AN: Hey Guys sorry I took so long with getting this out I've just had a lot of things on my plate like school and my personal life, so sorry for the wait but it's finally here the next instalment of The sage of Fairy Tail.

Also chosen by you guys the Naruto's pairing for the story is Erza. Don't worry about Mira though she will be close to Naruto but in a different way.

Speaking of polls a new poll is up for an upcoming story I'm working on so vote while you still can

Oh and one more thing before we begin. This is my longest chapter to date! *chirp* *chirp* *chirp* fine don't clap.

Well without further delays the next chapter.

Chapter 6: Memories and Reactions

OPENING: Naruto Shippuden OP 1 - watch?v=_ukGQdvTYto

"So let me get this straight after protecting Erza and placing seals on her that combat against binding seals, you sealed yourself away in healing dimension and fell into a coma. Which you then came out of just before the true form of the tower of heaven was revealed." Makarov questioned only for the ex-shinobi to nod, "only you Naruto."

"You know it," Naruto said turning to the members that were with him.

"It's great to have you back Naruto," Mira said while wearing a cheery smile.

Naruto looked at the woman sceptically blinking once, twice, "Who are you?" He asked the woman.

"Oh…" Mira said realising that Naruto hadn't seen her in nearly a decade, "It's me Mira."

Naruto's eyes bugged out upon hearing this, "Man, you really changed Mira I remember when I first ran into you and brought you back to Fairy Tail," Naruto said in a joking manner as he reminisced.

*Flashback*

Begin song: Deidara's theme - Naruto

"Hello there sir, I'm here accepting the mission to kill the demon," Naruto told the client. The man smirked viciously before calling out to people saying he was going to put an end to the demon. Many of the villagers grabbed objects from all around like pitchforks and began cheering and chanting. 'Why do I have a foreboding feeling about this?' Naruto thought to himself as his client led the way to where the demon was.

"So what are the supposed abilities of this demon?" Naruto asked his client as the mob continued to amass behind the two of them.

"The only thing we know is that it has sharp talons," The man replied as they finally made their way to the church where the demon was. The villagers smashed at the door for a bit trying to gain entry once they got in the grubby client yelled out, "You are finally going to get yours demon!"

"No don't hurt her!" screamed out a little white haired girl as she charged in front of a cloaked form standing protectively in front of the apparently female figure. Another figure came into view a young boy the boy walked up and stood in front of the cloaked figure and the girl.

"If you want my sister you'll have to go through me!" Was the words that the young boy screaming out in defiance. Naruto then heard sniffling from the cloaked figure.

Begin Song: Sadness and Sorrow – Naruto

"Lisanna, Elfman, you don't need to sacrifice yourself for me," came the feminine voice from the cloak. "I don't care who you are, just leave my siblings alone." The cloak turned to revel a woman with tears streaming down her face. This sent Naruto into shock as he recalled all of his childhood memories as they flashed right in front of his eyes. The beatings, the starvation, the loneliness, the pain, it all converged on him as he tightened his fist and looked at the cloaked girl.

The little girl identified as Lisanna walked up to the cloaked girl and hugged her and saying, "No, we won't leave you Mira-nee."

"Family stick together," Elfman added on as he walked up to the identified Mira and hugged her. Mira then brought out two scaly, demonic arms and hugged what Naruto could presume were her siblings as she cried harder and thanked them.

Naruto then whispered to himself, "You truly are blessed, Mira." Even though Naruto only meant it for himself Mira looked at him signifying that she caught on. A lone tear fell down his cheek as he smiled a sad smile. Mira was confused at this, the man who was supposed to kill her was sympathising her. 'It certainly weird and truly heart breaking staring into the eyes of someone who is younger than you, but has experienced the same thing, isn't Kurama?' Naruto thought.

'Indeed it is Naruto,' was the reply of the tailed beast residing in the blonde jinchuriki.

Stop Song

One of the villagers charged in front of Naruto and yelled, "YOU FILTHY DEMON HOW DARE YOU CORRUPT OUR VILLAGERS!" Naruto's fists clenched at this as his face constricted to a frown and his eyes hardened to show his resolve.

"Tell me," Naruto inquired barely keeping his rage under control, "Why shouldn't I kill you all here and now."

