Hey guys, back with chapter two and the poll for the dragon slayer secret art will be up either later this evening or sometime tomorrow so be sure to check that out and vote. Sorry for the long wait, had some things that came up that were more important than my stories. After this chapter I will be updating my other two so there will be another break in updates for this one, I am hoping no more than a week but I don't know for sure.
It had been a month since Ryuu had left Naruto alone, Naruto didn't know why he left but he had a feeling he would see him again one day. Naruto currently stood at the top of a cliff overlooking a large expanse of forest. Sitting on his head was a red furred cat, this was Kurama. Kurama had hatched from the egg his father had left him shortly after Naruto began his journey and Kurama had grown to stand at a height of two and half feet. The two were staring over the forest below enjoying the small break from walking when Kurama stood up.
"You smell that Naruto?" Kurama asked as he sniffed the air.
Naruto nodded slightly as he looked around trying to find where the smell was coming from. As he scanned the forest below him, Naruto heard an explosion off in the distance and saw a tower of smoke begin to rise. He wasn't sure what was going on but decided to see if he could help.
"Let's go Kurama." Naruto said as he ran and jumped off the cliff and began to plummet to the trees below. Kurama hopped of Naruto's head as a small magic circle appeared on his back. In a flash of light, two orange colored wings appeared and Kurama began to fly. Kurama flew above Naruto's falling form and grabbed a hold of his dragon scaled coat, and began to fly toward the direction of smoke and explosions.
"What are you going to do if I miss catching you one day?" Kurama asked.
"Don't know, guess I'll figure it out when that time comes." Naruto said with a shrug of his shoulders causing Kurama to sigh.
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A short blue haired girl was enjoying her day just like any other day before. She was out walking through the forest surrounding the small village she lived in. All of a sudden, she heard an explosion and saw the smoke rising in the direction of her village. She took off in a run in order to make it to the village to check on her mother and father. When she arrived back at the village, she wasn't expecting what was waiting for her.
There was a group of cloaked figures attacking the people of her village. There were bodies of both the villages and the unknown people scattered around the streets and buildings. She quickly made her way toward her house worried about the safety of her parents. When she turned the final corner to her house, she stopped dead in her tracks. Her house was up in flames and there seemed to be no sign of life anywhere nearby.
"MOM, DAD!" she yelled frantically as tears built in her eyes. Hearing foot steps behind her, she quickly turned around and saw five of the cloaked figures looking at her.
"This village was a little tougher than we thought. We lost quite a bit of our men and now we need replacements, and you are gonna fill one of the empty spots." One of the figures spoke as he walked forward.
Levy swung her right arm in an arc in front of her as the word fire appeared in the air in front of her. The next second, the man was being burned alive in front of his friends. The remaining four people quickly surround her, Levy tried to find an opening to escape when something in the corner of her eye caught her attention.
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Naruto and Kurama were flying at high speeds towards the sound of destruction. As they got nearer, they could see what they assumed to be the people of the village fighting against cloaked figures. Naruto and Kurama stopped over the village and looked around to see who they could help. The villagers had been killed and all that remained were five of the cloaked people. Naruto then saw the young blue haired girl fighting off the attackers. When the people surrounded her after she took one of their friends out, he moved in to help.
Naruto's hand was covered in red lightning as he nodded at Kurama to let him go. He saw the girl's attention turn to him as he fell through the air. "Raikiri!" Naruto shouted as he hand passed through one of the figure's chest, killing him instantly. Naruto walked over to the young girl as Kurama landed beside them.
"You can leave this young girl alone and leave this village, or you can die just like your friend did here. Your choice." Naruto said as he stood in front of the girl.
"It's three of us against you, a young girl and a cat. You got lucky and surprised us, it won't happen again." Shouted one of the people.
Naruto just shrugged as he turned and nodded to Kurama. Kurama had a dark grin on his face as his body began to grow, soon he was standing even with Naruto at six foot tall.(Just like Pantherlily) Naruto focused his magic for a minute before he was covered in the red lightning that covered his hand moments ago. (Lightning armor of the raikage)
"This is my lightning armor and that," Naruto said pointing to Kurama. "Is his battle mode. The one thing about this two modes, they greatly increase our speed." Naruto said before he and Kurama disappeared from sight only to reappear behind the remaining three people.
One after the other, each person fell with either a hole in their chest or their throats ripped open. Naruto deactivated his armor and Kurama shrunk back to his normal form. They then turned and walked toward a scared and shaking girl.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki and this is Kurama. We were passing by and heard the explosions, are you ok?" Naruto asked.
