The Fox Scroll

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Naruto Or Fairy Tail

A/N: This chapter has been revised as of 2/20/2017


"How far did that guy get!?" Gray shouted in frustration.

"I don't know but be on guard, there are people up ahead." Naruto said as they entered an open room.

Coming to a stop, the two noticed a strange looking man standing in front of a smoking Happy and an injured Simon.

"What are you doing!? I thought you were going after Erza!" Gray shouted angrily.

"Sorry, I got a little… Preoccupied." Simon replied, struggling to get up.

Naruto ran over to the burnt cat. "Happy! Are you okay?"

"Naruto... that guy... he ate Natsu!" He choked out.

"Ehh!?" Naruto looked at the enemy and pointed at him in shock. "That guy has a bird head!"

The bird headed man looked at them. "More of them? Tastes the flames of justice! Who-who~!" He spit a large flame at Naruto and Happy, and the blonde picked up the exhausted feline and jumped out of the way.

Landing next to Simon, he gently put Happy down.

"Be careful, he is absorbing Salamander's magic." Simon warned.

"Don't forget about me!" Gray shouted as he bumped a fist in his hand. "Ice Make: Lance!" Large streams of ice flew at the assassin.

The birdman fired another shot of flames, desecrating Gray's attack and covered him in flames. "Gahh!"

"Gray!" Naruto was about to jump in when the flames became frozen solid.

"Compared to Natsu's flames, these are nothing." The ice mage taunted and tossed the ice aside.

Sighing in relief, Naruto turned back to Simon. "Which way did that Shou guy go?"

He pointed in the direction he last saw his friend go. "Please, save Erza."

Naruto nodded and gave him a thumbs up. "I'll bring her back, it's a promise!" Turning over to Gray, he shouted. "Hey Gray! You take care of things here, I'm going ahead!"

Jumping out of the way from being gobbled up, Gray yelled back. "Yeah! We'll catch up shortly!"

"Who-who~! You think you can escape?" The bird headed assassin charged towards the fleeting ninja, but his path was blocked by a wall of ice.

"Your opponent is me!" Gray shouted.

"Very well. Who-who-who!"


As Naruto ran down the halls in the direction he was given, he couldn't help but worry about the others. 'I hope everyone's alright… Huh?'

Something started pulling at him from the back of his mind. 'The Kyuubi? What could that fox want right now?'

Coming to a stop, he closed his eyes and went into his mindscape.

Opening his eyes again, he found himself in front of the nine-tailed fox. "What do you want? I'm busy."

The fox growled. "Insolent human, and here I was trying to warn you of a very powerful energy."

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Powerful energy?"

"I believe your friends called it, Etherion."

"Ehh!? They really are going to fire it!? Is it being fired now!?" Naruto shouted, beginning to panic.

Growing annoyed of his jailer's obnoxious screams, the Kyuubi shouted. "Would you just shut up and let me finish!?" The fox's voice boomed, shaking the entire room.

Now having the blonde's full attention, he continued. "As I was saying, no it is not firing, but I can faintly sense the... magic being gathered."

"Do you have an estimate on when it will be done charging?"

The demon seemed to think about it for a second. "If I were to guess, I would say about fifteen to twenty minutes or so..."

Naruto looked at his prisoner in suspicion. "Why are you suddenly being so helpful?"

"...Because it wouldn't be beneficial for me to have you be killed in another dimension."

Naruto turned back and waved. "Well thanks, I guess. See ya!" After hearing a loud grunt, he closed his eyes again and left his mindscape.

"Huh, I guess that fuzzball has a heart after all." Naruto mused to himself.

With that done, Naruto got up and started running again. 'Well now that I know that the council really is going to fire that thing, I gotta hurry and get everyone out.'

"Nee-San!"

'That's Sho! I better hurry!'

Picking up his pace, Naruto turned a corner and found Erza and Shou down the hall. There was a pink haired woman lying on the floor talking to them, but he couldn't make out the words. "Erza!"

The red head turned her head in his direction. "Naruto?"

Skidding to a stop in front of her, Naruto looked at the fallen assassin. "Who's that? Wait, scratch that. The council is going to fire Etherion soon! We need to get out of here!"

Erza nodded. "Yes, that's why I want you and Shou to go look for Simon and the others and get everyone out of here."

