Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail. If I did, then I would join the two for a badass series, and Naruto would still be a show about actual ninja, and both Naruto and Natsu would be much cooler than they are now. If only…
A/N: An Author's note at the start of the chapter? That's new! And its because I updated twice in one week! More info as to why would be at the end of the chapter. Also note, after last chapter's dark ending this chapter is slightly lighter and more humorous than the last. Enjoy!~
Chapter 3
Of Dragons and Sorcerers
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Wendy groaned slightly as she rubbed her aching head. Her eyes were still blurry and her mind was still waking up from its dream like state. The first thing she took notice of was that it was currently nighttime and the stars and moon where the only things illuminating the sky.
She also felt warmth, and immediately her enhanced Dragonslayer nose swept into action and she could distinctly smell the aroma of something cooking or roasting under a warm fire.
Clearing the fog from her eyes and battling with her aching body, she managed to sit upright with some effort, only to be greeted with the sight of a large piece of meat being roasted under an open fire.
Her pupils quickly adjusted to the bright light from the flames, and she enjoyed the wonderful smell of the food, not to mention the warmth was overly appreciated.
However, with her head clearing up, she immediately took into notice of her appearance.
'I… look like a mummy!' she thought with slight panic, as she was draped in bandages, despite the fact that she couldn't see any indication of bleeding or any forms of wounds.
She then realized that the apparent reason she was draped in bandages was because she had absolutely no other clothes on, save for the white material which covered her modesty.
'What's going on… I thought…' she scrambled to remember what exactly had happened before arriving in such a situation, but kept drawing slight blanks.
"Oh... you're finally awake." She slowly turned her head to the left where she'd heard the voice from, part of her felt it was erringly familiar but she just couldn't place where she'd heard it before.
Out of some dark thickets, a tall, blonde man stepped out. He was wearing some robes of which Wendy had never seen before, his blue eyes had an enchanting quality to them, and his black sandals made almost no noise as he walked.
She didn't know why, but she felt slightly scared.
"Eat up, you'll need your strength, and it tastes better when hot anyways." He stated briefly, handing her a bowl of what looked to be some sort of stew made with meat, and garnished with fruits, herbs and vegetables.
Wendy felt her mouth watering at the sight; she'd never seen a meal look so good before. At first she was tempted not to collect to meal, but the grumbling in her stomach eventually won over.
Collecting the bowl, she managed to find her voice to utter a weak "A-arigatou" she'd said it so fast and so slowly that she assumed he wouldn't hear her, but it seemed he did and merely shrugged it off.
With slight trepidation, she took a bite into the food… 'Itadakimasu…'
And then promptly began chewing it down in a manner one would never expect from a five year old girl.
The blonde man merely looked amused, before digging into his own bowl of noodles with a pair of chopsticks that seemingly popped out of nowhere.
"Ah…" she let out a satisfied sigh as she finished the bowl in record time.
"Seconds?" he asked, offering her another bowl.
As tempted as she was, she didn't want to take advantage of the stranger's generosity and also appear like a glutton.
Don't worry about it, there's more where that came from, help yourself to as much as you want."
In the end, the lack of food from morning till night motivated her to accept.
After a while of sitting and eating in silence, Wendy finished her fifth and final bowl, before letting out a quiet burp of satisfaction.
"Thank you so much! Ka-chan never made anything this good before!" she nodded happily, as it was true, the Sky Dragon wasn't exactly a master chef…
"No problem, I'll be willing to teach you." He stated with a coy smile.
"Really?" she was ecstatic, she would love to learn how to cook.
"Ano… I forgot to ask, what was in that soup?" she scratched her head sheepishly, she actually just ate it out of hunger, and it had tasted like nothing she'd ever had before.
"Wolf Meat." He stated bluntly, as though it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Wolf… meat…" Wendy pondered on the words for three whole seconds, before she was struck by realization.
"I just ate a wolf!" she was confused, and felt slightly ill… most of the time she ate the meat Grandeeney would bring, mostly fish though… but the thought of eating a predator like a wolf…
And how did he make it taste so good?
