Hello there guys! Thank you to all my reader and reviewers for their support. I just feel surprised that people found this story awesome and I am glad you did. I know you think I have over powered Naruto but shinobi are much stronger than mages. Moreover, Naruto is equal to Itachi when he was that age due to fighting many S-class ninja of Akatsuki and the Fourth Ninja World War. His mindset and his physical combat ability are naturally high due to the life he leads. How am I over powering him if there are people like Hashirama Senju, Uchiha Madara around? There is also a reason why he is so strong but that would be a spoiler so wait and see. I am not trying to weaken the Mages but most of them are one-dimensional with exception to Erza. This is the beta'd and revised version thanks to Reikson-sama.
Fairy Tail's Shinobi
Normal Speech: "Naruto"
Important or Emphasized Speech: "Naruto"
Thoughts: 'Then I will break that curse. If there is such thing as peace, I will find it. I won't give up!'
Spells canting and Jutsu Names: "Katon Jutsu, Ice Make Shield!"
Demons and Dragons Speech: "Now then... Who do you want to kill...?"
Demons and Dragons Thinking: 'The question is what to do with him…'
The Kingdom of Fiore is a neutral country of seventeen million people.
It is a world of magic.
Magic, bought and sought every day, is an integral part of the people's lives.
Moreover, there are those who use magic as their occupation. These people are mages or sorcerers.
The mages belong to various guilds, and perform jobs on commission.
There are a large number of guilds throughout the country of Fiore.
In addition, there lies a certain guild in a certain city.
This guild hosted legends in times long ago, and would continue to host more such legends long into the future…
…and its name is Fairy Tail!
Chapter 4 – New Demon King of Fairy Tail
Monday, 7th August X784
After the fight with Erza, Makarov had accepted him in to the guild. As they spoke privately on the second floor, the old man began. "Naruto, I know that there's more to your story than what you've told me. But, almost everyone here is running from a dark past, so I won't ask."
Naruto sighed. "Thank you, old man. Trusting you or the guild isn't the problem, but rather…"
Makarov waved him off. "I said that there's no need for you to explain yourself, Naruto. Nevertheless, we're a guild built on trust, friendship, and loyalty, so you might want to consider talking about yourself at some point in the future."
Then he frowned. "I also need to talk to you about your strength and rank," he added. "Fighting Erza outside just now, that definitely didn't show me everything that you could do. You're stronger than she is, and she's an S-class mage. Beating her the way you did, on so many occasions… you're definitely S-class. You might be even stronger than Laxus, Mystogan, or even Gildarts."
"Are they the strongest mages here after you?" Naruto asked. He'd noticed that the old man had spoken of those three.
The old master of Fairy Tail nodded. "After me, Fairy Tail's strongest include Gildarts Clive, then my grandson Laxus, and then Mystogan. You'll meet them later, anyways. In any case, Naruto, you're already beyond any bog-standard S-class mage. I'll have to classify you as S-class soon, but I have to test you for a couple of weeks with normal requests and jobs first."
Naruto nodded. "Whatever's best, old man," he said, making the tiny guild master grin.
Jumping up to stand on the second-floor balcony railing, Makarov shouted, "Listen up, idiots! Do fairies really have tails? Do they even exist? Like them, this place is an eternal mystery, a never-ending adventure! The trials and tribulations of life make us who and what we are! For that, we must grow and move forward onto a new day, every day!"
Gesturing behind him, the rest of the guild noticed Naruto walk up from behind the tiny old man, and rest his forearms on the railing. "Now, let's welcome our newest member, Naruto Uzumaki! Let's drink to his health!" Makarov roared boisterously, and everyone roared in approval of his orders.
Naruto smiled at the warm welcome from the other guild members. 'They're quite lively, aren't they?'
Once Makarov left the Guildhall for some business, a brawl erupted between several members. Naruto walked between the fighting people with ease, dodging punches and kicks and even flying people.
Once he made his way to Mirajane, the white-haired girl asked him, "Naruto-san, where would you like to have our mark?"
As Naruto reached for her, a mug came flying out of nowhere, soaring towards her head. He caught it without even looking at it as he replied, "Well, I'd like to have it on my right shoulder in black, Mirajane-chan."
