``mister?´´
``mwuueh?´´
``mister please get up.´´
``huuh? No.. m'head hurts.´´
``Mister Kakashi you need to get up now it's three in the afternoon.´´
Kakashi slowly opened his eye and looked at the pretty white haired woman named Mirajane.
``what are you doing in my house?´´
``hmm? Oh my this is not your house mister Kakashi, this is the fairy tail guild.´´ she smiled pleasantly as she told him that. Kakashi looked around, he was in a long room with several beds at the walls.
``fairy tail.. oh right I didn't go home yesterday.´´
``that's right. Oh and here take this.´´ she handed him a note with several things written on it. Kakashi read the contents of the note quickly and then glanced tiredly at Mirajane.
``why am I the one that has to pay for all the alcohol me and master drank yesterday?´´
``That would be because you lost.´´ Mira looked at the man who held his head in his hands ``would you like some water?´´
``yeah, actually never mind water I need a serious pick-me-up.´´
``oh If that's what you want then we have something that works quite well.´´ she left the room and only a minute later came back with a glass filled with yellow liquid. She presented it to Kakashi who did not move an inch.
``what is that?´´
``Fairy tails patented hangover cure.´´
``why is it steaming and bubbling though?´´
``because it is very potent.´´
Kakashi groaned and took the glass, Mirajane looked at him expectantly nodding while making 'drink it' gestures. He instead looked at the door, Mirajane looked as well, and when she turned back to Kakashi he held out an empty glass to her. She took it and watched as Kakashi started to shiver.
``i-is there a b-b-bathroom here?´´
``yes just down the hall.´´
Kakashi stood and slowly walked to the door, after exiting the room Mirajane could hear his loud steps as he rushed towards the toilet. She nodded to herself with a pleased smile, job well done, time to get back to the bar and keep working.
XOXOXOXO
``Naruto get up´´
``...´´
Erza grew tired of waiting, even though she had only waited for a few seconds. She punched his head and he woke up with a yelp that turned to a groan of pain.
``E-Erza?! What the hell?´´ Naruto said with tears in his eyes, that had hurt like hell!
``when I came back to the guild earlier, master told me that you had been hurt on your mission. So I brought Wendy here so she could heal you.´´ Naruto took a look around his room, there were no other people that he could see in the room. Only a white cat wearing a pink dress that was standing on the edge of his bed could be seen.
``you brought a cat to heal me?´´
Erza looked over the room and then addressed the cat ``Charle where did Wendy go?´´
``she went into the bathroom when she saw that the boy was naked.´´
``what?´´ Naruto looked down and realized he was only wearing boxers, and the particular pair he had on had little frogs printed on them. Ooh how embarrassing. He got of his bed and put on a pair of pants in record time as Erza walked over to the bathroom to get Wendy out.
As he waited Naruto looked at the white cat who stared back at him with scowl. ``so uuh are you the same as Natsus cat?´´
``please do not put me in the same category as the male cat. But yes we are of the same race.´´
``but hey hey you're wearing a dress, but Natsus cat never wears anything. Does that mean he is always naked?´´
the cat seemed to get angry when he asked that as it glared at him ``what manner of stupid question is that?!´´ the cat was stopped from saying anything more when a girl about Narutos age came and nervously reprimanded the cat.
``Charle you should try to be nice to people you meet.´´
``hmph the boy was asking stupid questions, of course I would respond like that´´ Wendy seemed to get upset at that and Charle sighed. ``fine ill be more polite, but only if the boy tries to act more refined as well.´´
``Charle´´ Wendy said with a big smile on her face.
``so hey, you're the one who's going to heal me?´´ Wendy faced Naruto who had moved closer to them.
``aah! Umm yes, I am Wendy Marvell nice to meet you.´´ Wendy took a step back to get some distance from the topless boy.
