"I'm sorry for the long delay my memory chip was destroyed so… yea." Kytranis said in an apologetic tone.

"Bwahaha! You authors will never win!" the Anti-muse called and he rolled his eyes.

"Who keeps letting her out without medication? Seriously?" he asked himself as a dark purple bolt jumped from his hand and slammed into her knocking her out the window. There was a scream then. CRASH!!! Kytranis vanished and reappeared near the window before giving out a piercing whistle. "Oh this is gonna come back to bite me." He said noting she had crushed the front part of a car that broke her fall. She was alive and seemingly unhurt but still this would bring all the wrong type of attention.

"Speech"

//thoughts//

You know the drill

The Story.

"Narutoooooooo? Naaaaaaruuuuuuutoooooo? Where are youuuuuuu?" A small voice called out as a tiny form zipped quickly around the tower. At a closer inspection this tiny form was a girl maybe fifteen centimetres tall with insect wings and wearing black and yellow camo with a pair of insect eye goggles hanging around her neck. She had pageboy styled hair that was dark purple. "So… he's gonna play that way eh?" Zing asked herself grinning. "Kage-Bunshin No-Jutsu! " (That's right! Ninja Zing!)

"Alright gang time to split up and look for clues!" the newly conjured and ascot wearing Zing proclaimed (Freddy from Scooby Doo). Naruto hanging out overhead stifled a snort that would have given him away. All his partner in crime had to do was slip on her goggles, they were like his shades, designed to pierce all but the most powerful illusions and act as a shield from mind effecting spells. "Now where could he… you stinker." Zing said looking up in thought and spotting the slight bending in the air that showed Naruto was cloaked.

"Heh, heh, heh. You're getting good at that Zing." Naruto said dropping to the floor and landing gracefully as he decloaked.

"She ruined your fun! Teach her a lesson!" a voice said in his ear and Naruto rolled his eyes. It was a shadow clone of Zing in a devil costume.

"No! You should apologize for hiding from her when she came to visit! It's only polite." Another shadow clone of Zing said from his right shoulder this one was in an angel outfit complete with a plastic halo and fake harp.

"Oh this is so old Zing! Knock it off!" he announced brushing the clones off his shoulders. He felt the original land on top his head as the clones dispelled.

"Hey Naruto I have a question." Zing said and he looked up at her as she leaned over so they could stare at each other. "Which one of us is the bad influence?" she asked and got a shrug.

"Hell if I know, all I can say is that we egg each other on." He admitted and got a nod. "Hey would you like to do the honours of activating my latest prank in about two minutes?"

"Sure! What is it?" Zing asked excitedly.

"We're going to steal lunch hour." Naruto boasted and got a flat stare.

"How the hell are we gonna do that!?"

"I've placed illusion runes on every window pane and clock down to the smallest watch and computer screen. We just need to put some energy in the master rune and all clocks will read one hour later for twelve hours and the same story for the location of the sun in the windows. This has taken me about five days to get down pat." He boasted and Zing started chuckling evilly.

"Oh they are gonna be so mad at us." Zing said getting a chuckle then pumped some energy into the activation rune. Naruto took a step back into a small alcove as the noise built up then hundreds of nervous and frazzled witches rushed past complaining and moaning about the time.

"So Zing how would you rate this one?" he asked.

"Nine point five Naruto, to hit the perfect grade you need to get a mass of girls screaming not swearing and groaning. But you got massive points for getting everyone in the mix." She explained and he 'ahhed'

"If zis vas not zo funny I vould be smacking hyu." A sibilant voice said from behind Naruto. "And let go hoff me, I nein like to be skewerrred on crystalz." Night snarled and Naruto let go of his shirt and let the crystal that had shot out of his sleeve dissolve. (Think Assassins Creed Wristblade.)

"Sorry I don't like people getting behind me." He apologized as Night readjusted his suit. "So anything of note recently?" This was standard business between them. Night would supply Naruto with hard to find items and information and in return Naruto would prank specific targets in such a way that Night's nightly dining would be fit for a king.

"No. Reegarrdlez hye have somting for hyu. I believe mye debt has been getting rrrathar larrrge." Night said pulling out a spell scroll and fading into the wall. Naruto unrolled it and skimmed the summary.

