Sayuri woke up early the next morning. Her hair was all in a messy and she looked dead tired. "Stupid Erza. Making me get up early to train her." She muttered to herself.
She got out of the bed sluggishly and walked towards her door. She walked down the hallway and towards Naruto's room and knocked on the door.
"Naruto! Get out here and make me food!" She yelled through the door. All she heard in response was soft snoring. With a twitching eyebrow, she opened the door and prepared to yell but was stopped by what she saw.
It was little Wendy snuggled into Naruto's chest sucking on her thumb and Naruto had an arm thrown around her protectively.
Sayuri had to resist squealing at the adorable sight. She crept over to the bed and lightly shook Naruto. "Pst. Hey, Naruto. Wake up, I'm hungry." She whispered. Naruto grumbled and a clone popped into existence.
The clone lead Sayuri out of the room. "Boss wants Wendy to get her rest. I'll make you breakfast." He said as he led her to the kitchen.
-15 minutes later-
Naruto's eyes snapped open and he smelled and saw smoke. He created another clone and switched places with it and rushed towards the kitchen.
He saw Sayuri and his clone trying to put out a fire. Naruto sweatdropped when Sayuri popped the clone and he got the memories back.
Apparently, Sayuri wanted to surprise Wendy and himself by cooking for them after she had almost woken them up. The thing is Sayuri is a horrible cook. She and the clone got into a scuffle about who should cook and knocked over some vegetable oil into an open flame.
He reached over to the sink and turned the water on. He then flipped through some hand seals that ended in 'Bird'. The water rose up and created a dragon with glowing yellow eyes. This would have been intimadating if it wasn't only the size of a medium sized snake. He sent the small dragon towards the fire and put it out, while also splashing Sayuri in the process.
Sayuri looked shocked and then angry after she heard some laughter. She turned her head towards the laughing and saw Naruto holding his stomach and pointing his finger at her.
Naruto wiped and imaginary tear, "Oh you should have seen your face." He said and he looked up to see a scary sight: an angry woman. He slowly started to back up with his hands in a surrender motion as she slowly stalked closer to him. "Now, Sayuri-chan. It was only a joke." He said.
"Oh I'll show you a joke, Naruto!" She yelled and she tried to pounce on him. He stepped back and caught her wrists which stopped her hands from wringing his neck. "Stop resisting and let me hurt you and wipe that damn smug look off your face!" Sayuri yelled.
Naruto wasn't trying to smile smugly, he was just smiling in amusement at her reaction. "You shoud quiet down, Sayuri-chan. You might wake up Wendy." He said his smile still on his face.
Sayuri didn't listen and she substituted with a pot from the oven top. Naruto felt a burning sensation on his hands and saw a pot that had been near the fire. 'She probably thinks this would burn me. I'll play along.' He thought.
"Aaaaahhhh! Hot! Hot! Hot!" Naruto exclaimed as he shook his hands back and forth to cool them off. Sayuri looked smugly at him, "Haha." She laughed mockingly. Naruto smiled at her and stuck his tongue out at her. "Too bad, Sayuri-chan. Doesn't hurt me." He said and he showed her his unburned hands.
Sayuri grew a tick mark and tackled him and he laughed as they tumbled onto the ground. "Oh Sayuri-chan, how bold of you." He said as he was straddled by her. Sayuri's face lit up and she stammered but stopped once she heard his laughter.
With her face still red, she raised her fist and looked ready to pound Naruto but was stopped by someone yelling "Roar of the Sky Dragon!" A small tunnel of wind appeared and pushed Sayuri off of Naruto. It felt like a small gust of wind but Sayuri was surprised.
They heard sounds of small steps being taken until they saw Wendy standing in front of Naruto protectively and she was glaring at Sayuri's form. Well she was trying to be intimidating but it wasn't working as it only came across as cute. "Stay away from my Papa, you meanie!" She exclaimed.
Naruto smiled and stood up and put a hand on her head. "Oh look at the little princess saving her wounded father." He said smiling proudly getting the girl to look up at him with a big smile. "But did you see who was attacking Papa?" He said as he pointed to the downed Sayuri. Wendy's eyes widened before she ran over to the girl. "I-I'm sorry, Sayuri-san." Wendy said as she blushed for attacking her Papa's best friend.
