A Guild Full of…Life? Show and Tell!
Naruto groaned as the train came to its third stop that day. It was the last stop until they reached the MagnoliaTown train station. In all honesty he didn't even know why the train was stopping; it was the dead of night. Who would board a train at this hour? An even better question was who was dumb enough to leave.
While he thought this over he hopped out of bed. With how much the train stopped he wouldn't be able to sleep. He walked out of his quaint room. It was a dark brown with one bed. It had a small bookcase and a place for his luggage. The bed covers were black and the pillow was the same. There was a small window, but he covered it with a curtain.
He walked out of the room into the quiet and dark hallway. The light bulbs overhead were all off, as the workers expected passengers to be asleep, but if you were like him and Sasuke, with shinobi training, you always slept with both eyes open.
He walked into the more open areas of the train, like the dining hall. While no one was in there it allowed for much more room to breathe. He sat down in one of the short brown chairs that were near the white walls. He laid his head down on the circular table and sighed, feeling bored.
"Feeling down," he heard a feminine voice ask him.
He turned and saw Erza walking up behind him. She wasn't wearing the breastplate she wore when he met here, instead she wore a small piece of armor covering her chest and shoulders with a small black top under it that covered her arms and stomach. Her legs were covered by black pajama pants.
"Something like that. I couldn't sleep. You?"
"I heard a noise. It was you," she said.
"Was I really that loud," he asked.
"You made a loud racket," she said grumbling at him.
He groaned. He was so out of it that he made a racket. Kakashi and Sakura would beat him for losing focus like that. He was a shinobi! If this was like the Elemental Nations he could have led an ambush right towards his team, getting all of them killed.
"You seem troubled," Erza's said, her voice breaking through his thoughts.
"I guess I am."
"Want to talk about it? It helps me with mine," she asked.
He thought it over. While he couldn't tell her the majority of the things about it he could very well tell her about what he was going through. Maybe she could help him, but he highly doubted she would even understand.
"I'm just troubled. You see, when Sasuke and I were kids we grew up being raised to be silent and stealthy; basically we were raised to be killers. We were raised to be mercenaries, although a better term might be ninja for hire," Naruto began to explain.
Erza cut him off there. "You two raised as ninja's excuse me if I just can't see it."
Naruto just shrugged.
"It is a little unbelievable. However, the fact is that it's true. Anyway, the more important thing is, we had to move away. Far away, and we came to Fiore. I miss my teacher, my perverted godfather, my "grandmother," everyone, I just feel empty without them."
Erza nodded, understanding the feeling.
"I went through a similar experience. I still miss my friends; however I can only hope they're in a better place far, far away from that tower. But, I doubt they would want you to be sad about it. From how deeply you care about them I can tell that you had a deep bond with them. It helps to know that they wouldn't want you to mope but get on with your life and try your best now," she said.
Naruto nodded, they wouldn't want him to mope, but he just felt sad, he missed them.
"Besides, you'll see them again most likely. People from all over come to Fiore, so they might. Besides, being in a guild forces you to travel all over the place, you may run in to someone you know, or hear news about them," Erza said.
Naruto smiled a sad smile.
'If only she knew.' He thought to himself.
"She's right brat. They wouldn't want you to be all sad and lonely. Besides it's not like you," Kurama rumbled in his mind.
He had to agree with the fox and his to-be guild mate. They'd give him a lecture about it. It wasn't like him at all, and it would make them feel bad. They'd probably hit him on the head…at least Sakura and Tsunade would.
He smiled, feeling a little better after the pep talk, although he admitted it could be better.
"Thank you, Erza. That helped me," Naruto said before standing.
'You to Kurama.'
The fox just grunted and Erza smiled nodding at him before standing as well.
She started to walk away before turning and smiling at him.
"You'd fit in, in Fairy Tail. Almost everyone there has a sad past; you and Sasuke won't be strangers. After all, I'd consider Fairy Tail to be a home for wounded travelers."