She frowned somewhat. "Naruto-san, please call me Mira like everyone does. You're one of us now."
"Then feel free to call me Naruto, or even Naruto-kun if you must," the blond shinobi mused. "Calling me Naruto-san makes me feel old."
Perking up, she chirped, "Okay, Naruto-kun! Here you go!"
"Thank you, Mira-chan. Can I ask you something?"
"Yes?"
"Do you know a piece of land that I can buy? Somewhere close to the guild?"
"As a matter of fact, I do. Why do you ask, Naruto-kun?"
"As you know, I used to be a nomad," he shrugged expansively. "But now that I've joined Fairy Tail, I have to have somewhere to live, don't I?"
"Oh, that's right; we don't have a male dormitory anymore," she realized. "Okay, then, this is where you go…" Taking some paper from the bar counter, she scribbled something on it. He nodded his thanks and got up to leave.
"Hurry up and go before Natsu challenges you…" the Demon of Fairy Tail called after him. Naruto smiled at her, waving goodbye as he vanished in an explosion of smoke that left her wide-eyed. Was that a teleportation spell?
Natsu came up to Mirajane, yelling, "Mira-chan! Where's that super-strong sword guy at?"
"Oh, you mean Naruto-kun?" she smiled. "You just missed him. He left to do something important."
"Mira-chan, what is he if he's not a mage?" Natsu asked her, his face grave.
"Naruto-kun is a shinobi, a ninja of singular capacity," Mirajane said coldly. "He's powerful, too, so don't you fight him, Natsu," she warned the Fire Dragon Slayer. "You've seen him defeat Erza and you still can't defeat her."
"A ninja? You mean, he's a real ninja?!" Natsu gasped. "Like the ones that I've heard about?"
"He looks like a real ninja to me, Natsu. Nin-nin!" Happy exclaimed, forming a ram sign with his paws.
"That's so cool, Happy Nin-nin! But I still want to fight him now!" Natsu whined, forming the same seal.
"He'll beat you faster than anything Erza could do, Natsu!" Happy cried amidst the fish in his mouth, giggling as usual.
"What?! Why you…" Natsu growled, chasing Happy.
"I wonder what Naruto-kun is up too?" Mirajane idly wondered aloud.
Meanwhile, Naruto was examining the land that he'd acquired, and smiled as he realized that he'd found exactly what he was looking for, and was about a kilometer west of Fairy Tail headquarters. But this place still surprised him. Buying the land was easy and they hadn't asked for anything but the payment money. But he did end up spending more money than he'd initially thought.
Nevertheless, he paid up front and in cash. The landowners were even kind enough to tell him about every detail of the land, and they even asked him if he needed a contractor for whatever he was building there. He refused, saying that he'd build the house himself. He even found himself wishing that he'd grown up in Fiore instead of the Elemental Nations, and shook his head to free himself of bad memories.
Walking up to the edge of the plot of land that he now owned, he looked around to see if anyone was there making sure that he was alone. Slipping his hands into a familiar handseal, he said calmly, "Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Fifty clones appeared and immediately started to clear the land for construction, removing scattered trees and stones and mowing away grass. Naruto made ten more clones, which transformed into random people, and had them go into town to buy building supplies and necessary materials.
Walking to a different part of the clearing, he stood there as he concentrated his chakra, and went through a series of handseals before shouting, "Mokuton Hijutsu: Jukai Kōtan!" Massive tree roots exploded from the ground, wrapping themselves around each other as they climbed skyward. Spots of green appeared as bushes, quickly becoming leafy branches that grew into a tree that towered over the entire clearing. If Makarov had been there, he'd remember Tenrō Island, sacred ground of the Fairy Tail magic guild, and the gigantic tree that was its defining feature.
As the tree finished growing, though, Naruto fell to one knee, panting in shock over how much chakra he'd used. "I have definitely gone soft," he mumbled, staggering to his feet. Sighing, he nodded to the fifty Kage Bunshin waiting nearby, who saluted him before taking in a deep breath and then releasing it as a large and concentrated amount of Fūton chakra that they layered onto the kunai in their right hands. Using Fūton: Shinkūjinto enhance their weapons, they moved to the giant tree and began slashing off large chunks of its tree. Naruto nodded before vanishing in Shunshin no Jutsu, heading back to Fairy Tail headquarters.
