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Chapter 1. Home Coming
Walking down a long narrow path that lead to Magnolia. One could find a rather tall and lean built teenager with long spiky blond hair that framed the side of his face. That in a way brought attention to the three whisker like birth marks he had on each cheek.
The boy walked in a comical fashion kicking his legs high into the air. While having his hands behind his head, showing he didn't have a single care in the world. As he walked a clear jingling of keys could be heard. Originating from the nine red keys attached to a keyring on his hip.
But who was this boy? The answer was obvious he was Naruto Uzumaki Fairy Tail's strongest celestial mage. And as of a few months ago the newest S-class mage the guild possessed. Considering after years of trying and failing Naruto finally made S-class only a few months ago.
And in his excitement Naruto quickly took the first S-class quest he found on the S-class request board. Not knowing for the next three months Naruto would be gone on a mission and wouldn't be able to return home for quite some time.
But now the mission was over and he had a hefty amount of reward money in his pocket as a result. In fact Naruto made enough to pay for his rent for almost two years.
"Ahhh man I can't wait to see Natsu and Gray again." Naruto chuckled happily thinking of his two best friends. "I wonder how they've changed since I've been gone?"
"Probably still nothing, but a loud mouth dragon slayer and a stripping ice mage." A familiar gruff voice said. "Oh and stop shaking my key so much; you damn fish cake."
Naruto grabbed his keyring and held it up to his eyes. "What did you call me fur-ball?" Naruto asked the key obviously hitting a sore spot with his comment.
The key flew off Naruto's keyring and floated into the air. "I called you a fish cake you annoying blond!" The red key with the roman numeral nine shouted. While the key bent up and down in a way that should be impossible for a regular celestial spirt key.
"Grrrr you damn rabbit you wanna fight?" Naruto challenged throwing his hands wildly in frustration.
"Rabbit that's it! I'm gonna kill you!" Kurama yelled as his key flew straight into Naruto's forehead.
The blond simply took his hand and batted the key away like a fly. "Kill me I'm gonna kill you!" Naruto shouted while diving for the floating key.
All the while eight red keys could be seen laying on the ground. Each having their own sweat drops at this common scene playing out before them.
"He reminds me of Kushina-sama." The key with the roman numeral four pointed out. His voice holding a small hint of annoyance. Towards the way his brother and his contracted wizard were behaving.
"Yes and he gets along with Kurama in the same way that Kushina-chan did." The key bearing the number two added in.
Naruto grabbed onto Kurama's key and chuckled. "Oh I got you now you bastard fox. I'm going to take your key and-..." Naruto stopped mid sentence as he felt the earth start to shake. Nearly losing his balance Naruto looked in the direction of Magnolia. His features shifting to a more serious one.
"Kit we need to go." Kurama instructed.
Naruto grabbed his remanning eight gate keys and placed them back onto his hip. "I know Kurama you don't have to tell me twice." Naruto replied as he took off in a sprint towards Magnolia.
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(At Magnolia)
The entire guild of Fairy Tail watched in horror. Not even a day had passed since their rival guild, Phantom Lord, had launched an assault on them in both an attempt to capture their newest member, Lucy Heartfellia, and also to take out the competition for the title of "strongest guild" in Fiore. Their master was in a coma, their building was crippled, and finally, Phantom Lord's moving castle was on the warpath to finish off the wounded guild! Erza, one of their most powerful mages, was weakened when she blocked the blast aimed at the guild members from the castles main weapon, the Jupiter Canon. Things were looking dire indeed.
"Gya Ha Ha Ha!" Laughed Phantom's guild master, Jose Porla, "Makarov and now Erza; both have been incapacitated."
Erza opened her eyes and turned her head to glare at Phantom.
"You have no chance for victory now. Hand over Lucy Heartfilia. Right. Now." Jose demanded and you could practically hear his sneer.
"You have to be kidding!" Alzac shouted.
"There isn't a Guild that would present a member to an enemy!" Bisca added.
"Lucy is our comrade!" Macao roared.
"That's right!" The rest of Fairy Tail chimed in.
It was at that point Erza found her voice once more.
"WE'D RATHER DIE THEN SELL OUT OUR COMRADES!" She shouted in rage.
'Everyone,' Lucy thought tearfully as she clasped her hands tightly in front of her as if in prayer.
