Ninja Tail
In this chapter, Naruto's going to battle Bickslow. He's not going to be happy that he helped take down his jonin teacher, to say the very least. This time he isn't going to cut and run…
Also, Lucy's going up against Freed…sound like fun?
Chapter 53: Playing With Dolls
At this point, Natsu and Gray had both fought vigorously. It appeared that one of them was going down soon.
However, Gray had stripped down to his boxer shorts.
Much to his surprise, Natsu noticed that he was wearing his Hello Exceed underpants today, and decided to point this out to him.
"Hey, Icicle head! You're wearing your Hello Exceed underwear!" exclaimed Natsu.
Looking down, Gray gasped in shock.
Shortly afterwards, he collapsed from embarrassment.
It looked liked Natsu had won today.
"I'm not sure what just happened…but I won't look a gift Exceed in the mouth." noted Natsu.
Immediately, he was allowed to leave the battlefield and go elsewhere.
And he knew exactly where he wanted to go.
"I'm coming, Hinata!" exclaimed Natsu.
Hopefully he would be able to get there in time. From what he already knew, Hinata was probably in peril. Apparently, one of Laxus's lackeys wanted her for their evil plans. He wasn't sure what exactly those plans are, but he was sure that they were up to no good.
Perhaps they wanted a position of authority like Laxus did? If so, Hinata's clan may be in trouble. He needed to do something.
Fortunately, his Byakugan didn't make it difficult for him to find her. Thank goodness he had inherited such a thing.
Immediately, he began to leap across the guild. There was no time to lose!
Elsewhere in the guild…
Bickslow laughed maniacally. It felt so satisfying to help take down such a strong ninja.
For some strange reason, he was in a room that resembled a giant toybox. He had no idea how that got there…but he liked it.
Suddenly, Naruto burst into the room. He was very mad.
"Hey, you! You beat up my sensei!" exclaimed Naruto, shaking his fist at the Thunder God Tribe member.
Bickslow was a bit confused.
"Your sensei?" inquired the laughing mage.
"My sensei! He's always covering one of his eyes!" exclaimed the chunin.
"Oh…you mean him." answered the mage.
Immediately, Bickslow began to chuckle nervously.
For a moment, he considered cutting and running like he did with Gajeel…but he then realized that since Naruto was angry with him, he was probably going to hunt him down.
Besides, he didn't want Laxus to think that he was a coward, and he didn't think Naruto was as threatening as Gajeel was.
He decided that he was going to fight Naruto here and now.
Wasting no time, Bickslow began to summon some dolls.
"You're summoning dolls? I was under the impression that you were more masculine than that…" questioned Naruto.
"Don't question my magic!" exclaimed Bickslow as the dolls began to shoot lasers at him.
"You're not going to turn me into stone if I look into your eyes, are you?" inquired Naruto.
"No…I'm going to turn you into a doll." answered the doll mage.
"That can't be good…" thought the chunin. Perhaps it would be best if he avoided making eye contact with the Thunder God Tribe whenever possible.
On the plus side, Bickslow didn't appear to be using that technique yet, so maybe he had a chance.
Naruto tried tossing a Rasengan at Bickslow, but unfortunately he used some dolls to defend himself. It appeared that they were good for both offense and defense.
"Grr…" murmured Naruto.
He then followed by summoning a doll to attack Naruto by the name of Talky Tiffany.
"Hello, my name is Talky Tiffany…and I don't like you very much." said Talky Tiffany.
"What did I ever do to you?" inquired Naruto.
Immediately, Talky Tiffany pulled out a knife.
"Uh-oh…" thought the chunin.
Meanwhile…
Unfortunately for Erza, it appeared that if she wanted to progress through the tournament, she was going to have to deal with none other than Mirajane.
"Well, I suppose we were going to duel each other eventually, anyway. We do happen to be rivals, after all." nodded Erza.
Mirajane nodded.
"Wait, where is my brother?" inquired Mirajane. She didn't see him anywhere. Hopefully nothing had happened to him. Big sister instinct, she supposed.