The girl shook her head and fell to her knees letting her tears flow. "My parents, they killed my parents! What am I supposed to do now?" she screamed.
Naruto knelt beside her and pulled the sobbing girl into a hug to try and comfort her. "I lost my parents and my brother when I was young as well. When my adoptive father took me in, he told me to get stronger so that I could protect those precious to me and never let something like that happen again. I know it's tough, but you have to move on and get stronger and make your parents proud. I am heading to a magic guild known as Fairy Tail, would you like to join me?"
The girl just sat there staring at her burning house for a few minutes. She knew there was nothing she could do to save her parents, so she would take Naruto's advice and get stronger and make her parents proud.
She looked at Naruto and gave him a nod. "My name is Levy McGarden."
"Nice to meet you Levy. Let's get a move on just in case more of these guys decide to show up." Naruto said as he pulled her to her feet.
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It was silent as Naruto continued leading the trio toward Magnolia Town. It had been about an hour since they had left Levy's village and were currently making their way through a small town, and the awkward silence between the three was starting to aggravate him. He decided to try and start a conversation to get rid of the silence, but as he started to speak, Levy beat him to it.
"Naruto, mind if I ask you a question?"
"Go for it?" Naruto said looking at her from the corner of his eye.
"What was it like to have a sibling? If you don't mind me asking." Levy asked.
"At times it was a pain in the ass and others were fun and exciting. Me and my ototo Natsu were the only kids in my family, and then there was my mom and dad. I loved Natsu more than anything. Sure he could be a pain at times but he was my brother and I wouldn't have it any other way. I always did want a little sister though. We lived in a small village on the northern part of Fiore and were pretty happy with our lives there." Naruto explained with a small smile as he remembered back. "What about you, you have any siblings?"
"No, I am an only child. It was only me and my parents in our village. Do you mind if I ask what happened to your family?" Levy asked a bit quietly unsure if he was okay with talking about it.
"One day out of nowhere the demon Deliora appeared and attacked the village. My mom was one of the first to be killed. My dad went after the demon to fight it and left me and Natsu at the destroyed house. I knocked Natsu out so he wouldn't follow me and went after our dad only to find him barely alive. Soon after he died and Deliora swatted me away and I was knocked unconscious, when I finally woke up I learned that the dragon king Ryuu had saved me and healed me but there were no other survivors. He trained me in the dragon slayer magic and became my adopted father until he left about a month ago." Naruto explained missing the shocked expression on Levy's face.
After noticing Levy had stopped walking, he turned to see her just standing there staring at him. "What?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"Dragons don't exist, there is no way you could have been raised by a dragon." Levy stated in disbelief.
"But dragons do exist and I was raised by one. Like I said I was raised by Ryuu, the dragon king and I am his son the prince of dragons. My dragon father used elemental magic using fire, wind, water, earth, and lightning for his attacks. My main magic is lightning but I too can use the other four as well, I can also learn other elemental magics thanks to a lacrima that was implanted in my body." Naruto said as he created a small ball of fire and water in each hand before continuing his walk.
Levy just shook her head to try and clear it for the time being and caught up with Naruto and Kurama. As the trio neared the outside of the town it began to rain all of a sudden. After a few more minutes of walking, Naruto heard someone crying and decided to investigate. He found a man and woman talking and noticed that the crying was coming from the woman. After listening to the man complain about the woman and rain always following her around and then breaking up with her, Naruto stepped in.
He walked up behind the man and put his foot on the man's back before giving him a hard push and causing him to face plant the ground in front of him. "Oi jackass, just because the rain follows her around doesn't give you the right to belittle her about it. Now beat it before I beat you." Naruto said.
The woman was surprised that this stranger was sticking up for her and had to admit that he was slightly attractive. The man on the other hand was extremely pissed. He stood up and threw a punch at Naruto who caught it in his hand. Naruto squeezed his hand shut and applied pressure to the guy's hand and his eyes became silted.
"I said beat it!" Naruto growled out as his magic energy was focused on the man in front of him. The guy just nodded as Naruto released his hand before running off. Naruto then turned to the woman and gave her a small smile. "Are you ok?"
"Yes I'm fine, thank you." Replied the woman.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki and this is Kurama and Levy. What was that all about?" Naruto asked after introducing himself and the other two.
"I'm Juvia Lockser, that was my boyfriend breaking up with me because of this rain that always follows me around." Explained Juvia with a saddened look.
"Well he doesn't deserve to have someone like you. There is nothing wrong with the rain, someone as pretty as you can do a lot better than someone like that guy. We are on our way to the Fairy Tail guild in Magnolia Town, would you like to travel with us?" Naruto asked.
