A Promise Between Immortals

-Chapter 4-

Blue magic circle appeared in front of Naruto, its diameter was about fifty cm.

"Emperor's lightning cannon!"

A tremendous lightning beam shot out of magic circle and went straight ahead toward Jose Porla. Not wanting to be hit by such beam, Jose vanished from his place and appeared a few feet to the left, but his attempt to avoid the beam was fruitless as the beam was following his movement. He guessed that the only way to stop the beam was to make it hit something or counter it.

Jose waved his right hand and multiple purple magic circles appeared before him, from within the circle multiple purple shades appeared and they formed a line and tried to withstand the lightning beam. It was actually just a test from Jose to see how strong the blond's spell was, while at the same time he prepared for his own beam.

The lightning destroyed all the shades in instant but Jose already had a big purple magic circle before him, "Death beam!" the phantom master yelled and sent his menacing purplish beam to welcome the lightning beam.

The collision caused the ground to shake and the wind to go wild. At first it looked to have the same level strength but soon the lightning beam overpowered the purple one, it devoured the purple beam and went ahead toward Jose who already had both hands in a crossing shape. Jose winced in pain as the lightning hit him hard, it sent him flying backward dozens meter away.

"It was foolish of you to withstand my Emperor spell, each of it has enough power to obliterate a mountain. However, my previous spell is at its weakest state, so it is no surprise that you're still alive."

Jose growled and tried to stand up, it was indeed a mistake on his part. The lightning hit like hell, his body felt numb, and smoke arose from all over his body. If not for his last defense he would no doubt blacken-out by the pain inflicted by that spell. Jose would not make another mistake, but that didn't meant he would admit defeat.

Jose poured out more mana and covered his whole body with black aura, he could not accept what had just happened: one spell and he almost lost. The blond indeed strong, stronger than he willing to admit, but he was a saint wizard, he would show the blond what it meant.

"Death wave!"

Jose sent multiple death waves toward Naruto at once, not only that, he also covered both his hand with menace-looking shades and lunged himself toward the blond, following his death waves.

Naruto let the death waves hit him, "I feel nothing," he said after being hit. "I don't know you are that weak, Jose."

Jose growled and sent a right punch toward Naruto's face, Naruto avoided it by tilting his head. Jose sent another punch, Naruto dodged it with his left hand and countered attack by swinging his right leg aiming for Jose's head. Jose saw the attack but it was too fast for him to react in time, as a result, he was sent sky-rocketing dozens meter away to the left.

Jose grunted in pain as his body hit his guild building's debris, "Unacceptable!" he yelled and stood up, "I will not forgive this humiliation!" he yelled and, again, lunged himself toward Naruto.

Naruto did not say anything as Jose got closer to him. He avoided the mad master's kick by side-stepping and dodged a punch that was directed at his left-side of his head. He dodged another attack, avoided another attack, and defended himself from everything that were sent by the raged master and did not bother to return the favor.

Jose jumped a dozen meters backward and panting heavily, he had never felt this frustrated before, all his attempts to attack were dodged, and the blond did not bother to attack him at all. As though he was just a weakling-fool before the arrogant blond, the thought made his blood boiled. Jose clasped his hands and hundred purple magic circles appeared and hundred after hundred shades were shooting from the magic circle toward Naruto. They all had a magic scythe on their hand, aiming to cut the blond's neck.

Seeing that, Naruto held a hand seal, "Wind style: Pseudo almighty push!"

Boom!

Naruto jutsu had the same effect as Shinra Tensei as it blown everything around him away. The shades were destroyed and the jutsu also threw Jose dozens meters away before finally he fell and let loose a screaming pain.

Jose coughed some blood but still trying to stand up, his body tattered and his mana was low. He knew he now had no chance of winning but nevertheless he stood again, he would never admit defeat, not to an arrogant child like the blond.

"Kneel, Jose," Naruto said and walked in slow pace toward the phantom guild master. "Who knows that you will be forgiven, of course you should beg for apologize beforehand."

"Never!" Jose shouted, he had his hands moving preparing for his last spell. It did not matter if it cost all his mana to work, he would fight till his very last.

A monstrous magic circle appeared under Jose's feet, from within it a monstrous shade slowly arising, it covered Jose's whole body and brought him to its chest. The shade stood firm in fifty meters in high, it had a devil-looking face with two horns on its head, its red eyes stared menacingly at the blond.

"You will be defeated!" Jose yelled from within the shade and instructed the shade to march toward the blond.

Naruto stared at the thing with a bored face. "I will defeat you in a fairy tail's way," he said. He sure that Mavis would be proud of him and would no doubt giving him a thumb up while smiling happily. Naruto shook his head lightly and make a necessary hand seal.

"Fairy Law."

A very big golden magic circle appeared on the sky, it illuminated white light that blinding people's sight.