"Yes, it should help boost your confidence the next time you get surrounded by wolves."
She tilted her head slightly in confusion, what did he mean by the next-
Wendy's eyes snapped open involuntarily, as she was assaulted by memories of what had transpired earlier that morning.
The wolves, the fear, and the willpower she'd needed to overcome it.
Most importantly however, she remembered.
Her own death.
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Wendy felt an overwhelming amount of dread fill her up. She could remember it clearly, how she had died, how she was left floating in an empty abyss of nothingness for what felt to be an eternity, how she'd yelled and cried, begged and pleaded for someone to rescue her, all to no avail.
She shivered involuntarily, she was sure that it was the end of her short five-year old life. She'd seen every single moment of her life in a series of flashes.
She remembered the coldness that had consumed her, so cold it burned at her very essence.
The memory of her vision fading, her hearing wearing away, her breathing stressed and labored.
It was the single most terrifying experience she had ever felt in her life.
"I… I t-thought…" she stammered slowly, as though there was a lump in her throat.
"You thought you died." The blonde man finished for her.
Her head snapped up so quickly it seemed as though it would break, she then stared at him.
"Yes… how did you know that?" dots started forming in her mind, he had mentioned giving her Wolf meat to make sure she would lose her fear of wolves, but how would he have known that unless he was actually there?
Recognition lit up in her once she recalled that the voice had felt familiar.
Pathetic.
It was the same voice! The same one which had taunted her, mocked her status as a Dragonslayer and spurned her into action.
"How am I still here… and who are you?" she asked slightly harsher than she'd intended. She was scared, confused, and who knew if the stranger had tried to poison her?
Paranoia began rising up, and she moved backwards as the man got up.
"I'm afraid you'll have to ask him, my time here is up anyways."
"Wha-" she started, only to turn around and meet the exact same person she was talking to behind her. She jumped back in a startled fright, turning around to see the man's previous position, and finding nothing or no one there but the slight remains of what looked like white smoke that was blown away with the wind.
Facing the man once more, she could hear him mumble something under his breath that sounded like 'smartass clones'.
"Well, now that you are awake Dragonslayer, you'd better sit down, for this is something you'd definitely want to hear."
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As Naruto stared into the eyes of the little girl, he couldn't help but remember the familiarity to the creature he'd just spoke with, and the events that had occurred earlier that day.
"Simply wonderful, to think that she was able to use the Sky Dragon's Roar successfully, and at such a young age."
The Immortal shinobi jumped down from his hiding spot amongst the trees, and slowly walked up to the girl. Upon analyzing her body though, he frowned slightly.
"I see… she momentarily activated her Dragon Force mode to give her the boost she needed for a roar of such power." He mumbled quietly to himself as he picked up the girl in his arms as though she was weightless.
'Unfortunately her body is not ready or used to wielding such a huge amount of magical energy, then pulsing it all out in one blast. At this rate, she'll explode from the sheer amount of magical pressure she contained.'
As though reading his thoughts, the girl's body began to heat up and glow a pure white sheen, the white light blinding everything within its radius, and it appeared as though it was a bomb just waiting to go off.
'Kuso…' he swore silently before immediately weighing his options. There were numerous ways he could save her, but all of them would end up crippling her magic one way or another, or she'd lose her magical ability all together.
'Unless…' a sudden thought had sprung into his mind, he could do it, but would it work?
Placing the glowing girl on the ground, he placed his hand on her stomach "Shikoku Fūin!"
Quickly using his finger he engraved several seals on the girls stomach in rapid progression, before completing the final task of the technique.
Placing his hand on the girl's head he muttered out "Kyūkon no Jutsu!"
He then abruptly proceeded to drag her soul out of her body, using the Soul Absorption abilities granted by his eyes.
It was not a second to soon, as the girl's body violently exploded in a shower of light, and magical energy.
With his free hand, he swiftly moved it out and performed another special technique "Fūjutsu Kyūin!"He roared out, using the Chakra Absorption Technique which he'd modified to be able to absorb Eterna and magical energy.
