This fic will not cover every arc, probably a few that I pick, like the one with Laxus as the antagonists. I think it's called the Festiavl of Fighting arc or the Grand Fantasia arc. Yeah, that one.

Also, I'm really sorry for whatever I did this chapter. Really, I'm sorry. If you wanna see any Naruto characters, leave a PM or a review so I can think of how to slot them into the story. Jiraiya has a role already planned. And I'm not adding characters I don't fancy very much (like B, rap-like speech is difficult).

No new named techniques used so there aren't any bolds.

EDIT: If you wanna point out errors, please refrain from using the reviews. PMs are always a thing. I just remembered this thanks to KineticKaiser.

Baby squirrel, you so sexy, motherf*cker.


The walk down the spiral stairs was silent, so silent that footsteps echoed in the hallway. He expected Sasuke to come up with the plans, since Sasuke was most alike to Kakashi-sensei, but Sasuke kept silent throughout the walk. Sakura was still in shock, so it was unlikely that she came up with any ideas. Despite Naruto's self-proclaimed leadership skills, he was skeptical about suggesting any plans. If they wanted to get out of this place, they needed an intelligent plan, and intelligent planning was not Naruto's strong suit.

"We need a plan." Naruto voiced out, and Sasuke gave him an irritated look.

"Yeah, that's why we're thinking of a plan." Despite being annoyed by Sasuke's expression, Naruto decided to take into account the situation they were in and remain quiet. The silence continued for a few more flights of stairs, before Naruto uncontrollably spoke up again.

"This is going really deep underground, huh?"

"Do you want to get out of here alive? If yes, shut the hell up. I'm trying to think of a plan." Naruto crossed his arms, unhappy with getting chided by Sasuke when all he was trying to do was ease the tension.

"I was just pointing out that if we go too deep, it might be harder to escape."

"Is there anything else that's blatantly obvious you want to point out?" Sasuke glared at Naruto, and with equal ferocity, Naruto glared back. Before Naruto could mouth out his retort, he took a glimpse at Sakura's uncomfortable expression and chose to keep mum. Finally, they turned into the end of the flight of stairs, but it was not what they expected to find at all.

Sakura had a hard time keeping her bile in and Naruto could feel his stomach turning at the sight and smell. There was a cave with corpses littering the floor, some have even decomposed to the bones. Some were hanging by chains attached to their wrists and necks, and others looked like they died of deprivation of food, water, or both. It was a disturbing sight, but it was hard to look away. This people were probably innocent people who led misfortunate lives, like Naruto himself, but were killed despite their innocence. "What monster would do such a thing?"

Sasuke kept an unwavering, stoic expression, as he looked over his shoulder. "The same monster that is coming for our heads if we don't get a move on."

Naruto tried to keep his gaze on the ground, but found himself stealing peeks at the bodies. Why do people who had done nothing wrong have to die like that? Why are the wicked powerful? Why are the innocent powerless?

Unknowingly, Naruto clenched his fist tightly, holding in all the hatred and indigence that he was feeling. Never had Naruto felt so angry in his life. He was walking past these corpses, abandoning these people, and the glaring truth that he couldn't do anything about it was eating him up.

"This place is a torture chamber doubling as a graveyard, apparently. I'm not sure whether the place would be built to have an escape route." Sasuke pointed out, tapping his chin as he surveyed the area, not at all bothered by the corpses. There were thousands of bodies that were in his view, and even if he were to look past the number of bodies, the stench should have affected him in some way. Thousands of bodies...stench...the smell is weaker than I thought...

Then, it struck him.

"There is a way out. The stink of the corpses and the number of corpses don't correlate. The stench must be escaping through somewhere." Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Naruto, seeming almost surprised that Naruto could have thought of something useful.

"Hm. Glad to see you've became slightly smarter in the past few moments."

"Yeah." There was no want to squabble with Sasuke anymore. All Naruto wanted to do was get out of this place. "Let's just walk around to find the exit."