Phantasmal Strangler

Spell Type: Fear, Mind Affecting. Level 3 Medium

Affect: Creates a band of shadow which chokes the victim while placing them in an illusion to make them believe that a creature cleaved from a deep seated phobia is strangling them making them ignore more pertinent threats such as the caster and the actual item strangling them. A favourite of assassins.

He gave out a piercing whistle of admiration. "Scary shit here, wonder where he got his claws on this?" Naruto asked as Zing read over it and gave a quick 'wow'.

"So we doing anything interesting today? Stealing lunch was fun but... I want more!" Zing announced and Naruto grinned. He couldn't believe the mischief streak in Zing, hell it was bigger than Zing herself!

"Well... alright I'll let you in on something." Naruto said punching a brick into the wall causing a whole bunch of other bricks to retreat until there was a whole panel that simply vanished into the floor and he stepped into the passage with Zing on his shoulder. The passage closed behind him and green flame torches burst into existence. "You know that contest that's going on today in the capital right? The Miss Magix?" he asked and she nodded.

"Alright, a student here named Lucy a witch with Luck based powers, however when it's come to genetics she's not very lucky. So she's going to enter with the Trix sisters using a powerful illusion so that she'll look absolutely stunning. And we are going to screw over everyone and get out looking like the good guys. The Trix will be pissed, Lucy will be expelled from the contest and the contest itself will be vandalised and we will look like innocent bystanders." Naruto said and the grin on Zing's face was huge.

"What's the plan boss?" she asked and he grinned.

"Well the sisters are going to: A, put up a powerful illusion then drop it at the last second. B, vandalise the competition. We are going to use from me a crapload of both chakra and mana and from you that enormous skill at transformation to transform Lucy for real, right down to the DNA with a few alterations so that the illusions effects are minor. Then step back and watch the show as Lucy get's disqualified the Trix get pissed and the competition goes down the toilet. So you in?" he asked and there was a cheer.

"Yes! Oh yea! I'm totally into that!" Zing shouted in joy.

"Cool! It starts up in a couple hours whatta ya wanna do to kill time till then?" Naruto asked and Zing hummed in thought.

"Hmmmm…… let's visit Alfea!" she suggested and Naruto nodded.

"Alright let's go!" Naruto exclaimed and Zing grabbed his hair hard and in a flash of yellow they were gone.

"Oh dear goodness!" Palladium said as the somewhat jumpy elf was half blinded by Naruto appearing right in front of him.

"Oh sorry am I interrupting class?" he asked scratching the back of his neck in front of nearly thirty girls in a lecture hall. He just homed in on the Winx Girls signatures. He figured they wouldn't all be in the same class so if they were all together then it'd be alright to port in. Baring a change room but that would just be a guilty bonus where he could talk out of the trouble.

"Not exactly, I was just about to dismiss them." Palladium said brushing himself off a little.

"You shouldn't just arbitrarily insult your class, although if you want to do that I can find you a temp job at Cloud Tower." Naruto said grinning and Palladium rolled his eyes.

"Class Dismissed!" Zing shouted at the top of her lungs beating both Palladium and Naruto to it. The latter of whom chuckled at this. Most of the students left chuckling a little but the Winx girls stayed.

"Hello Naruto, Zing, how are you two?" Hinata asked politely.

"Alright, but Tune's been whacking around with her parasol again." Zing said and Naruto snorted.

"And just what have you been up to, to get miss prim and proper to go medieval on ye old arse?" Naruto asked with a grin looking up at her.

"Heh, heh, heh..." Zing said scratching the back of her neck. "Well... I might have used my connections to bugs to kinda... mess up her place..." she confessed and Naruto's grin was now reminiscent of a fox

"Let me guess. She chased you all over the Pixie village?" he asked and got a nod. "She shouted insults but still remained polite about it." Another nod. "And yet I think you're still holding out on me. Spill." Naruto said and Zing laughed ruefully.

"I kinda did it every day for a month." Zing admitted and Naruto cackled.

"Nice job partner." He said reaching up and they shook hands. Hinata sighed.

"You two are impossible." She said.

"And proud of it!" Naruto said eliciting groans.

