Ninja Tail
In this chapter...we're going to see our heroes in action...that's what you want, right? And yes, our heroes will be undertaking missions...missions for the good of Fiore and for the good of Konoha...sound good? Heh heh...I kill myself sometimes.
Chapter 2: Off To Work
"So, this is your battling arena?" asked Naruto curiously as he stepped into the arena.
"Yes...whenever we want to test our our abilities...we pay this arena a visit." explained Makarov.
"Are there any instructions?" asked the ninja.
Makarov handed Naruto the enclosed instruction book.
"Let's see now..." read Naruto.
DO NOT KILL EACH OTHER IN THE ARENA. THAT IS EVIL.
"Right...wouldn't want to be a murderer..." noted the ninja.
DO NOT BLOW UP THE ARENA WITH YOUR MAGIC. THAT IS EVIL.
"OK...I won't do that either." noted Naruto.
DO NOT USE UNFORGIVABLE CURSES ON YOUR OPPONENT. THAT IS EVIL.
"What are unforgivable curses?" inquired the ninja.
"They're magic spells that have been banned by Fairy Tail...for some reason dark guilds love them." explained Makarov.
Makarov handed Naruto a list detailing the spells that were not allowed to be used by Fairy Tail mages while battling in the arena.
"There's a spell that can make people's heads explode?" asked Naruto curiously.
"Yes...we're not allowed to use that spell in the arena since we're not allowed to kill people...besides, it takes forever to clean up." noted Makarov.
"Sheesh..." noted the teenage boy.
Naruto continued reading the instructions.
DO NOT SUMMON AN ARMY OF DEMONS TO LAY WASTE TO YOUR ENEMIES. THAT IS EVIL.
"An army of demons?" asked the boy curiously.
"They'd inevitably lay waste to Fiore..." explained Makarov.
Naruto continued reading the instructions once again.
DO NOT CHEAT IN ARENA MATCHES. THAT IS...BAD SPORTMANSHIP.
"OK, I think I've memorized the rules." explained Naruto.
Makarov nodded, and the ninja stepped into the arena.
Sure enough, there were a lot of people in the audience. Naruto began to feel a bit nervous. Apparently they were all looking forward to this.
Oddly enough, most of these people were those that he had encountered earlier back when he had ended up falling through the interdimensional portal...this naturally included Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Levy.
Curiously enough, as it turned out, Makarov was the announcer.
"Greetings! Today is the day we're going to test our newest recruit's abilities to see how he would fare on a mission...I'm your host and your guildmaster, Makarov!" exclaimed the old man.
"Funny...wasn't he with me a few minutes ago?" inquired Naruto.
"Testing out our abilities is none other than our champion, Erza Scarlet!" exclaimed the old man.
Erza Scarlet waved to the audience as she stepped in the arena.
"Wait, you're their champion?" asked Naruto.
"Pretty much." explained the knight in shining armor.
Naruto sweatdropped. Did he get himself into a fight that he could not possibly win? Then again, this was meant to simply be a test run for his abilities...
Strangely enough, the referee turned out to be none other than Makarov's grandson, Laxus.
"3, 2, 1, fight!" exclaimed Laxus.
"Right then...hit me with your best shot." explained Erza.
"This is going to be fun to watch..." noted Gray.
Shrugging, Naruto decided to summon as many of his clones as he could to help him defeat Erza...which were quite a few indeed.
"Interesting..." noted Erza. Apparently, Naruto had the ability to create copies of himself.
"How do I tell the copies apart?" questioned Natsu.
Gray shrugged. They all appeared to look the same.
Unfortunately for Naruto, as it turned out, Erza was able to cut through the clones like butter. They all exploded into white smoke upon contact with them.
The teenage ninja sighed. He was hoping that they would last a bit longer...but apparently they weren't a match for Erza's swords.
"Right then...anything else?" asked the magic knight.
Curious, Naruto felt something in his pocket.
"Huh?" asked the teenage boy.
He immediately reached into his pocket, and discovered that there was a golden key inside.
"How did that get there?" inquired Naruto.
Erza raised an eyebrow. That golden key looked surprisingly identical to the zodiac keys Lucy used to summon her Celestial Spirits.
Unfortunately, this caused Happy to believe that Naruto was a key thief, and he immediately decided to take action.
"Yah!" exclaimed Happy.
"Huh?" asked Naruto.
Immediately, Happy attached himself to Naruto's face.
"Get off!" demanded the teenage boy.
"Give those zodiac keys back to Lucy, you bandit!" bellowed Happy.
Laxus raised an eyebrow.
"Happy, didn't you read the instructions before you came to spectate the match?" asked Laxus.
"Huh?" inquired Happy.
Laxus immediately handed Happy the instruction pamphlet, who promptly detached himself from Naruto's face.
NO AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION. THAT IS CRAZY.
Happy sweatdropped.
"But he's a key thief!" exclaimed the Exceed.
"I'm innocent! They just showed up in my pocket out of nowhere..." explained Naruto.