Naruto appeared in front of the bar in an explosion of smoke, shocking everyone into silence. As he walked up to Mirajane, who was running the bar again, Natsu and Happy were yelling something about how his entrance was so cool.
"Yo, Mira-chan!" Naruto said cheerfully to the smiling white-haired girl. "I've been meaning to ask you about available missions or jobs around here. I could use some spending money and I'm bored."
She giggled and pointed to a bulletin board that he hadn't noticed before. "You take something from the request board. You also can do it solo or as a team."
Naruto opened his mouth to say something in reply, but ended up raising a hand to stop a fist aimed at his head with a single finger. He turned and found himself looking at a pink-haired boy who'd just tried to attack him. Frowning, he asked, "Now why'd you go and do that, you little brat?"
Natsu flinched. The blond young man reminded him so much of Erza that he was actually scared. What was worse, Naruto was even scarier than Erza.
Suddenly, an evil and oppressive pressure crashed down upon his body, forcing him to his hands and knees. The pink-haired Fire Dragon Slayer managed to look up, and his eyes widened as he noticed a horned black hannya mask appear out of thin air above Naruto's head. The mask had a pair of purple eyes with three circles extending away from crimson pupils and had three tomoe on each circle. Two ivory white fangs emerged from its lower jaw, from behind closed lips that had a misty black aura escaping its confines. Natsu was face-to-face with a terrifying image and paralyzed by a murderous intent that threatened to strangle everyone in the guildhall.
"Don't try that again, brat," the blond shinobi said coldly. "I'd really hate having to break my foot off in your ass after I finish kicking it all over the place." In that moment, a dark chill ran down the spines of everyone in the guildhall. Even Gray, who'd trained in freezing cold environments, couldn't keep himself from shuddering at the level declaration that promised so much pain.
Mirajane was blushing, feeling a different kind of shiver that ran down her spine and heated up her body. Her heart was racing, and she felt giddy and innocent. 'That was so cool and evil!' she squealed to herself.'I think I'm in love! I'm so hot and bothered by this deliciously evil and wicked aura that I don't know if I should set him up with Erza or just take him for myself!' she giggled.
"Natsu, please apologize now!" Happy wailed, trying not to look at the freaky mask.
This seemed to have snapped the teen out of his terrified trance and he uncharacteristically bowed in apology. "Y- yes, sir, I'm sorry, Naruto-san!"
"Natsu's acting like Happy again!" Lucy sputtered, shocked. "I thought that Erza was the only one who could make him do that!"
Gray, Levy, and everyone else in the guildhall, all shivered at the implications.
Naruto's eyes softened as the oppressive sensation of murderous intent vanished and everyone in the guildhall finally started breathing normally again.
Sighing deeply, the blond shinobi massaged his brow. "It's fine, brat," he grunted. "What you felt was a reflex that happens when I'm suddenly attacked. What do you want?"
"Hey! My name is Natsu, Natsu Dragneel, and you'd better remember it!" the pink-haired Fire Dragon Slayer bellowed, causing everyone to relax again.
Naruto laughed, feeling nostalgic. "Oh, well, I'm sorry, Natsu Dragneel," he said genially. "I forgot that even animals have names. But you still haven't told me what you want from me."
The Fairies murmured among themselves at the abrupt turnaround in Naruto's behavior. They knew that Natsu was about to challenge the shinobi to a fight.
"Naruto, I challenge you to a fight," Natsu said confidently.
"Okay," the blond shinobi shrugged, surprising everyone again.
"Oh, come on! I want to fig- okay? Really?" the pink-haired Dragon Slayer sputtered. He'd never met anyone in Fairy Tail who'd accepted his challenges so readily.
"Master, would you mind if you judge our fight?" Naruto asked.
"Fine, fine," Makarov sighed, scaring the dickens out of everyone in the guildhall because nobody had seen him come back from his errand. "But let's go behind the guild. That way we won't destroy too much stuff."
Naruto nodded, vanishing in an explosion of smoke as Natsu ran out of the guildhall with Happy in tow.
The guildhall was silent for a minute. Then Elfman broke it by saying, "I don't know about you guys, but seeing Natsu getting his ass kicked by a real man like Naruto should be quite a show." A stampede promptly erupted, with everyone running for the front door.