"He got beat up trying to take down Evergreen…but thankfully she's out of the picture too." answered Erza.
"Oh yeah…" nodded the demon mage. It was a good thing that Kakashi had taken her down when she did.
However, she wondered how the mages were going to deal with the other members of the Thunder God Tribe. Apparently, Evergreen wasn't the only one that could use Eye Magic.
And it appeared that the only way that they were going to deactivate the Thunder Palace spell was to defeat Laxus himself.
Would they be able to pull it off? Their numbers were really starting to dwindle ever since they had been forced to fight each other.
However, she got the feeling that one of them was fighting another member of the Thunder God Tribe as they spoke, so at least that was something to look forward.
Deciding to start off the battle, Mirajane used a darkness spell on Erza, who leapt out of the way.
"It's a good thing I have armor to protect myself from darkness attacks." thought Erza.
However, she was well-aware that may not be enough to defeat Mirajane alone, since she was capable of shapeshifting into demons.
Personally she wondered if Laxus was making the two of them fight each other on purpose. They were both S-Class mages after all.
In retaliation, Erza pulled out her swords and began to swing them at Mirajane.
However, she was proving to be rather agile as well.
"I see that you've been working out as well." noted Erza.
"Did you think that I spent all my time on Sorceror's Magazine?" inquired Mirajane.
"I don't need to be on Sorceror's Magazine…I can just pose for Naruto." answered the knight.
"I've really got to get a boyfriend…" complained the demon mage.
"I'm sure that you'll find one someday." answered Erza.
Mirajane shrugged. Maybe one day she would get lucky. Now that she thought of it…her younger brother Elfman was single too.
The Strauss Siblings were really unlucky, it seemed. Especially Lisanna. Poor, sweet Lisanna. How long had she been dead, anyway?
Meanwhile…
"Where did you get these powers?" inquired one of the traitorous Hyuga clan members as Hinata tossed a fireball. He had never seen anything like them from a Hyuga clan member.
"She got them from me!" exclaimed Natsu, bursting into the room.
"Natsu!" cheered Hinata. It looked like he was there to help. She had been worried about him.
Sure enough, he began to attack the Hyuga ninja that were surrounding Hinata. It appeared that things would be a lot easier now that they were working as a team.
Personally it reminded her of when Shikamaru decided to assign them to work together back at the Tower Of Heaven. Since they had complimented their abilities rather well, it wasn't very surprising why.
Immediately, Natsu began to breathe fire on the Hyuga ninja, causing them to run away.
It appeared that they were losing.
"How many more do you think there are?" inquired Natsu.
"Well, they're bound to run out of ninja sooner or later." answered Hinata. They had been hard-pressed to take her down as it was.
Suddenly, she noticed that cracks were beginning to appear in Hiashi Hyuga's statue.
"Huh?" inquired the kunoichi.
A few minutes later, Hiashi Hyuga was released from his confinement.
"Ugh…what happened?" inquired Hiashi Hyuga.
"Father!" exclaimed Hinata.
Immediately, she went to hug her father. She was glad that he wasn't going to be turned into dust, to say the very least.
Hopefully this would be enough to thwart Naraku's plans.
However, she realized that if Naraku made Hanabi sign the contract handing over the Hyuga clan to him, he might still have a chance for victory.
Where exactly did he go?
"Hinata? Is that you? Where am I?" inquired Hiashi Hyuga.
As it turns out, he was feeling rather weak.
"Ugh…" murmured Hinata's father.
"Are you alright?" inquired Hinata.
"I think so…" answered Hiashi. Apparently, he had been transformed to stone for a while and he was going to need to rest.
"Don't worry about us, father! We'll handle things!" exclaimed Hinata.
"Yeah!" bellowed Natsu.
Hiashi Hyuga faintly smiled. He had to admit, his daughter had gotten rather strong as of late.
She had really come a long way since the day she was disinherited.