With that she walked away and he heard the familiar sound of a door closing telling him that she had gone back to bed. Naruto smiled a home for wounded travelers huh? Perfect. Sasuke and he had sure picked a good guild for them.
XxX
As Naruto and Sasuke walked through the town center they had to smile. It was a very…upbeat town. It was like Konoha in a way, although bigger, and not filled with people who may or may not be plotting to kill you, every single day. It was also less militaristic, although they assumed that the Magic Council took care of that. They were like the Hokage of Fiore and Fiore was like three of the Elemental Countries.
Erza had explained the layout of the place to them. It was a large built-up area, extending over a large, rectangular surface to the shores of LakeSciliora. A series of large roads split the town vertically and horizontally. It was a western style, with its building mildly resembling those in medieval times. Near the middle of town, overlooking the Central Path, a horizontal road where events and parades were held, was Kardia Cathedral, one of Magnolia town's most important landmarks. Near LakeSciliora was Fairy Tails building, and to the west of that, on a hill overlooking the built-up area, was the Guild's female dormitory, Fairy Hills. They also told them there used to be a males one, but their ace mage blew it up, on accident of course. In the southeast section of the city was the train station, which, on the west side of it, had the Half Cocor Hotel Bar, the Toy Store Tom, and the Magic Store Lendis. North of the station was the park.
As they walked forward gawking at some of the buildings Erza and Mira laughed at them. They were strange. It was as if they had never seen anything like their buildings. A lot of the buildings in Fiore looked like this. While Erza knew they weren't raised here it was still surprising. To have this much surprise must have meant they were raised very far away.
She had no idea how right she was.
As they continued walking they neared the Fairy Tail building. To say they were shocked would be an understatement. It was an imposing building, consisting of three floors and incorporating several architectonic styles: it took of a shape that resembled a pagoda, with each floor being smaller than the one below and sitting on the roof of said floor. The roofs also bore great resemblance to those of real pagoda, consisting of extremely long, arched tiles lined up one after another and possessing curved protrusions jutting upwards on angles. On the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple round and pointed dome, similar to those seen on Arabian buildings which had a flag on its point. The middle one held a large banner with Fairy Tail's symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles. The large entrance was again Arabian in design, with its shape being reminiscent of that dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape and flanked by a pair of carved fairies. The stylized heart shapes were visible on the frames of numerous, large pentagonal windows on each floor, with the top floor housing smaller, arched windows partially covered be banners.
"Amazing," Naruto whispered.
"Interesting, I'll admit," Sasuke said.
Makarov just laughed.
"Wait till you see the inside," he laughed.
As Makarov opened the doors to the building Sasuke and Naruto stood shocked to the bone. The inside was almost exactly like a large lunch hall, and mainly consisted of wood, possessing a parquet floor and a mezzanine held up by wood beams overlooking it. Several long benches and the related tables stretched across its length with an empty bar at the back, which Mira looked at a little enviously. There was a board located beside the bar.
Above that was the second floor, which they had already gotten a stern lecturing to not go onto unless they were an S-class mage. However, that didn't mean they couldn't see what was up there. The floor had few, small round tables and chairs seated around the tables for sitting. Also, there were barrels, crates, and bags scattered in corners around the room.
Well, that's what it would have looked like, excluding the second floor, if there wasn't a massive brawl going on.
Chairs, tables, bottles, even people were being thrown, Magic was being fired, and people were screaming. It was chaos, absolute chaos, and Naruto was excited by it. Sasuke just rubbed his eyes as if he was dealing with another bunch of idiots. His life seemed full of them.
Erza's eyes twitched.
"STOP FIGHTNING NOW!" she roared, her scarlet hair raising high into the air.
The fighting immediately stopped, and Sasuke and Naruto assumed they were scared of her…they were definitely not as dumb as they acted. Makarov just laughed before walking in the building, followed by Erza, Mira, Sasuke, and Naruto.
"We have two new members," Makarov began before sitting down on a stool near the bar.
