Macao Conbolt grinned as he saw the newest member of their family standing there looking at the mission board. It had already been a month since Naruto had arrived and already he was fitting in and making a name for himself once his magic was revealed, that was hectic, when Erza had challenged him to a fight. The older members were ready to step in but Naruto accepted with a grin on his face.

Flashback

"Sure, you want a fight you got one, I needed to get some training in anyway."

Erza smiled as she turned and headed to the outside of the guild while everyone rushed out to see the newest member of their guild in action, once they were outside the guild formed a circle around the two children and Erza smirked slightly as she requiped a sword using her magic trying to intimidate him but failing "Last chance to apologize for calling me a monkey."

Naruto merely grinned as he stood with his hands crossed behind his head and lightly kicking the ground "Yeah right. Let's do this!"

Erza rushed in and swung her sword but Naruto didn't even flinch as she swiped the sword mere inches from his face "Are you done playing around now?"

Erza's face began to turn red but before she could move Naruto dropped and spun kicking her legs out from under her, Erza coughed as she landed and Naruto did a backflip to gain some distance from the angered redhead. Erza got to her feet and brandished her sword while Naruto formed some chains behind his back, he waved at Erza to make her angry and it worked as the young girl charged him, Naruto merely thrust his hand out and his chains shot at the surprised girl and wrapped around her arms halting her movement.

Naruto grinned as he held his chains "Chain Magic, now give up Erza."

Erza was stubborn though as she requiped a large axe which she let drop and cut through his chains before she requiped into a spear and charged him, Naruto merely ducked under the spear before he got under her guard and merely slapped his hand against her armour as he past her, once he was behind her he thrust his palm into a stormy grey magic circle with a cry of "Gale Force Palm!"

Erza was blown forwards and sent rolling along the ground by the sudden violent winds that hit her, she looked up and the crowd jumped back at the wild look in her eyes, Erza got to her feet and cried out as she released her magic and summoned lots of weapons all of which flew at Naruto who jumped back and inhaled, the guild members all moved to stop the weapons but they were literally blown back by Naruto's move "Sky Gods Bellow!"

All the weapons were blown away and Erza was knocked down while the guild members were pushed back by the black twister for a moment before Makarov stepped forwards "That's enough, Erza go to my office and I'll join you in a moment."

Erza looked like she was about to cry but nodded and made her way back inside while Makarov turned to Naruto "What was that last spell Naruto?"

Naruto grinned as he explained "It's the Sky Gods Bellow, the basic spell of Sky God Slayer Magic."

The guild was silent while they tried to digest this bit of information while Makarov nodded "I see, when Inu informed me that you knew wind magic I didn't think it was anything like this."

Naruto merely grinned and stage whispered to Makarov "Well Inu-san is a shinobi, they like to keep secrets."

End Flashback

Macao shook his head, after her chat with Makarov Erza had settled down and even apologized to Naruto for hitting him, after which he apologized for called her a monkey and now the two of them had settled into a rough friendship. Macao was about to see if Naruto wanted to go on a mission with him when the guild hall doors opened and in came Laxus and his team, the Raijinshu.

Naruto turned to look at the people who entered and when he saw Freed he smiled "Freed!"

Freed Justine was surprised to see his young friend in the guild hall and even more surprised to see the Fairy Tail mark on his face for all to see "Naruto, it's good to see you."

Naruto ran over to him and grinned "Sure is, you didn't tell me you were a member of Fairy Tail!"

Freed chuckled at the young man's enthusiasm "You never asked me, and you never told me you were going to join Fairy Tail."

Naruto merely smiled as he said "You never asked me."

"Well Freed, who is this cutie?"

Naruto blushed as Evergreen came up to him and kneeled down to get a good look at him "I'm Naruto."

Bickslow grinned as he patted the young mage on the back "So you're the kid that helped out Freed huh. We owe you one kid."

Naruto merely shrugged it off "I didn't help him for a reward, I did it because it was the right thing to do."

Bickslow laughed and Evergreen smiled at the young mage causing him to blush, Freed smiled at his young friend but before he could say anything Laxus stepped forwards and stared down at Naruto who looked up at the older teenager "So you're the one everyone is talking about, the powerful new mage who has joined Fairy Tail huh?"

Naruto grinned and held out his hand "Yep, Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meet you."

His response was not what he was expected as Laxus kicked him hard in the face sending him crashing into a table shattering plates and spilling food and drink all over him, Lisanna, Elfman, Grey and Cana ran over to see if he was alright but Naruto just stood back up and glared at Laxus who had that cocky smirk on his face "You should stay out of my business, because of you Freed was late and because of that our client dropped our pay, so I'm thinking I'll take it out of your hide."

"Leave him alone Laxus!"

Laxus sneered as Mirajane stepped in front of him, standing up for Naruto because he was okay in her opinion, especially since he beat Erza "Sticking up for the new guy Mirajane, how pathetic" Laxus was caught completely of guard as golden chains burst from the ground and wrapped around his arms and legs and then pulled taught keeping him from moving "What the hell is this?"

