Hello guys! Yes, it's perhaps the one thing many of you wanted! A Naruto-Fairy Tail fanfiction, because my head has been spinning this idea for days I couldn't work on my Naruto-GTA story (Don't worry, I'm not stopping) So I'm presenting you this first taste of 'The Shadow of Fairy Tail'
Kingdom of Fiore: Magnolia
In a place far far away was the kingdom of Fiore, a stable neutral place with a population of over 17 million people, is a place filled with magic. Magic is commonly exchanged and play a key part in people's lives. And there are people who earn money by using this magic, people call them mages. Mages join various guilds where they do jobs by request, amongst the countless guilds that are spread around the country, one certain guild is located in the city of Magnolia, where in the past and even now holds home to many legends.
Its name is Fairy Tail.
And right now here, a celestial mage by the name of Lucy Heartfilia who always wanted to join the infamous magic guild now was standing the middle of the everyday life of this guild.
"Bastard!" a pink haired mage with his noticeable scarf yelled as he punched his fellow guildmate into a bunch of tables, he was raised by a dragon and likes to eat fire, his name was Natsu Dragneel.
Lucy began to panic when she saw this "Why?!"
Natsu angrily yells at his guildmate "That information you gave about Salamander was fake!"
The guilldmate stood up as he was pissed "How could I've known?! I just told you the rumours I'd heard, that's all!"
"What did you say?!"
"Wanna fight?!"
In a matter of seconds, the guild started to do its daily activity; fighting amongst each other like a drunken bar fight.
Happy, a small flying cat tried to be the adult here "Take it easy, Natsu, that's enough-"
But before he could finish his sentence, Happy was hit by a person sent flying and flew against the heads of mages around like a Ping-Pong game.
Soon everybody started fighting in front of the young celestial mage "Amazing….I really made it to Fairy Tail….Would he be here?" Lucy looked around as she was trying to find the person she hoped to see in here but instead was shocked by what she saw.
There stood a teen about her age, wearing nothing but his underwear for no reason, having black hair, a cross necklace and a Fairy Tail stamp on his right bicep. This was Gray Fullbuster, an ice mage.
"You said Natsu is back?!" Gray turned around to go and approach the brawl where Natsu was part of "Let's settle our previous fight, Natsu!"
"Gray, your clothes…."
Gray looked down and yells "Ah, Crap not again!"
Lucy turned to the counter seeing the person who warned Gray was a woman also about their age, she was a beautiful woman with a slender yet admirable body with long, mid-back length brown hair. She is wearing a light blue bikini top which features a camouflage pattern, a pair of capri pants, with two bands hanging from each leg and a light belt covered in heart motifs loosely tied around the waist with high-heeled sandals. This woman was Cana Alberona.
"This is why I hate most men here…." She sighed as she grabbed for a barrel in the back "They are so undignified."
Lucy saw how she started downing the barrel like it was nothing "Wow…"
"Hey Natsu, fight me!" Gray dared him while walking towards the flame eating troublemaker.
Natsu was busy fighting another guildmate and turned around saying "Come back with some clothes!"
"Yapping in the middle of the day…." A man with wooden sandals "You aren't kids anymore."
Lucy turned around to see it was a big tall guy with spikey white hair wearing a blue coat. This was Elfman Strauss. He is a mage who rather likes to fight with fists.
He held his fist up "A man should talk with his fists!"
Lucy found herself in a more awkward situation "So all he does is fight…"
"Get out of the way!" Natsu and Gray turned around and together punched Elfman towards the other side of the room.
"And he got beaten!"
In one corner, was Loki. An mage that was top ranked as "Most desirable mage' He was currently busy with two ladies.
"Oh, so noisy," he started to go give the girls who he was with more intimate time "Say, what about we-"
Then someone threw something against his face and he stood up joining the fight, before that he said to the two ladies "I'll join the fight, just for you."
The two girls drooled while replying "Good luck!"
"Well, not on my list anymore." Lucy sweat dropped while crossing out his name from her book before turning around asking herself "What's with this place? There isn't a single normal person in here."
"Hey Mira, look what Natsu brought in?"
"Oh, a newcomer?"