"And what about you?" Naruto asked with an even tone, already knowing the answer.

Erza looked down the hallway fiercely. "Jellal."

Sighing, Naruto turned to Shou. "Well, you heard the lady."

The tan teen was hesitant at first but then ran off, but the ninja didn't move a muscle.

Seeing this, Erza looked at Naruto with a slightly irritated look. "You don't plan on going, do you?"

Laughing, Naruto crossed his arms and nodded. "Sorry, but I promised everyone that I'd find you and make sure you got out in one piece." He pointed to his headband. "I don't go back on my promises, ya know?"

Erza turned and nodded, a slight smile on her lips. "Very well. But I'll be the one to take down Jellal, he's my responsibility."

Naruto rolled his eyes but nodded. "Yeah, yeah. Let's go, we don't have that much time."


"How disappointing. The game is already over." Jellal said while knocking down some chess piece. At the same time, Erza stepped into the room.

"Is it really that fun playing with people's lives?"

The hooded man grinned and turned to face his guests. "Hello, Erza. It has been awhile." He then turned to the teen standing next to her. "Welcome to you too, Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto frowned. "How do you know my name? I don't think we've met, though I could have sworn I've heard your voice somewhere." Seeing the looks he was getting from the other two in the room, he fumed. "I'm not talking about the mouth speaker things!"

"Oh, you really are an interesting person." Jellal said while taking off his hood, revealing his face.

Naruto pointed at him in surprise. "Ah! You're that guy from the council!"

"No, that man you met in the council is Jellal's older brother. Siegrain." Erza explained.

The blue haired man expanded his arms. "Well then, shall we begin, Erza?"

Naruto looked at Erza worriedly. She was covered in scratches, and only a couple bruises, but mostly looked okay. But what worried him the most was that she looked exhausted. Her magic power must be low. "Hey, are you sure you can still fight?"

Erza nodded, not taking her eyes off her enemy for a second. "This is my fight. I will see it through."

Still frowning, Naruto reluctantly stood back.

Gripping her sword firmly, Erza yelled and she dashed towards her former comrade. "Jellal!"

Dark magic swerved around Jellal's arms. "Come! Erza!" He shot his arm forward and fired a beam of magic at the swords woman.

She jumped out of the way just in time, but couldn't dodge the second blast that came after. "Guh!" It hit her directly, knocking her through the wall and out of the tower.

"Erza!" Naruto ran over to help.

Thinking fast, Erza jumped off of the debris falling next to her and back into the tower.

Catching her breath, she looked up to see a worried Naruto standing in front of her.

"Are you sure you're okay? Look, I know that this is something you need to do, but if this goes on, you might die."

She smiled at his concern for her. "Thank you, Naruto."

"Huh?"

Naruto was suddenly outside of the tower.

"Eh?"

He then began to fall.

"What the hell Erza!?" Looking up at her and seeing her sad smile, Naruto knew exactly what was going through her mind. "Damn it! When get back up there, you better still be alive or I..."

Naruto's voice faded from her ears as the ninja descended.

Jellal laughed maniacally. "That's just great. How does it feel to push your comrade to their death?"

Erza glowered at the man. "He won't die from that. Let's finish this."


Naruto's mind was thinking furiously for a way out of his current situation. 'Come on! Think!'

Getting an idea, he summoned a shadow clone. The clone then proceeded to grab him and throw him precisely at one of the windows.

With a crash, the blonde rolled a couple times and finally came to a stop. "Phew… That was close one…" He then looked around and sighed. "Great, now I gotta run all the way back up there and make sure that idiot doesn't-Ah!" Naruto was forced to shield his eyes when a blinding light came out of nowhere and blinded him.

"Is this Etherion!?"

There was a loud boom and everything went blank.


Outside The Tower…

Boom!

"What was that just now!?" Lucy cried out as their boat shook violently. Thankfully they had Juvia's magic to protect them from the violent waves. Otherwise their little boat wouldn't have stood a chance.

After having met up with everyone, Lucy and the others had gotten back onto their small boat and were now floating away from the Tower of Heaven. With the inclusion of Erza's past comrades, it would be an understatement to say it was crowded.

"That was probably Etherion." Gray muttered, and looked down when he felt something squirm from underneath his foot.

"E-Erza… Blurgh! Damn… it!" Natsu croaked while suffering from his motion sickness.