Naruto watched as the spell did its job. He had to admit that the spell was quite effective, well, he should not surprise though since it was an imitation to his spell, Emperor Law. The difference was that the Emperor Law ignited all target into ashes while the Fairy law did not. He first had taught Mavis the Emperor Law but the blonde did not like it, she wanted something that would not kill people.

Seeing the spell finished its job, Naruto walked closer to the phantom guild master.

Naruto stared at the unconscious form of Jose. He had thought that stripping his power away and then saw him suffered would be nice, or killing the phantom guild master would satisfy him. But in the end, he did none of that but only put a seal on the fool should he turn more evil than he already was.

"I don't know you are that powerful, Jose didn't even leave a scratch on you, and he is the saint wizard."

Naruto turned his eyes to the voice's owner, Makarov has yet to see anything but he would not tell the old man. "He's not that strong. Perhaps Laxus together with Erza can defeat him as well."

Makarov snorted at the mentioned of his rebellious grandson, but he didn't comment on the blond words since that was perhaps the truth. Laxus and Erza as one might be able to defeat Jose, perhaps the fight would be a tough one but at the end Laxus and Erza would certainly win. Makarov didn't have any doubt about it since he himself had seen Jose's power and admittedly, Laxus full power combined with Erza's was enough to overpower Jose. If only Laxus did not turn into the way he was now, his grandson would be a very good guild master.

"Don't be too hard on your grandson, old man. He values strength above everything, but deep in his heart, he probably loves the guild more than any other members and wants the guild to stand firm and strong; that's probably why he acts that way. He wants all members of the guild to be strong, but it seems he doesn't willing to aid them. Perhaps, in his mind, they don't deserve to be the guild's member if they cannot improve themselves. He wants Fairy Tail to be the best, yet you allow anyone who's in trouble and weak to join the guild without pushing them to be strong. To Laxus, that's not the right things to do."

Makarov seemed to be pondering about his words. The old man loved his grandson, without a doubt. But he loved Fairy Tail and its members more than anything. It was similar to Hiruzen, the old man hokage, his loves over Konoha was too big that could make him turned cold from the gentle-kind one, in a heartbeat. Nevertheless, he liked the old man and respected his power.

"Only you will say that, Naruto."

"Hn. I might be wrong though, he might be just an arrogant prick." Naruto flatly said and turned his eyes back on the unconscious form of Jose.

Makarov only shook his head at Naruto's careless words. Only the blond, no one else, would praise people and then insult them without a care in the world.

"Did the first master teach you the Fairy Law?" Makarov asked in wonder.

Naruto shrugged his shoulder off, it was another way around, but the old man did not need to know that.

"I have put my seal on him, should he uses his magic with evil intent, the seal will hurt him. So, old man, what do you propose me to do with his unconscious body?"

"Your mastery over ancient rune never ceases to amaze me. Anyway, you can leave him to me and join the rest to the remnants of the guild building. I will follow you after a while, and then we will have a party and rebuild our guild."

Naruto nodded and vanished, leaving Makarov alone staring at the unconscious form of his fellow saint wizard.

—n—

Despite of having the guild building destroyed, the members of the guild were smiling like it was nothing. It was somewhat understandable: even if phantom lord didn't have destroyed the guild building, he certainly sure that sooner than later they would destroy the guild building themselves, for fun.

Naruto shook his head at the thought and walked straight ahead toward a certain red head mage.

Upon seeing his arrival, Natsu ran at him with fists covered by flame. "Naruto, fight me!" the pink haired boy yelled. "Behave, Natsu!" Erza yelled and hit the boy on his head, making him fell face first. Naruto shook his head lightly and approached the familiar faces out of all the members of the guild.

"How the fights with Phantom done?" he asked the scarlet haired woman.

"It was a tough fight but we won. There are good and bad things happened while fighting, but nothing to worry about, everyone is happy and well. And at last master did come to grace the battlefield, the rest of the phantom surrendered themselves and master let them go. How about your end, are you hurt?"

Naruto smiled, "I'm fine, nothing to worry about."

"I see, I also saw that magic cirle: Fairy Law." Erza said, she then stared at him seriously. "I want to have a sparring session with you, I want to see how strong you really are."

"I will give it a thought."

Erza nodded her head, "Thank you, Naruto."

"What for?"

"For both helping me back then and considering on having a sparring session with me."

"It is fine."

Silence came in as the two stared at each other, sinking in thought.

Lucy stared at the two opposite genders who were busy on staring at each other. She thought that they did look good with each other, the fairy's emperor and the fairy's queen. Lucy could not help but smile, she wanted to entertain the idea. Who knows that the two indeed felt attracted toward each other, a perfect match that she did not mind to write in one of her book.

"How about me, Naruto? I want to fight you too!"

Lucy facepalmed at hearing Natsu's whining, way to ruin the atmosphere.