Sakura and Sasuke nodded in silence, following as Naruto led the way through the caves. It was not spoken, but everyone had just bet on Naruto for their freedom. The walk only continued a few more steps until a cry was heard.

"AHHH!"

A blood-curling scream was what Naruto would describe it as. It came from a girl, whose voice was far too familliar. The first reaction Naruto had been to run towards the source of the voice, but as he took half a step, he stopped himself. Naruto looked back at Sasuke and Sakura, and they looked at him with concerned expressions. His two friends should not have to be involved with any stupid actions he decided to take, and he was well aware that he was no longer putting his own life at risks with his decisions.

"What are we going to do, Naruto? Your call."

At the sound of Sakura's voice, Naruto turned, his eyes widened. Sakura gave a weak smile, but it was all that Naruto could ask for.

"What's the call, dumbass? If we wanna go, we better don't miss our chance, like we did with Kakashi-sensei." Naruto turned to Sasuke, who gave a nasty smirk, looking as if he was already psyched up for a fight.

"You guys..."

Another blood-curling scream came from behind him, and Naruto knew he had no time to waste. With haste, Naruto turned on his heels and dashed for the source of the scream. This is it! This is how we're going to change everything! Believe it!

As they heard the scream once more, they realised that the source of the scream was just behind a wall. Naruto stopped in his tracks, leaning in and placing his ears close to the wall, and his friends followed suit. Maniac laughter came from beyond the wall, laughter so disturbing that it sent chills down Naruto's spine.

"Erza...do you understand? You can neither convince me nor force me off this island. This is my home...my sanctuary...my haven!"

The name ringed a bell in his head. Erza...it's that girl! So she really did come back for her friend! That would mean...

Naruto did not know why her friend was attacking the very same person who came to rescue him. It was also not known as to why her friend is defending the place that enslaved him, but Naruto felt an itch in his knuckles, and he knew just how to cure it. "Sakura, bust down this door. We're gonna save her."

As Sakura was about to reply, Sasuke interrupted her. "You expect us to go in without a plan?"

"The plan is simple. He's just one guy. We bust down the door and beat him up for doing that to the girl!"

Sasuke sighed, rubbing his temples. "Didn't you remember what Kakashi-sensei said? This girl was supposed to be strong. If she can't take down that guy, what makes you think we can?"

Despite his intense anger, Naruto had to consider this once more. He had already set his mind to save the girl, but the risk was higher than he thought. If he wanted to escape, he needed to cut the risks in such confrontations, but figuring out how was the hard part.

"Sheesh, I guess we can't beat that guy up. Here's the new plan: go in there and get the girl out. As Kakashi-sensei said, the girl is really strong. We could explain the situation to her and she could help us find our way out. Sasuke can help cover us with his fire magic, and I'll grab the girl and we retreat. Got it?" No one seemed to object, and so Naruto cracked his knuckles and backed up from the wall, summoning a few clones. "Sakura, bust down the wall."

Sakura stood up and focused her magic into her arm, while Sasuke backed up and stood beside Naruto. As they gave time for Sakura to focus, Sasuke turned to face the Naruto at the utmost front. "What if she's injured and dead weight?"

"We're still gonna save her. It doesn't change the fact that she deserves to be saved."

Sasuke turned back to the wall, and though Naruto could not see it, he could 'feel' Sasuke crack a smile. "I don't know why I bothered asking...What made you think we'd not see through your poor excuse?"

Naruto smiled too. "You're still helping, aren't you?"

Before Sasuke said anything, Sakura let out a cry as she gave it her all in that single punch. The wall did not just crumble, but instead burst open, filling the other side of the wall with dust clouds. "Now, Naruto!"

Naruto immediately jumped through the wall, trying his best to see through the dust. He made out a silhouette of a person and hastily made his way to the person. When he closed, saw the girl he had seen back at the cell. The girl laid unconscious on the ground, which was definitely not a good sign. Without much deliberation, Naruto saddles the girl on his back anyways, running back through the hole he came from.