Naruto grinned as he gripped the chains with his left hand and held up his right hand "Hands of Wind!" Naruto formed a single clawed hand of compressed wind which he balled into a fist before sending it slamming into Laxus' face at high speeds, and since he was restrained he didn't fall backwards and took the full strength of the blow busting up his nose.

"That's enough!"

Naruto grinned as he let his chain magic and his Wind Hand disperse when Master Makarov arrived and glared at them both but mostly at Laxus, Naruto turned and made his way over to the Mission Board with Lisanna fussing over him and his bloody nose "I'm fine Lisanna, I heal really quick."

"But you're bleeding."

Naruto grinned as he finally sat down "Okay, I'm sitting down, go nuts."

Lisanna smiled as she ran to grab a first aid kit, as she did Naruto ran over to Macao "Hey Macao, want to go on a mission with me?"

Macao paused in the middle of his drink "Uh weren't you waiting for Lisanna to heal your nose?"

Naruto shook his head and wiped away the blood from his nose "See, I'm fine, now hurry up before she gets back!"

Lisanna glared slightly as she appeared behind Naruto without him noticing "Before who gets back?"

Macao groaned as Naruto said "Before Lisanna gets back, pay attention she wants to play doctor."

Suddenly Naruto froze as Mirajane laughed long and hard and a shudder ran right up his spine as he looked at Macao who was shaking his head and Wakaba who was sitting next to him laughing "She's standing right behind me isn't she?"

Macao and Wakaba both nodded as Lisanna grabbed the red and blonde haired young mage and began to drag him to the medical room "Come on Naruto, I think you hit your head."

"NOOOO! Macao save me!" The guild laughed as he was dragged away, but a few seconds after he was dragged around the corner his head and hands popped back into view clinging onto the door frame "Macao, don't just sit there laughing! Save Me!" Before Lisanna won out and dragged him away leaving the whole guild laughing.

Macao looked down at his young companion and laughed once more, Naruto's face was covered in bandages and he was sulking "Cheer up Naruto."

Naruto sighed before he smiled slightly "I never had someone worry about me like Lisanna did before."

"Never?"

Naruto shook his head as he walked next to the older fire mage "My life back in the Elemental Nations wasn't great, the people of my village either ignored me or were outright hostile to me."

Macao raised an eyebrow at that "Any ideas why, you seem like a good kid to me."

Naruto shrugged "No idea, I used to think that maybe it was something that my parents had done, but my Jiji told me that wasn't it, he said that he knew why they hated me but wouldn't tell me until I was older."

Macao nodded "Sounds like a wise man."

"He is, I was angry at him for a while for not telling me, but then I realized that he had a good reason, he wanted to wait until I was old enough to understand properly" Macao smiled as he continued walking "So what is this job Macao?"

"We are headed to the other side of Magnolia, there is a construction job there, I figured a nice easy job to break you in, and the pay isn't to bad, I'll hang back and let you do most of the work and split the pay with you seventy-thirty, sound fair?"

Naruto thought about it for a moment before he nodded "Yep sounds fair to me, now let's go!"

Naruto grinned as he punched Macao in the back of the head with a Hand of Wind, moments ago a fight had broken out in the guild hall, he had no idea how it started but it didn't matter as they happened all the time, Macao turned and tried to smack him one but the younger mage ducked and then jumped up and kicked Wakaba in the butt, he then spotted Elfman trying to hide so he grabbed a plate of food that hadn't been knocked over and threw it at Elfman, he would have hit his mark but Elfman was knocked down at the last moment and instead the plate of food flew right over him and struck Mirajane in the face.

Naruto gulped as Mirajane removed the plate from her face and glared at him "Uh oh."

Naruto turned and sprinted away as the older silver haired girl took off after him "GET BACK HERE YOU MULTICOLOURED RUNT!"

Naruto ran from the guild all led her on a chase all over Magnolia before he reached the cathedral and jumped up and used his wind magic to glide up to the roof, he looked down at Mirajane who was still on the ground glaring at him and he blew her a raspberry, Mirajane merely smirked and used her Take Over: Satan Soul Magic to fly up after him and managed to catch him by the scruff of his shirt "Um, I'm sorry."

Mirajane smirked evilly "Oh not yet, but you will be!"

Back in the Guild Hall the fighting stopped when they heard the scream of fear that was heard all over Magnolia Town before they shrugged and went right back to the fight.

Naruto slowly managed to limp back into the Guild hall where Erza spotted him and smirked slightly "You got on Mirajane's bad side didn't you."

Naruto nodded before he collapsed face first on the ground "It was an accident."

Erza merely smiled before she went back to eating her cake, but it was at that time that Naruto managed to stand up and in doing so he knocked over Erza's plate of cake, the entire guild went silent as they watched in horror as Erza was suddenly on Naruto and beating his senseless.

