"Naruto" Normal Speech.

'Naruto' Normal Thought.

"Rasengan" Jutsu/Power/Technique.

"Kurama" Demonic/Dragon/Youkai Speeches.

'Kurama' Demonic/Dragon/Youkai Thoughts.

Fairy's Guardian

Chapter 7

Erza Scarlet gasped for breath as she received a heavy kick from Naruto, the one who accepted to start their training with her being the first victim of his so called hellish training. The kick was so strong that he sent her several feet into the air before falling down to the ocean, yards away from the beach and had to stab the sword down to the sand under the sea to regain her balance and stop herself. However as soon as she looked up, she saw his fist coming right at her and Erza barely had time to move her head out of the way to dodge his punch, which missed her only slightly.

Titania raised her sword and made another attack, but suddenly felt her sword got stuck in the sand as if something was keeping it there. Her eyes widened when Naruto raised his leg and knee her hard in her gut, making the swordswoman cough in pain and was then knocked down to the water by a simple hit to the back of her head

"Just let you know that your armors literally protect nothing against a fighter like me." Naruto said coldly "Get up and continue!" Erza immediately pushed herself up and wiped the wet bang from her face, her eyes burning with determination. Erza then re-quipped her armors, changing from Kureha no Yoroi (Black Wing Armor) to Hisho no Yoroi (Flight Armor) in just a blink.

"I see" Naruto said when Erza charged at him with such speed that she became nothing but a blur but it wasn't something Naruto couldn't handle. As soon as Erza was a foot in front of him with her spear thrust to his chest, Naruto moved his body out of the way and grabbed her spear, side stepping and grabbed Erza's wrist and pulled her right arm with him when he got Erza, using her own arm to headlock her, a kunai pointing at her hip "You decide to exchange power for speed, that's a good strategy."

He wasn't kidding when he said he was going to beat the living hell out of them.

Natsu, along with everyone who was watching dropped their jaw to the ground in shock at the sight of Titania Erza Scarlet, the strongest woman of Fairy Tail being pushed down without a slightest chance of fighting back like that.

"But you will have to try harder if you want to beat someone superior than you in every aspect." Naruto stated before raising his hand with his index finger pointing up "And next time," Erza yelped out in shock when a tentacle of sand suddenly wrapped itself around her ankle and pulled the scarlet head woman into the air, hanging her upside down much to her shock "check your surroundings."

"How can I check the surroundings when this whole place is filled with sand" Erza defended herself by crying out the oblivious.

"I take that you don't have any armors to use against sand." Naruto chuckled and in a flash, Erza's white bikini was back to her body. The sand then put Erza down before sinking back into the sea, disappeared without trace.

"I read the manual about the GMC and it seems there won't be any team battle until the end of the tournament so I will have to train your strength first." Naruto said. Shame, with this kind of team he would really love the idea of pushing them through hell with the bell-test, since it'd been a really long time and he really missed those days "The good thing is that you guys have three months to prepare." Everyone nodded their head.

"HA HA HA HA! The other Guild's jerks open your eyes!" Natsu laughed loudly and excitedly "I'll show you our overwhelming power after three month training!" immediately after Natsu finished his over-confident statement, Natsu was splashed in the face by a large orb of water controlled by Naruto, soaking him head to toe and packed enough force to knock him down to the sand.

"Don't get full of yourself brat." Naruto smirked slyly before darting his eyes to the waiting group and his eyes landed on Lucy, who was sitting on the sand "Lucy, you're next." He said.

"Me?" Lucy pointed at herself with a nervous smile, if Natsu or even Erza stood no chance against him, then what chance does she got against Naruto "I'm not..."

"Nonsense, stand up and show me how well you can cooperate with your spirits."

Fortunately for the stellar mage, a certain celestial maid with pink hair came to her rescue by poking her head out of the sand, right underneath Lucy. The blond cried out in surprise and blushed slightly when she found herself sitting right on top of the pink haired maid's head

"Hime, emergency" Virgo, the Maiden Celestial spirit said with her usual emotionless expression "I'm ready for the punishment"

"Why are you here?" Lucy asked as she got up and helped Virgo out of the sand.

"Virgo!"

"The maid spirit" Carla pointed her paw at Virgo and said blankly.

"Lucy has been in the Fairy Sphere for seven years...which means that all the celestial spirits who made contracts with her were staying in the Celestial Realm" Gray said, crossing his arms.

"Oh poor spirits! Because of Lucy's fault...Lucy's fault" Juvia cried.

"No...that's not a big problem for us." Virgo looked down, her eyes still showed no emotion but everyone could see some sadness in them.

"What happened?" Levi asked curiously. Everyone turned their eyes to look at the Maiden, waiting for her answer.

