"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!" Natsu screamed loudly, halting everything. "You can't just leave Fairy Tail now. It isn't fair, if you leave at this minute, everyone will think bad of you!"

"Aye!" Happy agreed just as emotionally as Natsu.

"Natsu, shut up." Gray gritted through his teeth, staring down the blond in front of him. "If Naruto wants to leave. Then that is his choice, we should respect it."

"I can't believe this. We've really only just met. Are you sure you really want to leave?" Lucy spoke equally as shocked as everyone else present. This was perhaps the most she had seen of any of the S-Class mages outside of Erza in Fairy Tail. For one to suddenly decide to leave.

"Fairy Tail is losing it's glow." Naruto replied confidently. "No one else judges me for my powers, in fact, many respect me for them. But Fairy Tail, you still continue to look at me like I'm going to turn on you at any given moment. I won't be looked at with such mistrust. Now recite the Three Laws, ERZA!" Naruto's voice boomed, Lucy thought she had experienced anger from her father, it paled in comparison to Naruto's voice. She felt her legs weaken under his words, she felt like getting away from him.

Erza, who had remained unsurprisingly silent, only sighed, requipping to a very formal armour, holding a large spear with the Fairy Tail flag at the end of it. "Very well. The Laws are usually recited by someone close to you in the Guild. However, you remained a low profile, so naturally the closest person to you is someone holding a similar status of S-Class Mage. Naruto, I will now recite the Three Laws, are you sure this is what you want?"

"It is." Annoyance grew in Naruto's voice, most likely due the same repeated question over and over again.

"Then Rule #1 - You must never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others for as long as you live." As Erza spoke, Lucy was surprised to see that the large guild member stamp on Naruto's stomach began faded, dropping from his body like glitter fragments and scattering into the air.

"Rule #2 - You must never use former contacts met through your being in the guild for personal gain.

"Rule #3 - Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends who loved you." Erza finished, ignoring the slight scoff at the ending sentence courtesy of Naruto.

The final sparkles of glitter fell from Naruto's stomach, his abdomen now free from the Fairy Tail mark. "Excellent." He looked to his stomach before putting back on his shirt and cloak.

He turned abruptly. "I'm leaving now." He offered no goodbye, nor did he expect one in return. "Maybe one day we will run into each other again."

"Where will you go?" Erza asked out of interest.

"Searching." Naruto replied bluntly, shrugging his shoulders. "For myself, for the things I am missing. And perhaps it's time I finally found my father?"

'His father?' They collectively noted, where could his father have been for Naruto to not know?

Before Naruto took one step Natsu called out to the blond. "Wait! Fight me before you leave!" He demanded.

Naruto sighed heavily, turning back around to face Natsu. "Very well, Natsu. One fight to determine your strength against mine."

Natsu grinned with glee, fire enveloped his fists. "Karyū no Tekken!" Natsu roared, launching his towards Naruto's face.

Everyone looked upon the scene with shock, Naruto caught the burning fist with his bare hand, his face stared down impassively at Natsu's struggling one, trying to free his hand from the grip.

"These flames could be hotter." Naruto spoke grimly. "Here, let me show you!" Suddenly the flames grew in massive proportion, wind flooded into and was devoured by the fire, increasing it's intensity, Natsu was blown back by the sudden increase in flames.

Natsu skidded across the ground, staring up intensely at Naruto. "I couldn't eat those flames because I made them myself." He grumbled. "No matter. You have Wind Magic, which I now know how to beat!" Natsu grinned victoriously.

"Don't compare my magic to Erigor's, Natsu." Naruto scolded the pink haired boy in a bored tone. "That's a serious underestimation of me and my power."

Natsu just gave off a confident tut. He inhaled deeply. "Karyū no Hōkō!"

Seeing his move Naruto copied the action of inhaling deeply. "Fūryū no Hōkō!"