"That's nice and all but we don't have time to goof today I've gotta get ready for... Oh opps." Stalls started to say but faltered when Naruto started grinning at her.

"Ready for what?" Naruto asked and Stella turned away eyes wide at her slip. "Come on, tell me." He said appearing in front of her no flash, no smoke, no blur, he was just there. She turned again. "Please?" Turned "Come on!" Turn. "Hunh?" this went on for another minute and a half until Stella let out a huge flash of light blinding him. There was a sound of running as Naruto's vision cleared but he smirked regardless.

"Why'd you let them get away?" Zing asked curiously.

"I already know what she was hiding I just wanted to needle her a little. Stella is going to participate in the Miss Magix. I already slapped a slight amount of spell resistance on her. I won't last past the day but it should keep her safe from the Trix." Naruto explained and Zing raised an eyebrow then looked down at him.

"You really care about her don't you?" she asked from on top of his head.

"I care about a lot of people. I just don't like saying it." Naruto said with a shrug and Zing flew down to his shoulder.

"Why not? I mean, won't it help things along a little?" Zing asked and Naruto sighed.

"Because, actions speak louder than words and I am a man of action after all. I keep them safe, that's enough for me. I don't need glory." Naruto said and Zing smiled gently, every once and a while Naruto could still blow her away. "Hang on." He said and she grabbed onto his ear and they were gone in a yellow flash.

"So where neeeeeext!?!" Zing started to ask but screamed the rest as she grabbed onto Naruto's ear for dear life as he had appeared right outside Cloud Tower instead of inside like she was used to.

"Sonovabitch! Someone must have blocked me!!" he shouted and shot out a crystal spike from his left sleeve that trailed a fine chain of crystals that sunk into a spire and he swung around.

"Holy Smokes!!" Zing shouted diving behind Naruto's head and hanging onto the neck hairs as he swung into, then through a window shattering it and landing on the desk of a student and then the next, the next and the next as if he were simply walking and he casually landed on the opposite end the regenerative magic of the tower having already fixed the window. He had also cut the chain line from his arm and the crystal had evaporated into harmless and invisible gas.

"I enjoy the mayhem you cause as much as the next witch Naruto, but you will have to tell me what the fuck is going through your head that you thought interrupting my class was a good idea!" Elditrude said growing louder as she started glowing blood red with a stench of brimstone arising from around her.

"Someone blocked my teleportation into the tower. So it was either swing into a window or decorate the rocks below. It being yours was simply coincidence. Now if you'll excuse me I doubt your students want me to continue to interrupt your lecture on proper strategy and stacking curses." Naruto said with a short bow and quickly left the room having no desire for one of her curses. Naruto's pranks were annoying, Elditrude's curses were NASTY.

"Is it safe?" Zing asked and Naruto nodded. "That is one scary woman."

"I won't argue that." Naruto said simply. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and sent out a massive pulse of both pure mana and chakra out and felt the echoes. "Sloppy." He said jumping into the gap of the central spire and spread his arms to shoot a tiny spike trailed by a fine crystal chain from between each of his fingers and descended and deliberately. Halfway down he flipped upside down and continued to lower himself downwards to a dark blue circular carpet dead centre of the tower. It was enchanted to cushion any blow making it so that students wouldn't kill themselves. But… Naruto wasn't in the mood for a freefall, he was pissed.

Someone had somehow gotten a piece of him that would block his entry through the tower if he wasn't corporeal. Meaning no teleportation, it would even block the Hirashin. High end stuff but it was easy to destroy and amateurly hidden. "Absolutely sloppy." He said again and gave a chakra enhanced puff of air at the end of the carpet which sent it flying showing a bunch of runes written in an herbal compound that had some part of him as part of the mix.

"Still credit where it's due, them actually going as far as to yank one of your hairs out of a drain right after you shower shows they kinda thought it out." Zing said trying to be gentle.

"Not well enough. I was doing better when I was in my single digits, besides these types of ritual compounds leave a trail." Naruto said pouring mana into his right hand and slamming it down open palmed on the centre rune. His eyes glowed white. "Areana and Chika hunh? Fine then, if those two newbies wanna play rough then let's see how they handle a sensory swap." He asked making a tiny flat scoop out of crystal and taking part of one rune with this kind of magic you need a part of not only the victims but yourself as well so it could draw power from you.

