Fairy tail's Burning will

Chapter 3: Erza

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail.

"Talking/Thoughts"

"Attacks/Dragon (or demon) attacks

"Dragon (or demon) talking/Thoughts"


Answer to reviews from chapter 2.

chins4tw – Of course Naruto will run into Rogue eventually. I plan for them to meet pre-canon and Rogue will be the same or around Naruto's age when they meet.

Sir sleeps all day everyday – Really? I only briefly checked if the whisker marks were caused by the Kyuubi before typing the chapter, so I didn't really know if it was 100% correct or not as I just looked at the first answer on a random forum. But I guess you know more than me here since I just checked a random forum xD.

SinOfDisaster – He will be calmer in battle than the usual Naruto. Since he is a shadow dragon slayer he will still have his clones, but he won't use them as much. As for the split personality, I doubt he would change much in battle, but of course he does have Kage inside of him, Kage won't have a hateful influence like the Kyuubi and I aim for them to have a slight partnership (not fully trusting of each other, but they won't say that to each other's faces) very early on. Kage however won't share Naruto's views on battle, such as were Naruto would be more merciful, and Kage would be the ruthless side. As for the more generic thing, as you probably guessed from the chapter title he will meet Erza a lot earlier than the tower, I think she was 11 when she was in the tower (correct me if I'm wrong), in this chapter it is only a few days from Naruto's 6th birthday and they will be the same age. He will save her from the tower, but it won't be the generic "he gets captured too and breaks out" or "he busts into the tower and takes out every guard in sight". At the tower I want to develop the shadow dragon powers as I just made random ones up with Kage so that it didn't undermine Naruto's shadow dragon powers when he gets them. Therefore at the tower there will be stronger enemies than random mages and will also have significance later in the story for another arc i've thought of. Instead of breaking into the tower, Naruto will most likely use a more stealth orientated route using his shadow dragon slayer powers and won't just save Erza alone and make her look weaker. I love it when she first discovered her powers, if Naruto shows up takes care of the guards and saves Rob, then it won't be as good a display of her powers. So Naruto will probably be fighting elsewhere rather than babysitting Erza and making her look weaker, since I want to make Erza stronger than she is. I think she doesn't have to much of a style since she just uses her re-equip and barley does anything like controlling the blades like she did in the riot, I have a few differences in her move set that I will give her to make her seem like more of and s class mage (Not that she isn't awesome already.)

Denito – Already talked to you through messages, huge thanks for helping develop the story. Don't want to go through what we talked about since it would probably be longer than the actual chapter!

AFantasticMan – Don't know what happened with the underlines, probably disappeared when I uploaded the file. Also who said that they didn't despise Naruto for having it sealed within him? There are still those that hate him, but since it was rushed I didn't want to go into too much detail and wanted to get the story away from the prologue-ish chapters.

Nomenclature – I only put emotes in the start and end where I talk about the story to the readers or in the "a/n (author's notes)" which once again isn't part of the story. I include emotes in these so that it is easier to understand my emotions towards the topics.

Starting to notice that I go off on one when answering questions! The reason that this chapter has taken longer for me to type is a combination of 2 weeks of constant exams and a week of sickness! But I only have a few exams remaining so I once again have a lot more spare time to update the story. Thanks to anyone who favourite/followed and those who reviewed! Well anyway, time for the next chapter.


Time skip: 5 days

Date: October 15th X771

Naruto let out a groan as he awakened. His eyes slowly opened taking in the surroundings. The floor was a dark black rock which was covered in deep scratches, the walls mirrored the design of the floor but the scratches let off a dim red glow.

He pushed himself backwards so that he was sitting on the floor of the new area. He quickly looked over his body, surprised that there was no sign of injuries but he was more surprised that he was in a completely different place than when he had passed out.

"Where am I? Last thing I remember was that huge dragon that… destroyed the village."

He looked over his shoulder at what appeared to be light coming from an opening in the cave.

"The exit?" He asked himself.

He pushed himself to his feet just to fall over before managing to take a step.

"Strange, my body has no signs of harm, so why do I feel so weak?"

Groaning, he once more pushed himself to his feet and leaned against the wall for support. He was shocked to feel heat coming from the cracks in the wall but he pushed it to the back of his mind as he limped towards the exit of the cave.

"Leaving so soon?" A voice boomed from behind Naruto causing him to fall over in shock.

Naruto flipped on to his back and pushed himself up so that he was once more sitting on the cave's cold floor. He was staring at a huge red dragon, the same one that had supposedly destroyed his village and everyone in it.

"Yo-you." He stuttered, "You're that dragon that destroyed the village!"

The dragon rested his face into his front claw as it stared calmly at the young boy, "Who ever said that I was the one who destroyed your precious village?"

Naruto looked at the dragon blankly, "where you?" he asked making the dragon sweat drop.

"Yes." He answered his lips curling upwards into a mocking smirk.

"WHY?" Naruto yelled in anger.

Igneel chuckled; his tail swept from behind him and blocked the exit to the cave.

"I'll make you a deal brat." He held up two of his large claws, "2 months. If you can survive and return here after two months then I will tell you why I destroyed you village. Of course you can just run away, I won't chase after you and you may be able to lead a relatively normal life. Well as normal as it can be without knowing why your village was destroyed… or what that mark is on your stomach."

Naruto's eyes widened, "Gramps always told me that was a birth mark, just like the marks on my cheeks."

"Do you believe everything that you are told? The truth behind that mark was hidden from you for a reason; maybe you are better off not knowing about it."

Naruto's expression softened, his anger leaving him. "Gramps would never lie to me" he croaked in disbelief.

"If you want a hint, take a look at your shadow."

Naruto squinted at the ground; no matter how hard he looked he couldn't find his shadow.

"What the… where is my shadow?"

"Sorry, that's the only clue you get. Unless you're dumb enough to return in two months."

Naruto didn't respond, he was too busy taking in everything he had been told.

"I want to know what happened." He looked up, a look of determination marring his face. "I don't care how stupid it is, I will return in 2 months!"

Igneel's smirk softened into a smile that went unnoticed by Naruto. His tail slid from behind Naruto revealing the exit for him.

"Go. Return in two months and I'll tell you the truth behind the seal and your village's fate."

Naruto didn't move confusing Igneel.

"Promise me that you'll keep to your word." Naruto demanded.

