Chapter Four

We Are Magic

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE ARE WE?" Naruto screamed as his head whipped every which way. The group stood about a fourth of a mile outside of a village. "DIDN'T WE STOP TO SLEEP IN THE FOREST? HOW'D WE GET OUTSIDE OF THIS VILLAGE?"

"If you stop yelling, I'll tell you," Kakashi sighed as he plugged up his ear. He pulled his finger out as all the students looked at him. "Lady Star and her guards magically transported us here last night."

"Oh that's a relief," Naruto said as the others, who didn't know about the fairies, went bug eyed and slacked jawed. Naruto's eyes quickly went to round, black outline and solid white. "MAGICALLY TRANSPORTED US? W-WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, KAKASHI SENSEI?"

"Just as I said," Kakashi repeated. "Lady Star and her guards are fairies."

"But how? How is it possible that they are fairies?" Ino asked.

"It really shouldn't be that much of a surprise to you all," Shikamaru pointed out. "You all have actually seen Star use her magic and some of you knew from the beginning of meeting her that she was different. Isn't that right, Neji?"

"I knew she was different but never would have guessed she was a fairy," Neji replied with a nod.

"I knew as well," Hinata added. "But wasn't sure what she was either."

"That would explain a lot," Sakura said referring to the battle Star was in the last time she was in the village.

"You two knew about this?" Tenten asked. Chouji just smiled and nodded in response.

"Why did she not tell us? I thought we were friends," Lee asked.

"She did want to tell you," Chouji said.

"Then why didn't she?" Sakura asked.

"Because she would have gotten sick," Kakashi replied. "Remember when she got sick when she was in our village last time? That was because she told Kiba what she really was."

"That's why we couldn't pinpoint her illness!" Sakura screamed.

"T-This is insane!" Naruto shouted. "There's noway she can be a fairy! It's not possible!"

"Why don't you check them out for yourselves?" Shikamaru said as he jerked his thumb over his shoulder and back into the forest where the fairies, Kiba and the dogs disappeared right after everyone got up this morning.

"I'll do just that!" Naruto said as he began to stomp towards the forest. His mouth dropped open as he made it to the area where his missing friends were. Blaze was calmly standing by a tree with his pointy ears and wings showing. His eyes were on Talon, who was standing in a fighting stance, his pointy ears and wings showing too.

"Faster!" Talon shouted. His wings fluttering in excitement. Everyone looked up to see Kiba, Twilight and Akamaru jumping from tree to tree.

"You got it! Let's go, Akamaru, Twilight!" Kiba replied as he, Akamaru and Twilight jumped down from the trees and charged at the fairy guard. Kiba made a few hand signs and Akamaru and Twilight turned into his body doubles. The three jumped up and brought their fists down.

Talon smiled and formed an energy shield to block their attacks. "Good, but not good enough."

Kiba smiled. Talon raised and eyebrow at him. Suddenly Star plunged down from a tree. Her fist was engulfed in her white magic. Her wings were beating hard as she flew towards Talon. "Got ya!"

"Eek!" Talon squeaked as he just barely ducked Star's attack. He quickly recovered, grabbed her arm and flipped her through the air. Star went head over heels but stopped herself when Talon released her arm and was now hovering several feet above the ground. "Too slow, princess!"

"Maybe," Star smirked and her powers began to engulf Kiba and the dogs. "But their not."

"Uh oh," Talon said as the other three charged again at him. The three through a barrage of punches. Talon eyes went wide but he was still able to block all the punches, barely.

"Hn," Blaze frowned as he watched the sparring.

"She's incredible. I'm surprised that she's able to split her powers like," Kakashi said as he walked up to Blaze.

"She shouldn't be doing this. Not after jumping last night," Blaze replied.

"She looks fine to me. Or is this because of Kiba?" Kakashi looked at Blaze.

"Hmph," Blaze rolled his eyes and took a few steps away from the copy ninja. "Alright, that's enough."

"Huh?" Talon glanced out of the corner of his eye. Kiba swung at him again and clocked Talon on the jaw. Talon dropped to the ground as did Kiba's mouth. "Ouch!"

"I am so sorry!" Kiba cried as he stood in his thrown punch stance.

"Talon!" Star dropped down to the ground.

"I'm fine. It was my fault anyway for taking my eyes off of a ninja," Talon rubbed his jaw as he looked up at Kiba. "I gotta say, you ninjas are quite impressive."

"Thanks," Kiba said as he offered a hand to Talon. Talon took it and stood up.

"Hey, Blaze! We should learn some ninja moves on this trip!" Talon said as he waved to his friend.

"No way!" Blaze glared. "There's no point in learn human crap!"

"So, I guess you told them," Star said as she walked up to Kakashi with Kiba following.

"Yup, they now know," Kakashi said as he glanced at his students.

"I still can't believe it," Ino said as she began to inspect Star's wings and ears. "They're so beautiful."

"Very interesting," Tenten added as she carefully rubbed her fingers on one of Star's wing. "It feels like silk."

"You are even more beautiful than before," Lee said as he hugged Star, earning a glare from Kiba. "I am so glad we now know the truth."

"Sorry, I couldn't tell you about this," Star said.

"It is not your fault. Kakashi sensei explained everything to us. We would not want you or your guards to get sick," Lee said as he held her hands, gaining more glares from Kiba who looked like he was going to kill Lee for touching her.

"But if you all are magic why do you need us here?" Tenten asked.

"Because we suspect that Lancer has gathered ninja forces of his own. You ninja can do stuff that we can't, just like we can do stuff you can't," Talon replied.

"Wait a second here! You mean we're going to have to fight a guy who has magical powers?" Naruto asked. "Why didn't you tell us this from the beginning?"

"We just told you, it would make us sick if we told you what we were," Blaze snapped. "Are you always this stupid?"

"Man, what is his problem?" Naruto asked as he hung his shoulders.

"How are we suppose to fight someone who has magic abilities?" Tenten asked.

"We don't plan on you guys fighting Lancer himself, we need you to take out the ninjas if he has any. We'll take care of Lancer and, as you have seen, we can extent our powers to humans, if the need occurs," Talon explained.

"And why do you think he'll have ninjas with him?" Ino asked.

"Because he didn't come after Star when he heal from their battle. Isn't that right, Star?" Shino asked.

"That's right," Star nodded.

"So then, it is possible that Lancer has other people in as his forces, not just ninjas?" Lee asked, who was still holding her hands.

"Will you let her go?" Kiba asked as he appeared by Lee's side.

"Sorry," Lee laughed nervously and pulled his hands back in a hurry. Star smiled at the two.

"This is a lot to take in," Tenten said just before an explosion. They all turned to the village. A large black smoke cloud was coming out of the village. "There's a fire in the village!"

"Let's go!" Kakashi ordered. They all headed towards the village. The fairies when back to their human forms and followed.

"Did you feel that?" Star asked the second they stepped in the village. The Leaf ninja immediately jumped into action and started to help where they were needed.

"Yeah," The guards nodded.

"This wasn't no accident," Blaze narrowed his eyes and carefully looked around.

"Is it a trap?" Talon asked as he carefully looked around as well. "Is he here?"

Notes: Yeah! We're finally getting somewhere! I originally wanted everyone to gradually find out on their own about Star and her guards being fairies but it kept getting in the way of the story progressing. So I decided to just get it out of the way and have Kakashi tell the teens about Star and her guards. Hope you like and keep R&R! See you soon!