Chapter 2: Fairy Tail's New Editions
"Well my name is Makarov, and I'm Fairy Tail's current master. What can I help you with?" He asked. He's an extremely short, elderly man was sitting there. He has black eyes and is growing bald with only the outer rims of his head containing white hair. He also has a thick white mustache. His outfit consist of a white shirt with a black Fairy Tail stamp in the middle which was covered by an orange hoodie. His attire was completed with matching orange shorts and an orange and blue striped jester hat.
"Well you see, my friend and I are lost and we have no idea where we are. So we were wondering if you could help us out." Naruto said and Makarov smiled.
"Sure, we can try to help you. Where do you need to go?" Makarov asked.
"The Hidden Leaf Village." Naruto said and Makarov happy expression shifted to one that was confused.
"The Hidden Leaf Village? I've never heard of such a place. Is that a new guild or something?" Makarov said and Naruto was confused too.
"Really? You've never heard of the Hidden Leaf? Man how are we going to get home now?" Naruto asked, truly disappointed in the results of his question.
"We? I'm more or less just a wanderer. I don't live in the Leaf." Sasuke said sarcastically.
"So what? You're just as lost as I am right now! Stop trying to be all cool! Besides this is your fault!" Naruto yelled and thus started the back and forth argument.
"These boys are definitely not from around here. Maybe their from Edolas? Could they have been the cause of that pillar of light assisting from nowhere?" Makarov thought as he closely inspected the two.
"Wait... The Hidden Leaf? I think I've heard that somewhere before..." Said Levy. She is a rather young, petite teenage girl of a slender build who stands at a rather below-average height for her age. Her shoulder-length blue hair, which has eyebrow-length bangs, is tied up with a colorful bandana around her head.
"Really you have?!" Naruto asked, his eyes lighting up like a Christmas tree.
"I'm sure I probably read about it in a book somewhere, but I don't know where it is." Levy said and Naruto's expression became disappointed again.
"I'll go down to the guild's library and search."
"Can I ask you two something?" Makarov asked and they have him their attention and he took it as a sign to ask.
"A few hours ago, a beam of light appeared from nowhere in the South West. Did you see it?" Makarov asked.
"Beam of light?" Sasuke questioned furthering Makarov's suspicions.
"Well the place you're looking for... I don't think you can go back there by normal means." Makarov said and Sasuke sighed deeply.
"I figured as much." Sasuke said.
"Wait Master, what do you mean by that?" said Erza, (insert Erza character description).
Unfortunately their investigation of Naruto and Sasuke's home had to come to a halt. The doors of the guildhall opened up and three more people came into the guild. The Strauss siblings who all had snow white hair consisted of two girls and one boy. Mirajane, was the oldest who is a slim young woman of below average height. She has long, white hair which curls slightly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her chest; her hairstyle's most distinctive trait is a short, upward ponytail obtained by gathering and tying the hair covering her forehead.
Elfman was a towering young man with tan skin and spiky white hair. He wore a navy blue uniform with purplish blue inners, and a kanji on the back of the jacket that read "the greatest". Lisanna was the youngest of the three and she is a young petite girl with short, white hair and blue eyes. She wore a short, dark red dress with a white collar and bow paired up with brown shoes.
"We're back home guys! Did you miss us?" Lisanna announced herself to the guild.
"Welcome home Lisanna!" Everyone shouted, welcoming 'Fairy Tail's Little Sister'.
"I see the guild is as manly as ever." said Elfman.
"I don't want to go on a job as long as that ever again." Mirajane said as she let out a deep sigh. She looked over to the bar where Naruto and Sasuke were currently standing. She also noticed that the Master was there too. She slid over to the Master and whispered to him, "Who are these bums?"
"Hey who're you calling a bum?" Naruto yelled, a tick mark developing on his temple.
"You of course, just look at yourself." Mirajane responded with an incredibly smug grin. Naruto inspected his body and just realized that his own clothes were messed up.
"Gah I didn't even realize my clothes were so messed up!" He screamed frantically trying to cover up the parts of his exposed skin.
"Haha reminds me of old Droopy drawers over here!" said Natsu, a young man with pink hair and a scaly patterned scarf.
"Who you calling Droopy drawers, you pink haired freak!?" said Gray, a boy with raven hair but he was wearing nothing but his underwear.
