Chapter 4: New beginnings

Natutoverse:

1 week later.

After one week, Natsu had been introduced to everyone in the village, including old-man Ichiraku who presented him with a pretty large bill for ramen which he had never eaten, claiming 'if he was the new Nruto he could be the old Naruto by default'. Which was 'totally unfair' but hey, that's life. Anyway, even though he was the same age as Sakura and the rest, he still didn't know how to walk on water, or climb a tree to ninja standards so he had to attend Konoha academy for the previous week, and this week he was having some private tree climbing training. Tree climbing? What's so hard about that?

-phump-

"OOOW!" Natsu moaned as he fell on bottom for the 25th time straight. I can climb a tree like this! Natsu jumped from branch to branch and cried in frustration.

"Why do I need to walk up the side of the tree when I can do this!" He jumped to the top of the tree, reaching its leafy summit in three mighty jumps. "And who cares about a stupid tree! I don't need a tree! Aaaaagh!" Natsu let a stream if flames escape from his mouth as he shouted his frustration- and in doing so burned the tree he was 'climbing' to a pile of ash.

Kakashi facepalmed, he never thought it possible but this kid may be more difficult that naruto! Then, suddenly, it hit him.

"Natsu"

"What!" The fiery wizard snapped.

"Do that again."

"What again?"

"Your dragon roar."

"Why? You know we are in a forest full on combustible foliage?"

"You can't be like naruto is you use such sophisticated vocabulary,"

"Sophisticated what?"

"Never mind..."

After going off on that little tangent, Natsu let rip another-combustible foliage destroying- roar of the fire dragon.

"How does it feel when you draw your magic to perform that?"

"Wait, what?"

Kakashi sighed, he was definitely like Naruto. "How do you create the magic, which comes out as fire?"

"Well, I don't really know how to explain it, but I sorta' feel like the magic is all clumped together in the back of my throat- not like when you're choking on food or anything, that is not good!- but like the energy is all bundled up there"

"Can you do this anywhere else in your body?" Kakashi asked slyly.

"Yeah, all over!" Kakashi watched in awe as the young, pink haired boy showed his magical flames all over his body.

"Does it feel the same there?"

"Yeah, its like the magical energy builds up in the place I want it to before it comes out."

Kakashi smirked under his mask, 'this may be easier than I thought,' he thought to himself. Realisation flooded thought the masked man like a warm drink on a cold day. "Ok, try concentrating the energy on the bottom of your feet."

Natsu looked slightly confused but did as he was told, orange flames erupting fro =m his feet and charring the already burnt grass.

"Reduce the amount of energy, that's it, a little more," there were now miniscule flames wafted around Natsu's feet, "try and get it so that there's actually no fire, just energy"

"What, why wou-" Natsu stopped his moaning when he saw the serious, yet slightly sly look in his new sensei's eyes. After a few tries, he managed to do what the masked man had asked, much to Kakashi's shock (who has thought that it would take much longer- but then again, this kid was the earthland naruto).

"Keep the energy there and try walking up the tree now." Kakashi commanded.

After a skeptical look Natsu proceeded to one of the remaining unscathed trees in the forest where they were training in. He tentatively placed his magic-charged foot against the rough bark of the tree, feeling its lumps and bumps on the bare soles of his feet. He hesitated slightly but after a reassuring nod from his masked sensei, Natsu proceeded to place his second foot on the tree bark. To his surprise and delight, it stuck. He then proceeded with the third, and the fourth, and the fifth, the sixth, the tenth, the fifteenth, the thirtieth, until he had climbed the entirety of the colossal oak. He launched himself off the tree and landed with a soft thump.

"How! How did I just do that!?" Natsu asked excitedly.

"Well," Kakashi started, "once you told me how your magic worked, I figured that it was similar to chakra, which is what we shinobi use. Your chakra control is highly advanced for your age, something only a select few jounin have such good control. It is on par with the Hyuuga clan. So I thought that if your chakra was your magical energy, them it would work the same way."

"Wow!" Natsu cried happily, "you really are like Erza, so smart! Not that I'd ever let her hear me say that!"