We now return to Naruto and Bickslow…
"My name is Talky Tiffany, and I'm going to kill you." stated Talky Tiffany.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I'd like to live thanks." answered Naruto.
Immediately, he tossed a Rasengan, sending Talky Tiffany flying and breaking her legs off.
However, she was still crawling towards him.
"My name is Talky Tiffany, and I'm never going to forgive you!" exclaimed the evil doll.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I wouldn't have done that if you haven't attacked me!" bellowed Naruto.
Naruto tossed another Rasengan. This time, he knocked off the doll's head.
However, the doll's body was still moving.
"My name is Talky Tiffany, and you'd better be nice to me!" bellowed Talky Tiffany.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and you don't need to tell me your name about a million times! Believe it!" exclaimed Naruto. He had already memorized it.
Tossing one last Rasengan, he successfully destroyed Talky Tiffany completely.
However, Bickslow was still going to fight.
"So you defeated my doll…big deal! Let's see how you like this! Hahahaha!" laughed Bickslow.
Immediately, Bickslow began to summon several toys. For some strange reason, they reminded him of an old movie that he really liked that was part of a trilogy.
One of the toys was a sheriff, who appeared to be leading the other toys. Next in command was a space ranger. This was then followed by a cowgirl, a slinky dog, a T-Rex toy, a horse toy, two Potato Heads, a piggy bank, and last but not least, three Little Green Martians.
"Well, at least the author isn't referencing the Twilight Zone anymore." answered Naruto. That show creeped him out.
Immediately, the male Potato Head pulled out a Etch and Sketch and drew a picture of Naruto being hanged.
Naruto gulped.
Meanwhile…
As it turned out, Juvia was about to enter a catfight of her own. She was up against Cana.
"I'm an alcohol lover whose up against a water lover…this makes sense." noted Cana.
"I suppose." nodded Juvia.
Personally she wondered who had beaten up her beloved Gray…she wanted to battle them and get her revenge.
Granted, they were trapped in a tournament and didn't really have a choice on who they could battle or not…but still!
How exactly was Laxus deciding who got to battle who anyway? Did he decide at random? Or did he want the battles to thrive on old grudges and the like?
Either way, it looked like everyone in Fairy Tail was battling rather fiercely.
Cana started by tossing some playing cards at Juvia, who quickly ducked out of the way so that she didn't end up with paper cuts.
She retaliated by blowing bubbles at Cana…which was surprisingly effective.
"Gah! Not enough alcohol!" screamed Cana.
Juvia sweatdropped. This was kind of awkward…
…but at least she appeared to have the advantage for the time being.
Elsewhere, where Naruto and Bickslow are duking it out…
Unfortunately for Naruto, it appeared that he was outnumbered. He was being attacked by a bunch of evil and highly dangerous toys.
Personally, it reminded him of the time that Ebemener Scourge made Santa turn to the dark side.
And to make matters worse, their leader was even singing a song about it.
"You've got an enemy…" sang the sheriff toy, playing his banjo.
Naruto ducked as the space ranger toy shot a laser beam at him, which left a gaping hole in the wall.
"You've got an enemy…" continued the evil sheriff.
Naruto screeched as the cowgirl kicked him in the right shin.
"When the road looks smooth ahead…and you're just a few feet away from your bed…" sung the cowboy.
Naruto yelled as the cowgirl's horse kicked him in the left shin.
"Remember what your old foe said…" stated the sheriff.
Naruto screamed like a little girl as the T-Rex toy bit him in the right shin.
"Boy, you've got an enemy. You've got an enemy…" continued the cowboy.
Naruto collapsed on the ground as the piggy bank tackled him.
"You've got an enemy…you've got an enemy…" sung the ranger.
Naruto frantically hid behind a statue of Makarov as the Potato Heads began to shoot at him.
"You've got an enemy…I've got problems, and lots of them…" said the psychopathic cowboy.
"Uh-huh!" bellowed Naruto.
"There isn't anything I wouldn't do to you…you get close to me and I'll run you through…" sung the evil sheriff.
