcase.

Once Celia was inside her room Rosetta put Celia's suitcase in the corner and excused herself.

"It's been a while since I've been here..." Celia approached her bed and there she picked up a small photo frame, in it was of a child version of her. By her side was a blonde boy he was laughing and looked rather dirty, on his head was a knight's helmet that wasn't on straight while by Celia's side stood a pure white horse.

"It's been such a long time since I've seen him I wonder does he even remember me?" Celia placed the photo down and played with a simple string band on her hand.

[With IF-sensei]

"Ah man I'll need more headache medicine when the new term starts, Compa please do remind me to get some." Compa nodded and made a small note on her clipboard. "And the last one is-"

[End song Timeskip]

The holiday passed by quickly and Nepgear left a few messages which Naruto replied to. In his spare time Naruto tried contacting both Uni and Blanc but apparently their facilities had been attacked as well with important plans being stolen which led to the two of them moving to a secret location where they could test out their new prototype suits.

Even Laura was busy reporting to her superiors so she had no time to visit, though Naruto did find out that Ichika and Houki stayed at school for the holiday so he spent some time with them and the rest of his time was spent training his skills for, if and when his parents decided to repair the Lancelot and implant a new core in it.

But for now he was going to use the far lower spec but newer Lancelot Club as his current IS. The Lancelot club wasn't that bad of an IS but compared to the Lancelot it just couldn't perform the same.

Currently Naruto was dressed in his school uniform on the train heading back to the academy. "Well looks like it's a whole new term of school I wonder if anything is going to be different?"

Chapter and Season 1 end

So that was the end of season 1 it had some up and downs but overall I enjoyed every second of writing this story and I want to thank everyone who read the story, reviewed it, favoritied it or followed it thank you all for the wondrous support that you have shown me and I hope that you'll do the same for S2 especially with the new cast and plot that I've got planned.

Also in case you guys are about to call me out on the whole giving of backstory between Naruto and Kurumi. That becomes more relevant when more about Kurumi is revealed. And yes Kurumi is Kurumi from Date a Live.

Also the whole scene with Jiraiya and maids was kinda taken from a manga called Cannon God EXaXXion.

And of course we get more character from Neptunia.

In the case of S2 in case you people are wondering I may or may not be taking a way different route than the anime so just stayed tune on that end and don't worry the Lancelot Club won't stay in S2 for very long.

So with that said please leave a review with maybe your favorite part of the story and what you hope for in S2 especially with what I've introduced in the last segment and if you haven't voted yet than make sure to cast it.