Naruto's counter-attack caught Natsu off guard, he lost his focus in his fiery attack staring at the roar of wind escaping Naruto's mouth, his own attack was completely overwhelmed, the fire being snuffed out by the heavy wind, cutting through his attack like butter and striking Natsu hard, the blast launched him metres backwards, skidding and destroyed the ground below him.

'It wasn't just because I lost focus!' Natsu rose slowly back up with his arms. 'His attack, it was naturally a lot stronger than mine! But...'

"You're a Dragon Slayer as well!" Natsu screamed, pointing an accusing finger at Naruto, who only nodded in return.

"I am." Naruto responded. "I was told by Master Makarov that it would be best if you didn't know about it Natsu."

Naruto turned abruptly once again, facing the opposite direction from the group. "Erase any thoughts of me or my abilities from your mind, that is what Fairy Tail longed to do after all. And don't come looking for me." He spoke as if it was a warning. "I'm out of here." A strong, yet calm gust of wind blew and like a leaf caught in the updraught of it Naruto disappeared, as if one with the wind himself.

Naruto landed safely back within the village, the last place Fairy Tail would look for him now, they probably thought that he had flew across the sea with that gust of wind. Clicking his neck Naruto walked back through the small demon village, only to be halted by Moka, it's leader.

"Naruto-san. So you went through with it, I see." Naruto had informed the aged demon of his ambitions of leaving Fairy Tail, if only so he wouldn't be surprised to find Naruto still in the village after the others had left. "So what are your plans now?"

"I'm going to look for clues on the whereabouts of my father." Naruto replied quickly, looking down towns the smaller demon. "And hopefully I will eventually be able to find him."

"Well if I may offer my help, this village and I owe you a lifelong debt, if it wasn't for you, the mages of Fairy Tail might have left earlier when the red haired girl told them to." Moka beamed widely at the blond. "I suggest that you consult our village oracle, she has very interesting powers, she may be able to locate your father."

"Really? And you think that could help?" Naruto asked in surprise and interest, she might be able to locate Cyclione right away, if not, she could give a vague idea of where he was.

"Absolutely, now come!" Moka dragged the blond along through the village, ignoring the demons waves towards the blond, they headed straight for the oracle's hut, it was a slightly larger hut than the other small huts, located away from the bundle of houses huddled together, trees and branches grew around it, preventing it from outside harm.

Moka entered without fear, a symbol of his authority in the village. "Oracle, I ask that you lend a hand to the young Naruto hear, the one that helped save our village, he is trying to locate his father."

The oracle smirked behind her black veil. "A simple task." She spoke eerily and confidently. Raising her hands, she began chanting in a language unknown to Naruto. A line of thick fog rose around them in a perfect circle, floating effortlessly in the air.

"Say the name of who you wish to find, this fog represents the world, it is linked to me, say their name and I can find them."

"Cyclione." Naruto responded to the oracle's eerie call, this seemed the genuine thing, like she really could find him.

But the oracle erupted in pain, the fog dispersed in a second, the oracle clutched her head while letting our wails of pain and horror.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked in alarm.

"A roar... A roar of a beast that has long since been forgotten by this world... A DRAGON'S ROAR WAS ALL I COULD HEAR!" The oracle shrieked at him in horror.

"Dear God, your father's being attacked by a Dragon!" Moka was in alarm, looking towards Naruto, instead of shock on the boy's face, their was a happy smirk.

"No... My father IS the Dragon."

Moka went into even further alarm at what the boy said. His father... is a Dragon? How could that possibly.

"That terrible roaring broke and ruined my focus, but I did see something," The oracle began regaining herself, panting and wheezing heavily. "East. The Dragon lies in then East."

"East. Thank you." Naruto bowed respectfully to the both of them, waving a quick goodbye to Moka before he took off, using his wind magic to speed his movements, he ran straight forward at such a speed he was at the beach within moments, but he didn't stop.

He could feel the floor trying to break underneath his weight, but his weight was only on the surface for a fraction of a second, their wasn't anytime for him to fall through. Naruto ran straight across the water of the sea, heading towards the main land, and then East...