Igneel held out one of his claws in front of Naruto, "Fine, I promise"

Naruto took hold of the tip of the claw and shook it. He turned away from the dragon and walked towards the exit, leaving the dark cave.

As he made his way out of the cave he was hit by a gust of freezing cold wind. He shivered from the shock of the transition from the warm cave into the freezing outside. He looked around as he reached the outside of the cave. He immediately heard the crunch under his feet and spotted the thick layer of snow covering the floor.

Naruto walked towards the edge of the ledge that he was standing on.

"GAH!" He yelled falling backwards onto the ground.

"Something wrong?" Igneel's voice came from behind him.

"Why are we so high up?!" Naruto shouted.

The cave that Naruto and Igneel stood outside of was at the top of a snowy mountain. The mountain looked strange from afar. The whole mountain was covered in snow but the tip was pitch black and had large cracks that glowed an eerie red. Most who saw the mountain assumed it was a volcano and stayed far away from it, little did they know that a worse threat inhabited the mountain.

"Ah, I forgot to mention, I decided to live all the way up here so that no humans would stumble across me. The mountain itself is actually rather cosy." He added with a yawn.

"How do I get down…" He saw Igneel's face light up, "without dying!" he added quickly.

Igneel pouted, he picked Naruto up in his talon and dangled him over the ledge. His other talon's claw pointed to a small lake near a forest in the distance, the lake was at the edge of a forest, a waterfall connecting it with another mountain.

"Wait what do you me…" He was cut off as Igneel stretched his talon behind him, "WAIT YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?!"

"Don't worry it's perfectly safe… I think."

Igneel launched Naruto from the mountain towards the lake. He ignored the boy's distant cries and watched as a large splash occurred after a few second.

"I wonder is he survived. Ah well, I'll find out in two months anyway."


Naruto gasped for air as he managed to pull himself out of the lake. He groaned, lying on the grass next to the lake. Looking around, he noticed that there was no snow anymore which he welcomed since it was better than the freezing cold. He pushed himself to his feet before stumbling forwards and sliding against a tree for support.

"I'm going to need to find shelter for the next two months, then some food. I've already got water I just need to stay near the lake."

After his breath had steadied he began to follow the lake in an attempt to find shelter. After a few minutes of walking he followed the lake to its end where he found the waterfall that he had seen from the top of Igneel's mountain

The waterfall was rather calm; it was falling gently making barley any noise as the water poured into the lake. Naruto spotted large stones in the water which were big enough for him to step onto. With a big leap he jumped from the edge of the lake onto one of the stones, he repeated the process until he was stood in front of the water fall. Naruto's eyes focused on the waterfall, he was sure that he could see something through the waterfall.

"Well I've not got much to lose."

With a final leap Naruto threw himself into the waterfall. He broke through the surface of the waterfall and crashed onto a grass-covered floor on the other side.

Naruto grinned gleefully as he jumped to his feet, "That's shelter covered! Now I've just got to find food."

Naruto was stood in a large corridor. The walls were similar to Igneel's cave without the glowing red scratches and were a lighter shade of black. He walked down the wide corridor wondering what he would find further in the cave.

"Wow…" Naruto reached the end of the corridor and was in a state of awe at what he saw. The corridor led to a huge cavern. The whole cavern was empty with just a plain grass floor and a small pool near the edge of the cavern.

Naruto noticed light in the middle of the cavern. He looked at the ceiling of the room where there was an opening which let in a small amount of light from the sky.

"Hehe this place is great" Naruto grinned. "I still need to find food though."

Naruto gave the cavern a final look over. He noticed a small detail, two rectangle holes in part of the wall which were large enough for him to fit and sleep in.

"Well I guess it's better than sleeping on the ground."

He heard his stomach growl and blushed in embarrassment. "Going to need to find that food quickly. Doubt there's a chance of finding ramen."

Naruto left the cave the same way he had entered. He began to make his way into the forest in search of the much needed food. He only walked a few steps in before noticing the trees had various types of fruit in.

"Wow, all the necessities in one area. Now I just need to hope there's enough fruit for two months… and find a way to get it through the waterfall without it being drenched."

Naruto removed his shirt placing it flat out on the ground. He then climbed up the trees using the branches as leverage and pulled different pieces of fruit down and placing them on his shirt, he repeated the process until his shirt had enough fruit on it. He wrapped his shirt around the shirt so that he could carry it all with ease.

"Now I need to get it back to the cavern."

Naruto leaped from stone to stone until he was once again stood in front of the waterfall. He decided to just leap through again in the hopes that the shirt would absorb most of the water. Though it didn't work out as expected the fruit was still okay to eat.

Naruto returned to the cavern and placed the fruit next to the make-shift bed. He proceeded to eat some of the fruit his face scrunching up as he ate. "Defiantly not as good as ramen, but I guess I'll just have to get used to it for the next two months. Well then again I doubt I'll get any ramen from that stupid dragon."

Naruto lay down in one of the rectangle slots. He shifted uncomfortably onto his side, he closed his eyes blocking out the quiet but still present waterfall. Ever so slowly Naruto fell asleep.


Naruto's mindscape

Naruto's eyes snapped open. He spotted the black fog drifting near his feet and instantly knew where he was.

"This place again? Am I having that same dream from before? I wonder if that dragon is still there."

Naruto retraced his route into the large area; he began walking up to the gate and wasn't surprised at the piercing red eyes amidst the shadowy fog. This time he held his ground as the dragon's wings shot outwards, dispersing the fog.

"I knew it! You're that dragon from before." Naruto shouted.

"Hm? What do you want now brat?" Kage growled his annoyance clearly present.

"It's not like I wanted to come here… I just fell asleep and ended up here like last time."

"But you must want something if you decided to want to find me in this place again. Hurry up and tell me, I don't have all day… oh wait I do."

"Well I guess I wanted to ask you if you know what happened at the village, how it was destroyed and where everyone is. Since you're part of me I thought you would've seen what happened."

"How stupid are you?" Kage snapped, "Think about it, if I were part of you, how would I know what happened if you don't?"

"Oh… So you don't know what happened either?"

"Hahaha. Do you remember what that dragon told you earlier today? Do you trust what everybody tells you?"

"What are you talking about?" Naruto muttered.

"I am not part of you. I am separate from you and was sealed inside of you because of your parents. Whilst you didn't see what happened to your precious village, I saw everything." For the first time in the conversation, Kage's trademark smirk appeared. "Would you like to know what happened?"