As he exited from the hole and saw Sakura and Sasuke standing there, Naruto signaled for them to run. Naruto himself ran as fast as his legs could carry him, but with the added weight of the girl, running was a little difficult. When he was only a few steps outside of the room, he could feel the clones he summoned to fight the enemy getting knocked into smoke one by one. If the real Naruto were to be caught by that boy, he would definitely not survive. The thought alone spurred Naruto to put all the strength in his legs to use.

An abnormal gust of wind came from behind him, and by the time he looked over his shoulder, he saw the boy charging towards him. More incredibly, the boy was flying. "Holy crap! That guy is flying!"

"More importantly, he's about to catch up to us!" Sasuke turned and shot a fireball from his mouth back at the flying boy, but the boy evaded the attack without losing speed.

"Where are you taking my Erza?" The boy let out more maniac laughter and continued chasing, and even Sasuke could not obstruct him.

"Damn it, he's catching up. Just drop her and run!" Naruto looked over his shoulder at the girl, and for a moment he considered it, but he only considered it for a moment and nothing more. As long as he could feel the girl's heartbeat and breathing against his back, Naruto would not let her go.

"Shut up! We're getting out together!" Naruto started to put magic into his legs like Kakashi-sensei had thought him, giving him a significant boost in speed. With his insane burst of speed, he managed to speed past both Sasuke and Sakura, bt still not quite enough to outrun the flying boy. He needed to slow the flying boy down as much as he could, and figure out where he was running to. "Sakura, how are you holding up?"

There was no reply. "Sakura?"

Naruto looked over his shoulder as he ran to see that both Sasuke and Sakura were gone. As he slid to a stop, Naruto turned entirely to look all around him, but there was no one in sight anymore.

"Sakura!? Sasuke!? Where the hell are you guys?"

"They're right here, jinchuriki." Naruto turned to see the flying boy on his feet, and beside him was both Sasuke and Sakura being suspended in mid air by a force, both unconscious.

"Sasuke! Sakura!" Naruto's fists twitched for a second before he remembered he was holding the girl.

"They can't hear you, jinchuriki. They must have been knocked out cold while I was beating them up." The boy gave a sickening grin, and Naruto felt his anger rose onto new levels. "You're very angry, I can relate to that. It never feels good to have someone taken away from you like that. So why don't you be a good kid and hand Erza over?"

Once again, Naruto's mind brought up the idea of dropping the girl. It was supposed to be a simple rescue, but when things went wrong, he still could not adapt. He was way too stubborn, and the consequences of his actions were coming back to him hard. Crap...What should I do?

Out of the corner of his mind, he realized that one of his clones was still intact somewhere near him. He never had control over his clones, only being able to give them the same personality he had. Hence, whatever the clone did was out of his control, but then again, his clones usually did what he wanted due to this. Naruto could only hope that the clone had the same idea he did. "Just... give me a second to decide."

"You can have a whole minute, but if you try and cross me...your friends won't live through the minute." Naruto really wanted to hit the man, but at times like this, Naruto's fists had to be used along with his head. He placed himself in his clone's shoes, predicting what his clone would do next. Considering that the clone was cautious not to get Sasuke and Sakura get killed, he would not act rashly and wait for the real Naruto to give instructions. The only problem was that Naruto had no way of communicating with the clone, and since no instruction would be given, the minute would be wasted in a standstill. Think, Naruto, think!

"Your minute is up, jinchuriki." The sudden words made Naruto accidentally disperse his clone, but as he did, he attained all the clone's knowledge. He saw the clone witnessing other clones trying to land punches on the boy as the boy off-handedly used arms extending from the ground to knock them into smoke, but missing out the clone. The dust must have masked him from the boy, which meant that the boy could only cast magic on things that he could see.

The plan was clear. He needed to blind the boy before trying to escape. He felt the sandy texture below his bare feet, and he knew just what to do. "It isn't even a minute yet."

