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Laying his head against the bar while sitting next to Erza Scarlet, a currently fourteen-year-old Naruto silently groaned. "Man, it's so not fair, Mirajane just took her first S-class mission and I didn't even get to tag along."

Glancing at the youngest Strauss sibling Erza couldn't help the sigh that escaped her lips. "I don't understand why you're being so moody, you're starting to act like Natsu and we both know how annoying he can be. Besides even if you didn't go on the mission with your siblings you still went on an S-class mission."

Glaring at the redhead for the reference Naruto said. "First of all I'm nothing like Natsu. He's annoying and is always trying to pick a fight with anyone he sees. Secondly even though I went on an S-class with you it's still not the same, we were all supposed to go as a family, you know take our first S-class together."

Looking at the younger boy and seeing how he still reminded her of Natsu, Erza couldn't help but ask. "What is it that you have against Natsu anyway? As far as I can tell you two would probably make the best of friends if you didn't hate him so much. Concerning the mission, I guess I can understand the reasoning but why are you so worried anyway, you almost made S-class during the last trials I'm sure you'll become an S-class mage pretty soon. You and your siblings can just go on a mission then."

"It's not the same, we have done everything together and now because my skills just happened to be needed for your mission I was forced to go along with you and for as to what I have against Natsu do you remember when he first came into the guild with that giant egg?" Seeing Erza's nod, Naruto started his story. "Well it was that day, that I realized just how much I disliked him."

X(Flashback)X

Currently in the guild known as Fairy Tail we find a ten-year-old Naruto sitting in his oldest sister's lap eating a strawberry cake, one of his all-time favorite desserts. It had been a pretty lazy afternoon and since there hadn't been any good missions lately the Strauss siblings had decided to simply enjoy the day. That had at least been the plan but most plans tend not to work.

"Hey everybody looks what I found!"

Groaning to himself Naruto tried his best to press himself against his older sister, lest that annoying dragon slayer decide to once again challenge him to a fight. It wasn't that he necessarily didn't like Natsu, or for that matter didn't like fighting. It was just the other boy didn't understand that sometimes someone just didn't feel like fighting, well that and he was just so dreadfully weak in comparison to himself and that had made any fight with him agonizingly boring. "Mira don't let him see me, all I want is a nice lazy day."

Smirking at the boy trying to bury himself in her stomach Mirajane softly shook her head. "Now Naruto that would just be mean, besides aren't you to rivals it wouldn't be nice for you to ignore him."

"First of all he's not my rival, that's only something he spews out whenever I kick his ass and second you don't give a shit about that you just like it when he cries."

Smirking at her brother Mirajane held him just a little tighter. "Well of course I like it when he cries it's just so cute, and you're the best at making him do that." Emphasizing this by pinching his cheeks she was rewarded with him swatting her hand away.

Turning his head to glare at her as well as see where the pink haired dragon slayer was, Naruto was glad to see Lisanna seemed to have captured his attention. Though it was weird that he was lugging around a giant egg but Naruto supposed he had seen weirder things done. "What's it going to take for you not to tell him where I am."

Resting her head on her youngest sibling's head Mirajane contemplated the offer. "Hmm well my laundry's all done for the week, and Elfman currently has dish's duty this week. I don't know make me an offer and I'll see if I'm feeling generous."

Groaning at his sister's words Naruto tried to figure out what would be good enough to keep Mirajane silent. 'We all have enough money so it can't be that, and there's no way in hell I'm doing any of her chores. That only really leaves one thing that she could possibly want.' "What about me helping you prank Erza?" Feeling her suddenly hugging him tighter he supposed she was willing to agree to his proposal.

Hugging her adorable little brother tighter, Mirajane turned her head and spotted Erza conversing with Lisanna and Natsu. 'HAHAHAHA I can't wait to see your stupid face when you get pranked. I'm so happy to have such a little devious brother, he definitely takes after his oldest sister.' "You got a deal Naruto, hide behind the bar and I won't say a word."

Nodding at his sister, as well as slowly extracting himself from her hug, he quickly did as she said and leapt over the counter. It would also seem he had done so just on time because not a second after he heard something that would definitely piss off his oldest sister.

"Natsu it's gonna be just like we're married and this egg is our baby!"

Quickly realizing that voice sounded suspiciously like his older sister Lisanna, Naruto clenched his fists together as if to ward of that specific suggestion. There was no way in hell he was going to accept that pink-haired dragon slayer as his brother-in-law. Just as he was about to rethink his decision to not fight Natsu, after all it's not like he'd be a challenge and it would be nice to get some revenge. He was just about to leap back over the counter and show him just how he felt about that suggestion, when someone else did it for him.

