An Important Conversation! I Hate Kurama!
Naruto was doing another quick spar with Natsu, with Gildarts watching, while Gray and Sasuke were in the library. It was a routine they did. At specific intervals during the day they would switch out, one training their pupil, the other tutoring them. This was after they realized that Gray and Natsu were around as dumb as bricks. Well, that was an exaggeration, Natsu was, Gray was about as smart as a dog…a significant gap.
The fact that Naruto wasn't actually the person who tutored Natsu didn't help any.
Naruto, like Natsu, hated learning. They would both rather spend the day fighting, sleeping, and hanging out with friends than learn. It was like a taboo for them, and they refused to break it. It was actually Erza who taught Natsu. She had taught him before, and thus request-forcing the pink haired boy to learn from her wasn't much of a problem. Especially when she heard she would get to fight Naruto again. He was a rival of sorts for her, kind of like her make-up rival, only much, much harder to catch. She was starting to believe he actually was trained as a ninja, although she still doubted it.
Natsu rushed forward, fist ablaze before trying to punch Naruto roaring out a, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist." The fist was caught, a blue, almost transparent gauntlet surrounding Naruto's hand. Naruto smiled before whispering out an, "Energy-Make: Gauntlet," before taking on his fox-like grin. He threw Natsu towards Gildarts before rushing the boy a giant, blue ball in his hands.
"Big Ball Rasengan!"
The giant ball of etheranano slammed into Natsu, sending him flying into a nearby wall of the guild hall. Naruto gulped at that. Erza may be on a mission today, but there was another person he was afraid of.
"NARUTO!" the person roared dragging out the o. Naruto began to sweat profusely and shuffled inside the building, fearing for his life. He stopped and looked at the beautiful white hair, and angry, puffy cheeks of Mirajane.
"What have I told you about destroying the guild hall," she hissed.
"Not to do it."
"And what did you?"
"I destroyed it."
She smiled, however it was a dark smile. She began to mumble, before Naruto asked her to speak up, albeit timidly. She smiled before looking up at him, and began to hiss her words again, "THEN GET THE HELL OUT AND DON'T DESTROY IT AGAIN!"
She threw him out as well as Natsu. He sighed. Despite that girl no longer fighting, which he had heard horrid rumors of, for her enemies at least, she still could take on that demon-like persona. It truly honored her old title, the 'Demon,' Mirajane Strauss. He would hate to see her if she started to fight again, although he had heard about what she wore when doing so, plus how large her assets were. She would be Jiraya's perfect model, as she also did photo shoots for a swimsuit company.
He didn't even begin to mention Erza, Jiraya would die of blood loss.
He frowned then. He hadn't to summon any toads since he had been here. He was actually wondering if he could, although he highly doubted it. That question led to whether or not he could use Sage Mode here or not. That was also unlikely.
"Natsu, train with Gildarts I'm gonna go check up on something."
With that Naruto used his Rune Magic: Teleportation to head to a nearby cliff. While it was in no way subtle it would allow him enough time to test out both Sage Mode and his summoning contract before Natsu reached him, or Gildarts sent Natsu flying, he hoped.
As his body reformed he bit into his thumb, causing a slight amount of blood to trail from it. He went through the necessary hand seals before slamming his hand on the ground yelling, "Summoning Jutsu!" Nothing happened, no smoke, no croak from a toad, nothing. He frowned at that. It meant all of his friends, except Sasuke, were gone. However, that didn't mean he didn't have a memento of them.
He closed his eyes and concentrated, hard, trying to feel the natural force of Earthland, nature, Magic, all of it. While he could feel it, it was very different, shiftier, more pushing and pulling, like the tides. He assumed that it was because Magic was everlasting in Earthland, and it filled mages everywhere. Their use of power must have been refilling it, the push part.
He opened his eyes before frowning. He didn't feel the natural energy in him, meaning he failed. He didn't have a memento; he had nothing but memories of the toads. He couldn't use Sage Mode, although he could still get in contact with nature and Magic, most likely closer than many mages.