With the sequence disrupted the remainder of them powered down. Naruto breathed black fire onto it turning the diagram into ash and making the stones below glow before launching himself up until he came to the apex of his jump he latched onto the railing of the spiral staircase and launched himself again upwards and upwards practically flying as he soared through the air until he lightly landed on a railing and hopped off.

"You know I remember when those railings where up to your eyebrows." Zing noted as he slowly walked down a corridor then pressed a stone in on a wall and the whole wall… vanished. He walked through into a completely dark room beyond that seemed to swallow the light and the wall reappeared behind him causing it to go completely dark.

"Phasmatis Lux lucis"( Ghost Light.) Naruto intoned and behind him nine plumes of dark blue fire appeared then darted around the room to form an eerie nine point formation that shifted every few moments. It barely eased the darkness but for Naruto and Zing it was more than enough.

"Naruto… are you sure this is wise?" Zing asked slowly expanding until she was the same height and proportions that you would expect from a sixteen year old bombshell.

"Zing, you know as well as I do that blocking teleportation in an area such as this is borderline lethal. They are standing upon the line. I need to humble them to drag them away from that dangerous limit. Before it was fun and games but this is very serious now. They need to understand just what a person goes through when sympathetic magic is attacking them, and risking their lives. Madam Cross will be able to reverse their condition within a few moments should the worst happen and heal any injury. We need to cure the stupidity before they get themselves and others killed." Naruto said and Zing nodded solemnly.

"Phasmatis of Obscurum."(Spirits of Darkness) Naruto began four circles appearing in midair one horizontal two diagonal and one vertical.

"Phasmatis of Ira."(Spirits of Wrath) Zing continued as engravings appeared around the small flecks from the earlier runes.

"Audite nostrum dico , cruor of duos foes es hic pro nos."(Hear our call, the blood of two foes are here before us.) Naruto went on Runes appearing within the edges of the circles.

"Redimio lemma."(Bind them.) Zing intoned as another circle appeared within each circle separating the engravings from the runes.

"Vis lemma communico poena , communico sanus quod os. Pareo!"(Force them to share pain, to share sound and sight. Obey!) They both finished and the circles contracted and there was a flash of light and Naruto snatched something rapidly dimming out of the air and pocketed it.

"Brrrr… It always creeps me out when we use this kind of magic. Do we always have to do it in here?" Zing asked.

"Yep, we're free from distractions and we get a power boost thanks to this room." Naruto said.

"I still think you're being a little harsh." Zing said reproachfully and Naruto shrugged.

"They need to know what it's like to be on the receiving end of such a high level curse. If not they'll end up killing themselves and injuring hundreds." Naruto explained and something started beeping. He pulled a watch out of his back pocket and glanced at it as Zing shrank back down to normal size.

"Time to go?" Zing asked a little excited. She was a little put off having to use sympathetic magic. It was very powerful stuff and unless you were a grand master like Griffin or Faragonda you always needed someone to help you with it. It was a curse that could only be dispelled when the anchor was destroyed. For the earlier spell it was the runes in question that Naruto had picked apart then melted, this one was a small marble that Naruto had pocketed and was actually all four of the runic circles compacted around the focus points of their victims. As long as the marble was intact Naruto could activate and deactivate the curse with total impunity. (Think Voodoo but much more powerful and can be turned on and off if you can interact with the focus.)

"Yea just one quick stop first though." Naruto said and him and Zing vanished in a flash of yellow light. He quickly ducked to dodge a swipe from Madam Cross the extremely stern Nurse of Cloud Tower. She was good at her job but her bedside manner held much to be desired.

"Alright you menace just what are you up to this time?" She demanded giving him a death glare that thankfully held no mana in it. Naruto wordlessly handed her the marble. She examined it and her eyes widened then her glare doubled in power.

"Earlier today I found myself victim of sympathetic magic. This marble will let you unravel my retaliation before things get too dangerous. The two students in question are Areana and Chika the spider and the raven witches. They need to know exactly how powerful this kind of magic is before toying with it. I trust your discretion." Naruto explained before giving a slight salute and vanishing. No flash this time.