"Pardon me askin, but why did you subdue the dragon slayer?" The blocky cowboy named Wally asked. "I've experienced firsthand how powerful that boy is and he surely would have been our best shot at defeating Jellal."

"This useless guy?" Gray said and applied a little more pressure on Natsu's back when the teen tried to drag himself off the boat. "We have another member that's still inside that place."

"Juvia hopes Naruto-Sama is alright…" Juvia said and Lucy put a hand on the girl's shoulder.

"Don't worry, I'm sure he's fine. He's Naruto after all." Regardless of what she said, Lucy was still just as worried about her partner.

Gray nodded. If there was anyone in their group who could end all of this, it was that guy.


"Ugh..." Naruto slowly opened his eyes. "Am I dead?" Shaking the blurriness away, he looked around to find that he was surrounded by crystals. "What the..."

The place looked like it was covered in ice, only it wasn't cold.

"I better hurry up and make sure Erza's okay." Naruto said.

As soon as he reached the top floor, the sight was really something. What was once a throne room was now an open field of crystals.

But Naruto was quickly pulled out of his astonishment when he heard Erza scream.

"Ahh!"

Springing into action, Naruto ran to where the scream came from and saw that Erza was being pulled into the tower. It was like her body was slowly being fused into the crystals.

"Oh, great Zeref! I offer this woman's body as a sacrifice to yo-" Jellal was cut off when Naruto punched him in the face. "Gah! What!?"

Naruto cracked his knuckles. "Just you wait… There's a lot more where that came from."

Erza looked at the shinobi in disbelief before growling. "What are you doing here!? I thought I told you to let me-"

"Shut up!" Naruto shouted, stopping Erza midsentence. "You want to end all this by dying? You think you have to do all this by yourself because this guy was your friend?" Naruto looked back at the girl and frowned. "But what about us!? The friends you have now?"

"I…" Erza looked away as he pulled her out of the lacrima, as if ashamed by his words. She then shook her head and grabbed onto Naruto's arm. "Jellal is my responsibility! You just don't understand!" Naruto was a nice guy, and she respected his strength. But they had only just met about two months ago, how could he understand her?

"I understand just fine. You want to protect us by shouldering all of this pain by yourself." Naruto said and turned back to face Jellal, who was watching them with a smirk on his face. "But we don't need protecting. I don't need protecting."

Erza shook her head defiantly, tears streaming down the side of her cheek. "I appreciate how you feel, but he's too powerful!"

"Then just watch me." Naruto said and wiggled out of the girl's weak grip. "Learn to rely on your friends!"

Kicking off the ground, Naruto dashed towards Jellal with a kunai in hand.

"You can't win! You don't understand him!" Erza yelled and tried to get up to stop him, but found that she just didn't have any strength left. All Erza could do now was watch as her comrades, old and new, fought what would likely be to the death.

Jellal grinned excitedly. 'The mysterious Naruto Uzumaki… Show me what you can do!'

"Jellal!" Naruto yelled and slashed at the mage, but Jellal was quick to jump back. Nevertheless, Naruto continued to attack. "I'll teach you what happens when you mess with my friends!"

'He's fast… Better not underestimate this one.' Jellal mused to himself and activated one of his many magical abilities. "Meteor!"

Naruto's eyes widened when Jellal suddenly disappeared from his sight. 'He got faster!' He searched for his opponent and quickly spotted the man running around the crystalized room at an almost blinding speed.

"Hah! You'll never be able to hit me while I'm using this speed!" Jellal taunted but was instantly caught off guard when Naruto intercepted him. The shinobi landed a spinning kick to Jellal's side and sent the mage straight into a lacrima wall. "Guh… But how!?"

"I'll admit you're fast, but I've fought faster." Naruto taunted back.

Erza was dumbfounded by how fast the two were, wondering if she'd even be able to keep up them.

Jellal ground his teeth in anger, he had been running as fast as he could! How could someone be so fast without using any magical enhancement!?

Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at the mage's frustration. It was always funny when villains acted all high and mighty, because he always caught them by surprise. The looks on their faces never got old.

Jellal calmed himself. Getting worked up over something as trivial as this was not something the one chosen by Zeref himself would do. "Hmph. It seems that you're faster than me. Well, no matter." A bright aura began to shine around Jellal's form, making him hard to look at directly. "I'll just have to overwhelm you with my heavenly magic."

