Reading, Titania and The Hunter

by itzgatt

This is a reading version (rewrite) of Titania and The Hunter. This was done by the permission of Master Attlon. Be sure to check out the original story.

7. Chapter 7

Been a while huh? I'm sorry for that but I've been busy with work and my private life, so updates for my stories are going to take longer but I did give you guys this one hell of a long ass chapter. So enjoy!

New arc and Naruto trying to get to Fairy tail so let's go… But first, we get to see one fight from the Naruto series.

Now after reading the reviews and after much consideration, I've decided to use the Naruto vs Sasuke fight. I know this will get mixed reactions because it'll show all the angst and stuff but it also shows how loyal Naruto is and how far he would go to bring back his friends. The fight shows their relationship well while also showing a bit of Naruto's life. Plus, it's an insanely awesome fight.

I hope you guys like it and I'm sorry for the people who wanted other fights.

By the way, for the people who want me to add Sasuke into the reading. No! I'm sorry but that won't ever happen. It's not that I don't like him but he won't bring much into the story because he would literally not care and he mostly keeps quiet to himself and will stay in the background. I won't add him so whoever wanted me to add him, I'm sorry to disappoint you. The same goes for characters like Hinata, Sakura, Jellal… They aren't needed in this story and would ruin some stuff. I've already decided which characters will be joining the reading room. I might change my mind on some but the ones I've mentioned here will never join the reading. Plus there is already plenty of characters there and I don't want to add characters that aren't needed.

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto/Fairy Tail. They are owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Hiro Mashima.

After having slept enough everyone was awake and eager to read about Naruto trying to get to Fairy Tail and reunite with Erza. Walking towards the center they, unfortunately, they did not see the book being there and the spot being vacant.

"Where'd the book go" Natsu asked impatiently wanting to read further about Naruto's adventure.

"Natsu, don't be so impatient" Lucy chided him like usually.

"Lucy is right, Natsu" Makarov piped in "Besides, there must be a reason for the book not be present like last time" he said glancing at both Minato and Kushina, reminding them of their arrival when the book wasn't there.

"That voice…" Levy nodded her head remembering that event.

"That's correct everyone!" The voice rang out throughout the room once again while startling some of them "Just like last time, there is a reason for the book not to be present at this moment. Everyone now will be able to see a special event from the Naruto in this room" he finished before a light shone down in the center revealing a book with a cover of Naruto charging at Sasuke with a Rasengan in his right hand while Sasuke had a Chidori in his left. The scenery behind them was The Valley of The End.

"What is this?" Gajeel asked seeing the completely new book and cover. He was hoping it was a fight since it would show him how powerful the blonde really is. Hearing stuff was impressive and all but he would rather want to see how powerful he really was for himself.

Naruto glanced at his mother and father knowing this battle would annoy them the most seeing as Sasuke said some stuff during the fight and was trying to kill him. He silently hoped something like this wouldn't have happened but now he couldn't stop it "This is my final fight against Sasuke" he said getting everyone to look at him.

"Yes!" Natsu shouted in glee "Let's go! let's go read it now!" he said excitedly wanting to see the fight.

Many people didn't blame him as they were also curious. Even the shinobi were curious too. While they had seen the destruction and the aftermath, they hadn't seen the fight itself. Kakashi himself was curious too having witnessed how they managed to reach all the way to where he was with the rest of the shinobi army and Sakura.

An opportunity like this was rare to come by.

"I'll read" Minato suggested wanting to see what his son was fully capable of. The book was handing to him and he opened it to read it.

Everyone was eagerly sitting in their seats, very much excited at the upcoming battle.

Uzumaki Naruto was standing on his predecessor's, Hashirama Senju's head at the Valley Of The End. Some distance away from him stood his rival and brother in all but blood, Uchiha Sasuke on his predecessor, Uchiha Madara's head. The scene split into two parts showing both of them before it turned into younger versions of them in the academy sparring grounds.

"Huh?" Naruto said confused as to why it suddenly showed that.

"Is it a flashback?" Levy asked.