"They are Sasuke Uchiha," Makarov began pointing to Sasuke, "and Naruto Uzumaki," he finished pointed at Naruto.
Both teens just waved, feeling uncomfortable with all eyes on them, well Sasuke was sort of, Naruto, Naruto was plain old Naruto.
"Now Naruto, Sasuke, where do you want your Fairy Tail symbols to be," Makarov said holding up a wooden pole with the Fairy Tail symbol on its front. "And in what color?"
"Orange, and," Naruto began before he rolled up his short, black sleeve and pointed to his shoulder.
Makarov nodded and slammed the pole onto it. A small glow was given off before it stopped and Makarov took the pole away. In its place was an orange Fairy Tail insignia.
Makarov turned to Sasuke.
"Red and blue combined, and on my shoulder," Sasuke said, rolling up his gray sleeve and pointed to his shoulder.
The same happened to him, although, surprisingly, his looked like the Fairy Tail insignia with the Uchiha crest in the center, although it the crest really wasn't there.
"And now you two are official members, go talk to people," Makarov said before asking Mirajane to get him a beer.
As Mira rushed off and Erza sat down next to Makarov Sasuke and Naruto walked over to a table where people there age were sitting.
They sat down at the edge having a staring competition with the people there. One was a large, muscular man with tan skin whose height caused Sasuke to be a little envious. He had long white hair that was kept upwards in long, wavy spikes, and his dark eyes possessed no visible eyebrows. He had a rectangular, elongated face. There was a black Fairy Tail stamp on his neck.
He wore a dark blue jacket with purplish blue inners, held closed by buttons. He had similar buttons on the sleeves' back and the zip located on the high collar left open.
Another boy had spiky black-colored hair. He had dark blue eyes, and his body was toned and muscular. He had a member stamp below his collarbone on his right pectoral, which was visible as he was wearing no shirt, and was dark blue in color. He wore a necklace which resembled a sword with a stone in it, a metal bracelet and a chain which was attached to belt loops on the right side of his pants.
Next to him was a lean, muscular young man of average height with slightly tan skin tone, black eyes, and spiky pink-colored hair. He had a scar on the right side of his neck, hidden by the dragon scale-styled scarf around his neck. He had a red guild mark located just below his right shoulder. He wore a sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waistcoat, left open, exposing a bare muscular chest. He wore white knee-length trousers, a thick black wristband on his left wrist, and black open-toed sandals.
Finally, there was a tall, slim, young girl with a growing bust next to them. She had long, mid-back length brown hair, with two shoulder-length strands of hair framing her face, with the left one starting from a prominent, high fringe. She had large brown eyes and visibly long eyelashes. She was developing a voluptuous figure. She wore a black tank-top revealing her black Fairy Tail stamp located on the lower part of her abdomen, right above her slowly curving hips. She wore short black pants that stopped at her mid-thigh.
"My name is Elfman Strauss," the white haired boy said.
'Most be related to Mira,' Sasuke thought.
"Gray Fullbuster," the spiky haired shirtless boy said.
"Cana Alberona," said the girl.
"FIGHT ME!" roared the pink haired boy, charging at them.
His fist was on fire, causing Naruto to smile, even if it was more at the challenge. The boy threw the fist forward, however Naruto easily caught it and pinned him to the floor. This surprised some experienced mages. While Natsu wasn't near one of the strongest mages in their guild, he was at least B-class, maybe a little lower. Plus, catching a flaming fist wasn't an easy feat, even for them. Fire was one of the stronger Elemental Magic's.
"And who might you be, the energetic boy," he teased.
"Don't tease him Naruto, you were exactly like him," Sasuke said killing his fun.
"Buzz kill," Naruto whispered.
Sasuke's eyes twitched but he did nothing.
"He's Natsu Dragneel, the boy who was supposedly raised by a dragon," Gray said.
"I WAS RAISED BY A DRAGON! DON'T INSULT IGNEEL," the now-introduced Natsu hollered.
"As if. Dragon's aren't real."
Naruto frowned at this.