"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Naruto created a couple clones and charged forward. "Charge!"

'Speed and clone magic… A strong foe indeed. However!' Jellal thought and ran right passed the clones. Sidestepping punches, jumping over kicks, Jellal finally made it to the other end of the ninja and his doppelgangers.

"What, you just gonna dodge all day?" Naruto asked, his clones shouting out childish insults.

A chuckle slipped passed the blue haired mage's lips.

"Naruto, look down!" Erza warned.

"Huh?" Naruto and his clones looked down just in time to see a series of lights in a constellation-like pattern.

Jellal put his hands in front of him. "Grand Chariot!"

"Naruto!" Erza screamed as the whiskered teen and his clones were consumed by the explosive spell. She wanted to take care of Jellal by herself, but that was clearly no longer an option, and Naruto needed her help.

With a new resolve, Erza mustered the strength to stand. But when the smoke cleared, she gasped. Naruto was nowhere to be seen.

"Ahaha! All that talk and he gets incinerated! What a fool!" Jellal said between laughs.

Erza growled and turned to face the man. But upon noticing something, she smirked. "I wouldn't be so sure."

Jellal frowned. "What are you-"

"Man~! That would have hurt if it weren't for sage mode."

Jellal whirled around and there stood Naruto, the now aching thorn in side. But there was something different about him. His eyes were now orange with slit pupils. "You… How did you survive that attack!"

"I get one heck of a boost in endurance when I'm in this mode." Naruto said before folding his arms. 'Though I'm glad I left a couple shadow clones behind to gather nature energy, otherwise that attack could have been the end…' He may be able to enter sage mode faster in this world, but it never hurt to be too careful.

Losing control of his anger, Jellal lashed out with a burst of magic, but his eyes widened when Naruto simply swatted the magical attack out of the air as if it were a bug.

Naruto folded his arms again. "You're lucky I'm holding back, otherwise I might knock you off the tower. It's kinda hard to hold back while in sage mode, but I'm tired of all this pointless bloodshed so let's just stop."

"Pointless… Holding back?" A tick mark formed on Jellal's forehead. "I decided to see how powerful you were because you interested me… But now I think I'll just destroy you here and now!" He screamed and flung himself at the sage.

Naruto waited for Jellal to close the distance between them before striking him into the air with an upper cut.

"Gah!" Jellal gasped in pain as he saw stars, and not the kind that could be seen in the open sky.

Naruto created two shadow clones they formed a Rasengan in each of his hands. He then jumped into the air above the stunned man. He was about to make contact when Jellal caught himself on the ground and slid away, the twin Rasengans drilling right through the lacrima floor. "Oh, you dodged?"

"Stop, you fool! You're damaging the R-System!" Jellal demanded when he noticed the damage the blue spheres had done to the tower.

Naruto raised an eyebrow before a lightbulb went off in his head. "What? You mean like this?"

Smash!

Jellal quivered with anger when Naruto began to destroy more parts of the tower. "You little…"

Naruto crossed his fingers, intent on finishing the job with a couple shadow clones. "Now for the finishing touch… W-what the!?" Naruto noticed his arm was beginning to grow, and toad-like warts were popping up all over his body. "What the hell!?"

Jellal noticed the teen's changes and barked with laughter. "It seems that power of yours is overtaking your body."

Naruto was too busy trying to figure out why he was turning into a toad to listen to anything else. 'Why is this happening!? I'm drew in the surrounding natural energy just like I always do, so why!?' Could something be interfering? Even if there was, he didn't have time to figure out what it could be right now.

'I finally have enough strength back!' Erza thought as she stumbled her way over to the blonde. "Naruto! What's wrong?"

Noticing the redhead walking towards him, Naruto dropped into a meditative position. "I don't know why this is happening, but it's going to take me a second to fix my arms." He frowned. "I know I said that I'd take care of everything, but I need you to buy me some time." Without Fukasaku and his wicking stick, it was going to take Naruto some time to change his body back to normal. Why did sage mode have to do this to him now of all times?

Flash!

The two covered their eyes as blindingly bright light lit up the area.

'What now?' Naruto groaned internally.

"I think it's time I end this!" Jellal declared and crossed his arms upwards.