Naruto blinked, did he lost in thought by staring at those innocent eyes that full of determination? It was unlike him, Naruto shook his head lightly and averted his eyes toward Natsu. "If you can defeat Gray then I will consider it."

Natsu grinned in excitement, "Gray," he yelled and looked around for his unofficial rival. "Prepare yourself!"

"Curse you, Naruto!" Gray yelled loudly as Natsu was heading straight at him with fists covered by flame.

"Don't start you two!" Erza yelled as she turned around and went ahead toward the two.

"You stay out of this, Erza. This is our fight."

"What did you say?" Erza asked, her voice was so cold that made Natsu shivered.

"Nothing."

"I thought so," Erza nodded her head. "Now go back to work!"

"Hai!"

Naruto shook his head at seeing that. Well, he could always count on the red head on handling Natsu. She really treated them as her family, well, in her way.

"You like her, don't you?"

Naruto shifted his sight toward the blonde that still standing closed to him. "Well, you should be on Natsu's side or you will be beaten by Lisanna. Look there, she is making her move already."

"I don't like Natsu!" Lucy yelled in denial, but she was already on her way toward the pink haired mage.

Naruto shook his head lightly and sent two seal-less clones to help the rebuilding. It would not take long to rebuild with his clone's mokuton, and it seemed Makarov would not return any time soon. Sighing, Naruto walked his way toward the last person he enjoyed talking with: Mirajane strauss.

"I see you are in the same wave-length with Erza," the white haired mage said as soon as he reached the temporary bar table.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at that indifferent tone, but did not comment. "I'd like to have a glass of orange juice," Naruto said and sat on the chair. "Or, a glass of cold water will be fine if you don't have orange."

Mira did not say anything, she focused herself on doing her self-proclaimed job.

Naruto frowned, but still did not comment. He took the cold water she gave and drank it in one gulp, he then put the glass aside and stared at the woman who now was staring at him. "What is it?" Naruto asked, just for the sake of asking.

"Is the princess okay?"

"What is that supposed to mean?"

Mira shrugged her shoulder off, "You should not surround yourself with many women just to make them miserable."

"You are talking nonsense, I'm just being polite like the old man suggested me to do a year ago. You did know that I was too impassive to fit in in the guild, perhaps I have changed a little."

"Liar!" accused Mira.

Naruto shrugged it off as he sure that he did not lie, the only women he loved was Mavis, and it would never change.

"So," Naruto said. "What is it with that indifferent tone earlier?"

"Nothing to worry about."

"Is that so?" Naruto asked, but did not bother to wait for the answer. "How about we have a little spar? I want to see what you can do with that satan soul."

"Perhaps some other time."

Naruto smiled, he did not mind the response since he was actually not serious about that. Besides, it would be bad should he spar with the girl while Erza had requested that first, right?

Two days later, Era

Magic Council's building was located in Era, quite far away from Magnolia. He had been asked by the old man to accompany him to meet the council, they wanted to meet him as well. He could refuse but deemed it was time to meet the old fools. He was actually finished preparing and now just bidding his time with the world until Mavis merged in with her body, but he thought that giving the world a hand to become a better place while waiting for Mavis was a good thing. Besides, he was a sage, he should not neglect his responsibility.

He shook his head at the thought and focused his eyes on the building's entrance.

The building was good, but nothing compared to the palace in the capital. And of course the king's palace was nothing when presented before his palace, the palace he had prepared for Mavis.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing that needs you to worry." Naruto said flatly, not letting the old man to second-guess him.

"I do hope so," Makarov said. "And please don't be too rude with the council."

"Hn."

With that the conversation ended, and Makarov did not say any further as he focused on walking ahead.

It was minutes later that they reached the hallway where a frog-like man was waiting them. "Lord Makarov, Lord Naruto, please follow me."

Makarov nodded and followed the frog-man, Naruto said nothing but still following the guy.

Council Meeting's Room

"Makarov said that he used to live in Tenrou island," a member of the magic council said. "And Makarov also said that this Naruto uchiha learnt magic from the Fairy Tail first master's note, we have tried to persuade Makarov to let us look for the note but unless we have a better reason to go then he will not allow."

"Well, that comes naturally," another member said. "Tenrou island is officially owned by Fairy Tail, but we should be able to do something. What do you think, Yajima?"

"If we can get the answer from this Naruto Uchiha then I failed to see why should we bother to go there," Yajima said. "Besides, I have been there myself and believe me that there's nothing we can find useful there. Perhaps Naruto just moved there a few years before, and before that he might have lived and studied under someone else."

"I agree with Yajima on this one," Siegreid started. "We should not waste our time on something as mundane as that. Besides, with his strength, he will be a good asset for the council. Why don't we make him a saint wizard, he did defeat Jose afterall."

"What a nonsense," one of the elder of the council said. "With his attitude, he will never suit the role."