"Oi~! What's all the commotion? I'm gone for a couple months and this is what I come home to?" said a new voice loudly over the area, causing all of the people to look at its source. Standing near the entrance to Fairy Tail's damaged building was a young man who looked around Lucy's age leaned casually, looking over the confrontation happening in front of him with a bemused expression.
The boy had spiky blond hair and sapphire blue eyes, as well as whisker-like birthmarks on both of his cheeks. The boy was around Gray's height and wore a burnt orange hoodie with black pants and sandal's similar to Natsu's on his feet. He also had what appeared to be a chain wrapped around his waist like a belt. What caught Lucy's attention though was the key ring the boy was lazily twirling in his fingers with nine burnt red keys jingling all the while.
'He's a Celestial Spirit mage too!' she thought in shock, though she didn't recognize any of the keys he had.
"NARUTO!" came a shout from many of the mages present. The majority of the expressions were shock, relief, and of happiness.
"We're saved!" one of the mages shouted out.
"Phantom's got no chance now!" another agreed.
Similar declarations were made and Lucy, in confusion, turned towards Mira who was nearest her. "Who is that guy?" she asked Fairy Tail's barkeep in confusion.
Mira smiled at the confused girl and explained, "That is Naruto Uzumaki. He's one of our top mages who became a member around the same time Natsu joined. He just became an S-Class mage not to long ago and was off on a long term mission for the last several months, which is why you haven't seen him around."
Lucy nodded at the explanation when she heard the newly arrived S-Class talking as he walked casually towards the opposing guild hall. "Geez, you guys sure get into the biggest of messes, huh? I mean, what'd you do to tick Phantom Lord of all groups off?" Naruto asked lightly while never keeping his eyes off the menacing walking castle. He reached next to where Erza was gaining her strength back after deflecting the Jupiter Canon's blast earlier. The whiskered mage looked at his fellow guild mate with a thoughtful frown on his face before he gave her a grin and leaned down to help Erza up.
"You look like crap Red," he said cheerfully to the redhead, causing her to gain a tick mark on her forehead, before his expression softened and he said in a much warmer tone, "But seriously, I saw what you did there. Great job on protecting the guild, but next time try finding a way that won't put you at risk as well, okay?"
Erza's hard expression softened as well and she gave a small grin to her guild mate before muttering, "It's good to see you to, you blond idiot."
The reunion was cut short when they heard Jose laughing over the intercom and saying in an obnoxious voice, "Ha! One fairy, two fairies, it doesn't matter! You all now have fourteen minutes to surrender before I decide to wipe you all of the face of the planet!"
Naruto turned and faced the colossal building with a hard look on his face. "Listen hear, you schmuck," he said in a low, growling voice that was a big difference to his earlier upbeat tone, "You can pick on us, insult us, and even spit on us and we'll just laugh it off. But no one, and I mean no one, HURTS OUR FAMILY!" he roared out at the end before firmly griping one of the keys, which Lucy noticed the teeth of the key was in the Roman Numeral for nine, and shouted out, " Open, Gate of the Nine Tails: Kurama!"
A flash of light surrounded the key and when it faded, a large fox was sitting in front of Naruto. This was no ordinary fox, however. Its fur was a burnt orange color save for the black fur surrounding his eyes, which were blood red and slits for pupils. The fox's torso and arms were almost human like and he had long ears resting on top of his head. Lastly, the most distinguishing feature of the human-sized fox was the nine swishing tails extending from his spine.
"Kurama!" Naruto barked in a commanding tone, "The walking castle contains enemies of Fairy Tail. I need your help in taking them down. Now let's move!" Naruto shouted out while getting into a dramatic pose.
"Don't wanna," the fox said with a lazy yawn, causing Naruto to stumble forward and fall flat on his face.
"What the hell, Kurama!" Naruto shouted as he leapt to his feet and glared at the Celestial Spirit, a large tick mark on his head.
"You woke me from a nice nap. Fix your own stupid problems, besides I'm still mad at you." Kurama quipped while lazily stretching his back out and lying on the road in order to fall back to sleep.
"WAKE UP YOU LAZY FURBALL!" Naruto screamed before he jumped into the air and did an elbow drop on the fox's unprotected back. "Punishing Elbow!" Naruto called out as Kurama yelped in pain.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR, YOU USELESS BRAT?!" Kurama roared out at his summoner looking equally ticked off.