Naruto was speechless. The creature that had cause the death of his parents, their sacrifice for him, was standing in front of him.

"So… the thing my parents sealed away was you? And they sealed you inside of me? Then the mark on my stomach… is that keeping you in here?" Naruto gasped in shock.

"Yes. However, initially the seal was weak, weak enough for me to manipulate you and escape… only that backfired. Anyway, after I weakened the seal the first time, it got stronger… much stronger, to the point where I can no longer escape."

"So you can't escape anymore?"

"Unfortunately, yes." Kage muttered darkly.

"So if you escaped does that mean that you're the one who destroyed the village? If so, what happened to everyone?" Naruto demanded.

"No."

"Well then, who?!What is that other dragon? Answer me!"

"It wasn't me or the other dragon. I can tell you who if you would like me to." Kage's face was serious, a look that was rare to appear on his face.

"No… I already know who it was." Naruto turned from the dragon and began walking back to the entrance of the area.

He stopped after a few steps, his hands clenching into fists.

"It was me, wasn't it?!"

His words echoed throughout the room. Kage stared at the boy's back, an emotion he had never felt before. Guilt.

Kage watched as the small boy fell to his knees, his sobs piercing the dragon's cold shell.

"Why do I feel guilty for this brat? So what if he lost his home and friends? I lost more on that day." A memory flashed through Kage's mind: a dragon with the power to obliterate islands, a mage who could cast spells of absolute death and the remains of hundreds of dragon's as his home lay in ruins.

"Listen kid. You and I are a lot alike. I lost everything just like you have: my home, my friends, my family and most of all myself. It was my fault that you ended up like this, I weakened the seal allowing you to take my power… using my power you destroyed your village."

Naruto rubbed his eyes, getting rid of any remaining tears. "How did you lose everything precious to you?"

Kage was shocked, he expected the child to loathe him, he had admitted to causing his village's destruction, yet the boy instead was curious at what happened in his past.

"You're not angry?"

"No. I get why you did it. You had nothing left, you were alone, and you just wanted someone to feel your pain."

Kage looked at Naruto in confusion, "Had?"

"Yup." Naruto looked up at the dragon, his bright smile present on his face. "You're right, we're the same now, there's no changing the past. Right now we've only got each other so there's no point in hating each other, right? What do you say? We'll be there for each other from now on?"

Kage's gaped at Naruto, shocked at his forgiveness. "Even though I only fought you once Minato. I can tell this child is a lot like you."

Kage moved one of his claws through a slot in the gate; he held it in front of the young blond.

"Sure, you know, you're a lot like your father."

Naruto grinned; he reached out to shake the dragon's claw only for his hand to go through it.

"Ah. I forgot, ever since the seal re-strengthened, we've been bonded together."

"What do you mean?"

"If you die, I die. Our souls are connected from now on. Most likely a counter-measure your father placed so that I can't hurt you in your mindscape. It didn't work the first time when the seal weakened but it's in full effect now."

"Are you going to tell me how you lost everything?"

"Eventually, yes. But it's not something you need to know yet, if you want I'll tell you what happened when you were consumed by my powers, what happened to you village."

"No. It's not something I need to know right now." Naruto laughed when he saw Kage sweat drop.

"Are you still planning on going back to the dragon? I've already told you the truth about what happened."

"Yes, I need to apologise for blaming him all this time."

"Well, until then I can train you to use my magic for the next two months."

"Wait, your magic?! You mean you can teach me magic?"

"In a way, yes. Dragons can teach a special magic called dragon slayer magic. It takes years to learn the magic but I can teach you a few basics in the next two months, the rest I will teach you over time. We'll start tomorrow."

Naruto nodded cheerfully, "So… How do I get out of here?"

Kage sweat dropped once again, "Just ask yourself to leave or something."

Naruto sighed, he closed his eyes in an attempt to do as the dragon suggested but snapped them open instantly.

"Wait. You haven't even told me your name."

"Kage."

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"Hurry and get out brat. I need some sleep if I'm to start teaching dragon slayer magic again."

"I already told you I don't know how!"

"HURRY UP AND FIND A WAY!"

Naruto lay down on the floor made of ice. Kage looked at him in confusion.

"Aren't you cold?"

"No the ice is strangely warm." Naruto closed his eyes for the second time that night.

"Goodnight Kage."

"Whatever."


"Shadow dragon's piercing fang!"

Naruto's fingers were all held together and pointed towards Kage. Kage was in his normal human form, his hair was shorter than before and the cloak was no longer torn. The most significant change was the lack of scales and that his tail was no longer present, unlike before he could now pass of as a human apart from the ash coloured skin.

Naruto's hand had a small torrent of shadow dragon magic swirling around it, he kept charging at Kage thrusting his hand outwards in an attempt to land the attack on Kage. In response Kage simply stepped to the side, grabbing Naruto's wrist and throwing him into the pond at the other side of the cavern.

"That's the 27th time I've thrown you into the pond Naruto, also your control over the magic is poor, try hitting the wall with the attack. Try not to miss." Kage mocked.

Naruto pulled himself out of the pond and stood slightly away from the wall.

"Shadow dragon's piercing fang"

Naruto's attack hit the wall, the shadow magic acting like a drill around his hand. After a few seconds the shadow magic disappeared and Naruto took his hand away from the wall.

"What?!" Naruto shouted.

"See? You lack the destruction behind your attack without the proper manipulation and control of the magic. When we opened the seal slightly earlier it let you use some of my power and also allowed me to become your shadow, however if you can't learn to simply control the power then it's useless to teach you anything else." Kage commented.

The wall were Naruto had struck had little more than a scratch on it.

"Honestly I was wrong to try and teach you an attack before you learn to properly control it. However, there is a technique I can teach you that will help you to learn to control it and will help you in combat." Kage sighed, "If you can't learn this then you're hopeless, this only took my last pupil two days to learn and you have an advantage since I'm sealed inside of you."

"Why is having you sealed inside me an advantage?" Naruto asked.

"Easy, most dragons have to fully teach their pupils how to access the magic whilst you already have that access through me; all you need to do is to learn to control it. The technique I'm going to teach you allows me to guide you through the process as your shadow." Kage replied.

"Ok, so what do I need to do?"

Kage walked up to Naruto promptly dispersing into a shadowy mist which joined with Naruto's feet forming a shadow which resembled Kage's appearance.

