The Fox Scroll
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Naruto Or Fairy Tail
A/N: The reason why Naruto didn't wipe the floor with Laxus in the last chapter with the new Sage Mode was because he still can't control it completely. Since it's a lot stronger than he's used to, Naruto had to hold back(a lot) and take a lot more hits than he had to. He didn't want to risk killing the guy by accident.
A/N: This chapter has been revised as of 3/15/2017
Fairy Tail...
"He got first place!?"
Naruto cackled loudly as he counted his winnings. "I wonder how much ramen I can buy with this?"
The results for the Miss Fairy Tail Contest came in and were posted all over the guild. Naruto had won first place by a landslide with Erza coming in second and Lucy in third.
Lucy was balling her eyes out internally. 'First he beats me in a feminine contest, now he's going to spend all that rent money on noodles...'
Seeing his partner's depressed state, Naruto held out the prize money and grinned. "Here."
This took Lucy by surprise. "Wait, what? Why?"
Naruto shrugged. "I was planning on giving you the prize money if I won in the first place. I don't really need it anyways."
Lucy was taken aback by the sudden turn of events. Now she didn't have to ask him to pay for her half of the rent. No wait, if she accepted the money, then Naruto would still technically be paying the entire rent. "Thanks Naruto, but I think you should spend it on something you want."
Yeah, all he ever did was help her, she wouldn't feel right with herself by just taking it.
"Oh, if you say so." After sealing the cash into a storage scroll, Naruto frowned when he noticed Erza was sitting by herself, seemingly lost in thought. Was she upset about getting second place to him? He didn't think she was the sore-loser type. "Hey, what's up with Erza lately?"
Lucy looked over to the S-class mage and shrugged. "I don't know, she's been like that ever since the Harvest Festival ended." Getting a sudden feeling as though she was being watched, Lucy whirled around, and found nothing.
Seeing the girl's obvious discomfort, Naruto raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong?"
The celestial spirit mage shook her head. "I don't really know, lately I feel like I'm being watched." Lucy explained and was startled when Naruto suddenly stepped in front of her defensively, looking around intensely.
"A stalker? Where is the creep!? I'll teach them not to mess with us!"
Lucy blushed from the attention her fellow blonde was drawing to them. "Calm down! I might just be imagining it!"
Naruto flinched, what was with this girl and her sudden changes in emotion? "If you say so… Hey, wanna go get a bite to eat? I'm starving!"
"No thanks, I'm not really hungry right now. How about you ask Natsu and Happy, I'm sure they'll go with you." Lucy suggested.
The ninja nodded before turning around and shouting. "Hey Natsu! Happy! Let's go get some food! My treat!"
Some Time Later...
Lucy sighed as she ascended the light of stairs to her shared apartment. 'Stupid papa, showing up out of nowhere like that and demanding money.'
She had a run in with her father on the way home and learned that the man had lost everything. He even had the nerve to demand some money from her after all the man had done.
Unlocking and opening the door, Lucy walked in to find Naruto... and a lot of instant ramen. "...Wha..."
There was ramen everywhere, the entire room was filled with the stuff!
"You didn't seriously spend five-hundred-thousand jewels on ramen did you!?" Lucy shrieked, her face draining all of its color.
Stopping what he was doing, Naruto looked up at her and grinned, "Oh, hey Lucy. Check it out! I did what you said and bought something I wanted, and look at all the ramen! Isn't it great?" He said with a huge grin while looking at all the wonderful food around him with pride.
Lucy just stood there, completely lost for words. Just how much did this guy love ramen? She then noticed all the scrolls sprawled around the room as well. "...What are those?"
Naruto picked up one of his scrolls. "Oh, these? They're all sealing scrolls that I'm storing all the ramen in. Each one is holding about fifty cups or so." He explained, not noticing the mortified look growing on Lucy's face.
"Y-you went all-out, didn't you?"
Naruto nodded happily. "Yup! Hey, you look pretty tired, are you feeling alright?"
Remembering the conversation with her father, Lucy laughed nervously. "Y-yeah… I'm just tired from all the excitement recently." Seeing his now serious face, she sighed in defeat. He saw right through her, huh? "I ran into my father on the way home."
Naruto jumped up in surprise, dropping cups and scrolls alike onto the floor. "He didn't try to bring you back again, did he!?"
Lucy shook her head. "No, he actually came to tell me that the family business had been bought out. He doesn't have the power to do anything now."