His thoughts were interrupted by a pink haired Natsu flying through the air, followed by an angry roar of, "Where the hell it that idiot!?"
He sighed. 'At first I thought it would be Gildarts, however judging from that…it's the ever brooding, or at least previously ever brooding, Uchiha Sasuke, just flippin' dandy.'
Naruto activated Meteor and caught Natsu, anger all over his face.
"Thanks Naruto!"
"What have I taught you?"
Natsu gulped.
"DODGE!"
With that Naruto threw him back towards Sasuke, only with a few beams of light trailing behind the pink haired boy. Natsu gulped as he saw the beams gaining on him. He knew Naruto had given them just enough Magic to reach him when he struck the ground, or Sasuke sent him flying towards the dangerous beams.
From the look on Sasuke's face he was going to be kicked straight at them.
It was actually a test Naruto gave Natsu sometimes. He only had two options: destroy the beams, or dodge them while moving in midair, either way it helped with Natsu's growth. He either got more accustomed to dodging while being thrown, dodging in awkward positions, just dodging at fast paces in general, or he got accustomed to judging the right amount of power to use to negate, or overpower, an opponents attack just by a glance. It was meant for Natsu to be able to conserve Magic to fight longer, more strenuous battles, and not just rely on eating fire all the time.
Knowing Natsu he always attempted the latter.
And he always failed.
Natsu was determined to pass this time however, and charged his Magic through his body. He had always used either too much power or to little, never the perfect amount. Naruto wanted him to overpower it with enough strength to not have to equal the amount of Magic used when you continuously pump Magic into it, like he was in a battle of Magical dominance, and instead overturn it in one fell swoop. It was risky, as Natsu could drain himself faster, but yet again spell struggles were very taxing, plus if Natsu learned how to use it right he would actually build on his Magic reserves.
Both of Natsu's hands ignited with fire, senting off a medium sized, window sized, dual flame. He then slammed his fists together over his head, creating an even bigger flame above his head, nearly touching his hair. He then began his chant.
"With a flame on the right hand…and a flame on the left hand…When you combine the flames together…Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!"
Natsu hurled the ball of flames towards the beams, resulting in a massive explosion of fire and light that blinded both him and Sasuke. With that, Sasuke couldn't kick the boy; however Natsu was sent hurtling towards the ground and landed with a resounding thud.
"That's why I say you shouldn't only focus on overpowering your opponent, if you had trained in dodging, at least partially, that land wouldn't have been so bad. However, you did pass this test, meaning that you will now work on it alone with Gray, however, the dodging training master will now torture you!" Naruto roared smiling with unhidden pleasure.
Gray grinned at his rival's misery. While he had always passed Sasuke's test, in truth they were easier than Naruto's. The light beam test was actually one of Naruto's easy ones. This still lead them both to think Gray was actually stronger than Natsu, as he always passed, but truthfully Naruto and Sasuke could see they were still around the same level. He was about to say something insulting to Natsu, but he was interrupted by a cat.
It was small and blue with a white underbelly. It had a rectangular head, with pink ears, big black eyes with small, thin eyebrows, and a light blue cheek marks near to his tiny whiskers, two on each side of its face. It had a triangular nose that led to semi-round upper lips on the sides. Its body was also rectangular, and the strangest thing about it was that it was walking erect, like a human. It had a long, white-tipped tail; and the other parts of its tail were blue. It had a green backpack on its back, which he assumed had food and other items in it. Like most cats, it wore no clothes.
"Natsu! Are you alright!?"
Natsu groaned as he stood up, before looking at the cat. A big grin overcame his face and he grabbed the cat, jumping for joy.
"Happy, your back!"
"Aye sir!"
Natsu let the cat down, that surprisingly could talk, but Naruto and Sasuke didn't seem freaked out by it, and that puzzled Gray and Natsu.
"You're not freaked out by a talking cat?"
Naruto shrugged, but Sasuke decided to put a stop to it before Naruto made a mistake and revealed the toad summons, snake summons, monkey summons, slug summons, basically any summon you could make in the ninja world.
"There's no point being surprised or worried, after all you acted like it's not a threat, so I have no reason to be alarmed."