"And that's mean two saint wizards in Fairy Tail." Another council member said.

"We can't have that." More council members nodding at the statement, they could not have two saint wizards from the guild they dislike.

"Regardless what you think, we lack members of saint wizard." Siegreid pointed out the glaring fact. "We should look for candidates and Naruto Uchiha has the strength we need."

"We will decide after we talk with Naruto Uchiha," the chairman said cutting off the discussion and instructed the guard to let them in.

When Naruto entered the council room, all eyes were gazing at his figure. He could not help but throw insult, "It would be better if you kneel and bow before me and said 'Hail, your majesty'."

Makarov, who was standing beside the blond, sighed in a hopelessness, he just hoped that by the end of this troublesome meeting he would not get headache and no trouble come to his guild.

Later on, Ultear's office

"Naruto," Ultear started, a little smile plastering her lips. "It is good you come to me again, I have sorted out things with Meredy. She at first sad and felt betrayed but in the end she forgave me, she still wants me to be her mother despite what I have done to her. Her words really warm my heart, a heart that I thought I don't possess."

"It gladdens me to hear that," Naruto said as he comforted himself on the chair in front of Ultear's desk. "Is she still there?"

"She is, though we plan on moving out. There's no more reason to stitch with Hades any longer."

Naruto nodded, "That is good, the two of you should not associate yourself with the dark, a curtain is needed to separate you two with Hades and his evil plan. That is perhaps one of my reasons to ask you not to leave the council."

"Another reason?"

"The old fools in the council are corrupts, I will need you to work with the council. Perhaps one of these days the new council will be made and you will be the chairman, and then you can work better to redemption yourself."

"I have thought that much."

"I expect you to."

Ultear smiled, "I never think that the day I sit talking without planning something in my mind would come, it really feels nice. But, you are just manipulating me, aren't you?"

"I can kill all the fool in the council and turn their responsibility to the kingdom, I don't need anyone to work for me. I asked you to remain in the council because it will help you to live a better life. Nothing else."

"I don't mean it in the bad way."

Naruto stared at the woman but did not say any words to comment her words, "What will you do with the poor guy?"

"Do you mean Jellal?"

Naruto stared at her, not intending to answer that rhetorical question.

"He will certainly not believing anything I say, not until his hard work crumbles before his very eyes. I will let him do the initial plan, I will handle him when he succeeds on shooting the etherion at the tower."

"I see."

"Why don't you ask me to remain with Grimoire Heart and brings them on their knees at once?"

"They're just a bunch of weaklings, who's misguided by the former master of fairy tail, they are not a threat."

"They're indeed weaklings to you, but not to us."

"Don't worry, I will not let them hurt you and your child."

"I will trust you for that."

"When will you move out? And where will you settle in?"

"Last morning," Ultear smiled. "And we already had a little house for us in the capital. Do you want to visit? I'd like to introduce you to Meredy."

"Perhaps some other time," Naruto said and stood up, he then walked on toward the exit. He stopped and glanced back at the still smiling Ultear, "When you smile like that without giving off any malice intent, you do look beautiful."

With that being said, Naruto vanished in gold particle, leaving Ultear alone with a happy smile on her face, and a bit pink color adorned her white smooth cheeks.

It was about five minutes later that Naruto, a clone one, appeared a few feet away before the Kingdom Palace's entrance. The king had asked him to come to their usual meeting place, perhaps the old man wanted to discuss more about the rune he applied to the guard's weapon. Sure that he could refuse but he did not dislike the old man, besides, the king was not treating himself like a king when in his presence; Naruto did not mind sitting and talking with him.

"Lord Naruto."

Naruto nodded his head to the guard and walked through the gate. When he reached the palace, a maid was already there and informed him that the place was already prepared to hold the meeting with the king. Naruto nodded to the maid and instructed her to lead the way which she gladly did that. Naruto shrugged his shoulder off and followed her, he was being led to one of the quest room.

As soon as he entered the room, Naruto did not waste time on anything but went straight to the table near the window. Naruto sat and stared at the glassless window, even from this far he could still feel his chakra from two directions: The guild and Tenrou Island, from Mavis body and her soul. It reminded him to the day he agreed to give her his chakra, the memories were still fresh in his mind.

Mavis turned her eyes outside of her opened window and sunk in thought processing the explanation, it excited her that thousand years ago people were having that kind of power to live their daily life. But it saddened her that they could easily wage war and utilize the power to shed blood of their fellow human. Chakra should be used to better people's life, not to take away their precious life.

But it was a story of thousand years ago, Mavis sure that people had changed and become better. She had never heard of war occurring and took people's life away, everyone was living in peace and understanding. Sure that it was only in this island since she had never set a foot outside the island, however, Mavis had no doubt that people out there were also living in harmony and peace.

"Why don't you give us chakra?" Mavis suggested in a hopeful tone.