'That stance…!' Erza thought with wide eyes. "Do you plan to destroy the whole tower!?"

Jellal grinned maniacally. "It's no matter, I'll just build another! Now, die!"

Naruto cursed. He couldn't move or he'd turn into statue. 'Guess there was only one thing I can do…' He thought and prepare to push Erza out of the way. Since they were both going to die anyway, he'd rather give the girl a chance at beating Jellal. Who knew? Maybe he'd even survive being hit by the attack and not turn into a statue.

But before Naruto could move a muscle, someone brushed passed him, and he could faintly hear the words: "Take care of Erza for me…"

"Altairis!"

Boom!

When things finally calmed, Naruto opened his eyes and saw Simon standing in front of him and Erza protectively. The man had taken the full brunt of Jellal's attack in their stead.

Erza gasped, refusing to believe what she was seeing. "S-Simon…"

The man looked back and smiled before falling to the floor, dead.

"NOOOOO!"

Erza's cries echoed in Naruto's ears. Never in his right mind did he think he would ever hear the girl scream like that. Nor did he want to. But here he was, listening to one of the strongest woman he'd ever met whaling in pain over the death of one her old friends.

"Hahaha! Now that's what I call dying in vain!" Jellal wheezed as he laughed in uncontrolled bursts.

Naruto slowly closed his eyes and dug deep into his mind. 'Hey, fox. Help me out for a second…'

Regaining control over himself, Jellal sighed. "Now then, shall we end… This… What are you doing?"

Wondering what Jellal was talking about, Erza turned to where he looking at. "Naruto… That form again." Just like how she'd seen him during their battle with Phantom Lord, Naruto's body was covered by an eerie red aura.

Jellal gulped at the sight of the blonde's ferocious appearance, unconsciously taking a step back. For the first time in eight years, he felt fear. "This power… This must be the power you used to defeat former wizard saint Jose, am I right?"

Naruto just continued to glare at him with his soul-piercing red eyes. The fox had just finished flushing the rest of the sage chakra from his system. "Jellal."

Jellal almost flinched from the tone Naruto was using, but managed to keep his composure. In fact, he faked a smirk. "What?"

"I'm giving you one last chance to give up. I can't guarantee you'll live when I'm like this."

Feeling his anger rise again, Jellal clicked his teeth and shot his hand up. A ball of dark magic swelled in his palm before he thrust it forward. "Dark Mass!"

Several tentacles of dark energy shot out of the ball in his hand and they homed onto Naruto.

But the blonde suddenly vanished.

Jellal blinked as time seemed to slow down at that moment. He could see his Dark Mass traveling through the air, but towards nothing.

But then he sensed it.

It came at him in an instant. Behind him. A killing intent so powerful that it made Jellal come to a realization.

He was a fool to have challenged this monster.

Crack!

Jellal gasped as every bit of air was knocked out of his lungs, and he was flung into and through a lacrima formation. He would have fallen off the tower, but Naruto appeared right above him and landed a dropkick that sent Jellal crashing down several stories of the tower.

Erza blinked as Jellal's Dark Mass finally hit the ground. Naruto had moved so fast, she couldn't even tell what had just happened!

Naruto landed on the ground, his eyes never leaving the gaping hole in the floor. He didn't know if that had finished Jellal or not, but now wasn't the time to worry about his enemy. Because the tower began to shake tremendously.

The tower was in shambles because of the damage it had taken during the fight, and Naruto didn't need Erza to tell him what was going to happen next.

The Tower of Heaven was going to explode.

So, doing what he did best, Naruto sprang into action. He dashed over to Erza and picked her up bridal-style, causing the girl to yelp in surprise.

Erza was about to ask what he was doing when the world around her changed and they were suddenly hundreds of feet above the rumbling tower. Her eyes shot wide open and her grip on the boy tightened when he let go and brought his hands up.

Erza looked up at the whiskered teen with a confused, and frightened expression. Because not only were they several hundred feet above a raging ocean, but there was also a tower made of Etherion that was about to explode right below them. But when she looked at his face, and brown eyes met blue, she suddenly felt at ease. Because in the time Erza had come to know Naruto, she knew what that grin meant.

Naruto had a plan.

"Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

And just like that, over a thousand copies of Naruto, all armed with big-ball Rasengans, lit the sky around them.