Levy raised an eyebrow.
Curious, she decided to head back to the interdimensional portal room to see if she could investigate the matter further.
"Where are you going?" asked Mirajane.
"I need to investigate the interdimensional portal...I'm starting to think that there's something at work here..." explained Levy.
"OK..." answered the attractive mage.
Deciding to put the golden key back into his pocket so that he could use it earlier, Naruto decided that he wanted to show off to the audience.
Shrugging, he decided to use his Sexy Jutsu.
"Here I go!" exclaimed Naruto.
Immediately, Naruto used his Sexy Jutsu to transform into a woman wearing a skimpy devil's outfit...which caused the audience to gasp in shock.
Happy, who was standing a few feet away from Naruto, ended up fainting.
"My nose is bleeding!" screamed Natsu.
"Mine too!" bellowed Gray.
Sure enough, Laxus was doing his best to look away, while Makarov's face had turned pale as a sheet.
However, much to Naruto's surprise, Erza did not seem phased at all.
"Trying to seduce me, are you? Well, two can play at that game!" exclaimed the magical knight.
Suddenly, Erza used her Requip Armor to swap armors. As it turns out, she had chose to put on her Seduction Armor.
Immediately, the sorceress began to pose seductively for Naruto.
Once again, Gray and Natsu's noses began to bleed.
"I think I'm going to need to go to the hospital...I can't stop the bleeding!" exclaimed Gray.
"I feel faint..." answered Natsu.
Immediately, Naruto dropped his jaw in shock, and transformed back into his original form.
Shortly afterwards, he collapsed on the floor.
"I can't believe it...I got beaten at my own game..." said the ninja.
Naruto was paralyzed with shock.
Immediately, the referee began to count to ten.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!" exclaimed Laxus.
Suffice to say, Naruto was down for the count.
"And the winner is...Erza!" bellowed the lightning mage.
Erza smiled in satisfaction while a stretcher came to pick up Naruto.
Meanwhile...
"So, you want me to whip this dummy?" asked Lucy.
"That's the idea, yes." nodded Tsunade.
Immediately, Lucy whipped the dummy as hard as she could, causing it to collapse.
"Not too bad." noted the Fifth Hokage.
Another dummy appeared to take the destroyed dummy's place.
"Anything else you'd like to show us?" asked Tsunade.
"I'd be able to show off a lot more if I still had my keys..." noted Lucy.
Suddenly, she felt the strange urge to try creating a copy of herself.
Shrugging, Lucy decided to give it a shot...and much to her surprise, she succeeded.
"Whoa!" exclaimed the mage.
Sure enough, she had created an identical clone of herself.
"Funny, it feels like I'm looking at myself in the mirror..." noted the teenage girl.
Curious, Lucy decided to see if her clone would follow her commands...which she did.
Once again, she managed to destroy a dummy with the clone's assistance, who disappeared shortly afterwards.
As before, another dummy appeared.
"Hmm..." thought Lucy. Was there anything else she could without her keys?
She suddenly began to feel the urge to rub her hands together.
"First the clone, and now this...hmm..." inquired the mage.
Shrugging, she decided to follow her instinct once again.
Much to her surprise, a ball of blue energy began to appear in her hands.
"What the-" said Lucy.
Tsunade (who had a moment ago been drinking a delicious smoothie) spat out her drink in surprise.
Shrugging, Lucy decided to toss the strange ball of energy at the dummy...which annihilated it.
"Sheesh..." noted the girl.
Lucy began to scratch her head. Ever since she had used that interdimensional portal, she had been feeling rather strange.
But on the plus side, she did feel a lot stronger than before, so at least that was something.
"So how did the training go?" asked Shikamaru.
Tsunade explained what Lucy had managed to pull off.
"She used the Rasengan?!" exclaimed the ninja.
"I'm as impressed as you are..." explained Tsunade.
Lucy sweatdropped. Just how did she suddenly get so strong?
"Did that interdimensional portal affect my body or something?" inquired the mage.
"Well, I think your training has gone well...would you like to go on a mission? Mind you, since you're just starting out as a ninja you're going to have to work your way to the top...though I suppose you probably won't need a test from a jonin since you can use the Rasengan." explained Tsunade.
She found it bewildering that Lucy was capable of doing such a thing. How did she pull it off? It took the Fourth Hokage three years to pull off such a technique.
It was if as if Lucy was somehow a ninja from the future, as impossible as that sounded. But she appeared to have traveled across space instead of time.
"A mission?" asked Lucy curiously. That sounded rather interesting.
Shikamaru immediately escorted Lucy to the mission board where she could accept missions.
"You know, it's funny..." explained the mage.
"What is?" asked Shikamaru.
"There's a mission board just like this back at my guild...that happen to have letter ranks just like these..." explained Lucy.
"Oh..." realized the shadow ninja.
"Yeah...it's weird...then again, I've been having a pretty weird day." noted the mage.
"I would imagine so." nodded Shikamaru.
Immediately, he began to yawn.
