Author's Note: There's been a question concerning my main character. You'll be learning more about him in this fic, most likely in a flash back. However I won't be sharing every thing. Maybe bits and pieces but the rest of his whole story with the elemental nations will be in the Naruto fic I'm writing. Now concerning the characters shown previously in the last chapter I'll answered those at the end of this chapter. But for now.

Enjoy!

"Are you alright?"

The lady's voice brought me back to my senses. She stared at me with her cup in one hand and pointed at my hands with the other. I followed her gaze and noted how bad my hands were shaking. I breathed in deeply, maintaining my cool.

"I-I'm fine! It's just that I don't recognise anything on the map." I watched her blue eyes soften in pity. Sitting her cup down she rubbed her chin in thought.

"You can't read can you?" I looked at her in surprise, thinking that she was going to say something else. "N-No! It's nothing like that! It's just.."

"It's quite alright dear." She interrupted me and patted my hand. "I can teach you!" I shook my head in frustration. She clearly had the wrong idea.

"Obaa-san I can read! It's just that none of this is recognisable to me!" I slapped the map on the table to prove my point.

"You've must have come along way to not be able to recognise that map. Just where are you from?" I looked at my hands. How was I going to explain this one? Tapping my finger on the table I looked at her with a straight face.

"I'm from a hidden village in a forest. It's very far away and I doubt you've ever heard of it." I did my best to make a cover story. The lady nodded at my explanation and took another sip from her cup. I highly doubted that she believed me.

"Obaa-san do you mind telling me your name?"

"Estelle my dear."

A day had past before she let me leave on my own, not before making me promise that I wouldn't be stupid out there again. Turns out that she's been living in this forest for quite some time as a hermit. The guys that came in earlier were apart of a bandit guild with ties to the Boscoian slave trade. It was likely that I would run into them so it would be safe to be on the look out.

Joining a guild was my main objective to do but since Fairy Tail is so far away Caitshelter would be the next best thing. It was about two hours into my tree jumping travels that I stumbled upon a small creak. Deciding that it would be a perfect place to stop and rest I kneeled down at the bank and cupped my hands in the water. I splashed the clear water on my face and gazed down at my reflection. I was still the same old me unfortunately. My skin was still pale and my eyebrows were still huge. Not as big as Rock Lee's but still pretty big. All that changed was that my spiky hair, which was usually in a low ponytail, was out and fell freely past my shoulders. I cursed God for my wreck of hair. Why did it have to be so spiky?

"Wendy behind you!"

My ears twitched at the call. I knew that stuck up voice anywhere.

Carla. That annoying exceed.

Sighing, I stood and headed off towards the direction it came from. Whatever was happening, it wasn't good.

Wendy winced as the hold on her wrist tightened. A simple mission she took now had her surrounded by supposed traffickers set on sending her to God knows where. She struggled under the ugly man's grip only for him to smile at her attempts.

"Let go of her you brutes!" Carla yelled as she tried to escape the ropes she was tied up in.

"Be quiet cat! A creature like you would be worth a lot in the market. Pederson! Gag it." The man in question nodded at the order before quickly tying a white cloth around the cat's mouth muffling her protests. Turning his attention back to Wendy he got close to her face.

"A pretty thing you are. Something tells me that you'll be worth a lot more than that stupid cat over there." Wendy turned her head away from him not wanting the captors to see her tears. It was all her fault for being so weak. She couldn't even fight properly.

"Oi! Let them go!" A boy's voice called out. Wendy turned her head to the entrance of the forest and saw a spiky haired boy walk out before them. He was taller than her and wore clothes that were patched up in different places. What caught her attention where his eyes. They were dangerous and showed that he was more experienced than he looked. However, It seemed that her captors were unaware of this.

"Look at this! The boy's trying to act tough!" The whole group laughed at him. Wendy watched as the boy maintained an emotionless face. Her captor pulled on her arm causing her to stumble behind him.

"Go back to the playground kid, you're no match for us." That remark made a tick mark appeared on the boy's head.

"Oh really?"

"Boss." Two of her captors men walked out of the group. "We'll handle this." With a smile the fat man pointed. "Go to work."

Both man ran at full speed. Coming at both sides they simultaneously aimed a punch for the boy's face however both were greeted by air.

"What?!"

The boy appeared behind one of them and kicked him hard on the side sending him flying. Jaw slack from the display of power the other was unaware of the kunai heading straight for his neck.

"Gah!" The man gurgled in pained surprise before crumbling to the ground. It was silent as the boy walked over and pulled the bloodied kunai out from his neck. Spinning on his heels he faced the rest of the ground.

"You were saying?"

The fat man growled in anger at the sight of his two men. Pointing at the boy he screamed.

"Get him!"

The rest of the group ran weapons drawn. The boy took a few steps back before doing strange hand signs.

Kage Bunshin no jutsu!

Suddenly multiple clones of the boy appeared before their eyes. Wendy watched as the boy proceeded to beat down the men with ease. With each hit her captor's grip on her arm tightened. She wanted to get away from him as soon as possible. Seeing that his attention was away from her she worked up her courage and bit him on the hand, hard. He let go of her wrist and promptly cursed giving her time to scamper over towards Carla. Fiddling with the gag's knot, Carla's muffled screams brought her attention to the fat man a few feet away from her.