"Firstly, focus on a shadow around the area. This is where I can help you, since I am a dragon of shadows I can easily extend my current form as your shadow around the area in front of you, the good part is this extension is only visible to you and me." The makeshift shadow at Naruto's feet began to extend until it formed a circle around the boy.

"After focusing on the shadow try to pull the energy from the shadow towards you." Kage commanded.

Naruto did as he said; he concentrated fully on part of the shadow around him and when he felt the power from the shadow he attempted to pull it towards him. Suddenly Naruto appeared in the air, he wasn't over the part of the shadow where he had been concentrating but he had defientatly moved in its direction. He was about to fall to the ground when he re-appeared once more at his target spot before falling to the ground with a thud.

"What the… I moved again?" Naruto muttered in confusion.

"I can move you myself if needed, the extension of the shadow is myself so just try to think that you are pulling me towards you, if our powers balance out then you will be able to move to the area perfectly, if my power is stronger you will reach the position but you won't have a… comfortable landing."

"What if my power is stronger?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Gahaha. I'm afraid that's impossible, if it was ever to happen where you pulled me towards you then the whole shadow would be pulled to you, most likely resulting in an explosion. But I doubt you could ever exceed my power."

Kage looked over at Naruto who had pushed himself to his feet, he was staring at his hand which was still scratched from his previous training on the "piercing fang"

"That's enough training for today. Tomorrow I'll keep teaching you how to control the shadow dragon magic and balance it with mine, if you get that down then I'll go back to teaching you the four basic attacks. If you can learn the basic attacks within the two month period we can get working on manipulating the magic earlier than expected. Anyway get some sleep, I'm not going to let you slack off."

With that Kage disappeared back into his form as Naruto's shadow.

Naruto lay down in one of the rectangle slots.


Time skip: 8 days

Date: 24th October X771

Naruto jumped through the waterfall landing on the stepping stone balancing so he didn't fall off. He jumped from stone to stone until landing on the grass near the river.

"Jeez Kage you eat way too much, I'm starting to wonder is there'll be any fruit in the forest left after a month."

"It's not my fault the fruit tastes terrible." Kage complained.

"So because it tastes terrible you have to eat more of it?"

"Yes."

"You're an idiot…"

"SHUT UP BRAT!"

Naruto froze as he heard footsteps behind him, he had reached a tree which had quite a lot of fruit on it but it had required him to walk deeper into the forest than usual.

The boy turned just in time to duck a swipe from a spear. He followed the spear to its owner, there were two masked men stood in front of him, both of their smirks were present since the bottom half of their masks were missing. (A/N: Couldn't really find a clear picture of the guards of the tower of heaven.) The attacking guard's foot slipped forwards closing the gap between the two, he thrust the spear forwards attempting to impale the child.

"GAH!" Naruto landed on the branch of aforementioned tree courtesy of Kage.

"Was there any point teaching you the technique if you're so slow at using it?" Kage sighed.

Naruto pulled himself onto the branch so that he was sat on it.

"Don't worry, I can take care of this. We can wait till they get bored or I can scare them away by throwing some of the fruit at them." Naruto said.

Naruto plucked an apple from one of the branches above him; he proceeded to throw the apple in the men's direction with all his strength… only for it land on the ground in front of them.

"You have to be kidding me… I hate to burst your bubble kid but your master plan failed. Time for plan: go down there and put the techniques I taught you into practice. Or we could wait up here for the next month and a half for them to get bored…" Kage grumbled.

To Kage's surprise the two men muttered something to each other; one of them took the apple from the ground proceeding to take a bite out of it before dropping it to the floor and walking off.

"See? I told you it woul…"

"LIKE HELL THAT WAS JUST LUCK!" Kage roared.

"Meh, you're just jealous that my plan worked better than yours."

Naruto dispersed into the trademark black fog of Kage's and reappeared over the ground.

"You know? You are such a sore loser Kage."

"Ack!" Naruto fell to the ground once again courtesy of Kage.

Naruto picked himself off the ground with a groan. He cautiously looked around for a trace of the two men.

"Do you think they're waiting for us?" Naruto questioned.

"Of course they are" Kage snorted, "Go near the trees where they left, they're most likely waiting to ambush you."

"So you want me to walk into an ambush?! This is why I don't listen to your 'master plans'"

"JUST DO IT ALREADY!"

Naruto cautiously approached the trees near where the two men had retreated. He hesitantly took another step so that he was in in between two of the trees, almost instantly he heard a rustling above him and the two men jumped down from the trees in an attempt to land on Naruto.

"What now?" Naruto asked frantically, he shifted backwards getting ready to avoid the descending spears.

"Relax," Kage said a hint of excitement in his voice, "I'll take care of this."

Naruto jumped backwards to avoid the spears. Just as the men were about to reach the ground, a blur sped past Naruto to the spot where he was previously stood.

SNAP!

Naruto was shocked at the sight in front of him. Kage had gripped the two men by their throats, but the most shocking part was that their spears had snapped from contact with Kage's shoulders.

"Wha-what the hell?!" One of them men yelled, dropping the remains of his spear.

The other man had a stronger resolve, instead of dropping his spear in fear he used the jagged wooden shaft in his hand to attempt to jab out Kage's eye. Kage simply moved his head to the side avoiding the thrust, he then removed his hand from the man's neck letting him drop slightly before his open palm connected with the man's jaw sending him flying into a tree.

Kage frowned as looked at the man slumped against the tree.

"Ya know, this isn't anywhere near as fun as I thought it'd be… You could at least try and fight back." Kage grumbled as he threw the scared man in the unconscious man's direction. "Hurry up and get out of here, we've not got time to be dealing with you guys."

The man nodded quickly, he picked up the other man and fled further into the forest.

Kage turned to Naruto, the boy in question had a huge grin on his face.

"What?" Kage grumbled.

"How did you do that?! You broke their weapons without even touching them!" Naruto cheered, his grin grew even wider.

"Huh? That was just my scales." Kage answered.

"Hm? You have scales? I haven't seen any…"

Kage grumbled something which went unheard by Naruto; he took hold of the right sleeve of his cloak and pulled it up. His arm was completely normal for a moment, until shadowy black scales appeared.

"That's because I make them appear. They act like armour and are extremely hard to break, as you just saw they're harder than steel. All I did was form scales at the point where the spears hit me and it simply snapped them."

