Son of Hellfire (Part 1)

by Sparkflight206

He lost everything. He went back to change it all and ended up broken again. Killed by his own broken heart, he flees to another world where a dying Dragon Slayer teaches him to live a half-life. His body moves. But he needs her love to mend his soul. He must fight, like his father Atlas Flame, claws and teeth to cling to life. The rebirth of the Dragon Slayer has only just begun.

21. Will The Day Come

"It's been a while… Itachi."

The Uchiha remained stoic but for a slight twitch at the edge of his mouth, the barest hint of a smile. He straightened up, deactivating the Mangekyō in his right eye, in preparation.

"It has. Almost 5 years."

Sasuke stood stock still, paralysed by his elder brother's presence. "Itachi?"

Itachi turned his head. "Sasuke… I'm not interested in you right now… wait your turn."

The Raikage had lost the last of his patience. He charged straight at the eldest Uchiha, swing his arm around for a Lariat to the throat. His Armor spiked and drew the main electrical charge to the inside of his elbow. A yelled, "Don't ignore me!"

Itachi turned his head back. The veins of his left eye became strained and visible and the Mangekyō Sharingan pulsed with the near unbreakable Genjutsu.

"Tsukiyomi."

A found himself in a marsh at sunset, crows cawing all around him. Itachi faded into existence before him, formed of the black birds.

"This is my world, where everything, space, time, perception, they are all mine to control. I will torture you for 72 hours. I wonder how long until you break."

Three copies of Itachi appeared around the Raikage, holding flaming swords. Chained lashed around the giant man's limbs and pulled him against a crucifixion cross. The three swords stabbed in and caused unimaginable pain. They pulled out and stabbed again. And again. And again. The Akatsuki member spoke emotionlessly, clearly unphased. "71 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds remaining."

"What?! That's impossible… ARGH!"

Back in the real world, Itachi closed his eye and three seconds later, A broke down screaming and thrashing. He never saw the foot swinging. He never felt the impact. Itachi dealt the swift kick and knocked the Raikage out cold. Stepping back, he let Naruto removed the memories of the last timeline. He turned away from the prone Kage and to the younger Sharingan wielders. His Mangekyō deactivated completely and he looked upon his brother with the regular Sharingan.

"You were saying something, Little Brother?"

"…" Sasuke snapped out of his trance.

"Do you hate me? Do you want to kill me? I welcome you to…"

The younger Uchiha finally found his voice and stopped Itachi. "No! I don't want to kill you, not anymore. I've felt some of what you have and now I want to know. Why? Why kill everyone but me? Why leave only me alive? This time, tell the truth."

Itachi glared at Naruto. The Dragon Slayer shrugged and muttered, "Don't look at me like that, I had nothing to do with it."

Composing himself, he said simply, "Let's go somewhere more private, I don't want anyone overhearing. Especially your twin Naruto."

"Slight problem there." Naruto tapped his temple. "Our bond reformed, she knows everything I do now."

As they walked to a quiet spot, Itachi cursed under his breath. "Annoying time traveler, he was bad enough as a four year old." He sat on a rock and began his explanation. 'I guess I really do have to tell the truth this time.'

"The Uchiha were planning a coup d'etat to take over the village because they felt they were being oppressed, and, Father and Mother, the leaders, hated the way everyone treated Naruto. They had come to see him as a third son in a way, the third one they wanted after you and I Sasuke. I came to realised that the village had a deep-seated distrust for the Uchiha after the Nine Tails incident. That had developed into a profound hatred for us. And that too furthered when Shisui publicly declared that he would arrest any and all attackers of Naruto, they saw it as claiming the Nine Tails as a weapon.

"I killed our clan to bury the hatred between the Leaf and the Uchiha. Both sides hated each other, and if the coup occurred, it would have gone one of two ways. If the Uchiha won, then they would have control of the village, but unless they killed everyone, then there would be people who would harbor an even deeper resentment towards the Uchiha, and given time, there would be another battle between the Uchiha and the Leaf, and this would continue until one side was completely wiped out. If the Uchiha lost, the general populace of the Leaf would no longer trust the Uchiha survivors and would likely completely shun them. This would cause a deep hatred to grow within the Uchiha survivors, and an uprising would occur.

"The Uchiha and Leaf were embroiled in their own little cycle of hatred, which was something that was kept a secret from the public. But I killed the entire clan, except you Sasuke, and to the eyes of the world, I did it for my own malevolent purposes. While I was acting for the sake of the village, if I was believed to be acting alone, it would be Uchiha killing Uchiha, and all of the world's hatred would fall upon my shoulders.