Naruto yelled as the slinky dog bit him in the leg. At this rate he was going to start bleeding.
"You've got an enemy…you've got an enemy…some other folks might be a little bit more evil than I am…more malicious and spiteful too…maybe." noted the sheriff.
"You don't say?" inquired Naruto.
"But none of them will ever hate you the way I do…it's me and you, as the years go by, boy, our animosity will never die…" continued the cowboy.
"That's too bad…" noted the chunin. Why couldn't we all just get along?
"You're gonna see that it's our destiny…" answered the chunin.
Naruto gasped in shock as the aliens pulled out laser pistols and destroyed the statue he was hiding behind.
"You've got an enemy…you've got an enemy…" said the sheriff.
At this point, he decided to stop singing and attack Naruto himself. He just so happened to have a gun of his own…a Desert Eagle, to be precise. But at least it wasn't a laser…
"Am I done for?" inquired the chunin. Dealing with an evil doll was one thing…but dealing with an army of evil toys? Was there any way that he could even the odds? Unfortunately, it appeared that nobody else was here to give him a hand. He was fighting solo.
Suddenly, he remembered something rather important.
"Oh, that's right…I'm a summoner mage…" noted Naruto. Why didn't he remember that? Personally he thought that he would have tried summoning something by now so that he could surround Bickslow.
Immediately, he began to summon a bunch of his personal summons to help him deal with the deadly toys that hated him so much.
It looked like he wasn't outnumbered anymore, to say the very least.
"Thank goodness…" remarked Naruto.
Quickly, he began to order his summons.
"Attack!" exclaimed the chunin.
His Celestial Spirits nodded, and they began to fight back against the evil toys.
Hopefully they would be strong enough to defeat the twisted examples of a child's plaything.
However, Naruto wondered if he would have enough magic and chakra left to deal with Bickslow once and for all.
He wasn't going to be easy to defeat…but if his sensei Kakashi managed to defeat Evergreen…
…maybe he could defeat him.
It was just a guess.
Back at the Hyuga household…
Neji made his way back home, glad to finally have the opportunity to relax.
"Uncle, I'm home!" exclaimed Neji as he opened the door.
However, much to his surprise, he didn't hear his voice.
Curious, he used his Byakugan, and noticed that several Hyuga bodyguards had been knocked out.
"What the-" exclaimed Neji.
It appeared that they were in a coma. Apparently, they had been underneath Evergreen's spell for quite some time. The Ms. Fairy Tail contestants had gotten off easy.
Immediately, he began to worry about what was going on.
Curious, he noticed his cousin Hanabi Hyuga, who was currently watching TV. She was apparently having a good time as she had a wide smile on her face.
She was happy to see him come home, to say the very least.
"Hey there, Neji! I'm watching robots beat the scrap metal out of each other!" exclaimed Hanabi.
As it turned out, Hanabi was watching Transformers.
"I didn't know that you liked this show…" noted Neji.
"I sure do! I also like South Park and Walker Texas Ranger!" bellowed the preteen girl.
Neji sweatdropped. Something told him that Hanabi Hyuga wasn't the most feminine girl in the world.
Then again, if he wanted feminine, he had his other cousin Hinata.
"Where is my uncle?" inquired Neji.
"Oh, he got abducted by a bunch of backstabbing Hyuga ninja…" answered Hanabi.
"What?!" bellowed the teenage ninja.
"Yeah…apparently, their leader wanted to take over and make us the branch house…" noted Hinata's younger sister.
"This is a disaster! Where is Hinata?" inquired Neji.
"Oh, she went to try to stop the Hyuga ninja if you want to join her…she told me to stay here where I'd be safe…I'm sure that she'll be able to handle things." answered Hanabi.
Neji nodded, and he immediately went to look for the interdimensional portal. Perhaps Hanabi was right…but he didn't want to take any risks. Fairy Tail probably needed all the help that they could get…even if he hadn't really gotten to know the guild.