"Gray, your clothes!" The entire guild yelled as he also began frantically searching for his lost clothing.
"Oh by the way, Master did you see that giant beam of light in the sky a little while ago?" Mirajane asked. Makarov cleared his throat and said, "We were just talking about that before you came in. I think these two were the source of that light." Makarov said and Mirajane's eyes widened at his statement. She looked at Naruto and Sasuke who were both just blankly starting at her. She paused for a moment before a smirk appeared on her face.
"Pffff, no way." She laughed and this time they both became annoyed by what she did.
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Naruto questioned as she just laughed.
"Well the black haired one maybe. But definitely not him." Mirajane continued to insult Naruto much to his dismay. However Erza came out and said, "You should know first hand that you shouldn't judge a person's strength by the way they look. You might get hurt. Again." Erza taunted Mirajane with a smirk and the latter nearly had a vein pop out of her skill.
"What did you say? You Hermaphrodite!" Mirajane spat. There was a heavy tension building in that area of the guild hall.
"The temperature in here just dropped, wicked." Naruto said and the two S-class female wizards began releasing their hostile magical aura towards one another.
"STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" Makarov's voice boomed from his giant form. This tiny old man went from being a smurf to a beast within an instant.
"HUGE!" Naruto and the rest of the guild shrieked, tossing their hands up in fear. Erza and Mirajane bowed to Makarov, both apologizing for their actions.
"Jeez we have people who need our help and you wanna act like children" Makarov scolded as he began to shrink back down to his normal size.
"You'll have to excuse them, I run a pretty hot headed guild." Makarov said and Naruto smiled from ear to ear.
"We're the same way!" He said, maintaining his smile the whole way through. Makarov smiled in return and asked, "Well what are you going to do now?"
Naruto paused for a moment. It was true, they were in an entirely different world right now and had no idea how things worked here let alone how to get back home.
"We're going to need more information if we want to go back to the elemental nations." Sasuke said.
"Why don't you join our guild? We'll try our best to get you where you need to go." Makarov asked and Naruto's eyes lit up like Christmas lights from his offer.
"I'd love to!"
The entire guild started to cheer at the announcement of a brand new member. However, it got quiet again as everyone began to stare intently at Sasuke who had remained silent for a while. He sighed and said,
"Well it's not like we have anything better to do." The guild erupted into cheers and many people were going to look for a chance to find out more about the new recruits. Lisanna came to them with the guild mark stamp and asked them where they wanted their mark.
"Right here in red!" Naruto said as he pointed towards his bare right shoulder. Sasuke held up his left forearm and said, "Black."
"Alright let's party!" Natsu yelled and the entire guild cheered.
"Hold on before we start partying, you guys need some new clothes." Makarov said as he pulled out his wallet and handed each of them two 1000 dollar bills.
"This should be enough to get whatever you feel like." Makarov said. They bowed in appreciation, saying thanks before beginning to head out.
"But wait, Master, you still never explained why they can't get home by normal means." Erza said.
"If you want to know so badly then go with them." Makarov said as he hopped behind the bar and poured himself a mug of liquor from the barrel.
"Yes sir." She said like a soldier receiving orders.
"I'll go too. They'd probably get lost with ol' redhead over here leading the way." Mirajane taunted. Erza just ignored the rude comment and proceeded to catch up to Naruto and Sasuke who were already quite the distance away.
"What do you think we should do first?" Naruto asked.
"We'll let that blue haired one finish searching for whatever clues she can get. If there's no leads we'll just search ourselves." Sasuke said and Naruto put his hand on his chin in contemplation.
"If what the old man said is true, then people would look for us won't they?"
"Not necessarily. When we came out of that hole, I didn't see any witnesses. All of those people were unconscious." Sasuke said.
"At any rate, staying low is probably our best option."
"With the way they were acting I don't know if that's possibly y'know" Naruto laughed as the two female wizards had caught up with them.
"We've never officially met, my name is Erza Scarlet." She greeted politely, even adding a tiny bow in her greeting.
"Sasuke Uchiha." He said in a monotone voice. He didn't even turn around to greet her which made her feel a bit disrespected. She shook her head to clear out the negative qualms she started to feel about him.
