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zubhanwc3: Thanks, and Itachi wasn't just healed by Wendy but he had also taken a chakra replenishing pill he got from his Edolas self so he had all of his chakra back to the way it was. Plus, he did have some time to rest as after the battle in Edolas he talked to his other self while Natsu and the others planned their little trick to play villains. Plus, the time, he had when he got back. Wendy does have powerful healing abilities and would be able to heal all his wounds, so in this fight Itachi did have full chakra, his wounds were completely healed, and he had recovered much of his stamina. And when I finish this arc I am going to re-write the earlier chapters so maybe I could go back and extend the fight a bit.
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Master Terra: Thanks! And I didn't say he would be physical beast or something just that he would be able to fight longer and maybe against multiple foes like maybe 5 or 6 at once and yeah what buffed him up really helps. And although the Perfect Susano'o does consume a lot of chakra he only used it for a few seconds in order to overwhelm Gildarts since the Susano'o is one of the few things Itachi has that Gildarts can't crush, well at least easily. And although Kakuzu has a soul his love for money far exceeds it.
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alexkellar: I'm glad it was to your satisfaction, and your welcome always happy to take requests from fans and see if there's anything I can do.
Guest: Well I wonder if you're still enjoying it.
: I'm with you! Since Kagura views Erza as a big sister in the anime I thought it would be a good idea if she viewed Itachi as a big brother as well.
monkiepawn: Like I said in the PM; seriously? This is what you have a problem with? Did I write how old those women were? Did I write what they were fantasizing about? For all you know they could have been imagining how he looks like when his older.
Chapter 19: S-Class Trails!
Itachi floated around in a dark space as a blue light surrounded his body, he floated deeper and deeper into the dark abyss. As the cold of the darkness sent chills down his spine. In the end, he spotted a tiny dark purple flame burning brightly in front of him. He reached out to it and the moment his hand touched it, a violent surge of incredible, unimaginably power bursted around him and the darkness grew. He felt sick, nauseated, dizzy, cold it was as if all the happiness around him vanished in a blink of an eye, and everything was replaced by a big empty nothingness. Itachi then widened his eyes in shock as he saw two red giant lights in the shape of eyes glaring at him, he could hear growling, it was as if he disturbed a best from it's slumber. Suddenly the red eyes vanished and floated as energy into his hand.
Itachi opened his eyes while breathing heavily and sweating, he was out in the woods sitting on a tree stomp. He looked into his palm and saw a very small black sphere in his hands with rings around it like Saturn. He could feel the power; this small sphere was mightier than any attack in his arsenal besides the Susano'o. The sphere faded away and vanished from the palm of his right hand. Itachi felt exhausted, and almost completely drained of energy. 'What's happened to my body?' Itachi thought as he couldn't help but wonder what this dark cold energy is.
After having meditated for the entire day, he had come to the conclusion that although the energy did feel cold, it wasn't filled with malicious intent. In fact, it felt empty, mindless and neutral as if it was nothing but a mindless beast and nothing more. Although whether it was dangerous or not could not yet be determined. He needed to test this new power on someone to confirm it, but who? Certainly, not one of his friends that would be too risky. An enemy? Should Itachi risk hurting or maybe even kill a normal enemy. No, if a major threat ever were to show up, and this person is about to kill or harm his friends, only then would he act and use this power. Other than that, he would keep it suppressed and use it as a last resort.
Itachi stood up, struggling to keep his balance as he felt almost completely drained of energy. He reached into his pocket and brought out a chakra replenishing pill. He had given a list of ingredients to Porlyusica to see if it was possible to make any of these pills. And turns out it was, with the right herbs and plants she could make five within a week. He ate the pill and swallowed it, and then he began feeling his chakra returning to normal. He let out a deep breath before regaining his balance and then he headed back to the guildhall.
As Itachi walked through the streets of Magnolia he saw various members of Fairy Tail rushing through the streets on their way to doing a job. "Guess there is that time of year again, huh? I wonder if we get any new S-Class wizards this year?" Itachi muttered to himself. 'Out of all the people in the guild now, the ones who have the best chance of becoming S-Class would be Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, Juvia, and Cana. I do wonder whom the master will pick as candidates?' Itachi thought as he stood outside of the guild's main door. When he entered, he was met by the sight of Erza and Pantherlily in his giant cat form, having a bout with their swords. Sparks flew from their metal as they moved at incredible speed and danced around with their swords and sounds of their swords clashing into each other was heard all over the guild.
They both leaped back and looked at each other with a grin. "You're finished." Erza said as in a puff of smoke Pantherlily returned to his miniature state.
"It seems I can't stay in my original form for very long." Pantherlily wiped the sweat off from his furry little head.
"Still, you're really something. That was truly impressive swordsmanship." Erza complimented.
"Not at all. If anyone was impressive, it was you."
"Whadya think, Erza?! This is Lily's true skill!" Gajeel boasted on his new partner's skill.
"So, this is what this guild refers to as S-Class skill." Lily said.
"If you want to see what we consider beyond that you should see Onii-chan." Erza said and noticed that her brother just entered the guild. "Well speak of the devil. Onii-chan, do you mind sparring with me?" Erza walked up to her brother while holding tightly onto her sword.
"Hmm, sparring? Through swordsmanship?" Itachi questioned as he was skilled with using a sword in fact he had helped Erza train using one ever since they joined the guild. Although, he was confident that Erza surpassed him in that area a long time ago. "Even though your better at it than me now?"
"I am?" Erza questioned in bewilderment as she didn't seem to have noticed it.
"Of course, you surpassed me in swordsmanship a long time ago. I should know I taught you after all." Itachi replied with a small smile.
"Then can we find out? I want to see if you're telling the truth on this one." Erza readied her sword.
Itachi let out a sigh, and reached his hand out to the side. "Guess I have no choice." Itachi said as black summoning markings appeared in midair right in front of his stretched-out hand. And in a puff of smoke appeared a handmade katana with a red holster and handle.
"Y-You still have that?" Erza questioned with wide eyes.
Flashback
Several years ago in the guildhall Itachi sat at the bar counter with little tomboy Mira dressed in her old bad girl outfit. "Come on cutie! Let's go on a job! Come on take me on another S-Class job!"