He wanted to be a hero, after all. That's what his uncle would want, right? At least, that's what he thought he would want. His father did die as part of a heroic sacrifice, after all.
However, much to his surprise, he found the portal to have disappeared.
"Where did it go?" inquired Neji.
Perhaps it had moved somewhere.
Shrugging, Neji decided to try searching for another interdimensional portal. Personally he thought he would be doing more fighting and less recon.
But apparently he could function as well on Team 8 just as well as Team Guy…though he wasn't planning on leaving Team Guy anytime soon. Tenten and Rock Lee would mess him…well, maybe Tenten would miss him more than Rock Lee.
Sure enough, he found another interdimensional portal…unlike the one that Fairy Tail used, it happened to be yellow. He could see it out in the distance.
It was rather peculiar…but apparently it would work as he saw ninja entering and exiting from it.
However, it just so happened to be guarded by some of the traitorous Hyuga ninja. It appeared that they didn't want Fairy Tail to receive reinforcements.
It looked like he was going to have to fight his way inside if he wanted to help them.
"Well, I might as well get started." thought Neji.
Taking a deep breath, he began to walk inside the traitor ninja hideout.
Who would have thought that they would declare mutiny?
Let's check on Sakura and Gajeel now…
Gajeel and Sakura were fighting rather vigorously, to say the very least. In fact, several statues had been toppled over and had smashed to pieces. Not only that, but several chairs and tables had been smashed.
"We're really making a mess of things, aren't we?" inquired Gajeel.
"Yeah…I'm not cleaning that up." noted Sakura.
"But there's a dustpan and mop right over there…" pointed out the iron dragonslayer.
"Really?" inquired the kunoichi, looking in the other direction.
Suddenly, she found herself being backhanded by Gajeel.
"Ouch! Darn it, Gajeel!" exclaimed Sakura. Was he really going to fight pragmatically like that? If so this battle wasn't going to be fun.
"What can I say? You're just so cute when you're angry…" murmured the iron dragonslayer.
"Really? You think so?" inquired the kunoichi.
Gajeel began to blush upon realizing what he had said.
"Hmm…this is making fighting you more difficult…" answered Sakura.
"Yeah…" nodded Gajeel.
"Maybe if we stop fighting, maybe then Laxus will release us…" questioned the kunoichi.
"But what about Magnolia Town?" inquired Gajeel.
"Well,, I don't think he can hold that spell forever…" answered Sakura. No magic spell lasted forever.
"True…" nodded the iron dragonslayer. It did look like it used up a lot of magic.
Back where Naruto and Bickslow are duking it out…
The evil toys and Naruto's summons lunged at each other, hoping that their side would achieve victory.
Already, Taurus was battling with the T-Rex, who apparently thought that he would a nice hunk of juicy meat.
And speaking of meat, Aries was currently fighting against the piggy bank. It was farm animal against farm animal, by the looks of it.
Sagittarius was currently in a shootout with the two Potato Heads. The question was who would get hit first.
The Gemini Twins were currently fighting against the aliens, who apparently wanted to take them to their spaceship so that they could experiment on them. Aliens and their crazy experiments.
Capricorn was facing off against the slinky dog, who was currently trying to strangle him. Already, his face was turning blue.
Aquarius was facing off against the space ranger. Unfortunately, it appeared that the spaceman had practiced diving underwater for space training.
Cancer was up against the cowgirl, and was trying to shave her bald so that she would die of a heart attack. Unfortunately, she was proving to be rather fast.
Virgo was up against the horse…but unfortunately, she did not appear to be a jockey.
And last but not least, Scorpius was up against the sheriff himself, who was shocked to discover that there was a scorpion in his boot.
On the other hand, he tended to have snakes in his boots all the time…and most of them weren't even venomous.
"To infinity and beyond!" yelled the space ranger.
"I'm going to send you into infinity and beyond." remarked Aquarius.
At that very moment, Sagittarius successfully hit the two Potato Heads and cooked them into French Fries. Bon appetite.
"Noooo!" screamed the male Potato Head as he was broiled by the flaming arrow.