"I alone would be hated for killing our clan, and I alone would be hunted for those actions. Retribution would not fall upon the Leaf for killing the Uchiha, and the Uchiha name would be untarnished by their attempted coup. My hope was that the hatred between the Leaf and the Uchiha would die with me, so that the Leaf could maintain its peace. But I saw I was serving the wrong purpose. I have since turned my back on the Leaf. I should have chosen clan over village, with my Mangekyō and Father's, and Naruto's knowledge on our side, we could of overturned the Hokage and stopped it all."

Sasuke had tears falling down his face and his Mangekyō unconsciously activated, displaying his sadness. Itachi noticed the eyes and spoke. "I see you too have awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. That makes you the seventh person in this era to have done so."

"Who… who were the others?" Sasuke asked hesitantly. Itachi paused a moment, then answered.

"Father, Obito Uchiha, who is the masked man who controlled the Nine Tails, Shisui, me, Satsuki and Naruto. If we are talking about who is in possession of one at this moment, that would be cut down to me, Danzo, Naruto, Kakashi and Obito."

"What happened to Shisui and Satsuki?"

Naruto answered. "Shisui suicided after Danzo stole his right eye and he gave the other to Itachi, who gave it to me. As for Satsuki… she died on my kunai. I told Itachi to control me to help him slaughter the clan, but it wore off when I was confronted by Satsuki. And it was Satsuki's death that awakened both our Mangekyō. I only remembered recently, having released the subconsciously suppressed the memories of that night."

"Did Danzo take her eyes too?" Sasuke seemed angry.

"No." Naruto responded shortly. "She was left alone but I have taken her body so that I may fulfill her final wish someday and use her eyes as my Eternal Light."

"Eternal Light?"

Itachi took the reins once more. "Sasuke, do you know what the Mangekyō does to you? Every time we make use of it, the strain will deteriorate our sight until we lose all light and go blind. The man who first awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, Naruto's grandfather Madara, also discovered a way to save his sight. By trading eyes with his brother Izuna, who also possessed the Mangekyō, he awakened what is known to us as the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, or the Eternal Light.

"But there is a catch. The pattern of the Mangekyō you are transplanting to yourself must be compatible with your own, or the transplant will not take. That is why it is best done between family members, preferably immediate family.

"It is my belief that Satsuki found her pattern to be a match for Naruto's and that is why she told him to take her eyes. Something Mother discovered was that Naruto and Satsuki were always matches, they had the same blood type, same likes, same dislikes, same hobbies, same sense of humor, complementing personalities, you name it, they matched each other. I think it was on that basis that Satsuki thought her eyes were a match for Naruto's."

Naruto was impatiently tossing a small fireball up and down as Itachi spelled it out for Sasuke. Without really thinking, he replicated his Mangekyō pattern as a fire construct. When the elder Uchiha launched into his theory of matching patterns, he also conjured Satsuki's pattern. The two were quite similar, both having six lines, both red iris with black lines. Absentmindedly, Naruto raised Satsuki's higher than his and lined it up over. Bringing the two together, he found a pull while closing his eyes. The overlapping patterns wanted to change shape. He allowed the pull to do as it would and opened his eyes to see the result. Instead of the two triangle based ones, it was a spiral, starting at the small pupil and looping out anticlockwise, creating the optical illusion of three rings. It was dizzying to observe. He chose not to mention it and extinguished the crimson flame pattern. Itachi was finishing his talk with Sasuke as Naruto paid attention again.

"Sasuke, when your sight gets too bad to see properly anyone, tell Naruto. Naruto, when he tells you this, come back to this world and tell the crow with Shisui's eye that I gave you to find me. One I get the message, I'll go to the Uchiha Hideout and wait for you there. Then we'll see if our eyes match. I say the transplant most likely will take for us both. Naruto, same goes for when your sight becomes too deteriorated to tolerate, bring Satsuki with you and I'll do the operation."

"You actually know how?" Naruto asked amused.

Itachi gently swatted his head. "I spent years learning the medical techniques for eye transplantation and if Obito can do it well enough for himself, I can for you, me and Sasuke. Now I best be on my way, Kisame will get suspicious if I am gone too long." Naruto caught his wrist.

"Hold it."

Itachi looked back at him. Curiosity glittered in his fully matured Sharingan and he responded with a level tone. "What is it Naruto? Is there something you want?"

Naruto just stared him hardly in the eyes, stormy blue vs red and black.

"You know what I want. The Contract. I have found being without it caused a problem or two whilst taking care of my fellow Dragon Slayers." Naruto explained, alluding to what he was talking about. "And I need the seals as well."

Itachi thought it over carefully, weighing the pros and cons until he reached a decision, pulling his wrist from Naruto's grasp.

"Alright."