Naruto groaned as he sat propped up against the wall covered in bandages with Lisanna patching him up "You really should stop getting into fights Naruto."

Naruto merely grinned "I didn't start them."

Lisanna smiled as she bandaged his arm "Still you should really stop, just because you can heal really fast doesn't mean you should get into trouble."

"What can I say trouble just seems to find me?"

Six years had passed since Naruto had joined Fairy Tail and the now twelve year old was standing in front of the jobs board, his attire now consisted of a pair of simple black pants and black shinobi sandals, over his chest he wore a simple black long sleeved shirt with orange flames along the ends of the sleeves, his hair was still short and spikey and still had that single long bang of red hair that hung across his left eye partially covering his guild stamp with the rest of his hair bushed backwards by the pair of orange lensed goggles sitting on his forehead. And on the back of his left hand was a circular plate slightly larger than his hand with Kanji written on it in several circles around the edge.

"Hurry up Naruto I'm bored!"

Naruto sighed and looked at his partner, the Fire Dragon Slayer Natsu Dragneel and his best friend and partner, the flying blue cat Happy and together they were Team Slayer "Aye! We're bored pick a job already!"

"Would you two shut up already, I'm trying to find one so get of my case!"

Behind them Lisanna giggled as Naruto scowled at Natsu "Are you two arguing again?"

Naruto turned and mocked glared at his best friend "It's hard to argue with mush for brains here."

Flames sprung up around Natsu's hands and in his eyes and he was even breathing flames "Oh yeah, let's go right now! Come on Naruto fight me!"

Naruto's eyebrow twitched before he raised his fist and slammed it down on the pink haired teens head moments after Happy jumped from his spot on Natsu's head and landed in Lisanna's arms "Settle down you pint sized pyro before you burn the hall down, again."

Natsu rubbed his head and grumbled while Lisanna giggled "So Naruto is it true that you are going for the S-Class Promotion Exams?"

Naruto nodded as he turned back to the jobs board "Yeah, Makarov talked with me about it and I said I'll think about it."

Lisanna sighed and shook her head "Only you could treat something as important as the S-Class exams as just another day."

"Oh man, you get to go for the S-Class exams. That's so not fair! Come on Happy let's go talk with Gramps!" Naruto shook his head at the pink haired Dragon Slayer's whining as he took off.

Happy jumped from Lisanna's arms as white wings sprouted from the blue cats back and he flew after Natsu "Aye Natsu!"

Naruto shook his head as he watched them run of, over the past six years he had trained hard every day he wasn't on a job, he didn't work on creating new spells, he worked on mastering the ones he already knew and finding new ways to use his spells. And his Jutsu Shiki had improved dramatically, Freed was impressed with the things Naruto could do with Jutsu Shiki, what took him months possibly even longer to work out and then much longer to get to a usable level Naruto did in mere days, a week at the most, but Freed didn't feel jealous, okay maybe just a tiny bit but he was also genuinely proud of the young mage.

Grey the Ice Mage came up to them and looked at the board before he took a simple bandit capture mission "So are you going to take the exams Naruto?"

Naruto shrugged his shoulders "I haven't decided yet."

Lisanna sighed at her friends antics "You're hopeless, okay well I'm going on a mission with Sis and Elfman so I'll see you when I get back, and when I get back you had better have made a decision."

Naruto merely waved her off with a smile before he turned to Grey "Want a hand with that job?"

Grey looked down at the job slip before he shook his head "Nah I think I can handle it."

Naruto nodded and turned back to the job board as Grey went to the bar to hand in the job slip before he left "Grey your pants" Grey looked down and freaked before he ran off to find his pants while Naruto chuckled and kept searching for a job.

It was several minutes later that Natsu screamed as he was thrown from Makarov's office and landed on his think skull right next to Naruto who didn't even bat and eyebrow at his friends abrupt entrance "Let me guess, the old man said no and then you decided to challenge him to a fight? Did I miss anything Happy?"

Happy shook his head as he floated down and perched himself on the blondes head "Nope, you got it all figured out Naruto. So did you pick a mission yet?"

Naruto nodded as he picked a mission from the board before he paused and shook his head and put it back "ARGH! Pick a job already damns it!"

Naruto turned to Natsu and fixed him with an evil glare "What was that Natsu, I don't think I heard you?"

Natsu and Happy both paled and Happy began to bow repeatedly while apologising for Natsu's stupidity and Natsu began to say Aye over and over, Naruto smirked before he turned back to the board and grabbed his hair "Argh, all these jobs suck!"

Suddenly Naruto grinned as he saw a job hidden under several others "Here we go, 'Please help us, our town was recently heavily damaged by a pair of passing strangers, we want someone to track this pair down and bring them to justice and if possible recover the money they stole from us. Please help us.' Well what do you guys think?"

Natsu took the job slip from him and read it over before he grinned "Oh yeah this is our kind of job!"