"What's its name?" Naruto pestered.

"Name? It doesn't have one. In fact, most of my attacks don't have names… I just shout what the attack looks like." Kage noted dull-fully.

"Wait. Then what about the piercing fang attack you taught me? You gave that a name."

"Yeah, and It took me forever to think of such a simple name… why do you think I've not named the scales or the teleporting technique? If you want a name for anything else I teach you then you can think of it."

"Anyway," Kage sighed, "Let's hurry up and collect some fruit and get back to the cavern, looks like I'm going to have to give you some combat experience since you were useless in that situation."

Naruto groaned, "Even more training? We've been training for days now… when do I get a break?"

"You can have a break when you learn the four basic attacks, after that break I'll be teaching you to manipulate the shadow dragon magic. We'll also be having regular sparring matches so you can get some combat experience."

"What about that scale thing? Can you teach me that?" Naruto asked eagerly.

"No, I only have control of the scales because I'm a dragon. There is one technique that grants a dragon slayer the scales, however no dragon slayer par one has ever been able to control it on their own will… and I guess you can say that he is and isn't still around…"

"Huh? What'd you mean Kage?" Naruto muttered in confusion.

"Nothing. Hurry up and get the fruit."


Time skip: 7 days

Date: 31st October X771

"Okay, time to show me what you've learnt in the last 15 days kid." Kage taunted.

"So I just have to fight you? I don't have to win or anything?" Naruto inquired.

Kage held out a bell in reply. "The challenge is you have to take this bell using the techniques i've taught you these past few days."

"Really? I just have to take a bell from you? That's it?"

"Not just a bell Naruto. I've used this bell to test all my students. Want to know how many have succeeded in taking it from me?" Kage smirked. "None to date… so what makes you think you will be able to take it?"

Kage heard a jingle in front of him. He looked down and saw Naruto holding the bell in the palm of his hand.

"Easy, you were too busy being proud about your record that you practically gave me the bell." Naruto said with a bland expression on his face.

"THAT DOESN'T COUNT!" Kage roared, snatching the bell from Naruto and tied it to the waist of his cloak.

"Jeez you really are a sore loser." Naruto sniffed.

"Whatever," Kage growled, "we'll start on my go…"

Kage watched Naruto standing across from him, the boy took no stance. He just replicated Kage and stared back.

"What? Not going to get into a fighting stance?" Kage questioned.

"This is my fighting stance." Naruto smirked, "I find it easier to not adopt a stance."

"Why?"

"For the same reason you do, it's harder to read someone who has no fighting stance. Well that and most stances have an obvious opening that someone like you could exploit with ease." Naruto chuckled.

"Hm? What weakness." Kage asked a hint of surprise in his voice.

"You're a shadow. Your opponents back is their clear weak point. A fighting stance focuses on blocking a frontal attack from your opponent… you however can attack from anywhere." Naruto smiled, "I know your weaknesses since we share most of them."

"Not bad." Kage stated, "But…. What happens if you can't react to my attacks?"

"Haha, I know I stand no chance of being able to counter your attacks. That's why i'm not going to let you have the offensive." Naruto said in confidence.

Kage raised an eyebrow at the boy, "Interesting… well then. Start whenever you're ready."

"What? I thought it was on your go?" Naruto pouted.

Kage grinned, "Well, you seem to want to have the early offence so i'll humour you. I'll even add a victory condition… if you can land a clean hit on me then you win."

"Hn? He's toying with me… he probably wants me to attack from behind so he can show off. Then again…" Naruto thought.

Naruto burst into the thick shadowy mist, Kage had already expected this and spun around, in the process he grabbed Naruto's hand which was engulfed in shadow dragon magic.

"Predictable." Kage mocked.

"Really?" Naruto chuckled, his body burst into the mist once more.

"2 clones?" Kage groaned, "You seem to have taken a liking to that technique."

"Shadow dragon's piercing fang"

Kage eye's widened slightly, "Above?!" Kage's hand shot up grabbing Naruto's arm by the wrist and throwing him away from him.

"Haha bet you didn't see that coming!" Naruto promptly stuck his tongue out at Kage childishly.

"Hmph too bad it didn't wor…" Kage was cut off as he heard a jingle from his waste. He looked downwards and saw a shadowy hand reaching for the bell. Kage instinctively grabbed the hand and dragged it away from the bell, once again throwing the boy away from him. He glanced to where he had previously saw Naruto, but only wisps of black mist remained. "A third clone…"

"Shadow dragon's slash"

Kage's vision returned to the Naruto he had just thrown, the aforementioned Naruto had regained his footing in front of Kage. His hands weren't fully clenched into a fist instead all his fingers pointed inwards towards his palm, both of his hands were engulfed in shadow dragon magic.

Naruto sent a barrage of hits at Kage forcing him backwards as he blocked the incoming attacks. He then jumped up in front of Kage.

"Shadow dragon's claw"

Shadow dragon magic wrapped around Naruto's leg as it shot out towards Kage's midsection but was blocked with ease, Naruto reacted by pushing off of Kage's hand which had blocked his leg flipped backwards landing away from Kage.

"Shadow dragon's roar"

Naruto landed on the ground, he raised his head, a feral grin marring his face. A large burst of shadow dragon magic erupted from his mouth heading directly towards Kage.

"Not bad… To learn the 4 basic attacks and apply them into a battle situation in just 15 days is quite impressive. But…"

Just as the torrent of shadows reached Kage he opened his mouth and began to consume the shadows, leaving Naruto at a loss for words.

"My turn" Kage grinned.

"Shadow dragon's roar" Kage opened his mouth and returned to blast to Naruto, only this time the attack was bigger and tore the ground at their feet up from the intensity of the attack. Kage himself had to drag his hand along the floor to keep himself from flying backwards.

Naruto let out a yelp and jumped out of the way of the attack and much to his misfortune right into the small pond in the cavern.

"Gahaha, I guess it is time for you to cool off… give up?" Kage taunted only for his eyes to widen as he looked into the pond and saw it had been stained with the shadowy mist.

The familiar jingle echoed throughout the cavern, Kage's eyes snapped to his waist and watched as Naruto's fingertips tapped the bell.

"Shadow dragon's abyss walk"

Just as Naruto's hand was moments away from tugging the bell from around Kage's waist the older man disappeared without any trace at all.

"What the…" Naruto yelled.