"Oh man I wanted to see the fight" Natsu groaned, disappointed in not being able to see how it would turn out.

"Now wait just a second before you get sad" Minato said with a chuckle.

They both charged at each other before the screen flickered back to the valley but both Sasuke and Naruto started growing from 6-year-old to their 12-year-old selves with the curse mark and 1 tailed mode. Landing in the water they ran at each other again as they changed into their 16-year-old version before clashing their forearms against each other in their current version. The clash causing some water to rise around them.

"Whoa" Lucy said awed by what she had seen happening.

"That was…" Naruto started before Natsu finished for him.

"SO COOL" he finished while Naruto nodded but was confused as to why it showed it like that. Maybe it was just the book?

"GOO NA-CHAN!" Kushina cheered getting some to face fault at that. Elfman having joined her in cheering. Mira facepalmed at her brother's actions.

They drew back from each other with a slight boom sound before quickly charging against one another. Sasuke threw a kick that was blocked by Naruto before following up with a punch at his face that Naruto dodged. The blonde retaliated with a punch of his own that was ducked by the Uchiha who maneuvered himself into position and used Naruto's left hand to complete a hand sign that caught Naruto off guard prompting Sasuke to punch him in the face making him stagger backwards a bit and bend down to one knee.

Using the momentum to his advantage, Sasuke used Naruto's right hand to complete another hand sign before kicking the blonde in the face and using his body to propel himself into the air and blast some fireballs at Naruto that were dodged by the whiskered blonde by jumping backwards before sticking at a wall with his chakra.

"Your Taijutsu seemed a bit rough there Naruto…" Tsunade commented narrowing her eyes slightly. Sasuke had been pressuring her favorite blonde so far but he should have been able to keep up with him seeing as Naruto was trained in Frog kata at Mt. Myoboku. Which was a very deadly style in her opinion.

Naruto only rolled his eyes at her suspicious tone. He just needed a bit of time to come into terms with everything during that time.

"It's still fascinating to see people walking on water and walls" Makarov was both amused and awed by that.

"I wonder If there is any magic out there that lets you do the same" Levy thought out loud with others thinking the same.

Naruto tried to do his infamous shadow clone jutsu but a wired kunai whizzed to him stopping him from doing the hand sign. He didn't have much time before Sasuke was once again on him and engaged him in another bout of Taijutsu. Naruto tried once again to do his signature jutsu but failed because Sasuke pressured him with a flurry of punches that prompted him to block it.

"He's not letting you do your technique" Gajeel said sounding disappointed but also impressed with how that other guy was pressuring him and not giving any time.

"It was a bit annoying" Naruto whined remembering that moment.

"I did want to see those shadow clones in action" Gray muttered wanting to see the technique.

Sasuke saw the left hook coming from Naruto and moved his head to left before pushing off his arm near the elbow and shoving him away. He kicked him in his stomach causing him to drop to the water.

Naruto summoned a couple of clones while falling and launched them at his rival, who skillfully dodged and kicked them away before turning around and having no time to react because he was tackled. Both Naruto and Sasuke rolled around a bit with the Uchiha trying to get out the grasp he was in before he was violently thrown across and crashed against the wall making a small crater in it.

Some people winced slightly at that.

"You two are very serious about this" Mira said frowning and slightly unnerved. Weren't they supposed to be best friends? Sure, Natsu and Gray got into some fights but it never went this far.

"Sasuke needed to understand that he wasn't doing the right thing and I knew that words weren't just enough" Naruto said unfazed by the comment.

Erza nodded along having known what Sasuke wanted to do with the shinobi world when Naruto told her some bits last night. She agreed with Naruto on the matter. Mira understood what he meant but it was sad for her to see friends fighting to the death.

Unfortunately for Sasuke, he didn't have much time before he had to jump forwards to dodge Naruto who had attacked him with a Rasengan in both hands. A barrage of clones with Rasengans attacked him and tried to overwhelm him but he managed to dodge and attack them back making them stagger away slightly. Jumping up to avoid getting hit by another Rasengan, he did a split kick and gave the clone under him a vicious undercut but another clone came in flying at him trying to headbutt him but was blocked by Sasuke crossing his arms getting kicked away.