From a cloud of white smoke between his hands, Itachi produced a large, two foot long scroll and laid it on the ground, opening it up. Naruto bit his left thumb with his sharpened canines and signed his name under Itachi's, making a handprint of blood next to it. Itachi rolled the scroll back up and sent it back to where he got it from.

"Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey and Ram. Those are the seals. Anything else?"

Naruto tilted his head. "Did you name that crow you gave me?"

"No, she was barely old enough to survive the transplant and be healthy. You get to name her, and I'd suggest you hawk her up soon. Now is the anything more?"

This time Naruto shook his head. "Nothing I can think off. Thank you, Itachi."

"Likewise."

And with that he took off.

Sasuke turned to Naruto. He didn't look angry anymore. He just looked mournful.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Naruto let his Mangekyō burn his retinas with regret for a second.

"It wasn't my place. I had already killed countless Uchiha, better not to make it one more, I have enough blood on my hands as it is. Now let's go, I've had enough of this world to last me 50 lifetimes."

They met up with Hinata, Naruko, Tsukiko and Kushina at the outskirts of the village and were about to leave when Fuu dropped in with Yugito. "I wanna come too!"

'I swear she gets more childish every day!' The Yin fox groaned.

'Patience Kurami, soon she'll be asleep and you can go back to chatting with Ten Tails.'

'As if!'

Everyone joined hands and Naruto drew on the Magatama on the cord around his neck, on its power over time and space. It floated a little off his chest and glowed with golden light. 'Here goes absolutely nothing.'

The group disintegrated into a shower of gold energy that was wrenched through a swirling portal. The wormhole sent them tumbling through space and time. It was immensely vast, infinite. But Naruto had since figured out how to navigate it.

If one thought of the space-time continuum as a tree, each world was a branch and the numerous versions of it were leaves on that branch. The Shinobi World was one such branch, Earthland was another. So to reach Earthland safely, Naruto had to guide them across the distance between branches by returning to the trunk and going out along the branch.

'Whatever you guys do, don't distract me, or we'll end up in some world even I don't know where.' He sent to his group.

Once they were on the correct branch, Naruto just had to find the leaf he marked, like he'd marked their version of the Shinobi World. A marked world glowed with white light, the others glowed gold. At the end of the branch, he found the marked world. Leaning toward the leaf, they went tumbling into it. A golden tunnel opened up around them and they were falling.

"You can let go now, we're entering Earthland!" He shouted to the others over the rushing sound. Everyone separated except Naruto and Tsukiko who he held to his chest.

They fell through another swirling wormhole above the Fairy Tail Guild Hall and the Dragon Slayer yelled,

"Heads up!"

All but two of them crashed into a heap in the ground. Naruto skated down the roof on his heels and made a smooth landing beside the pile of people. Kushina mumbled a question everyone wanted to know the answer to.

"How do you land on your feet? It's like a hundred miles an hour ya know!"

Naruto smirked as Tsukiko snuggled into his chest. "I got mad skills."

'Please never say that again 'To' Naruko mentally grunted, getting up off her face.

'I'll think about it 'Ko.' He sent back as he transferred Tsuki so her chin was resting on his shoulder and his upper hand was supporting her back, the other arm's forearm was supporting her lower body while she tried to wrap her legs around his middle. They didn't quite reach all the way round and Naruto found it cute.

"OK, who's ready to get sensory overload?"

"Wait, what now?" Sasuke questioned. Not even waiting for his response, Naruto sparta-kicked the doors open with his foot and returned to his previous footing. The whole hall turned and looked at them. A shout came from the left as Naruto used the hand that had previously been resting on his little sister's back to swat away a flaming punch.

"Naruto, fight me!"

The white haired Jinchūriki sighed and then he kicked his assailant away with an air of dismissal. Decided to paraphrase from Itachi, he turned to face the rosette who had taken a swing at him, using his two tomoe Sharingan to add to the effect.

"Natsu… I'm not going to entertain you right now… cool your jets."

A black haired boy with no clothes save his long boxers chortled at the predicament the Son of Igneel found himself in. "Man, you just got your ass handed to you flame-brain!"

Naruto turned unamused to the boy who made the comment, who was about one year older than Natsu. Said boy received the same treatment.

"Gray… your clothes…"

Gray yelped and ran off in search of his missing garments. A slightly more subdued Natsu got up and had a blinding smile radiating from his little face. "Where ya been?"

Naruto walked to an empty table and responded on the way over as people went back to their business. "Places, I had to sort some stuff out and, yes, it took about 4 months to do it."

The group he had returned with sat down with him as the Master came over with the redhead sword girl, Erza, to talk to them.

"Hey kiddo, found your way back then?" He looked everyone, especially Kushina, up and down. "And who is this lovely lady?"