"Aye! Let's do it guys, onwards to victory!"

Naruto chuckled to himself while Happy who was sitting on his head just shook his head "How embarrassing."

Natsu was practically unconscious and very nauseous as he sat alone in his train seat and Naruto nodded "I got to agree."

Happy looked down at Naruto who looked up at Happy and suddenly both grinned and pulled out permanent markers and advanced on the motion sick dragon slayer who had no idea what they were planning. The rest of the ride was silent with the exception of Natsu's groaning, and after an hour spent riding the train Naruto dragged Natsu of the train and dumped him on the platform where he recovered almost instantly.

Happy was sitting flying beside Natsu and giggling while Natsu looked around at the sites and noticing all the looks he was getting as people began to laugh at him "Hey what's with all these people?"

Naruto shook his head with a grin on his face as he lead the way through the town, the next two hours was spent walking to the next town where they would check in and get more details about their job. The town they entered was a simple small town near a dense forest, as they entered the town they were suddenly surrounded by several armed villagers.

Naruto rose his hands slowly and moved his bang of red hair so his guild stamp was easily visible "Easy there, we're from Fairy Tail, my name is Naruto and this is Natsu and Happy, we're the ones who accepted your job."

"Aye!"

Naruto grinned as Happy dropped onto Natsu's shoulder and smiled at the villagers who lowered their weapons as the village elder stepped forwards "Thank you for accepting our request."

Natsu grinned as he kicked the ground slightly "No problem old man, now which way did these two go?"

The village elder chuckled at Natsu's enthusiasm "The two headed south three days ago but they didn't seem to be in any rush, and they were incredibly powerful."

Natsu grinned as flames sprung up around his hands before he took off towards the south side of the village with Happy flying after him, Naruto sighed but turned to the elder "Can you give me any more information on the two, their description and what kind of spells they used?"

"Both wore the same black cloak with red clouds, one had slicked back silver hair, cursed a lot and wielded a three bladed scythe, the other was tall and his facial features couldn't be seen but he was the one who took all the money we had."

Naruto nodded before he rushed of after Natsu.

The scene Natsu and Happy arrived at was one of a bloodbath, it looks as though the two unknowns had come across some random travellers and the silver one had slaughtered them for no apparent reason, the guy had drawn some symbol in the ground in the civilians blood and was standing there in the middle of the circle with the civilian dead on the ground "Oi Kakuzu, why the hell are we here again?"

The taller one glared at the silver haired guy "Because Hidan, it is a good place to gather money, now hurry up with your stupid dance ritual."

"Fuck you Kakuzu! Jashin-sama demands a sacrifice!"

"FIRE DRAGONS IRON FIST!" Hidan was sent crashing to the ground by a pink and blue blur which revealed itself to be a furious Natsu "What the hell is wrong with you, you killed these people for no reason!"

Hidan grinned as he got back up rubbing his cheek "You damn brat, I'll sacrifice your ass to Jashin-sama!"

Natsu glared as Hidan picked up his scythe and the young pink haired mage was quickly covered in flames "Try it you bastard! FIRE DRAGONS ROAR!"

Hidan laughed as he charged Natsu's roar head on and burst through the flames ignoring them as they burnt his clothes and his flesh and slashed at Natsu with his scythe, the fire dragon slayer barely managed to dodge and as he did his kicked upwards at Hidan's face scoring a direct blow "Hah! Take that you bastard!"

Hidan grinned like a lunatic and faster than Natsu could react he slashed the young mage across the chest with his scythe sending him rolling along the ground with Happy flying after him "Natsu! Are you alright?"

Natsu gave his partner a pained grin "I'm fine buddy."

"Not for long punk!"

Natsu looked up to see Hidan licking his blood from the tip of his scythe "Uh that's totally gross man!"

Hidan quickly drew a symbol on the ground in blood and stepped into the centre of it and as he did his skin turned black with white bone like marking all over him, Natsu got up and charged the weirdo but before he made it more than several feet Hidan stabbed himself in the leg and Natsu cried out as an identical wound was made on his own leg "What the hell is this?"

Kakuzu looked on uninterested "Hurry up and finish this brat Hidan."

Hidan merely laughed as he raised a collapsible spike high "Don't worry Kakuzu, this brat is already dead!"

Happy found himself smiling as golden chains burst from the ground and wrapped around Hidan tightly restraining him and stopping all movement "Naruto! You made it!"

Naruto stepped out of the tree's and examined the situation carefully, he noted Natsu's condition, the ritual like circle on the ground and deduced that it was some sort of living voodoo doll like effect, Naruto had his chains destroy the ritual circle on the ground and then noted the change in the guy's appearance "Who the hell is this brat?"

Naruto glared and began to tighten his chains "Who I am, is not important, what is, is taking you in so you can't kill anyone else."