The two proceeded to the small lake in the clearing where Kakashi told Natsu to do the same thing on the water. To his immense shock, Natsu was walking on the water like it was concrete within minutes. Despite his mask, the look of disbelief was obvious, Natsu noticed and chuckled, shrugged and said "What? I'm a quick learner when doing stuff, not learning, god books uugh! Thats Lucy and Levy's forte!"

Kakashi's eyes widened, he never thought that anyway could be so like Naruto, had his flare, his energy, his practically limitless chakra (he wasn't passed out yet and didn't even seem tired!) He watched as Natsu flipped and cart wheeled his way around the pool of clear blue liquid.

Natsu sat on the water and wondered if Juvia could do this.

Later that day Natsu and Kakashi were back in Konoha where he showed all his new friends what he had learnt. He still felt very homesick and missed the guild desperately but while he was here, he may as well enjoy it right?

Earthland:

Naruto watched from the top of the hill looking down on the guild. He sighed. He had already been here a week. Everyone was wonderful, well almost everyone. Some seemed to hold resentment towards him. Two days ago they challenged him to a fight. They being Grey, Laxus and Gajeel. They were the only three who refused to accept him. He tried talking them out of it, saying that he didn't want any trouble and that it wasn't his choice to replace Natsu. After this they growled at him, telling him that Natsu could never be replaced. Tomorrow was the day of the match and he was scared. Not for himself of course, he knew he could beat them but for them. If he was to beat them, and in front of the rest of the guild, would they ever forgive him? And they would never accept him! But you know what! He was Naruto! His friends meant they world to him and of course he didn't want them to replace him, but he'd be damned if they would make him feel unwelcome! If Natsu was like him then he knew he would feel the same way! The sound of wings broke Naruto out of his train of thought and he turned around to the little blue flying cat that had become his nakama.

The exceed really missed his pink haired friend but knew that Natsu would want him to accept the blond. He just wished that the three boys would realize the same thing. Anyway, whatever happened they never stood a chance. Naruto had offered to fight them all at once but they refused, each claiming that they would be the one to reclaim Natsu's pride or whatever rubbish they had been spouting.

xxxx

Happy remembered two days after Natsu had gone and Naruto arrived. The blond had to live in the little house that he and Natsu shared because he had no where else to go. The boy who he had come to like was talking animatedly with the guild master about his village, Konoha he thought it was called. He seemed so sad, he must miss that place so much but at the same time he was so happy, talking about his friends, the ramen shop and all his adventures there. But then the conversation became hushed and the blue exceed flew behind one of the chairs to secretly listen in.

Natuto looked around to make sure nobody was listening, the only people who were were Makarov, Gildarts and Erza, well and happy too but he would let the little blue cat think that he was well hidden. "I've told the guild that I have certain abilities due to having the kyuubi inside of me, but I haven't showed anyone. I want my powers to remain a secret if possible. I shouldn't have told anyone but I had to. Id like to show you three because I know you are strong and if it's not to much to ask, help me train? It's possible that there may be people in this world who know of my world, and maybe even of the jinchuuriki. I ask of you, is there any place secret and very, very large that I can risk showing you what I can do?"

Makarov sighed, "looks like the kid is arrogant, just what we need," he thought to himself. Giladarts suddenly spoke up after what seemed like a hellish wait for Naruto. "I know of a mountain in the east, its not on any map and the magic council stays well away from it as it is decimated from a war fought on it 200 years ago."

"How do you know of this place if it is so well hidden?" Erza asked.

"Well… um… I kinda got lost hehe,"smirked a slightly shameful Gildarts.

Immediately Naruto broke out of his serious visored and grinned, "Yosh-ttebayo! We leave in an hour, bye!" He ran out of the room leaving all four listeners with faces of disbelief.

"That kid-"Gildarts started

"Yeah," Erza said disbelievingly.

The two S-class wizards and the guild master promptly told the guild that they had to present Naruto to the council, and only they would be allowed to attend the meeting. They then proceeded to their own homes to pack for their sudden, unexpected trip.