As the clones began to fall towards the tower, Erza felt herself smiling. It was at that moment Erza felt that she could truly trust Naruto with not only her life, but with the lives of their comrades. Even as the tower detonated, and the world around her began to fade, she could see it in his eyes.

They were truly precious to him.


Erza fluttered her eyes open. "...What?"

"So, you're finally awake?"

"…!"

As her vision cleared, Erza noticed Naruto was still carrying her, and that they were on the beach.

"Naruto… How?" Was all she could say.

Naruto just grinned his foxlike grin. "I told you I'd help you, so I did!"

Erza's eyes widened, remembering everything he had said back then. She then turned away and began to chuckle.

"W-what? What's so funny?" Naruto fumed.

Erza shook her head at the childish answer before she gave him a genuine smile, and for the first time in years, tears fell from both of her eyes. "Thank you… Naruto."

"W-well it's only natural to help your friends out when they're in trouble, ya know…" Naruto said rather sheepishly, flustered by the beautiful girl's smile. Her TRUE smile.

"Yes. I understand that now…" Erza said and closed her eyes.

While Erza wasn't looking, Naruto frowned. 'There wasn't any orange pigment around my eyes when I was in sage mode earlier… That's not a good sign.' Naruto decided that he'd summon Fukasaku when they got back to Fairy Tail. Hopefully the old toad sage would be able figure out what was going on.

'Thank you… Everyone.' Erza thought as she wiped the tears from both of her eyes. She would never forget what Naruto and the others had done for her, and never again would she think dying was the only option. From now on she would do everything in her power to live. Not just for her own sake, but for the sake of her comrades.

"Erza!"

"Naruto-Sama!"

Naruto, still carrying Erza, turned them towards the people who were running towards them. Their friends. "Hey guys, what's up?"


"Kitty man!"

"Ack! Get off me you crazy cat lady!"

Everyone was now relaxing and enjoying a party together, and because Naruto had whisker-like birthmarks, Milliana was all over him.

"Kitty, kitty, kitty!"

"...Someone... Help me...!" Naruto croaked as the cat girl hugged him to death.

Erza sighed happily. "Milliana, why don't you go see if Happy wants to play?"

"Happy-Chan? Okay!" Dropping Naruto like a rag doll, the cat girl ran off to find the already hiding blue cat.

Lucy crouched down next to Naruto. "Are you okay?"

"That girl... is crazy..." Naruto mumbled.

Natsu laughed at the whiskered teen. "Hah! You look like you just got off a train!"

Lucy sweatdropped. 'That only applies to you...'

Naruto got up and looked around the room. "Hey, where did Juvia go? She was just here, wasn't she?"

"You would like to know, wouldn't you?" Lucy huffed and stormed off.

"...Eh?" Did he say something wrong?

Gray sighed and pat the confused boy on the back sympathetically. "I almost feel sorry for you man."

"I'm seriously gonna kick your ass Gray!" Naruto barked and everyone laughed.


Mongolia Town

"Whoa!"

"They finished it while we were gone!"

Everyone stared at the new guild building in awe. It looked just like a castle.

Max waved at them from inside a little shop. "Hey guys! Welcome back!"

Naruto walked over to him and looked around. "What is this? A shop?"

"Yeah, it's a souvenir shop! Check it out." Fishing for something in the back, Max handed him something.

"Is this... Me!?" Naruto was now holding a mini Naruto figure. It looked just like him, down to the last detail.

"I don't know what to think of this…" Gray said when Max handed him two figures of himself, one with and without a shirt.

"I think they're charming." Erza said as she looked at a collection of Erza figures, one for each suit of armor she had.

"Hey, there's one for Lucy too!" Happy called out.

Lucy snatched the toy from Happy. "Don't go making things like this without permission... It's embarrassing..."

Naruto laughed. "I don't see why not; these things are awesome!" He poked the Lucy figure in the face and all the clothes popped off, minus the underwear.

The ninja held his nose as Lucy turned scarlet and scrambled to put the clothes back on.

Cana, who was standing by the entrance to the building, noticed them and waved. "Hey guys! Welcome back! You've gotta come inside!"

They followed her inside the guild. The bar was a lot bigger than before, with waitresses walking around in flashy Fairy Tail style outfits.

Laughing at their surprised faces, Cana pointed to the back. "That's not all, follow me."