Naruto charged in and as he did Kakazu decided to step in, he tried to attack Naruto from the side but the young wind mage raised his left hand with the rune inscribed plate on the back and said "Jutsu Shiki Shield: Physical"

Kakuzu tried to punch Naruto but as he did an ethereal purple slightly dome shaped shield formed from the plate on his hand which managed to block his punch without any difficulty, as Kakuzu tried to move another group of golden chains burst from the ground and tried to wrap around him but Kakazu leapt back to avoid them, this was what Naruto was aiming for as he reached Hidan who was still restrained and quickly set up a Jutsu Shiki prisoner restraining barrier which basically froze the occupants of the specified area.

Naruto turned back to Kakuzu and saw the man run through several familiar hand seals 'Shit, he's a shinobi!'

"Katon: Zukokku!"

Naruto grinned as he immediately slapped down a containment Jutsu Shiki which absorbed and contained the flames from the fire jutsu inside a small cube of purple magic with the glowing kanji for fire on all sides which he threw at Happy who caught it, Naruto scowled as a golden magic circle formed in his right hand and he fired a burst of many spear tipped chains at Kakuzu who began to skilfully evade them 'Shit, these two are way beyond our levels, we need to run but we won't get far, we need help!'

"Happy! Grab Natsu and get him out of here, get back to the guild and inform the master!"

Happy nodded but looked like he wanted to argue "AYE SIR!"

The little blue cat somehow managed to lift Natsu and took of flying leaving a trail of tears as he left his friend behind "Wait Happy, we can't leave!"

"Sorry Natsu but Naruto's orders."

As they flew away Naruto turned back and took a deep breath before a pure white magic circle formed in front of him just as Naruto forced Kakuzu into the perfect position with his Chain Magic, Naruto charged through the magic circle and the black miniature twister formed around his arm moments before Naruto in a burst of speed managed to hit Kakuzu perfectly across the man's chest caving it in "Sky Gods Lariat"

As the man dropped Naruto thought that he got lucky and let his guard down, as he did the Kakuzu proved he was still in this fight, he reached out and grabbed Naruto's ankle and slammed him into the ground with such force that the ground shattered as he impacted it and coughed up some blood, the sheer strength of this guy was unreal "How do you know that technique? Is it possible that you have been to the Elemental Nations, no it's more likely a simple coincidence."

Naruto rolled over and spat a wad of blood at Kakuzu who merely responded "Well you killed one of my hearts, so I'll take yours as a replacement."

Naruto smirked as Kakuzu leaned over him and once he was in position Naruto opened his mouth and let loose "Sky Gods Bellow" at point blank range which caught him completely of guard and sent Kakuzu crashing through several trees, Naruto struggled to get to his feet and then he ran into the forest in the opposite direction that Kakuzu had been sent. He ran for several minutes before he sat down with his back against a tree and began to use the Sky Gods Healing Spell on his ribs while he had the chance.

Meanwhile some distance away Natsu glared at Happy as the small cat dropped him and began to pant as he was tired "Why did you leave Naruto back there, the two of us could have taken them down!"

Happy shook his head as he cried "You can't Natsu, Naruto knew that those two were way to strong, we need to get Master Makarov!"

Natsu stood up and flinched as he stood on his wounded leg, Happy seeing the wound remembered the Jutsu Shiki cube filled with fire and gave it to Natsu who looked at the cube before he grinned and broke it open, the flames rushed out and the young dragon slayer devoured the flames with gusto "Oh yeah now there's a fire in my belly!" Happy smiled at his best friend and Natsu grinned "Okay Happy, you head back and tell Gramps as fast as you can, I'll head back and help Naruto!"

"Raiton: Gian"

Naruto rolled out of the way of the lightning jutsu and fired a spear chain at Kakuzu who blocked it with a kunai, Naruto held his chain with one hand and with his free hand formed a Hand of Wind which he used to manipulate the chain to attack Kakuzu while he snuck away, as he went he prepared his Jutsu Shiki to trap Kakuzu but before he could he was attacked from the side and caught completely off guard.

"Doton: Domu"

Naruto screamed in pain as Kakuzu's fist which had hardened by earth chakra slammed into his left arm breaking it just above the elbow, Naruto spun around and tried to kick Kakuzu but the much taller shinobi easily grabbed his leg and threw him through a tree, Naruto gripped his ribs again with his uninjured arm as he managed to get to his feet.

"Not bad for a brat, you've survived fire, earth and lightning style jutsu so far, let's see how you do with this" Before Kakuzu could launch his attack he was forced on the defensive when Naruto launched a large number of deadly spiked chains using his Chain Magic forcing Kakuzu on the defensive "Suiton: Suijinheki"

Kakuzu spat out a torrent of water which formed into a large wall which blocked his chains and pulled them into the water, Naruto let his chains fade and dropped to his knees as Kakuzu released his defensive jutsu and grinned under his mask, as some water fell in between them and blocked their vision Naruto lashed out with his good hand "Gale Force Palm" and sent a blast of condensed air at Kakuzu how managed to dodge it at the last moment and hit Naruto right in the stomach.