Lucy turned around to see who was talking, first was a young petite girl with short, white hair and blue eyes, wearing a light-blue striped shirt, with green short-shorts and sneakers. She was holding onto a plate filled with food. This was Lisanna Strauss.
Next to her was her older sister, she wore sleeveless, ankle-length maroon dress with a pleated skirt. The chest is adorned by a large, pink bow, and similarly colored trimmings frame the rather ample neckline, acting as straps, and circle around the waist. Her hair is also long with two bangs flowing by her shoulders and a small pony tail on her forehead and she wears high heels that fit her dress. She like her sister also possesses beautiful blue eyes. She was also holding onto a plate, only was it filled with drinks for the patrons.
"Oh my god, you're Mirajane! The real one!"
Lisanna smiled at her sister "Looks like you got a fan here, sister."
Mirajane chuckled nervously "Oh, it's what I expect I guess."
Lucy saw they were thinking she was some stalker fan and began speaking "Oh, oh, please don't think I'm some kind of stalker."
"Oh don't worry," Mirajane calmed her down while putting a hand on her shoulder "I'm very flattered that you are a fan of mine. It's just that I should've consider the advice that was given to me with some of the photoshoots, especially the ones that are 'too revealing.'" She blushed slightly as she thought about that.
Lisanna pulled back Mirajane slightly so she wouldn't be hit by Elfman who got sent flying before giving a smirk remark "Well, the results didn't seem to bother you much after you showed those pictures to him…."
Mirajane blush turned into a fume as she gave a small glare to her sister who laughed at her reaction "Really Lisanna, sometimes you are just mean."
Lisanna laughed slightly before being joined by Mirajane who couldn't stay angry longer and also was then joined by Lucy who couldn't help but join in.
Lisanna stopped and asked curiously Lucy "So Lucy, why do you want to join Fairy Tail?"
Lucy found herself quite taken back by that question as she looked down nervously "Well I always heard such fascinating stories about the legendary wizards, the prestige but also to be honest I also had doubts before joining."
"Hmmm?" This got both sisters staring at each other before turning back "What changed your mind?"
Lucy started to have a slight tint on her cheek "Well, three years ago when I was walking back home, I was attacked by some thugs who were threatening to rob me and when they cornered me, a guy my age beat them all down with his magic, I asked him who he was and simply said his name was 'The Shadow of Fairy Tail.'"
"Wait, you met Na-" Natsu stopped when he heard that and before he could ask he was punched in the face by Gray.
Lisanna and Mirajane turned towards each other and giggled "That's him alright."
"You know him?" Lucy asked.
"Know him? He's practically family, he's on a mission right now but I suppose he should come back today. Even though he finished his mission three days ago."Lisanna explained.
"Why take three days after a mission?" Lucy asked with curiosity.
Mirajane gave an eyebrow "Because he has a habit of coming late….and coming up with an excuse like 'A black cat passed by and I needed to go the other way around.'
Lucy sweat dropped "Who would use an excuse like that?"
"Aachoo!" a person wearing a long brown sneezed "Okay, either I'm getting sick or someone is talking about me…wait, I never get sick." The person who was wearing a cloak over him spoke to himself as looked over to what stood in front of him.
The Fairy Tail guild hall.
"Ah, home sweet home. I wonder if-"
"That's ENOUGH!" a loud demanding voice said as the building vibrated a little bit.
"Yep, that's gramps. I wonder who caused havoc first." The person said as he walked through that door.
"Nice to meet you." Makarov greeted the awestricken Lucy.
"Is HE your master?!" Lucy pointed at the rather short but powerful guild leader, Makarov Dreyar, the 3rd guild leader of the legendary Fairy Tail guild. He was just in a moment a giant black figure that stopped everybody inside the guild from fighting and stamped on Natsu like it was nothing.
Mirajane chuckled at that remark "Yes, he is Fairy Tail's master Makarov."
Makarov turned around and jumped towards the second floor, not without landing horrible on his back before recovering he spoke to the guild "You've gone and done it again, you brats!"
All of the guild members looked down embarrassed at what he meant, it was no secret that even though Fairy Tail was one of the strongest, they were also one of the most hell raisers around the kingdom, like how Natsu just a few days destroyed a whole dock? That was nothing compared to the long sheets master Makarov was holding onto. And it was a whole lot of it.