Naruto reactivated his Sharingan and cast a quick Genjutsu of Kushina forcibly removing the old pervert's unmentionables with a single eye, using the other to cast another on his mother to calm her down before she caused a scene. "This 'lovely lady' is my mother and she has an interesting habit of castrating perverts. It would be a shame if you turned out to be one wouldn't it Master?"

"Uh *gulp* n-no idea what you're t-talking about m-my boy."

The Dragon Slayer let his Uchiha blood bring out a cold demeanor for a moment as he reveled in the fear he had created.

"That gulp wasn't nearly audible enough but I'll take what I can get."

Seeing that he had effectively scared the man to death, Naruto lightened up. "Just messing with you Old Man, but be careful, Mother doesn't like perverts." He casually passed it off while letting his red and black eyes fade. Erza broke the tension.

"I hope Natsu isn't being too much hassle for you Naruto, I've been trying to rein him in during your absence." He waved his hand.

"On the contrary, it's amusing to watch him try to ambush me like that. The only time I will really object is if I'm not in the mood or I'm holding my little sister, like I was then and still am." Erza nodded in understanding. "Besides, if he wants to make the most of his childhood, let him, I know you and I both wish we could of done the same."

Catching the nod to her less than ideal childhood in the Tower of Heaven, something he had come to learn about when she taught him the Requip, the redhead took Natsu by the arm and gently pulled him away. "You make a good point."

"Oh, by the way, Requip comes in really useful, thank you for teaching me."

"You're welcome Naruto." Erza smiled. "I see you have a sword, care to spar later?"

"Sure." Naruto replied, uncharacteristically cheerfully, feeling the familiar weight of Shisui's tanto hanging from his belt. "Once I get my family and friends sorted, I'll come find you."

When she walked away with Natsu, Yugito leaned across the table and took a jab at Naruto. "Got an admirer Whiskers?"

"Why, wishing you had competition?" He countered. "Sorry, you're stuck with me princess."

Blushing at his allusion to what happened at the hotel, Yugito jabbed at him again.

"Well, that's one out of a thousand you won't have to beat off with a stick."

"Don't remind me." Naruto grumbled and everyone laughed at his expense. Naruko broke the ice.

"So what do you do for fun around here?"

An evil smirk crept into Naruto's face and almost everyone at the table looked to be scared out of their wits. Shadows shrouded his upper face and all that was visible were twin tomoe eyes, glinting maliciously. A terrifying growl of laughter came from his throat and Kushina couldn't have been more glad that Tsukiko had fallen asleep.

"Many things, dear twin of mine, there are many things that can be construed as fun around here, hehe!"

'Kuramos, what have I unleashed?'

Even the fox sounded afraid.

'Something straight out of hell, Naruko, something straight out of hell.'

Suffice to say, no one envied Natsu when someone kicked him around the yard like a ragdoll in sparring. Or Gray, when he found himself in a cold jail cell for the night for indecent exposure. Or Elfman, when he was implanted in the ceiling of the Guild Hall during a brawl. Or Mirajane, whose hair had been dyed lime green, neon orange, and florescent pink in thirds. Or Lisanna, when someone made her trip and kiss Natsu (more like full on snog him but oh well) and took a picture. Or when the same someone made hundreds, no, thousands of copies of said picture and used a giant cloud of smoke to wallpaper the whole hall. Or Macao, who found him subjected to a giant sticker on his back reading 'KICK ME LIKE I KILLED YOUR GRANDMOTHER AND LEFT HER BODY IN A RIVER' with an equally prominent arrow pointing to his rear and someone did exactly that.

Something straight out of hell indeed, and it was set loose on a massive pranking spree that resulted in all but murder. And despite the master and the newcomers being the only ones untouched, everyone learnt the same lesson.

Never give the newly dubbed 'Sharingan Devil' motivation to 'have fun'. Ever. Again.

Naruko learnt something else as well.

The Sharingan was the ultimate pranking tool. And her twin had absolutely no qualms about abusing it to pull off an unholy plethora practical jokes. All in the space of 5 hours.

'And this is why you stay on your twin's good side Naruko, it's exponentially safer than being on the receiving end of those… tortures from the depths of hell.'

Timeskip - 8 Months

Naruto looked down at his sleeping baby sister with a soft smile as he stroked her small cheek lovingly. She was so adorable it made him want to squeal. He'd never get tired of looking on that angelic face as she slept in his lap, so at peace and so content. Her short hair made her look like a female version of a young him and those blue eyes were perfect mirrors of his old eyes and Naruko's. Her whisker marks were thin grooves at the edge of her face, oh so much cuter than the ones he shared with his twin. She was so small, about the size of Atsuko, if a little smaller. To think she was only 4 years old. She could have been 2 and he would have believed it. Her little eyes blinked open and she looked up at him with the most irresistible look. His smile actually hurt it was so wide. Just like a baby, she took hold of his finger. He used his other hand and held her chin up a little higher between his thumb and index finger, brushing her lips as she giggled.