The young Lisanna spoke up, "Please, don't hurt my sister. She's-"

Lisanna was cut off by Naruto who said, "I wasn't talking to you young one." This surprised everyone as they were not expecting him to say such a thing. Naruto then quickly grabbed the man who had rushed in front of him and slammed him into a wall. "Now tell me, WHY SHOULDN'T I KILL YOU ALL WHERE YOU STAND FOR HUTRTING THIS FAMILY!" Naruto said softly but quickly lost his cool.

"Be-be-because sh-she's a demon we have to protect our village from her," the villager stupidly replied.

Begin song: Akatsuki – Naruto or Kouen – Naruto

Naruto fist connected to the wall beside the man. "I'M TERMINATING MY JOB FOR THIS VILLAGE!" Naruto yelled out as his skin began to peel of him revealing red energy underneath. He then tossed the man at the crowd and they became deathly frightened at what they saw. The wizard they hired who had turned against them had half of his body convulsing with red energy as they stared into his pure blood red eyes. 'Kurama, let's show these bastards what a demon really looks like.'

'I'm with you on that kit,' the fox inside Naruto replied.

If the villagers were scared before they were petrified now as the red and black energy consumed Naruto's form and obscured him from view. Nine tails of red energy shot out from the base of the spine and white glowing soulless eyes stared them in the face. As the terrifying beast before the villagers let out a growl emitting a red mist like fog and showing off its glowing white mouth. It then let out a ferocious roar as it brought its hand up and brought it down on the ground shattering it causing the villagers to scramble away in order to not be on the receiving end of the demon's wrath.

The Strauss siblings stared in shock at the man that was supposed to kill Mirajane only for him become a monster and attack the villagers. The fact that he had saved the three of them was definitely not ordinary. They stood there and watched as the demonic figure scared away the villagers in a show of power. The demonic beast tore up the ground as it roared, it then looked back at the siblings motioning to follow it. They were highly unsure what to do, this could be a demon in disguise trying to get back its friend. They were highly unsure on what to do, but Mira started to step forward.

The villagers seemed to gain courage again and started to rally to try and kill both demons. Naruto in his fox form acted quickly dashing to the three siblings and shedding the cloak around his body. He then threw a hirashin kunai as hard and far away as he could out and away from the town before grabbing on to the siblings and teleported away.

End song

When the group reappeared they were a mile or two out of the village in a yellow flash. Naruto moved away from the siblings slightly before saying, "Sorry about that, I just needed to get you guys out of there before any bloodshed occurred."

"Where are we supposed to go now?" Lisanna asked.

"You guys can come with me to Fairy Tail if you want," replied Naruto.

The young male then asked, "What's Fairy Tail?"

"It's a guild where wizards use their abilities to help others."

"Why are actually here," The cloaked girl asked, "Why are you helping us?"

"Well I was here to get rid of some animals that had been raiding the town and I helped you because I wanted to," Naruto said lying straight through his teeth concerning his reason for being there. How could he tell the truth, Oh I took a request that wanted me to kill you wasn't exactly go over with the kids well. "So what say you three wanna come to Fairy Tail?"

Begin song: Experienced many battles - Naruto

The three agreed to come on the long trip with him to Fairy Tail. On the way they had all learned each other's names. One night Mira wanted to try and burn arm off when she thought everyone was asleep. However just as she was about to Naruto grabbed her arm softly and pulled it away before sitting on the opposite side of the fire. Neither of them said anything for a while, "It really hurts doesn't it the names they call people like us," Naruto spoke up as he gazed into the campfire his glasses drooping slightly showing both his normal and Sharingan eye. "They name us because of things that are out of our control and things we can't do anything about. We never really did want to be like this did we? Look I tell you from experience thing that you are hated for can often be the thing that you turn into your greatest weapon."

"What is that?" Mira asked in response.

"Simple," Naruto answered with a sad smile, "A drive. A drive to prove those around you wrong, to prove to them that you're more than a mindless beast of destruction. It also gives you a drive to protect others from the suffering you endured." As Naruto talked Mira just looked at the man who stared at the fire. With the dancing flames reflecting in his eyes Naruto continued, "You know they had a name for the drive to protect in the village I grew up in." Naruto then went to lay down and go to sleep.