"Why should I give my chakra to you and your people, eh, Mavis?"

"Chakra is good to help human better their life."

"Haven't I told you that chakra will lead human to wage war toward each other?"

"But they have changed!" Mavis yelled. "Look at the villagers, they are living in peace. Chakra will certainly make their life better."

"Have you considered the criminal? What will they do with chakra in their possession?"

Mavis eyes widen in realization, "They will become more dangerous and stopping them will be a lot difficult."

"Yes," Naruto nodded. "And they will be bolder than they already are. Even though the villagers are not bad people, chakra will certainly turn them into a greedy fool and then the history will repeat itself."

Mavis frowned at hearing that, but then the frown turning into a wide smile as she got an idea that would benefit her village. "Just me," she said. "Let me have a bit of your chakra, just me alone."

"What makes you think I will let you have my chakra?"

"Because you and I know that I will never misbehave and use it other than for the greater good of people."

"That is perhaps true, but it is not enough to convince me."

"What should I do to convince you? Say it and it will be done."

Naruto let a mischievous smile graced his lips, "Seduce me." He said.

"What?" Mavis asked with a dumbfounded face, she thought that she misheard him for saying those adult words. "Can you repeat it?" Mavis asked again hoping that she was indeed mishearing things.

"Seduce me."

Mavis blinked, her mouth was gaping opened.

"What?!" she yelled after getting over her shock. "You can't be serious!"

"Do it or I will not let you wield my chakra."

"…"

"Why are you hesitate? Perhaps you don't love the villagers as much as you show?"

"That's not true.."

"So what? Or perhaps I'm not good looking enough for you?"

"No!" Mavis shouted hastily but then she hurriedly covered her mouth with both her hands.

Naruto smiled at seeing that, he shorten the distance between them and downed his head a little to stare at her mesmerize eyes. "So what is the problem? Perhaps you want me to seduce you instead?"

Naruto smiled fondly at the memory, how could he convinces the current Mavis to seduce him? He could not help but wonder about the possibilities of ways to make Mavis agreed on doing that. But it would not be as satisfying as he thought without Mavis having her physical body. For once he just thought to force her to merge in with her body but decided against it, he could force anyone to do anything he so wished but not with his Mavis. Naruto would not force anything on her, she's too precious for him. Mavis was his world, only to Mavis he would not mind to fall on his knee.

"What are you thinking about?" Hisui asked. "But with that smile on your face, it must be something pleasant."

Naruto averted his eyes to the woman who had just arrived and now was sitting at the opposite side of the table. "I thought the king is the one who asked to meet me," he said in a monotone voice not bothering to answer her question. "But it seems I'm mistaken, regardless, what is it?"

"My father is attending another agenda, I volunteered myself to meet you so he can focus on the agenda. Perhaps you just dislike me?"

Naruto stared at the woman, not buying her reason. The woman was quite troublesome, and sometimes she was really unnerving him. Not that he hated her and he was not afraid of her either, but it just that wherever she stared at him with those glittering eyes was always making him shivered. He could kill her without even blinking an eye yet those eyes could make him uncomfortable.

"It seems you don't believe me," Hisui said, her glittering eyes were always on the blond. "But regardless, whether you believe me or not will not matter, I have come here and we should proceed on the reason of the meeting."

"Say it."

Hisui smiled, she really liked the blond. Sure that his attitude was not befitting when in royal family's presence but that was what makes him different. Their first meeting was still fresh in her mind. Sure that was the day when someone had dared to disrespect and insult her before her very presence and in the crowded of people, but she found herself being fascinated by him and could not help it that she started to love him. It was perhaps the love at first sight like what she read on those romantic novels, the feeling was truly wonderful.

"If you have nothing to say then I will leave, it is waste of my time."

Hisui's smile went wide at hearing Naruto's words, "I was just fascinated by your beauty," she said. "I do apologize for losing in thought."

Naruto frowned, this was another thing he found troublesome about the woman: She flirted too much for his liking. Mavis would no doubt scold him should she know about this.

"Just get to the point, I have to be somewhere else."

"Where?"

"Nothing that concern you."

"I hope it is not visiting another woman," Hisui said with a sweet smile, too sweet for Naruto's liking. "Anyway, 'I want to thank you for applying the rune on my army's weapon.' Is what my father told me to say to you."

"I see." Naruto said and stood up, he turned around and walked off leaving the room without saying any words.

"Wait!" Hisui yelled and hurried herself to pursue the blond, "It was a joke! My father now is on his way." she said and captured Naruto's left hand.

Naruto stopped and stared coldly at the green haired woman, "Didn't I tell you I have to be somewhere else?"

"Well, he will not be long, besides, I want to meet you so that I can ask your help." Hisui said seriously, her face was really showing her seriousness.

"I'm not a saint."

"Please marry me."

"No."

"Marry me."

"No."