"You little bitch!" He screamed drawing out his gun from its holster. "You'll pay for that! Eat lead!" The shot rang out. Wendy closed her eyes and braced herself for the terrible pain to come. However it didn't.

It took me a lot of self control from screaming in pain. I had just made it and pushed Wendy out of the gun's range before it hit her. One of the reasons that I love the sharingan to death. If I didn't have it she would've been dead. I layed there on the ground gripping my side in pain before bringing myself to one knee. The fatty infront of me pointed the gun at me.

"Insolate brat." He growled. "You've caused me alot of problems today." Maintaining my blank look I readied my sharingan. This only made the guy happier.

"Those eyes of yours are quite something, I'll give you that. Mabey they'll be worth something on the market." He sneered.

"No thank you." I replied. "I'd like to keep my eyes thank you very much." The world around him contorted into red. I watched as his expression turned from confusion to sheer terror. I smirked inwardly seeing him stumble backwards before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and collapsed. My balance wavered slightly but I caught myself with my hand. A simple genjutsu seemed to be too much for me to handle. It would be a while before I was back to my normal self.

"U-Um sir?" I turned my attention to the familiar blue haired girl a few feet away from me. Her full attention was focused on my gunshot wound that was flowing freely with blood staining my shirt. What caught my attention was her hair. It wasn't at the full length I've normally seen her before with. "Are you ok?" I looked down at the aching wound before laughing it off.

"Don't worry! I'll be fine!"

"You've got to be kidding me!" Carla flew up in front of Wendy and pointed and pointed to my wound. I totally forgot she was untied. "Look at all that blood! It's a miracle that you haven't passed out yet!" I suppressed the urge to roll my eyes as I did a few hand signs: Ox, Tiger.

Shosen Jutsu!

I watched in amusement as both girls looked in comical surprise as I healed my wound.

"B-but wha..?" Carla's reaction was priceless.

"See? I can heal myself!" I smiled. From what I remembered from the anime, healing magic is considered to be lost in history. No wonder they reacted like that.

"Even if you heal yourself the bullet will still be inside of you!" Carla yelled as her tail twitched in irritation. I pointed to the stray bullet that glared in the grass only for her to growl at me."Just who are you?"

"I'm Kouki." Carla deadpanned at me. "What kind of name is Kooki?"

"Kouki!" I corrected her angrily. "And I'm trying to find the Caitshelter guild!"

"Y-You want to join our guild!" Wendy beamed at me.

"You know where it is?" Wendy nodded. "Yes! W-We could show you!"

"Here it is! The best in Fiore!" The guild was alot bigger in real life. I looked around at the heavily Native American infuenced houses, not to mention the actual guild hall itself. Cats must be a pretty huge thing around here.

"Wendy! We were starting to worry! Who's your friend?" A tall tan woman with brown curly hair came towards us. I've never seen her before in the anime, must have been one of Wendy's friends.

"O-Oh Magna! We're alright. This is Kouki." She directed her attention to me. "He wants to be a guild member!"

"A guild member you say! Are you sure! Our guild isn't very well known."

"It's fine! All I want to do is earn money for food." I assured her. Magna looked me over before shuttering at my clothes.

"Well good. It looks like you need some new cloths. Don't worry though I'll make you some as a token of appreciation for getting wendy back here safely." My eyes widened at the offer of such generosity.

"A-Are you sure? You do-"

"I think I'm sure Kouki." She patted me on the shoulder. "Wendy, Chief Roubal's waiting for you." She pointed to the guild. "When you're done bring Kouki over so he can get his cloths."

"Of course Magna!" Wendy said and watched as the woman went to mingle with the others.

"Wow she seems nice."

"She really is."

"Wendy!" Carla butted in. "Master is waiting for us! We have to hurry!" I really disliked that cat.

"Oh you're right! Come on Kouki! We have to hurry!" Wendy grabbed my hand and lead me quickly to the cat shaped guild hall.

"Wendy there you are!"

A small old man with an indian head dress came over to us and gave Wendy a relieved hug. "I thought something terrible had happened! Oh?" His attention was turned towards me. His eyes lowered as he gazed me over.

"Wendy who's this lad?" Wendy seemed to notice the protectiveness in his voice. "Master he's a friend! He wants to join the guild." The man raised a long and grey eyebrow at that.

"Join the guild you say? I don't know, you don't seem to be the fighter type."

"No no Roubal, he's very good! Kouki saved us from bandits not to long ago. He's very strong." Roubal nodded at Wendy's explanation. I waited apprehensively before a smile appeared on his face.

"A strong will for helping others I see. You'll make a perfect addition to our guild. Welcome aboard." He outstretched his hand for a shake. I stared at him.

"A-Are you sure?"

"Do I have any reason not to be?" His gaze faltered into a glare.

"No! Not at all!" I grabbed his hand and shook. "I'm just surprised at how easy it was. That's all." As the man then went off to find the guild stamp a strange feeling hit me. I couldn't help but feel like I was forgetting something. Hopefully whatever it was wouldn't hurt me in the future.

Estelle and those bandits won't be gone forever. They'll make an appearance later. For now just go with the flow.

Ja ne~