Sayuri smiled at the young girl, "It's okay, Wendy-chan. You're getting pretty strong." She said. Wendy looked up at her sniffling and wiping a tear. "I-I'm s-sorry for hurting you." She said looking up at Sayuri, who cracked at seeing such an adorable sight. She rushed the girl and hugged her, "Oh it's okay." She cooed to the five year old.
Naruto smiled at the duo as they separated. He went to his daughter and patted her head, "That was a nice attack though, Wendy-chan. Let me show you another one." He clapped his hands, "Wind Style: Gale Palm." A gust of wind flew from his hands and slammed into Sayuri knocking her over.
Wendy's eyes had stars. She clapped, "Yay! Papa, do more of your magic! Can you teach me that?" She exclaimed.
Naruto chuckled at his daughter, "Yes, I can show you but I want you to train in your Dragonslayer magic first. So let me fix breakfast and then we can go train with Natsu afterwards." He said as he walked towards the kitchen with Wendy following closely.
Sayuri slowly got off the floor, "Yeah no thanks for the help, jerk." She muttered.
"But you love this jerk." Naruto replied cheekily. "Now get in here and eat we have training to do." He added
Sayuri blushed at the 'love' comment and quickly rushed into the kitchen and avoid looking at Naruto lest she blush even more.
-Training Fields-
Naruto and Sayuri were standing in front Erza, Wendy and Natsu.
Naruto clapped his hands, "Alright! I'm going to help Natsu and Wendy with their Dragonslayer magic while Sayuri helps Erza with her Sharingan." Natsu and Wendy looked excited and Erza looked impassive at Sayuri.
"What about us, Naruto-kun?" He heard a voice say from his right. They turned to see another mop of blue hair and brown hair.
"Hey, Levy-chan and Cana-chan! What are you guys doing here?" Naruto asked.
"We heard you guys were having training without us and we couldn't have that so we decided to come." Cana said. Sayuri and Erza looked irked at their arrival. Naruto hummed in thought before two showdow clone popped into existence.
"Alright. I've had a couple things I wanted to show you two for a while now might as well show you now." He said as they both nodded and walked with a clone.
"Why do they get clones and I am stuck training this tomato?" Sayuri said as she pointed at Erza who grew a tick mark at being called a tomato. "Who are you calling a tomato?!" She exclaimed.
Naruto just sighed as they broke into a arguement, "Stop both of you!" He ordered and they stopped speaking but retained their heated glares. "Sayuri, you are training her because if she hits a clone then it will expel besides you grew up having to learn everything about the Sharingan. You are the best tutor for her." Naruti explained.
Sayuri still looked miffed but begrudgingly accepted. "Fine. Come on then, tomato." She called out as she walked off.
Erza grew another tick mark and followed her tutor. Naruto sighed and turned back to Natsu and Wendy. "Alright now that the silly people are gone let's get started." He pulled out a single bell and showed it to the children. "What's with the bell?" Natsu asked.
Naruto smiled, "This is your first test." He said and he gained two looks of confusion. "I'm going to put this on my waist and your goal is to get bell. Whoever doesn't will be tied to the tree and watch everyone else eat lunch." He said and they both grew fearful of not being able to eat and grew determined to get the bell.
"Alright. You can start..now!" He said as he jumped away from them. Natsu wasted no time and rushed at Naruto with fist a blaze he tried to strike Naruto but Naruto just caught his fist making Natsu eyes widen and Wendy worry for her Papa.
"Not bad, Natsu..but not good enough for the bell." He roundhouse kicked Natsu back to his original position. "Now come at me both of you. Show me the power of a dragonslayer!" Naruto declared. Natsu and Wendy's eyes grew determined. Natsu rushed off but this time Wendy was running with Wendy running by him.
He lit his fist with flames again and went strike Naruto again as Wendy went towards his other side with a punch to the face. Naruto leaned back and watched their attacks pass his face. He leaped away and heard Wendy yell out "Ile Vernier" and grew curious.
He turned around and saw Natsu and Wendy running at him again but Wendy was ahead of Natsu by quite a margin. 'Hmm her speed had increased.' He mused in thought as he started to block his daughter's punched and Natsu was added in to the mix. "Is this all the son of Igneel and daughter of Grandeeny has? Show me the power to slay dragons!" He said hoping to rile them up.
It seemed it worked as their eyes widened and gain anger and determination. He grabbed Natsu's fist but noticed something. 'His flames...they've gotten hotter. They almost burn me.' He thought as he kicked Natsu and Wendy back.