"I assure you it has been a min-" Naruto kicked the sand into the boy's face, for once glad that kids his age were still short. The sand made the boy shield his face and unable to see momentarily, and Naruto gave the boy a flying kick to the face. The boy flew back several meters, thudding onto the ground, at the same time releasing the levitation spell on Sakura and Sasuke.

The relieved Naruto ran and kneeled by their sides, glad to see them both safe.

Until he saw a hand run through each of their stomachs.

"HAAAHAHAHA! And you really thought you could outplay me? I over-estimated you just a little, jinchuriki! You're dumber than I thought!" The boy started to continue laughing, but Naruto barely minded him.

He looked down on his friends, each of them bleeding profusely from their stomachs. Confusion, hopelessness and everything else filled his mind. They were supposed to make it out together.

They were supposed to be free together.

Sakura...Sasuke...Kakashi-sensei... Why didn't you guys run away from me? The boy who was filled with misfortune...you guys should have known better...

He placed a hand on each of their faces, and for the first in his life, Naruto did not know what he wanted to do. His comrades were dead. There was no one to accompany him to freedom "Why can't I change anything?!"

The girl almost slipped of his back, but regained enough consciousness in time to grab Naruto's neck. "Y-You..."

He turned and laid the girl on the floor slowly, rubbing away the tears from his own eyes. "W-What did you say?"

"Y-You...did..."

Naruto watched as the girl drifted out of consciousness, returning to her limp state, on her face a soft smile. Why are you smiling? How can you smile? HOW?!

He felt himself losing his strength all of a sudden, struggling to even stay kneeling. He turned to see the boy, but the boy himself appeared frightened. Despite the lack of energy whatsoever, Naruto knew that losing consciousness would be a bad idea.

"Destroy your enemies...destroy whatever hurts you...I shall lend you my power...and return, I shall have...destruction!"

The voice inside of him made him tremble, but he refused to lose his consciousness. Naruto was reduced to all fours, desperately trying to stay awake. There was the feeling of emptiness inside of him, and the more Naruto fought, the louder the voice became.

"Give it to me! Give me control!"

Naruto's arms surrounded itself with a orange aura, burning on him like a fire, feeding energy from his body. All of a sudden, his arms felt lifeless, causing him to drop face first into the ground. His vision blurred, and the only thing he saw before he fell was red. He tried to focus on it, struggling to stay even conscious, but to no avail. But at least that red...at least it was a beautiful red...not a bloody red...but a lovely red. What was her name again? Ah...Erza...

Naruto crashed atop of Erza, which cushion his landing, making the pain, if he still felt it, a little less stronger. If Naruto had working cheek muscles, he would smile. Thank you, Erza, for making me smile one last time.

Now, I have to destroy.

-3-

Though his eyelids were heavy, Naruto opened his eyes. For the first time in his life, Naruto saw the night sky filled with stars and heard the rumored 'relaxing ocean wave noises'. He made it. Naruto made it to Heaven.

Propping himself up with his elbows, he looked around him to see that this was most definitely not Heaven. His friends were not here to welcome him. Instead, all he saw was a lonely girl. They were at a shore, and there was nothing but sand, not the long tables of food he imagined. "At least I got to see the night sky and hear the ocean."

The girl jumped at the sound of his voice, turning to look at him with a fearful eye. The girl walked precariously over to his side and knelt by him, though a little far away. "Are you alright?"

Due to major aches all around his body, Naruto let himself slip back into a lying position, realizing how much pain his back was in. "When did I get wounded again?"

The girl looked at him with bewilderment and Naruto did not know what else to do other than stare back. "You really don't remember what happened?"

Naruto remembered. There was no way Naurto could not have remembered how he never got to say his last words to any of his comrades as they sacrificed their lives for him. What he could not remember was ever getting wounded. "Nothing, not after your friend killed my friends. I mean, I don't hold it against you or anything..."