"Oh." Naruto relaxed and sat back down. "I can't say he didn't deserve it, but he's still your father. What about your mother's grave?" He asked, remembering her mother's grave was on the property.
Lucy pulled out a slip of paper. "It was moved."
Naruto looked at Lucy in concern before he went back to sealing all the ramen into scrolls. "You go shower up, I'll get all of this done by the time you're out. How about we go on a mission tomorrow?"
Lucy's face brightened, if not a little. "Yeah, I'd like that."
The Next Morning...
Naruto and Lucy stood in front of the mission board, looking for a job that they would want to accept.
"What do you think?" Lucy asked.
"Hm... How about that one?" Naruto suggested.
"Another monster hunt? We always do those." Lucy whined. "We should do a different type of job this time."
An arm came between them. "Juvia thinks this one."
The blondes turned to find Juvia pointing at a request that was labeled: "Missing Fishing Boats"
Lucy picked the paper off the board and read it. "Wow, this one looks good. It has a seven-hundred-fifty thousand reward. There must have been quite a few boat disappearances."
Naruto looked at Juvia. "I guess you're coming with us then, Juvia?"
"Yup!" The water mage chirped and grabbed onto one of his arms, much to Lucy's irritation. "Juvia will go wherever Naruto-Sama goes!"
The shinobi laughed. "Then it's decided!"
"I thought we were here for a mission." Naruto said with a flat look a slight blush on his face.
"We are, what makes you think otherwise?" Lucy questioned innocently.
The trio were now at a beach that was near where the boats were disappearing. Their job was to investigate the reason behind it all and take care of it. But what the shinobi didn't understand was why they needed to be in swimsuits.
Naruto was wearing orange swim-trunks with black flames at the bottom. Lucy and Juvia both wore bikinis, the first in a plain white and the other a blue with white polka-dots.
"We should all be battle ready, not in our swimsuits. Who knows what we'll find out there." Naruto said while nodding his head sagely.
"Sorry, do we look so good in our bikinis that it's distracting to you?" Lucy teased, and snickered when the ninja turned a few shades redder.
"I'm gonna go see if I can sense anything weird." Naruto grumbled and walked towards the water.
"Juvia will help!" Juvia said and merrily followed.
Lucy walked along the beach and noticed three large trails in the sand that lead into the ocean. 'I wonder who these belong to?'
"Hey, Lucy!" Naruto called out.
The celestial spirit mage turned to see Naruto and Juvia coming back to the shore. Walking over to them, she pointed over at the trails she found. "There's a big trail going into the ocean, looks like you'll be getting your monster hunt after all."
Naruto nodded. "I think you might be right, Juvia found where all the missing boats are underwater. Let's go check it out."
With the help of Juvia's water bubbles, the group swam to where the boats were.
Juvia pointed to the entrance of a large underwater cavern and upon entering, the blondes gasped. There were ships all over the place, or at least what was left of them.
The boats were thrashed to say the least, metal and wood scattered throughout the ocean floor.
Swimming closer to one of the larger ships, Naruto noticed it was covered in what he thought looked like teeth marks. 'This was definitely the work of a monster.' He thought.
At the touch of his shoulder, the ninja turned to find Juvia who was pointing up. Lucy was swimming towards the roof of the cavern. Making their way towards the girl, Naruto began to see why she was going up. There was another opening going up to an air-filled cave.
Swimming up to the surface, Naruto climbed up and stood on top of the water. "What do you guys think? Monster hunting time?" He asked after removing the water bubble from his head.
Lucy nodded. "There is definitely a monster somewhere in those waters. What else would be able to bite chunks that big out of those boats like that?"
"Juvia thinks so too."
Naruto felt a chill go down his spine. 'This feeling… a demon?' He suddenly jumped off the water and landed next to the girls just as a massive pair of jaws snapped shut where he once stood.
"Eep! What is that!?" Lucy shrieked.
"Looks like we don't have to go hunting, the monster came hunting for us." Naruto said as the creature stared at them with hungry eyes.
The creature looked like a giant crocodile and was at least twice the length of the sunken ships they found. This was definitely the thing behind all the disappearances, if those giant sharpened teeth had anything to say about it.
They all jumped back when the crocodile climbed out of the water and into the cave with them, it's three long tails dragging along behind it.
'Three tails?' Naruto thought with a raised eyebrow. This couldn't be a coincidence, he was going to have chat with a certain nine tailed fox after this was all over. "Lucy, Juvia, buy me some time!" He yelled and began to draw in the surrounding energies.
"Right!" They both said and sprang into action.