Natsu took that reasoning to heart, not really caring, however Gray remained suspicious. However, he wouldn't question them on it now. Instead the raven haired mage looked at Happy, the cat, and said, "Will you be okay from now on Happy?"
The cat looked depressed for a second before it looked back up, smiling at Gray. "I won't ever be able to get over it, she's my mother…but she wouldn't want me to be sad, so I'll handle it."
While Naruto and Sasuke had no idea what they were talking about they had enough sense to be quiet, Sasuke because he could read the tension and sadness in the air, and Naruto because no matter how dense he was, he understood that the subject was a painful one. Once the moment ended Naruto began to speak, brightening the area with a, "Nice to meet you Happy, I'm Naruto Namikaze."
The cat looked up at him and smiled. "I'm Happy, Natsu's partner, nice to meet you too. I've heard of you from Natsu, he says you're really strong."
Naruto blushed, a little embarrassed by all the praise before responding with a, "Really, I'm not that strong, I lost to Gildarts, and I can't beat Erza."
Sasuke chuckled.
"I'd never think I'd live to see the day that Naruto decided not to brag."
Naruto grew a tick mark on his forehead.
"And I'd never thought I'd get to live to see the day an Uchiha laughed."
Sasuke grew angry at that as well, retorting snappily with, "What was that, idiot?!"
"You heard me bastard!"
They butted heads with each other, anger all over their faces and lightning shooting between their eyes.
"What did you just call me," they hissed at the same time.
"NARUTO, SASUKE!"
The two immediately acted like they were the best of friends, which they were, when they head her voice. Mirajane was walking from the guild hall, a look of anger on her face.
"You two were about to fight weren't you?"
"W-w-what n-no."
Mira glared at Sasuke for lying to her; lies of that pitiful level would work on her.
"Are you lying to me Uchiha."
While Sasuke stuttered for an answer Naruto took the initiative.
"No Mira, we were um…showing Gray and Natsu how they act when they fight and telling them not to do it ever again."
'Bastard, don't throw us under the bus!' was simultaneously going through Natsu's and Gray's mind at the time. The two boys looked at Mira, who was glaring ominously at them.
"Is this true, Natsu, Gray?"
"No!"
Mirajane looked at them pointedly before looking at Naruto and Sasuke, both of which had disappeared.
"GET BACK HERE!"
XxX
Naruto and Sasuke had walked up to the second floor of the guild, but not because they were breaking Makarov's rules. He had called for them, apparently due to the Acnologia statement Naruto made earlier. He was making true on his look.
As they opened the door to his office they grew cold. Makarov didn't look angry, nor did he look happy. He just looked serious, and it was frightening. The look of a giant beast that created all chakra, not scary, fighting a giant beast that was attempting to kill you, easy, fighting a person who controlled that beasts power, piece of cake, but facing a serious Makarov, it was like facing a stronger Tsunade…the two boys were ALWAYS afraid of Tsunade, no matter her age.
"Sit."
That one word basically forced Naruto and Sasuke to their knees. The Magical force Makarov was emitting was enough to put anyone on edge, although they knew he was confining it to this room, so no other guild member felt it.
"I assume you know why you are here?"
"Yes," they both replied hastily.
"Good. Now, first off I have nothing against you revealing that Gods exist in Fiore, I'm all for it. I'm all for you defending Natsu's point of dragons existing and while I have never seen one I assume you two are correct. However, revealing Acnologia, the Dragon of Apocalypse, was something you shouldn't have done. It is rumored that that dragon is the only one to truly exist, and if that rumor is true, or even if it isn't and what Natsu says is true and that there are more dragons left in Fiore, it was unacceptable that you revealed it. That dragon is rumored to have taken down entire nations, NATIONS. It's credited with the single-handed destruction of a COUNTRY. Do not reveal its existence."
Sasuke and Naruto nodded, understanding the urgency of the situation.
"Next, and the last thing I want to talk to you about, Naruto," Makarov began, but it didn't surprise he two. They already knew that Makarov would talk to them about that, as while Kurama was not evil, his Magic felt like he was, and since its feeling leaked out of Naruto while he slept it was easy to understand why the guild master would be worried.