Sasuke took a glance at the clones and the original and Naruto instantly understood what he was going to do. He tried to evade it by jumping backwards but Sasuke had already aimed his arms at his sides, his rinnegan's gravity ability bringing them all towards him.

"Inferno Style: Honoikazuchi!"

Black flames came out in spikes from him, impaling the clones who dispelled while the original Naruto blocked his strike thanks to chakra cloak with his left hand but had his punch with his right hand blocked by Sasuke's right hand.

"Black flames" muttered Lucy in awe and shock. She glanced at her friend, Natsu who was looking at them curiously.

"That's Amaterasu, Sasuke said they're supposed to be as hot as the sun and burn for 7 days and nights" Naruto said casually. He didn't really think much about them since he could easily block them but if you couldn't counter it like he could then he would admit that they were very powerful.

"As hot as the Sun?"

"Burns for 7 days and nights?"

Some asked incredulously hearing that. Naruto just shrugged and nodded. Natsu was much more intrigued by these flames now along with many others.

"I wonder how much more powerful it'll make me and how it would taste" he thought out loudly while the guild pondered on that. The shinobi looked at him weirdly before remembering he was a dragonslayer.

"What's that golden stuff around your arm?" Elfman asked eyeing the chakra armor from Naruto's Rikudo Mode.

"That's my strongest form. It's my Kurama cloak together with my six paths sage mode. I named it Rikudo mode" the blonde answered while standing up "Here…" he trailed off and was encased by his black and golden cloak along with 3 small black orbs behind him/ showcasing him using his Rikudo mode. In a flash, everyone from the guild surrounded him inspecting his entire form and marveling at it.

The sensor mages alongside the shinobi who hadn't seen it yet were looking at it in fascination because it gave off a very powerful and rich sort of feeling. It was as if was something that was overwhelming them with how rich and powerful the energy coming from him felt

Erza turned her head away to hide her red cheeks seeing him in that form. He looked very… royal like and dashing in her eyes.

"Why aren't you using that form already then?" Cana asked him figuring if the other person was utilizing his best abilities then why wasn't Naruto already going into his strongest form.

"I will, just now" he replied turning off his Rikudou mode and sitting back down while Minato resumed his reading.

"Gwuah!" Naruto roared loudly, two big chakra arms sprouting off his back and forming a big fist together that descended down on Sasuke but the latter flipped backwards sliding across the ground slightly coming to a stop in slightly crouched position.

Naruto activated his strongest form encasing him in the black and golden cloak of his Rikudou Mode. 6 small black orbs manifested behind him which were his remaining Truth-Seeking orbs. He sent a chakra arm through the smoke at his rival who jumped into the air evading the attack but had to twist his body around to evade another chakra arm. Naruto pushed his left arm forward sending yet another chakra arm at Sasuke who swiftly dodged it while weaving through hand signs and sucked in some air before sending a big fireball towards the blonde.

"Reminds me of your roar attack" Lucy said looking at her pink-haired friend who huffed.

"Mine's still better" he muttered making most shake their heads in amusement.

The whiskered blonde threw his right-hand forwards catching the oncoming fireball towards him in his inflated chakra arm. He staggered back slightly while making a dent in his place because of the pressure before his eyes widened when Sasuke teleported behind him with a Chidori ready in his hand.

He looked back thinking 'His left eye is…' he immediately stopped thinking about the fireball but could only turn around before getting hit by the attack and blown away.

"So, his left eye gives him a speed boost?" Gajeel asked.

Naruto shrugged "Not sure if it does but he can teleport using that eye" he replied with a slight twitch of his eye. It was an annoying ability.

"Why are you complaining? You also have the ability to teleport or did you forget…" Kurama said while the blonde just ignored him, not capable of saying anything back. The fox let a triumphant smirk grace his face because of that.

"He is able to instantly swap places with anything he targets using that technique" Kakashi explained knowing they would think about him being able to teleport freely. It was useful but Sasuke needed to have something to switch with, otherwise it wouldn't work and he would need to use his raw speed or a Shunshin.

