Fairy Godninja in Training

Part One

Naruto sighed as he started at the small viewing mirror he had set out before him on his small table. Its soft glow illumined his small tree house apartment, giving him his only source of light since he had his curtains closed to block out the rest of the world. He ran his eyes over the images the mirror was showing him. Multiple people from all kinds of places appeared on the mirror's surface before fading away and was replaced with another person or group of people. He sighed again. None of these people looked interesting enough for him to help. But he still had to pick someone. "Come on. There's got to be someone who's interesting enough to help. Someone…anyone…"

The mirror image shifted again. He blinked at the boring image before him before a loud banging at his door caused him to jump and fall off his chair. He hit the ground with a loud thump. "Ouch. That hurt."

"Naruto!"

"Oh great that's Sakura. What does she want now?" Naruto asked upon hearing his friend's voice coming from the other side of the door. "Probably here to check and see if I've completed this assignment. I'm just going to ignore her. I'll finish it when I finish it."

"Naruto!" Sakura's voice cried again with more bangs on his door.

"She's just not going to give up," Naruto said as he stared at his door through the low light in the room. "She's probably going to break the door down any second now. And I don't have any more money to fix it. Again."

…

"Naruto! Come on, Naruto!" Sakura shouted as she banged on the door to her friend's tree house apartment. Usually she would just break on in after the first couple of knocks, if he didn't answer, but she already has destroyed five doors to this place. She decided to take a little pity on her friend and not destroy another one. But she still threatened to do so. "I know you're in there! You can't hide from me! Get out here right now or I'm going to break this door down!"

…

"No!" Naruto shrieked from his kitchen floor. He jumped up and bolted for the door before his friend could follow through on her threat. Grabbing the door handle, he flung it open. "Don't do that! I'm still paying it off from the last time you broke my door! I don't have any money left to buy another new one!"

"Well that's your fault, now isn't it? If you'd get past the Fairy Genin level you'd be given more assignments that would lead to better paying jobs." Sakura crossed her arms and glared at him. "Speaking of which…how is your current assignment going? Have you finished it yet?"

"No, I haven't," Naruto said. He flicked his light orange colored butterfly wings before folding them against his back.

"Why not?!" Sakura demanded, her own light pink colored butterfly wings flicked in an annoyance. "You've had this assignment for over two weeks now! It should have been completed in the first week it was given to you! What's taking so long?!"

"I just haven't found any humans worth helping," Naruto said. He tossed his head to the side and flicked his wings a couple of times before reaching back and scratching his back right between where they connected to his skin.

"Just pick someone! It's a simple assignment!" Sakura said. She snapped her hand out and grabbed his cheek, pinching it hard as she screamed at him. "Queen Tsunade will be back any day now! If you don't finish this assignment you're going to get punished! You still want to graduate from the Fairy Ninja Academy, right?!"

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Of course I still want to graduate! You know that!" Naruto snapped. He flapped his arms wildly. "Now let go of my cheek!"

"Then finish this assignment and I will!" Sakura demanded.

"Fine! I'll just pick some random human to help!" Naruto said.

"There. That's better," Sakura said. "Nice of you to come to your senses. I can help you if you need it. I'm not ready busy today. I still have something's to do for the queen, but that's not until later today. I have time to help."

"No, thanks," Naruto said while rubbing his red, stinging cheek. "I'll do it myself. Like you said, it's an easy assignment. I'll just zap myself to some poor random human, grant them a few wishes and then pop right back here with all the paperwork completed."

"Be careful with that, Naruto," Sakura warned. She gave the young man before her a sharp glare and a stiff flick of her wings. "You're still not the best at teleporting spells. We don't want another incident like the last time."

"Hey! I'm getting better at them!" Naruto protested.

"No, you're not!" Sakura snapped. "Kiba is still picking rice out of Akamaru's fur from the time you accidently teleported them to the human country of China! The emperor there is still trying to figure out where two fairies came from!"

"So what? That actually happened centuries ago. Why are they even still talking about it?" Naruto asked.

"You idiot. You know time flows different here. We can zap ourselves anywhere in time," Sakura said with a sigh. She fluttered her wings, creating a lazy breeze that teased her hair before folding her wings against her back. "Just finish the assignment and bring it to me. I need to file the rest of the assignments from the genin level. I'm really getting tired of seeing your name among them. All of our friends have already moved on to the next level. You're better than this, Naruto. You should be with us."

"I know, I know. I'll get there," Naruto said. "Now go away so I can get to the assignment."