The girl looked slightly saddened, tugging Naruto's heartstrings. "Sorry, I really didn't mean it that way. Could tell me what happened?"

"Honestly, I just woke up as well. I assumed you were the one who helped us escape."

Only then did Naruto recall that they were supposed to be in the tower. He sat up quickly and looked all around him. No tower was in sight. "I helped us escape?"

Though he still had no idea how he got out alive, he did not mind. Naruto was now free. The only regret was that he didn't make it with his comrades. It saddened him naturally, but at the same time, it drove him to survive. He would not let their sacrifices go in vain. "Let's go, Erza."

Naruto stood up, ignoring the aches and pains he was feeling all over his body. The girl took a moment to stand up, looking at him with the oddest expression. "Go where?"

"Explore the world! We are free people now! Do you know anywhere we could go?"

The girl's spirit dropped momentarily. "I'm not sure where to go. My village was destroyed when I was taken. But there was a old man from the tower called Rob who told me of a wonderful place. I-I don't know where that place is at though."

"What is it called?"

"Fairy Tail, I think."

Naruto looked out at the ocean, spotting the lone row boat on the shoreline. Without giving the idea much of a thought, he grabbed Erza's arm, dragging her along with him. Erza flustered before regaining balance and catching up with Naruto. "Where are we going?"

"We're going to Fairy Tail!"

-3-

Holding her trusty orb tight, Ultear teleported to the torture chamber underneath the tower. That was where Ultear was supposed to meet up with a fully-brainwished Jellal Fernandez. Instead, she found the placed littered with rubble, and Jellal Fernandez unconscious as well as heavily wounded. She inspected the area to see that there was a huge fight, and the fight was of a larger scale then her fight with Kakashi Hatake.

Besides Jellal Fernandez, there were two more unconscious and wounded people, a raven-haired boy and a pink-haired girl. Only through closer inspection did Ultear realized that they were dead.

"U-Ultear-sama."

Her attention was directed to the semi-conscious Jellal Fernandez. Ultear would heal Jellal if she knew healing magic, but since she did not, she had to extract information for when he suddenly passed out. "What had happened? I want details."

"T-The jinchuriki...he was here."

Ultear could feel frustration growing inside her. If she had gone to see Jellal Fernandez earlier, she would have caught the jinchuriki. "Where is he now?"

"He..escaped. The demon...the jinchuriki released it." Jellal coughed out some blood, and though medics were on the way, Ultear needed all the information she could get, in case he did not make it.

"How did he do it? Any incantations or hand signs?"

"No...he used it...after his companions...after..." Jellal fell into another coma, leaving Ultear to have to investigate until Jellal wakes up. She walked to the two dead children that he found beside Jellal, only to remember that these two were the two children that Naruto was observed to have befriend while in prison, a ravenhead and a girl with odd pink hair.

The sandy ground had a depression in between the two children, which meant the jinchuriki had knelt and known that his companions were dead. Could that have awakened the demon? Did the demon awakened itself or did the boy awaken it?

The medical team teleported just beside Ultear, greeting her before they got to work on Jellal Fernandez. One of the medics to grab the bodies, but Ultear stopped the medic in time. "I want these bodies returned to the lab."

The medic only nodded and proceeded to retrieve body bags. Ultear took the time to inspect the carnage caused by the demon, somewhat impressed with the amount of destruction that took place in such a small amount of time. The demon was supposed to only be awakened when the tower was complete, sealed away in the boy, but it seemed that the boy had corroded the seal. The boy was an important back up to the tower as the demon residing in the boy, also known as the Kyuubi could power the R-system and meet their goal of bringing back the Dark Wizard, if their main plan failed.

But the boy managed to hold the demon's power. How that was possible Ultear did not know, but once Ultear gets her hand on the jinchuriki, she could not wait to witness its power for herself. The boy who now has magic rivaling the great Dark Wizard...just thinking about him makes me excited.

"Naruto...I can't wait to meet you."


Sorry. Should've seen it coming.