Naked and Falling

AN: Here we are with the next round of questions. #1. I haven't put the year in the story yet because I'm still deciding between two paths. One being longer than the other. But as you can tell by Mirajane that it's after Lisanna's 'death' and before Lucy. #2. Naruto's magic will be revealed in this chapter, but not it's not what it seems to be. #3. For those who question some of the grammar, the first letter of the first word after a character's statement is not capitalized unless it's a name. That's proper grammar in writing a story/novel. Don't worry. It's a common mistake most writers on here make. I just read a ton of books and realized that was proper grammar. #4. yes. I love you too, lol.

Chapter Four: He fell for Erza. Literally.

"Okay...tell me why we're up here again, Maggie?" Naruto muttered nervously as the said woman flew the both of them high above Magnolia Town. They were both on the broom known as Balai and with every foot they climbed into the air, the blonde was getting more nervous.

"I told you that this was important in discovering how you came here, boy. Remember?" Maggie laughed at the boy's shakiness as they zoomed up in the air in long, spiral patterns.

"No, I don't remember. All you told me was, 'Boy! Get on before I whack you on the head with the pot again!' and then we took off like a bat out of Hell!" he yelled from behind, holding on tight to his end of the long broom.

"Oh yeah, I did say that," she laughed loudly. "I meant to tell you the lie first."

Naruto's frightened face turn deadpanned as all emotion and color left his face. "Lie?"

"Yep. I was going to tell you that so you'd come up here with me, then I was going to pull the rug from under you." Maggie cackled lightly, imitating a witch in every sense of the word.

"Why?! Why did you do that, or I mean, not do that...you know what I mean!" he shouted as they came to an abrupt stop, high in the sky near where Naruto found himself falling a week and a half ago.

"Easy. I know that you want to know about what you are capable of in terms of magic. What was the first lesson I explained to you about a mage learning magic?" she asked the shaky hero from another world.

"Mo...most mages learn the magic they use while others discover an innate ability t...to a certain type of magic." his voice came out in a trembling tone, his eyes glues to the tiny landscape in the bottom. At least they weren't as high as he found himself that day. But still, he can become a pancake at this height.

"Right, boy. Such a good student and here I thought you weren't paying attention, cheeky boy. What was lesson two?"

"Two...TWO types of magic!" Naruto's voice rose as Maggie swung her broom back and forth to frighten him. "Holder and Caster!"

"Well done! Now, number three?"

"Each type of magic has its own magic seal which consist of different designs of runes and colors. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't!"

"Good, good! Now, for the million jewel question. What type do you think you unleashed to save yourself last week from becoming a stain on the streets of Magnolia Town?" she asked with a serious voice.

"Caster, caster I think! Why are you asking me these questions?" Naruto begged for an answer.

"Because I know for a fact that you ARE interested in discovering your magic, more than just trying to find a way back home. I heard about your little date with the famous Mirajane Strauss of Fairy Tail. My my, aiming high on the food chain, are we? The cover girl of Sorcerer Weekly, you cheeky boy." Maggie cackled.

"That wasn't a date! It was just two people having coffee together. We just talked," his face turned red for a moment. "That's it!"

"Right, right. So I've heard. It's the talk of the town. At least, among the non-magical civilians. But I do know that she peaked your interest about using magic. So, that's why we're here. To get you to confess it."

Naruto let out the biggest sigh of his life, relieved that his previous thoughts was wrong. So that's what she had planned. "Oh, that's all. Well, you succeeded. Now let's go back down, please."

Maggie cocked her head at the blonde, a curious gleam in her eyes. "Well, now that's a great idea. Wish I thought of it."

"Okay, well then take us down." he repeated, but Maggie shook her head.

"No, I mean the one you just thought of before. Let's see how that plays out." she grinned as she turned the broom upside. "Dropping you so you can be forced to use your magic again to save your life. Genius."