As the quite conversation went on the other two siblings stirred at the conversation. Mira who was curios decided to ask, "What was its name?"

"Its name was the will of fire," Naruto responded. He then turned to the two younger members and said, "You best go back to sleep you two and I think it's time for us to turn in Mira."

They continued on the next day and it was a little under a week before they had made it to Magnolia. "Welcome to Fairy Tail, Strauss'" Naruto said with a grin.

*End Flashback*

"Yeah it has been a while, hasn't it" Mira said with a soft smile.

"Well," The blonde man said getting up, "Better go and check my house is still intact we can hang out and catch up later guys right now I'm gonna go home and hit the sack."

Later:

Gajeel Redfox was sitting contently by a tree in in a park not too far from the guild when two shadows began to loom over him and disturbed his calmness. The figures were Jet and Droy, two of four Fairy Tail wizards who was injured by Gajeel due to his actions when he was a part of a guild known as Phantom Lord. Behind them was another person who was severely hurt by Gajeel, Levy McGarden. "Why are you even here?" Jet asked with distain in his voice.

"Nobody wants you hear so why don't you just leave." Droy spat, hate lacing each word that came out of his mouth. The two proceeded to wail on Gajeel with a series of punches and kicks while Levy tried to not acknowledge what was going on.

However the three were interrupted when a prominent stern voice cut through the beatings, "So this is the guy who disgraced Fairy Tail." The man was wearing a purple shirt with its sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He had short spiky blonde hair and long black dress pants came down to his volley slip on shoes. He had a black coat lined with fur draped over his shoulders. This man was the third maser's grandson Laxus Dreyer. The lightning bolt scarred man made his way towards the former member of Phantom Lord and proceeded to send devastating attack upon attack at the iron dragon slayer. It eventually got to a point voiced her opinions about the actions occurring.

In response to this Laxus sent a lightning bolt at blue haired woman only for something completely unexpected to happen. Gajeel jumped into the way of the attack however before it could hit his iron arm a large wall of earth emerged from the ground and protect both Levy and Gajeel. Upon making contact the lightning dissipated but not before absolutely decimating the wall. "The hell," was all Laxus said about the situation. Nobody really said anything for a bit before a new voice cut in.

"Now, now, that's not very nice is it Laxus." The voice was quickly revealed to be Naruto. Laxus went wide eyed at the sudden revelation that Naruto was alive and well. "You know you really shouldn't pick on people who aren't your calibre," Naruto said as he lowered his head slightly causing his sun glasses slip a little and reveal his deep blue eye and his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan eye.

All current eyes were on Naruto as he glared dangerously at Laxus. "I thought you were going home," Gajeel said trying to get a conversation going and relieve some of the heavy tension in the air.

"It's kinda hard to ignore the large amounts of negativity oozing from around here," Naruto said in a light hearted tone. He then took a much more serious demeanour, "I will only warn you once Laxus leave these guys alone or this will get very ugly, very quickly."

Laxus did nothing he just stood there idly in surprise and fear. Surprise due to one of the few people who didn't see him as nothing more than the Master's grandson. Fear in the tension and uneasy feeling that his fellow blonde had produced. It was scary his glare and his absolute neutral voice caused him to become very frightened as the man's entire persona was screaming at him saying 'Fuck with me, I dare you, see what happens'. By the time Laxus had regained his senses he noticed nobody was there anymore the only people around were random civilians.

Laxus became very annoyed upon fully realising what had happened, he'd just been brushed off by a bunch of weaklings and a relic no less. Laxus's fury began to build to exponential levels as he final left to go and find the Thunder Legion. 'Fairy Tail's cleansing will happen soon. No one gonna stop it from happening, not Erza, not Mystogan, not Gramps and especially that deserter of a relic, Naruto. They will either join the new and improved Fairy Tail or they will burn with the old one.'

However unnoticed to Laxus Naruto was on a nearby rooftop looking at him. "What happened Laxus," Naruto asked himself quietly as Laxus slowly disappeared from his sight, "What happened to for you to put out this much negative emotions? What happened to make you act like this? Why are you turning out like Jellal?"

CLOSING: Naruto Shippuden Ending 1 - watch?v=FMMRBpZUeQs

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