"Fine." Sakura sighed. With nothing else to say, she turned away from her friend. Flittering her wings, she lifted herself into the air and took off.

"Fine. I'll just pick some random person and get this stupid assignment over with," Grumbling to himself, Naruto shut the door to his tree house apartment. He walked back over to the table and plopped down in his chair. His eyes landed on the lit mirror when some people ran across the shiny surface. "What's that?"

He watched as a young man, a little older than him, threw out a punch at a fish that had jumped out of the ocean they were sailing on. His eyes widened upon seeing the man's arm stretched out farther than it should have. "What the heck?! How did he manage to do that?! It's incredible!"

Naruto watched as the young man grabbed the fish and pulled it onto the ship. His jaw dropped open. He didn't realize until the fish was on the ship that it was insanely huge. It was almost as big as the ship itself. He continued to watch at the stretching man started arguing with a blonde haired man in a black suit. "Wow! Now they look like they'd be some fun to grant wishes for! All right! I finally found who I wanted to use this assignment on! Now where's my wand?!"

Naruto pulled his attention away from the mirror to look for his missing wand. It wasn't on the table where he thought he left it so he stepped away from the mirror and started looking everywhere for it. He pulled out draws, looked under his mattress, shook out all of his clothes, and looked under his bed. It took him a couple hours to look everywhere, but he finally located the wand in his bathroom. "Finally found you. Now let's see. All I have to do is cast the spell and teleport myself to them where I'll grant him a couple wishes."

Naruto walked back over to the table. He looked down at the mirror to find his choice had gone to bed. "Aw, they went to bed already. All well. I can still pop myself over there and wait for them to wake up. That ship looks interesting. I can look around while they're sleeping. All right! Here we go!"

Naruto twirled his wand in the air. Sparkles trailed from the thinnest end, following the movements he was making. The sparkles swirled around him before they shot out and into the mirror. He blinked in confusion when his sparkles didn't take him where they were supposed to. "What happened? Why didn't it work? What's going-AH!"

Naruto gasped when his eyes landed on the mirror. The young man he was trying to take himself too was missing. He grabbed the mirror. "Where'd he go?! Where's the guy with the long arm?!"

The image on the mirror shifted and blurred. When the imaged became clear once again, Naruto screamed at what it showed him. The young man, plus several others, he was trying to go to had some how ended up in his world. "No! Crap! Crap! Crap! This isn't good! They shouldn't be here! They're going to get executed! I have to get to them before someone else finds them!"

Naruto threw down the mirror. It landed on the table with an angry thud. But he didn't pay it any mind as he bolted for his door.

…

A sweet, sugar smell wafted through the air. It swirled around before lazily floating down to their noses. The first one to awaken by the sweet scent was Chopper. He sat up and blinked the sleep from his eyes. Greeting his drowsy gaze as he drug it over the land before him, he found there were lots and lots of cotton candy trees of all colors and sizes. Shrieking with joy, he said, "So sweet! I love cotton candy!"

The little reindeer jumped from the ground that he didn't even realize he was on instead of his bunk on the Sunny. Running over to a pink cotton candy tree, he jumped up on the closest branch. Plucking off a wad of the pink fluff, he shoved it into his mouth. Crying gleefully as the candy evaporated on his tongue. He shoved in ten more mouths full before the color of the tree he was standing in caught his eye. The dark blue bark shimmered. He blinked in curiosity before reaching out and snapping off a cotton candyless twig. He inspected the twig, turning it this way and that way before sniffing it. "Am I dreaming? It smells so sweet. Just like strawberries. What is it? Is it something I can eat?"

Chopper cautiously licked the twig. "It tastes like strawberries too. How is this possible? What's going on? Oh! I get it! This is just a dream. That's all."

The reindeer smiled at the deduction of his current state. He turned to move towards some more cotton candy. Miss stepping, his hoof slid out from underneath him and he felt to the ground. His head landed on a rock, causing him pain that shouldn't have happened since this was just a dream. He sat up and grabbed his throbbing head. "What the heck?! How could that have hurt if this is just a dream?! What's going on here?!"