"Sorry Mira but I'm tired, maybe next time okay?" Itachi said to the pouting little bad girl.
"Onii-chan!" Erza ran up to him while holding something long that was packed away in paper with a bowtie around it. "Here! I made this for you!" Erza handed the gift to her big brother with a big beaming smile.
"Thank you, Erza." Itachi patted her on the head and accepted the gift. He opened it and found a katana with a red holster and handle.
"I practiced on making swords like you showed me! Do you like it?!" Little Erza asked excitedly.
Itachi unsheathed the sword and studied it, it was very well made and very sharp from the looks of it. Itachi smiled warmly at Erza. "I love it."
Flashback end
"Of course, it's the first gift I ever got from my cute and adorable little sister." Itachi said with a deadpan expression.
"D-Don't say that it's embarrassing!" Erza blushed faintly.
"But it's true." Itachi said with a deadpan expression.
"Whatever! Let's just start already!" Erza shouted in embarrassment.
"Hn." Itachi hummed and unsheathed the katana and activated his sharingan. He and Erza then leaped at each other and at immense speed began dancing around with their swords, sending sparks flying and letting out the sound of metal clanking against each other. Itachi used his sharingan to keep up with Erza's strikes and blocking them and finding openings.
Everyone whom didn't bother going out for jobs or didn't know what was happening tomorrow looked in awe at this duel. Both Itachi and Erza were serious and moved so fast it was impossible to see their swords anymore, all you could hear was the sound of them connecting and see bright flashes of light coming from the metal. In the end, they stopped moving and Itachi's katana sword flew out of his hands and stabbed into the floor behind him.
"See I told you." Itachi said as Erza looked actually shocked over the fact that she won. It wasn't the first time they had a sparring match through swordsmanship and Erza ended up victorious, in fact it happened on the day Itachi declared that there was nothing more he could teach her about swordsmanship. However, she always assumed she only won back then because he was holding back. But now she knew, that he wasn't and that she truly had surpassed him in terms of swordsmanship. "Back then I didn't use my sharingan did I? Seems you have improved even more since back then. I'm truly proud of you." Itachi patted Erza on the head before going to pick his sword up and sealing it away again.
Erza was left awestruck, she always had looked up to Itachi and even had a goal which was to surpass him, a goal she still carries to this very day. Or at least close in the gap between their level of strength. "Thank you…" Erza uttered with a smile on her lips.
Itachi walked up to the bar counter as Mira looked at him with a smile and gave a small giggle. "What?"
"Oh, nothing at all. Better watch out or she might grow strong enough to give you a run for your money." Mira replied.
"Perhaps, although that might already be the case." Itachi said with a warm smile, Itachi then turned to Cana whom sat at her usual spot while holding a large barrel of booze while looking quite sad. 'She still hasn't told Gildarts huh? I sincerely hope that she can do it this year.' Itachi thought. "She's talking about leaving the guild, again isn't she?"
"Yeah, you know how sensitive she gets around this time of the year." Mira handed Itachi a cup of tea.
"Hey thanks." Itachi thanked her with a smile and drank the delicious tea.
"If she gets selected this year I hope she wins." Mira said sincerely.
"Let's hope so." Itachi said, he felt a little guilty he had trained Cana and several members of the guild before although despite his efforts in training her she doesn't seem to win. Then again, she did have opponents like Laxus, Erza, Mirajane and Mystogan during all of her trails.
"Indeed, let's hope." Makarov hoped onto the bar counter. "Still doesn't mean either of you should let her win this year."
"We know master." Itachi said.
"Anyway, I was hoping that I could discuss the trails with the two of you." Makarov said with a grin.
"Let me guess, you want us and the other S-Class wizards as obstacles for the candidates." Itachi said and Makarov hushed him down.
"Keep it a secret would ya?"
"Of course, master." They both whispered.
"Anyway, it will take place on our guilds sacred ground, Tenrou Island. And your correct, I want Mira, Erza and Gildarts to serve as obstacles for the first trail. But I want you for something else." Makarov snickered.
"Me?" Itachi questioned.
"Since you're our top dog now and all, I was hoping you would be the final test. You will stay on the top of the island and wait for your challenger. I will let everyone know this from the beginning, if they defeat you they become S-Class. However, if they don't complete the other trails. Your free to go all out. The more they complete the more you have to hold back, let's say if anyone completes all trails you can only use 30% of your full power. How does that sound?" Makarov whispered with a proud grin.
"So, basically the more trails they complete the more I have to hold back. I doubt Natsu will go along with that if his one of the candidates, but okay." Itachi said, knowing the pink haired dragon slayer will most likely rush to the top as quickly as he can.
"Well they all have to complete the first trail before they can even begin climbing up to you." Makarov pointed out.
"Fair enough, so how much do I use if they only completed the first one?" Itachi questioned.
"80% should do I guess." Makarov replied.
"I understand master." Itachi nodded.
"Great! You will leave a few hours before the others." Makarov said and walked away.
"I wonder who's going to be competing this year?" Mira questioned.
"We'll have to wait and see tomorrow I guess." Itachi replied.
Next day
Most members of the Fairy Tail guild were all gathered in the guildhall facing a big stage with a curtain behind it with the Fairy Tail mark on it. They were all waiting in anticipation for the Master to announce this year of S-Class candidates. Some were excited and anxious and the newest members had no idea what was going on.
"What's all the commotion about?" Pantherlily questioned.
"Beats me." Gajeel shrugged.
"Apparently the master has a major announcement to make!" Wendy said with a little hint of excitement wondering what it was while she was holding her best friend, Charle in her arms.
"I'm not interested." Charle said.
"This is finally it! Oh, I'm so nervous!" Alzack said looking rather nervous if he was getting picked this year or not.
"We tried really hard! Don't worry, Al!" His crush Bisca assured.
"Fidget! Fidget!" Natsu was very excited.
"Calm down, Natsu." Happy said.
"This tension is manly." Elfman grinned.
"Heh." Gray smirked.
"I'll finally learn the secret!" Lucy said as she wanted to know why everyone has been so occupied with jobs lately.
"Juvia is so excited… to watch lovely Gray-sama!" Juvia looked over at her crush as she didn't really care about anything else.