All of a sudden the rain stopped and the sun returned. Naruto missed the blush that spread across Juvia's face but it was noticed by Kurama and Levy. Juvia meanwhile was picturing different dates with Naruto to notice too much. Naruto snapped his fingers in front of her face and she was brought out of her daydream.
"I would like to but I can't, I am already in a guild called Phantom Lord and I must be getting back. Thank you for your invitation though. I hope to see you again one day." Juvia said as she turned to walk away with a blush still on her face.
Naruto, Kurama, and Levy started their journey towards Fairy Tail once again. "I think she likes you." Levy said with a small chuckle.
"We just met, how could you think she likes me?" Naruto asked.
"Just call it women's intuition." Levy laughed out at seeing Naruto's confused looked.
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It had been about a week of traveling since the three had left the town where they had met Juvia. Naruto, Kurama, and Levy were walking through Magnolia Town on their way to the guild hall on the southern part of town. As they got closer to the guild hall, all three were wowed by the size of guild since the two humans were from small villages and Kurama had only been around for a little more than a month.
Naruto opened the door and the three walked into the guild. They looked around the building and saw people drinking and conversing, a small brawl in one corner of the guild hall, and people taking pieces of paper from a board and handing them to a short, elderly man sitting on the bar. Naruto led the group further into the guild and up to the older man.
"Excuse me, we're looking for the guild master. Do you know where he is?" Naruto asked.
"Indeed I do, my name is Makarov Dreyar. I am Fairy Tail's guild master, how may I help you?" Makarov asked with a smile.
"I thought the guild master would be a bit taller and younger." Naruto whispered to himself but Makarov still heard him. Before Makarov could reply, Levy spoke up.
"My name is Levy McGarden and this is Naruto Uzumaki and Kurama. We would like to join the guild please."
"Another Uzumaki, is he related to Natsu?" Makarov thought while looking over the three. "What type of magic do you use and where would you consider your power levels to be?"
Kurama hopped off Naruto's head and started to grow in size, this caught the attention of a few people in the building. After a few seconds, he was standing next to Naruto looking at a shocked Makarov. "This is my battle form, I am a decent hand-to-hand fighter and I use Aera magic."
Makarov just nodded and looked to Levy. "I use a type of letter magic called solid script, I'm not really sure about my power level though."
Makarov finally turns his attention to Naruto. "And what about you?"
"My magic is a lost magic known as dragon slayer magic. My adoptive father was the Ryuu, the king of dragons and knew magic for fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning. He taught me his magic and implanted a lacrima in me that allows me to learn magic of the five elements and allows my body to adapt to different types of weather. I also use clone magic. As for my power level, I would say I am equal to what you all would consider s-class." Naruto explained getting looks of shock and disbelief from others around the guild.
Makarov thought the information over for a few minutes. He had heard about the different types of dragon slayers considering both Natsu and his own grandson were dragon slayers in their own right. He knew he needed to test Naruto's level to be sure, he was just unsure of who to put against him. Just then, the door flew open and Makarov smirked.
"Erza, just in time. I need you to have a spar against this young man and test his power. He believes himself to be on the s-class level so we will have an s-class mage fight him. Come on everyone." Makarov said as he led everyone out back.
Naruto stood on one side of the training area while Erza was on the other side. "No severe or killing blows." Makarov said before moving off the field.
"Better take this off first, she wouldn't be able to touch me if I didn't." Naruto said as he took his coat off and handed it to Levy.
"And why is that?" Makarov asked.
"It is made from dragon scales, the strongest there is since it came from the dragon king." Naruto explained before turning back to Erza. "Lightning armor." Naruto said as he was covered in red lightning.
A glow surrounded Erza's body, when it vanished she was standing in a new set of armor. "Lightning Empress Armor." Erza decided to move first as she ran toward Naruto who just stood there. Erza swung the spear at Naruto's chest but her attack hit nothing, Erza and everyone watching was shocked. Naruto appeared behind her and kicked her in the back causing her to stumble forward.
"Lightning and speed, two can play that game. Requip." Erza was once again surround by a light glow as her lightning empress armor was replaced with her flight armor although she still held her spear.
Naruto stared for a few seconds before one question came to mind. "Are those ears and a tail?" those watching just sweat-dropped at the blond as Erza vanished in a burst of speed. Naruto just barely had time to duck as Erza lunged with the spear, Naruto hopped backwards putting a little distance between him and Erza.
Erza rushed forward again though this time Naruto was focused. He deactivated his armor and stomped his foot on the ground as it started shaking. "Seismic quake." Erza was taken by surprise and lost her balance and fell backwards.