"What the hell happened here?" Natsu stared wide eyed with rage at the image before him, Lucy and Happy wore shocked expressions whilst Gray and Erza tried to keep their emotions in check.

Before them was the Fairy Tail Guild, destroyed, pillars of iron tearing through the walls from every direction, chunks of the foundation of the building crumbling down towards the ground below.

"It would appear that Phantom Lord attacked last night when no one was at the guild." Mira appeared sadly from the ruins. "As if our rivalry with them has come to this." She exclaimed sadly, looking back up to the ruins.

"Phantom? They've never made any attempt like this before." Erza reminded her, Phantom Lord and Fairy Tail had it's quarrels, but they never made an deliberate attack on one another.

"They're gonna pay for this!" Natsu gritted quietly through his teeth, his breath heaving out angrily.

"Come inside, Master will explain it better." Mira returned, turning back and entering the ruins of their guild. The group followed behind her through the rumble and towards the basement, where the members of Fairy Tail huddled around small tables. The notice board in the corner of the room. "We're taking jobs here while we begin the repairs of the building." Mira explained, they approached the master, who was sitting cross legged on a large barrel.

"Master, Natsu, Lucy and Happy have returned." Mira spoke, Makarov's eyes snapped open in annoyance.

"Right! You should know what happens next, Natsu." Makarov spoke darkly, scaring the life out of Lucy, suddenly Makarov's arm extended, giving Natsu and Happy a small bonk to the head and a rather lecherous smack on the butt to Lucy. Lucy rubbed her butt in embarrassment whilst Mira reprimanded Makarov for such actions.

"Wait." Makarov stopped her talking, looking towards the group. "Someone's missing?" He continued, the guild began to hush down, staring at the small group in interest.

"Yeah, didn't Naruto go with Erza to bring them back?"

"Yeah, so where's Naruto?"

"I don't care, I'm actually quite relaxed when he's not here."

Members of the guild began speaking out, wondering where the currently missing blond member was.

"Naruto has decided to forge his own path, away from any accusing stares or glances. He has left Fairy Tail to go on his own journey." Erza replied towards Makarov, whose eyes widened, before he lowered his head sadly. The guild was completely silenced, staring in shock at what she had just said.

'So it finally came to that...' Makarov thought sadly, Naruto acted as if the members' stares unaffected him, but Makarov could see in his eyes, he was hurting, feeling completely untrusted by those closest to him.

"If I knew this has happened to the guild I would have forbade him from leaving," Natsu spoke angrily. "We need all the strength we can for our counter-attack."

"There is no counter-attack, Natsu." Makarov replied with a sigh. "As unfortunate as it is, we must accept it. If Naruto wants to leave Fairy Tail, then we can not stop him."

"What?" They all turned towards the voice, Laxus stood on the stairs, staring wide eyed down at Makarov, he had mostly likely just returned himself. "I return to see my guild in this state, and then the members of it spit in my face by telling me Naruto has left Fairy Tail?"

"It's not you're guild, Laxus." Makarov stared back up at the large blond scarred man. "And even if Naruto is gone. We still have many fine members of Fairy Tail here."

"LIES!" Laxus screamed in a rage. "Fairy Tail is full of little weak fools! Pushing away the strongest ones out of fear!" Laxus jumped down into the middle of the room, glaring at each member of Fairy Tail individually, glimpsing at the fear they held for him. "Naruto meant more to me than any person in this room! He had strength and power and was one of the only worthy additions to this guild!"

"Laxus!" Makarov shouted, staring at the turned back of his grandson. "Calm down, just forget about it."

Laxus' head turned slowly, glaring madly at his grandfather, his nostrils flared in absolute white rage.

"You mean as you forgot about Itachi."

Eyes widened at Laxus' response, members of the guild dropped their drinks and stood up at the proclamation, glaring at Laxus, even Makarov's eyes became angry at the notion, even Mirajane's soft, tender sweet eyes hardened to that of stone..