"Water Slicer!" Juvia yelled and water shot out at the monster, hitting it directly. Though it didn't seem to be all that effective.
"Open, Gate of the Archer! Sagittarius!" Lucy chanted and summoned the horse-dressed spirit.
"You called, Moshi Moshi?" The spirit saluted before firing a barrage of arrows upon the beast, but the shots didn't seem to do anything either.
"Its scales are too hard for our attacks to pierce!" Lucy said as Sagittarius and Juvia continued their assault.
"Let me have a try!" Naruto yelled as he ran passed them and towards the roaring demon, now in Sage Mode. He slid past its snapping jaws and jumped onto the creature's back. "How do you like this!" He yelled as he jumped into the air and drop his heel into the crocodile's scales, earning a loud thud and some crunching noises.
It collapsed onto the ground and hissed in pain. "I'm not done yet!" Naruto grabbed onto one of the demon's tails and pulled.
Lucy and Juvia both watched in awe as the shinobi swung the monster over his shoulder, slamming it into the water causing a huge splash.
"Amazing..."
"Naruto-Sama is so cool!"
Naruto jumped onto the water and watched as the three-tailed demon sank motionlessly. He turned to his friends and gave them a thumbs up. "Mission accomplished!"
Watching them cheer, the blonde ninja laughed before sensing something and looking down again. 'Aww shi-'
Splash!
"Naruto!" The girls shrieked as they witnessed the teen get swallowed up by the crocodile. They ran to the water as the creature sank back into the water and began to swim away.
"Oh no you don't!" Lucy yelled and jumped into the water, with Juvia right behind her.
'You're not eating me that easily!' Naruto thought as he struggled to keep the demon's mouth open. With all the water rushing passed his face and not him not being able to breath, it took all he had just to keep the crocodile's jaws from closing. It had brought them out into the middle of the ocean.
He felt a sudden rumble and the pressure seemed to loosen a little. Taking advantage of the moment, Naruto pushed with all his strength and forced the mouth to open enough to allow his escape.
After getting some distance from the giant reptile, the ninja looked around and saw Lucy along with Aquarius battling with the creature.
His vision began to blur. 'Crap... I need air...' He could faintly see Juvia speeding over towards him, water bubble in hand. Naruto breathed in a mouthful as soon as he felt the air cover his head. "Thanks Juvia... you're a lifesaver!" He said between gasps.
"Naruto-Sama!" Juvia cried and embraced him in a hug. "Juvia thought you were eaten!"
Naruto smiled and pat the crying girl on the head. "It'd take a lot more than that to finish me off." He then looked towards the ongoing battle. "We should go and help Lucy."
Juvia nodded and they began to make their way towards the battle.
The celestial spirit mage seemed to be holding her own against the demon, Aquarius was truly a force to be reckoned with.
Naruto swam up to Lucy and the girl's eyes softened. "Naruto! You're okay!"
The shinobi nodded and looked at the demon as it avoided the water currents shot out by Aquarius. "I'm not very useful underwater, got any plans?"
Lucy thought to herself for a second before looking at Juvia, who nodded. "Yeah, but we're gonna need time."
Naruto grinned. "I guess it's my turn to buy you guys some time then. Okay, here we go!"
As Lucy and Juvia joined hands and began to charge their spell, the shinobi swam full speed towards the giant crocodile.
He summoned a single clone and together they charged a single Rasengan. Gaining gotten its attention, the beast began to swim towards him with its jaws open to swallow the shinobi whole.
The Rasengan began to cause the water around Naruto to swirl until a miniature vortex was formed. 'Still not big enough...' Naruto thought as he pumped more chakra into the technique, making the whirlpool increase in size.
The three-tailed demon drifted head first into the vortex and tried to escape, but couldn't and helplessly swirled in the rotating water.
Naruto watched as the demon swirled around before he sensed an intense flare of magic behind him. He turned around just in time to see a water vortex easily three times larger than his own storm its way towards his location.
Immediately canceling his technique, Naruto rushed out of the way just as the magical water crashed into and through the whirlpool he had created and proceeded to carry the demon up towards the ocean's surface.
Naruto stared at the display of magic with wide eyes before looking over to the cheering girls. 'Magic is crazy... I wonder if I can learn anything like that.' He shook the thought out of his head, for now anyways.
Naruto whistled as they walked over to where the three-tailed crocodile had landed. After being hurdled into the sky by the powerful spell, it flew all the way onto the beach and crashed into the sand. This thing wasn't getting back up, that's for sure. "That was awesome! I didn't know you could do that kind of magic."