Chopper scanned his eyes around the forest again. He studied the world around him carefully, his eyes landing momentarily on his crewmates and the Heart Pirates that were still asleep on the ground. He smiled at the sight of his favorite Heart Pirate, Neo. She snuggled up to Law from the bright, warm sunlight shining in her closed eyes. He watched her, expecting her to wake up, but she didn't. He then pulled his eyes from her and noticed that the sun was indeed warm. The air was filled with sweet sugar from all of the candy before him. Reaching out, he plucked a flower from the ground, sniffed its blueberry flavor before sticking it in his mouth. His rolled the smooth velvet texture over his tongue before his black eyes bugged out of his head. He finally registered the fact that this wasn't a dream at all. Everything in the forest was really made up of candy, everything except for his friends who were sleeping on the pastel green grass. He jumped up to his hooves with a panicked shriek. Running over to his friends, screaming as he desperately started to wake them up. "What the heck is going on?! Where the heck are we?! Wake up, everyone! We have a problem! Come on! Get up! Luffy! Sanji! Zoro! Everyone! Wake up!"

Chopper slapped Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro over the head before he ran around the surrounding area in a heart pounding panic. "We're in trouble! We're in trouble! We're in trouble!"

"Hey! What's going on?!" Sanji asked, sitting up. "Why did you hit me like that?!"

"You better have a good reason for slapping me," Zoro grumbled. He rubbed his hand over his throbbing head.

"Huh?" Luffy asked, drool running down his chin as he blinked sleepily.

"Hey, hey! What's with all the noise, Chopper?" Nami asked.

Robin quietly sat up beside the navigator. She covered her mouth and yawned before noticing the world around them. "Hm? Interesting."

…

"There's too much sugar in the air," Bepo said. He rolled over from his stomach to his back before he sat up. "Did Neo go overboard with cooking again?"

"Keep it down," Shachi protested. He rolled over onto his left side and covered his ear with his arm. "I'm still trying to sleep here."

"It's not time to get up yet," Penguin added while he pulled his hat lower over his eyes to get away from the bright sun bearing down on them. "And who turned on the light? Shut it off and go back to sleep, Shachi."

"I didn't turn it on," Shachi replied. "It must have been one of the Straw Hats. Get up and shut it off if you don't like it that much."

…

"Will all of you shut up?!" Law snapped. He pushed himself up into a sitting position. "You all know Neo prefers to wake up on her own! If you all wake her up, I'm going to sever you all into a million pieces!"

"I'm so sorry, Law! You know I wouldn't wake her up unless it was important!" Chopper cried a he ran over to Neo and Law. He looked down at the blue hair young woman. She was still curled up on her right side sleeping. He hated to wake her up, especially being pregnant. He knew she preferred to wake up on her own, in her own time, but this was an emergency. "But we have a problem! Our ships are missing! And so is the rest of the Heart Pirates!"

Law's eyebrows twitched. His eyes lowered from the reindeer to the bizarre colored grass they were on before scanning the candy forest that surrounded them.

"What?!" Luffy, Sanji, and Brook shouted. "What do you mean our ships and friends are missing?!"

"He's right," Franky said. The cyborg looked around at the candy forest they were in. He looked down when his feet crunched the candy grass. Bending over, he plucked some of the grass up, sniffed its sweetness before he ate it. "It's candy? The flavor is sour apple if I'm not mistaken. But I have no idea what kind of candy it is. It's chewy with tiny crunchy crystal like things in it and kind of sticky."

"This is very interesting," Robin said. She plucked a white daisy off the ground that was near her and Nami and inspected it. "This flower is also candy. And it smells of vanilla."

"Wait! Don't eat that! It could be poison!" Nami shouted when Robin plucked off one of the flower petals and put it in her mouth.

"It's actually very sweet," Robin said.

"Really?!" Luffy and Brook asked. They ran over to a small patch of white flowers. Each grabbed a handful of the flowers and shoved them in their mouths. They munched down on the pedals, expected sweet candy flavors instead of real bland tasting flowers instead. They rapidly spit the flowers out. "Yuck! They're really flowers! I thought you said they were candies!"

"It looks like not all of the plants here are candies," Sanji said as he inspected a couple bushes near by. He poked each one, finding the one on his right was a regular plant, and the one on his left was something marshmallow like. He pinched off a piece of the marshmallow plant and tasted it.

"Don't eat that! Didn't you hear Nami?! It could be poison!" Usopp snapped as he popped up behind the cook.

"It has the texture of a marshmallow, the looks of a bush, but tastes like chocolate," Sanji reported.

"Oh really?" Usopp said. He pinched a piece of the bush off and ate it. "It's good. Melts in your mouth."

"I thought you were worried about poison," Sanji said, shoving his hands in his pockets. He turned his attention to the Heart Pirates who were still on the ground. Law was looking around cautiously, his hands on his sword ready to fight if necessary. "So where do you think we are?"