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"CRAAAAAAAAAAAAP!" Naruto shouted after falling off and losing his grip on the broomstick, watching Maggie disappear in the sky as she waved goodbye to him. "DAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOUUUUUUU, BAAAAAAAAA-SAAAAAAAAN!"

And now here he was again, falling in the sky. At least he wasn't naked this time.

"Crap! Crap! Crap! How in the hell am I supposed to do this?" Naruto shouted, his words once again getting lost in the air. He just had to mention to Mirajane about his desire to feel the rush again of magic. He didn't tell her about his past or where he came from, of course. Just told her his experience of feeling magic for the first time.

The brilliant colors. How they streamed from every direction, limited only by his eyesight. But he could feel the threads of magic everywhere in his Sage mode. Connecting everyone to each other. When he told her this, she seemed entranced and amazed at his description. For the first time, he felt like someone actually wanted to talk to him seriously and so he told her about his secret desire to learn more about magic.

'Sigh...freaking, mind reading, old hag.'

How the hell was he going to use magic when he didn't even know what he did in the first place? All he can do is go into Sage mode and even then, all it was is seeing magic in the air that connected to people and...

Connected. Connection.

'Every strand of color I saw led to someone. That stream represents them absorbing magic from the Eternano in the air. If I could see them absorbing magic, that mean I can see mine!

Naruto slammed his fists together and focused on entering Sage mode in the next few seconds before it became too late to do anything. He opened his eyes as the familiar rush of magic entered his body, giving him abilities he didn't have before. It may not be the magic that saved him, but it can help him find it. It was amazing to see the dome of colored strings covering the rapidly growing town down below him. But he didn't have time to enjoy the image, he needed to find it. He need to find the color stream that led into his body.

Even though he was so high, he could see see hundreds upon hundreds of color strings around him and had trouble finding his own. What was so hard about finding a single strand leading to his body? He was running out of time and he needed to find it now before it was too late! He looked through the streams of colors, some shades that he didn't even know existed.

'Wait, what's that one?' His eyes focused on one string in particular, one more red than the brightest rose and yet, more darker that the darkest wine. He reached out to grab it, knowing he only had a couple of seconds before he fell to his death. His hand gripped the crimson strand as Naruto let out a powerful yell and pulled on it.

"Believe it!" He shouted in victory as a large, red magical seal appeared before him and suddenly, he found himself just missing the top of the building he was about to hit. He was...He was...

He was flying!

Naruto laughed out loud as he flew right above the buildings of Magnolia Town, now realizing how he saved himself that day. He must have flew himself at a angle, cutting down on his momentum and dropped himself down. It was right there in front of him, but he was so scared of dying, he must have been literally blinded by fear. He was covered head to toe in red colored magic, like the way his Kyuubi mode used to do. But this wasn't a cloak in the shape of a fox, his entire body was outlined in a perfect streamline of red, and seemed to be the source of his flying ability.

It was like a combination of having a cloak of energy, but having it completely under control.

It was amazing!

But then, he realized another detail.

"I can't stop. I can't stop! Son of a BIIIIIII..." Naruto screamed out as he descended too low and found himself hitting and skipping like a rock on a lake. Except in this case, the lake being the rooftops of the town.

"OW!'

"OUCH"

"SON OF..."

"...A BITCH!"

"AARGGGHHH!" the blonde shouted out in pain as he finally landed and rolled across a large rooftop like a ball before falling through a square opening in the middle. "AAAAAHHHHHH!"

Suddenly, water splashed everywhere as he landed hard in some kind of pool of hot water. His eyes popped open and bubbles came out of his mouth instead of screams under the scalding hot water. Naruto pushed his hands hard against the water as he swam up and lifted his head above the top of the water. He took in a deep breath before coughing loudly out of his mouth. His eyes shut tightly from the sudden pain of hot water against his skin as he let out a sigh of relief and rested his head on a smooth stone.

Except, this was the softest stone he ever felt. Actually, correction. Make that two of the softest stones he ever felt.