"Doton: Domu"

Naruto was only supported by the earth covered fist lodged in his sternum as he coughed up blood and struggled to get some air back in his lungs, Kakuzu picked him up by his now torn up shirt "Looks like this is the end for you kid."

Naruto barely managed to glare at Kakuzu before he was thrown into the air and the masked shinobi ran through several hand seals "Katon: Zukokku"

Makarov smiled as he listened Mirajane tell him about how the job they had taken turned out to be a dud "Well if the client changed their mind there isn't anything you can do about it Mirajane."

Mirajane merely glared at the job slip and Lisanna giggled at her older sister while Elfman was of chatting with Macao "So master, I take it that Naruto, Natsu and Happy took a mission since they aren't here?"

Makarov nodded as he chugged his drink and then wiped his moustache "Yep. Naruto found a quest for them and then had to keep up with Natsu and Happy when they ran right out of here."

Wakaba nodded as he sat "Yeah I swear that kid never sits still for more than a minute."

Makarov nodded with a chuckle "Yes but you remember when Naruto was like that."

Mirajane smirked as she placed her hands on her hips "Yeah when he was six or seven, Natsu is twelve and he still acts like a little kid."

"Oh let the boy be Mirajane, he just has more energy than he knows what to do with."

As the group laughed their attention was suddenly caught by the guild hall doors bursting open to reveal a crying Happy and no sign of Naruto or Natsu "MASTER!"

Happy flew across the room and was caught by Lisanna as he ran out of energy and his wings faded "Happy? What's wrong and where are Naruto and Natsu?"

Happy looked up as Makarov stepped up to him "It was bad, the two strangers we went to deal with were way strong, Natsu got beaten easily and if Naruto hadn't have been there he would have died, Naruto managed to capture one of them but the other was just as strong and Naruto made me grab Natsu and leave, then Natsu stayed behind and went back to help Naruto. But they don't stand a chance, they're way to strong!"

Makarov looked grave as he suddenly leapt over the bar and checked the job slip before he levitated and flew out of the guild at top speed. Happy tried to re cast his flight spell and follow but his wings just wouldn't grow "No, you need to rest Happy."

Happy shook his head as Lisanna held him "But what about Natsu and Naruto? They could be hurt!"

Mirajane shook her head "I doubt it, Naruto may not seem like it but he's tough, it's why he's going for the S-Class exams."

"NO!" everyone was shocked at the little blue cats outburst "You don't understand, these two guys are super tough!"

Lisanna smiled but you could tell she was worried "I'm positive that Naruto and Natsu are both fine. Just you wait and see."

Naruto grinned as Natsu appeared in front of him and began to devour the fire jutsu that would have ended his life before he continued to fall and he hit the ground hard. Natsu glared at Kakuzu who watched him with a keen eye "An interesting technique, you ate my jutsu and seemed to regained some strength."

Natsu didn't respond in words, he immediately charged Kakuzu and tried to punch him with his left hand, Kakuzu caught his hand and pulled him in intending to knee him in the stomach but Natsu used this against him "Fire Dragons Iron Fist" Kakuzu grunted as he was hit full force and sent crashing back through a tree leaving a still glaring Natsu who looked back at Naruto "You okay Naruto?"

Naruto who had one eye shut managed to give Natsu a weak thumb up, Natsu turned back to the fight just as Kakuzu burst from the trees with his hands blurring through hand seals "Suiton: Teppodama"

Natsu took a deep breath and exhaled "Fire Dragons Roar"

The bullet of condensed water and the stream of dragon fire collided and a burst of steam was created that covered the area, seeing this Naruto knew that the shinobi would use this to his advantage forced his wind magic into his hands and then clapped them together creating a burst of wind which cleared the area of the steam just in time for Natsu to dodge a Doton: Domu and retaliate with a point blank Fire Dragon's Roar. Kakuzu barely managed to dodge the roar and tried to deliver a kick to Natsu's midsection which he succeeded and sent Natsu crashing into the ground where he bounced before crashing into a tree.

Instead of continuing to pursue Natsu he turned back to Naruto "You have a strong Wind Affinity, it must be fate that the heart you destroyed was my wind element heart, meaning I'm going to replace it with yours."

Naruto glared and tried to stand but before he could Kakuzu had appeared over him, his arm seemed to detach between the wrist and the elbow and was connected by some strange black threads, the same threads emerged from his hand which stabbed into the young Wind mages chest and began to worm their way deeper into his chest cavity.

Naruto screamed as the threads began to encircle his heart but before Kakuzu could finish removing his heart an overwhelming pressure hit him and forced him to his knees 'This power, it's at the same level as Leader-sama!'

Naruto grinned as Makarov calmly marched towards them, the guild masters gaze swept over the still restrained Hidan, the broken and bloody Naruto with the threads slowly retreating from his chest and the downed Natsu stuck under a downed tree before he set his gaze on Kakuzu "Nobody harms my children and gets away with it."