"There's absolutely no way in hell I'm going to let you end up with that pink-haired dragon slayer!" Ahh good old Mira, she had always came through for him in the past and he was sure she always would. "He's on team Erza, I can't let you end up with someone from her team!" Well no one ever said Mira's priorities were exactly right.

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Looking curiously at the boy sitting next to her Erza still didn't quite understand what could possibly make him hate the pink-haired dragon slayer so much. "So let me get this straight you hate Natsu because he likes to pick fights with you, and because Lisanna and him pretended to be a happy little family for a day or two?"

Ordering a strawberry cake from the waitress Naruto turned back to Erza and shook his head. "No while both of those offences are bad there not the real reason I hate Natsu with a passion. I'm still getting to that reason, if you'll let me finish my story."

"Fine, but you do realize I was there two right?"

Looking ahead Naruto nodded his head. "Yeah but you didn't see what that bastard did. He did something that I may never forgive him from."

If anything this only made Erza more curious as to what Natsu could have possibly done that would result in just how much ire Naruto had for the boy.

"As I was saying right after Lisanna declared that, they ran outside and built a hut together and then- "

X (Flashback Continued) X

Sitting between his younger brother and older sister, Elfman couldn't help but wonder how he had gotten himself into this situation. "You know guys it's not really nice to be spying on Lisanna and Natsu like this, shouldn't we give them some privacy?"

That had apparently been the wrong thing to say because as soon as the words left Elfman's mouth both of his siblings were surrounded by an orange and purple glow respectively. Cowering slightly at just how malicious both of them looked he was about to ask what upset them when Mirajane enlightened him.

"There's absolutely no way in hell I'll give them any 'privacy' Elfman. Do you have any idea what could happen to Lisanna if we did that?"

"I don't think Natsu would- "

This time it was his brother who gave his input. "Don't think Natsu would my ass. You saw the way he was eyeing up our little sister, and as her siblings it's our job to make sure Natsu doesn't try anything."

"Guys I really don't think - "

Apparently Mirajane wasn't done yet. "Naruto's right Elfman it's a sibling's duty to make sure nobody hurts one of them. Do you know what happens if somebody does?"

Looking uncomfortable at the way this conversation was going Elfman shook his head.

"We kick their ass!"

"We make them cry!"

Looking at both of his siblings who seemed to literally have fire coming from their eyes, Elfman silently hoped that Natsu didn't try anything with Lisanna. As much as he liked the guy even he wasn't dumb enough to get in-between Naruto and Mirajane's way, especially when they were like this.

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Still eating her strawberry pie Erza glanced up curiously when she noticed Naruto pause in his story. Looking up she was however unsurprised to see that the reason for his silence was because the cake he had ordered was currently being walked towards him by one of the barmaids. "You know I may insult Mirajane a lot but I will say one thing. Her brother definitely has good taste, at least when it comes to good desserts."

Smirking at the redhead's words Naruto nodded his head vigorously. "What can I say everyone knows strawberry cake is the best dessert to ever be invented."

Looking at the youngest Strauss with a curious look Erza could only say. "You know you're different than I expected. I don't suppose you'd be open to going on more missions, your surprisingly pretty good company. Even if you're still not at my level."

Feeling his ire rise at the barb Naruto decided to answer her offer with the truth. "Not gonna lie Erza I wouldn't mind doing more missions with you, however I'm apart of team takeover and I couldn't just leave my siblings. Besides I doubt Mirajane would take to kindly to me ditching her just so I could do missions with you."

Smirking at just how the oldest Strauss would react Erza said. "Hmm it would be nice to see how Mira would react but that's not why I asked." Seeing the disbelieving face she was getting Erza corrected her earlier statement. "Okay that's not the biggest reason I asked. I really do mean it though, if you ever want to go on a mission together all you have to do is ask."

Nodding at the offer Naruto said. "Yeah no problem, I'll keep it in mind. Now where was I again?"

"You were talking about how you, Mirajane and Elfman were spying on your sister Lisanna and Natsu."

"Oh yeah, well anyway this is what happened next."

X (Flashback continued) X

Currently back in the guild and sitting on a barstool next to his sister, Naruto was doing his best to keep calm. This however was getting progressively harder with his eldest sister currently mumbling next to him. "Can't believe Lisanna, staying the night in that hut with that pink-haired little brat. Doesn't she realize just what he's trying to do? Of course she doesn't its Lisanna, god dammit I knew I should have given her the talk when she turned nine but no I had to be the good big sister and save her the embarrassment. Well I'm not taking that chance with any of my siblings anymore."

Because he had tuned Mirajane out when he heard the beginning of her mumbling, Naruto had completely missed the last part of what she said. It was probably a good thing to because if he had there was a good chance he would have only been able to delay the inevitable. Thankfully however before Mirajane could make good on her apparent plan the two were interrupted.