"Marry me."

"No!"

"Marry me!"

"No!"

"Don't marry me!"

"No!"

"Thank you."

"Wait, what?"

Hisui walked off leaving Naruto standing alone staring at her back, confused.

"I will tell father that you agreed to marry me," Hisui said loudly before her appearance vanished from the room.

Did.. did the woman play trick on him? Him? Laughable. The clone puffed out and disappeared, it no longer care about the king, if there was the king anyway.

Tenrou Island

Naruto was walking toward the largest tree on the island, but he came to a halt in all sudden. He blinked once, twice, thrice. That woman, she played his clone, his stupid clone. It was unforgivable, a blasphemy. He wanted to leave for her and killed that woman, but it was just wrong. The woman was not a bad person, she was actually a good princess that care for her people. The only thing that he did not like about her was her attempts on flirting him with those glittering eyes, it sent chills down his vein each time he stared at those eyes. True that he could just kill her or genjutsu her but Naruto decided against such attempt, something in his cold heart against doing anything toward innocent people, perhaps it was because he spent too much time with Mavis. The Fairy's mother was pure hearted woman, too innocent, and gentle, but she did have those moments that brought shiver to his vein. It was the old Mavis though, the current Mavis had yet to give off such feeling.

Sighing, Naruto continued on walking toward his beloved Mavis, and he would not set a foot in the capital for sometimes. Not that he afraid of that woman, he afraid of no one, but just in case she had something funny prepared for him, he would not go there. If the king wanted to meet him then he could go for him, or sent his messenger to meet him in Magnolia. Besides, he wanted to spend more time with his Mavis, that's why he left a clone to meet the king right after he done talking with Ultear.

A smile appeared on his lips when his eyes caught the sight of his beloved blonde.

Mavis crossed her legs and sat comfortably beside the largest tree on the island, she was currently trying to imitate what she saw in that dream. The dragon in her dream, Drago, told her other self in the dream that she needed to be calm to be able to absorb natural energy. To learn senjutsu, one needed to harmonize oneself with nature. Being in senjutsu meant that she would have the nature as the extension of herself, she would be with nature itself.

Mavis closed her eyes and concentrated, she needed to stay in in balance.

"Again, Mavis! Concentrate!"

Mavis nodded her head and begun another long meditation session. She inhaled fresh air and filled her lungs with oxygen, and then she exhaled it in one long breath. She did that simultaneously and cleared her mind from any thought, trying to synchronize herself with nature.

Naruto stood a few feet away from the blonde and stared at the silent Mavis, he could not help but smile sincerely as he found himself in peace by just staring at her beautiful form. It had been so long since he felt this kind of peacefulness, it was similar to the feeling he felt when he reunited with his mother. He wanted to freeze time so he could feel this feeling for all eternity, but decided against it since he thought it would no longer feel natural.

"I still don't understand why you refuse to learn senjutsu, Naruto?"

"If you offer me to learn it years ago before I absorbed Kaguya, I might agree to learn dragon's senjutsu. But as of now, it is not necessary."

"I see, so basically you are saying that you are always in synchrony with nature, and you can tap into it at any time and without limit?"

"I do have limit in this form though."

"Will you show me your other form?"

"It is better if you don't know." Naruto said without averting his eyes from Mavis.

Drago stared at Naruto but did not say any further, he shifted his eyes and focused himself on observing Mavis.

Mavis could feel warm energy entered her body, it strengthen her body and mind. She felt so calm and at peace, as if nothing could make her lose her cool. Mavis opened her eyes and standing up, she stared at

Mavis jumped and raised her right hand in a ram seal, "Sage Art: Wind style: Unlimited Blade!"

More than a thousand wind blades half meter in length were forming in front of Mavis, it took less than a second for the blades to be formed, and in harmony all blades shot toward both Drago and Naruto.

The blades were actually invisible to the naked eyes, but Naruto's EMS could see its energy and Drago's sense was sharp enough to sense the numerous blades that heading his way.

Drago widen his eyes and took off to the sky, he could iron his wings and covered his body with it but he doubted that's enough to defend himself from those blades. He tried to look at his back but soon he regretted doing that as half numbers of blades were following him, its speeds were faster and faster. He guessed that if he did not do something than the blades would hunt him wherever he goes.

Drago maneuvered and hovering in the air while at the same time inhaling quite large sum of oxygen, "Sage Art: Unwavering roar!"

A tremendous greyish force was being shot in wide scale, it went ahead colliding with Mavis's jutsu making a boom sounds in the process. The jutsu were trying to overpower each other, at first both jutsu were not showing any sort of losing until Drago increased his effort into his roar and slowly winning the duel. The roar went ahead overpowering Mavis's attack and it ended up hitting the ground, making debris and caused the wind to go wild.

Drago satisfyingly stared at his roar, he then shifted his eyes toward Mavis and opened his maw as he breathed quite sum of white fire that went directly toward the blonde.