The explosion shrunk in size, and finally reduced to nothingness as he let out a breath of air he didn't know he was holding.
However, along with it, the girl's body was gone.
'And now for the final step…' Putting his free hand through a series of one-handed hand seals, he performed the technique he'd learned from the Last of the Senju, combined with the ones he'd studied over the years.
"Yin Seal: Release! Creation Rebirth!" activating the first Jutsu, he quickly moved on to the second.
"Cell Activity Technique!"
"Yin Healing Wound Destruction!"
He grinds his teeth together before activating the final procedure.
"Nikutai Kassei no Jutsu! (Body Revival Technique)"
At first, nothing seemed to happen, but then slowly, what looked like a lump of flesh appeared in mid-air. The lump grew spontaneously, forming legs, arms, hands, fingers, a head, and then eyes, nose, ears, and a mouth. Finally, it grew long blue hair that swayed slightly, before abruptly dropping to the ground.
'It worked!' the shinobi grinned in satisfaction, before moving the girl's soul and memories which he'd been holding back into her body.
Afterwards, he did the same with the large amount of Eterno he'd absorbed, and allowed it to fill up the girl's reserves, which were much more larger and refined than they once wore.
Naruto glanced at the sleeping girl, and cursed slightly once he realized he had no clothes for her to wear or use, since her previous ones had been destroyed.
'Geh… I can't leave her naked… otherwise she'll wake up and think I did something wrong to her…' shrugging, he decided to use bandages to cover her decency until he could find something better.
Regardless of which, he could not help but smirk at the satisfaction of his accomplishment.
He had done what no one else could possibly lay claim of ever doing.
He'd successfully given a Dragonslayer… the ability to use chakra.
"…Stranger-san, Stranger-san!" the soft high pitched voice of a little girl drew him from his memories.
"Yes, Dragonslayer?" he asked in a slightly annoyed tone. Couldn't he inflate his own ego a little more?
"My name is Wendy!" she let out a 'hmph' in annoyance "And you were just staring at me for hours now."
"It's been four and a half minutes." He deadpanned slightly. Maybe it was because he'd lost all sense of time after becoming immortal?
"Well it felt like hours!" she whined.
"You need to learn to be more patient." He stated matter-of-factly.
"And you need to stop staring at little girls!" she stuck her tongue out at him childishly.
The Shinobi merely sighed as his right eye twitched in annoyance, if only Kurama or hell even Zeref could see him now, bantering with a five-year old, the Dark Mage would kill his immortal self from laughter, and then revive himself, and then kill himself from laughter again.
He didn't even want to think about what Kurama would do.
Clearing his throat slightly, he began "My name is Naruto Uzumaki" he paused, waiting to see the reaction on her face. To relish in the shock, surprise, and then the fear… it would certainly keep her quiet for a while.
Although, things never work out the way you plan them.
"Okay Naruto-san! I'm Wendy Marvell." She stated in a cheerful tone, which caused Naruto to sweatdrop slightly.
"You've… never heard of me?" he wondered how it was possible.
"Well… am I supposed to?" she asked in a slightly hesitant and uncertain tone that made Naruto face-palm.
What in the world have you been teaching her then you overgrown Lizard? Has the years passed by so much that I've been reduced to a mere Legend?
"You know, Naruto Uzumaki, the Shinigami no Kage, the Mage of Apocalypse?" he asked in a 'you know' tone of voice, as though it was common knowledge.
"Ano… you mean Zeref?" she tilted her head to the side.
"No! Not… you know what, never mind." He groaned slightly.
Zeref that little brat! I'd taken on a full Biju before he was even in his diapers and now people remember him over me? What is the world coming to?
He slowly contemplated his options.
Well, this might work to my advantage… if people don't remember who I am, it certainly helps remain unseen and unnoticed, and by the time they realize… it would be too late.
"Ano… Naruto-san, you're spacing out again."
"Right…" he cleared his throat slightly, he really needed to stop spacing out "…I'm sure you want to know how you're still alive, and why you're covered in bandages."
His sharp eyes took in the fact that once he'd mentioned the 'still alive' part, she'd shivered and clenched her fists.