Laxus laughed loudly and maniacally. "So scary! Look how defensive Fairy Tail gets when faced with the truth!" Laxus laughed again, but stopping abruptly. "How does never talking about him honour Itachi? HOW DOES PRETENDING LIKE HE NEVER EVEN EXISTED HONOUR THE SACRIFICE HE MADE?" Laxus screamed at the top of his voice, Itachi was his rival, he held him in both respect and hate, he respected Itachi's power, but hated the fact that he never defeated him, he never even had the chance after the day Itachi had died in battle against the Seven Princes of Hell.

Makarov stared at his grandson in shock. His words cut deeper and lower into the hearts of his Fairy Tail mages than any sword could. How could he say things like that? Of course they honoured Itachi, but it was too difficult to speak about for them, Itachi was a shining example of what everyone should strive to be, loyal, strong, honest and above all a dear friend.

And because of the Makarov was beaming inside with pride of his grandson's outburst. Laxus, who acted impassive and rude to everyone, showed to him that he could care about people. This made the old man very happy, Laxus had proved to him that if he could just open his heart fully to everyone, he could be the leader Fairy Tail needed after his retirement.

Laxus' face cooled considerably. "It's always the strong ones," He muttered quietly, but the silence made it audible to all. "First Raikiri, then Itachi, then my father and now Naruto." He headed for the stairs, aiming to climb back up them and out the guild. As he climbed the stairs he stopped mid way.

"I've had enough. Finally it's time for some of the weaker members to vanish."

Naruto had been running at his breakneck speed for hours now, as he ran through Fiore, he was moving so fast that people didn't even recognise his presence, he was in and out of towns within minutes, making his way towards the Eastern border.

He now ran through the wasteland at the farthest edge of Fiore, passed the main towns of Oshibana Town, Oak Town, even Hosenka Town. The land, once flourishing in flowers and animals and people and housing now lay as a barren environment, devoid of life, left the pale orange colour of Earth, Naruto wasted no time in observing his surroundings, just powering his way through the land.

Until he felt a presence, a familiar presence. He wasn't alone. Naruto stopped, his eyes adjusting to the much slower speed he moved, Naruto looked around, he found himself near a large cliff, the sun baring down against the other side, there was no shade to protect him from it's rays, but Naruto focused on finding whatever was here with him. 'Where are you?'

"I wonder what is a Fairy doing so far away from home." Naruto recognised the voice immediately, looking up, the familiar cool, calm and collected stance of Sasuke Uchiha stood atop the cliff, looking down at the blond on the floor. "You're close to the Eastern Checkpoint, Naruto. The borders into the countries of Seven and Bosco are close, what are you doing way out here?"

"I could ask you the same thing?" Naruto looked back up towards Sasuke, who only smirked back downwards.

"I'm hunting a Rogue Dark Mage, he's wanted for using Charms Magic to steal some businessman's fortune through the man's daughter, then killing the businessman, his wife and his daughter. He's gone into hiding somewhere on the eastern border." Sasuke explained nonchalantly, Naruto noted how eager Sasuke was to tell him of his accomplishments, he knew the details of missions from the council were disclosed and not to be told to others so easily. "Now I'll ask again, what's a member of Fairy Tail doing so far out here, Fairy Tail only takes job requests that originate in Fiore."

Naruto lifted up the front of his shirt slightly, even from that distance Sasuke could see that his stomach was bare of any marks. "Former member of Fairy Tail. I have abandoned Fairy Tail and it's prejudice." Was Naruto's only reply.

Naruto, even from the distance he was from the raven haired council warrior, could see how he visibly lightened up, a smile grew on Sasuke's face, a rare occurance, Sasuke would only ever perform smirks, either cocky or confident, he never fully smiled.

"So does this mean that you're ready to return to the magic council and work for it again, so you and I can finally work together as a team. The Left and Right hands coming together, and forming the arms of God." Sasuke spoke, not attempting to hide the anticipation in his voice, he could only imagine the power of his and Naruto's combined force, Euphoria and Disphoria coming together, the ability to control every aspect of a person's personality, they could mould emotionless machines of war from their magic, together they could even wipe out pain and grief from the world.