Lucy during this time was admiring her new look in the mirror. She knew it was temporary, she knew she was paying through the nose for it, but… still she had never been this beautiful before and she wanted to savour it. So can you blame her for screaming when Naruto appeared behind her in the mirror she turned and he clamped a hand over her mouth. "Shht!" he said a finger in front of his mouth. "I'm about to take my hand away, you will not scream, you will not hex me. You will however listen to what I have to say." Naruto said and Lucy nodded.

"Alright Lucy," he started taking his hand away. "this illusion is as you know temporary. My partner and I can make a permanent down to the DNA transformation. However there will be minor flaws such as hair length and such but so long as the illusion stays up you should have no problem pocketing the entire contest." Naruto explained and Lucy was staring at him wide eyed perfectly aware that the shades he was wearing on the tip of his nose let him see through the illusion.

"And what are you getting out of it?" she asked her voice sultry instead of its normal hoarse tone.

"I'm just messing with the Trix sisters, you getting something out of it… is an unrelated bonus for you." Naruto explained with a wink and Lucy nodded eagerly.

"Yes! Do it! Make me beautiful!" she exclaimed and Naruto bit his left hand and pooled as much blood as possible into his palm. He dipped his fingers in it and drew a pentagram on her forehead then placed his palm on it and Zing put her hand over his. Naruto then started focusing in pure power, Zing did her best to shape and mould it to what they wanted and an eerie reddish glow permeated the room then slowly died. Naruto stepped back panting after carefully plucking Zing out of the air and putting her onto his shoulder and pushed his shades further up his nose and got a good look at the new Lucy.

"We do good work." Zing noted through her goggles with a grin and Naruto handed Lucy his shades and glanced pointedly at the mirror. She slipped them on and faced it and froze, she was completely still then in one movement she spun around and pulled him into a deep throated and very torrid kiss. "WHOA!!" Zing exclaimed before whipping out a pixie sized camera and snapping a few shots. Naruto was very aware that her now DD sized bust was pressing into his chest as she squeezed against him, not that he was complaining mind you.

About a minute later she pulled away panting then grinned and playfully shoved him out of the change room, before skipping back to the vanity. Naruto was still silent as he slowly walked towards the viewing area and slipped into a seat with enough shadow to hide him but not make it look like he was hiding. "Was it really that good Naruto?" Zing asked curiously, and he glanced at her.

"You know the saying that enthusiasm should never replace skill?" he asked and Zing nodded. "Lucy just proved it wrong." He said and Zing laughed then stopped.

"Naruto! She still has you glasses!" Zing realised then blinked as Naruto pulled them out of his pocket. "How did you do that?" she asked and he grinned but said nothing. A man in a white outfit and with his hair pulled back into a pair of ridiculous… things came out and Naruto groaned, this was gonna be bad.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" He announced and Naruto glanced around, not many of either around. "I'm happy to give you my special and magical welcome to Miss Magix! This night we'll crown the most beautiful girl of the realm of Magix. You know the rules, No magic! And remember, every kind of magical ruse is totally banned, and will be harshly punished by our incorruptible and impartial jury; there will be only the girls with their talent and beauty." he said and Naruto snorted at that. "After all…" he bagan and Naruto groaned, he was about to ham it up he could sense it. "What greater magic is there then beauty?" he asked and Naruto face palmed.

Naruto pointedly ignored the moron as he introduced the contestants, he was only interested in two of them and he knew what they looked like thank you very much. After about a minute he spotted the Trix near the front of the stage. How had he missed that? He focused some mana into his eyes and saw the workings of magic around them. A simple 'ignore this' compulsion nothing serious. "Oh we made a masterpiece." Icy declared getting her sisters to laugh as the contestants left the stage.

Now that Naruto knew what to look for he kept his eyes on the Trix ready to cancel out any spells if they took it too far but... let's see basic trips, a loss of coordination, a ten foot fall… nothing serious. The announcer looked ready to break down and cry though. Naruto was hoping he would as he never failed to chuckle at the sight of a grown man bawling.

Naruto had to grin however as Lucy walked out confidently and showed a surprising talent in dance as she spun gracefully. //Well, you just never know what weird skills someone may have.// he thought as Zing was enraptured by the sight being a fan of dancing herself. The applause was massive and Naruto smiled at Zing as she was one of the loudest despite her small size.