"Well, let's see… after your little Dragon's Roar, you'd charged up not only all your magical energy, but subconsciously took out energy from the atmosphere as well."
She looked at him, he'd seemed to have entered what resembled a 'lecture mode'.
"The fact is that you are the Sky Dragonslayer, and as such you eat air, however, the air of this world is charged with Eterno, and as such, you took in more Eterno than your entire body could contain." He began, waving his finger as he closed his eyes and spoke to his hearts' content.
"Um… Naruto-san?" she tried to interrupt, but to no avail.
"The result was a powerful attack that was at least ten times stronger than a normal attack would have been. However, charging your body with so much magical power and then proceeding to depower it so quickly had several changes to your physiology, it affected your body internally."
"Ano… Naruto-san…"
"A five year old body cannot withstand so much magical pressure, and as such the result was it trying to force its way out of your body through whatsoever means necessary. Not to mention that temporarily activating Dragon Force for a boost in power had its own side effects."
"Dragon- what?"
"So the end result was your body being destroyed by the excess magical energy, luckily I was there to fix the problem by giving you a new body with advanced magical potential and capabilities. Also, your clothes were destroyed in the process which is why you are in bandages. Is that all understood?" he finished as he glanced at the girl who stared at him in awe.
She was more surprised as to how he'd said all that in one breath rather than being amazed at the explanation. Not that he could tell the difference.
"So, do you understand?" he asked once more.
"Um… you said the world is charged with what?" she scratched her head as she looked dizzy from the amount of information he'd just thrown her way.
Naruto blinked, and then blinked once more.
Before proceeding to face-palming himself as he sighed in exasperation.
I can't believe I forgot I was explaining to a five-year old, of course she wouldn't understand!
Getting up from his seated position on a rock, he wiped off any imaginary dust around or on his body before putting his hands in his pockets and walking off.
"Ah! Naruto-san where are you going?" she as she caught up to him and help him by his hand.
"I'm leaving. I have more important things to do than sit here and babysit a little brat." He drew his hand back and proceeded to continue moving.
He still needed to search for another Portal to Edolas, find out where all of his 'demons' where, and get his strength back up to pat should he run into Acnologia or Zeref on his way.
"B-but, you can't just leave me here!" she yelled as she grabbed on to his leg.
"There's nothing stopping me from doing so! Now get off me!" the blonde ninja proceeded to try and pry off the girl who had firmly hooked around his leg.
"Then take me with you!"
"What?" the blonde pried her off, before kneeling to her height and staring at her.
She seemed to have lost her nerve for a second, before staring back at him.
"Take me with you!" she repeated, more fiercely than the last time.
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"The roads I'll be travelling through are harsh, the climate is unbearable for a child, the quests and activities I'll be undergoing would kill even some of the most talented of S-Rank Mages."
"I don't care."
He raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"I said I don't care, I'll go anywhere you go! I'll follow you!" she responded with slight child-like anger "Just please don't leave me alone…" she ended softly, and slightly on the verge of tears as she tightened her fists.
Naruto simply sighed.
I've been doing that a lot lately…
He lifted her chin up and stared at her "Wipe your tears Dragonslayer, I hate seeing it." The girl sniffled and cleaned her eyes with her bandages.
"Why do you want to follow me?" he asked seriously. For once his mocking, lecturing or deadpan tone was replaced with seriousness she hadn't seen from him before.
"Well… I don't know anyone or anywhere to go, or how to live on my own for a long while… I'm lost and…" she paused, hesitating for a second.
"And…?" the shinobi pressed on.
"And everyone I've ever met keeps leaving, Ka-chan… Jellal-nichan… and now you Naruto-san… I just don't want to be alone." She sniffled slightly, and catching Naruto completely off-guard, she ran into him and proceeded to cry into his chest.
Naruto froze for a whole three seconds, unsure of what to do, before he was assaulted by several memories.
"You don't understand jiji!" a younger Naruto with whisker marks on his face yelled at the old man in the hat and robes.
Tears streamed down his face as he poured his heart out "No one likes me here! They all say mean things about me!"