When they finally made their way out back, Naruto was already facing down Natsu. The blond shinobi looked unusually calm, while the pink-haired Fire Dragon Slayer had a cocky grin on his face.
Master Makarov stood in between them. "Okay, now are you kids ready? Go!"
"We fight with our bodies and techniques, Natsu-chan," Naruto teased. "Are you ready?"
"Okay, then… hey!" Natsu shouted, as Naruto jumped back.
"Now you've really pissed me off!" Natsu snarled. "Take this! Karyū no Hōkō!" Breathing in deeply, his cheeks swelled up like a balloon before he blew a large stream of fire at Naruto.
Naruto raised an eyebrow, smiling at the giant fireball of doom that was ready to consume him.
His new friends were shouting at him to get out of the way, but he ignored them and vanished in the fiery explosion that followed. Everyone was shocked into silence. Natsu, Happy, Lucy, and the rest of the gang were worried about their new friend.
They were about to go and see if he was all right, but stopped in their tracks when a familiar voice called out to them. "Hey, what's the matter?" Naruto complained. "You're acting like you're mourning some poor bastard's death."
They all turned about and saw Naruto standing behind them, reading a book. He looked up at them and waved absentmindedly at them. "Yo!"
Everyone spontaneously toppled over at his nonchalant demeanor. Lucy was the first to ask, "How did he get behind Natsu so fast? I didn't even see him move; only that Natsu's attack him. Wait, what exactly is he reading?"
"Maybe it is his magic?" Gray was the first to theorize.
Makarov shared his subordinates' surprise. 'So this is a jutsu…' he thought to himself.'What else can he do?'
"This isn't magic," Naruto, answered his guild mates. "I'm not a mage, remember? So I can't do magic in the way that you guys do. What I just showed you, is called jutsu; ninjutsu, if I'm being specific." He pointed behind them, and they turned to find the remains of a badly charred log.
"I used a basic ninjutsu to escape Natsu's attack," the blond shinobi lectured. "That log is generally used in Kawarimi no Jutsu, a very basic ninjutsu in which one replaces their own body with a block of wood, or some other object, when an attack lands on them. This creates an optical illusion that makes the enemy think that their attack was successful. The user can use this brief lapse in the enemy's attention to either attack or flee the battlefield."
As Fairy Tail began talking amongst each other in low tones, even Makarov was surprised. Such a technique could save someone from a fatal blow, and let them escape without a scratch. He could only bemoan the fact that nobody had ever invented a magical version of such a useful ability.
Mirajane had certainly never heard of such a technique. She stared at Naruto hard, only just noticing his power after having ogled his body so shamelessly. Suddenly, she realized that he hadn't used such a technique against Erza during their fight earlier in the day and wondered why.
As if he'd read her mind, Naruto said aloud, "The reason that I didn't use this move while fighting Erza earlier today, was because she always challenges me as a swordswoman and I accepted it as a swordsman. In a duel of swords, I never use anything but sword technique unless my opponent does."
Looking over at Mirajane, he smiled broadly. Heat rushed to her cheeks and she couldn't bring herself to look at him after he'd caught her staring at him as if he was a piece of meat. Chuckling at having given the white-haired young woman her comeuppance, he turned back to Natsu.
"You're not the only one here who can do that, Natsu-chan," the blond shinobi teased. "I'll show you my version! Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" As he moved his hands through a series of hand-seals, he breathed in and let his cheeks balloon out. Suddenly exhaling, a stream of flame quickly swelled into a house-sized fireball that rammed into Natsu and exploded with considerable violence. Everyone there noticed that the blast was almost like Fire Dragon Slayer magic, but different. These flames burned with a far-greater heat than anything that the pink-haired fire mage had ever managed, and seemed… controlled, somehow.
But they also knew about Natsu's immunity to fire. Mirajane had thought to warn Naruto about that, but had cast her misgivings aside because she'd never thought that he could create and control fire too.
"Oh, shit, is he all right?" Naruto asked aloud, somewhat concerned. "I only meant to scare him; I didn't think that he'd take that attack head on."
Mirajane and the others laughed, making Naruto raise an eyebrow in curiosity. "What's so funny?" he demanded.