As Naruto passed through the spot where Kage had been due to his momentum, Kage's forearm appeared in front of Naruto and grabbed the boy around the neck.

"Nice try Naruto." Kage panted. "That's it for today, this would go on forever… there's no way you could get a clean hit off on me and you can definitely not steal the bell from me."

Instead of arguing, Naruto instead broke out of Kage's grip and turned to face the dragon a frown on his face.

"What was that?! I know I got you with that last move!" Naruto shouted.

Kage merely chuckled at the boy's confusion. "That was a secret dragon slayer art called abyss walk, it briefly allows me to enter the abyss… a place that consists of complete darkness and where the shadows are at their strongest, however staying in there for more than 6 seconds as an intruder is too dangerous for even me."

"An intruder?" Naruto asked

"The abyss is basically the home of most shadows, entering it with the abyss walk allows me to enter it instantly but to the shadows which reside in the abyss I will be seen as an 'intruder' and the gatekeepers will hunt me down." Kage said finally catching his breath.

"Who are the gatekeepers?" Naruto questioned.

"Who are they? No one knows that apart from themselves and maybe him… as for what they are, they are immensely strong guards that keep any non-shadows from entering the abyss. If you want an idea as to how strong they are… they were the ones who gave me this scar." Kage pointed to the right side of his neck, there was a large scar stretching from his throat around the right side of his neck and it ended at the back of his neck. "This scar was received from staying in the abyss for only a mere two second longer than my limit."

"Wow… so wait, I thought you are a shadow dragon? Why aren't you allowed to enter the abyss?" Naruto pestered.

"I am allowed into the abyss. However if I enter using my abyss walk I am identified as an intruder since I didn't enter using the gate." Kage answered. "Before you ask, the gate is the proper means to entering the abyss but it takes a few minutes to open so it isn't a means of escaping amidst combat and even if it was you can say the inhabitants of the abyss aren't particularly… friendly."

"What do you mean they aren't friendly? Are all shadows evil or something?"

"The shadows aren't the only problem there Naruto. Beings stronger than the gatekeepers exist in the abyss right now due to the black mage Zeref. Many years ago, war broke out in the abyss while I still lived there. The war was started by Zeref when he invaded the abyss with an army of his demons… he is the reason why my home was wiped out and all my friends were killed. The war is still on-going as there are still many of Zeref's demons still remaining… many of the gatekeepers and some of the stronger shadows were wiped out on the first day of Zeref's invasion… to say the least it was a massacre… a one sided annihilation."

Naruto heard the strain of Kage's voice and how it was filled with sadness, "So that's why we're alike… You can't go back to your home while the war is going on can you?"

Kage chuckled sadly, "Not unless I want to be slaughtered. If I don't stand a chance then I guess even he has fled from the abyss too… or at least went into hiding."

"Who is he?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Hm? Oh nothing, he doesn't matter… it's a long shot to even consider him being alive. Although I doubt that bastard would go down so easily. Hehe, hell I guess he'd take down the whole abyss with him if he was ever going down."

"I see." Naruto muttered, "Well in the future maybe we can stop the war together and find this guy!"

Kage chuckled. "Sure, but you're going to have to get a lot stronger than you are now."

"Hmmm, speaking of which can I learn that abyss walk? What about how to consume the shadow magic?" Naruto asked eagerly.

"Mhm… yes you can learn both of them, in fact I will teach you both of them in the following year or two. However, be careful when using abyss walk… after all the gatekeepers are by no means forgiving, especially when the abyss is in a state of war." Kage warned. "Honestly you should only use it as a last resort."

"Hehe, like when you were about to have the bell taken from you from a 6 year old?" Naruto grinned.

Kage grit his teeth, his face was red with embarrassment. "Hurry up and get some sleep, you can have a break tomorrow." Kage growled.

"Ok, g'night Kage." Naruto yawned as Kage returned into his shadow form, connecting with Naruto's feet.

"Goodnight brat."


Date: November 1st X771

Naruto's eyes snapped open as he heard a strange chattering noise. He pulled himself out of the makeshift bed and went to look around the cavern. He was interrupted when a cold gust of wind collided with him.

"Wha-what the?" He shivered as he took in the new surroundings.

The cavern hadn't changed drastically, however a large amount of snow had covered the floor. He looked up at the ceiling of the cavern; more precisely looking at the source of the snow: the hole in the roof of the cavern.

"Oh? You're finally awake Naruto?" Kage muttered replicating Naruto's shivering.

"O-of course… how could I sleep when it's so cold?" Naruto growled.

"You managed it for the past few hours…" Kage grumbled. "Oh and one more thing… I ate the last of the fruit so we need to go get more."

"You did what?!" Naruto yelled.

"I had nothing else to do for the past few hours like I said."

"So you entertained yourself… by eating fruit?" Naruto asked with a sigh.

Kage's hair shadowed his eyes as he clenched his fists and grit his teeth in both annoyance and embarrassment.

"Do you have a problem with that?" He snarled. "I'll have you know it's one of my favourite hobbies. Second to watching you suffer during training. Speaking of which, hurry up and let's get the fruit so we can get back to training."

"Like hell! You said I could have a break today!"

"Hmm, that's true. Well at least get the fruit then you can have your rest." Kage sighed.

"Fine. But who said I'm gonna spend my break resting? I want to go have a look around outside for once. We've been in the cave for over two weeks now and not looked around the area." The boy said.

"I swear, if you expect me to accompany you…" Kage warned.

"Of course you're coming with me. After all a shadow must go where ever its owner goes, correct?" Naruto jeered sticking his tongue out at Kage.

"Mm okay. But that saying goes in reverse, right?" Kage questioned.

"Yeah I guess."

"Good, then tomorrow you can have another break." Kage smiled slyly.

"Really?!"

"Sure, we can go visit the abyss since you seem to like exploring." Kage chuckled darkly.

"You have a sick sense of humour, ya know?"

"So i've been told."

Naruto and Kage made their way out the normal entrance to the cavern and to the waterfall.

"WHAT?!" The two shouted in unison

The waterfall that they had used to enter and exit the cavern had frozen up due to the sharp drop in temperature. The waterfall was now just a wall of ice stopping them from exiting the cavern.

"Great." Naruto sighed. "I guess i'm not getting that break after all…"

Kage laughed at Naruto's expense.

"..and you don't get your fruit which you apparently hate."