"Calm down Naruto, lets talk about the problem." The old man tried to placate him, but was failing miserably.
"The problem is everyone jiji! They all ignore me and act like I'm not there! The only friend I ever made was told to stop seeing me because I'm a monster!"
"There he is!"
"That pathetic scum!"
"Worthless brat!"
"Demon!"
"Run! The Mage of Apocalypse is here! Everyone take your children and run!"
A family huddled up into a corner, the father stood chokingly and sweating profusely stared at him.
"W-what do you want Dark Mage? K-kill me b-but leave my family out of it!" he stuttered out.
"I'm not here to kill you, I just wanted to see your daughter" a smiling blonde Naruto said with a placating gesture.
"You've been meeting with that monster!"
"N-no father! It must be a mistake… I've never seen him in my life."
"Y-you're denying me?" he sounded hurt, broken even.
"She's an atrocity just like you then!"
"Father!"
"Shut up! You're no daughter of mine!" He grabbed the brunette and thrust her at the blonde.
"You evil monsters need to leave right now! GET OUT!"
"I hate you! Naruto! I wish we'd never met!" The ringing echo and pain of the slap he'd received paled greatly in comparison to the feeling of having his heart torn apart by bulls.
"Suguha! Wait!"
"Naruto! Help Me!" a beautiful brunette fell, diving off the end of a cliff, a younger Naruto dashed forward.
"Suguha!"
"Naruto… please, don't leave me…"
"Naruto-san, please don't leave me here…"
The blonde's eyes widened as he rapidly began using a meditation technique to control his breathing, and heart rate.
What in the world was that… I haven't had memories about those events since…
The blonde frowned, he'd deal with those memories later, but for now though…
"Alright, stop your incessant crying, I'll let you follow me." He muttered lowly.
"R-really?! Thank you so much!" she glomped him and proceeded to wipe her tears off his shirt.
"Not so fast, I'll let you follow me on three conditions." She paused and looked up to him.
"First, you have to undergo some intense amount of training to make sure you are up to the task of travelling with me, and defending yourself should the need arise."
She nodded.
"Second, you are to never, ever, mention to anyone that you know me, have seen me, or even travelled with me. Just make sure you do not mention my name to anyone, got it?"
She nodded again, more enthusiastically than before.
"Third, whatever I teach you cannot be shown or taught to anyone without my permission, regardless, and some of the more complex ones are not to be used until absolutely necessary. Understood?"
"Hai, Naruto-san."
"And you must refer to me as Naruto-sensei from now on."
"Hey! You said three conditions!" she pouted.
"Do you want to follow me or not?" he asked sternly.
"Fine, Naruto-nichan then!"
The blonde sighed as he ruffled her hair, he supposed it would do for now.
Glancing back at the girl, he couldn't help but admit that the annoying sky dragon was somewhat right.
"Well… it seems I have a guest here?" Naruto spoke to the open air. He had just successfully finished wrapping Wendy with bandages, and sent a Shadow Clone to find something for the girl to eat once she woke up.
An eerie ball of light flew around from behind the trees and launched at him with insane speed. Halfway through its lunge, it transformed into a glorious white Dragon that bared its teeth, ready to tear through flesh and bone.
CLANG!
Dragon fangs met sword in a brilliant display of sparks, as the Immortal shinobi had simultaneously unsealed the Decapitating Head Sword which was a large Zanbatou that had once been in the possession of Momochi Zabuza, one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist.
"Dark Mage… I do not know how you have been freed from your prison, but all I do know is I will stop you from putting any more harm to Wendy!" the distinctive angry feminine voice called out, as the Dragon stared into the man's calm blue eyes.
The Shadow clone which had been sent to find food returned, and abruptly moved into a defensive stance.
"Don't worry, stay here with the girl until she wakes up, I won't be gone long." He ordered the clone and the chakra construct merely nodded.
Then in a rush of wind, both dragon and man disappeared.
BOOM!
Thereby causing the displaced air to rapidly shift back into position, and leaving behind a sonic boom that nearly popped the guardian clone.
