Naruto: Clash of Elements
"Naruto" Normal Speech
"/Naruto/" Jutsu/Magic
"(Naruto)" People's thoughts
"Naruto" Demon Speech
"/Naruto/" Demon's Jutsu/Magic
Prologue: A new day to live
Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto nor Fairy Tail, they both belong to both, Makashi Kishimoto and Hiro Mashima respectively.
What means "living" for you? Living, the action of being alive is art, and like any other way of art has an infinite number of interpretations underneath it.
Maybe for you, living is loving those around you, maybe is protecting your precious ones, living means learning for you, perhaps? Or something different, like cooking, dancing, drawing, singing, making new friends, finding the true love. As it has been told recently living could mean pretty much everything you can come out with.
This is the story of a kid who has yet to figure out what does "living" means for him.
It was late in the afternoon, or so it seemed, it was so cold you could see your breath coming out of your mouth, and yet there were 3 human-like shadows two of them, the shadows that looked like two men, were standing in front of each other just a few meters of distance between each, the girl-like shadow was behind the bigger one they both had the same outfit, a large black cape and a full mask with no face, and you couldn't even see the other shadow's outfit because the shadow itself was covered by an black aura but there was something obvious in spite of having the body shape of an muscular man its long spiky hair reached its back and he too, seemed to be fairly younger than the one in front of him.
"Sweetie, I can do this on my own" Said the shadow wearing the full black outfit as he directed his eyesight to the girl standing behind him "Please run away" Continued the man
"No! I am not running away, the oracle said that-" Replied the girl putting both of her arms down in signal of anger, before she got interrupted by the one in front of her
"You are talking like I hadn't cheat on the oracle before, if you're truly worried about me go away and look for them, they'll know what to do" Said the man to the girl without breaking the eye contact with her
"Yo' I don't have all the time on this bloody ass world y' know? I gotta hurry to kill ya' so please stop KILLING my time! Geddit? 'Killing'? I'm about to kill ya' HA! I'm hilarious yo'!" Yelled the third shadow, bursting into a psychotic laugh and putting his right hand on his mouth, and then continued to talk "Kiddo, just listen to your boyfriend and run away, he knows why he's doing dis"
"You heard him, cutie please go get help. I'll be just fine" Said the man to the girl, this time looking straight into the shadow in front of him
"O-okay! I'll go get them… So please stay safe! We'll be here as soon as we can I swear!" Said the girl as she took off
"Hey, kiddo, always remember what is 'to live' okay? Do it for me" Said the man to the girl, when he said that the female shadow stood still for a couple of seconds, and then she started to run away, maybe thinking of those as the last words he'd ever say to her
After she ran away both of the men just stood there in silence for a few minutes, waiting for the other one to shoot the first bullet.
"If you must do this, before we get started I will ask you for one last favor, when you kill me please do not absorb my magic" Said the older shadow to the one standing in front of him
"Pff and why wouldn't I do that?" Asked the shadow to the man, while laughing again
"Because if you do it they won't be able to, and I want them to take what's left of my magic, not you" Responded the man
"Wow… that's it? Ain't gonna beg me? Not even gonna lie to me or try to convince me? Just gonna tell me that? You've always been a weird pal yo'"
"Please, just don't do it" Said the man, once again.
"Tch, 'kay I ain't going to absorb ya' power even tho you know I want to, you'll own me a big one tho. So, shall we start this madness?"
-3 Years Earlier-
"Your Highness" Said a soldier-like man as he approached to a woman who was sitting on a throne, she, a light-skinned woman of average height with brown eyes and straight, blonde hair, wearing a grass-green haori with the kanji for gamble written on its back, in black inside of a red circle, underneath she wears a grey kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, a pair of tight black pants and black shoes named Tsunade
"The… Guys, you've summoned are here already." Finished the soldier and then he kneel before his Queen
The Queen, Tsunade. Then answered "I can't see them here, please open the door so they can-" She got interrupted by the sound of the door being knocked down, and the first thing she saw were 3 kids going in
"Yo' Old Lady, we are here already! Why did you call us for?" Asked a guy with pale skin, long curly blonde hair, light blue eyes and three whisker marks on his cheeks, who was wearing a orange hoodie with the Uzumaki symbol on its back and a pair of light brown shorts and a pair of white shoes and a pair of green goggles, walking towards the Queen
"Tch, you DO realize where we are don't you? Can't you just act like a serious human being for once?" Said an emo-looking guy with straight, long, dark-blue hair that covered one of his eyes and reached his shoulders, pale skin and a red eye, who was wearing a black sweater, a dark blue scarf with the Uchiha's symbol on it, a pair of fingerless white gloves with the same symbol on each, black tight pants and black shoes.
He alongside Naruto, and the third kid went into the room. After saying that he punched the blonde's nape in order to make him shut
"Here we go again, asshole. Please don't make me kick your ass right here, in front of the Queen, that would be a total disrespect towards her, dontcha think?" Said the blue eyed kid "You both, stop fighting. Is annoying." Said the third kid, a ligh-skinned boy with light-green eyes and spiky short red hair and freckles, wearing a dark red turtleneck sweater and a black hoodie on top of it with the symbol of the Uzumaki's clan on its back, a pair of dark gray puffy pants and a pair of gray shoes. "Thank you, Menma. Now please, the three of you, approach here." Said the Queen
After the three kids approached to the throne, the Queen started talking again.
