Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
'I can not believe that I lost her.' Naruto thought as a he walked around the location of their next mission. Behind him he was dragging a oversized ugly pig called a Hodras with a role, and the thing had a damn pin bow on HIS head. Naruto looked at the mission repuest again and held it in front of the pig to make sire he got the right one. This was the third Hodras he had captured today, so he wanted a positive ID this time. There was a picture of the pig on the request, so he didn' even half to read it!
Mission Rank - C
Mission Location - Cherry Blossom Town
Client - Pet Owner, Tepa Horn
Description - Find my dear Snuffles and bring him home!
Reward - 60,000
"You are so fat." Naruto commented to the giant pig with a grin, and it glare at him before whimpering when he glared back. It had tried to fight him back earlier, but the animal had quickly learned that it couldn't win against him. If it tried to run away it would get hurt, and if it tried to hurt Naruto it would get hurt. The onlu solution was to wait until Naurot returned it, and then run away again. Naruto chuckling to himself for mocking the pig, before he turned his head in time for his face to smack against something hard and metal. He fell back to his butt, and the pig took that as it's chance to run away since Naruto had let go of the rope.
"Kchakcha (Fuck you)!"
Naruto watched in horror as the pig ran away with surprising speed, before he hopped onto his feet and glared up at a familiar woman that he had bumped into. She was a beautiful red haired woman wearing armor, and warm/cold brown eyes. She herself took a moment to look over Naruto, from his scuffled dirt covered appearance from the mission, his basic white clothes, and the broken shackles he wore on his wrists. She even saw his bandaged chest from his most recent brawl with Saber.
'An escaped slave?' The woman, who Naruto remembered was named Erza from Wendy talking about her, thought to herself before she noticed Naruto glaring up at her. "Can I help you?" Erza asked bluntly, and Naruto pointed at the direction the pig came from.
"Help me catch that pig you made me lose, and then we're even." Naruto said just as bluntly, and Erza looked at the pig running away passed the tree line. She sweat dropped a little, before looking down at Naruto. If she hadn't sensed the massive amount of magic dwelling within this boy, she would have thought that he was a civilian boy. He must be a mage from an unpopular guild if he had this much magic, and she still hadn't heard of him.
"I can spare some time to help you find that Hodras, I am Erza Scarlet mage of Fairy Tail." Erza introduced, and Naruto blinked a few times at the blunt way she talked. It was like she didn't even bother hiding what she was thinking.
"Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm a mage of Cait Shelter." Naruto said, and when he heard his own voice he blinked and realized that they were both blunt people. Erza nodded and she started to jog in the direction of the Hodras, with Naruto staying a step ahead of her with a smirk on his face. He may be short, but his muscle power allowed his to outrun people with longer legs without him having to use magic. Erza looked at him running ahead of her, before she picked her speed up and got a few steps in front of him. Naruto's eyes narrowed and he started to go faster.
"I see you like competition, a very good trait for somebody so young." Erza said as she ran faster and got int front of him, only for him to take the lead again and looked at her from the corner of his eye. He saw her eye twitch at him, before his eye twitched when she increased her speed and ran in front of him. He started to push himself further and he passed her by, and Erza pushed magic into her legs to increase her speed so that she was perfectly even with him. At this point they had forgotten all about the pig, and just being faster than the one next to them.
They were running arm to arm, and the were looking at each other in the eyes with determined expression. The 12 year old boy, and the 20 year old woman sped passed everything that saw them. The clanking of her armor, and the chacking of his shackles chains being the only thing animals heard before they ran by. Naruto saw her clothes glow golden for a moment, before her outfit was replaced by red pants with yellow flames at the bottom with a black outline. She wore no top, and the only thing keeping her modesty hidden were bandages wrapped around her breasts. her long red hair was also now put up in a tail at the bac of her head.
'To make me have to use a lighter armor... this kid is fast.' Erza thought as she took the lead again, and Naruto had to push himself to the limit of his running speed to catch up with her again. The red haired woman smiled lightly as they pressed against each other again, but Naruto blushed lightly from either the effort to keep up with her, or the fact she was half naked... and his face was nearly pressed against her breast.
"You... are pretty fast!" Naruto admitted with a light pant in his voice from going at his fulls speed. Naruto had tried experimenting when it came to channelling magic through his body, and it would apear his control wasn't to that level yet. When he tried he always used to much, and tore his own muscles to shreds. Until he had a true magic teacher to show him how to do it, he was stuck with only what his body could naturally give. Which was still a lot.
"You are quite fast as well to keep up with me like this." Erza pointed out with a graceful smile before she started to gain the lead again. She was wearing some pretty light clothes, and combine that with the fact she was channelling magic through her longer legs and she had a pretty good advantage against him. Naruto saw her taking the lead, and his competive side started to completely take over and adrenaline rushed through his veins and he caught up to her again. Fire burned through his blood, and his face was red from the pure effort it was taking not to lose against her.