Makarov brought forwards the paperwork to show it "Just take a look at how much paperwork the Magic Council send me this time, this is the biggest pile of complaints yet!"
The hooded person walked through the door and saw everybody was paying attention to master Makarov explanation with the complaints he received.
The old man looked ticked off "Have you lost your minds?! All you kids are good for is getting the higher-ups mad at me!"
All of the guild mates started to look down in shame.
"However," Makarov irritation faded away as he burned the papers in his hands into a bowl of fire "I say to heck with the Magic Council." He threw the fire bowl up front for Natsu to eat it up like he always do.
"Now listen up, any power that surpasses reason still comes from reason, right. Magic isn't some kind of miraculous power, it is a talent that only works when the flow of energy inside of us and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect match."
The hooded person smiled at the speech.
"To perform magic, one must have a strong mind and the ability to focus. It should take over your being and come pouring out of your soul, if all we do is worry about following rules then our magic will never progress. Don't let those blowhards on the council scare you, follow the path you believe in; because that is what makes the Fairy Tail guild number 1!"
The room was soon filled with cheering as everybody believed in the words of master Makarov, he saw every member in his guild as his children, and of course when children learn, it happens it could cause trouble.
The hooded person chuckled as he spoke out "Still giving good speeches, huh Master?"
Everybody turned around to see where it came from. They saw it was a person wearing a hoodie an saw he was smirking underneath the hood.
Lucy was the first to ask Mirajane "Uhm, who's he?"
The person removed his hoodie, revealing it to be a person wearing a black mask that covers his muscular chin and recognizable whisker marks and had spiky blonde hair that wasn't too short or too long with wearing a bandana tied up around his forehead and covered his left eye.
The person eye smiled as he waved "Oi everybody, missed me?!"
For some reason, Lucy couldn't help but blush 'Oh my, he's-'
"Naruto is back!" Someone exclaimed as the whole guild went crazy out of happiness.
Mirajane approached him with a soft smile "Glade to see you're back, Naruto."
"I'm also glad to be back, Mira-Chan." Naruto said in friendly terms to the mage as it obviously made her blush slightly.
Makarov walked towards him "Naruto my boy, how was your request. Any troubles?"
"Nah master, it all went good." Naruto pulled out a bag that looked like it was ready to shred "I've got enough Jewels to pay my rent for almost six months."
"And are you planning to do nothing for six months?!" Makarov asked.
"Of course not," Naruto raised the bag "All drinks and food are today?"
10 minutes later
Naruto was sitting at the bar while eating a bowl of ramen, he slurped up the liquid before putting it down out of satisfaction "Ahhh, you and your sister's ramen are one of the best I've ever eaten, Lisanna. Mind giving me some water?"
Lisanna smiled while taking the bowl and walked to the back "Sure, one water coming up!"
Makarov who was sitting on the counter asked the former-shinobi "And my boy, have you seen Erza on your way?"
"Actually I did, she said she was looking for the beast she was hunting for. I offered her my services but declined kindly, saying she wants to handle this alone." Naruto answered as he drank his water that Lisanna brought.
Makarov smirked "Of course she does, you really are the big brother here, aren't you?"
Naruto scratched his head "Well, I don't want to go that far." they both laughed.
"Is my dad back yet?"
Naruto turned around to see Romeo standing there, Romeo was Macao's son. He was a kid that was about twelve he believed.
Makarov sighed as he wanted to say something but Naruto just waved him not to say anything.
Naruto turned to the young Romeo and asks gently "Why? What is it with your father, young Romeo?"
Romeo quietly nervously answered "My dad said he was going on a request on Mt. Hakobe, he said it would take 3 days but it has been a week." Romeo became scares "I think something-"
"Hey, hey. I know your father, he's a strong mage alright? He can handle it." Naruto tried to assure to the boy that his father was alright.
Romeo just looked down as he was about to cry but he then felt a hand grab his head and saw it was Naruto who held a smile.
"But….If you are really worried about him, I don't think it's such a bad idea to let someone check him out." Naruto turns his head to the person who would do the job "Ain't that a good idea, Natsu?"