"Well, at least we taste delicious." noted the female Potato Head as she passed away. Where was the ketchup when they needed it?
"That's two down…" noted Naruto. Now he wouldn't have to worry about them shooting him in the face.
Maybe he would get a reward considering that they robbed a bank last week and they worked for an evil scientist…who for some reason also happened to be a pig.
Suddenly, the green Martians began to attack Sagittarius. Apparently, they weren't happy that he had cooked their adoptive parents.
"You have ruined our lives! We are eternally vengeful!" screamed the aliens in unison.
And to make matters worse, the aliens had claws. A few seconds after they began to maul him, Sagittarius disappeared.
"You have ruined our lives! We are eternally vengeful!" bellowed the extraterrestrials. They were just like a broken record.
"Darn it! I was hoping that he could snipe some of the toys from a distance…but it looks like the Martians caught him…" thought Naruto.
Suddenly, the Gemini Twins picked up the aliens' guns and began to shoot at them, causing the aliens to be vaporized in a burst of red energy.
They then began to cheer…only for the evil space ranger to shoot the Gemini Twins and make them disappear in a burst of yellow light.
"Not them too!" exclaimed Naruto. It appeared that both sides were equally matched.
This was then followed by the piggy bank karate chopping Taurus.
"Hiya!" exclaimed the vicious pig. Unfortunately, he happened to have a black belt in karate.
He hit him directly on the head, and Taurus disappeared.
However, this had the side effect of making the normally calm Aries angry.
"I'll make you pay!" exclaimed the lamb lady.
Immediately, she headbutted the piggy bank, which killed him as it broke his skull. Apparently, nobody messed with Taurus in front of Aries and lived.
However, she was then attacked by the T-Rex, who screamed at the top of her lungs in the face.
She promptly disappeared. Apparently, she had been scared out of her wits and decided to leave. If only the T-Rex couldn't see her while she wasn't moving.
Fortunately, the T-Rex found his neck being snapped by Capricorn a few seconds later, who was fortunately no longer being choked by the slinky dog.
However, he found himself being attacked by the dog once more. Apparently, he should have paid more attention.
Like the other summons before him, Capricorn vanished in a burst of yellow energy.
Suddenly, the slinky dog found himself being crushed by Virgo. There weren't many of the demonic toys left now…and not many Celestial Spirits for that matter.
It looked like the fight was going to be over soon.
Immediately, Cancer cut the cowgirl's head off…which of course killed her. However, he found himself being shot to death by the sheriff shortly afterwards. Apparently, he wasn't too happy about that.
Curious, Naruto discovered that Virgo was serving the horse toy to him on a platter. It looked surprisingly delicious. Virgo offered him some silverware.
Unfortunately, before he could dig in, Virgo got shot in the face with a rocket by the space ranger, and she too disappeared.
Now it was down between the space ranger, the sheriff, Aquarius, and Scorpius.
Fortunately for Aquarius, she managed to drown the space ranger by filling his space helmet with water…and he didn't bother to take it off because he thought that Earth's atmosphere was toxic.
Unfortunately, she found herself being shot in the face shortly afterwards.
This of course made her boyfriend very angry…and he stung the sheriff in a heel…
…right when the sheriff shot him in the chest.
Unsurprisingly, this resulted in both of them being taken down for the count.
Naruto let out a sigh of relief. It looked like had successfully defeated all the evil toys…at the cost of his Celestial Spirits.
"Now i just hope that Pixar doesn't sue us…" said the chunin.
Suddenly, he found himself being turned into an action figure. Unfortunately, he had looked Bickslow directly in the eyes.
"Hahahaha!" laughed Bickslow.
"Strange things are happening to me…" noted Naruto as he began to shrink.
Elsewhere…
Out of nowhere, Ino found herself being transported into a battle arena.
"Huh? Where am I going?" inquired Ino.
As it turns out, she was going to fight…Droy.
"This is kind of awkward." noted the blonde. Who would have thought that she was going to have to face Choji's interdimensional partner?