"Tsuki…"

"..." Her adorably puzzled look drove him crazy.

"Never grow up, okay?"

"Oh-kay!" The way she drew out the word while trying to say it correctly was just to die for. He released her chin and Tsukiko started rubbing her head against his chest, her childish delight intoxicating. He thought of Naruko, who he had seen Minato slit her throat in the war. She had died because of him.

Tears began to well in his eyes as his Sharingan activated. The two tomoe eyes shone red in the darkness of the night as he sat on the wooden porch of the house, his hand tousled in Tsuki's hair. His eyes span a few times as they changed back into the eyes that would slowly progress towards darkness.

Tsukiko looked up at him again. Her perfect voice carried to his ears like a herald.

"Big Brother, your eyes!"

He looked down at the new headband he had received when he got back to Cloud after he had given his to his twin. His free left hand came up to the left side of his face and he looked back at his toddler sister through the parting between his middle finger and the one on the other side of it to his index finger, the scaled hand snapping the metal of the headband in two.

'Mangekyō Sharingan…'

Her childishly excited face was all he cared to see as he thought sadly.

'Will the day come when you too possess these cursed eyes? I hope you never have to experience such pain, I love you too much to let you go through that. My precious little sister, I will never let anyone hurt you.'

As she settled down again, Naruto let his Mangekyō faded into his slitted stormy blue eyes. They sat a moment longer on the porch of the house that had been finished a mere 2 days ago.

Using, in Naruto's opinion abusing, her authority as his mother, Kushina had refused to let him continually bunk around other members' homes full-time and after a full month of him, Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, Natsu, Yugito and Fuu doing jobs nonstop, they raised enough money to build a house. During that month, Kushina, Yugito and Sasuke, the Uchiha and Two Tails Jinchūriki only part-time, designed a house in the style of the one Sasuke, Itachi and their parent had lived in, with a few personal touches. Then, like a women on a mission, Kushina organised the whole thing with Makarov's directions and recommendations of contractors and such. Then, 7 months later, they had a house and being the stubborn mother she was, insisted (ordered) that Natsu, Wendy, Atsuko, Yugito, Sasuke, Hinata and Fuu live with them.

In each bedroom there were two people as a general rule but there were exceptions. Sasuke and Natsu shared a room, originally much to Sasuke's bemusement, Yugito and Fuu had their own, Hinata, Wendy and Atsuko were in the same room, and the three children of Kushina herself were sharing too, although simply because Tsukiko and Naruko kept sneaking into Naruto's. Eventually the redhead decided, having being told by her eldest about the psychic bond between the twins, and Tsukiko absolutely adoring Naruto, that they could share, given Tsukiko was still only 4 and given the twins couldn't keep… certain things… from each other even if they tried, so they might as well.

As a precautionary rule, one from her shinobi years, Kushina made sure there was a 'senior' child in each room. Those 'senior' children were Sasuke, with Natsu, Yugito, with Fuu, Hinata, with the female Dragon Slayers, and the twins, to watch over Tsukiko. All in all, Naruto thought his mother was pretty happy with the arrangements.

But all the family business didn't stop her from enforcing basic, albeit gentle for the younger children, training. For the younger kids minus Tsuki, being Natsu, Wendy, Atsuko, she handed them over to Naruto, since he was the only one who knew how to teach Dragon Slayer Magic and its uses to them. Needless to say, he was scared to all hell at first at the prospect of teaching youngsters.

For the ones that could use chakra, except Tsukiko again, she drilled them into the ground. Chakra control had its own period in the day. Seriously! But to his great fortune, Naruto seemed to have evaded the absolutely abysmal chakra control of the Uzumaki, something Naruko complained about and called 'so totally unfair'. In fact, only Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata were having little trouble with chakra control, the Jinchūriki were horrible at it and were mercilessly forced to perform nasty exercises, like sticking a coating of leaves to themselves while running on water, evading objects. Oh Naruto loved being a natural at chakra control now! It meant he could freely mock the others.

Snapping out of his reminiscing, Naruto heard a call from inside the house he'd wanted to hear all his life.

"Kids! Bed!"

"Coming Mom!" Was the collective response of the 6 still up. The younger kids had gone to bed at their respective bedtimes. Natsu, being 10, went to bed at 8:30, much to his disgruntlement, Wendy, age 6, went to bed at 7, Atsuko at 6:30, as did Tsukiko, although she had a cute habit of falling asleep in either Naruto or Naruko's laps and not going to bed. The older kids, minus Fuu, went to be at 10:15, the mint green haired girl going at 9:45. And oh boy was Kushina strict about bedtimes. If they were late by just 10 minutes, she'd give them a fair spanking. It wasn't fun to endure that.