The curtains then opened and revealed Master Makarov, Itachi, Erza, Mirajane, and Gildarts. "Master!" The crowd cheered.
"It's about time!"
"Hurry up and announce it!"
"As per Fairy Tail's time-honored tradition, I will now announce the entrants for the S-Class Wizard Promotion Trail!" Makarov announced and was met by the cheer of the crowd.
"S-Class Wizard Promotion Trail?!" Lucy questioned in shock.
"Now I'm fired up!" Natsu let out fire around his body in excitement.
"Quiet, everyone!" Erza shouted.
"Our master hasn't finished yet." Gildarts said and the cheers died down.
"This year's trail will take place on Tenrou Island… our guild's sacred ground!" Makarov announced.
""Oh!""
"Your strength! Your hearts! Your spirits! I've spent the last year ascertaining them all. There will be eight participants! Natsu Dragneel!" Makarov announced.
"Yes!" Natsu clenched his fist in excitement.
"Way to go Natsu!" Happy cheered.
"Gray Fullbuster!"
"The time's finally come." Gray said with a grin on his face.
"Juvia Lockser!"
"Huh? Juvia…?" Juvia was surprised by this as she hasn't been a part of the guild for very long.
"Elfman Strauss!"
"Real men should be S-Class!" Elfman grinned.
"Good luck! Elf-niichan!" Lisanna encouraged her brother.
"Cana Alberona!" Makarov announced but the Cana did not look happy about it. "Freed Justine!"
"I'll be the one to follow in Laxus' footsteps…" Freed uttered.
"Levy McGarden!"
"At long last!" Levy said with joy in her voice.
""Levy for the win!"" Jet and Droy cheered.
"Mest Gryder!" Makarov announced and the attention was turned to a young man with short almost shaved black hair, with a slight outlined window's peak, and complete with mildly long sideburns. His eyes are bright emerald turquoise, and thin eyebrows, on the left side of his face he has three scars. His clothing consisted of a pinstriped jacket with a high open collar, the jacket had red and orange stripes, he wore simple black pants and white shoes.
"Oh, Mest!"
"Man, he was so close last year!" Members of the guild cheered.
"I didn't make it this year either…" Alzack sulked while Bisca comforted him.
"There's always next year, right?" Bisca comforted her crush.
Itachi while on stage eyed Mest. 'His back then, it's been years since master sent him on that mission. The council must have asked him to spy on us, well not that I can blame him he altered his own memories after all. From what I know only me and the master knows about this, perhaps Gildarts knows as well but I can' be certain. Well it doesn't matter anyway, his still a member of our guild whether he remembers or not.' Itachi thought.
"So, everyone was trying hard to get picked for this!" Lucy said as she kind of wished to get the status of S-Class although from what she heard around the guild it could be dangerous so she would rather not.
"Wow! Good luck everyone!" Wendy cheered.
"From this group, only one person will successfully pass! The trail will take place in one week's time. Shape up in the meantime!" Makarov announced.
"H-How did Juvia get picked and not me?!" Gajeel questioned feeling that this was outrageous.
"I've heard all about your standing in the guild. It sounds like you aren't really trusted." Pantherlily said.
"No, it's not like that! I can't say why, but it ain't like that! I wanna talk about it, but I can't!" Gajeel said referring to how his working as a double agent to find out more about what Ivan the Master's son is planning.
"Take it up with Erza." Lily suggested.
"You aren't ready yet." Erza smirked.
"Damn!" Gajeel shouted.
"As we have some newcomers here, we'll go over the rules." Makarov said.
"The eight chosen participants are to select a single partner within the one week preparation period." Mirajane explained.
"A partner?" Lucy questioned.
"Teams of two are gonna battle it out." Max said.
"Part of this trail is putting their friendship to the test." Warren said.
"There are two rules when it comes to choosing a partner. First, the partner must be a member of Fairy Tail. Second, the partner can't be an S-Class wizard." Erza explained.
"Oh?" Gajeel hummed.
"That essentially rules out people like Erza, Mirajane, Itachi, and Gildarts, huh?" Pantherlily said.
"Partnering with Erza-san or Itachi-san would make for an overpowered team!" Wendy said not noticing that her little feline friend looked worried about something, which did not go unnoticed by Itachi.
"We'll announce the details of the trail once we're on Tenrou Island, but Erza will be serving as a hindrance again this time." Makarov announced.
""Huh?!"" Everyone questioned in fear.
"And I'll be hindering everyone as well!" Mirajane announced with a beaming smile.
""Huh?!""
"D-Don't tell me they have to beat people like Erza and Mira to become S-Class?!" Lucy felt sorry for anyone who had to go through that.
"Well, apparently they do hold back somewhat…" Max said although that didn't make much of a difference.
"Now do you see why it's seriously tough?" Warren said while sweating a little, glad he was not chosen.
"Quit griping. All S-Class wizards have had to go through this." Gildarts said.
"Well to be fair there has been times were there only was one S-Class wizard in the guild, it's even more difficult for them with all of us." Itachi said with an emotionless deadpan expression.
"Yeah, especially since you and I are going to be there as well!" Gildarts grinned and various of the people in the guild paled, especially those who were having the trail.
"H-Hold on!" Elfman paled.
"You don't mean?!" Happy looked more blue than usual, despite not being a candidate.
"Gildarts and Itachi are gonna participate too?!" Natsu questioned in excitement.
"Don't be happy about that!" Gray shouted.
"The eight selected members and their partners will gather at Hargeon Port one week from now. That is all!" Makarov announced and the eight members went around to find their partner. Natsu went with Happy, Gray whom had made a promise with Loke a long time ago had him be his partner as Loke returned from the Celestial Spirit realm by his own accord so that she would not lose any magic power, Freed picked Bickslow, and although Juvia wanted to be Gray's partner she was a candidate and went with Lisanna, although Juvia jumped to the assumption that Lisanna was after her beloved Gray, and Elfman was upset that his sister didn't become his partner. But Evergreen whom sent the big beast of a man intense stares, as she felt a little upset over not being chosen as Freed's partner, in the end she became his partner mostly because Elfman was terrified of her. And Gajeel decided that he would be Levy's partner as he wanted to fight in the trails somehow.