"You may be wondering why I summoned you here today" Asked the blonde woman
"Tch, that's like exactly what I just asked, weren't you listening to me?" Said the young blonde, with an frustrated expression on his face and crossing his arms around his chest
"Naruto, shut up. The Queen is talking" Said the Queen to said kid and then she continued
"Ok my children I've summoned you today because I have a… special mission for you to accomplish. You're going to take down your first King, finally. Now that you're all 16 years old you must serve to your Queen and end the life of, not a Prince, as you're used to, but a real King with everything that involves, you're going to get a new guardian, and then you're leaving this place to kill your first king." Finished the Queen.
"Yes, ma'am!" Said Menma and Sasuke, they were both excited about the mission, but Naruto did not look so excited about that mission, he just stood there, in silence, looking to his feet and playing with his hair with a emotionless expression on his face
After that, the three kids left the castle and went straight to their homes, waiting for their new guardian.
It was late at night in the kingdom of Konoha a hot night of summer, the Queen was getting ready to sleep when a soldier interrupted her, and opened the door of her bedroom and said.
"Your Majesty, do you really believe that those kids are-" Said the soldier until he was interrupted by the Queen's voice
"First above, if you ever come into my room without me summoning you, I'll make him kill you" Said the Queen, looking at the soldier with a sharp-like eyes, the bare sight of hers was so scary, the soldier turned away his face
"And second, I never 'believe' anything, I 'know' there is a difference. They're the ones, I have no doubts of it now please leave my bedroom, or else will happen." Replied the Queen
"Y-yes Ma'am! It won't happen again, /I swear on the name of those who came before me/" As he said that, a black light shone on his chest and an expression of pain was drawn on his face
"I see, thank you then, now please leave." In the very moment she said those lines the soldier attempted to leave the place
"Oh! One last thing sweetie, always remember: The ignorance is a blessing. Now, please leave me alone, even I need my beauty dream" Said the Queen as she drew a creepy smile on her face
-A few days later, at the academy, daytime-
The kids had been waiting for their new guardian to show, but he wouldn't, Naruto, who wasn't too excited about the mission was, on the other hand, inpatient for his new guardian to show up because that'll mean they would be able to go on missions again, the classes had already finished for that day, but the brothers, Naruto and Menma decided to hang out there a little bit longer, and wait for Sasuke, who was on a private training session with their senpais Rocklee, Neji and Ten-ten
"Yoo' Menma, when do you think our new guardian is going to show up? I'm getting bored, and that old woman told us he'd be here soon! Tch, waiting is not funny!" Asked Naruto to his older brother with an annoyed expression on his face
"I don't recall her saying 'soon', Naruto. And he'll probably show up after the graduation, is when we'll officially be warriors serving to the throne" Replied the red head to his younger brother
"Yea yea whatever, 'the bravest warriors on the whole world' whatever, that ain't the reason I'm here for, you know that, btw do you think Sasuke will come with us if the guardian ever shows up? I mean I'm not going to be happy with it." Said the blonde guy and then he made a short pause
"He's an ass and I don't like him" Continued Naruto
"I know I've asked this way too many times but… Why don't you like him? You guys are pretty much alike if you ask me" Replied Menma
"He's just so stupidly emo, which is annoying to me" Said the blonde without hesitating and with a dead serious expression on his face
"…Bro… Little buddy… My dear brother… You're literally wearing skull earrings right now! How can you call anyone 'emo' when you're proudly wearing that?!" Asked Menma annoyed by his brother's explanation, however Naruto was not able to answer that, because an earthquake started and they had to run away.
When they were running away they saw a little girl, hiding under a table, trembling
"Kiddo, come here we gotta run away!" Yelled Naruto to the kid, but there would be no answer
"Kiddo, I'm not kidding! Come here, now!" Insisted the blonde guy but once again, the kid wouldn't say a thing
"Forget it! I'm taking you with me whether you want it or not!" Exclaimed the blonde guy as he grabbed the girl's arm
Once he did so, for a second, his mind seemed to be somewhere else, he saw something, the girl's mind maybe? That's what he thought, but somehow he knew it was not that, but somewhere else, he was in another plane of existence, once again, it only lasted a second. And then, he was on earth again, he was dragged down there again by the girl herself, she electrocuted him with her hands
Naruto pulled back his hands due to the pain, and looked straight to Menma's eyes hoping he'd come out with something, but Menma didn't seem to care about this girl at all
"Tch, Menma we don't have time for this, do the thing and take her with us or she will die here!" Asked Naruto to his brother
"It took you too long to-" Said Menma
"Cut the crap yo'! Just do the thing! I'm begging you we can't let this kid die!" Replied Naruto with an angry look on his face
"Okay, chill. God. /Tanuki Neiri no Jutsu/ (Feigning Sleep Technique)" And just like that, the redhead put the girl to sleep
"Done, the girl is sleeping now, happy? Now, if you may, please take her so we can escape and see what's going on" Said Menma, standing up and cleaning the dust out of his clothes
"What's going… what…? You don't mean that-" Said Naruto, holding the sleeping girl on his arms
"Of course I do, this is not just an earthquake, we are not that lucky, we will never be that lucky, now, if you will, I don't wanna die under a bunch of rocks okay? Let's take off" Said the older brother who started running toward the closest exit
"Tch, okay! Don't leave us behind, asshole!" Said Naruto, while running behind his older brother
The two brothers were running away, when Naruto fell due to the girl's body shocking him, again. Menma, assuming that his young brother was still behind him, kept running forward and made it to escape from the failing building "(Tch, this girl won't stop hurting me while she's asleep? That's just great, and now I can't even see Menma, I bet that prick left me behind, this is so him)" Thought Naruto to himself.