"I know one of you took it so why don't you just give it back!"

Glancing to where the voice came from Naruto was surprised to see an upset looking Lisanna and an apparently angry Natsu. Glancing at his sister and noticing she had no idea what Natsu was talking about either Naruto said. "Why the hell does Lisanna look so upset and just what exactly do you think that one of us took?"

If anything that seemed to make Natsu even angrier. "You know exactly what you took, where did you guys put my dragon egg!?"

This time it was Mirajane that responded to the accusation. "We didn't do anything to your stupid egg and even if we did there's no way in hell either of us would admit to it just because you asked."

That however seemed to be the wrong thing to say because as soon as the words left Mirajane's lips, Lisanna suddenly started crying. "But why did you to take the egg, we were just trying to hatch it. What's so bad about that?"

Just before either of them could explain once more that they didn't do it a new voice decided to give its input. "It's pretty obvious that one of them did it after all both of them wanted to separate you to."

It would seem Mirajane wasn't going to take that lying down, especially not when it came from her rival. "Erza, just what the hell do you think you're doing here and also who the fuck do you think you are accusing me and Naruto of taking their stupid egg."

"Oh please we all know you don't like Natsu's relationship with Lisanna and it would be just like you to do something like this."

"First of all there not in a relationship! Secondly I didn't take the stupid egg and neither did Naruto!"

"And why should we believe either of you two? You both have shown just how spiteful you can be."

"Why don't you say that to my face you flat chested freak!"

"I just did you dumbass, maybe it's true what they say about how stupid demons are."

Ignoring the two girls for a moment Naruto looked around and inwardly sighed. Lisanna was still crying, Natsu was literally spewing fire while yelling about egg thieves, and everyone else was watching the two girls currently arguing. "I just wanted one lazy day, is that really too much to ask for?"

"Hey guys sorry I took so long but I had to make sure that nothing happened to the egg." Glancing at the voice everybody was surprised to see Elfman currently running towards them while holding the dragon egg Natsu had lost.

It was Lisanna who asked the question that was on everybody's mind. "Elfman? Why would you take the egg?"

Before Elfman could answer though, Natsu decided to take his revenge on the supposed thief by leaping at him and preparing to launch an attack. This plan however failed when surprisingly Lisanna grabbed him by the ankle and pulled him back down. So it was a shocked Natsu that turned to Lisanna only to see her glaring at him.

"First of all Natsu don't attack any of my siblings, and second he's holding the egg. If you hit him he could drop it!"

Seeing where this was going and frankly getting tired of it Naruto turned to Elfman and said. "Elfman, why exactly do you have the egg Natsu and Lisanna were taking care of?"

Blushing under all the attention he was getting Elfman used one of his hands to rub the back of his head. "Well with the way Natsu sleeps I was worried that one of them would roll over and accidently crush the egg, so in order to prevent that I took it for the night. I might not be able to use animal takeover like Lisanna but I tried to keep it as warm as I could so it should be okay."

Once he had said that a smug Mirajane turned to Erza and leaned in until her face was inches from hers. "You hear that tin can, I told you neither Naruto or me took it. Isn't there something you want to say?"

Pushing the other girls face away Erza offered her a slight smirk. "Yeah, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?"

Turning away from the soon to be fight Naruto approached the young dragon slayer and said. "Just so you know while I don't like being accused of something I can understand where you're coming from. That doesn't however mean I'm cool with your relationship with Lisanna. Are we clear?"

Offering the other boy, a grin Natsu nodded his head. This however resulted in Lisanna swatting the back of both their heads. "Why are you both even saying this in front of me, don't you guys know you're not supposed to have conversations about people when they're nearby."

Rubbing the bumps forming on their heads both boys rapidly shook their heads. However just before either could respond to her, they all heard what sounded like something cracking.

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"And then the egg hatched and happy was born. Yeah I know that but it still doesn't explain why you hate Natsu so much."

Smirking at the other girl while eating swallowing a mouthful of pie Naruto said. "Well I still haven't gotten to that part the truth is Natsu did something that night that I'll never be able to forgive."

Leaning in Erza couldn't help her curiosity from taking over and distantly realized some other members were also attempting to get closer in order to hear just why Naruto hated the young dragon slayer. "Yeah so what'd he do."

Clenching his fists until his knuckles turned white Naruto slammed his hand on the table. "That bastard did the most unforgivable thing imaginable he made me drop something more precious to me than anything else." Pausing dramatically Naruto waited a few seconds before finally finishing his sentence. "He made me drop my strawberry pie."