Itachi looked over to Charle, knowing that the Exceed had the power to see glimpses of the future like the Exceed queen she must have had a vision of some kind since she looked troubled earlier. Itachi could only assume that something was going to happen during the trails and need to keep an eye open for any danger. He walked over to the master. "Master, could I have a word?"
"Hmm? What is it Itachi my boy?" Makarov questioned and Itachi began explaining. "I see, so you think something might happen at the trail. That does sound troubling, we will need to be on guard then." Makarov said looking rather serious.
Later Mest managed to pick Wendy as his partner, pretending that he was an apprentice of Mystogan, and Lucy became Cana's partner.
A week later, and hours before the candidates were to arrive Itachi, Erza, Mirajane and Gildarts were on a boat on their way to Tenrou Island to set up camp and get everything ready for the trail. The heat was intense, so intense that the two girls had resulted in getting into their swimsuits, Gildarts was laying on the deck of the ship looking like he was melting. While Itachi was wearing cargo shorts and a V-neck T-shirt.
"It's so hot…" Gildarts complained feeling that he was boiling under the sun.
"What can we do, this how it is around this time of year, then again it's always like this around these parts." Itachi said as he was drinking ice cold water to cool down.
"Yeah, we just have to deal with it." Mira said as she sat in a sunbed while drinking some ice-cold juice, while sweat ran down her hot curvy, firm body. Itachi unconsciously had activated his sharingan.
"Burning in the images in your mind I see." Gildarts teased the Uchiha knowing full well from what Itachi had told him and the master about the sharingan and the ability to memories images.
"I don't know what you're talking about…" Itachi muttered emotionlessly and deactivated his sharingan.
"Still, this brings back memories back when I took the trails. It was such an intense battle." Erza said with pride in her voice.
"Yeah, I wonder if anyone will manage this year though." Gildarts smirked. "If anything, I hope Natsu managed, the kid's been looking forward to this moment his whole life!"
'If only you knew Cana was your daughter I'm sure you would have rooted for her instead though.' Itachi thought.
After sailing for a few more minutes they arrived at Tenrou Island and waved goodbye to the ship that went back to pick up the candidates.
"Well we should head to the camping sight and start unpacking." Itachi said as he and Gildarts seemed to be carrying all the bags. "Aren't you two going to carry anything?"
"I have the cooking supplies." Mira said holding a small backpack.
"And I have the tent." Erza said holding up a bag.
'We have to carry the rest then?' Itachi thought with a sweat drop as him and Gildarts had at least ten bags filled with so much stuff they looked like they were about to explode. Once they arrived at the camping sight, Gildarts left almost immediately to go to his route where he would await one of the candidates as a hindrance. Mira and Erza finished unpacking and then left themselves, while Itachi went to the top of the island to wait as well as he was the final trail.
"Guess I might as well meditate and find out more about that dark energy." Itachi said to himself and sat down with his legs crossed and let out a deep breath.
A few hours later
On the ship, which had returned with the candidates, it now had the island in its sight. And onboard the ship Makarov began explaining the trail. "It is said that fairies once lived here on this island. And it is where Mavis Vermilion, Fairy Tail's first master, rests." Makarov was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and wore shorts and sandals.
"What's with those clothes?!" Gray questioned despite being completely naked himself.
Makarov went on to explain the trail's first round. "See the smoke coming from the shore? You'll start by heading there. Eight routes lead there. Each route can only be taken by one team. And, along each route are these…" Makarov said as a map of some kind of the routes appeared next to him, some marked combat, one marked serenity, and three marked intense combat with pictures of Gildarts, Erza and Mirajane. "Only the teams that get through here will pass the first round of the trail!"
"Combat?" Natsu questioned.
"It says intense combat next to Erza and the others' faces!" Gray said.
"There's also serenity." Loke said.
"On combat route, two teams will run into each other and fight it out. Only the winning team can move on. Intense combat routes are the most difficult of all, as they require defeating a current S-Class wizard. On one route, the serenity route, you'll get to pass the first round without fighting anyone. The point of the first round it might… and luck." Makarov announced.
"Wait, where's Itachi's route?" Natsu questioned.
Makarov then snickered. "I'm glad you asked. Itachi is the final trail of this year's S-Class trail. You can go to him at any time at the top of the island and fight him, if you win you become S-Class. However, if you go to early without finishing the other trails he will not hold back that much."
"What do you mean?" Gray questioned.
"Well since everyone has to complete the first round means that if you go to Itachi right away, he can only use 80% of his full power against you. If you complete the second trail he will have to use only 50%, and if you complete the third trail he will have to use only 30%. And Itachi has planted his crows all over the areas of this island where we are having our trails by now, so he will be able to see if you finish the trails or not. I sincerely suggest you complete all of the other trails first, cause let me remind you Itachi using 40% of his power was still strong enough to take out a wizard saint level wizard like Jose and Jellal, not to mention Laxus. Oh, and don't worry you all have until the end of the day to finish all the trails and beat him." Makarov grinned at the pale faces everyone besides a certain someone was making.
"Screw that! I'm going to him right now! He will fight me at 100%!" Natsu declared with a wide grin and his fists covered in flames.
"Oy, Natsu. I don't think that's a good idea…" Happy said.
"What? Of course, it is!" Natsu grinned from ear to ear.
"Itachi was able to beat Gildarts and you always get one-shoted by Gildarts! You should fight him when his holding back…" Happy uttered.
"Hmm. Nah! I will fight him at full power!" Natsu as stubborn as he was declared.
"That won't happen either way, if you try to reach him before you finish the first trail you will be disqualified." Makarov announced.
"Wh-What?!" Natsu questioned.
"See, so let's just complete the other trails. You will get to maybe fight someone else first like Erza or Gildarts, even though that's still suicide." Happy said to his best friend.
"Hmm, fine." Natsu grinned excited to fight Erza or maybe even Gildarts.
"Now, let's start the trails!" Makarov declared.