A goofy smile appeared on his face as he rubbed his face on the stones, enjoying the softest feeling he ever had pressing against his face. It was almost heaven to him and welcomed after such a frantic 30 seconds he had before...

"Ahem."

His eyes shot opened as he heard a voice, a very female voice speaking from above his head. Naruto closed his eyes again as a sigh of realization escaped from his lips.

"I'm not rubbing my face on a pair of stones, am I?"

"No, you are not." The voice spoke to him again as he kept his eyes closed, not wanting to anger the female by oogling her rather large bust. He pointed his face upwards before opening his eyes again as one of the most beautiful redheads he ever seen appeared in his vision. Unfortunately, that beautiful face also came with one of the most angry and scariest looks Naruto had ever seen in his life.

"Hi, I'm Naruto." he whispered nervously, fear striking him in the heart, even more so when a sinister grin appeared on the redhead's lips.

"Erza. Erza Scarlet." she answered back before raising a hand above her head, a rather large mace appearing from nowhere in a bright light as she gripped the handle tightly.

"And this is Mr. Smashy."

Chunks of plaster, wood, and rocks blasted out of the entrance way of Magnolia Town's famous onsen, scaring many of the passing bystanders as loud battle cries came from the giant hole. Suddenly, a blonde figure shot out of the smoke, his arms crossed over his face in a defensive manner before landing on his feet in the street. Soon followed by a young, red haired woman, clad only in a towel wrapped around her curvy body. Her mace disappeared along with her towel in a bright light, causing many men to jeer in the street and pass out from bloodlust.

Only to be replace by battle armor covering a school girl outfit. Two broadswords also appeared in each hand as Erza charged at Naruto in a rage filled fury. "PERVERT!"

"NO! NO! YOU'RE WRONG!" Naruto tried to reason with the angry weapon user, dodging fast swings from her swords. "I'M NOT LYING! I WAS JUST LEARNING HOW TO FLY!"

"LIAR! I DON'T SEE WINGS OR A ROCKET PACK ON YOUR BACK!" Erza twisted her body as she leapt into the air and swung both blades down in a X pattern. " NOW DIE!"

"HOLY CRAP!" the blonde shouted before pivoting backwards on his hand and twisted himself out of the way. He pushed himself put out of the way and tried to keep some distance between them. He needed to figure out how to cool her down before someone got hurt. What he needed to do was try and fly again. But so far, he needed to go into Sage mode to find and activate his magic and for that, he needed to stand still.

"ARRRGHHH!" Erza kept toe to toe with Naruto as he kept up with the dodging of her powerful swings. Yeah, there was no way he'd have time to stand still and go into Sage mode. He just needed to do this on his own and go on the offensive. He waited until she swung both swords at the same time and quickly rushed into her guard, surprising the redhead at his sudden speed.

Just as quick, he struck her left wrist with a open palm and with the other, grab her right wrist before twisting it outwards. The sudden movement caused Erza's fingers to loosen their grip for a moment, but that was all Naruto needed as he spun away from Erza and grabbed both swords by the handles. He pushed away from inside her guard and back flipped away twice before landing on one knee, driving both points of her swords into the ground.

"Okay, now can we talk like reasonable people?" Naruto asked calmly. "What happened was an accident. I was flying, then I fell. Simple as that."

Erza was still in shock and awe on how fast the blonde was, disarming her in a matter of moments after getting inside her guard. He could have struck her down, but instead he put space between them and disarmed himself too. Her eyes steeled as she tried to get a good look at the blonde who was rubbing his face in her breasts not a minute ago.

"You're not lying, are you?"

"No, I'm not. My crazy teacher dropped me from her broom way up air above the town in hope that I will learn how to use my magic." Naruto confessed with a sweat drop on his forehead.

"Now you're lying." Erza accused him as she requipped a long spear into her hands. "Do you want to meet Mr. Pointy?"