"Oh, nothing, really," the Demon of Fairy Tail giggled. "I just thought about the look on your face when you see it."
"See what?" he demanded. She didn't do or say anything other than smile at him and point at the large conflagration that he'd created.
He eyes widened in surprise when he noticed. That brat Natsu was still standing there, as if nothing had happened, as he was eating the flames. Naruto had to hit himself in the head before he understood what he was seeing; this kid was eating the flaming remains of his Strong Fireball jutsu as if they were some kind of rare delicacy.
Not only is the kid a fire user, but he was immune to flames and can even eat them?
Wait a minute; he gains more power that way!
"Aw, shit!" Naruto swore.
"Thank you for the meal!" Natsu shouted cheerfully. "Your fire is the most delicious flames that I've ever eaten! It's so full of life and energy that I'm all revved up!"
Having no context for what just happened, he turned to Mirajane for answers. "How can he do that?"
She smiled slightly. "Oh, you don't know? Natsu uses Ka no Metsuryū Mahō, or Fire Dragon Slayer magic. He was taught by his foster parent, Igneel the Fire Dragon."
Naruto took a second to let that information sink in before a question popped up. "Why would a dragon teach its own adoptive child a type of magic that would kill it?"
Everyone ignored him. He twitched at their reaction but kept quiet.
Natsu ran up to him at his top speed, his right fist engulfed in flames as he hauled his arm back for a punch. "Karyū no Tekken!"
However, much to his and everyone else's surprise, Naruto made some very quick movements with his hands. His torso expanded again as he shouted, "Suiton: Suijinheki!" Then he vomited up a thick torrent of water that intercepted Natsu's Karyū no Tekken and generated a massive blast of steam as the wall of water and the fist of fire collided.
The flame was quick to gutter away as Natsu lost his concentration and lost to the oppressive tidal force of the watery barrier. Drenched and enraged, he sputtered and looked around. "Where did that bastard go?!"
Almost in response to his question, Naruto emerged from the thick steam cloud behind Natsu. His friends tried to warn him, but it was too late.
"Behind you…" the blond shinobi rasped before shouting, "Suiton: Suirō no Jutsu!" The steam and vapor left over from his earlier technique suddenly coalesced into existence around Natsu's body as thick tendrils of water. In a heartbeat, the water seemed to expand before quickly closing themselves around the Fire Dragon Slayer's body and imprisoning him in a giant ball of water.
Natsu tried to move but the water felt heavy and thick. Darkness tugged at the edge of his vision as he gasped desperately for air where there was none. He saw Naruto walk up to him and touch the ball itself. He could even hear Naruto say, "You lose, Natsu," before the pink-haired fire mage passed out.
Dispersing the water prison bubble, Naruto grabbed Natsu by the lapels of his jacket and slung the unconscious Fire Dragon Slayer over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes before dumping his body at Makarov's feet.
"So, master, did you like my ninjutsu fighting style?" Naruto grinned. "You've only just scratched the surface of what I can REALLY do with this ability."
The old man smiled. "Oh, there's no need, Naruto," he laughed. "All that's left for me to see is your after-action report of the requests that you take before I make you an S-class mage here."
Naruto smiled as he walked back to the guildhall, with everyone else in tow and chatting amongst themselves about their newest member's monstrous power.
The blond shinobi walked up to the Request Board, took three requests that he liked and were all in the city of Magnolia Town, and gave them to Mirajane. The first was a monster south of the town, the second was a gardening request, and the final one was a mail delivery to Hargeon Town and back.
She was surprised to see him take three jobs instead of just one. "Naruto-kun, why did you take two more requests?"
He smiled at her, making her blush. "Maa, maa, I'm going to get bored if I did jobs one at a time. I'll even finish all three of them in an hour, just to challenge myself."
She couldn't believe that he could answered her with such nonchalance, but she knew he could do all three jobs in that time if he could somehow look both left and right at the same time. Knowing him, he probably had a jutsu that could do just that. "Okay, then, Naruto-kun!" she replied, smiling up at him cheerfully. "Whatever you want! But don't bite more than you can chew!"
Naruto chuckled as she noted down his requests before taking the request slips back and vanishing in a massive explosion of smoke.
"How does he do that?" the Demon of Fairy Tail sighed longingly.
To be continued…