They both got up off the ground and shared a look, "Wendy let's combine our roars. Wind helps power Fire, right?" Natsu said and Wendy thought about it for a second and nodded.
They both faced Naruto and took a deep breathe and threw their heads back, "Roar of the Sky/Fire Dragon!." They yelled as the fired off tunnels of their respective elements that soon combined and created a huge pillar of fire that was heading towards Naruto.
Naruto smiled at seeing them work together. He thought about taking the blast head on but decided against it as the flames seemed like they would hurt. He grew a devious smile as he moulded chakra in his lungs. 'This should be just like Storm Style.' He assumed in his mind. As he threw his head back like the kids did not moments ago.
Wendy and Natsu looked shocked at the posture. 'Roar of the Storm Dragon!' He released a tunnel of dark clouds with lightning sparking off ever so often that dwarfed their combined roar. The roar over took their own and they were too shocked to move.
Seeing this Naruto threw his kunai at the duo. The kunai landed in between them and he vanished in a flash.
Natsu was scared and judging by Wendy's shaking she was just as terrified. He stepped up to take the blast but he fell to his knees he had put everything into that last roar. He saw the blast getting closer and he closed his eyes and waited.
Nothing ever came besides a hand on his head. He looked up to see Naruto smiling down at him, "Thank you for protecting my daughter, Natsu. I'm sorry, I didn't know that roar would be so large and powerful."
Natsu just looked dumbfounded, "Y-You're a dragonslayer." He said as he pointed a shaky finger towards him. Naruto chuckled and walked over towards his daughter who was still shaking and wrapped her into a hug and whispered sweet words into her ear.
He picked her up as she continued to cling to him. He berated himself for attacking his own daughter with such an attack. "I am no dragonslayer. I don't have the fangs you and Wendy-chan have and I was raised by humans. I can recreate the spells with my magic but I am the only one who can at the moment." Naruto said as he smiled at Natsu. He put Wendy down next to Natsu as she was still sniffling.
He smiled down at them proudly, "You guys have passed my test." They looked at each other confused. "I wanted to see if you could work together as a team. Teamwork is very important. Mages often make teams with others who can improve their strengths and cover their weaknesses. Wind can empower fire making you to a good team up. I think Sky Dragonslayers can use enhancing spells along with healing magic. She could help heal you if you get hurt, Natsu."
They looked in awe at his assesment, "Always remember this: Those who breaks the rules are trash but those who abandon their friends are lower than trash."
They nodded dumbly at his wise words. "Now I both want you to eat up and after you get your energy back then we can get to the torture." He said as he started to cackle madly.
The two kids shared a look and gulped.
-With Erza and Sayuri-
'Why do I have train the Armor Freak?' Sayuri thought as she watched Erza loosen up by going through some basic sword strikes.
"Are you finished, yet?" Sayuri asked irritatedly. Erza stopped mid stroke and glared at her 'teacher.'
"It is important to limber up before you exercise." She responded.
"Whatever." Sayuri responded dismissively, "Just hurry up. I have other things to do."
Erza smirked, "Oh yeah like what? Ogle Naruto-kun all day?" She said.
Sayuri's face grew a blush but she quickly shook it off, "Oh yeah like you haven't been since he found you!" She snapped back.
Erza kept her smirk on her face but you could see pink dusting her cheeks, "Whatever. Are we going to train or not? I want to get the second tomoe of my Sharingan."
Sayuri had a tick mark above eyebrow, "Fine! Let's train!" She yelled as she unsealed her sword from the seal on her wrist and rushed at Erza.
Erza just smirked and requiped a broadsword and blocked her strike, "That may have worked if you didn't do it last time." She said as she raised her sword over head and brought it down as Sayuri rolled away.
They went back and forth with parries, blocks, and strikes. They were slowly building up speed until they were blurs to average mages eyes.
"It seems you've gotten better at your sword play." Erza remarked as she slashed at Sayuri.
"I may have picked up a scroll or two on kenjutsu. Naruto has also been giving me one on one lessons from time to time." Sayuri smirked when Erza frowned.
"What's the matter? Upset that Naruto-kun spends more time with me these days?" Sayuri said mockingly. Erza grew angry and charged in swinging wildly.
Sayuri easily dodged the sloppy attacks, "Tsk, Tsk. You're getting sloppy, Erza-chan." Sayuri taunted.