"I have no idea," Law said as he continued to slowly scan the forest.

"How did we even get here?" Zoro asked. He looked down to make sure his swords were still with him. All three of them were still attached to his belt like he expected them to be. "It looks like we all still have our weapons. That's a good thing at least."

"Who cares? We have an entire world of candy around us! Let's eat!" Luffy said as he ran off towards one of the cotton candy trees. Opening his mouth wide, he chomped down on the trunk of a tree, ripping a large piece off it out. The candy trunk snapped and crackled as it fell over.

"Careful, Luffy! If you took a bite out of that thing on the wrong side it could have fallen on us!" Usopp said, pointing at Luffy accusingly.

"Sorry!" Luffy mumbled through his mouthful of candy.

"No! You're! Now!" Usopp snapped.

"Should we wake Neo?" Chopper asked then. His eyes dropping back to his friend. "I'm surprised she hasn't woken up yet from all the noise everyone's making."

"There's no need for that. She's already waking up from all of the noise now," Law said just before Neo shifted in her sleep. He then noticed a concerned look on Chopper's face. "What is it, Tony?"

"I'm not really sure, but I think magic might be involved in this," Chopper said.

"Magic?" Sanji asked. "What makes you say that?"

"Because I can't remember what I was doing last night," Chopper replied. He looked up at the cook. "I know that I was on the deck of the ship keeping a look out since it was my turn, but that's it. I don't remember ever going to bed."

"I was on watch as well. I do not remember falling asleep either," Brook said.

"We're also in our regular day clothes instead of our night clothes," Robin said, looking down at her black mini dress she had been wearing the day before.

"Right. I didn't even notice," Nami said. She looked down at her white and orange bikini top and blue jeans she was wearing. "I remember that I changed clothes and went to bed. Why would I have gotten up and changed back into these clothes?"

"What's going on? Must you all be so noisy?" Shachi asked as he and Penguin finally sat up. "We're trying to sleep here."

"Rise and shine, sunshine," Sanji said. "Sleeping time is over for us."

"Huh? What are you Straw Hats doing in our sleeping quarters?" Penguin asked.

"We're not exactly on your ship," Zoro said. "Wake up for real and look around you."

"Huh?" Shachi and Penguin looked at the swordsman then looked around at his suggestion. They gasped and shrieked upon seeing the strange place they were in. "What the heck?! Captain, where are we?!"

"We don't know," Law said. He looked at his subordinates before letting his eyes drop down to Neo. He placed his hand on her hip and started to help gently coaxed her awake. "Neo, I need you to wake up for me now."

"Hm?" Neo opened her eyes. Blinking sleepily before looking up at Law. "What is it? You know I don't like being woken up. I'm still sleepy."

"I know, love." Law nodded. "But we have a problem here."

"Huh? What is it?" Neo sat up and looked around. She kneaded her eyebrows. "What's going on? Something doesn't feel right. I can feel magic surrounding us."

"I figured as much," Law said. He rubbed his hand over her back when he felt her anxiety rise.

"Where's the sub?! And where's the rest of our crew?!" Neo asked. Her heart pounding in her chest as she desperately looked for her missing family and home.

"Just remain calm. I'm sure they're fine. Since they're not here," Law said, "they must be back on the sub where we docked for the night."

"Where are we then?" Neo asked.

"We're trying to figure that out," Sanji said. He took a couple steps closer to her and bent down so he could be more level with her. His eyes lingered over her baby pump before lifting up to her eyes. "Are you going to be all right? Is the magic bothering you?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I'm just not sure what kind of magic this is," Neo said, running her electric blue eyes over the forest. "I don't really feel threatened by it. But I'm not sure whoever did this to us…I can't tell if we're in friendly territory or not."

"Yeah. We guess that part already," Sanji said.

"Any idea of where we could be?" Brook asked. "I mean, are we still in the New World?"

"I don't know where we are. We could still be in the New World. There are other magical creatures there after all." Neo shook her head at the skeleton. She looked down when she noticed the strange grass under her hand. She brushed her hand over it. "Is this…candy?"

"Yup! And it's so yummy!" Luffy said.

"Uh…I can see that," Neo said when she looked at Luffy. The rubber man's stomach was round and full of the sweets from the forest he had clearly eaten.

"You should try some," Luffy said holding out a stick with yellow cotton candy in her direction.

"She's not eating anything here until we determine where we are and if this candy is safe for her pregnancy," Law said. "Bepo, Shachi, Penguin, I don't want you three wondering away from Neo at any point in time until we figure out what's going on here."