The Shinobi and the Dragon appeared on a cliff far off from their original position, and proceeded to engage in a silent stare down.
"Do you really want to do this?" the shinobi asked with a calm tone as he idly swung the oversized sword as though it were made of papier-mâché.
"I will fight to my last breath if it means protecting Wendy." She replied with an angry growl.
"Then I assume you are in luck, for I have no intention of harming her."
The air suddenly froze.
"Liar!" there was no dramatic blur, no movement of wind, no afterimage. One second, Grandeeney was in her starting position, the next, she'd appeared beside him with her claws swung in action.
The blonde rotated on his axis, blocking the giant claws with the flat side of his blade.
"Oh? What makes you think I'm lying?" he asked with a calm glare at the beast that had the audacity to challenge his word.
"Why else would she be covered in bandages?" she asked rhetorically.
"What? I couldn't exactly let her stay naked after her clothes were ruined."
"Her clothes were… naked…" her eyes lit up with a dangerous fire as she swung at him in rage.
"You dare! You disgusting filth! She's only five years old! You couldn't find someone older to satisfy your sick, revolting urges!" the dragon bellowed out in an unholy rage.
"Wait, what?" he jumped back, narrowly avoiding the swing.
"I'll make you pay for what you've done!" the dragon reared back her head and began sucking all the oxygen in the surrounding area.
"Listen here! I did not-" whatever he wanted to stay was paused, as the mighty dragon aimed, and then roared.
An all consuming blast of wind tore through the ground, trees were lifted up and swung around like tooth picks, the ground itself was shredded by the blast of wind, rocks and granite turning to fine powder in seconds, the very nature of the wind seemed to roar and howl, a massive tornado of the likes the world had never seen sprung up from thin air before slamming into the blonde with the force of a shooting star.
Clouds in the sky swirled and turned, their colors melting into an eerie dark gray. Lightning flashed, and the entire sky had turned thick sickly color.
Two more tornados seemed to have spring up, joining the first and becoming larger by the minute. The rotating vortexes of winds picked up the blond, and slammed him with debris of all sorts, from trees so rocks, to animals.
With the storm drawing closer to it's end, the pressure of the wind maximized and slammed his body into the ground with enough force to create a massive, spiraling, cracked crater that dwarfed the entirety of some of the larger towns as Magnolia.
The dragon loomed down on his broken form, which lied face first in the crater, and then proceeded to stomp on it with the speed of sound.
Another sonic boom followed as the white dragon showed no mercy and slammed its claws into the man's back, enlarging the already formidable crater.
"Is this all you are worth Dark Mage? I can't believe the stories where so vastly exaggerated."
She however, froze in shock when the figure underneath her exploded in a puff of smoke.
Turning around, she spotted the blonde shinobi, completely unharmed in front of her.
And he looked Murderous.
"Shinra Tensei."
Grandeeney could not explain the feeling, other than it feeling as though she was backhanded by a giant TITAN. The dragon flew into the air at immense speeds, not of her own free will as she felt as though she'd received one of Acnologia's roars straight to the face.
"Bansho' Tenin" she abruptly froze mid flight, as she felt an inexplicable force pull her towards the earth and extreme speeds.
She slammed into the ground, leaving a massive dragon shaped indent as she suddenly realized she couldn't move her body. When she tried, she felt an unyielding force slam her down even harder, as though she was at the bottom of a dragon dogpile with over fifty overweight dragons on top.
"Don't bother Dragon. I have increased the gravity of your body by twenty times the gravity of the earth. You won't be getting up anytime soon."
She stared through the dust clouds and watched as the man walked slowly towards her, his sword swung over his shoulder and his eyes glowing and purple with a an eerie metallic tint.
She growled, or at least tried to when the man abruptly walked on her face as though she were a doormat before staring into her eyes.
In that one moment, Grandeeney had never felt that much fear, and that much hatred for a single person.
"Arrogance, Sky Dragon, is what brings about the downfall of all creatures." He stated calmly.