Erza growled and activated her Sharingan with one tomoe, "Oh the Sharingan? So we are finally getting serious." Sayuri said as she activated her own Sharingan with three tomoe. "Let's get started."
They dashed each other again this time Erza had requiped two smaller swords, with the blade being the length of her forearms, and held them in a reverse grip.
Erza striked at Sayuri relentlessly but Sayuri saw it all coming and just kept dodging and she still had that damn smirk on her face. "Why..can't...I..hit..you?" Erza said in between sword strikes.
"Your Sharingan isn't good enough. Let me show you the true power behind these eyes." She said as her Sharingan spun and she disappeared from Erza's sight.
Erza's eyes wodened before they narrowed, "Come out and fight me, coward!"
She turned and instead of seeing the training grounds she saw Jellal slowly stalking towards her with a dark smile on his face. His reached out and grabbed her neck and lifted her off the ground. She tried to strike him with her swords but when she tried to grip their handles they vanished.
"Come and stay with me, Erza. This is true freedom." He said as he gestured to the Tower. Erza tried to pry his hand away but it wouldn't budged. Tears threatened to leak from her eyes, "Is that no? Well then I don't want anyone to learn of this place so I'm afraid this is goodbye." Jellal said as a his hand was covered in his Darkness magic.
Erza closed her eyes and she yell out, "Naruto!"
"He isn't coming for you, Armor Girl." A voice said tauntingly. She opened her eyes and saw that the landscape had changed again. She saw Sayuri and Naruto sitting at the bar. Naruto had his arm around Sayuri's waist. "Why waste his time with you, when he is with me?" She said before she leaned into kiss Naruto. Erza's eyes widened before she narrowed them dangerously.
"I mean seriously, why would he want you? You aren't strong enough to be at his side. You haven't even matured your Sharingan to the second stage while I've had mime mastered since I was 13. You aren't worthy." Sayuri sneered.
Erza's eyes had tears in them and her magic flared and the illusion broke. She glared at Sayuri and while Sayuri's eyes widened at the sight. Erza's eye now had two tomoe swimming around slowly.
"So that is the famous illusions of the Uchiha Clan?" Erza asked. Sayuri smirked and nodded, "Surprised you didn't see through it. The Sharingan is able to see through most genjustu. Just shows how untrained you are." Sayuri mocked.
"That wasn't nice, Sayuri-chan." A voice said from behind Sayuri. She turned to see the object of her affection, Naruto with Wendy and Natsu in tow.
"What do you mean, Naruto-kun?" Sayuri asked with an innocent tone. Naruto's face of seriousness didn't waver. Sayuri sighed, "I'm sorry. I lost control of my emotions. It was unfitting for a shinobi."
Naruto sighed and walked to Erza, "I will forgive you this time." Sayuri smirked thinking she got away with it. "Only if you do anything Erza say for a day." He finished.
Sayuri sputtered and Erza gained a devious twinkle in her eye. "B-But Narutoooo." Sayuri whined. "No buts, Sayuri." Naruto stated unmoving in his decision. Sayuri wanted to argue but decided against it. "Fine." She muttered as she looked down in defeat.
Erza smiled, "Very well then. I shall see you all later. Come along now, Sayuri. We have many things to do." Erza said as she walked off with Sayuri in tow muttering angrily.
"Papa, can we get ice cream now?" Wendy asked as she looked up to Naruto with big brown eyes. Naruto smiled and picked her up, "Sure!" He said as he twirled around in circles as she giggled.
He looked down to Natsu, "Did you want to come also, Natsu? You've earned it after all that training." Naruto said. Natsu gained a sad look, "I-I would but I don't have any money." He said quietly.
Naruto looked sadly at the young orphan dragonslayer, "Don't worry, Natsu. I'll pay for you. Where are you living, by the way?"
"I-I don't have anywhere to go so I just stay at the guild."
"Well, now you're coming to live with me. I can make up new room for you." Naruto said as he started to think about the new addition to his home.
"B-But.." Natsu was cut off by Naruto waving his hand dismissively. "Nonsense. Come on now. After we get ice cream, we'll grab your stuff from the guild." Naruto said as he started to walk off towards Levy and Cana. Nastu just walked behind him with a small smile on his face. 'Maybe this is how having a big brother feels.' Natsu thought as he ran towards Naruto and company.
"Hey wait for me!"