"A sword?" She thought when she noticed the sheath attached to Sasuke's hip.
"So you're a swordsman too? I'd love to see how good you are." Erza said and Sasuke looked over at her from the corner of his eye.
"Hn, Is that a challenge?" He asked.
"That depends, if you're up for one" Erza smirked, leering him into her challenge.
"Hey Blondie where you from?" Mirajane asked. Naruto pointed to the Leaf headband on his head and said, "The Hidden Leaf Village!" Mirajane looked downright puzzled from his statement.
"Where the heck is that?" She asked and Naruto was about to answer but then Makarov's words echoed in his head. I'm not sure if you can get back by normal means. Then his face was filled with sadness when he remembered.
"I'm not... sure how to answer that..." Naruto said in a low voice.
"Does it have to do with what the Master said?" Erza asked.
"It's as he said, we can't go home by normal means. I don't exactly know what happened, but we definitely can't go back as we are now." Sasuke explained as they stopped in front of a clothing store.
"Hmmm, getting some new clothes myself doesn't sound too bad either." Erza said as she too entered the store.
"Ah what the heck, I just got paid." Mirajane said as she followed them inside.
"Is it possible to get this symbol stiched onto the back of this shirt?" Sasuke asked the shopkeeper as he pointed towards the Uchiha crest on his back as he held a black longsleeved high collared shirt. Naruto had gotten a black uniform-style jacket with an orange zipper that features several buttons on the waist and sleeves, but what really caught his eye was a cloak that was just like the one his father wore as the Fourth Hokage. It was white and had red flames adorning the bottom, but it was blank. He was definitely going to get it and have them stitch words on it. After the shopping trip Naruto and Sasuke came out with their new outfits. (A/N: Just imagine their "Naruto: The Last" outfit, just with Naruto having a cloak like the Fourth Hokage on and instead of that raggidy hooded cloak Sasuke has, he has that black one like in the last chapter of the Manga.)
"Hmmm I still have quite a bit of money left over." Sasuke said as he held one of the bills Makarov gave him and a 100 jewel bill.
"Aaahhh that feels so much better" Naruto said as he stretched in his newly bought clothing. Then a loud growl erupted from Naruto's stomach.
"Jeez I'm hungry, I feel like I haven't eaten anything in years!" Naruto said as he dug into his pockets and pulled out several bills. "Four hundred fifty..." He counted. "I don't think that's much..."
"Hey how much is it to get some ramen around here?" Naruto asked.
"Ramen? I don't think I've ever seen a ramen shop in Magnolia." Erza said and Naruto slumped over, a depressing rain cloud loomed over his head.
"No ramen? I wanna go home right now." Naruto sobbed as his stomach continued to growl louder and louder. Everyone around him sweatdropped at the blonde on his knees pleading to whoever would listen for a bowl of ramen.
"What's the big deal about ramen?" Mirajane asked and in an instant, Naruto immediately grabbed the strings of her top as if trying to hoist her up. Still weeping anime tears he said, "Are you kidding me? The succulent pork belly, sweet savory noodles, and the thick broth. It's the food of the Gods." His mind wandered in to unwavering bliss just from talking about his favorite food. Saliva was dripping down his chin, his mind overflowing in ramen ecstasy. However, he truly made a mistake that he would probably regret the rest of his life. The whole market had paused what they were doing and stared in silence. The towns people's jaws nearly hit the floor. All of the men around had hearts in their eyes and drool dripping down their mouths. Erza covered her mouth, gasping in shock and Sasuke pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Baka..."
"This feeling… I haven't felt it since Sai called Sakura-chan ugly." Naruto thought as he snapped back to the real world. A radiant murderous intent was being unleashed from the ivory haired beauty. Naruto's eyes widened and he realized that he was still holding her top up. In his peripheral vision he saw two identical balls moving freely underneath his arms.
Boing! Boing!
He looked down and his jaw nearly dropped to the floor when he saw two unleashed white globes of flesh underneath his arms jiggling about. An atomic blush grazed his face before becoming incredibly pale and drenched in sweat. His whole life began to flash before his eyes as he remembered all the people who sacrificed themselves in order to help him achieve peace in the ninja world.