"I have killed a thousand of your kind before your parents were mere hatchlings and you dared attack me?" His voice took on a darker, demonic sounding tone to it as his eyes blended to red with a rotating bio-hazard symbol engraved on it.
"Nonetheless, I will allow you to go this one instance, since it was from a mere misconception." He paused and stared back it her.
"Get this right dragon, I may have committed a thousand sins worth a thousand lifetimes, but I do not molest children."
Grandeeney saw the look in his eyes and realized that he was indeed dead serious about his statement.
Calmly walking off the dragon's face, he dusted off all imaginary dirt off his body before continuing.
"I assure you that your daughter…" he paused as if trying to comprehend the impossibility "is in good hands. I have no ill intentions for her, and I would most appreciate it if you do not question my judgment or decision."
"T-then what d-do you want with h-her?" the dragon managed to groan out.
"You can still speak. I'm impressed. Nevertheless, what I want with her is none of your business."
The dragon and the man stared at each other for several seconds, before the dragon's eyes widened in realization, and the immortal shinobi narrowed his eyes and dashed forward.
"I forgot about that annoying empathic ability of yours… Nevertheless this gives me the perfect opportunity." His blade was at the dragon's throat, the blade actually being sharp enough to draw blood.
Using the blood, he quickly performed the 'Finger Carving Seal' technique, using the Bansho' Tenin to draw out the dragon's tongue, and then drawing the necessary seals on it.
"This is merely to ensure that you can never speak to anyone of what has taken place here, should you try it, the seal will activate and kill you instantly."
"Now leave, and pray I never set my sights on you again. Otherwise, I may not be as merciful."
Grandeeney sighed when she felt the weight lifted, and then abruptly transformed back into her ball of light form.
"I understand what you want with Wendy now… I could feel it. I don't trust you, and I absolutely hate you, but at least I know she's safe with you…"
"Is that all you have to say?" he asked in a bored uncaring manner.
"That will be all, for you'll see for yourself, why Wendy is such an amazing person and with any luck, she'll change you, just as she did to me."
"Naruto-nichan! You're spacing out again!" the small girl whined and stomped her foot slightly.
"Alright then, let's begin on our way. We train as we move." He ruffled the girl's hair slightly.
I still wonder though… what did that dragon mean?
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A ball of light floated through the skies at a leisure pace, Grandeeney sighed as she thought of the day's events.
At least it wasn't all for naught. She thought to herself.
Despite his reputation, his power and fearful appearance she'd found out a surprising truth about the Dark Apocalypse mage.
There was good within him.
Despite how it was hidden and buried, deep under despair and rage, Uzumaki Naruto wasn't necessarily as evil as people had thought.
Grandeeney frowned though as another thought hit her.
The revival of Uzumaki Naruto was a completely unforeseen event, and she had the feeling that it would seriously change the course of the future.
She could only hope for the best, for it seemed as though this would only be just the beginning.
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Meanwhile…
A black haired man slept peacefully under a tree. His eyes where closed as he enjoyed the light calm wind against his skin.
However, his entire movement stopped as he felt a sudden disturbance.
As his eyes opened, the trees and grass around him all slowly died, their life force fading rapidly, the birds which where perched on a nearby tree suddenly turned to bones which clattered on the ground noiselessly.
"So… it seems you are finally back." He muttered to himself as he stared up to the sky.
"It's been a while… Naruto-sensei."
To be continued…
A/N: What's this? Two updates in one week? Is it Christmas? My Birthday or a special occasion? No! I simply got my inspiration back! I'm sure some of you where expecting me to update my other stories next, but I couldn't help it! My mind types what it wants!
Also, if anyone feels that Wendy is slightly or seriously out of character, then Good, it means i got it right, if it doesn't feel that way then I may need to edit the chapter, cause I have a reason for portraying her that way.
Anyway, the introductions arc ends here, and they may or may not be a timeskip soon.
Also! Cheers to me for finally reaching the ten thousand word Milestone! Whoop! One small step for man, one giant leap for fanfiction. XD
Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and followed/favourited so far! You all help motivate me to type some more!
With that note,
JA NE!
Illusionary Reality, is out.