Well, hopefully she would be able to put up a good fight.
However, she was going to have to wait until the countdown reaches zero…otherwise she was going to receive a painful electric shock.
But when the countdown reached zero, Droy wasn't paying attention. He was currently eating some chicken wings.
"Om nom nom nom!" exclaimed Droy.
Ino began to wonder if she should use this opportunity to perform a sneak attack…but she wanted to be honorable…much like Kimimaro was even when he was working with Orochimaru.
Oddly enough, Droy seemed unhappy about something.
"What's the matter?" inquired Ino.
"My best pal Jet got knocked out fighting Shikamaru…" explained Droy.
"That's too bad." answered the blonde. It was too bad that Laxus was making everyone fight each other.
If only there wasn't a Thunder Palace spell threatening to spell certain doom if they didn't participate in the tournament.
They had to defeat him fast.
Suddenly, Ino took one of the chicken wings using her super speed.
"Hey!" bellowed the plant mage.
"Sorry! I was feeling hungry!" apologized Ino.
"Alright, it's on!" exclaimed Droy.
Immediately, he used his vines to tangle up Ino.
"I'm not into this type of thing, thank you." said Ino as she pulled out a kunai to free herself.
Droy sweatdropped.
In retaliation, Ino began to charge straight towards Droy. Unfortunately for Droy, Ino was proving to be too fast for her.
"I wish I didn't skip gym class in school…" said Droy.
"Really? That explains a lot…" noted Ino.
Droy sweatdropped.
"Then again it is possible that you happen to be a sumo wrestler…" questioned the blonde.
As soon as Ino mentioned "sumo wrestler", Droy body slammed Ino.
"Ugh…I'm a pancake…" murmured Ino.
Fortunately, Ino wasn't too terribly injured…however, Droy was having trouble getting back up, since the attack had sucked the wind out of him.
"This battle might take a while…" noted the blonde.
Droy nodded. At least he appeared to have outlasted his pal Jet…he was going to have to try to avenge him.
Maybe if he was lucky he would get a shot at Laxus himself. But that seemed a bit unlikely. Besides, he was really strong.
Could Fairy Tail hope to defeat him?
Now let's see how Naruto's battle with Bickslow turns out…
Unfortunately, it appeared that Naruto had been turned into an action figure by Bickslow's Figure Eye magic.
Bickslow laughed in triumph. It appeared that Naruto was down for the count and that he had finally won.
Immediately, he began to blow a raspberry, exposing his guild mark in the process.
Though he did have to admit, Naruto proved to be a challenge. He used up quite a bit of magic in that encounter.
However, as he turned to leave, he noticed someone running straight towards him.
As it turned out, it was Naruto, who was still able to fight despite being in this transformed state.
Bickslow gasped in shock. This had never happened before.
"Thank goodness you didn't turn me into a Barbie doll…" noted Naruto. He would have died of embarrassment if that happened…though admittedly he did look good in a dress.
Immediately, Naruto began to attack Bickslow with a kunai, inflicting several stab wounds.
"Aargh!" screamed the doll user.
He then followed by using his arms to give Bickslow a karate chop.
He then finished him off with a Mini Rasengan, causing him to revert back to normal in the process.
"Two members of the Thunder God Tribe down, just one more to go, I suppose." noted Naruto.
Who was the last member of the Thunder God Tribe, again? He couldn't quite remember.
For now, he was going to look for Laxus. He had a score to settle with him…and he had already settled his score with Bickslow for helping to beat up his sensei.
However, at that very moment, Laxus showed up.
Immediately, he exposed his pecs in front of Naruto.
"What the-" exclaimed Naruto.
Unfortunately, the awesomeness of Laxus's pectorals was extremely deadly, and they began to shine brilliantly with sheer power.
"Aargh!" screamed the chunin at the top of his lungs as he was almost vaporized. This nearly killed Naruto, but it just rendered him heavily unconscious…and burnt.