With Itachi
Itachi sat meditating while letting out a blue aura around him. 'My crows should be able to warn me if anyone tries to infiltrate the island, unless they already are here… I have already detected the magic council's ships in the distance, but nothing else so far.' Itachi thought while tapping into the dark energy in him. He reached his hand out and formed the black sphere with rings around it just like the one he formed earlier, it was extremely small, yet it felt powerful. Itachi looked at the sphere trying to study it with his sharingan. From what he could see, the sphere had more power than anything he had with maybe the exception of his Susano'o when it came to destructive energy. 'It feels as if I can tap into more of the energy, but if I do I risk losing myself to it. So, this is the amount I can bring out for now at least until I have mastered to control this energy.' Itachi narrowed his gaze and tried to sustain the sphere but it vanished. 'Seems I can only hold it active for a certain amount of time. What's more it feels like I just used two mangekyou abilities at once, it sure drains a lot of energy but it seems to drain only the ehternano part of my energy source and a little chakra mixed into it… and something else as well, the dark energy I assume.' Itachi looked out on the vast ocean.
"For some reason… I feel a familiar presence here on this island… but for some reason I can't recall it from anywhere." Itachi muttered to himself.
"Whoa, that was interesting." Itachi heard a new voice, he looked down and saw a little girl with long wavy blond hair that reached down to her feet, she had large green eyes with no visible pupils, she had peachy skin and looked like she was a child. She wore a frilly, pink layered robe with a red ribbon tied into a bow around her neck, she also wore wing-like adornments around her ears, and she wore no shoes. She laid on the ground while kicking her legs back and forth in excitement, she had the look of a child seeing something very interesting, she stared at him in fascination. While Itachi stared at her in bewilderment and confusion.
He didn't feel any ill intent from this little girl, only warmth and pure intentions. Still, who is she? Itachi blinked while the girl looked at him with a pure innocent smile. "Umm, who are you? And what are you doing here?"
"Me? I'm Mavis, Mavis Vermilion!" The girl happily replied.
"Mavis? As in first master Mavis?" Itachi questioned.
"Yup!"
"…" Itachi narrowed his gaze. "But, you're supposed to be dead…"
"I'm a ghost. Boo!" Mavis giggled as she tapped her finger on Itachi's nose.
"Huh…?" Itachi questioned and activated his sharingan. And found out, she was telling the truth. "She was nothing but a mere spirit of energy, nothing else at all, Itachi kept his calm expression and deactivated his sharingan, and since he has seen dead people get brought back to the physical realm before, heck his even a living proof of such supernatural occurrences. "Okay, I believe you."
"What's with that emotionless reaction?" Mavis asked with a narrowed gaze at this peculiar man.
"So, is your soul stuck here or something, first master?" Itachi questioned.
"Hmmm, nope I just love being here, although it gets a bit boring. Then I felt that energy you were releasing and I found it interesting and decided to check it out." Mavis replied with stars in her eyes. "I know that you're from Fairy Tail, cause otherwise you wouldn't be able to see me. Only those who wear our guild mark can see me. What's your name?"
"Itachi, Itachi Uchiha." Itachi replied.
"Itachi, Itachi huh? Strange name, why did your parents give you a name that means weasel?" Mavis asked in a jokingly tone.
"I-I honestly don't know, and I don't care." Itachi replied motionlessly.
"Hmm, you should try smiling more. That face of yours would look better with a smile." Mavis beamed at him, smiling warmly. Itachi couldn't help but smile a little at the warm feeling the first master was giving off, it was as if her mere presence brought joy everywhere. "Yay! See such a lovely smile! Now tell me, how's Makarov threating the guild?"
"Master Makarov threats everyone in the guild like family, his like a father figure to all of us. He's even willing to do anything to protect his precious family as well." Itachi said with a warm smile.
"That's sounds great! Makarov seems to be doing a fine job as master." Mavis beamed a happy smile.
"Yeah, his philosophy almost reminds me of something from my homeland called the Will of Fire." Itachi said as that caught Mavis' curiosity.
"Will of Fire? What's that?" Mavis questioned.
"It's an ancient ideal from my home town which has been passed down for many generations. It is said that anyone who wields the Will of Fire loves, believes, cherishes, and fights to protect the village, as previous generations have done before them, and their will is passed on to the next generation. And it still lives on in my homeland, and I even found it to be in Fairy Tail as well."
"Woah! That sounds super cool! Tell me more!" Mavis said with pure excitement, she truly was just like a child in that way, more than just her appearance. In the end Itachi and Mavis ended up having a long discussion about the Will of Fire, Itachi didn't know why but he felt comfortable talking to the first master like he could tell her anything. Although he refrained from telling her the truth about him, that he was a clan killer and all and that he wasn't from this world. "This was fun, thank you Itachi!" Mavis smiled warmly at him.
Itachi closed his eyes and returned the smile. "Thank you, master Mavis." When Itachi opened his eyes again, she was gone, like she just had vanished into thin air. "I can't see her or sense her anymore… did she return to the realm of the dead?" Itachi questioned.
He then suddenly felt an immense amount of pressure coming from the island. "Gildarts huh? Looks like his fighting whomever picked his route." Itachi said calmly as the island was shaking and birds flew away all around the island besides for Itachi's crows. 'Now let's see who his fighting…' Itachi thought and closed his eyes, seeing through the eyes of one of his crows. 'Natsu, huh?' Itachi could see the frightened look on the dragon slayer's face, Natsu fell to his knees while sweating out of fear and with wide eyes. Itachi could hear Natsu muttering that he accepts defeat. Gildarts then gave Natsu a speech to acknowledge ones fear to overcome your weakness and grow stronger, and then Gildarts passed him. "Heh, that old man… his way to soft sometimes." Itachi smiled as through his crow he could see Natsu crying at Gildarts words. "Then again, that's not so bad sometimes."
Itachi then decided to see how the others were doing, Erza dominated Juvia and Lisanna in their battle, showing no mercy. Lucy and Cana had beaten Freed and Bickslow and managed to move on, Gray and Loke had beaten Mest and Wendy. And it seemed Elfman and Evergreen had somehow managed to get past Mirajane. "Guess I will have my clone inform me what happened later." Itachi said as since no one could have reached him before finishing the first trail, he had sent a Shadow Clone with 20% of his power to stay at the camp sight. "Hn…" Itachi's crows noticed what looked like to be Pantherlily and Charle flying towards the island. 'Well I guess that's not a problem, considering that they are members of Fairy Tail. Guess I should let them pass…' Itachi thought.