Natsu who was listening to the whole conversation nodded in seriously "Yes."
"Then you mind going out looking for Macao?"
"Of course I don't mind!" Natsu said as he turned to his companion "Come on, Happy, to Mt. Hakobe."
"Alright!" Happy saluted as they both walked out of the building, also with them they dragged the newcomer for no apparent reason.
Romeo on the other hand began to worry more as he saw Natsu leave "But-but-"
"Hey listen," Romeo turned back to Naruto, who gave him a welcoming and warm giving smile.
"Natsu isn't somebody who stays on the sidelines while somebody is in trouble, so just put some trust in him, alright? He is a big brother figure to you, isn't he?"
Romeo started to act up and nod "Yes."
"Then have trust in him, okay?"
Romeo smiled "Okay."
"Now go back to your mom, she must be worried about you, isn't she?"
Romeo remembered what time it was "Oh no, I've got to go!" Romeo ran towards the exit but before he waved to Naruto "See you tomorrow, Naruto!"
Naruto smile as he waved back "Till tomorrow, Romeo!"
The rest of the guild smiled at the carrying character of Naruto, always coming up with the right words for someone who was in need. Many liked that about him.
Naruto turned to Makarov "Hey Gramps, mind if I take a nap in one of the guestrooms, I'm quite tired to be honestly."
Makarov smiled "Sure Naruto, you know the way."
"Thanks," Naruto stood up as he waved the others "See you guys later."
"Sleep well, Naruto." Everybody else said as he went upstairs.
Naruto now had his cloak off and was now in his pajamas which consisted of just only his shirt and underpants, but as he was lying down he wasn't sleeping, instead he was staring at the ceiling while remembering something.
He grabbed his chest "It's been 3 years…"
3 years before the events
Night fell over Konoha or also known as the Village Hidden in the Leaf, with everybody going to sleep. It was a day of panic and unanswered questions as a series of events unfolded within the last few months that occurred in the strongest shinobi village of the whole continent.
With first being the failed Oto/Suna invasion of Konoha during the finals of the Chunin Exams, resulting the death of countless of shinobi's on both sides and that of the 3rd Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. The crisis of finding a new Hokage, which ended up with Lady Tsunade one of the Legendary Sannin and the defection of Sasuke Uchiha as he tried to defect to Otogakure with the help of the Sound four.
That failed thanks to the efforts of a group of Leaf ninja that was led by the chunin Shikamaru Nara who just recently gained this promotion despite of his young age.
With their full strength the Sound Four were defeated by Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, Kiba, the backup of Suna and Lee they.
But the one who completed the mission was the blonde Naruto Uzumaki, he fought Sasuke at the Valley of the End and dragged his unconscious body back to the village.
A few weeks went by as for now after all the events and the deeds of Naruto, all the shinobi who encountered him and mistrusted started to think differently about him. But the civilians and one over-emotional pink haired shinobi downright started to bash him even more, like it was always the case.
But now, those thoughts were going to be changed once again.
BOOM!
The Hokage building exploded as the roof was covered in flames several shadows jumped away from rooftop to rooftop after the explosion occurred.
One of those shadows landed on the rooftop of his own house, it was Naruto wearing not his orange jumpsuit but instead a standard blue shirt and pants with the whirlpool sign on the shoulder and wearing sandals.
Naruto held on his left eye that was bleeding as he took some deep breaths, looking at the damage he had done to the building. Also he had his mouth covered in fresh bandages as he obtained an injury in the event.
"I'm sorry Granny….Old man….Kakashi….Ero-Sennin…Sasuke-teme….everyone, I did what I had to do. It's for the safety of the village." Naruto said as he clutched his free hand as he knew there was no turning back now, his home, his dream. It's all over now.
He took out his headband and puts it on the ground so he could pick out his kunai, he took a moment to understand what he was doing.
He carved a big scratch through the leaf symbol as a clone of his landed next to him
"Shit. That's a big explosion." The person turned to Naruto "Hey boss, you coming or what?"
Naruto had the headband now on his head and answered "I'm ready. Let's go." they both jumped away as they jumped through the rooftops, going straight for one of the gates.
"You know you just marked yourself as a rogue ninja, right?" the clone said as they were coming closer to the gate.
