During the last week Naruto had spent at fairy tail he had trained in using his magic with master and they had figured a lot of things out. Narutos magic allowed him to create a sort of dark matter that he could shape into anything he wanted. However he could only create the dark matter in shadows or in places that were dark enough. Also changing the shape of the dark matter was not easy, while he could give it the shape of a short knife or little things, the form would not quite be perfect. When he created a knife it would be dull or have weird bumps on it.

When master saw that he needed to perfect his control over the dark matter he had given him a set of items that he could turn the darkness into the same shape as to increase control over it. The items he was given were a ball, a square, a small pyramid replica, a star and lastly an actual knife. The shapes were progressively harder to make with his dark matter.

And Naruto groaned loudly as the square he was trying to make still had round edges. Makarow laughed from his seat atop the bar in the guild hall causing Naruto to glare at him. ``this is freaking stupid! Why is it so hard to just make it do what I want!?´´ Makarow laughed even louder and Naruto responded by turning the darkness he had been controlling into a ball and hardening it, then throwing it straight at the masters head.

The master however caught the ball with ease and sent it back to Naruto who was just a bit too slow to catch it and was hit one the nose by the hardened ball of darkness. It didn't actually hurt much but it served to piss Naruto of more than the lack of progress. Noticing that Naruto was about to start screaming.. again.. Makarow decided to stop it before it began.

``Naruto I already told you that you need to be able to control it before you start using it to fight. Think about it! What if you made a dull sword when you are in a fight with a strong opponent! You wont beat anyone like that!´´

Naruto quickly retorted ``but this is freaking dumb! How will I learn to make a sword by making dumb blocks!?´´

``you'll never be able to make a sword if you cant make basic shapes!´´

``i haven't even seen a real sword yet! Show me one and ill make a perfect sword with my magic!´´

``THAT... wait that actually makes sense.´´ Makarow took a deep breath to calm down and Naruto blinked in surprise, did he just win that argument? The master continued ``Naruto, you can't use your magic perfectly yet and THAT is the problem. From what I can tell your magic allows you to make that dark matter and shape it into anything you want, you could probably make anything you can imagine. But as you are now you cant even change that stuff into the shape you want it to be. That is why I want you to train in making shapes before you make weapons and such.´´

Naruto looked silently at the master for a moment before sighing and conjuring up another ball of darkness, and started to mold it into a square again.

As he tried to change the shape of the dark mass something stayed on his mind. 'Make anything I can imagine' he thought. After a second of thought he decided to make something other than a square, but what should he make. He decided to make a glove out of it, but not just a normal glove it would have to be cool. It had to have claws or something. He closed his eyes and pictured it in his head, his hand covered by darkness that turned his fingers into large claws.

He opened his eyes, and there it was, just like he had imagined his hand was covered in darkness that had five large claws. He didn't believe it, it couldn't be this easy, it never was. He decided to test it anyways, first he moved his fingers and the dark claws moved just like his fingers did. For the next test Naruto put the claws onto the bar and dragged hand back, the dark claws again moved along with his hand and dug five line in the wooden bar.

The noise made by the claws on wood caught the masters attention who looked over and saw Naruto looking with teary eyes at his hand that was cowered in darkness in the shape of claws. Makarow realized that saying the boy could make anything he could imagine might have been a mistake.

Naruto started jumping about in the guild hall shouting about his success, eventually he bumped into one of the members who sat at a table and thus triggered one of the big brawls that fairy tail was known for.

Makarow watched Naruto as he fought the other guild members, the boy had changed the 'claws' into a something like an armored glove and was beating people with it. Makarow realized something then, Naruto learned faster when he was given free reign. He would just have to make sure the boy didn't make anything too dangerous.

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The door to the guild swung open and four people stepped inside, one of the members who where brawling noticed who they were and shouted ``ERZA IS BACK!´´ after that it took only seven seconds for everyone to prop the fallen tables back up, someone used magic to clean the floor and everyone sat down except for two people.

One was Naruto who looked around in confusion, the other was the newest member who had joined only two days after Naruto, Gajeel. Gajeel stood frozen with one hand holding Naruto in the air and the other cocked back about to punch him.

``who's Erza? Hey hey guys! Who's Erza?´´ Naruto called out in confusion, still held in the air by Gajeel who was glaring at the four who just entered.

``what the hell is he doing here?!´´ shouted one of the four who had entered, he had spiky pink hair and was at the moment glaring menacingly at the man who held Naruto. He walked up to Gajeel and got straight in his face ``you expect me to do missions with this guy!?´´

Makarow decided that was would probably be a good time to tell the four about what had happened while they were away. ``Gajeel is a member of fairy tail now, you should try to get along.´´

the others did not agree and started arguing with Gajeel. Naruto was getting tiered of being held in the air by Gajeel, it was time to get free. He had already tried wriggle out of the mans grip on his sweater, but that didn't work so it was time for plan b. he focused on the darkness that surrounded his hand and formed it back the claws he had used earlier. He then dug his claws into the mans arm.