"Don't push it, Sasuke." Naruto's response broke Sasuke out of his imagination, Naruto glared angrily up at the raven haired mage. "I will never return to the council. I will go own my own, this is my journey, I will discover the world in my own way."

Sasuke had returned to his usual coll persona, giving only one audible 'hmph'. 'Very well then, Naruto, take your own path. Good luck with it, but just remember this. I will have your back." Sasuke let one more smirk grow on his face. "Just like you had my back all those years ago. Do you remember that day, Naruto? The day we met."

Naruto looked up at Sasuke, his eyebrow raising, he wouldn't have called it having Sasuke's back back then, but he knew what Sasuke was talking about. "I remember..."

"I'm gonna destroy you Fairy Tail!" All eyes turned to the small black haired boy standing at the doors to the guild, his eyes were the most interesting, puffing and covering with bags of sleep deprivation, yet the iris was red, with a black tomoe in each eye.

"Go home, Sasuke." Makarov called sadly from the bar counter with a sigh, only a few weeks ago Sasuke had lost his older brother against Tartaros' Seven Princes of Hell, he blamed Fairy Tail for the loss, claiming that Itachi was left behind, Makarov agreed somewhat, Itachi could have been saved, and that thought will follow and shame him for the rest of his life.

Instead of turning around and walking away Sasuke growled in fury, charging forwards with his fists clenched.

A colossal fist stopped his movement, launching him backwards a massive man with a bushy black behind stood in front of him. With one sharp kick by the man Sasuke's body flew into the air, crashing against the wall behind him.

"Ivan! That's enough! That isn't necessary!" Makarov yelled from behind him in a scolding manner, veins beginning to protrude on his forehead.

"Why is it, dad?" Ivan turned to look over his shoulder, before grinning darkly again at Sasuke. "I'm just disposing of any possible threats to Fairy Tail. Nobody interfere!" He commanded the other members of Fairy Tail. 'Especially if he has those eyes.'

He extended his hand towards Sasuke, a dark shadow magic flew out of it, striking Sasuke with precision, engulfing his entire body with glowing shadows. Sasuke's screams and yells of pain echoed through the silenced guild hall, all the members staring at the scene with horror, but Ivan was a S-Class member of Fairy Tail, their superior, AND he was the son of the master.

"IVAN, STOP!" Makarov's body began growing, fury enveloped him, how could his son do something like this. Hadn't he taught him better? His body expanded in a fury, activating his Titan Magic.

But he was stopped when a small yellow blur dived between Sasuke and Ivan's relentless attack, using itself to protect Sasuke from any further harm.

Ivan stopped his attack, he saw the young boy Naruto, arms crossed over his face in defence standing between him and Itachi's brother. The other members of Fairy Tail looked upon the small blond in shock. "Move. Now." Ivan ordered in a deathly voice.

"No." Naruto coughed out defiantly in return. "I won't listen to you if this is what it means to be an S-Class Mage. I will never strive to become one if it means that others will back down in fear and let you perform horrible deeds like this."

"Why?" Sasuke muttered, staring at the small blond boy, the one attack battered and bruised his flesh. "Why did you take the blast? I didn't ask for your help!"

"I did it...for Itachi." The blond boy smiled, not looking around, he couldn't witness Sasuke's stares of utter shock. "He taught me so much, and he was my first friend." The blond boy smiled himself, looking over his shoulder to see Sasuke. "I wasn't allowed to go on that mission on that day, if I was, you'd probably be burying me as well. Because there's no way I would have let Itachi finish things alone. I wasn't able to protect Itachi, but I am able to protect you, Sasuke, you were Itachi's drive, you are everything he stood for, and now you are all that's left of him." The blond boy finished just before he collapsed, fainting under the weight of his own body.

"Naruto!" Makarov jumped from the bar stool, making his way towards the blond.

'Naruto...' Sasuke replayed his name in his mind, one that he had heard not too long ago.