He was really going to need to go to the hospital…or at the very least get Sakura to give him a hand.
Shortly afterwards, Laxus went to look at the unconscious Bickslow. He wasn't happy that he had lost too.
"Not another member of my tribe! It's a good thing I took him out when I did…but all I have left now is Freed…and of course Naraku." acknowledged Laxus. Perhaps his Thunder God Tribe weren't as strong as he thought.
Fortunately, his strange new eye ability had allowed him to see around the guild hall and let him know when one of his Thunder God Tribe comrades was being attacked…though unfortunately he had arrived too late to save Bickslow.
Maybe it was time for him to change tactics.
"I know! Why don't I start making the mages face themselves two on two? That should take care of them much more quickly…" noted Laxus.
It seemed as good of a plan as any.
Immediately, he decided to send for Freed.
"Can I help you?" inquired Freed.
"I need you to take on Lucy Heartfilia and her sidekick…I believe that they're the biggest threat to me at the moment." explained Laxus.
"You can count on me!" exclaimed the green-haired mage. Personally he wished that Laxus could settle his disputes with the Fairy Tail guild peacefully…but he decided not to flatout tell that to his boss. He might get angry with him.
Hopefully he could take on Lucy and Shikamaru and succeed where Evergreen and Bickslow had both failed. Who would have thought that Naruto could keep fighting as an action figure?
At least he wasn't a match for Laxus's pecs…those were just plain overkill.
Meanwhile…
Neji stormed into the traitorous ninja household, ready to save the Fairy Tail guild as well as his own clan.
Immediately, two traitorous Hyuga ninja barred him out.
"We're under strict orders not to let anyone in here…fortunately, Tsunade doesn't know what we're up to…or she'll have our heads on a platter." noted one of the Hyuga ninja.
"Yeah…why exactly are we betraying the Hyuga clan again?" inquired another Hyuga ninja.
"Let me through!" demanded Neji.
"Sorry, but we can't do that…even for a branch household member like you, Neji. Don't you want to quite being a servant and be more like your cousin?" asked the first Hyuga ninja traitor.
"I do know how that feels…but that doesn't mean you have to betray my uncle…" noted the teenage ninja.
"If you're not going to leave, then we're going to make you." said the second Hyuga ninja traitor.
Immediately, the two of them pulled out kunai and began to walk towards Neji.
Suddenly, he found his hands were sparkling.
"Huh?" inquired Neji. Was this static electricity?
Out of the blue, he began to shoot lightning out of his finger tips.
"Why do I feel like Emperor Palpatine all of a sudden?" inquired the ninja.
This proved to be surprisingly effective. Both of the ninja were knocked out.
"I wonder how I got those abilities…" noted Neji.
Well, he might as well test these new powers on the ninja that ever got into his path.
This proved to be rather effective, as not only were the lightning bolts dangerous to the attacking ninja, they couldn't punch him without getting shocked.
"Yeowch!" exclaimed an unfortunate traitorous ninja as his hand got zapped.
At this rate, he would be practically untouchable.
However, he realized that he had a problem. The more he used his powers, the more exhausted he became.
He needed to find a way to refuel himself, but how?
Suddenly, he remembered something…didn't Hinata replenish her strength by eating fire?
If so, he might be able to replenish his strength by looking for an electrical appliance.
Sure enough, there was a toaster nearby.
Immediately, he began to eat electricity from the toaster, a small smile appearing on his face as he replenished his energy.
Now ready to fight once again, he set out to save Fairy Tail.
"I bet they're probably counting on me…" thought Neji as he raced towards the interdimensional portal.
Bickslow has been defeated and Neji's on his way to help Fairy Tail. Of course, Freed's going to battle Lucy and Shikamaru as well, just I said…though maybe it's going to happen a bit later than I expected.
Oh well.
In the next chapter, Neji's going to face off against Naraku and Lucy's going to face Freed. Isn't that nice?
Word of advice: don't look at Laxus's pecs! They're incredibly deadly! Naruto almost died! Thank you and have an nice day.