"Obito… Nagato… Mom… Dad… Looks like I'll be joining you soon. Life after the ninja war was great while it lasted." He thought as he accepted his fate. Silence, followed by a merciless beating, and tremors that shook the market.
Naruto drifted along the sewers of his mindscape towards the biggest friend he had ever made. The gigantic nine tailed fox sat there, his tails swinging freely as he watched the morsel drift his way. Naruto held an emotionless expression as his body continued to drift along.
"So you've been beaten near death again haven't you?" Kurama asked and Naruto didn't even utter a single word as he just lay there in the water. His body stopped drifting when he came close to the nine tailed fox but he didn't even make any effort to stand. Kurama let out a hearty laugh watching the way his jinchuriki behaved.
"Watching you get punished for being an idiot will always be amusing." Kurama laughed and Naruto just continued to lie there. The former's expression became a bit more serious when he noticed that the blonde didn't have a witty retort to say back.
"No response today? You're usually full of comebacks. Or are you too busy remembering getting a front row seat of that woman's meat bags?" Kurama asked and this finally got a reaction out of the blonde. A pervy smile spread across his face with a slight red dust covering his cheeks.
"They were pretty nice..." He said in bliss as his mind drifted off into a bouncy heaven. After a few seconds of day dreaming he snapped back to reality and sat up. He turned to his fox companion and asked, "Oi, Kurama, do you know what happened to us?"
"I was asleep the entire time, so I only know just as much as you." He answered and Naruto frowned. He leaned on his fist, trying to contemplate what exactly was going on with them.
"The best course of action is to probably find the biggest library and search it thoroughly." Kurama advised.
"We should tell Sasuke, I know he can come up with something to figure this out." Naruto said as he began walking away from Kurama.
"Oh and do something about my injuries will you?" He asked and Kurama scoffed at him.
"Who am I? Your doctor?"
Naruto's physical body was currently being dragged back to the guild hall with numerous injuries to his face. Lumps, cuts, bruises, skull fractures, you name it, were present on the shinobi's head. Despite the beating, surprisingly no blood or dirt got on to his new clothes. Lucky for him. Mirajane was giving the death glare to everyone as they walked by. If they even so much as glance at her in any way that she decides to be personal, it's game over. She crossed her arms over her breast as if it would undo what Naruto had done by accident.
"Are you sure he's going to be okay? He hasn't moved for quite a while." Erza asked as she looked down on Naruto's prone body in the hands of Sasuke.
"It would take a lot more than that to kill this idiot." He answered and suddenly steam began to rise from the shinobi in question. They looked down at him and saw that all his wounds were starting to close up and lumps started to recede. Sasuke released one of his usual grunts and dropped Naruto to the ground with a smirk. Mirajane turned around when she heard the thump and an irritated eyebrow gave rise.
"Oi teme, you really didn't have to drop me like that." Naruto said as he dusted himself off. He looked ahead of him to see an irritated Mirajane looking just about ready to take his head off again. Sweat began to drip down his brow as he hurriedly scurried behind Erza looking for protection.
"I'm sorry, please don't hurt me." Naruto pleaded as he clung to Erza's blue skirt. Sasuke hoisted him up by the collar of his cloak and he still put up his hands in defense trying to prepare for the incoming beating. Mirajane expressed her irritation with a 'tch' before turning back around and continuing the walk back towards the guild.
"Hey you better let go of there before you cause another incident." Sasuke warned as he put his friend back down.
"Whew that was close. I thought I was gonna die." Naruto sighed in relief as his normal goofy smile made its way back on to his face.
"How is it that you don't have a single scratch on you?" Erza asked and Naruto patted Erza on the back and said,
"Ahh, don't worry about the small stuff. I'm still hungry. Do you think someone can make me ramen at the guild?" He asked and marched towards the guild, making sure that he did not come too close to the ivory haired reaper.
Once they had returned to the guild, everyone was shaking in their books at the expression they saw Mirajane return with. But they were also confused when they saw the other three.
"Wait… Mira is angry. But no one is covered in bruises? How is that possible?"
"Was someone finally able to avoid her assault?"
"I just hope she doesn't take her anger out on us." Several guild members murmured among themselves. However they were quickly silent when the death glare was sent there way. They cowered in fear under the presence of the snow haired woman.