-Later-
They had gotten ice cream but Natsu being the Fire Dragonslayer couldn't, or wouldn't, eat it. So Naruto bought him some Chocalate Lava Cake and pour some sake on top and lit it on fire. Levy chastised him for letting a minor drink but later sweatdropped when she saw Cana drinking a glass of wine.
After everyone had their dessert, they decided to head to the park. As they walked, or in Natsu's case stumbled around aimlessly, they talked about thei training.
"So Wendy-chan did you like training with your Papa today?" Levy asked with a smile. Wendy nodded her head vigorously, "Yeah! Soon I'll be stronger than Papa!" She exclaimed with a big grin.
Naruto chuckled and placed a hand on his daughter's head. "Just don't grow up too fast, Wendy-chan. I want to have all the time I have to spend with my adorable daughter." Naruto said.
Wendy smiled up to her father and nodded, "Okay, Papa!" She chirped.
Naruto smiled and then looked to the two ladies he was with, "And how was your training, you two?" He asked.
Cana took out a deck of Terra Cards and smiled fondly. "It was great. I have to train more with them but I think it will be worth it." She said. 'This may get me to the next step into S-Class and I could finally tell him.' She thought to herself.
Levy at the cards curiously, "What are those?"
Naruto took a moment to best explain the cards to Levy while also picking up Natsu and throwing him over his shoulder. It was funny to see him walk into stuff the first couple times but he could get brain damage if he let it happen anymore.
"They are a type of summons. To find out what it summons, you'll just have to wait and find out." Naruto said with mirth as he looked as Levy pout. 'She looks pretty cute like that.' Naruto thought but shook his head after that thought.
"What did you learn, Levy?" Cana asked her rival of sorts. They both had a thing for Naruto not mentioning Erza and Sayuri. None of them had the intentions of backing down either.
"I am investing more time into studying Rune magic. If Naruto is correct then I should be quite the force to reckon with." Levy said.
Cana nodded and didn't push anymore as she didn't share too much about her cards. They arrived at the park and Naruto took Wendy to the swings and started to push her, much to Wendy's delight.
"I wanna go higher, Papa!" Wendy said and she giggled when she went higher. Naruto, Levy, and Cana smiled at the young child. A clone of Naruto sat with the now sleeping Natsu.
Naruto pushed Wendy again and she went high but at the apex of her swing she jumped off whilst giggling making Naruto's eyes widen.
"Catch me, Papa!" Wendy called out. Naruto panicked but quickly got himself under control as he Body Flickered to her aproximate landing spot and jumped up and caught her before flipping and landing on the ground. Wendy cheered and hugged her dad, "Yay! Papa saved me!"
Levy and Cana stomped over and scolded the little girl, "Wendy-chan don't do anything so dangerous again! You could have gotten hurt." Levy said while Cana nodded, making Wendy look down sadly with tears in her eyes.
"I-I'm sorry." Wendy said as she started to sniffle. Cana and Levy immediately started to apologize. Naruto smiled at the scene it was two mothers doting over their child.
"Don't worry, Wendy-chan. You didn't know and you were just having fun. Whenever you fall, Papa will be there to pick you back up. Okay?" Naruto said.
Wendy nodded while rubbing tears out her eyes, "Promise?" She held out her little pinky finger. Naruto smiled gently and wrapped his pinky around hers. "Promise and I never break a promise."
They spent the rest of the day at park. They played on the slides, jungle gym, and merry go round. Not too long after Wendy was all tuckered out and they decided to depart.
After escorting the two young ladies to their home at Fairy Hills, Naruto bid them a goodnight and went to his house. He entered with Wendy in his arms and Natsu in the clones to see a ragged Sayuri laying in the living room.
"Do I even want to know?"
He got a glare as his answer and he wisely stepped over her and went to the couch and had the clone lay Natsu there. He felt bad about having him on the couch but they could build his room tomorrow. The clone threw a blanket over son of Igneel and dispelled itself. Naruto took Wendy to her room and was going to lay her down but she clung onto him like last night.
"No." She whined. "I wanna sleep with Papa." She finished with a tired voice.
Naruto chuckled and then walked to his room and laid down with Wendy held in his arms and went to sleep.
-Break-
Okay so I decided to have Cana use like Personas from the Persona series. Is that good or bad?
Um I will probably do another time skip in the next two chapter. I will be up to the start of canon hopefully. I am also going to do that idea of Naruto ending up in different dimensions story. It will be a series of oneshots (probably) so it won't have any affiliation with this story: no tie in or anything.
So yeah . Please leave a review.