"The Celestial Realm is in a crisis of extermination" The maid said "Please...please help us" this made everyone, especially Lucy gasp in shock.

"What?"

"What happened?"

"The King of the Celestial Realm is waiting for you" Virgo bowed her head "I'm here to pick you up" she informed

"Sure!" Natsu cried out "Let's go to help them! We're friends..."

"Wait! We humans cannot go to the Celestial Realm, can we?" Lucy asked her spirit.

"You can enter the realm in the celestial clothes." Virgo replied before a big magic circle appeared underneath them and shone brightly "Ready to go?" She asked.

"Hey, I'm not ready yet!"

"Naruto," Lucy turned her head to Naruto in surprise when they saw him stepped out of the magic circle "You don't come with us?" everyone turned their head to look at him in surprise, but Naruto only waved his hand to them.

"Don't want to...because it's not my business" he said simply with a shrug and turned around, walking away with his hands in his pocket "Plus, with you guys aren't around, I can at least have some alone time."

"Oi!" Natsu roared "The Celestial Realm is in danger and you're not going to help?!" the others immediately stepped in to hold him back before Natsu could do anything stupid and get beat up by Naruto, again.

"Naruto...Uzumaki..." Everyone immediately stopped whatever they were doing and turned their head to look at Virgo in surprise after they all heard her said his name. It couldn't be that Virgo could possibly know someone who spent his whole life on the Island, unless the two had met before in the past.

Naruto turned his head around slightly and looked at Virgo, who was also turning her head to look at him.

A small smirk appeared on his face.

"Send my greeting to that old man, Virgo." With that, he turned around and walked away. Lucy couldn't help but widen her eyes slightly at this.

Was Naruto talking about the Spirit King?

"I will..." Virgo bowed her head and with that, the magic circle teleported them away, leaving only Jet and Droy back much to their confusion.

"Shouldn't you warn them about the time in Celestial Realm?" A voice inside of Naruto's head asked him, but Naruto only shook his head with a small chuckle.

"That is their problem for listening to Virgo's lie." Naruto said and headed to the nearest bar.

"What do you intent to do now?"

"My own training of course." Naruto said shortly "Don't want to slack off forever since I'm going to participate in this GMC with them."

"Heh...and I thought you said you don't care about them."

"I might be a bit paranoid, but I have a bad feeling about this Grand Magic Game, this...plan that girl, Fiore was talking about." Naruto leaned back against the chair and put his feet onto the table, with his hands behind his head "Plus, Mavis is going to be so mad at me and won't stop bugging me if I let anything happen to her pride guild."

"You seem to care about others a lot more lately, aren't you?"

"Nonsense" Naruto clicked his tongue in annoyance before closing his eyes.

Now, other than training, what should he do during this time the brats are away?

His eyes opened a little when he heard loud talking noise of a group of people and saw a very familiar blonde walking ahead of them, wearing a very sexy swimsuit on her body.

[Timeskip-1 day later in the real world]

"Actually it's the opposite," Virgo said blankly as the group finally returned to the human world after A DAY of partying at the Celestial Realm "One day in the celestial realm equals 3 month in the human world" Her merciless words made them froze in shock. The team was completely gobsmacked and didn't know how to reply.

"Eh..." Natsu, Erza and Gray all muttered in shock.

"Hey you all!" Jet and Droy appeared and greeted them cheerily "We've been waiting for so long."

"The Grand Magic Fight Battle will be held in five day. You must have been training hard!" Droy happily informed them, completely oblivious of the mood.

"Oh my god!" All three of them fell to the ground face first while Wendy fell down to her knees and cried.

"MUSTACHE BASTARD!" Lucy cried out angrily with a force smile "Give us back the time!"

"What are they talking about?" Jet asked in confusion.

A few minutes later after having Virgo changed their clothes back to the normal ones, Natsu and the rest of his team as well as Levy and Juvia all sat down on the sand while leaning their back against a line of tree, still wasn't be able to get out of their shocking state and their mind still trying to absorb the fact that the GMC was about to begin in five days.

"How did we wind up in this mess?" Erza asked quietly.

"Our precious training time..." Natsu couldn't help but release a longing sigh.

"Three months, just like that..." Gray nodded before lowering his head.

"What are we gonna do?" Lucy asked the other.

"I guess we have no choice but to let other compete this time..." Levy said sadly, making Juvia release a heavy sigh.

But before any of them could say anything more than that, small rocks were thrown at their head, even Jet and Droy's head with enough force to knock a normal human's skull in.

"Oi! Who did that?" Natsu cried out in frustration and stood up with fire covered his body while the other held their head in pain.

"Welcome back, brats." A familiar, amused voice could be heard from above them and everyone turned their head up to find Naruto Uzumaki standing on top of the wall "What? Did you manage to save Celestial Spirit World?" he asked mockingly.