"Aye aye, Captain!" The three Heart Pirates saluted. "You can count on us!"

"You can include us in Neo's Security Guard!" Sanji said with Chopper beside him. They both were saluting Law just like they were Heart Pirates.

"We'll keep a very close eye on her!" Chopper added.

"Hey! You're my crewmates!" Luffy protested.

"Shut up! This is probably all your fault!" Sanji said.

"I didn't do anything!" Luffy said. "Don't blame this on me!"

"Why not?! It typically is your fault when we get into messes like this!" Sanji said.

"Looks like there's a village or some sort of town over there," Robin then said.

"She's right," Usopp said. He had his goggles down over his eyes, adjusting them while he looked through them. "I can see smoke from here. There's also a mountain with faces carved in it. Surely that means there are at least some people in that direction."

"I wonder who lives there," Franky said.

"Do you think they're friendly?" Brook asked. "I sure hope so."

"Let's go see!" Luffy said. With his stomach now back to normal size, he jumped from the candy forest floor then began to run off in the direction of the smoke.

"Don't go running off like that, Luffy!" Nami called out. "We need to stick together! We have no idea what's out there!"

"So let's go see!" Luffy said. He stopped running and turned back to smile at his navigator. "Come on! Let's just go! It's not like we have anything better to do by sitting around here!"

"He's got a point. We're not going to find answers just sitting around here," Robin said.

"I guess it's settled then," Nami said before their group headed towards the village.

While walking through the strange candy forest, they looked around. Carefully taking in all the different shaped trees and candy plants around them. A few minutes into their walk, Luffy started to pluck the treats off the branches around them. Usopp slammed his fist into his captain's head and said, "Will you stop that?! You're going to make yourself sick if you're not already poisoned from eating strange food!"

"But it's so yummy! Besides you ate some too!" Luffy exclaimed through his mouthful of sweets.

"Will you at least swallow before you speak?!" Usopp demanded.

…

"Hey! I heard something from over there!" an unfamiliar voice then said.

"Yeah. I heard it too. Let's go check it out," another unfamiliar voice said.

…

"Looks like we're not the only ones in this forest," Brook said. "Think they're friendly?"

"Neo, stay close," Law ordered. He grabbed the hilt of his sword and narrowed his eyebrows in the direction of the voices.

"Right." Neo nodded just as the Heart Pirates shifted into defense mode.

The Straw Hat pirates also stood ready for a fight.

"Ah, come on!" Luffy said. "Let's just go see who it is!"

"Stop! Don't!" Usopp cried and reached out for Luffy.

…

"Where are they?! Where are they?!" Naruto asked as he ran his eyes over the candy forest. He spotted movement in the forest and lowered himself to see who it was. Landing in a tree, he found it was only two of the gatekeepers. "Just great. I'm in some serious trouble if they find them here."

He listened to them say they heard a noise before rushing of in the direction they headed off in. Flying as fast as he could, he saw the young man with the straw hat from his mirror. He flew over to them, startling them. "Stop!

"Who the heck are you?!" Zoro asked.

"Listen to me! You can't go that way!" Naruto said. "I'll get you out of this forest!"

"Who are you?" Penguin asked.

"Law! Look at his back!" Neo said and everyone looked at what caught her attention.

"What?! Are those wings?!" Usopp shrieked.

"So we are in a world of magic," Robin noted.

"Never mind that! Humans aren't supposed to be here!" Naruto said.

"What do you mean? Where are we?" Luffy asked.

"Who's over there?!" one of the unfamiliar voices to the pirates asked.

"There's no time to explain! Just hold still! This won't hurt a bit!" Naruto said before waving his wand in the pirates direction. "Or it shouldn't hurt."

"Ah! What's he doing to us?!" Usopp asked as everyone else gasped when millions of sparkles washed over their bodies. Suddenly the light around the pirates disappeared and their bodies transformed into candy trees and bushes.

"That was so close," Naruto said just as the two gatekeepers found him.

"Who's over there?! Oh, it's just you, Naruto," one of the gatekeepers said.

"What are you doing out here?" the second one asked.

"Nothing. Just practicing my magic," Naruto said. He jerked his thumbs towards the candy bushes and trees he just made.

"I see. We'll it's good that you're taking your magic lessons more seriously now," the first one said.

"We'll let you get back to practice," the second one said before they walked off.

"Thanks." Naruto waved to them. He watched them go before turning back to the people he just transformed. "Great. What do I do now?"