The sound of multiple people falling out of their seats could be heard, however there was one person who didn't find the offence ridiculous at all and that person was Erza. Instead of looking shocked by the level of hatred a simple accident such as that could cause she instead was currently holding her fist up with fire burning in her eyes. "I can't believe that bastard would do something so evil!"

Nodding sagely Naruto said. "Oh that's not even the worst part, that strawberry pie was my after mission pie and was the last one they had."

Once he said that the mages currently occupying the guild were shocked to see the Titania, a mage thought to be indestructible as well as unyielding suddenly walk over and wrap her arms around the youngest Strauss. The seen however was short lived when they suddenly felt a door be kicked open. Turning to the front of the guild everyone was shocked to see Natsu standing there looking smug. Once he saw the two mages currently hugging however he leapt at their position.

"Erza, Naruto both of you fight me!"

The only problem was he seemed to miscalculate his jump and instead of landing on top of the two he instead landed on the table, which unfortunately for him collapsed and ruined the pies the two had previously been eating. The poor boy never knew what hit him but he would develop a healthy fear of both individuals for some time

This had been the scene that Makarov had walked in on, unfortunately instead of laughing he had instead looked depressed but no one could blame him after the information he had just received. So it had been a grim Makarov that had walked up to the group and gently pat Naruto on the back. "My boy there's something I have to tell you."

Currently holding a practically comatose Natsu with one hand and using the other to hold his fist back. Naruto could honestly say he wasn't expecting any interruptions, especially not from the guild master. "Is there something wrong Master?" In response to his question Makarov seemed to age twenty years in front of him.

"It's your siblings, I'm sorry Naruto but Lisanna didn't make it."

-X-

It was a couple days later and after much crying that we find Naruto in his current position. Standing in front of a grave while purposely holding back his tears, after all Lisanna was a happy person she wouldn't want to see him cry. "Hey big sis sorry I didn't come right away." The silence that met his words was painful, Lisanna never did know how to keep her mouth shut.

Naruto steeled himself for what he was about to say next especially because of how much these words would hurt. "I know what you did, and I just want you to know I don't fault you at all for it. I'm just sorry I wasn't there to save you." Hearing more silence Naruto practically shouted his next words. "We were supposed to be the takeover siblings, protecting each other like we always have and I failed you. I knew I should have tried my hardest to go on that mission but I let others push me and because of that you died."

Suddenly feeling his cheeks becoming wet Naruto could only sigh, he had been trying so hard to keep it in, after all Lisanna hated to see her younger brother cry. "It's too late to save you, I know that but I promise I'll look after Mira and Elfman for you. You don't have to worry about them anymore Lisanna, just rest easy now." Turning around Naruto slowly walked away from his older sister's grave determined to prevent this from happening to either of his other siblings.

-X-

Sitting atop a now dead monster a now sixteen-year-old Naruto could only sigh. Over the years not much had changed besides the humongous growth spurt he had gone through quite recently. The only other difference was that he now wore a black shirt with nine different colored tails imprinted on the back of his shirt spreading out from the bottom. He also wore equally black shorts and black shoes, with red laces. "Did you really need me on this mission Erza? This monster wasn't even a problem."

Glancing over at her traveling companion Erza could only sigh. "Naruto this mission was A-class, I know you became S-class during the last trial but you still have to take easy missions sometimes. It's not good to only be taking S-class missions."

Shaking his head at the other girl's words Naruto leaned back in his spot before jumping off and landing next to Erza. "While that may be true, I need to get stronger if I want any hope of protecting my precious people." 'I have to get stronger if I don't how could I prevent anyone else from facing the same fate as Lisanna.'

Glancing at the boy next to her Erza could only sigh. "Naruto she died two years ago you have to understand there's nothing you could have done."

Ignoring the redhead's words Naruto instead turned around and started walking in the direction he knew the mayor's office would be. "Let's just get this mission over with, we still have to get the information of Eisenwald to Master."

Still watching the boys back Erza softly shook her head. 'That day still haunts all of them, Mirajane lost her will to fight, Elfman trains everyday but nothing's worse than Naruto's reaction. I need to somehow get him to stop taking nonstop S-class missions but how?"

Chapter End

First I would like to thank you all for the reviews and for reading the latest installment of this story. I hope you all enjoyed it and just so everybody knows I have acquired a beta for this story. Lost-Lovegood has graciously decided to help me out so you all can hopefully expect fewer grammatical errors. I know how tough it can be as a reader to constantly be dealing with those. The last thing I would like to say is I am pretty sure I know who I will pair Naruto up with however I don't plan on announcing it yet. It's more fun if it's a surprise, that is all I wanted to say so thank you for reading and I hope you all enjoyed it.