Kakuzu tried to move but before he could he was struck by an enlarged fist and sent crashing through dozens of trees "W-What power!" The masked shinobi had to move and just barely managed to dodge a beam of light that exploded where he had just been sitting, he knew he was still in danger and looked up to see a single beam of light burst into a rain of many beams of light that rained down upon him "SHIT! SUITON: SUJINHEKI"

It is needless to say that Kakuzu's water wall didn't stop the deadly rain of light and he was caught in the explosion. Makarov looked around once the smoke had cleared but found no sign of the shinobi, he looked back and found that the shinobi that Naruto had managed to capture had vanished. Obviously the man had survived his attack and used the smoke as cover to make his escape. The elder guild master rushed over and checked Natsu and found him unconscious with just a few bruises and scratches so he picked up the teenage fire mage and made his way over to Naruto and gazed down at the boy.

"Don't worry Gramps it looks worse than it is."

Makarov shook his head as he carefully picked up the injured teen "I highly doubt that my boy. But while you're conscious I just want to tell you that you did the right thing in sending Happy to get me. I'm proud of you."

Naruto managed a weak grin before he passed out from the pain.

Naruto groaned as the sun hit his eyes "Would someone please turn of the sun."

Makarov chuckled as he entered the room and pulled down a blind blocking out most of the light so the young mage could open his eyes "Take it easy Naruto you've been out for a while now."

"How long have I been out Gramps?"

Makarov sat down in chair next to his bed "Almost three days now, those two really did a number on you my boy."

Naruto shook his head "Those guys were monsters."

The elderly guild master nodded "Yes, Natsu told me about his fight and I have sent a report to the Magic Council in Era and to the Rune Knights. How are you feeling?"

Naruto moved around a bit before a broom smacked him in the face "What do you think you're doing you idiot human?"

"Ow" Naruto opened his eyes and found an elderly lady with pink hair standing behind Makarov who was now holding his head "When did Natsu's grandma get here?"

Makarov was unable to stop his laughter from bubbling to the surface and was smacked in the head again by the lady who turned her stern gaze on the injured wind mage "Hurry up and finish healing brat and get out."

Naruto didn't know what to say to her after that so he just settled on nodding, once the elderly lady left Naruto looked at Makarov and said "That was Porlyusica right?"

Makarov nodded "Yes, and as you have just seen she isn't too fond of humans so don't get on her bad side."

Naruto laid back down on the bed "What happened to those two Shinobi?"

"So they were Shinobi, I thought as much, they managed to escape, I went back and examined the area after I brought you and Natsu here, the one you fought destroyed the ground around his companion thus breaking your Jutsu Shiki's area of effect. The attack he must have used to free his partner must have damaged the man as well, as of now the Rune Knights are searching for them and the Guilds have been put on alert for anyone matching their descriptions."

Naruto shook his head "No, you should tell everyone to flee if they come across them, those too had to be S-Class shinobi at the least."

"I understand, I'll inform the council and recommend that the other Ten Wizard Saints be put on alert, for now you need to rest, Natsu healed already so I'm going to take him back to the Guild."

"Idiot boy, what do you think that you are doing?"

Naruto paused in the middle of his sit ups and looked up at Porlyusica "I can't sit still for long periods of time so I figured I'd do some light exercises to keep busy."

"Idiot, you keep pushing yourself and you'll never heal!"

Naruto shook his head as he resumed his sit ups "I have always healed fast, I'll be fine in another day or so."

Porlyusica shook her head "Idiot."

"What's your deal anyway?"

Porlyusica glared at the boy "My deal is that I keep being bothered by you idiotic humans."

Naruto just shrugged "I can't change what I am old lady."

Porlyusica continued to glare "Get back in the bed boy."

"Why?"

Porlyusica smirked slightly as she pointed at the bed "Because you just popped your stitches."

Naruto looked down at his bandaged chest and saw that the bandages had begun to turn red "Damn Taki bastard!"

Porlyusica looked at him "What is this Taki you mentioned?"

Naruto grinned as she began to remove his bandages "Takigakure, the Hidden Waterfall Village is a village back home in the Elemental Nations, is saw the headband the guy was wearing, he was a missing Nin from Taki. A Missing Nin is like a Dark Mage in case you were wondering."

Porlyusica scowled at him as she tended to his wound caused by the strange threads "I know about Missing Ninja's boy, I have been to the other continent before, I just didn't go to any of the human filled villages."

"Well sorry! Dear Kami what a grouch!"

Porlyusica glared at him and quickly smacked him across the back of the head "Watch your mouth brat!"

Naruto grinned as he slowly made his way into the Guild Hall "Man it's good to be back home."

The guild turned to see Naruto standing there in his usual black pant and sandals, his shirt was in his hand and his torso was bandaged "NARUTO!"

Naruto laughed slightly as Happy flew right into him "Hey Happy."