Lucy snickered. "We are pretty awesome, aren't we?"
Juvia flushed red. 'Naruto-Sama called Juvia awesome!'
After informing the mayor of their success and getting their reward, the three were now on a train back to Magnolia.
Lucy stretched out in her seat and yawned. "Ahh, I'm tired. That was a hard battle..." But it was worth it! Now she didn't have to keep asking Naruto to pay for her half of the rent. Speaking of the ninja, he had fallen asleep the moment the train departed.
"Naruto-Sama is so cute when he's asleep..." Juvia said and placed her head on his lap.
Lucy's eyebrow twitched. "Hey, you're going to wake him up!" She growled in anger when the water mage stuck her tongue out and pulled down one of her eyelids. "Fine! Do what you want!" Lucy huffed and crossed her arms. Why should she care anyways? It's not like she had any feelings for that obnoxious, loudmouthed ramen-addict... Did she?
'I really need to get my feelings in order...' Lucy thought with a sweatdrop.
Glancing over at Juvia who was now fast asleep on Naruto's lap, Lucy blushed slightly. Was it really that comfortable?
Getting up from her seat, Lucy snuck over to the side opposite of Juvia and sat down next to her fellow blonde. Looking around to make sure no one was watching, she rested her head on the shinobi's shoulder. 'I'm just checking to see what the fuss is all about, that's all!' Lucy reassured herself as her eyes slowly closed. 'So warm...'
In Naruto's Mindscape...
"Hey, fox!" Naruto called out.
There was a slight rumbling noise coming from the darkened cage. "Hm? What do you want, brat?"
Naruto crossed his arms. "You know why I'm here. I want answers. Just what are all these demons I keep running into like the one I fought today? Don't bother trying to hide it, I know you know something!"
The fox chuckled in mild amusement. "Hmph, very well. I will grant you with some of the knowledge I possess. However, you must give me some knowledge in return."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at that. What would he know that the demon fox didn't? "Uh, sure. What do you want to know?"
"I was wondering if you've been having any strange... dreams as of late?"
"Dreams?" Naruto tilted his head in confusion.
"Yes, about a little human girl in a forest, to be specific."
The ninja's eyes widened slightly. How did he know about that dream? "Yeah, do you know what it means?"
The nine-tailed fox shook his head. "No, but I have been having similar visions and was curious. Now, you want to know more about those lesser demons?"
Naruto frowned at not getting a straight answer about the weird dream, but nodded nonetheless.
"As you already know, there are demons in this world that were created by the one called Zeref, the Black Mage Zeref." Seeing his host nod the fox continued. "Those demons you have encountered were his creations as well."
"How do you know all of this? Have you been in this dimension before?" Naruto had a feeling the demon fox wasn't telling him the whole story.
"There is more than I am letting on." The Kyuubi yawned and flipped around to go back to sleep. "But it seems you have reached your destination. We shall speak another time, leave me."
"Hey! I'm not done asking questions! Oi!" Naruto growled in frustration. Why did the fox have to be so troublesome? Whatever, he'll just come back and get more information later.
Naruto opened his eyes and moved to stretch, but found one of his arms were asleep. He turned his head to see a sleeping Lucy snuggled up on his right while Juvia was resting peacefully on his lap.
Fighting back a severe nosebleed, the blonde tapped Lucy on her shoulder with his free arm. "Um, Lucy? The train stopped." He said meekly and started to grow slightly anxious when the girl started to stir awake.
Why was Lucy sleeping on his shoulder? Juvia he could understand, the blue haired girl seemed to be strangely attached to him which he figured was because he was the first people she had met at from the guild. Juvia was very shy around new people.
But what about Lucy? Maybe she had fallen asleep and accidentally fell onto his shoulder. But wasn't she originally sitting on the other side?
Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts when Lucy's eyes fluttered opened. She looked at him drowsily for a brief second before realization struck. Her face turned red and she gained a shocked expression, her mouth agape.
"I-I-I-I." Lucy sputtered before jumping off the seat. "I was getting cold! Yeah, it was cold!"
Naruto laughed nervously. "I-is that so..."
"Y-yes! And Juvia! How long do you plan on sleeping there!?" Lucy stuttered and pointed at the water wielder accusingly.
Juvia opened her eyes and casually sat up. "Darn, the train ride is over. Juvia wanted to sleep on Naruto-Sama's lap a little longer…" She then pointed back at Lucy with a challenging look. "What was Lucy doing on Naruto-Sama's shoulder?"