With Naruto

A dark blue aura started to engulf his body and it slowly forming his susanoo's ribcage, Naruto added more chakra and the susano'o grew in size and flesh started to cover its skeleton and more chakra into it causing the susano'o being covered by its robe and went further to form an armor covering its body. Naruto finished his complete susano'o and let the wind blades bombarding his defense.

The collision last long for full minute but they failed at penetrating his complete susano'o. Naruto held a single hand seal and his susano'o also held a hand seal, "Fire style: Emperor's Flame of destroyer!"

A large sum of white flame that as hot as Drago's was sprouting out of Susanoo's mouth and heading straight in fast speed toward Mavis.

Mavis frowned at seeing white flame going her way from two directions: above and her front. She waved her hands in multiple hand seals and ending it by clasping both her hands, "Sage art: Earth style: Empress's absolute shields!"

The ground beneath her foot shaken and multiple big walls made of earth sprung to life and surrounded Mavis protectively, more walls arose from the ground and they all forming a topless dome with multiple layers that made it impossible to peek inside the dome. Mavis added more power behind the jutsu and more walls appeared above her head making the dome complete and fortified. As if not enough, four pillars arose in four different angles surrounded the dome, it took a cube-shape that protected the dome.

Mavis, from inside the dome, held her breath for a moment, waiting the flame to hit her defense.

White flames hit the fortified earth dome, the collision sent wave of heating wind around causing debris to pick up. The temperatures were increasing as the dome was reddened by the flame, it was slowly melted away. Mavis started to feel the heat, she growled and breathed out a cold wind that froze the inside wall, but it seemed futile as the heat were getting hotter. Frowning, Mavis let go of her clasping hand and waved a ram hand seal, "Sage Art: Wind Style: Empress's majestic force!"

A tremendous wind started to surround Mavis body and in instant it blown everything around her away, letting out a booming voice and caused debris to go wild. The grounds shackled and the surroundings were in chaos.

Mavis narrowed her eyes as she sensed a punch was being directed at her face, in haste she brought up both her hands in a cross-shaped to dodge the punch. The strength behind the punch was so strong that it sent her flying away, Mavis maneuvered in midair and landed softly at the ground. She covered her whole body in tremendous lightning and went straight toward her attacker.

Naruto smiled at seeing Mavis's speed, he too covered himself with lightning and welcomed his beloved blonde.

Mavis sent her right punch toward the blond's face, Naruto saw the incoming attack and tilted his head to avoid it. Mavis smirked at seeing that, Naruto narrowed his eyes but it was too late as he was sent flying backward as the invincible punch hit his right cheek.

Naruto hit the ground hard and blood was leaking out of his mouth. He mustered his strength and stood up, wiping out the blood's trace, Naruto stared at the blonde. "I did not see that one, and you bleed me, Mavis."

"Yes," Mavis said happily, "and I will lend another hit."

"It will not happen anymore."

Right after those words left his mouth, Naruto vanished and appeared right before the surprised Mavis. He did nothing but stared at those mesmerize eyes, "Give your all, Mavis." Naruto said and vanished again to his former position.

Mavis's lightning became wilder and wilder, wind also started to cover her petite body, both lightning and wind were against each other to regain the supreme but they strongly protected her body and increased her already fast speed. She disappeared and in less than a second appeared right in front of Naruto.

Mavis sent her right punch toward the blond's face, which was being avoided as Naruto tilted his head to the left while at the same time swung his right leg fully intended on kicking Mavis head. Mavis raised her left hand and blocked the kicked, she winced upon the contact, she had to admit that Naruto's physical prowess were beyond her reach, despite she was in her sage mode. The kick forced her a bit to the left but Mavis withstood it by adding more chakra to her legs. Naruto saw that coming and pressed forward with his left hand, which covered by black lightning, aiming for her gut. Being in sage mode gave her more sense to her surrounding, thus Mavis avoided the hit by kicking the blond's punch with her right leg.

"Ho, you can stand that, how about this," Naruto said and jumped backward while holding a hand seal, "Wind Style: Pseudo almighty push!"

Mavis too was already holding a hand seal, "Sage Art: Wind Style: Pseudo almighty push!"

Two shockwaves were colliding as each was trying to overpower the other, the collision caused debris to pick up and made Drago to narrow his eyes trying to better his sigh on the fight.

At first the two forces were on standstill but slowly Mavis's was overpowering Naruto's as it was apparent that senjutsu was still superior, soon Mavis's force beat Naruto's and sent him flying backward. Naruto strengthen his body and maneuvered in midair while holding a hand seal, "Fire Style: Emperor's Tsunami."

Seeing a mountain of flame-wave heading her way, Mavis performed two hand seals and slammed her right palm on the ground, "Sage Art: Earth style: Empress's shield!"