"They are. Haven't you heard of the Black Dragon of Apocalypse? Besides, if they don't exist then why do Gods," Naruto asked.
The entire guild froze at that, while Sasuke just smacked his forehead, sighing.
"Idiot," he said.
"Black Dragon of Apocalypse," Gray mimicked.
"A topic for another day," Makarov interrupted a serious look on his face. He was looking at Naruto and Sasuke with a 'We will talk about this later,' look on his face.
Sasuke just sighed while Naruto gulped.
"Gods," Cana asked.
"Yeah they exist. Sasuke and I learned our Magic from them."
Sasuke banged his head on the table. Naruto was officially an idiot in his books. Even if they were his new guild mates, to be so trusting…he then realized this was Naruto he was talking about.
He sighed.
"Yes, it's true, even though I wish he had just shut up," Sasuke grumbled.
"Can you show us," Natsu asked excitedly.
"It's a little destructive," Naruto said.
"There's a training field out back," Natsu said, refusing to give up.
Naruto couldn't counter the logic, and honestly, neither could Sasuke. He rose before walking outside, followed by Sasuke and the majority of the guild.
As they stood on the dusty, brown ground across from each other Sasuke and Naruto smirked.
"Naruto are you gonna do that," Sasuke asked.
"No, they'd probably go crazy," Naruto said.
While everyone else was confused Makarov wasn't. He had noticed the demonic Magic coming off the boy while he was asleep. He wanted to talk to him about that.
"Well then Sasuke, ladies first," he said, taking a jibe at his friend.
Sasuke just ignored it before beginning, while closing his eyes and focusing Magic into his hands. Clouds began to form in the once clear sky. They began to swirl, making a vortex like motion. He opened his eyes, just as black lightning struck the ground and two massive fuma shuriken appeared in both hands.
"Amazing," Erza whispered.
"I've never seen anything like it," Mirajane said.
"Cool," Natsu said.
"That was rare Magic," Makarov said.
"I use Lightning God Slayer Magic, Sharingan, and Arc of Embodiment Magic," Sasuke said.
"I've never heard of any of those," Makarov said.
"Neither have I," Mira and Erza said simultaneously.
"My turn," Naruto said cheerfully.
Naruto closed his eyes and breathed out slowly. Sasuke took this as a major cause for alarm.
"EVERYBODY GET BACK," he roared.
While not knowing why, as the boy had travelled with the blonde mage they trusted him and shuffled backwards.
Naruto smirked when he heard this.
Powerful gusts of wind began to roar in the distance before overtaking the training field. They blew around wildly, making everything that was able to fly up. Some girls covered their skirts, while also covering their hair. Boys with long hair covered theirs, but were wondering where this came from.
Naruto raised his right hand forming a small blue ball of ethernano, exactly as he became coated in a light golden glow, and a massive black tornado surrounded everything below his waist.
It raised him high into the air, before he shot out of it, a golden light trailing behind him as he made circles in the air, black winds following behind him.
"I use Sky God Slayer Magic, Energy-Make, and Heavenly Body Magic," Naruto roared.
Makarov nodded then, as did Erza, Mira, Elfman, and Gray.
"I've heard of those," was a comment shared between all of them.
"Well at least the last two."
Naruto landed and the storms dissipated, as did the dark clouds above. The guild looked at him with a bright smile on their faces. He smiled back at them.
"That is what I like to call, awesome," Natsu cheered, running around.
Naruto chuckled at the boy. He reminded him of how he was at thirteen, wild and rambunctious. Sasuke would probably hate it though. As he would put it, one Naruto was one to many. Having a miniature version of him would probably drive him insane.
He wondered how Sasuke would handle it when he had kids.
"Impressive Magic. Very Impressive, let's see how you fair in a fight," Makarov said.
"Sure, two on two or one on one," Naruto asked.
"One on one. While I'm sure you have impeccable skills in team battles, the majority of your battles in guilds will be one on one," Makarov explained.