"Well, time for my afternoon nap..." noted the ninja as he looked for a bed.
"Hmm...what should I choose?" questioned Lucy.
Shrugging, she decided to do some D-Rank Missions...which as it turned out, were rather trivial tasks.
After scrubbing a toilet, mopping a floor, watering some plants, painting a wall, and looking after a dog (which belonged to a certain ninja that liked to wear a coat), Lucy decided she wanted something more challenging.
"I guess I'll take a C-Rank Mission..." noted Lucy.
As it turned out, there was a wanted poster on the mission board which featured a mugshot of a wanted criminal.
Apparently, his name was Takeshi, and he had been throwing kunai at innocent people for kicks.
"What's a kunai?" inquired Lucy.
Immediately, Lucy Heartfilia noticed that there was a nearby handbook detailing what a ninja needed to know.
"So...kunai are knives? That makes sense..." noted the mage.
Putting away the handy ninja handbook where she found it, Lucy Heartfilia decided to hunt him down.
According to the mugshot, he had black hair and was wearing a black shirt that read "I Being Evil" with a heart between the I and Being as well as a pair of black pants that were stained with blood. He also tended to smile a lot. Was he some sort of psycho?
Strangely enough, he happened to be right outside the building where Lucy had managed to obtain her mission.
"How ironic..." thought Lucy.
Unfortunately for Lucy, Takeshi noticed her first.
"I'm going to kill you!" squealed the deranged maniac.
Immediately, he tossed a kunai at Lucy's face.
Thankfully, he missed by a country mile.
In retaliation, Lucy began to whip him into submission.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" exclaimed Takeshi.
Unfortunately, he managed to push Lucy over, and he pulled out another kunai to stab Lucy in her beautiful face.
"I'm going to stab you in the face!" squealed the psycho.
"Let's hope not..." thought Lucy.
Fortunately, she managed to grab onto his arm, and began to charge up a Rasengan.
"Let go of my arm so I can kill you!" bellowed Takeshi.
"Since you asked nicely...no." answered Lucy.
Lucy Heartfilia hit Takeshi with her Rasengan, and he immediately fell on the floor, unconscious.
She then dragged the wanted criminal to Tsunade's office, who was rather happy to see him.
"Thank goodness...now he won't hurt any more innocent people..." noted Tsunade.
Lucy Heartfilia smiled in satisfaction. Lucky for her, she was getting paid for her services. Then again, she was already rich in her world.
However, Tsunade pointed out something to her that she hadn't noticed.
"By the way, you might want to wash that dress of yours..." explained the Fifth Hokage.
"Huh?" asked Lucy.
Curious, Lucy Heartfilia looked down, and discovered that Takeshi had pushed her into a mud puddle during their scuffle.
"Well, at least my clothing didn't get ripped for a change..." shrugged Lucy.
Immediately, she went to the nearest clothline so that she could wash her dress.
Thankfully, she was wearing her pink tube top and a pair of shorts underneath, so she didn't have to worry about wandering around Konoha in her underwear...though she was probably going to get some fanboys nonetheless.
After washing it for a few minutes to make sure the mud was gone, Lucy Heartfilia put her dress on the clothesline.
Suddenly, a young boy approached her.
"Hey there, Naruto! Is this some sort of new sexy jutsu of yours? You look awesome!" exclaimed the boy.
Lucy Heartfilia's cheeks turned red. Did he just call her sexy?
"Can I help you?" asked the girl.
"I'm impressed! You've got to teach me it some time!" bellowed the preteen boy.
"What is your name?" asked the summoner mage curiously.
Konohamaru sweatdropped.
"Don't you remember? My name is Konohamaru! You should know that! I'm your apprentice!" bellowed the ninja.
"About that...I think you've gotten me mixed up with someone else." inquired Lucy.
Konohamaru raised an eyebrow.
"If you're not Naruto, then where is he? I've been looking all over for him!" exclaimed Naruto's apprentice.
"I'm afraid he's somewhere far far away..." explained Lucy.
"Really? Then let me know where I can find him! I've been looking all over Konoha!" bellowed Konohamaru.
"Sorry to hear that." answered the mage.
Suddenly, Konohamaru raised an eyebrow.
"Wait a minute...if you're not Naruto, then why do you have his jinchuriki mark on your stomach?" asked the apprentice.
"Huh?" inquired Lucy.
Curious, Lucy Heartfilia looked into the river she had used to wash her dress a few minutes ago, and discovered she now had a jinchuriki mark on her abdomen.
"Oh my gosh!" exclaimed the mage. Was the interdimensional portal working its magic again?
Curious, Lucy decided to consult Tsunade on the matter to see what was going on.
Well, this is a bit of a twist, isn't it? It looks like Lucy is now the jinchuriki for a certain ferocious fox...of course, that means Naruto's finally free of the horrible curse...though he's probably going to have mixed feeling about it.
In the next chapter, we're going to learn a bit more about the interdimensional portal that Lucy and Naruto have both used...are you curious?