"Fuck." Kage growled. "Relax Naruto. I have a way of getting us out of the cavern. In fact I was planning on teaching you this as your second manipulation training since you got the hang of clones so easily."

Kage began to walk back to the main area of the cavern leaving Naruto in suspense. He walked after Kage, back into the main part of the cavern. He found Kage standing underneath the hole in the ceiling.

"Come over here a second." Kage ordered.

Naruto did as Kage said and walked over to him, once there Kage grabbed him by the neck of his shirt.

"WAIT!" Naruto cried, "You're not planning on throwing me up there are you?! I've had enough of being thrown by dragons after the first time!"

"No, although I would love to do that, you wouldn't be able to get back here." Kage stated.

"Then wha…" Naruto was cut off as he and Kage began to lift off of the ground. Naruto looked behind Kage in shock and saw two shadowy wings on his back.

"YOU HAVE WINGS?!" Naruto yelled in surprise

"Noooo i'm a dragon that doesn't have wings… so essentially i'm just a giant lizard… OF COURSE I HAVE WINGS!" Kage snapped. "Why would I get rid of the best perk of being a dragon in my human form?"

"Can I learn that?" Naruto immediately asked.

"Did you forget what I said less than a minute ago? It's the next technique i'm going to teach you."

Kage looked at Naruto who comically had his eyes replaced with stars as he stared at Kage's wings.

"Cut that out brat, it's creepy." Kage sweat dropped.

"Says the giant lizard." Naruto chuckled.

"Don't. Start."

Kage landed on the snow covered ground to the side of the hole in the cavern's roof. It was at the top of where the waterfall started, the hole was on a small island surrounded by two streams of water which connected to form the waterfall, the streams were frozen however just like the waterfall. Kage placed Naruto on back on the ground and began walking over to the frozen waterfall.

"Wow…" Naruto said in awe. "This place has a great view, look you can see the other dragon's mountain near that vill…"

Both Naruto and Kage's jaw smashed to the floor instantly. From their slightly elevated position they could make out a small village nearly at the foot of Igneel's mountain, the opposite way that he threw Naruto.

"What?!" Naruto yelled. "He never told me there was a village, right next to his mountain too!"

Naruto heard Kage chuckled behind him.

"So he's planning that all along eh?" Kage thought to himself.

"What's so funny?" Naruto grumbled.

"Hm? Isn't it obvious? He's testing if you're able to survive without the help of a village. So… are you going to go to the village for the next month or remain her? I'm stuck with you anyway." Kage yawned.

"Well we couldn't really train in peace if we went to the village, so we're better off staying here. Still it'll be nice to be able to buy some supplies and food from the village. I wonder if they have ramen." Naruto began to drool at the thought.

"You're forgetting one important thing… you seem to have a habit of doing that." Kage groaned.

"I am? What?" Naruto questioned.

"We don't have any money to buy supplies or your precious ramen with." Kage identified.

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Naruto yelled

"Jeez, so over dramatic. We'll just take some jobs around the village to earn some, it shouldn't be hard with the two of us and it'll give you some practice." Kage said.

"Okay. Let's make our way to the village the…" Naruto was interrupted by a scream reaching the pair's ears.

"Huh? It sounds like someone is in trouble." Kage said.

"It came from near the forest where those two guys attacked us." Naruto replied as he descended the waterfall using parts of the ice to descend it with relative ease.

When he reached the bottom of the waterfall and slid off of the iced over river and onto the snowy ground next to it, Kage promptly landed next to him showing no signs of injury from the fall.

"What the…" Naruto started.

"You can ask me later Naruto, we need to go find the cause of the scream." Kage reminded the boy.

"Yeah."

The two began moving through the forest jumping from branch to branch, Naruto had learnt to concentrate shadow magic to the soles of his feet allowing him to move quicker and jump further than he normally could, thus allowing him to navigate places easier.

The pair had finally arrived at the source of the scream. It was slightly right of the area where they have met the two armed men more than a week ago; the forest had ended so no more trees blocked their vision. The two guards that Naruto and Kage had previously encountered where stood over a small redheaded girl. Naruto noticed that the ground ended behind the girl so she had nowhere to run.

"I'll leave this up to you" Kage said, "it's time to put you training into action, although if you can't take care of it i'll consider helping you."

"No… I can take care of this." Naruto said with determination.

"Heh, that's what I want to hear." With those words Kage sunk into the ground and the silhouette of Kage connected with Naruto's feet.

"Hey!" Naruto yelled gaining the men's attention.

"Hm? Oh well, look who it is." The more strong willed man grinned. "It's that brat who got lucky a few days ago."

The other man seemed scared like last time, "Hey wait! What if that other guy is here? Shouldn't we get out of here? Or have you forgotten what happened last time?"

"QUIET!" The first man barked. "He got lucky that bastard save him, that 'hero' won't show up to save him again." He sneered.

"Naruto, do me a favour and shut him up, before I do it myself. If he calls me a…" Kage struggled to pronounce the next word, "hero again I swear i'll throw him off that cliff harder than Igneel threw you off the mountain."

"Igneel? So that's the red dragon's name? Why didn't you tell me earli…" Naruto was brought out of his trance as he heard the girl speak for the first time.

"Get out of here!" She cried, "It's too dangerous! They'll hurt you like… like…" the girl began sobbing as she continued, "like they hurt everyone from the village… and m-my parents…"

Naruto stared at the crying girl his fingers trembling.

"Well what'd ya know Kage? She's just like you and me… and the bastards responsible for taking those precious to her away are standing right in front of us. I don't know whether i'm happy or angry right now… and honestly I don't care."

The stronger man began laughing, "So what if we destroyed your village, you should show some obedience since we allowed you to live. Instead you have the nerve to run off? Don't worry…" The man's lips spread into a feral grin, "…you'll be joining your parents soon enough."

The man raised his spear and used the bottom of the staff to hit the girl across the face. She fell to the ground with a scream, tears staining the snow underneath her grounded form, a small amount of blood poured from her mouth soaking into the sand beneath her. The man then raised his spear pointing the blade towards the girl lying on the ground sobbing.

"Good riddance," He smirked as he thrust the spear downwards.

SNAP!

The man's eyes widened as he watched his spear drop to the ground. His mouth trembled before letting out an ear-piercing scream.