``yeah nice to meet you! So hey hey what magic do you use? Some kind of healing magic? Is it cool? What does it- OOW!´´ Naruto looked down at the white cat that had smacked his broken ribs ``what the hell was that for!?´´
``you are scaring Wendy you dumb mongrel! Just look at her!´´
Naruto looked over to see that Wendy had backed up all the way to the wall, with a heavy blush on her face. ``oh.´´
Erza decided to take control of the situation ``Naruto lie down and shut up! Wendy please heal him!´´ the children quickly did as she said, nobody disrespected Erzas authority! ``oh and Naruto, what happened on your mission to get you hurt so badly?´´
Naruto looked at her from the bed and began to recount his mission ``well.. the mission was to take out a vulcan that was attacking farmers in Kusa. So I went and looked for it by the forest, and it came out just as I got there so I fought it and, ya'know killed it. So thought I was done and started walking back to Kusa but then another Vulcan came and like grabbed me and tossed me and hit me and stuff. So I like used oblivion to beat it but it fell on top of me and I don't remember anything after that.´´
``... what's oblivion?´´
``my magic! I named it yesterday! Pretty cool right?!´´ Naruto smiled widely
``umm´´ wendy spoke up and Naruto focused on her ``i am done healing you now´´
``huh?´´ Naruto looked at his formerly injured chest, after a bit of fiddling he got the bandages of and saw his chest was completely back to normal. A tentative deep breath and no pain. Holy shit! ``that's freaking awesome! it's like I never even got hurt! Wendy your magic is so cool!´´
As Naruto praised Wendy, Charle got mad and started telling him off again. A fight between Naruto and the cat was avoided when Erza spoke up again, she had a look of shame on her face and she shook slightly
``Naruto, it is my fault that you got hurt, I did not train you well enough and you paid the prize for it.´´ she looked up with conviction and raised a fist calling out loudly ``Please hit me until you feel better!´´
Naruto turned the idea of hitting Erza over in his head, she had punched him to wake him up and her training had been hellish to say the least. Yeah time for a bit of payback. He stood on his bed, which brought him to eye level with Erza and cocked a fist back before punching as hard as he could, hitting Erza right on her cheek.
They stood still for a moment and then Erza spoke ``Naruto I told you to hit as hard as you could, please don't hold back.´´
a drop of sweat formed on Narutos forehead. ``... that WAS the hardest I can hit´´ his hand hurt badly, it had been like punching a rock.
Erza looked horrified ``to think I neglected your training to such an extent that you cant even punch correctly! But do not worry I will get you into shape, we need to go and train right now! Wendy you head back to the guild, I am sure Lucy would be happy to show you around. Naruto! Lets go!´´ she grabbed the boys arm and pulled him along with her as she ran out.
``well I think we should go to the guild then, I would like some tea.´´Charle left the room.
``aah Charle! Wait for me!´´ Wendy hurried after her.
XOXOXOXO
Naruto lied on the rocky ground wheezing in exhaustion, the training had become way harder than before. The usual jog had to the base of the mountain was extended to the top of the mountain where there was a large plateau. When they finally got there Erza had proceeded to strap rocks to Narutos arms, legs and back to make muscle training harder. He had finally gotten done with that and relaxed on the ground.
``Naruto get up, we are not done yet.´´
``huh?! What do we still have left to do!?´´ Naruto felt panic creep into his mind when Erza re-quipped the armor she wore into a metallic dress with four wings on her back that looked to be made out of metal. She floated into the air and tens of swords appeared around her like a halo.
``it is time for dodging exercises! I will send swords at you one by one. I will try to avoid hitting vital areas but do your best to dodge just in case.´´
Naruto screamed and jumped out of the way just in time to avoid the sword that flew at him, he was not so lucky with the next sword that came and cut his arm.
The dodging continued for ten minutes, and at the end of it Naruto fell to his knees with small cuts here and there. Narutos eyes widened as a wooden sword landed in front of him, he looked questioningly at Erza who held another wood sword in her hands.