Naruto said nothing as they now were close to the gate, they just had to run through it and they had an open window for just a moment.
Then two spotting lights went on and were set on the two shinobi, forcing them to stop.
"Naruto Uzumaki, freeze!"
Naruto gritted as he knew that voice he made his trade mark hand sign.
"Shadow clone jutsu!" dozens of Naruto's appeared as he ordered "Split up!"
"Right!" they all responded as they all went different directions as several leaf shinobi started pursuing them. One of them was his teacher who was standing on a rooftop overseeing how one of his students was fleeing.
Naruto was sprinting through the streets as he jumped through a few alleyways as he disappeared into a corner that was pitch black.
Three leaf ninja, two chunin and one jounin landed in front of the corner as they looked around.
"Where is he? Where's that demon brat!?" the jounin demanded.
"We must've lost his tracks." The chunin said as he was catching his breath "Little bastard is fast, I give him that."
The other chunin gritted his teeth "I knew that demon brat couldn't be trusted, the 3rd Hokage was a fool to let him become a ninja and now look; he attempted to kill the whole council!"
He pointed at the hokage building, which was now fully on fire as shinobi with water style jutsu were trying to put the fire down.
"It doesn't matter right now, our mission now is to kill that brat. He's obviously a traitor as he even broke out one of Orochimaru's ninja's. Now let's split up!" The Jounin ordered as he left the two chunin.
"Right!" They both also jumped away. Out of the dark corner, Naruto walked out the alley as he watched the ninja going at different directions.
"Ah….Ah…Okay, I lost them for now." Naruto flinched at the stinging pain in his eye "Argh, that hurts like hell."
"You get used to it, I know."
Naruto went stiff when he heard that, he did that and saw it was his sensei, Kakashi Hatake and he was not alone, alongside with him were Asuma and Kurenai, senseis of team 8 and 10.
Naruto cursed to himself "Damn it…." he really didn't want to come across them, they were one of the very few who didn't hate him. He expected from the cyclops to either cuss him or outright just kill but instead he said.
"Naruto, Why?" Kakashi had this concerned look in his eye as he held his hands forward "Why did you do this, do you know the extend to what you have done?"
Naruto simply nodded "Yes. Yes I know what I have done."
"Then why?!" Kakashi sounding more demanding "You know this can cost you your-"
"Like I said Kakashi-Sensei, I know what I did. With what I have committed I will be branded and hunted down as a rogue ninja, I will be viewed again by many of the village as a monster."
Asuma bit his cigarette "Then why do it?"
"Ask Lady Tsunade." This caught the senseis off guard, they never heard Naruto so formal speaking like that."
Naruto continued "Because I knew one thing, the actions I took extended the survival of the Hidden Leaf village, I'm not letting those bastards destroy what the old man has been fighting for."
Kakashi saw what Naruto meant by, it seems like he held a very strong conviction to the Third Hokage. He knew that Naruto had a very close relation to Hiruzen Sarutobi, he even remembered how he brought young Naruto along to some parts of the village to enjoy but he never expected Naruto to go this far.
Was he just like Itachi? Willing to be branded like criminal for the love of the village?
"If they succeeded their plan," Naruto gritted as he remembered it he clutched his fist "I could not let them do that!"
Several shinobi came around the corner and spotted them "There's Kakashi, he's trapped the demon brat!"
"Naruto, please turn yourself in. you will only make things worse." Kurenai tried to convince the boy who he knew was the crush her student had.
"I'm sorry," Naruto held a hand sign "But what's done it's done."
"Oh," Naruto said one last thing "Tell the members of the Shinobi council, Hinata's Kiba's, Shikamaru's parents and the others I'm sorry, didn't meant to get them involved…"
He smoke exploded around him as two chunin tried to stab him from above.
They looked around "Where did he go?!"
"He can't be that far."
"A Shadow clone." Kakashi murmured.
Then a man in robes came down, he was a member of the ANBU "You got the kid?"
"No," Kakashi answered "He just slipped away, why? What's the problem?"
The ANBU agent turned to Kakashi "Because we lost track of him, our trackers are already scanning the area around the village."