Stella came out next in a cowgirl outfit and did an energetic dance of her own to a country song. Icy took offence at the fact that Stella was actually rather good and tried to smash an over head light on top of Stella.

//STELLA DODGE LEFT!!// Naruto sent telepathically and Stella did avoiding the missile from above and even made it look like she was only dancing. Darcy noticed this and Naruto could almost feel her smirk as a tiny amount of mana shot from her, he smirked when it bounced off the invisible barrier that Naruto had put on Stella earlier that day. Darcy growled as Stella took a bow and the announcer hammed up to her to play the crowd. Darcy muttered something unrepeatable causing Naruto to wonder if she hung around sailors. A few moments later all the contestants with only Stella and Lucy looking like…

"Hey, aren't those girls that same colour Stella tried to make in the labs last year?" Zing asked and Naruto nodded.

"Wonder how they got their hands on that." Naruto said simply as Lucy was nominated. She walked up to the front beaming and as soon as the crown was placed on her head the Trix dropped the illusion and Naruto and Zing high fived as they choked on nothing.

"I'm sorry Miss Lucy but even a change as minor as hair extension is forbidden. You're disqualified." The announcer said in a disappointed tone.

"WHAT!? You can't do this to me! This is my dream! Give that back you bastard!!!" Lucy screamed grabbing the crown and running off through the crowd slipping through the fingers of pedestrian and bouncer alike by sheer luck. "The deal's off you backstabbing whores!!!" she screamed before she left and the Trix sisters looked shocked.

"Uhm… ah… oh dear." The announcer said before he managed to bring out a spare crown. "In light of current events this year's Miss Magix is contestant number six Stella princess of Solaria!" he announced and Stella was immediately crowned to a large amount of applause. Naruto stood up during it instantly grabbing her attention and she levelled a glare at him. He grinned and vanished from her sight.

A short while later.

"Stella are you okay? That light nearly got you!" Bloom exclaimed and Stella waved it off.

"It'll take more than that to catch this girl unaware!" She boasted.

"That's funny because I could have sworn I told you to dodge left with telepathy." Naruto called down from his perch on top of a street light. He was silhouetted against the sunset as a black figure with his tiny glasses and wide grin glinting in the low light.

"So it was you messing with the competition!!" Stella shouted. "What the hell is wrong with you!? Those girls could have gotten hurt!" She half screamed at him.

"HEY! I did not, the Trix sisters were there. They were the 'backstabbing whores' Lucy was referring to. They were vandalizing the contest." Naruto explained dropping to street level and standing up. "The only bit of magic I used in that building was to protect you and to transform Lucy so she wouldn't be mortally embarrassed and shammed by the Trix." Naruto explained and there was a slight silence. "Besides, what are you complaining about? You won didn't you?" he asked and Stella visibly deflated.

"Yea but… I don't know that Lucy girl…" Stella said and Naruto grinned.

"Will have another chance next year," Naruto finished for her. "and she's going to get a lot of fame in Cloud Tower for apparently screwing over the entire Miss Magix, life's about to take a turn for the better for her. So don't worry your pretty head about it. Enjoy your victory." He said before walking off.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Musa shouted.

"Home! A transformation down to the DNA really wears you down! I need to crash!" he shouted before turning a corner. "Oh what the fuck I'll risk it." He said activating an undisguised Hirashin and teleporting to the rune above his bed and landing in it. He quickly pulled off his boots coat, and jeans before slipping on some pyjama bottoms and his t-shirt off as Zing fluttered down to an extra pillow he kept for her and he slipped into his bed dead tired. 3...2…1… KO! He was out!

Authors Notes.

"Again, sorry about the long delay, what can I say? Shit's been happening. I'm slowly getting back on track but life just gets more and more complicated. Anyways I'd like to thank Lord Martiya for information on the Miss Magix episode. Although I didn't follow it fully just having it around helped me get back on track. Now if you'll excuse me I need to find a way out of this mess." Kytranis said to the screen before putting a black hood up and walking into a crowd allowing a wanted poster with his and the Anti-Muse's faces on it with a hefty bounty offered.