"What the hell are you looking at?" She hissed, making them scurry away even further. She grabbed Naruto by the collar of his cloak and hoisted him up. "I swear if you tell anyone about what happened today, I'll kill you. Understand?" She threatened the three of them. Once she released him from her grasp he immediately dropped to his knees and bowed.
"I'm sorry, I didn't meant to unveil your chest to the world." Naruto apologized and everyone's jaws dropped to the floor.
"WAS THAT IDIOT EVEN LISTENING TO WHAT SHE JUST SAID?!" Everyone in guild screamed in horror. The same killing intent returned to Mirajane's form and Kurama nearly suffocated from laughter inside of the boy's mindscape.
"I'm convinced he's a masochist." Erza said and an uncharacteristic chuckle erupted from Sasuke mouth.
"He might actually die this time."
"I'm going to beat the memory out of you..." Mirajane said in a low voice as she cracked her knuckles. Incrdibly loud, unmanly shrieks and the sounds of fist connecting with face echoed throughout all of Magnolia. One horrendous beating of an idiotic shinobi shifted into a full scale brawl/party, depending on how you look at it. Naruto just barely crawled out of the mess and groggily made his way to the counter.
"Ramen… I need ramen..." Naruto begged as he reached for the bar stool with all his might. Lisanna had been working the bar for the day and she giggled at his actions.
"I don't know if I'm as good as Mira-nee but I'll try." She said as went into the guild's kitchen.
"That psycho can actually cook?" Sasuke said and Makarov who was sitting on the bar counter nodded his head.
"Despite her demeanor, she's actually really good at it." He answered as he took a swig of his beer. Levy approached the bar, wearing some red glasses and a scroll in her hand.
"Oh Levy, how'd it go?" Makarov asked.
"Sorry, this was all I could find about your village." she said as she handed Sasuke the scroll. He thanked her as he opened up the scroll and read its contents.
"This is just a report on the amount of ninja tools currently in supply at the village." Sasuke said and Levy's expression became downcast.
"I'm sorry, that's all we have." She said in a regretful tone.
"Don't worry about it. I didn't expect to get a huge clue anyway." He said and her expression lightened up a bit.
"If there's anything else I can help with please let me know." Levy said and Sasuke nodded. Lisanna returned with the bowl of ramen and placed in front of Naruto who finally managed to climb on the bar stool.
"I heard what happened with the search. There's all kind of places in Fiore that hold information. You can just search through there." Lisanna said before seeing an empty bowl in her face.
"More please." Naruto asked and the ones around him screamed, "ALREADY?!"
"Ramen sure does the body good." Naruto said as he patted his stomach, all of his newest injuries were already healed. A few more hours passed as night began to fall. Everyone exhausted their energies from fighting and their bodies were littered throughout the guild hall. Naruto had exhausted Lisanna from the endless amount of bowls of ramen that she had her make for him.
"Never… feeding… him ramen again..." Lisanna said between pants as Naruto happily patted his overstuffed belly. Sasuke simply had some riceballs for his meal and was satisfied with that.
"Those two are like polar opposites..." Makarov thought as he studied the two for as much as he could.
"Well, I've certainly picked up two interesting individuals. It's getting late. You two can sleep in the guild infirmary if you have no where to sleep." Makarov said as he turned into his giant form and yelled at everybody to go home. One by one everyone in the guild began leaving for the night.
"Bye bye everyone!" Naruto yelled, seeing them off with his usual grin. Well… at least until the ivory reaper returned its glare one last time before heading out the door.
They entered the infirmary which looked like a normal hospital room, full of beds with white sheets, pillows and curtains.
"We need to start gathering information as soon as possible." Sasuke said as they began taking off their clothes to get ready for bed.
"Yeah, I wanna go back to ichiraku's as soon as possible." Naruto said.
"Is ramen all you think about?"
Naruto lied down in the bed and immediately frowned.
"Just as I thought. Hospital beds are ALWAYS uncomfortable..."
"Stop complaining and go to sleep."
"Remember to stay as low as possible, we don't want to have a run in with the law in a land we know know nothing about." Sasuke said but all he got as a response was loud snoring. Ignoring the sudden urge to run a chidori through his back, he followed the blonde's actions and turned in for the night.
Next Chapter: Testing The Waters.