"Well this means the hunt to find the first masters grave is the next trail, I wonder if anyone will just rush up her immediately? Well there is Natsu of course…" Itachi sighed as he wanted to relax a little longer. He saw through his crow that the moment the Master told them to start Natsu used Happy to fly towards the top where he was like a rocket. "And here we go then." Itachi got up as Natsu and Happy flew crashing down in front of him. "Looks like getting your ass kicked by Gildarts wasn't enough for you, Natsu."
"Heh! I'm fired up now!" Natsu let flames out around his entire body while glaring at Itachi in excitement.
"Let's see, that's one trail complete, that means 80% then. And you're lucky that the master requested me not to use any illusions." Itachi said motionlessly.
"Heh! You can fight me at 100% Itachi! Cause either way, I'm gonna kick your ass and become S-Class!" Natsu charged at him with his fist covered in flames.
Fire Dragon: Iron Fist!
Natsu slammed his blazing fist at Itachi whom ducked, and then kicked Natsu's leg making him lose balance, then Itachi span his body around and delivered a kick to Natsu's chin sending him flying. Natsu managed to recover and was grabbed by Happy. "Happy! Send me flying at him!"
"Aye sir!"
"You didn't learn anything from Gildarts, did you?" Itachi looked as Happy flew with Natsu in his hands towards him like a rocket, Happy then dropped Natsu like a bomb and Natsu charged up flames around his entire body.
Fire Dragon: Sword Horn!
Itachi jumped back as Natsu crashed into the ground. "Learn when your outmatched, leave and get another chance at me once you finish the other trails." Natsu leaped out from the crater he made in the ground and threw a barrage of punches at Itachi whom dodged them all with ease Natsu kept charging forward and Itachi backed up. "Just go, finish the other trails, come back and face me then, you all have until the end of the day anyway." Itachi kept backing up while dodging Natsu's punches.
"Yeah right! Like I will let the others get to you before me!" Natsu shouted.
"Okay fair enough, if I can defeat you in the next five seconds you will go and finish the other trails, then come back, and if I don't I will fight you for real, deal?" Itachi said.
"Heh, deal! Like you can beat me in five seconds!" Natsu threw another punch as they were closing in on the edge of the top.
"Five, four, three, two…" Itachi was just at the edge, he then jumped up on Natsu's fist leaped over Natsu and kicked him in the back of the head, sending him falling down. "One." Itachi looked down and saw Natsu crash into the woods on the island below.
"Natsu!" Happy flew after him.
"Meh, a fall like that wouldn't kill him." Itachi went back to his meditation.
Meanwhile with Itachi's clone
"What?! Elfman and Evergreen are getting married?!" Erza questioned in shock while she was making food.
"And then they attacked me while I was in a state of shock." Mirajane said with a smile as she rubbed her cheek that had a band aid over it. While Juvia and Lisanna sat behind them and listened to their conversation and Itachi's clone sat next to Mira.
"Hold on! When is the ceremony?! In fact, when did they start such a relationship?!" Erza questioned as always only hearing a few parts of the conversation.
"Oh, no, I think it was just a strategy to throw me off guard. I still have a lot of improving to do!" Mira said.
"Still I'm a little surprised that they got you with that." Itachi said with a motionless expression.
"Anyway, you're sure it was just a strategy?!" Erza questioned still not totally convinced.
"It's hard to imagine those two being together. After all, of they got married and had a child…" Mira began imagining what Elfman and Evergreen's child would look like and came to an image of a baby version of Elfman with Evergreen's hair. "Imma real baby!" Then Mira all of the sudden began to cry.
"Don't cry Mira. It's kind of cute, depending on how you look at it." Erza said and Mira still cried.
"Aren't you going to comfort her?" Lisanna asked looking at Itachi.
"I would, but I'm not sure whether she's crying tears of joy or horror." Itachi replied with a sweat drop. While this happened Juvia was blushing at the word child and began imagining her and Gray.
"By the way where is Freed and Bickslow?" Lisanna questioned.
"They returned to the guild with Gildarts." Erza replied.
"Talk about impatient. They could've stayed here and watched the rest of the trail." Lisanna said.
"Anyway, where did Mest and Wendy go?" Erza questioned.
"Yeah, they are late…" Mira said as they began to look a little worried.
"Maybe they forgot where we're supposed to meet up?" Lisanna questioned. "Mest, huh? I never met him in Edolas so I don't know much about him. He joined during the two years I was gone, right?"
"Did he…?" Mira questioned as none of them knew since Mest had altered their memories.
"I feel like he's always been a member…" Erza began thinking.
"He doesn't have much presence, huh?" Lisanna said.
"Juvia will go look for them. She's a little worried." Juvia offered.
"I'll accompany you, then. Mira and Lisanna, you two stay here with Onii-chan's clone." Erza said as Juvia pouted seeming to have an ulterior motive to find Gray or something.
Meanwhile with Itachi
Itachi was meditating he once again tried to see if there was more about the dark energy he could discover. Once again, he was in front of a small black like flame and reached out for it, and once he touched it, it released a huge amount of power that made Itachi struggle to hold onto it, he saw the huge red eye shaped lights once more and heard the growling. "What are you?!" Itachi shouted as the darkness wrapped around his body like tentacles, Itachi felt the darkness taking over, then suddenly he felt a disturbing presence on the island and he woke up from his meditation while panting and sweating, multiple enemies were approaching. Suddenly a flare was shut up into the sky. "The guild's emergency flare?! I was right, something was going to happen." Itachi narrowed his gaze when suddenly multiple cloaked people appeared around him all with the Grimoire Heart symbol on their masks. "Grimoire Heart huh?" Itachi closed his left eye to see what a crow was seeing. He saw Wendy, Mest, Pantherlily, Natsu, Happy and Charle fighting also a similar group of soldiers not too far away from him. Another image of Gray, Loke, Lucy and Cana fighting of a group of people similar to the ones surrounding Itachi. He then looked out at the ocean and saw Master Makarov in his giant form punching a magic aircraft.
"Leave this place or face the consequences." Itachi said in a threatening tone, when he also saw a goat man wearing a butler outfit and wore sunglasses in a jetpack flying over the island. He dropped small spheres that puffed into these guards. 'So, he's the one dropping them all around here.' The Grimoire Heart soldiers charged at Itachi. Itachi was blasted by various magic blasts from them, and then turned to a murder of crows that flew towards the goat man in a butler outfit.