Naruto and Sasuke nodded before looking at each other, preparing to fight, but they were interrupted.
"No, you two won't be battling. You know each others techniques. Chances are you won't know anything about your opponent and will have to make up strategies on the fly in a fight," Makarov said.
'Naruto's specialty,' Sasuke thought.
"Okay, who is my opponent," Naruto asked.
"Gray Fullbuster," Makarov said pointed at Gray.
Gray sighed before walking onto the field…without his pants.
"Gray, clothes," Cana sighed.
Gray hollered before trying to find his clothes.
"Does he do this a lot," Naruto asked.
"The stripper was born to do that, at least I think so," Natsu said, which rather out of character, as he didn't completely insult Gray.
Gray had found his clothes and put them back on before charging over to the field. Naruto followed at an equally energetic pace.
"Begin," Makarov roared.
Gray formed a strange hand symbol hand, a fist over an empty palm, before pulling it back to his waist. Naruto tensed ready to charge Gray the second he unleashed his Magic. Gray raised his hands into the air. He brought his hands downward, but as he did so he held a giant bow made of ice.
"Ice-Make: Arrows," Gray hollered, before pulling back the ice-made string.
He let it loose, and from the bow sprang thousands of arrows made of pure ice.
"The hell," Naruto roared, before rushing the arrows.
They started to land around him, nearly cutting his new clothes, but he managed to dodge. A couple seemed to change their trajectory and come straight for him, however he jumped towards them.
"Meteor," Naruto roared, as he was overtaken by a faint golden glow.
Gray amped up the number of ice arrows, but with Naruto's newfound speed Gray just couldn't keep up. Naruto skimmed by another arrow before appearing directly over Gray. He held out his hand, pointing to fingers at Gray before smirking.
Several fast-moving golden beams shot from his fingers towards Gray. Gray was momentarily surprised, however he jumped out of the way just before they hit him, however they switched courses in midair, and began to chase after Gray.
'Crap, they're homing,' Gray thought, before he dodged another charge made by the lights.
"Shield," Gray roared, flipping in midair and slamming his palms out in front of him. A giant shield of ice was made in front of him. The lights slammed into the shield, shaking it, but faded out of existence after that.
Naruto growled before disappearing into thin air, confusing Gray.
'Where did he go?'
Behind Gray, was a smiling Naruto, a swirling ball of ethernano in his hands.
"Rasengan," Naruto roared, slamming the orb into Gray's back and forcing him into the ground. A dust cloud formed.
As the dust cleared Naruto walked out from it, an unconscious Gray on his back.
"I won," Naruto cheered.
"Impressive, Gray is one of our strongest B-class mages, nearing A-class strength," Mirajane said.
Naruto smiled. "Sasuke, you're up," Naruto cheered.
Makarov nodded before pointing at Natsu. Natsu cheered as he ran out, but Sasuke looked at Makarov with unhidden anger.
"One Naruto is one to many. Now I have to fight a miniature version of him. I bet this will be exactly as it was when we were kids," Sasuke said before walking off.
As Makarov allowed the battle to begin Natsu rushed him.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist," Natsu roared, coating his fist in flames and charging Sasuke.
Sasuke sighed before catching the fist, his hand covered in black lightning.
"Lightning God's Force Blow," Sasuke said before smacking Natsu hard on the head. He slammed into the ground, hard, and unconscious.
"Unlike Naruto, I don't toy with my opponents," Sasuke said.
"I didn't toy with Gray," Naruto roared indignantly. "He's just stronger than Natsu!"
Naruto suddenly got an evil grin on his face.
"But, as Natsu reminds me of myself at his age, I will train him," Naruto smiled.
"Then I'll train Gray to be stronger than Natsu could ever be," Sasuke roared in challenge.
Mira and Erza looked at each other thinking a similar thought.
'Did Gray and Natsu just get caught up in their rivalry?'