"I... am not... going to lose!" Naruto yelled and the ground cracked with every step he took, and Erza smiled gently at him. They were both oblivious to their surroundings... until they ran over the edge of a cliff. The competition stopped at that moment when they saw how high up they were, before they started to fall. Naruto saw Erza falling quicker than he was, but before she could change into something else the scarlet haired woman felt Naruto's arms wrap around her stomach. She felt a jerk and looked shocked to see that they had stopped falling.
'He can fly?' Erza thought as she turned her head to see Naruto flying them back up to the top of the cliff while carrying her with some effort. He had never had to fly with a fulll grown person before, so he wasn't used to the weight. The strength of his flight ability wasn't nearly as high and with physical strength.
"That was a pretty cool thing you did with your clothes earlier." Naruto said conversationally, and Erza raised an eyebrow at how he seemed perfectly normal again.
"I use Ex-quip Magic to change my armor and weapons." Erza told him, and he hummed to himself. That actually sounded pretty cool, and with it he could get his own weapons or armor. He could even get explosives for later use, and store them later.
"So what brings you here?" Naruto asked, and Erza blinked a few times before palming her face and looking at the ground bellow them. She had come here originally to find a monster that had been terrorizing the village lately, but she had gotten side tracked.
"Have you seen a monster around these parts?" Erza asked, and Naruto shook his head. That was before the two of them twitched when they heard the sound of people screaming. Naruto flew towards the sound of the screaming, and the two of them looked to see a dinosaur-type monster with a large horn running through the village.
"Finally! Excitement!" Naruto shouted as he flew straight at the creature with a grin on his face. This was what he had been hoping for! The chance to fight an actual monster, and not giant tigers or vulcans! Something besides Saber that could provide him with an actual challenge!
"I take it you have a plan to take care of that creature?" Erza asked, and Naruto stayed silent before Erza summoned one of her swords when she figured out that he had no plan. She figured he wasn't the kind of person to plan things out before hand. Much more of the on the fly fighter.
"... Kill it?" Naruto said unsurely, and Erza hummed in agreement. That seemed like a great plan to her, and it was easy to remember so she wouldn't forget it. They got closer to the creature, before it suddenly turned around with it's mouth open and due to their momentum Naruto was able to stop them in time befoe the monster swallowed them both hole. Erza and Naruto were pressed together closely as they slid down the throat, and Naruto's eye twitched when he remembered the time he had been eaten by the snake.
"This is unpleasant." Erza stated as they dropped into the stomach, and in a golden light Erza was holding a crystal that was glowing with a blue light. Now that they could see Naruto grimaced when he saw the bones of many different animals in the creature. The smell wasn't so great either, so he had to breath through his mouth.
"I hate being eaten." Naruto said with a twitching eyebrow, and Erza looked at him in surprise.
"This has happened to you before?" She asked after regaining her composure. Escaping out of here was going to be pretty easy, so with a stab she tried to cut the creatures gut open from the inside out... to no avail she discovered with a frown.
"Yeah, big ass garden snake swallowed me whole a few monthes back." Naruto said in annoyance, before he blinked when a wicked idea formed in his head. Erza raised an eyebrow at his behavior, before he got closer to her. "Wanna get out of here?" Naruto asked with a grin, and she nodded neutrally.
"What do you have in mind?" Erza asked with curious look. Naruto stood up, before he walked to the edge of the stomach and put his ear to it. Shaking his head he went to another part and did the same thing, before grinning wildly. Extending his arm out to her, he jiggled his chain around.
"Grab onto this, and prepare to swing your sword at this part of the stomach." Naruto said with a grin, a grin that was returned by Erza when her highly trained mind picked up on what he was doing. Her strength alone wouldn't cut through the stomach lining, but with he swung her, and she swung her sword she could combine their strength and increase her chance of cutting through the stomach. In a glow she summoned a red sword that was on fire, before she grabbed Naruto's chain in her other hand.
"Ready." Erza told him simply, so with a grunt Naruto twisted his body around and swung Erza and as fast as he could. She swung her sword the second she got close to the wall, and her flaming sword tore through the stomach as blood rushed into the gut. Stomach acid left, and Naruto saw that they were going to drown in blood. Erza heard the creature cry out as it's inside shook, and she grabbed onto Naruto. Both of them held their breath as blood completely fiulled the stomach up, before they were picked up and shot up the throat.
'I was eaten, and now it is throwing me up. A new experience everyday.' Erza thought as she gushed out of it's mouth, and onto the ground. She wiped blood from her eyes, before taking a breath and seeing that both she and Naruto were completely covered in the red life fluid of the now dead creature laying on the ground.