Happy flew towards Naruto and teasingly landed on his head, tail covering the excitement filled blue eyes.

"I know you were listening Happy," he chucked.

"What! But I was hidden so well!" the exceed exclaimed.

"I am one of the best chakra sensors there is now, and anyway Happy, you hid behind a chair."

The blue cat pouted are wrapped his tail more tightly around the blonds head. He asked if he was allowed to Join the four of them on their trip, to which Naruto replied, "I wouldn't have kept talking about it when I knew you were there if I didn't want you to come silly neko!"

Naruto and happy met the other three wizards at the base of the hill that held his new home and they proceeded to what the wizards called a 'magic-charged' plane. They explained that the vehicle flew when you put magical energy in it, and the amount or strength determined how long the journey would take. They then boarded the aircraft.

Erza was about to attach herself to the magic gauge but Gildarts stopped her.

"Its time to start testing our self-proclaimed 'powerful' friend", he thought.

"Naruto, attach your arm to the magic pump."

The ninja did as he was told.

"Now insert magical energy into it."

"I don't have any of that, Gildarts-jiji"

"I am NOT old! And didn't you say that you had something called chakra? Try using that?"

Everyone sat down and Makarov programmed the route into the magical aircraft.

"Well, here we go… wait!" Naruto undid his seat belt and sat on the floor cross-legged. He closed his eyes, stayed perfectly still and started to absorb chakra, then channel it into the pump attached to his arm. The plan jerked off the ground immediately, and sped off in the chosen direction at a constant speed of 200mph. The lids of his eyes changed to a bright red that almost shamed Erza's hair.

"Whoah!" Gildarts exclaimed and punched `Naruto;s shoulder, causing him to topple over. The plane instantly reduced in speed and the orange shinobi's eyes returned to normal.

"Gildarts, I need to be completely still when absorbing sennin chakra so please don't touch me"

"Well then! I think tha'"

"You'll have to show us more of the sennin chakra when we arrive at Drosenia Peak. For now leave him be Gildarts." The guild master commanded.

Gildarts grumbled in his chair but left Naruto too it. All four observers watched in awe as the constant flow of chakra took the plane and after only four hours, they arrived at their destination. They looked at each other in awe as Naruto practically bounced off the plane, so full of vibrancy, not at all like he's just been constantly supplying energy to the plane, let alone get there in four hours! The lowest they'd ever heard of for a distance of this magnitude was eight hours, and that was by Jura!

After a walk to the top of the mountain where a flat plateau was conveniently placed, jagged rocks surrounded it, creating a setting similar to the landscape created by Shinra Tensei.

Gildarts loaded a strange object off of the vehicle. They called it the MPF and instructed Naruto to 'fire away'. So he did just that, he used rasengan on the machine gaining a score of 5729, which impressed his four observers to the point of disbelief. The kid said he was strong but that much from his first move? Then Naruto entered Sage Mode and fired a Futon-Rasen Shuriken. After getting over the surprise of seeing real clones the four noticed that they had missed his attack and that the MPF was broken and the rocks in the distance had been cut off.

So instead of that plan he fought against them. He battled Erza on the first day, boy was she strong. Even in Sage Mode he had trouble but in Kyuubi mode he gained the upper hand before their battle was called to a close. He also sparred with Gildarts and finally they arrived home.

Back to the present day Naruto waited for night to come so he could sleep and prepare. He didn't care if these were his earthland-self's friends. He will fight and he will win! Because he was Uzumaki Naruto and he will become Hokage, no matter what trials he had to face!

A/N: I am so sorry this took so long! I promise to try and do this more quickly! I thought the chapter was too long to involve descriptions of the fights but if you want to read them then review or message me and ill get writing! Who's looking foreward to Naruto's fight next chapter ne?

Natsu: If you hurt my friends I will hurt you Nin-boy!

Naruto: NE! I believe you are forgetting that THEY were the ones who challenged ME And I cant believe you had to learn how to use chakra! Ha!

Natsu: *grumbles* well if I had learnt that in earthland I wouldn't have had too.

Ani: Right ladies calm down, see you next chapter!