``now we will spar, pick the sword up so we can begin.´´
Naruto sighed and shakily picked the sword up, then he stood and was forced to guard Erzas surprise overhead blow. Over and over Erza attacked and Naruto did his best to guard. After a while Erza stopped ``Naruto you have to attack back, you need to know both defense and offense.´´
``yeah I... I would attack... but... i'm not.. getting any openings.´´ Naruto was barely standing at the moment.
``i left about twenty openings for you and you did not even see them? It seems I will have to show you what to look for.´´
``lets do that... tomorrow... please?´´ Naruto hoped with all his heart that she would say yes
``fine. We will meet at the guild tomorrow at sunrise.´´
XOXOXOXOXO
On the fifth day of training Naruto decided to stay after Erza went back to the guild, it was time to test his magic a bit. The sun was blocked by thick dark clouds which was perfect since he would need a lot of darkness for what he was about to do.
Naruto began summoning large amounts of dark matter which crawled up and slowly covered his body. When he was completely covered he looked down at himself, his entire body was shrouded in a dark haze. He concentrated and bit by bit the darkness hardened, becoming armor for him. When that was done he tried to move, but found he couldn't. The darkness had turned into something like a crystal around him.
``shit.´´ the idea he had was to make armor with his magic so he could defend better when someone broke his guard. But it would be useless if he could not move to counter or evade. Well he'd just have to take his oblivion armor back to the drawing board. ``what if I keep some parts hardened and others loose...´´
As Naruto muttered to himself it had begun to rain, looking up at the sky he saw that the thick clouds were starting to swirl strangely. Thinking it to be a storm brewing he started to jog back to town.
As he came closer to town winds started to pick up and after a while a bright light exploded before him. There was no sound so he knew it was not thunder, he opened his eyes and looked at Magnolia. Or rather where Magnolia had been, the entire town was gone, all that was left was a completely flat surface.
Naruto felt cold, seriously? what the hell was this? Did someone use illusion magic to freak him out or what? Stepping out onto the flat waste that once was Magnolia, he saw a lone figure some distance away. Not even thinking twice he ran towards it, as he went another figure appeared next to the first one, this one was taller.
He came closer and saw that the tall one was Natsu and the small one was Wendy. ``HEEEY!´´ they looked over at him ``guy's what the hell is happening the freaking town just disappeared!´´
When he finally came close to them he saw that both Charle and Happy were there. The white cat looked over at him condescendingly. ``there is no time to explain again, we need to fly through the hole in the sky before it closes!´´ the cat quickly grabbed Wendy and floated upwards.
``oi Naruto hold on to me and well get going!´´ Natsu shouted as Happy grabbed him, Naruto awkwardly grabbed his waist as he started to float up as well.
``hey where the hell are we going anyways!?´´ Naruto shouted to Wendy who was a bit further up.
``we are going to another world called Edolas!´´ she shouted back to him.
Naruto felt his mind go blank, WHAT? Another world? What about the town? He did not have time to ask questions however as they started to pick up speed and headed towards a hole in the sky. Going through the hole they suddenly found themselves in a strange place.
Naruto looked out over the landscapes and took it all in, islands of rock floating in the sky, streams of water flowed about in the air as well. Then he felt a strange feeling overcome him, looking down he saw the ground coming closer. Oh, they were falling.
``AAAAAAAHHHH!
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Naruto stood alone on the waste that had once been Magnolia, he was surrounded by small dust clouds. But as he stood in his solitude he suddenly heard a noise reverberate through the area.
Out of thin air a Delorian appeared and rolled to a stop just a few meters in front of him. The door of the car opened to reveal that Charle was driving and Natsu sat in the passenger seat with Wendy on his lap.
Naruto ignored the ridiculousness of what was before him to ask a single question that was pressing in his mind ``how are you driving that thing? You cant even reach the pedals.´´
after asking that a faint 'aye' reached his ears from under Charles seat. Charle herself looked at him and said ``i am sure you have figured out that Happy is manning the pedals. So get in looser we are going to Edolas!´´
authors note
I have a lot of stuff in store for the Edolas arc so get ready. Next chapter you'll get to see 'edo Naruto'