"I'm serious! Miss Maggie just dropped me and..."

"Miss Maggie? The noodle shop owner?" Erza's face turned from angry to curious as the spear in her hands and the swords in the ground disappeared in another flash of light. "You're her student?"

"In a manner of speaking, yeah. I just help her out in the cafe, but she's been trying to get me to use magic lately. Like by dropping me out of the sky, the crazy, old bat." Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he told the redhead his story. "So then as I fell from the sky, I found myself glowing in a red light and flying in mid air, but then realized I couldn't stop and fell into that onsen."

"Where you thought my breasts were stones? Should I been offended by that instead?" Erza taunted much to Naruto's chagrin.

"The softest stones I ever felt! The softest!" he shouted before sighing. "Can we just, not fight any more? People are starting to stare and I think the owner of that onsen wants to charge you for the damages."

Erza's eyes popped open comically as she felt a chill go up her spine. The owner with an evil look in his eyes and a bill in his hand stood behind the sword mage. She whipped her head and and pointed behind her in a tattletale manner.

"He was there too! He caused the damages in the first place! I will honor my half, but he needs to pay for the other!" she exclaimed in an accusing voice. "Him!"

"Him who? Ain't nobody there, Miss Scarlet." the old owner pointed out as Erza whipped her head back and saw an empty spot where the blonde was a moment ago. "All I see is you and a whole bunch of damages to my onsen.

But Erza ignored the onsen keeper and looked up to see the blonde flying above, true to his word that he was flying without wings or a rocket pack. She had never seen such magic as this before and his eyes, his eyes had red eyeliner underneath them that was not there before. She was so amazed at his appearance that she almost forgot to be angry at him until he gave her a big grin, waving goodbye at her. Steam escaped her ears as the blonde flew away, albeit in a clumsy way, with a trail of crimson behind him.

That word. That name. That was something she will never forget as long as she lived.

"NARUTO!"

The lost hero chuckled to himself as he slowly glided away from the scene as carefully as he could, trying to his best not to break down laughing from leaving the scary redhead with the bill. It was her fault, of course. He had nothing to be ashamed of with leaving. She was the one who went insane with 'Mr. Smashy' inside the hot water building. He tried to explain his accident, but she had to be all unreasonable with him and all murderous.

Her reaction to Miss Maggie being his teacher though did catch his attention. There was more to the old woman than meets the eye. She was confident that he would survive the fall by using his magic. Did she know he could fly? Was that all he could do? Does she know if he was capable of more than just flight? Erza was convinced that no mage could fly without some type of support magic to grant them an ability to fly.

What was this energy surrounding his body and what more could he do with such magic?

He had a lot of questions and needed answers as he carefully turned himself toward the noodle shop. He was still in Sage mode as the color streams whipped across his face and body. It was almost like water and he could swim through the thick waves of magic, jet streaming through the different shades of colors. Naruto mused to himself once more. Maybe he shouldn't call it Sage mode anymore. It wasn't his world and it wasn't chakra that gave him strength anymore. It was magic and he wasn't a shinobi or a sage anymore. He was now officially a mage.

Mage mode.

"Mage mode?, huh. Hmm, has a nice ring too it." Maggie whispered to no one as she read the mind of her young student flying below her. Unaware that she had been watching him the whole time, even with his ability to sense others. Ready to save him if he had failed to summon his magic. Not that she had any doubt he wouldn't. He was a powerful soul and a great hero from another world.

So great that the universe in all its wisdom, saw fit to send the lost hero here to Fiore and save this world. She knew troubling times were coming ahead and this world needed a hero to lead others to protect it. It was her duty to find that hero and train him to do so. She just never thought it would be a man from another world. Now, he just needed a little more pushing down the right path and Fairy Tail was right on that path.

"Naruto, my boy. You will be the greatest hero again..." Maggie started to say until another voice rang into the sky.

"NARUTO! I WILL KILL YOU!"

She sighed.

" If you're not killed first."