"What was that?" Erza asked.
"I know magic of the five main elements Erza. I also know a few unique magics. Clone Magic." Naruto said as two identical copies appeared beside him before rushing Erza. Erza easily slashed through the clones before she heard Naruto.
"Wind dragon's wingbeat." Naruto clapped his hands together in front of him as a blast of wind went sailing towards Erza. Naruto took out two small kunai knives and threw them in two different directions before making two more clones that vanished in a flash of lightning. They reappeared at the exact spot the kunai landed and waited.
A magic circle appeared on Naruto's hand as he placed it on the ground. "Stone hand." A large hand rose from the earth and grabbed Erza and threw her toward one clone. As she neared the first clone, the clone raised his hands and a circle appeared in front of him. "Water dragon's raging current." A stream of water flew at Erza and pushed her toward the other waiting clone. "Fire dragon's flaming talon." The clone jumped in the air as his foot was set on fire as he spun and kicked Erza in the gut sending her crashing to the earth.
Erza slowly picked herself up and used her spear to stand. She once again requiped her armor and stared at Naruto. "This is my Heaven's wheel armor, one of the strongest that I possess." Naruto watched as twenty swords appeared behind her and began circling as if waiting for a command. "Dance, My Blades."
And just like that, Naruto found himself doing his best to dodge each sword that tried to slice him. After dodging for several minutes, Naruto had several cuts along his body and both he and Erza were getting tired. Naruto took his eyes off Erza for just a second to dodge a slice, when he looked back Erza was in front of him. "Trinity Blade!" Erza shouted and sliced at Naruto as she turned her blade so the flat surface would hit him and sent him flying.
Erza appeared over Naruto with a sword at his throat. "I win."
"You sure?" Naruto asked with a smirk. Erza heard crackling and looked over her shoulder to see a clone with his hand covered in lightning at her lower back.
Everyone watching was shocked and surprised, shocked because there were very few who could trade blows with Erza and surprised because the spar ended in a draw. "I will think everything over and let you know tomorrow what I have decided. Go and get you some rest and if you need a place to stay the night, you can stay in the guild hall. You go and get checked up too Erza." Makarov said as Erza nodded and left. "This boy definitely has some potential to be something truly amazing."
Just as everyone was heading back to the guild, they all heard a loud scream. "There was a fight and no one invited me?"
Everyone just sighed and shook their heads as a young pink haired boy came running into the training area. Everyone just ignored him and went on except for the blond and a few others. Naruto stood there, staring at the new arrival. As Natsu looked around the area, he caught the gaze of Naruto and immediately went quiet. The remaining people were wandering what was going on as they watched the interaction.
Naruto was the first to break the silence that had filled the area. "Ototo?"
"Naruto-nii!" Natsu shouted as he tackled his brother in a hug. "I thought you were dead. When I finally woke up, I was in the care of a dragon named Igneel and he said I was the only survivor."
"So you were raised by a dragon too, my dragon father was named Ryuu. He told me the same thing when I asked if he found anyone else. I thought I had lost all my family back then." Naruto replied as he pulled Natsu into another hug.
"What gives flame brain? How are you two related, you're a Dragneel and he's an Uzumaki." Asked a shirtless black haired boy.
"Natsu's full name is Natsu Dragneel Uzumaki, I was the only other one who knew other than him." Makarov said.
"During my time with Igneel, I just kinda dropped the Uzumaki part and went by Natsu Dragneel. I'm not really sure why Grey but I just went with it." Natsu said.
"What happened to separate you guys?" asked a small white haired girl in a red dress.
"Hey Lisanna." Grey said.
"Our village was attacked by the demon Deliora when we were younger. It killed our parents and everyone else as far as I know, it seems we were both saved by a dragon and raised as dragon slayers." Naruto explained as he caught Grey's reaction to the demon's name. "I'm guessing you lost someone to Deliora too?"
"Yeah, first it attacked the town I lived in. I survived and was taking in by my teacher. Deliora attacked again and I ran off to fight it. My teacher gave her life to save me and another of her students because of my want for revenge." Grey explained.
Let's go catch up Natsu, it's been a long time. Come on Grey, I'm sure there are things we can talk about too."
I would like to thank those of you who sent in ideas for the poll, it should be up sometime tonight. And to the guest who asked for longer chapters, I will try my best. I can't promise anything but I will work on it.
I may start at the beginning of canon next chapter, or I may just jump up to the Galuna Island arc, not really sure yet what I want to do for sure. Anyway leave a review and let me know what you think.