Walking to the back of the bar, they went through the doors to find an indoor pool.

"No way! A pool!?"

Cana continued to show them around the interior until finally making it back to the bar.

"The new guild looks amazing!" Naruto said when someone suddenly jumped onto his back.

"Naruto-Sama!"

"Juvia!?"

Hearing a cough, everyone turned around and looked down to see Makarov. "Welcome back you guys. I'd like you to meet our newest member, Juvia. Though it seems you already know her..."

Getting off Naruto's back, Juvia stood in front of the group and bowed. "Thank you all! Juvia will work hard!" She chirped before staring at Lucy. "Rival in love..."

"I-I'm not..." Lucy mumbled.

Naruto grinned. "See? I told you the old man would let you join!"

Juvia stopped staring at Lucy and smiled at ninja brightly.

Coughing again to get their attention, the master pointed to one of the tables. "There is also another new member you should meet. Hey, come introduce yourself!"

"Oh, another new member?" Naruto asked before snarling at who it was.

Gajeel, the iron dragon slayer, got up from a table and turned around to look at them.

"What's he doing here!?" Naruto demanded, Gray and Erza holding him back from attacking.

Makarov sighed. "Calm down Naruto, he was only acting on Jose's orders. Besides, yesterday's enemies are tomorrow's allies."

Naruto settled down but continued to glare at the ex-Phantom mage. "I don't like this..."

Gajeel walked passed him. "I don't like it either, but work is work. Even if I have to be in a pathetic guild like this one."

Natsu got up in the guy's face. "What did you say about Fairy Tail? You wanna fight!?"

"You? Don't waste my time Salamander." Gajeel said with a grunt before looking at Naruto again. "I got bigger fish to fry." With that said, he walked away.

'What a jerk.' Naruto thought and looked at Makarov. "Are you sure about this? You know what he did."

Sighing again, Makarov nodded. "It's an old man's job to guide young men like that back onto the right path."

Naruto looked at Erza, and she nodded as well. Sighing in defeat, Naruto sat down at a table. "Fine, whatever."

Lucy sat next to him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Don't let it worry you, the master knows what he's doing."

Suddenly, all the lights in the guild went black. "Why did it get so dark all of a sudden?"

Cana shushed him. "Shh, the main event is about to start."

Grumbling something about demanding women, Naruto noticed the curtains in the back of the bar open, revealing a stage. "Mira-Chan?"

Everyone in the guild started cheering.

"Mira-Chan!"

"This is what we've been waiting for!"

Mirajane was sitting in the spotlight, holding a guitar with a microphone standing in front of her face. Strumming it once, she began to play a tune and started singing.

Naruto stared at the girl with wide eyes. "Whoa... Was she always this good at singing?"

Elfman leaned over. "Nee-Chan's songs are the best!"

They listened to her sing for a little longer until they heard a crash. "Oof! What's the big idea!?"

Natsu was on the floor next to the table Gajeel was sitting at. "Huh? What do you want?"

"You tripped me on purpose!" The fire dragon slayer fumed.

They butted heads and growled at each other until people started throwing their mugs at them.

"Shut up!"

"We want to listen to Mira-Chan!"

Natsu flipped a table over. "Who's the wise guy who threw that!?"

As is a switch had been flipped, everything was thrown into chaos and the bar became a battlefield.

Naruto and Lucy ducked behind a table.

"How did it turn out like this!?" Lucy whined while covering her head.

Her fellow blonde just laughed. "This just means things are normal, right?" He said and jumped out to join the fray.

Mirajane was now playing rock music to pump things up while Makarov was crying over the destruction of his new guild.

Watching her partner throw some people around the bar, Lucy couldn't help but smile. "Yup, this is Fairy Tail…"


A/N: So, that wraps up the Tower of Heaven arc. Looks like Naruto is in for some drama in the near future. XD

With this chapter out, the story has just reached 30,000 words! A new milestone has been reached!

Next chapter, Naruto will finally reveal to everyone about where he came from and what he carries. Tell what you thought of this chapter. Did I do good? Bad? I wanna know!

Something is wrong with Sage Mode! I wonder what will happen when Naruto summons Fukasaku.

Okay, I'm done now. I'll see you all in the next chapter of The Fox Scroll!

P.S. To those who have read the previous version of this chapter, what do you think of the massive changes?