"Have you noticed that every time you sleep, or are relaxed a darker Magic leaks out of you? It is polluting the system of Magic. I don't think you've realized it, but when you sleep the grass around the building wilts, even if it is slight. You're lucky only Gildarts and I have picked up on this, or else the entire town would send you right back to the Magic Counsel. I want to know if you know what this Magic is. Tell me."
Naruto frowned. He liked Fairy Tail, he truly did, but he couldn't tell them about Kurama. He didn't trust them with that level of a secret yet. Telling them about his own Magic was something different than telling them he held one of the most powerful creations of all time in his gut. He would be experimented on, if word got out. He didn't think Fairy Tail was the type of guild to rat out there own, but you could never be to sure.
"I'm sorry master, but I can't tell you. While I usually have control over it, it is leaking out. I promise I will tell you eventually, but as of now I don't know if I can trust you with this. Frankly, I understand why you would be concerned, but know that I was going to start working on that tonight. While I haven't noticed what it does to the environment if what you're saying is true I need to get started now. I'm sorry."
Makarov frowned, a dark look taking over his face. "We all have our secrets Naruto. I can accept that. However, this secret may be putting the guild in danger, and if it does I will put an end to it, permanently." Makarov had added in his Magic to his own voce to make it sound even more serious, and he meant it.
"I will not interfere with your decisions, and I support you trying to control the dreadful Magic, but you must do it immediately. Withhold your training with Natsu until you get it under control. You may still take missions, but only when you get it to the point it that it doesn't leak out all the time, and the second it starts to you can wake up and stop it. I will warn you though, that if you try to do anything I don't approve of, or if I sense one moment of distrust, or disloyalty to Fairy Tail, you will be excommunicated."
Naruto nodded.
"Now, is it safe to assume that controlling this Magic will involve you having to use more of it?"
"Yes."
"Then I have a place where you can train without the Magic leaking."
Naruto nodded and stood, as did Sasuke and Makarov.
"Sasuke, please take over Natsu's training for now."
Sasuke nodded before walking out of the room.
"Now, Naruto follow me, it's time for this so called Magic to be controlled."
XxX
Naruto was lead under the guild, to a large white room underneath it, with two doors in front of him.
"What is this place?"
"A place that I really should not be showing you unless I wanted you to be the guild master, but I have no choice, however, you are forbidden to reveal this to anyone. If you do I will have to terminate that memory, and trust me I can do that," Makarov said darkly.
Naruto nodded.
"Now, don't walk through those doors, don't open those doors, for you are not ready to see what they hold, however, what you need to know is that if you meditate here, a dome will appear the will block all Magic senses from the outside world trying to look in. You may train here."
Naruto nodded, before looking at Makarov.
"Thank you master."
Makarov looked at the steps of the room before walking up to them. He ascended up the stairs before whispering a, "Thank me when you're finished."
With that Naruto began to meditate and control Kurama's out of control Magic.
Another chapter done, another day to watch Kuroko no Basket. Hey guys it's Kuma Akuma, and I want you all to know, I am so IRRITATED. I have extra homework because someone in my group didn't pull their weight, and now I have to write more...if you don't know I have to hand write it, otherwise I wouldn't be so angry.
Anyways, some of you thought I forgot about Happy, well I didn't. There is your Happy moment that will be happening more often. Do you think you know why he's sad?
Anyways, some of you may be like: 'WHAT NARUTO ALREADY CONTROLS KURAMA WHY THE HECK IS THE FOXES MAGIC ACTING UP.' Well, I can't tell you its revealed later, NEXT, yes I think you guys yell when you think, hey it's just me, just sayin. Now, for another little bonus for you guys, spring break starts soon. That means you should get some extra chapters coming up, so good for you.
Also, I was watching a video by llsuperwomanll and it said if I was a jerk or not. I'M NOT A JERK, I GOT 15! NOOO! I must be more mean! I'm only beef jerky. Remember to review, follow, and all the cheesy goodness, see you guys later, and avoid the Earl.