A monstrous earth wall was sprouting from the ground and withstood the white flame.

Mavis sighed as she was panting heavily, she had thrown a few s-rank jutsu away and her sage mode would soon reach its limit. She had to prepare her last move before the senjutsu failed her. With that thought, a seal-less lightning clone appeared beside her. Mavis raised her right hand and gathered chakra on her palm, it slowly formed a large size of chakra ball. The clone added lightning into the ball and slowly it covered the whole chakra ball. Mavis concentrated and kept the balance so it would not blow into her face.

Mavis nodded and instructed her clone to attack the blond. The clond covered both her hands with lightning and went straight in fast speed toward Naruto.

From his place Naruto could guess what Mavis was planning, he decided to entertain the blonde though.

Mavis's clone shot toward Naruto with both hands covered by lightning aiming for Naruto's head. Naruto saw the move in a slow pace with his EMS and avoided each attempts by the clone so easily that it looked as though he was just fooling around. The clone growled and decided to explode itself to paralyze the blond. Naruto saw that coming but did not bother to dodge as the clone exploded and paralyzed him.

Just then Mavis appeared right above him with a big lightning rasengan on her hand, "Sage Art: Lightning Style: Chou Oodama Rasengan!"

Boom!

The jutsu hit the blond and shook the battleground, but Mavis was not happy, she was frowning as she saw the blond slowly turning into mud. And then a lightning blade pierced through the mud and went straight toward her. Mavis closed her eyes and sighing in defeat, but the jutsu never came.

Just then she felt a pair lips were against her forehead, Mavis opened her eyes and welcomed by Naruto's warm smile.

"You have improved, Mavis. There was no one can learn as fast as you, perhaps if we are still in the shinobi era then they would hail you as the genius amongst the genius."

"But I still cannot defeat you," Mavis pouted.

"But at least you manage to bleed me," Naruto paused and averted his gaze toward Drago who had made himself known as he's hovering above them. "How long her senjutsu last?"

"Five minutes twenty seven seconds."

"Well, that's good, I'm proud of you, Mavis." Naruto said and ruffled her hair.

Mavis smiled at hearing that, so far this was the first time she managed to hurt the blond. Perhaps in the near future she could pummel the blond like a punching bag. She became excited at the thought, but for now she needed to clean up herself, the training and fight had worn her out.

"It seems you need to take a bath, let us have that then, Mavis?"

Mavis nodded but then her cheeks were flushing as the thought of them bathing together entered her mind. Naruto smiled at seeing Mavis's red face, "What are you thinking Mavis? Something naughty? Well, aren't you such a pervert?" Naruto asked shamelessly.

"I'm not pervert!" Mavis yelled in denial. "You're the one suggesting we bath together, pervert!"

"What is wrong with that? We have seen each other naked, we have done many naughty things together, so what is different with taking bath together?"

"W-well, t-that's.." Mavis stuttered.

"That's?" Naruto asked mischievously as he leant his face closer to the blonde.

"T-that's embarrassing if you say it loudly like that." She said with eyes avoiding the blond's gaze.

"There's no need to be embarrassed about that, Mavis. There's no one else to hear that, well, forget about Drago, he is just a fool of overgrown lizard."

"I hear you."

Naruto pretended not to hear the dragon. He brought both his hands and cupped her face, forcing Mavis to stare at him, he stared lovingly at the blonde's eyes. "There's nothing to embarrass about, your embarrassed face is cute though, I don't mind seeing it every day."

Mavis smiled. "Stupid Naru!" she said and buried her face on his warm chest.

"I don't mind being called stupid by you."

"Baka."

Naruto smiled, he engulfed the blonde woman in a loving warm-hug. "Take care, Drago." He said and the two vanished in gold particle, leaving a big red dragon alone staring at their former place.

"I don't like being ignored," the dragon said to no one. "Hmph!" he scoffed and took off, he would better take a nap in his place.

Mavis opened her eyes and stood up, she raised her right hand in a ram seal, "Sage Art: Wind Style: Unlimited Blades!"

Nothing happened, Mavis blinked.

"You cannot utilize senjutsu without your real body, Mavis."

"…"

"Mavis?"

Mavis shook her head lightly and averted her eyes toward Naruto who was leaning against the tree beside her. "When you arrived?" Mavis asked.

"A moment ago."

Mavis nodded and went to sit beside Naruto, she leant against Naruto's body and stared absentmindedly ahead beyond the space. "Is Drago alive?" Mavis asked in a hopeful tone.

"No."

"I see."

"Do you want to see the land?"

"Um."

Naruto smiled and embraced the girl with a warm hug, "Let us go." He said and the two vanished in gold particle right after those words left his mouth.

-End Chapter-

May be we will never see Naruto fights seriously, well unless things turn upside down, which will eventually happen in a later chapters.

Thank for the review, until next chapter.