With just a day in the Celestial World, the mages of Fairy Tail felt like it was just yesterday they were still training with Naruto but in truth, three whole months had passed since that day they left the human world and they could see some changes on the mysterious young man. First, Naruto's golden hair had grown a little longer than before, yet still managed to keep its spiky natural. His attire also changed, with him now wearing a black shirt and orange jacket with black stripes, black pant and black sandals. His right hand also wore a fingerless glove with metal protector at the back of his hand.

The red armband held the magical mark of Fairy tail was still wore on his left arm.

Though, they could already tell that his attitude was still the same, as always.

"Yo" Naruto greeted them and jumped down to the sand "You guys still don't answer my question though" he smirked.

"You know?" Lucy asked in surprise.

"Of course, she was obliviously lying," Naruto pointed his hand to Virgo, who was being tied up and had brick on her lap. He picked up a small rock and flicked it to Virgo's forehead with enough force for her to feel a slight tingle of pain. The pink haired spirit moaned out in delight when the rock came to impact with her head "it's just that you guys were too stupid to acknowledge it."

"OI! You want to pick a fight?" Natsu gritted his teeth and grabbed Naruto's collar, but with a simple move, Natsu was thrown pass Naruto's shoulder and slammed face-first down to the ground hard, with Naruto's hand on top of his head to keep him there. Even someone who held monstrous strength like Natsu couldn't move a muscle while being restrained by Naruto.

"Now now, shouldn't you more worry about the upcoming GMC?" Naruto asked with a smirk before letting the pink haired boy go "Unless you want to let the others have all the glory…you brats have five days left to get stronger, how the hell is you lot going to do that?" Naruto asked mockingly, pointing at Natsu's face.

"Do you have any training that can make us as strong as you in five days?" Natsu asked with tears in his eyes "Please say you have."

"Nonsense kid, you of all people should know that strength come from hard work, really and really long hard work. Even I cannot get stronger than those cats in five single days." The cats pouted when Naruto pointed his hand at them. What he was saying was only half-truth, before the start of the Fourth Shinobi War, he did get a lot stronger than before in just a couple of days training with Bee, but it was a very different story there "If you want to get stronger then I wisely advice you lot stand up and gear up, I'm going to unleash your potential in the hardest way possible." A dark, cruel smirk appeared on Naruto's face as he cracked his fists around dangerously.

Everyone, even Erza gulped nervously. They knew the man was going to push them through hell.

However, once again they were saved by a pigeon that appeared out of nowhere and landed on top of Erza's head, carrying a small rolled paper on its right legs.

"To Fairy Tail," The scarlet head mage read it out loud "come to the suspension bridge deep in the West Woods."

Naruto nearly face-palmed when the Fairy Tail mages immediately did what they were told in that message without thinking about a possible prank from someone, or worse an ambush. Fairy Tail wasn't the flashiest guild now, but in the past they made plenty enemies with dark mages and the evils, Naruto wouldn't feel any surprise if they were going to be attacked by the guys who Natsu used to punch like a punching bag or something like that.

"Nobody's here…" Natsu growled while punching his palm, scouting around the area with his eyes when they arrived at the suspension bridge "Nobody's here… what the hell?"

"Was it a prank?" Gray asked, having the same scowl as Natsu. Naruto followed behind them very closely, and unlike the youngsters, he scouted the area very carefully and on guard.

Then suddenly, much to their shock the bridge automatically fixed itself. Broken woods and ropes flew up from the deep below and started attracting to each other, creating a whole bridge that connected the cliff on the other side.

"Time magic." Naruto spoke up. He could recognize that kind of magic anywhere "The arc of time." It was an interesting magic to say the least. Time was actually meaningless for him, so Naruto suddenly found himself very eager to meet the one who just used the magic that control what made his life a real mess.

"Seriously?" Gray asked in shock, turning to Juvia "You think… it's them?" he sent her a meaningful look and Juvia couldn't help but nod her head nervously.

"This must be our invitation." Erza hardened her eyes at the mention of time magic "This might be a trap."

"I don't know who could it be, but let's go for it"

Everyone nodded their head at Natsu's words and continued to make their way forward. After around five minutes of travelling on foot, the group flinched when they suddenly saw three cloaked figure standing in front of them. Naruto would have done the same thing, if not for the fact that he already sensed them a few seconds before facing. He had lowered his guard, but still very caution. From what he could tell, none of the cloaked figures in front of them were enemies or had negative emotions, showing that they come here in peace and simply wanting to meet Fairy Tail.

He could see the shocking expression on the Fairy Tail mage, letting him know that the kids must have some history with these three.

"Thank you for coming." The middle one, a male said and slowly removed his cloak, just like his two companions. He was a young man with cold gaze, blue hair and red tattoo on the right side of his face. "Fairy Tail."