"For being a lazy good for nothing, you stupid fox!"
"Shut up you chibi mage!"
"Dirty fleabag!"
"Whiskered moron!"
"Overgrown plushie!"
"What the hell did you just call me?!"
"You heard me!"
The duo's argument was cut short as Jose gave another bout of laughter over the intercoms of his fortress. "Gya ha ha! Is this the best you Fairy Flies got? A teenage brat and his overgrown rabbit!?"
Time seemed to freeze at this last comment and a heavy pressure started to ooze off of Kurama. "…What did you just call me?" the fox said in a surprisingly quiet voice, despite the bloodlust radiating off of him.
Jose, being the ignorant douche that he is, poured gasoline on the fire by stating in a condescending voice, "Oh, so the Fairy's pet bunny has something to say? Why don't you hop away from hear little rabbit before I make you into road kill!"
"…Now that idiot's done it," Naruto said smugly while confidently crossing his arms over his chest.
Suddenly, a huge plume of smoke engulfed the area, blocking everyone's vision. When the smoke cloud cleared, the mages were staring bug-eyed at what they were witnessing. Kurama stood much, much taller than before. He was nearly head and shoulders above the highest point of Phantom Lord's mobile fortress, and was easily the biggest thing in the area.
"NOBODY," Kurama roared in a much louder, demonic sounding voice, "CALLS ME A RABBIT!"
Despite the situation, many of the Fairy Tail mages couldn't help but sweatdrop and think, 'That's what he's so angry about?'
Unseen by the people on the ground, Jose went from looking smug to looking like he was constipated with his face turning the color of sour milk and his eyes becoming as wide as baseballs. Turning to one of the operators of the fortress near him, he shouted out in a panic, "FIRE THE JUPITER CANON, DO IT NOW!"
"W-we can't!" the operator screamed fearfully, "The canon still needs twelve minutes to charge before it can fire!"
As Jose was busy cursing his luck, Kurama was crouching down closer to the ground with his gigantic eye looking at Naruto. "All right brat," the titanic fox growled, "I'll lend you my strength this time, but you owe me twice my usual payment."
Naruto looked irritated but casually waved his hand in a dismissive manner, "Yeah, yeah. Twelve cases of the old man's booze. You know he always gets on my case when I use Fairy Tail's ale as your personal drinking fountain, right?" the fox just gave a toothy grin in response and Naruto sighed, "Why can't you be cooperative like your siblings? Whatever," he jumped onto Kurama's giant back, "Let's just hurry up and finish these clowns!"
"Pleasure doing business with you," Kurama growled before he launched himself at Phantom's castle with surprising speed and hand grasped onto the building before anyone could blink. This tips of Kurama's tails glowed with an eerie light before he called out, "Fox Tail Inferno!" and streams of white-hot fire flew from his tails right into the canon's mouth, causing it to melt shut from the heat. As the nine-tailed fox was busy restraining the building, Naruto hopped onto one of the nearby roofs of the mobile guild hall.
The blond Celestial Spirit mage turned towards the assembled Fairy Tail mages down on the ground and shouted out in a teasing voice, "Hey~! You guys had better hurry before me and Kurama take all the good fights!" With that, Naruto leapt through a nearby window and started to fight the startled members of Phantom Lord that were hiding out in the room he just landed in.
"YOU JERK! Don't start the fight without me! C'mon Happy, before Naruto hogs all the fun!" Natsu screamed before turning towards his blue-furred companion.
"Aye sir!" Happy chirped before using his magic to sprout a pair of wings and grabbed onto Natsu with his tail, flying him towards the opposing fortress.
"Don't start the party without me," shouted Gray as he formed a path of ice to the guilds entrance over Kurama's massive shoulder. He ran up it completely ignoring that he was taking off his shirt as he did so.
"It'll be man for me to join in as well!" roared Elfman as he followed the stripping Ice mage.
The battle for Fairy Tail had truly begun!
Chapter end
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So here is chapter one and tell me what you think..
This is a challenge story from mellra and I have to give credit for him writing most of the first chapter. My part was small, but next chapter will be longer and I hope it to be as good if not even better then this one.
Also some people may have a bunch of questions like how did Naruto get his keys or how did he join the guild. And much more that will be explained through short flashbacks and conversations.
But happy reading and see you all next chapter :)