Happy was crying as he answered "You idiot! Why did you send us away, you could have died!"

Naruto grinned as he friends approached "Because Natsu was injured and we needed help, if I hadn't have sent you of then the three of us would now be dead instead of me being injured."

Happy nodded slightly as Happy floated up to his eye level "Aye, just promise to never do it again!"

Naruto nodded before he was suddenly thrown back onto his butt when a crying Lisanna crashed into his bandaged chest "You noble idiot!"

Naruto smiled as he hugged his crying best friend "Hey why are you crying?"

Mirajane stepped up and slammed her fist into the red and blonde haired mages head "You idiot, you almost got killed! If you ever make Lisanna cry like that again I'll make sure you don't get a chance to live to regret it!"

Naruto looked up at the eldest silver haired Straus sibling "What was I supposed to do?"

"Airhead idiot" Naruto looked at Grey as he approached still clad in only a pair of shorts "Next time try all of you running, not staying behind to basically sacrifice yourself while your team flees, a team is supposed to fight together!"

Naruto looked around to see the whole guild around him and smiled as a quote that Inu had told him on their journey "Those who break the rules are trash, but those that abandon their friends are worse than trash, I'm sorry Natsu."

The young pink haired dragon slayer grinned "Damn right you are! From now on we fight together as a team! Don't go thinking you're so much better than me just because you're going for the S-Class exam."

Naruto shook his head as he got up bringing Lisanna with him "I've decided not to take the exam yet, I'm not ready."

Lisanna looked up at him and Naruto smiled down at her before he looked up at Natsu "Alright Natsu, let's get going, we have some training to do!"

Natsu grinned and punched his fist into the air "Oh yeah, I'm getting all fired up!"

Makarov smiled as Naruto passed on his chance to go up to S-Class "You constantly surprise me my boy but I couldn't be more proud of you."

The peaceful morning in Magnolia town was broken by a loud explosion coming from Team Slayers usual training spot followed by loud cheers from said team, the people of Magnolia merely shook their heads and continued what they were doing. In a deserted part of the forest just outside of Magnolia town stood Team Slayer.

Both Natsu and Naruto had identical smirks on their faces as they stood panting before a long smoking trench "Oh yeah, we did it!"

Naruto grinned at his enthusiastic teammate "I still can't believe how hard it was to perform Unison Raid, it was way more than just combine two compatible spells, the timing must be perfect to achieve maximum power, if the timing is of the effectiveness of the spell is decreased by a large amount."

Natsu was now jumping around with Happy "Oh yeah, I can't wait until Gramps and Grey and Erza see this, I bet none of them can do this!"

Naruto shook his head his smile not having diminished in the slightest "Natsu, we should keep this a secret, it will be our secret weapon."

Natsu nodded "Yeah, next time those cloud robed jerks won't know what hit them, come on Happy, we have more training to do!"

Happy saluted before he flew off after his friend "Aye Sir!"

Naruto winced as he sat down in his small apartment, the room was rather simple with a single table with several chairs around it and a large comfy couch against a wall, on the walls were lots of pictures of his family, the different members of Fairy Tail, the various teams and even several various group pictures.

"So your chest still hurts?"

Naruto nodded as Lisanna sat down next to him and began to help him change his bandages "It's taking some time to heal. That guys technique, it-I'm lucky to be alive."

Lisanna winced as she saw the several puncture marks on his chest around where his heart was located "What did he try to do?"

"I think. I think he was trying to tear out my heart, from what I remember shinobi usually have an affinity to one or maybe two of the five chakra natures, but that guy seemed to have an affinity to at least four if the skill he displayed with the jutsu he used is correct. My best guess is that he is somehow using other people's hearts to give himself affinities for the other elements."

Lisanna shook her head in disgust as she began to re-bandage his chest "That sounds like some really dark magic."

Naruto nodded "Yeah it was most likely a Kinjutsu, a forbidden technique, one of the darker ones" Lisanna didn't answer him, she had her head down and her short silver hair was covering her eyes "Lisanna?"

Suddenly Naruto had his arms full of a crying silver haired blue eyed girl "You idiot, you almost died!"

Naruto shook his head confused "But I'm fine see."

Lisanna just shook her head "That's not the point! You could have died if the Master was just a moment later, or if Natsu hadn't have gone back, or any other number of things and you wouldn't be here, all of your friends would be sad and you don't seem to care at all!"

"Of course I care, but I'm more than willing to sacrifice myself if it means that my loved ones would live."

Lisanna slowly managed to stop crying "What about me, I don't know what I would do if I lost you?"

Naruto looked down at the girl in his arms still confused, Lisanna giggled slightly at his tilted head and confused look on his face before she took a deep breath and in a move that surprised Naruto she leaned up kissed the red and blonde haired mage right on the lips. Naruto was so surprised that before he could react Lisanna had broken the kiss and ran blushing from his apartment leaving a stunned young man alone for a moment before a goofy grin spread across his face.