Standing at his left was a pale-skinned woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes, spotting a rather voluptuous figure consisted of little more than a tabard-like garment that mostly likely exposed her back. The attire was opened on both sides of her body except for a small attachment at her waist, exposing a fair amount of her large breasts. She also donned long black boots that leave her upper thighs bare, a white cloth around her head and holding a large crystal orb close to her hip.

At his right, was a curvaceous young lady with hot pink eyes and wavy back-length pink hair. Her outfit consisted of a red dress with a golden trim around a deep neckline that exposes a large amount of her ample cleavage with a short skirt and a belt with a yellow ribbon tied around her waist and black colored stockings and brown boots.

"Jellal…" Erza, along with her friend gasped in shock at the present of their former enemies.

"You haven't changed a bit, Erza" the blue haired man, Jellal said with a small smile "So I'm sure you've all heard about my jailbreak by now?"

"Yeah" Erza nodded her head.

"Though, to be honest… it's not what I had planned." The man said with a puzzle look, looking away to avoid Erza's eyes.

"Meredy and I broke him out." Ultear said with a smile.

"I didn't do anything, you did it all by yourself, mostly, Ultear." The pinked haired Meredy said. She then looked at Juvia and smiled brightly "Juvia, it's been awhile." The water girl, who was shaking just a few seconds ago couldn't stop herself from smiling gently at the cheerful pink haired girl.

Erza opened her mouth to speak again, but before she or anyone could make a word, almost unseen able wires attracted to kunai and shuriken suddenly appeared and wrapped around them, binding the Fairy Group together much to the other three's shock. Natsu and the rest cried out in surprise when they were forced down to the ground and pulled away by a very carefree Naruto.

"Oi! What are you doing?!" It was Erza who cried out

"Hate to destroy the moment, but we're wasting our time here." Naruto said simply and pulled Fairy Tail group, who was crying out loud with him "You kids have less than five days to train and yet you're here sobbing around with memories, nice jobs. What? You want to stay weak forever or simply don't want to help Fairy Tail raise to the top again?" Naruto stopped and turned his eyes to look at them. His words made them stopped screaming and looked down with defeated eyes.

"Wait!" Ultear called out, stopping Naruto when he about to pull them away again "Please stop, I have an offer for you." Naruto didn't reply, but he did stop on his feet and turned around to look at Ultear "I know that you guys are here for training for the upcoming Grand Magic Game. We actually wanted to meet you three months ago but you guys suddenly disappeared. I know that you are short on time for training but I think I can help you with that." She raised the orb she was holding and said "With my new improved time arc, I can raise the level of your ability."

"Eh?"

"Time magic?" Naruto asked, crossing his arms on his chest "You mean Second Origin?" he asked.

"Eh?" Gray, Natsu and Lucy asked with total confusion.

Naruto started explaining "Every Mage has a container inside their body that determines the limits of their Magic Power. In the case that it becomes empty, Ethernano comes from the atmosphere and enters the Mage's body: after a while, their Magic Power is returned to normal. However, recent studies about magic have identified another part of Mages' Magic container that isn't used normally and contains their dormant power, called Second Origin. If the power within this second container is reached, then the Mage in question will receive an enormous boost in Magic Power, allowing them to wield more powerful spells and to use their Magic over longer periods of time"

"Yes, it's like what he said." Ultear nodded her head "My time arc can evolve your containers so that they're capable of using second origin. In other words, it will give a giant boost to your magical power, even more than any of the training you have done until know."

"Seriously?" Natsu cried and cheered out along with everyone.

Naruto then released the wire he was holding and said to Ultear "If you can really help them then do it." He said and Ultear nodded her head. "But, you lot are still going through a lot of pain with me after this." Naruto glared down at them, with the same dark aura and threatening words.

His ridiculous sense of humor was still there, after all.

Erza sighed, maybe everything wasn't going to be so bad after all. She then turned to Jellal and couldn't help but fury her eyebrows when she saw the way he was looking at Naruto, and it wasn't a friendly gaze. Her childhood friend had a vast knowledge about the dark side of magic and she knew that gaze could only mean trouble.

Naruto Uzumaki was still a big mystery for them.


End of Chapter 7


Yagami's note: Sorry for the long wait, but it took me quite some time to know what should I do and shouldn't do with the chapter. I decided to put a three months timeskip in this chapter as well, and a lot of things that was very important but also unimportant to point out now will be revealed in the future chapters.

I will skip toward to the GMC right at the next chapter.

Again, my deepest apology for the long wait. I will start updating this story more frequently from now on, who know maybe a new chapter will come out tomorrow? XD

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P/S: I think I will start developing relationship between Naruto and his girls during the GMC.

Ja ne!