Naruto wrapped Tsukiko in his arms gently and lifted her up, carrying her indoors. The fiery but kind-hearted mother was waiting at the stairs, counted each child going up so that none of them tried to play sneaky and stay up longer. Natsu had tried the previous night. He learnt his lesson.

Passing the table, Naruto laid his broken headband on it. As her eldest passed her, Kushina ruffled his long white hair. He playfully glared at her, given he found anyone playing with his hair annoying.

"Straight to bed, and no all-nighters, I'll know if you do."

Kushina had the useful ability to tell a person's state of body, and emotional state if it was one of her children, but only to a degree. If they were asleep soundly, their chakra and/or magic would flow softly and slowly unless they were awake or having a bad dream and in both cases, she would come up and deal with the situation.

He'd reached the top of the stairs when she called up softly. "Are you going to consider cutting your hair?"

"Not until it becomes a hindrance." He called back. "I like it long, makes me feel more free, untamed."

"Oh I'd say you're tamed." Kushina cheekily smiled. "Tsuki has you wrapped around her little finger."

"True enough." No point in denying it. He was wrapped around his youngest sister's little finger. How could he not be? How could one possibly ever say no to such an absolutely cute face?

He woke the next day, finding himself in a familiar position. Naruto was lying on his futon on his side, opposite him, their foreheads touching, was Naruko, soundly asleep and snuggled between them was Tsukiko. A moment later Naruko sleepily opened her eyes. 'Mornin' 'To.'

'Wakey wakey sleepyhead. Time to rejoin the land of the living.' He replied, taking advantage of the fact Tsukiko had snuggled up to Naruko to sit up without disturbing her, tucking his blanket over her to make sure she stayed warm. Smiling warmly, Naruko sat up, holding their four year old sister to her chest and wrapping her up in the blankets like a baby. Naruto made sure the window was open and set about getting Itachi's crow out his stomach.

Given there was nothing in his stomach at the moment to vomit up, the only thing coming out would be the crow. So, using his Dragon Slayer ability to control many of his otherwise unconscious actions, he forcefully contracted his stomach muscles, waking the crow up. Naruko looked a bit worried. "What are you doing?"

Taking a breath, Naruto felt the crow go farther up. "Getting… Itachi's crow… out of me…"

With one last disgusting retch, the young crow popped its head out his mouth, sleepily blinking. On its own, it made the final push out of Naruto's body and to the outside world, flying around out the window to get the saliva all out of its feathers and then came back in, landing on Naruto's shoulder. 'Damn, I am so glad I was not conscious when the girl flew down my throat.'

'That looked a little nasty.' Naruko sent worriedly.

'Eh, other than my mouth tasting like crow feathers, it's not so bad. At least I'm not like Orochimaru, keeping a sword down my throat, or other stuff.'

'Fair play.' Naruko conceded. Then she noticed the Sharingan in the left eye of the crow. "Wait, is that…"

"Shisui's eye?" Naruto finished. "Yeah, it is, this little crow has had it since he died. She really is a good girl. Speaking of her though, she hasn't been named so how about… Kara? You like that name girl?" The crow cawed happily and nuzzled his neck. "Kara it is then."

Closing the window, Naruto got dressed quickly, switching to his high collared shirt and shinobi pants in 10 seconds with Requip. After that, he brought out his dirty clothes and on the way down to the excellent smelling breakfast, dumped his previous outfit in the wash. He wasn't weird like Natsu, wearing the same clothes day in, day out. Kushina was still trying to house train him. Looking up from her cooking, Kushina noticed Kara on his shoulder.

"Is that one of Itachi's?"

Naruto shook his head, sitting down at the table in the traditional kneeling/sitting position. "No, Kara is one of my summons, although she's been in my stomach for me last 8 years, in a sleep state where she doesn't age. And yes she has Shisui's left eye."

Finishing up breakfast and setting it all on the low table, Kushina let the excitable crow, that was flying around the kitchen like she was on a sugar rush, her land on the back of her hand. Kara patiently sat on her hand, waiting for Kushina to be done examining her. "She looks barely a year old. And most non-summon crows only live 7 to 8. Little Kara is definitely a summon if she looks this cute after being in your stomach for the best of 8 and a half years."

Kara flew back off and nestled in Naruto's hair. "Don't worry about mess Mom, Kara is a good girl. She even flew out the window to get rid of the saliva all over her instead of in our room, then she came straight back in."

"That's good but do you know what she eats?"

