Naruto and the Never Fairies

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto he belongs to Kishimoto, and the Never Fairies were created by Sir JM Barrie and later the juggernaut that is Disney.

Note: This one I came up with after watching Tinkerbell like a dozen times in a row with my goddaughter.

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"When a baby laughs for the first time, the laugh turns into a Never Fairy, it is quite rare, as it must take a journey across the ocean to Never Land, and when it arrives, it explodes, turning it into a fairy.

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Chapter 1

"Something is happening in the world across the ocean." Queen Clarion said as she looked up at the night sky. She looked at her advisor.

"In the human world, it is October the tenth." He said consulting his clipboard. "Something has altered the balance." Another of her advisors said.

Queen Clarion looked out over the sky. "Keep every one here."

"Your majesty?"

"I must see what has happened. Something is calling to me, even now. I will return." She said and flew away.

The advisors looked on shocked. It had been some time that the Queen had left Pixie Hollow without an escort.

"What should we do?" one asked.

"As the Queen commanded. Keep everyone here. I'm sure they are all feeling what is happening and are curious."

The two exchanged looks. "You sit on Tinker Bell."

The older one sighed. "I always get the difficult task."

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Queen Clarion flew the currents, her mind was trying to figure out the sensation she was feeling. She knew her council was concerned, but it was something that called to her and as she flew she knew that whatever she found would change all she knew.

She felt the pull and flew down, she saw the land known as Japan and she could feel the pull was deeper.

She flew, allowing magic to lead her and she found a shrine and entered a portal behind the alter, entering the false wall.

Clarion entered the Elemental Nations for the first time in her life. She knew about them. She had learned about them when she had become queen. It was a place that was beside the mortal world, a step out of place, a side dimension.

She followed the pull and found herself in a forest that she wished would be back in the other world. The trees were old and sang stories that she wished she could stay and listen to.

But the pull was stronger and she flew.

The sun was rising when she flew over the village and she gasped at the destruction she saw.

Humans were moving about and she could see them moving the dead and wounded, a sense of loss filled the air.

She followed the pull to a tower. Landing on the windowsill she peeked in, spotted an old human.

"No." she heard him say. The other man was equally as old, and he was covered in bandages, there was a sense of wrong and evil pouring off of him.

"Sarutobi, you must realize, the child is the key to our victory." The bandaged one spoke.

"I am telling you for the last time Danzo." The one called Sarutobi said rising from behind his desk. "Naruto will not be used as a weapon. The Fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to stop the Kyuubi and I will not have his legacy turned into a weapon you aim at whomever you wish."

"This is not over. The Jinchuriki is a resource. The council will…"

Sarutobi grabbed Danzo and pulled him close. "Do not threaten me with the council. You and the Council brought me out of retirement with the death of Minato. I will speak with the council later today. Now get out of my office."

Danzo staggered as he was shoved backwards. "This isn't over Sarutobi." Danzo said and stormed out of the office, slamming the door.

"That's what I am afraid of." Sarutobi said.

The door slamming woke the rooms other occupant and Clarion watched as the old human Sarutobi went to a crib and lifted a wrapped bundle. She gasped seeing the fox tail, ears and whisker marks.

A kitsune! She thought.

"There, there Naruto." She heard the old human say. "I wish…I wish there was something I could do. Someone I could trust you with. They all see you as the Kyuubi. If they only knew that your human father sealed your own grandfather into you. If your mother had survived she would be your champion. Instead all you have is a tired old man who isn't up to the task at hand."

Clarion didn't know why she did it. She saw the open balcony doors and flew in. she hovered before the aged human's face.

"I will take him."

Sarutobi was surprised and looked at the tiny woman, who was hovering before his face.

"What are you? A spirit?" he asked her.

"I am Clarion, Queen of the Fairies. I felt the passing of the being you know as the Kyuubi and came to investigate. You hold in your arms, the last Kitsune child. They were thought extinct ages ago."

Sarutobi sat at his desk, cradling the babe he called Naruto in his arms. Clarion landed on his desk and looked at him.

"Fairies? They are myth." He said and realized what he said. "I'm sorry, your highness. Its just fairies are child tales told to help children sleep."

He looked at the baby in his arms. He saw the blue slit eyes were on the fairy and he watched as she fluttered up to stand on his arm and look at the baby.

"I heard the other human. He wants to make this child into some kind of weapon."

"Aye. (Sigh) All of the village is calling for this baby's death. he is the child of Minato Namikaze the Fourth Hokage, our former leader and his wife Kushina Uzumaki who herself was a vixen. They died this night. Kushina at the hands of a masked attacker and Minato as he had to use his life to seal Kurama away in his own grandchild."

Clarion looked at him and he explained. "Kushina was in labor and Kurama had come out of concern for his last child. The masked attacker did something that had Kurama transform into his Kyuubi form and he was mad with grief and rage. All attempts to stop he failed. Minato did what he could and made a deal with the Shinigami to seal Kurama inside this seal."

Sarutobi lifted the blanket to show Clarion the seal. "Everyone thinks with Naruto's looks that he is the Kyuubi. I know he is a hanyou a half human, half demon child."

Clarion smiled at the child who returned it with a toothless smile. "Let me take him. He will grow up safe and loved."

Sarutobi was uncertain.

"I will send some of my fairies to collect things he will need to know and when he's older I will give him a choice to return here."

Sarutobi thought about it, his eyes going to the photo on the desk. It was of Minato and a pregnant Kushina. He thought of Danzo's threat and knew that the man wouldn't stop until he had his way.

Putting Naruto down on the desk. "Give me a moment to gather something."

Clarion went to the baby and she reached out to stroke his cheek in a soothing manner. When her hand touched the baby's skin, he glowed and to her surprise Naruto shrunk and she found him the size of a baby fairy. Using her dagger she cut the blanket down to size and re-wrapped him and was picking him up in her arms when Sarutobi returned with a scroll.

"What happened?" he asked in surprise.

"I am uncertain. Magic was involved, but how and why I do not know." Clarion said. She had planned on calling on some birds to help carry the baby.

Sarutobi placed the scroll on the desk uncertain now.

"I or one of my people will return for what you wish to send. As you can see, my hands will be a bit full." Clarion said.

Sarutobi felt tears slip from his eyes. "Tell him…tell him where he comes from. This scroll is filled with photos and a letter from his family. I'll hide it here. Tell whomever you send it has a blood seal. Naruto will need to bite his thumb and smear the blood on it to open it."

Clarion noted where he placed it. "I will. And if there is something you need to know I'll have them place it there as well."

Sarutobi nodded and watched as the Fairy Queen picked up the now peanut sized Naruto and in a ball of light fly away into the rising sun, never knowing if he would see the child again and praying that he grew up safe and happy.

Shaking his head Sarutobi put on the hat and robes of office and with a determined look went to deal with Danzo, the council and everyone else.

It would be fifteen years before Sarutobi and Konoha heard from Naruto again.

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AN: This is in my Someday, Maybe section. It was a flight of fancy that tickled in the back of my head. Scary thing is I have like sixty more possible stories, some with only a paragraph, some with three or four pages. If I don't get them down they clog my brain. I have nine stories of Naruto in Marvel and DC universes alone. Well here's hoping I can now think on some of my other work.