XxX
It was the day after Naruto and Sasuke had joined Fairy Tail. They had arrived early, as to get in a little bit more tutoring from Mirajane. Their were only five people at the guild at the moment, Mirajane, Naruto, Sasuke, Makarov, and a green haired boy they didn't talk to yesterday.
He was slim of average height with waist-length light-green hair; his bangs are brushed to the right side of his face, covering most of it, as well as a pair of thin strands jutting out backwards from the sides of his head shaped like lightning bolts. His hair was gathered at the end and tied in a short ponytail.
He had greenish blue eyes, and beneath his left eye was a small beauty mark. In addition he had prominent eyelashes. He had a green Fairy Tail mark on the back of his left hand; He wore a short wide-collared shirt, with light cuffs decorated by a dark line around their edges. He had a sword strapped to his waist.
The most interesting thing about him however, was the fact that he was writing in midair. He moved his pointer finger through the air, and runes trailed after it. While Sasuke wasn't interested, Naruto was and decided to talk to the teen.
As he walked up to him the teen glanced at him before returning to his work. It slightly confused Naruto, but he continued to walk forward. As he reached him he extended his hand.
"Hi, my names Naruto Namikaze, nice to meet you."
The teen just stared at his hand before looking Naruto in the eyes. He then looked back at the hand.
"Freed Justine," Freed said, before going back to his Magic.
"What is that? It looks cool," Naruto said.
"Dark Ecriture," Freed responded.
"Is it a type of Magic?"
"Yes."
"Awesome, it looks really cool," Naruto said.
Freed stared at Naruto for a brief moment before shrugging. He continued to stare at Naruto however, before he spoke.
"Why do you care," he asked.
"It looks cool," was his child-like response.
Freed nearly slammed his head on the table. The 16 year old had the mindset of a four year old.
"I'll explain. It is a form of Letter Magic that allows the caster to write runes. Experienced ones like me can do it without a pen or quill, for various effects. Essentially, spells used for this Magic work only on what the caster writes with it; in other words, what they write goes as follows, like a rule, which cannot be broken. It's centered on the writing of runes; however if rewritten correctly, the effects will change. Runes can be written on an object, person, or even midair for the effects to take place. They can be used for different purposes, such as traps, and offensively can be cast upon an opponent to inflict either physical or mental injury. The caster can also conjure elements for usage of this Magic, like poison. Death is also a possible effect, although I recommend you don't use that spell. However, simple usage of this Magic that is convenient for the user, like teleportation or flight, can also be used. Another type is actually transformation, in which the user is able to transform themselves and be granted a different appearance, even strength," Freed said, explaining the Magic with a monologue.
"It sounds even cooler," Naruto cheered. "Would you teach me it," Naruto asked.
Freed considered it. It was an idea. He had never taken on a student, and doing so now would definitely be a good way to train, both himself and this Naruto character. He would also be able to pass down what he loved to a new generation, even though the teen was likely around his age.
"Sure," Freed said, before a brief and small smile crossed his face.
Hey guys its Kuma Akuma. I want to apologize for the late update, I've just been really busy. My teacher gave us a lot of homework, and I didn't have enough time to work on this. Add in Karate and you get me barely being able to write at all. But, it's the weekend, and i plan on paying you guys back from my tardiness. Next.
Naruto's feeling lonely and sad about the Elemental Countries. Poor boy, he must miss Hinata. I'm just kidding, but serious that is kinda sad. Erza and Kurama helped him, but will this happen again? With Sasuke? Also, naruto and Erza's conversation alone in the night time and train was NOT meant to be romantic for those of you thinking it was (I know your out there.)
So, Naruto and Sasuke have arrived at Fairy Tail. They beat up Natsu and Gray, who are around the same strength right now, and then Naruto meets Freed, preparing to learn his last Magic Dark Ecriture. For those of you saying that isn't Rune Magic, nor Script Magic well Script Magic is already out. Also, if you check Ericture's translation it means Script, translating to Dark Script, so it can be considered both, and it involves Rune's so HAH. That's about it. See ya next time, and avoid the Earl (I found my catchphrase!)