The soldiers looked in bewilderment when suddenly the entire area where they were at was surrounded by paper bombs. The tags glowed and exploded in a fiery explosion taking all the soldiers with them. The crows flew over the jetpack at the goat man's back and formed into Itachi. "Whaaaaat?!" The goat man questioned when suddenly Itachi stabbed his kunai into the jetpack and once again vanished in a murder of crows. As the goat man and his jetpack flew crashing down somewhere on the island.
The crows gathered into Itachi on a tree top, whom looked over at their giant master on the other side of the island, about to use Fairy Law. "Time's up!" He could hear Makarov's mighty giant voice all the way from there. When suddenly a darker light in the similar shape of the light Fairy Law was giving appeared. And then to Itachi's confusion Makarov undid the Fairy Law spell and was shaking in shock.
"What's going on? Why did master chancel out Fairy Law?" Itachi questioned in bewilderment.
"Master Precht…" He heard Makarov utter.
Itachi looked with his sharingan and spotted an old man with a long beard silver white beard and a mustache, and despite the look of the man's age he was quite muscular, and he had an eye-patch over his right eye, he wore a dark shirt paired with armored shoulder pads and shiny gauntlets, light pants with flames near the edges, and simple boots, he also had a dark cape he also wore a helmet matching that had what looked like horns on the side. "Precht?" Itachi questioned having heard that name before. "Ah! Th-That's the name of our second guild master…" Itachi clenched his fist as he had read about Precht and all the other founding members of Fairy Tail, he founded the guild along Mavis and the others. 'And now his the leader of Grimoire Heart from the looks of it… I need to help master Makarov.' Itachi was about to turn into a pack of crows when suddenly he was slammed to the side by a young man with long yellow hair, with red eyes and a crazed grin on his face, he wore a dark yellow skirt like armor with a red waist ribbon that exposed the right side of his chest as well as his right shoulder where his guild mark was.
The man laughed manically. "Got ya!" The man gathered what looked like black flames around his fist and pushed Itachi crashing into the shore of the island.
Flame God: Bellow!
He spitted out a massive wave of black flames at Itachi whom narrowed his gaze. "Get out of my way." Itachi formed a red spectral ribcage around him that grew an arm that pushed the black flame wave to the side. Itachi had his ribcage susano'o slam its fist into the man sending him crashing into a pile of rocks. Itachi looked back to where the Master was only to see that he was gone, then an explosion was heard nearby them.
"I ain't letting you go!" The blond haired man charged out with black flames covering his fist.
"I don't have time for this." Itachi said in a cold tone as another explosion was heard, this time from a different direction with screams to add. Itachi deactivated the susano'o, he then dodged the punch from this man that uses black flames, stepped on his foot, grabbed him by the wrist and lifted it above his head, and swung his fist into his gut making the man cough up blood. 'Seems he uses slayer magic, and from what he called his attack earlier, I can assume this is the lost magic, God Slayer magic.' Itachi thought and narrowed his gaze at the man. "Who are you?"
"Name's Zancrow, and you have really pissed me off now!" The man known as Zancrow released a huge amount of black flames around him and Itachi leaped back.
Flame God: Explosive Flame!
Threw a punch in midair and sent a stream of black flames towards Itachi, whom quickly formed the Yata mirror in front of him, reflecting the flames back at Zancrow. "What the-?!" Zancrow questioned as he was sent flying by his own blast.
Zancrow crashed into the ground far away from Itachi and growled in rage, when suddenly he saw his soldiers being beaten by Natsu. "Oh! The Salamander! I will kill him first, then take on that bastard!" Zancrow smirked and let out a malicious laughter. "That's enough, I say. I will deal with him!" Zancrow laughed as Natsu looked at him, and a fight between a dragon slayer and a god slayer was about to begin.
Meanwhile Itachi rushed through the woods in the same direction he sent Zancrow flying, he then saw Zancrow devouring Natsu's flames. "You can slay a dragon. But you can't slay a god!" Zancrow said.
Flame God: Bellow!
Zancrow spitted out a wave of black flames at Natsu and catching Wendy and the others besides Mest whom had vanished, in the explosion. And they were all sent flying down while Zancrow laughed manically. Itachi then leaped behind Zancrow and kicked him down. "You again?!" Zancrow growled as Itachi leaped after him and slammed his leg into Zancrow's gut, they then crashed into the ground forming a crater. Zancrow then punched a wave of black flames at Itachi whom vanished in a murder of crows. "Damn it!" Zancrow growled when suddenly a dark portal opened beneath him and arms grabbed onto him, pulling him in. "Wh-What is this magic?!"
"You're finished, this is where you die." Itachi's calm voice echoed around him as the sky turned red and crows flew around him.
"Die?! Me?! I don't think so!" Zancrow struggled to get away as he was sinking into the abyss. "Dammit! What is this?!"
"Say goodbye." Itachi's voice echoed.
For the first time, in a while, Zancrow felt fear. "Wh-What are you?!" Zancrow shouted as he was sweating and trembling in fear. Then suddenly everything returned to normal and he looked around in confusion. "Wait, what?"
"An illusion, looks like he decided to leave you in that illusion and destroy your mind and spirit." Precht aka Hades arrived at the scene and Itachi was gone. "If I hadn't knocked you out of it, you would have been done for."
"Master Hades? Where is that punk?!" Zancrow growled in rage.
"I don't know, he was already gone when I got here." Hades replied and looked at Zancrow with a scowl. "You disappoint me, Zancrow. Go finish off that Dragon Slayer, Itachi Uchiha is too much for you to deal with obviously." Hades walked away.
"What?! No! No! I will crush that punk!" Zancrow declared.
"Funny, coming from someone who was afraid of said punk a while ago." Hades said as he kept walking without turning a glance. "Do as you please, but finish that dragon slayer first."
"Tch! Yeah, fine!" Zancrow growled.
Itachi was leaping from tree branch to tree branch, still looking for the master. If only he had a nose like Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy he could find Makarov easily. It was frustrating not knowing if Makarov was alive, but also if Mira and Erza were safe as well as everyone.