The celestial spirit mage blushed before grabbing her baggage and walking towards the exit of the train. "I said it was cold, and Naruto was warm…" She shivered when Juvia leaked out her killer intent.
Naruto sighed as he watched the two argue. With his arm now awake, he got up and grabbed his stuff as well. "We should head to the guild and get something to eat." He said, his stomach growling loudly. "I haven't eaten anything since this morning."
Juvia's eyes shined at the opportunity. "Juvia will cook something for Naruto-Sama!" The blue haired mage declared and ran out of the train in the blink of an eye.
Lucy sweatdropped. 'Was she expecting me to race her?'
"Hey, Lucy?"
She blinked at her partner's sudden seriousness. "Y-yes?"
"You've been acting kinda strange lately, are you okay?" Naruto asked with slight concern in his voice. Lucy usually had those random mood swings from time to time, but recently they were happening more often. Maybe it was because of her meeting with her father?
Lucy looked at him blankly before smiling. "Yes, of course. Why wouldn't I be?"
Naruto studied her for a long second before walking towards the exit of the train, stopping right at the steps. "If anything's bothering you, just let me know." He said before looking back at her and grinning a toothy grin. "We're partners after all."
Lucy nodded and followed him off the train. 'Yeah... partners...'
Fairy Tail...
"Hey guys! We're back!" Naruto yelled as he kicked the doors open, he always liked doing that nowadays.
"Welcome back you two, I was just showing everyone a chart of the Balam Alliance." Mirajane greeted and gestured to the board behind her.
"Balam Alliance? What's that?" Naruto asked as he and Lucy sat down at one of the nearby tables.
"Juvia knows! It's the most powerful force in the underworld. A group of three powerful dark guilds." Juvia explained as she set down a fresh bowl of ramen in front of Naruto. "Here's your ramen Naruto-Sama!"
"Thanks Juvia!" Naruto said and got started on his noodles, completely unaware of the envious stares he was getting from the crowd. "So what's up with these dark guilds then?" Then ninja asked between slurps.
"The dark guilds have been active a lot recently. More specifically, the Oración Seis." The barmaid explained.
"They're nothing to worry about though." Someone in the guild said. "Rumor has it there's only six of them."
"May I remind you those six are supporting a third of the underworld? Mirajane said.
"They must all be pretty powerful." Lucy said and shivered. She hoped she never had to fight any of those people… She wouldn't stand a chance by herself!
"About those Oración Seis..." Makarov said as he walked into the guild. "We're going to take them down!"
Somewhere in the Elemental Nations...
Two cloaked men stood in a dark room, the only light being a single lit candle. The first one, a man who claimed to be the infamous Madara Uchiha, spoke. "Are the preparations almost complete?"
The other man, known as Kabuto Yakushi spoke next. "Almost, I just need a little more time to research. Wouldn't want to send you hurdling through time and space just for you to end up in the wrong destination, now would we?"
Their attention was drawn to a green venus flytrap-like object raising out of the ground.
"Zetsu." 'Madara' greeted. "I trust you have the information I asked you to get?"
"Yes, Madara-Sama. The Hidden Villages are in a minor state of chaos with news of your appearance. As for the information, the Kyuubi had disappeared in a similar way to that of the Hachibi."
The masked man chuckled darkly. "Interesting."
The person that Sasuke had brought them had been a doppelganger. To retaliate, Tobi had sent Kisame to find and retrieve the missing jinchuuriki. But to their surprise, Killer Bee had mysteriously disappeared in a puff of smoke half-way through their fight.
"They must be in the place it seems." Kabuto mused. "But I wonder what brought them there in the first place…"
"I guess we'll have to find out when we get there." The Uchiha said, his only visible eye glowing red.
A/N: There you have it folks! Killer Bee is not dead! He's somewhere in Fiore just like our favorite blonde hero!
Who do you think should go on the Nirvana mission this time? I have a general idea on what I want to do, but I want to hear what you guys think!
Naruto might be learning some magic in the future, what kind do you think he should learn? No slayer magic though.
I think it's time I said something about the pairing. Since this is my first story and all, I didn't really want to focus on pairings all that much. But with the direction I'm going with the story, it'll most likely end with a slow building harem(Lucy and Juvia so far obviously).
So what did you guys think? What do you think I did right? Wrong? Review or PM me to let me know if you have any questions!
Okay, I'm done. I hope to see you in the next chapter of The Fox Scroll!