"Itachi told me ages ago that crows are omnivorous so she'll take bird feed, mice, invertebrates, Kara's not too picky. Better stick with bird feed so she doesn't creep out the girls though, in the house at least."

At that moment, Natsu came thundering down the stairs with a cry of 'Food!'. Before he could reach the table, Sasuke had appeared and caught him by the collar whilst sighing. When Natsu turned around to protest, he received a poke to the forehead. "Natsu, at mealtimes, we wait for the others before we start. And we sit at the table, not gulp everything down and bolt for the Guild Hall."

"Mikoto really has rubbed off on you Sasuke." Kushina smiled. "Whenever I came round while we were children, she'd do the exact same thing to me."

"I can imagine." Naruto muttered. A quick smack to the back of his head sorted him out. Fuu came buzzing in on her wings and Naruto flicked his wrist, a small serpent of crimson flames snapping at the Jinchūriki's attempt to steal a piece of toast, the only modern item of food on the table. "Manners Fuu, I learnt my lesson already this morning."

Fuu just pouted.

"Not gonna work, Tsukiko is the only one who can make that work on me now."

'That's probably true.' Naruko's voice echoed in his head when she walked in with Tsukiko, still sleepy, head over her sister's shoulder like a baby. "She just doesn't want to wake up."

Kushina frowned. "That's funny. I haven't carried her anywhere since she learnt to walk. I think you twins are spoiling her."

"She's too cute to say no to." Naruto interjected. "You try saying no to her, I've told an angry Fire Dragon to do one without fear and one-v-oned him but I can't say no to my little sister."

The other girls came down and joined them on the floor cushions around the traditional table as Naruko snorted. "Please, you went into a forbidden state and were unconscious the whole fight, not to mention it was Atlas who nearly brought him down and Igneel who finished it. You had bare nothing to do with it."

"Cheeky brat, at least I can take down a Tailed Beast unlike Duck-Butt over there, he flopped against the Cloak and I've lost count of how many times he's been 'logged' in his life." Naruto bit back.

Sasuke had the classic depressed, shadowed look. "I mistook Itachi for a log one time people! And it was Substitution anyway!"

"Naruko, could you pass the rice? And how does that make it any better Sasuke? A log is a log." Naruko passed the bow with rice in to him and he took a decent spoonful. It seemed to all the shinobi children that Kushina loved to do traditional food as well as modern. This morning it was a traditional breakfast and surprisingly, Natsu didn't object to the more exotic foods like tsukemono (pickles), nori (dried seasoned seaweed), natto (fermented soy beans), kobachi (small side dishes which usually consisted of vegetables), and green salad, he just ate. Although he hadn't grasped how to use chopsticks so Yugito was entertaining herself by trying to teach him to hold them correctly, with little success.

Kushina smiled whilst watching the children banter over breakfast. A knock sounded on the door. Naruto stood up and went to the door, sensing the magical presence beyond it. It was Makarov. Opening the door, he saw the short man on the winding pavement that led down to Magnolia. (AN: basically the house is where Natsu's is and the house is a traditional Japanese one, with all the traditional stuff inside, that's why they have the low table, the floor cushions and sleep on futons. I'm going for the Japanese look on their house 'cause I think it works, feel free to disagree)

The old man smiled widely. "Howdy! Thought I'd drop by and see how you are all settling in to your new home. Plus, it looks real nice."

"Why thank you Master, Mother was always fond of our world's traditional styles and this whole place was her design, although Sasuke and Yugito helped. Please, come in, stay a while." Naruto stood to the side and allowed the Master to enter the threshold.

"Very kind of you my boy. I hope I'm not interrupting anything."

"Not really." He said over his shoulder, leading the old man into the dining room, we're just having breakfast. Bit of advice, don't make any bad comments about Mother's food, she gets fired up faster than Natsu hearing that Gray is better than him." He whispered the last part.

"Got it." Makarov whispered back. "Hello youngsters! How's your morning?"

"Is way too early." Sasuke groaned, Natsu's snoring having kept him up late. Yugito ruffled his hair annoyingly.

"Deal with it, you can get a coffee at the guild. It's a great morning Master, although some of us are still asleep." Tsukiko had sleepily curled up against Naruto's side when he sat back down, and he took over the task Naruko had previously had, feeding the little blonde.

Fuu was hyper, almost bouncing up off her cushion but for Kushina pulling her back down. "Can't wait!"

"We noticed." Sasuke grunted. "You literally tried to grab a piece of toast and fly off except Naruto shot you down."

"Hm, more like nearly got burnt and shut down Duck-Butt." Naruto absently murmured, taking a bite of toast.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!" The Uchiha shouted, crying anime tears.

"Peace and quiet." The snowy haired Dragon Slayer deadpanned. "Maybe little more self-control too, you're behaving with all the tolerance of a Fire Dragon. And I've known two, so that's saying something."