Meanwhile with Itachi's clone
Mira, Lisanna and Itachi had fended of a group of those Grimoire Heart soldiers when suddenly. "Get down!" Itachi pushed both of the two sisters back when suddenly and explosion caught Itachi's clone making him vanish in a puff of smoke. "Good grief. It would appear that I got the short end of the stick." A tall muscular tanned skinned man with thick brown hair and brown eyes, he had long sideburns and a goatee, he had a black streak going over his left eye and he wore crescent moon like earrings. He wore a green leather like armor, his outfit looked like a tribe mans.
Back with the real Itachi
"Mira? Lisanna?" Itachi had regained his clone's memories and formed a shadow clone. "Go look for the master, I will go to Mira and Lisanna myself." Itachi ordered his clone, whom nodded and kept leaping in the direction Itachi was originally going, while the original Itachi leaped towards the direction where Mirajane and Lisanna were.
Itachi's clone leaped through the forest until he saw a concentration of magic power, when he arrived he saw Natsu trapped inside a black flame sphere, while Makarov tried to crush Zancrow's body with his giant hand gripping around him. "This is bad!" Itachi's clone was about to leap in, when suddenly Natsu began devouring the black flames around him.
"I-Impossible! How is he eating god flames?!" Zancrow questioned in shock.
"I see… so there's a trick to eatin' some types of fire." Natsu glared at Zancrow.
"You fool! Do you want to die?!" Makarov released Zancrow and scolded Natsu.
Natsu had his normal flames in one fist and the black ones in the other. "I don't wanna die, nor am I gonna let anyone die… We're all going back home together, to Fairy Tail… Come together! Dragon and god flames!" Natsu leaped over Zancrow and gathered as much power as he could.
Dragon God: Brilliant Flame!
Natsu slammed the two flames into Zancrow sending the laughing maniac flying back, knocking him out cold. "All right!" Natsu panted.
"I'm impressed, Natsu." Itachi's clone walked towards them. "You really have grown, are you alright, Master?" Itachi tended to the dwarf of an old man.
"Yeah, I'm fine, but you're just a clone, right? I can sense it by the amount of power you have. Where's the real Itachi?" Makarov questioned.
"Mira and Lisanna got into a bit of a trouble, so his on his way to save them." Itachi's clone replied and Makarov looked at Itachi with a worried expression, as he knew how Itachi felt about Mira, and that this must be very difficult time for him, he could see the worry in the young Uchiha's eyes for the two Strauss sister's safety.
"Gramps…" Natsu spoke. "Let's fight… I understand that there are times you have to back off. Gildarts taught me that. But this isn't one of those times. These guys have made an enemy of Fairy Tail. We have to teach them a lesson. We have to teach them the power of a wholehearted guild! Let's fight, G-Gramps!" Natsu uttered before falling unconscious.
"Natsu!" Makarov shouted and Itachi rushed to help up the dragon slayer.
With the real Itachi
'I have to make it! I have to!' Itachi thought as images of Mira kept flashing through his mind, images of Lisanna, Mira and Elfman finally reunited, the image of him kissing Mira for the first time, the image of a smiling Mira whom said his name. "Mira…" Itachi looked through his crow and saw Mira being beaten badly by this man named Azuma, that had even trapped Lisanna having her wrapped up in some roots while there was a timer counting down. And Mira was running out of magic power. 'Mira!' Itachi thought and clenched his fists as he suddenly grew black markings on the right side of his face, similar to Sasuke's curse mark.
With Mira and Lisanna
Mira growled in frustration as the timer was counting down, and once it reached zero Lisanna would be blown up. She had tried fighting with everything she had left to spare of magic power in her Satan Soul state. She saw that the timer was at 20 seconds left and flew towards Lisanna, embracing her in a hug.
"What do you think your doing?!" Azuma questioned.
"Mira-nee!" Lisanna shouted.
"It's useless. Defeating me is the only way to stop it! Now, come! You haven't much time! Fight me seriously!" Azuma demanded.
"I'm sorry…" Mira turned back to her normal form. "I hate to admit it, but I don't have enough magic power left to beat him… I can't do it as I am now…"
"Mira-nee…" Lisanna uttered as the timer reached 10 seconds left.
"But I have faith… Faith that there is someone in our guild who can defeat him…" Mira said with a warm smile at her sister whom had tears forming in her eyes.
"What are you saying, Mira-nee…?" Lisanna cried.
"What I'm saying… is that I'm admitting defeat… But there's nothing to worry about. I absolutely won't let you die a second time, Lisanna." Mira said as the timer reached 0. But then the roots holding Lisanna were cut in two and both the sisters were grabbed by a figure that leaped away from the explosion's radius.
Mirajane and Lisanna weakly opened their eyes as the fiery smoke from the explosion burned behind them. Mira looked at the shadowy figure that rescued them. "Itachi…" Mira uttered weakly,
Azuma widened his eyes in shock. "He cut through the restraints?!"
Itachi growled and released a black aura, he turned his head to the side to face Azuma. Itachi's face was covered in the black markings, his sharingan glowing bright red, and veins bulging around his temple. "Now you've done it… you've made me angry!" Itachi growled.
Somewhere on the island
A young man with black hair and dark eyes, dressed in a black high collar robe with golden trims, along with a large, flowing white toga draped around his torso, he also has a pendant around his neck. "Finally, I am reunited with Natsu, only to find out that his still too weak to kill me, how long must I wait?" The man questioned in sadness, when he suddenly felt a surge of energy. "This energy, is it him? No mistaking it, this dark yet calm and cold energy, Itachi Uchiha."
That's the end for now!
So, since I'm on a one week break from school I will try and post another chapter of this story very soon. I will also try and post a new chapter of "DXD Sharingan Dragon Slayer" during my break as well. Maybe I can manage two more chapters of this story and one new chapter of "DXD Sharingan Dragon Slayer" during this break, we will see what happens.
So yeah, no surprise but that man in black that was mentioned when Itachi showed his past to his Edolas self was Zeref. Now I really, really want to tell the story behind this now! But I can't! I need to save it for another time!
Anyway, I feel like doing something I once did in "DXD Sharingan Dragon Slayer" on a scale from 1-10 how fucked is Azuma? And should he survive to fight Erza later on? Of course, if that's the case he will not escape Itachi in one piece.
Anyway, leave review!
-Later!