Naruto was stood in between the man and the redheaded girl, his hand was gripping the man's forearm tightly and shadow dragon magic slowly rose from his whole arm, which now had some black scales forming along it. His blonde hair shadowed his eyes but a viscous scowl told the story that his eyes no longer could.

"You killed her village yet let her live? Well… it all makes sense now. You two are slavers aren't you? When you attacked me you just wanted to injure me enough to capture me, eh?" Naruto growled.

"LET GO!" The man shouted attempting to pry his arm from the boy's grip. His partner on the other hand had already dropped his weapon and had fallen over out of shock.

The redheaded girl had turned herself over on the ground so she was staring at her saviour's back. Fresh tears still rolled down her cheeks as she watched her assailant squirm in pain.

"No. It's about time you learn just how much it hurts losing everything precious to you." Naruto's eyes were finally revealed to the man, they were completely emotionless expect from the clear hatred glaring at him. "How about we start with your precious arm?"

Naruto raised his free hand up and scales began to form all over his body. Shadow dragon magic began to generate around his raised hand.

"Shadow dragon's severing fang"

Naruto thrust his hand aiming to sever the man's arm from his shoulder.

"WAIT!"

Just before he could complete the gruesome task the redheaded girl stopped him by wrapping both of her arms around his right arm in an attempt to stop the attack.

"Don't sink to his level!" She pleaded, crying into Naruto's arm.

The mist instantly disappeared as did the scales which had formed over his body. He stiffened when he noticed he was gripping the man's forearm.

"What did I do?" Naruto whispered, he noticed the girl clinging to his arm sobbing into the sleeve of his shirt.

"Hey, you okay?" Naruto questioned trying to tug his arm free of her grip.

The girl looked upwards at the boy who had saved her. More tears began streaming down her cheeks.

"Ye-yes! Thank you for saving me!" She sobbed.

"Jeez stop crying," Naruto grumbled, "I'm going to need my arm by the way."

The redhead looked down and saw that she was hugging his arm and immediately released it her face turning the same colour as her hair.

"Sorry" She smiled wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Much better," Naruto chuckled, "I'll deal with thes…"

"Look out!" she screamed.

"Hm?" Naruto looked over his shoulder and saw the man had managed to grab his weapon with his other hand. He shakily lifted it other his head attempting to finish his job.

"Die!" He howled, thrusting the spear at Naruto's head.

"Hold on tight." Naruto whispered into the girl's ear as he took hold of her hand.

In an instant they had both disappeared from in front of the man to his total surprise, he heard a rustling from over the ledge of the cliff and both he and his partner stared over the ledge in utter shock.

The girl opened her eyes and felt a gentle breeze brush against her face. Her eye's widened in astonishment. Naruto was carrying her bridal style on the top of one of the trees beneath the cliff where they had previously been only a few seconds before.

"Wo-wow." She said breathlessly, "how did you do that?"

"Magic." He replied with a grin.

"Really?! You're a mage?" She asked in awe.

"Yep, a special type of mage too." He said, his grin growing wider.

"Huh? There are special types of mages? Like what?" She asked curiously with a bright smile on her face.

"Hehe, can I answer you later? We're kinda running out of time here." He chuckled. He pointed upwards to the top of the cliff where the two slavers where staring down at the pair in complete amazement.

The small girl let out a giggle, "Sure. You promise you'll tell me, right?"

"Heh, sure, I promise i'll tell you everything about my magic."

The girl looked at him, blushing once again. "Thanks."

"Erm…" Naruto started.

"Yes?" The girl asked.

"Aren't you going to tell me your name?" Naruto said with a chuckle.

"Erza."

"Hm? Just Erza? No last na…" Naruto stopped himself, he saw sadness began to resurface on her face and avoided the question.

"Naruto Uzumaki." He replied with a grin, "Now how about we deal with those two?" He asked pointing to the stunned slavers above them.

"How?" Erza asked in confusion, she watched as Naruto's grin got bigger than she thought possible.

"Kage! You can take care of them whenever you're ready!" Naruto shouted causing himself look insane.

"Who are you taking to?" Erza asked looking around in confusion.

"With pleasure!" A voice boomed from up on the cliff with the two slavers.

In response to the voice behind them, the two men turned around only to come face to face with Kage, who they had been acquainted with previously. They noted the feral grin present on his face and watched as he cracked his knuckles.

Two high pitched screams echoed from a top the cliff.

"Are they okay?" Erza asked.

"Hm? Sure I told him not to hurt them… too badly anyway." Naruto mumbled the last part.

"Who's this 'he'" Erza asked puffing her cheeks out in confusion, giving Naruto a pout.

Naruto chuckled, "Kage, my current shadow and a huge dragon."

Erza looked at him as if questioning his sanity.

"You trust me don't you? I promised i'll explain it later."

"Yes. Of course I trust you." She replied with a beaming smile.


Chapter 3 finished,

Took longer than predicted because exams where earlier than I had realised. But then again the chapter itself was a lot longer than I had thought it would be.

I know that Kage and Naruto becoming partners and friends seemed pretty rushed and instantaneous but I wanted for them to get a closer bond earlier on so that I could begin Naruto's "learning phase" of the shadow dragon magic and in future (most likely next) chapters his fire dragon magic. I've also been waiting for a confirmation of something happening in canon of the manga but since the arc has ended i've got my answer ready for maybe next chapter.

The next chapter will most likely have a major time skip (about 3,4 or 5 years) because I want to focus pre-canon more on his teen years (mainly around 14,15 and 16) as most of the arcs I've thought of will be for Naruto's progression.

One last thing will be about attack names. There are 3 options that I'm thinking of for the attack names:

English names like i'm doing now,

Japanese names with their English translation and a description of the attack at the end of the chapter

Japanese names but instead of the translation and description being at the end of the chapter there will be a chapter that has all the attacks with their translation and description. (Don't know if this option is possible, I mean it is relevant to the story and I find it annoying having to scroll to the bottom of the chapter to find out what the attack means, etc.)

The translation may be slightly wrong if I do the Japanese names since I'd have to rely on the internet, but if that is the chosen option then just correct any mistakes. I'll have to work out how to put a poll up and include the 3 options.

Finally, I worked out a schedule on when I will be typing, it will mainly be on Wednesdays and Fridays since they're days when the main manga come out so i'm pumped to type then, so it is most likely a new chapter every 2 weeks (3-4 if it's a long chapter or it's hard to write.)

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Thanks for reading (^.^)/