Gajeel let out a yell and dropped Naruto, who got a smug look on his face and started to wriggle his clawed fingers. Gajeel started growling at Naruto who backed away nervously, luckily for Naruto the pink haired guy started fighting with Gajeel instead.

Naruto decided to stay out of this fight when the pink haired guy somehow set himself on fire and Gajeels arms turned into metal pipes. As they went at each other and eventually getting other guild members involved in the fight, Naruto backed up to the bar and sat down to watch the carnage. This was one of the few times he had seen other people use magic so he wanted to see it.

``Naruto!´´ the master called to him from his seat on the bar, Naruto looked over and saw that the master was joined by the two women who had entered with the pink haired guy. The master waved for him to come over, and when he did the master introduced Naruto to the women who stood there ``this is Erza scarlet and Lucy heartfilia´´ as they greeted each other the master continued ``Erza I want you to show Naruto a few of your swords and then teach him how to properly use them.´´

Erza looked thoughtful for a moment and then turned to Naruto who looked excited at the mention of swords. She absently summoned a broadsword, katana and a massive cleaver. As Naruto excitedly inspected to different weapons Erza turned back to Makarow ``master why should I teach him swordsmanship? He does not seem to have any weapons at all.´´

Makarow looked at Naruto and Erza did the same, there Naruto sat with a perfect replica of the katana she had summoned in his hands only it was pitch black. ``Naruto has a strange kind of molding magic that allows him to make anything he wants with that strange dark stuff. Naruto stop that before you stab someone!´´ Naruto stopped swinging the sword around and payed attention to Makarow. ``now then I want you to start training him as soon as possible Erza.´´

Erza nodded and looked at Naruto ``I have some matters to attend to today so meet me here tomorrow at sunrise and we shall begin your training!´´

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Naruto arrived at the guild more than an hour after the sun had risen, he didn't have an alarm clock so he had left a window open so the sunlight would wake him up. When he opened the door he the only thing he could see was metal, he looked up and saw a stern scowling face and red hair. ``oh Erza your already here?´´ he smiled but that disappeared when he was suddenly hit on his head, hard enough to send him too the floor.

``you fool! You were supposed to bee here an hour ago!´´ Erza yelled angrily, she then grabbed Narutos sweater and pulled him with her outside. ``we will start with some light exercise.´´ after Erza said this a bright yellow light enveloped her body for a few seconds, when it faded her usual armor was replaced by a red tracksuit. She looked at Naruto with a smile as if she was trying to confirm something, Naruto however stared at her with narrowed eyes, this woman was trying to copy his style. That is just unforgivable.

``well then lets start off with some jogging.´´ Erza said ignoring Narutos glares.

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Erza had called it light training, to Naruto however it was like workout from hell! They started off with 'a short jog to warm up', that had taken one hour and they jogged all the way to the base of a mountain close to the town. When they got there Erza declared that it was time for muscle training. She set Naruto to do pushups, squats, crunches and several other exercises that he had never even heard of before.

Then it was time to practice with weapons, Erza told him to summon whatever weapon he wanted so he tried to make the katana he had made the day before. The blade he made came out different than the katana, the blade was straight instead of bent like a katana should be and the tip was flat.

Erza showed him several stances and ways to slash with the sword, Naruto moved through the exercise shakily and Erza corrected him a few dozen times.

Finally done with the exercise Naruto sat down to catch his breath, but he didn't get to sit for more than a minute as Erza said it was time to head back to the guild. Apparently there was going to be some kind of talent show that they were holding, but Naruto barely heard what she was saying anymore since he was panting so hard.

When they finally got back to the guild Naruto couldn't take it anymore and collapsed to his knees in front of the guild gates. Narutos tracksuit had big sweat stains all over and he could still barely catch his breath. Erza however looked just as fresh as she had before they began, no sweat not even a single drop was visible on her, she was breathing normally as she hadn't just trained for several hours.

Erza was a monster Naruto decided, she was a complete beast. And he would become one as well, he wanted to be just as strong as Erza. No even stronger, to become the strongest in the world was his goal after all.

But first he had to get some rest, his body felt several times heavier than normal but he stood anyways and started to head back to his hotel. As he walked away Erza called to him ``we will be doing this training tomorrow as well!´´ Naruto felt a shiver run through his body, he had to do all of that again? After some consideration he clenched his fists, yeah he would do that training every day if that was what it took to become the strongest!

He turned and nodded to Erza to let her know that he had heard her before continuing to his hotel. As he entered his room he thought he should try to find an apartment to live in somewhere in the town, but that would have to wait for when he could start taking missions and earn money. He fell asleep just seconds after laying down on the bed, and without knowing it he slept through a battle that raged through the city of magnolia, where members were pitted against each other. The event came to be known as the battle of fairy tail.

authors note

Okay so a question that popped up is will kurama be in this fic? The answer is.. MAYBE! I have a few ideas rolling around my head but they mostly involve the other jinchuuriki/bijuu and the book of zeref.

Anyways in the next chapter Naruto will be going on a mission and team natsu will go to defeat oracion seis.