Then another ANBU ninja joined and kneeling "Kakashi, we've spotted your student fleeing towards the east."
Outside the village
Naruto hide behind a tree, he took some deep breaths as he took a look seeing if he was followed, luckily he wasn't and he wanted that for now. he was too exhausted to fight and to tired right now to run.
Then two kunai's flew out of the bushes and hit Naruto.
"Argh!" Naruto shrieked in pain as he grabbed a hold on the one that was close to his shoulder. He turned to where it came from and saw that two more kunai's were flying towards him.
He pulled out the kunai in his shoulder and used it to block the two others, he failed to see the three shuriken that were thrown from the tree behind him.
All three shuriken plunged into Naruto's back as the pain forced him to lean backwards and on his knee.
"Urgh…Urgh…damn it." Naruto gasped for air as he took a look around and saw men in black robes but with plain white masks coming from the trees and bushes.
"We've got the Nine Tails jinchuuriki. We can bring him to Lord Danzo."
"We're not finished, knock him out." One of them ordered.
"Hai!" one of the robed men jumped towards him as he was ready to give the final blow.
"Bastards…." Naruto growled as he reached for the other kunai, which was very close to his heart.
The robed man came closer.
"YAAAAAAH!"
"YAAAH!"
Kakashi stopped when he heard that, his eyes widened "Naruto!" he sprinted faster.
Naruto was breathing hard as he was holding unto a bloodied kunai as his open wounds were bleeding out lots of blood but in front of him laid something that rather pissed off the surrounding ninja.
The one robed ninja laid there, dead. With a slash going through his mask, hitting the face. He laid there motionless.
"That brat is too dangerous, go for his arms."
"Hai!"
Naruto looked around and saw that from all direction a dozen kunais came for him.
He didn't react fast enough as they all hit their targets.
PLUNG!
PLUNG!
PLUNG!
Naruto's arms were now no use as all his muscles were hit by the kunais, some even hit his back as he now was forced to stand on his knees while blood was coming out of his mouth.
"Guess…this is it…." Naruto said as he saw the masked ninja's approach him, his vision was to blurry to see them come closer as he started to close his eyes, ready to pass on to the next world.
"What's that?...ahhh!"
"YAAAH!" loud punching and screaming was heard ad Naruto forced himself to open
Then a bright light forced Naruto to shield his eyes for a moment before he could look what it was and when he saw it was. He was astonished.
In front of him was a small girl with yellow blonde hair and large green eyes with no pupils, she was wearing a frilly, pink layered robe with a red ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. She was surrounded by golden lights.
She smiled at him as she walked with her shoeless feet towards the young shinobi and reached out for him while saying "You have a heart of gold, I've seen what you did and I want you to give a chance…a second chance of life…a second chance to have a family…..a second chance to have….a family. In a country far away from here." She extended her hand "What do you say?"
"Naruto!" He turned around, that has to be Kakashi-Sensei.
He turned back "What is this…land?"
She smiled "Fiore."
Naruto then asked one final question "What….is your name?"
The kind smile she gave made Naruto calm "Mavis Vermillion, first guild master of Fairy Tail."
"Naruto!"
Naruto turned around again, seeing movement in the trees before turning back to Mavis "W-When can we go."
She reached for his hand and smiled "Right now."
She giggled as the light began to shine so much, that the whole area god absolved into it.
End Flashback
Naruto remembered how he woke up, finding himself in a hospital in a country he didn't know, soon enough the doctors explained that they found him in the streets with dozens of stab wounds and thought he was a dead man.
He reached for his bag and went with his hand through it, pulling out his old headband and a pair of pictures, one of that was of his former class and the other was that of team 7 with Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi.
"I wonder what they are doing now….." Naruto spoke silently to himself as he looked through the window, seeing that it was night, sometime he wondered if he would ever see the again, his friends? Granny? Kakashi-sensei?
CRASH!
Naruto stood up quickly, that sound came from outside, he looked through the window and saw someone unfortunately had dropped a vase from their balcony. But even that, he knew he had to keep his guard, after all he is by definition a missing nin by now.
Naruto went over to his window and looked over the rooftops of Magnolia before closing the curtains.
When he closed those curtains, figures skipped the shadows away from the building.