"This is gross... but pretty cool." Naruto said when he looked at the dead creature, and he mildly wondered where Wendy was when all this was happening. Knowing her she got lost in the forest, or was looking for him. Naruto blinked though when Erza grabbed him by the back of his shirt and started to drag him along the way.
"Lets get this blood off of us." Erza said, and Naruto's eyes widened when he figured out what was going to happen. He was torn between going with her, or running away and not showering. His decision was decided for him apparently, because the second he tried to run she placed him over her shoulder. -If you read Fairy Tail, then you know she would do this-
'This woman either has little shame, or she isn't worried about a 12 year old seeing her nude... or she is just weird like this.' Naruto thought with a deadpan expression when he sa Wendy run by with the Hodras chasing her comically. He blinked and saw her holding a stick with a piece of bacon at the end.
Okay, so she had the job handled pretty well.
"So do you bath with every guy you meet, or am I special?" Naruto teased from her shoulder, and Erza chuckled lightly at his comment. Sure, it could be taken as an insult but she wasn't going to take offence to it. He didn't sound like he meant it in a hurtful or spiteful way.
"You might be a strong kid, but you are still a kid. That and after entering battle together we are comrades, and what is a little skin between friends... You also remind me of a friend of mine, and we had showered together when we were kids." Erza explained, and Naruto figured that she had a combination of little modesty and was weird. He blinked and let himself relax on her shoulder, because to be frank it felt good to be the one get carried for once.
Usually he had to carry other people around, so not having to walk or float was fun.
"So you are fine with being naked... in front of a 12 year old?" Naruto asked sacrastically, and Erza didn't hesitate to respond.
"Completely fine with it." Erza said simply, showing a side of her that she was pretty sure would cause her guildmates back home to look at her strangely. Then again, there was just something about this kid that made you want to get close to him. The fact that they were both completely soaked in blood was part of the real reason she was fine with bathing with him. She didn't want to stay like this any longer, and she was pretty sure that he didn't like being covered in blood either.
-Twenty Minutes Later-
"Ahhhhh! This feels niiiiice." Naruto said as he sunk into the water of the surprising deep bath, while Erza sat at the shower with a towel drapped over her waist. She was used to earing skimpy outfits, but he was surprised that Naruto seemed more interested in the hot water of the bath than her body. He submerged most of his body, leaving only the top half of his face above the water so that he could breath through his nose.
"So do you know any other magic besides Aero Magic Uzumaki-kun?" Erza asked as she rubbed the soap over her arms, and Naruto brought his mouth out of the water to answer.
"Not really. I am a fist fighter with powerful msucles... even if they are lean looking. I just don't see any magic working for me. I do want to learn some close range combat magic, but I don't know anyone that can teach me." Naruto said without really any bad emotion behind it. He was still going to get stronger, even without more magic types.
"Have you looked up any types of magic you would be interested in learning?" Erza said, and Narut flushed slightly. That would mean that he would have to read books to learn about more types of magic, and frankly he neither could nor would want to. He didn't like reading very much.
"Not really... so what is Fairy Tail like?" Naruto said, and Erza balled her fist and her eyebrow started to twitch.
"They are a bunch of rowdy idiots." Erza said, before she smiled and rinsed her body off. "Even so, they are like a family. They may be a bit destructive, but they are good people. How do you like Cait Shelter? I can't say I have ever been to that guild before." Erza asked, and Naruto smiled at her description of Fairy Tail. If he joined Cait Shelter, he would have liked to be in Fairy Tail if that was how they were.
"It is a quiet guild most of the time, and we don't have many members. we don't even really get that many missions. Most of them can be taken care of by one person. I really want to go on harder missions, but my partner isn't really interested in them. That and the highest mission we have even gotten at the guild was ranked B." Naruto complained with an annoyed sigh. He liked to be challenged, and the only thing that Cait Shelter that was a challenge was defeating Saber in their daily fights. For an animal that tiger could take a punch, and then keep coming back for more. It was more surprising since he could take one of Naruto's punches. Something that could bust through skulls and stone easily, and dent metal if he wanted to.
Saber was a tough bastard!
'I feel like I am forgetting something.' Naruto thought to himself, before he shrugged.
It would come to him later.
Chapter End.
Yes, Erza is weird enough that she would suggest people bath together regardless of gender. She has done it many times in the actual series, and Wendy wasn't left out. She is catching the pig. This is based off the mission that Erza retrieved the monster's horn from. You knwo that hge thing when she was first introduced to the series. I was pondering about a backstory behind it, and I think her getting eating and killing the monster from the inside is funny as fuck. This also sets the grounds for Erza eventually teaching Naruto Requip Magic.
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