…..

"Big Brother!"

He heard the little footfalls on the soft surface of the grass and turned around to see his little sister running across the garden as fast as her tiny legs would carry her. Kneeling so he was at her level, in actuality he was an inch or two still above her height, he wrapped his arms around the little blonde girl and she returned the hug enthusiastically. When they pulled back, he answered.

"Yes Little Sister?"

"Big Sis Yugi said you can do pwetty flame! Please show me pwetty flame!"

Taking a look back at the house, Naruto saw Yugito on the porch with an amused smile on her face. He rolled his eyes at her and turned back to his small sibling.

"Okay, I'll show you the pretty flame. Don't touch it, whatever you do."

"Oh-kay!"

Opening his left hand, a dancing crimson flame caught alight in his palm. The color was so deep and the flickering was so graceful in the fresh morning breeze, it mesmerised the little girl, making her stare at it dreamily. She didn't make any indication she wanted to touch it, Tsukiko seemed content to stare at it. "Ohhh, pwetty."

When Naruto let it go out, his little sister snapped back to reality. A pout appeared on her face. "Aw. Me liked pwetty flame."

He let out a small laugh at that. So cute.

"Tell you what, do you want to be able to do pretty stuff like that?" Her face lit up like Natsu given sugar.

"Ye!"

'Hang on a bloody minute, you're not gonna try to…' Naruto ignored Kurami and beckoned Tsuki closer. His hand, so big to the 4 year old, reached out and he made a small jabbing motion with his middle and index fingers, along with his thumb and pressed them gently into her stomach, just below the ribcage, where his Sharingan perceived the greatest and most condensed magic was in any wizard's body he had seen in Earthland. This, he had come to the understanding, was where a person's magical container resided. Then he attempted his most difficult magic manipulation yet.

Summoning his magic, he let the pure dragon slaying essence flow, holding it back and preventing it from undergoing the elemental change in nature and becoming his hellfire. The purest form of Dragon Slayer Magic, without an element, just pure magic. It flowed through his fingers and past the cloth of Tsukiko's little flower kimono and into the dormant magical container there, taking root. The unused container came alive with the spiritual energy, taking what he channeled into it and drawing in more pure Ethernano from the atmosphere, transforming it into Dragon Slayer Magic inside. He removed his fingers and was surprised and happy to sense the magic energy turning into Dragon Slayer Magic of its own accord. Now, hopefully, the element would be decided by Tsuki's body itself, like a chakra affinity.

The small girl blinked and wrapped her arms around her stomach.

"Big Brother, me feel full. But me had breakfast already!"

He smiled and patted her head.

"What does it feel like?"

"Uhhh…" The 4 year old struggled for the words to describe the feeling from her limited vocabulary. "Like… hot…"

"Okay, that's good. Now try pulling some of that 'hot' into your hand."

Tsukiko followed his instructions and, after a good several dozen tries, her magic took form. It was no longer pure energy but it had form, an element to which it belonged and, in a sense, an identity. Naruto was shocked by the form it took and, while having never seen it before, knew what it was. He knew what Dragon Slayer Magic had manifested in his little sister.

Beautiful flames danced around Tsukiko's little hand. But they weren't the usual color of fire, not orange-red and black like Atlas' magic had been, nor crimson like his had become. The flames burned a warm, soft and absolutely hypnotising sapphire. 6 words escaped Naruto's lips.

"Amazing." He breathed. "Blue Flame Dragon Slayer Magic."

AN: That's a wrap. For the curious, the method through which Naruto gave Tsukiko Dragon Slayer Magic is the skill Altas gave him last chapter, and the same as what happened to him when he got his own, although more refined and perfected.

And with that, the Naruto Canon is out of the window from there on. Fairy Tail Canon has yet to start so expect some backstory in this one until then.

Now I move on to an irritation that has pervaded me since day one. To be honest, I've been sitting on this for the whole year and a bit I've been writing this story. Flaming. I accept constructive criticism and the like, but I have had enough of plain haters reporting the story and leaving anonymous, not to mention insulting, reviews. I will be blunt. All flaming will be deleted from now on and I will not tolerate blatent disrespect for my work, given I am giving up my free time, my energy and a massive amount of time I could be sleeping to write this story for you all.

Moving on, last chapter someone, a guest reviewer, asked why Naruto did not use Susanoo or other Mangekyō abilities. The answer is very simple, elementary in fact. Every Mangekyō is different, they unlock powers gradually or rapidly depending on the owner and fundamentally have different powers. At present, Naruto does not possess Susanoo, simply because his eyes do not have the potential for it. He doesn't have it, in layman's terms.

See ya next time, sorry for ranting.