"I was just reminded of something else. A boy from my guild named Naruto, he asked the same questions you do. If anything, if you two were to meet, you'd probably be the best of friends." Itachi smiled.

"Naruto..." Sasuke muttered with a small smile on his face, staring back up at the moon. Outside Itachi, he didn't have any friends. Could he be best friends with Naruto. "I'd like to meet him one day, and see if he's a good guy."

A tear slid down Sasuke's cheek, the first he shed since Itachi's burial. This was the Naruto he spoke about. The words he spoke touched him, even in Fairy Tail, there was a person like this.

Sasuke sighed loudly, a sighed of tedium. "I guess if it can't be helped, then there's no point pushing it. Just remember Naruto, if you ever decide to rejoin the council, I'll be waiting." He gave a genuine smile, not his usual smirk.

"And if you ever decide to leave it, Sasuke. Come and find me." Naruto replied with a smile of his own.

Sasuke nodded, before turning on the cliff he was perched upon. "Wait." He heard Naruto call behind him. "What do you know of the counter to Euphoria and Disphoria?"

"There is no counter." Sasuke replied confidently. "Our magic's power is absolute, nothing can counter it."

"Then perhaps you should know this." Naruto spoke again. "There is a person called Gaara, and he holds the counter to Euphoria and Disphoria, a magic called Apathy. Be on guard of him Sasuke, and of the council, seeing as they were the one's that ordered it's creation."

Sasuke's eyes widened at the news, staring down at Naruto's, he couldn't see any lying in his eyes. 'The council, created a counter to my magic...'

"All those who had knowledge of any aspect of the magic are dead, courtesy of Gaara, but the fact remains that they created it under your very nose, how long will it be before they try again? They could use it to try and control you." Naruto continued, warning Sasuke of the possible threat.

"Then they will fail." Sasuke replied darkly. "I am with the council to full my own goals, through the council I have a legal reason to commence an attack on Fairy Tail once I get a warrant. That old fool Uranai is too kind hearted, and there is talks of replacing him with a new man, Guran Doma. The only thing even remotely holding back my plans was you, Naruto, and now that you have discarded Fairy Tail, nothing can hold back my ambitions."

'East...' Naruto thought, moving in the direction. He walked through the dead wasteland the slight vision of a forestry on the horizon. 'It's a bit of a wide range to use as a starting point for searching for Cyclione, I have no idea where he could possibly be. So what should I do? Just search around until I can find some idea of where he is?'

Naruto sighed loudly, his sigh filling the silent wasteland, he was the only moving thing within sight. Naruto pulled his arms behind his head, resting his head in his hands as he walked, contemplating on his next course of action.

'I guess there's nothing else I can do...' He thought in his mind. 'I'll just have to search around until I find something. Someone must have seen Cyclione anyway, he's pretty hard to miss.' He thought more optimistically, dropping his relaxed body stance he took off at an impressive speed, a dust cloud forming behind his feet as he ran east, towards adventure, towards hop, towards Cyclione...

A/N: Yo! Finally got this Chapter up! After a massive writer's block and a loss of will to write, then finding that my computer is pretty much wrecked from the inside there were a lot of obstacles, but we overcame them and this chapter is out, and in all honesty... I feel like it is kind of a let down for you guys, you've waited so long for it and the only thing worth noting is the story of why Sasuke stills likes Naruto but hates the rest of Fairy Tail.

Anyway, next chapter, I'm going to be working on two things, A Kindred Spirit, currently my favourite story and A Complete Family, Incomplete, my first story which I will be revising. If you haven't read it please check it out, again it's called A Complete Family, Incomplete. My first fic and the one I'm most concerned about for reviews, seeing as it barely has any and it's on near 16 chapters, puts me on the brink of discontinueing it.

Anyways, next chapter, I have no idea what I'm going to do for it, Naruto will be lloking around for Cyclione, but will get pulled into sde adventures, I haven't really planned this much ahead, I kind skipped straight to Phantom Lord Arc in my head and one key point in it.

Til Next Time,

Rinne-Kami, Out!