The young guy just stood up and kept running forward, until the building collapsed, and he got trapped with the girl on his hands, he was afraid, and so was the girl or he thought because the shocks wouldn't stop, they were, in fact getting stronger and stronger.
"Are you kidding me? I'm going to die just because I wanted to help a girl?! What's the lesson of this? 'Don't help a girl you find under a table, she'll get you killed'?!" Said Naruto. It was obvious that he was both, angry and hopeless, because even though he had indeed being on life-death situations before this one was the first one when he didn't have the control, the only one when his life was not on his hands, there was nothing to be done, he was between a bunch of pieces of what once was the ceiling of the third floor and the floor of the second one. He was powerless and he knew it.
"I-I'm sorry, this is all my fault" Said the girl who was just waking up
"If I hadn't been there… If I hadn't been born at all then everything would be just fine" Continued the girl, her voice was almost painful just to hear, a little girl's trembling voice. It made Naruto go even angrier
"Hey! Nobody is blaming you for this! You may think I just did it, but that's not true! And what's with that 'If I hadn't been born' shit? Was it you trying to be cool? Because it ain't worked, it made you look pathetic, I'll teach you how to be cool once we get out of this, okay?" Said the blonde, while smiling, in the deep of the dark where those kids had been trapped just now, the only thing the girl was able to see were Naruto's eyes, which for some reason gave her hope
There had been many minutes since the building collapsed, and they were running out of air, Naruto tried to talk to her to make her feel safe, but that was not only useless but he was, also wasting the precious oxygen that was going to keep them alive, until he, the blonde guy, heard a voice coming from…the girl? Yes indeed this voice was coming from her, though it was definitely not hers, but someone else's
"Well well, what do we have here a broken child with a fake hope on his eyes who's holding onto a lie to be alive? This is funny, and sad. But there will be better times for us to talk, now is certainly not a good time to do so" Said the voice coming from the girl, her eyes were empty like she had no soul nor have ever had one
"Who… Who are you?! What did you do to her? Bring her back, now!" Screamed Naruto with the few strengths that he had still left
"I am the one who lives inside of this girl, but doesn't. The one who will bring the peace after the war, and won't. I am the one who will teach not only the secrets of the magic to those I find worthy, but the one who will teach you humans the very cages that keeps you captives as a race, and will give you the chance of breaking them down or not" Said the voice
"Now, shall we leave before this building ends up killing both, this girl and you? If so, hold this girl's hands and don't let go" Finished the voice, as it stopped talking Naruto rushed into holding the girl's hands just hoping they'd make it and escape.
At the exact moment he touched her hands they started to shine, and just as that they were gone, they were warped to the exact same place where he, Naruto, was before, but this time he lasted way longer, somehow he figured out they were in a place that was beyond time, there didn't exist anything but them, nothing to be seen, they were just floating around of an immense black void, he, too, knew there was nothing to be scared of, since there was anything, but that alone is pretty scary too.
"There is no need for you to ask me anything, but your questions will be answered either by me or the time itself will curse you with the knowledge you want" Spoke once again the powerful voice
Naruto was frozen, he couldn't move, but he had indeed a lot of questions he wished would be answered
"We're in the terminal, a place nowhere to be found, its mere existence goes against the laws of nature, the time has abandoned this place as it has the space, this is the nothing. We are here so I can show you what may happen of something is not done before it happens, there will be a war, my child that will not only include your world but many others, many will die because of reasons they will never understand, some of you may be strong enough to prevent the absolute end of the universes but that's only a thought of myself, there is a magic so powerful it would end it all. No, you're not even close to what you humans may call 'a chosen one' but just a soldier, if you're here is just because you got lucky and found this girl, there is no such a thing a fate, and if it was I myself can assure you it didn't bring us together, I am over whatever you humans may refer to, as 'destiny'. And this was it, no more questions will be answered today, now you'll go away, with your brother, I'll send you there.
Finished saying the ominous voice, leaving the young guy with more questions than answers, even though he wanted to talk, to beg for more information he could not, then again, he was frozen. He was not able to say anything, just stand there, listening to the voice
"Before I send you back to your world, I have yet one last thing to say" Spoke once again the voice
"…Ignorance is not so much of a blessing"