The others now nodded understanding the ability. Their thoughts also returned to that technique Naruto showed a couple of chapters ago when they mentioned speed. They wondered if it was the same kind of technique.

Naruto's face grimaced slightly while being blown away by the attack before his eyes widened again seeing Sasuke's Susanoo ready to fire some arrows at him. He wasted no time and sent his 3 of his remaining Truth-Seeking Orbs towards the oncoming arrows making them stop and drop into the water while also making the water rise up obscuring Naruto's view of Sasuke.

Tsunade facepalmed as every shinobi gave Naruto a look that clearly said that he a big idiot and did something really stupid "You didn't just do that…" she commented.

"What?" the targeted shinobi asked not understanding why they were looking at him like that.

Minato sighed "Naruto, that was a bad decision on your part."

Kakashi nodded agreeing with his sensei "You could have just dodged those arrows instead of blocking them with the orbs. They would have been very useful in the future and against any ninjutsu"

Naruto blinked hearing that. His face turned sheepish realizing they were right in that and what he did really was something dumb.

"Idiot" Kurama said shaking his head. How the hell did his counterpart not say anything when Naruto did that. Naruto flinched hearing that. "I still have 3 left" he muttered under his breath but his mother didn't seem to care as she said:

"And stop being so damn defensive and go on the offensive! Fight back, damn it!" Kushina snapped slightly at her son. She knew how powerful her son was and seeing him not doing anything was annoying while his opponent kept using his techniques well.

Naruto flinched once again hearing that and turned his head away from them not being able to refute her point. The guild just watched him getting sort of scolded by the others. They remembered hearing Naruto say what those orbs were capable of and to see him wasting 3 of his remaining 6 like that?

They understood that it was a very dumb decision made by the blonde. Erza patted him on the back feeling bad for him knowing how difficult it would be for him to fight against someone he considered a friend but she still agreed on what he did being dumb.

The water that had risen because of the arrows was blown away by Sasuke's complete Susanoo flying towards Naruto with 2 swords in his hands. Naruto wasted no time in using his own Kurama avatar and swatting away one of the swords with a tail. Both giant avatars drew their right fists back and punched forwards. Their fists meeting each other in the middle as waves of water rose up from the shockwave.

"Holy crap!" Gray said in absolute awe seeing the giant behemoths clashing against one another.

Everyone in the guild was absolutely awed by what they were seeing. Even Makarov who could make himself a giant was also flabbergasted.

He did not think he would be able to make himself as big as that. Heck, he would say that the dragons were smaller than that.

"This is so awesome" Natsu gushed in excitement. It only motivated him further to train so he could go against that.

Naruto chuckled seeing everyone's reaction. Kurama's chest swelled with pride for himself seeing the reactions. The other shinobi weren't affected by it seeing as they had seen this multiple times during the war.

The avatar's fist separated and the scene was changed into a flashback showing a younger version of Sasuke lying in his bare room before switching to the kitchen which was filled with cobwebs. Lastly it showed a lonely Sasuke staring off into the distance. Naruto staggered backwards after having viewed the lonely memories of his best friend.

Kurama's hand clashed against Sasuke swords before another flashback started. A lonely Naruto sat on the swing and the next scene was him staring into the distance like Sasuke.

The audience frowned seeing the lonely orphans suffering from no one being there to support them.

Mira had tears building up in her eyes "They both were just lonely" she said sniffing.

Juvia had some flashbacks to her own childhood being rejected because of her powers and looked at Naruto in understanding for what he went through.

"It's all better now" Naruto said grinning at everyone lifting up the mood somewhat.

The memory changed into showing the current Naruto standing on a pier where the younger Sasuke sat watching the water. On the hill above them, a younger Naruto was passing by while the current Sasuke stood on the road. They both looked at their younger version as young Naruto stared at young Sasuke somberly.

The younger Sasuke looked back and saw the young Naruto before both of them made a disgusted expression and looked away from one another.

"huh?"

"Why did you do that?" Happy asked the blonde.

Naruto grumbled something under his breath that the others couldn't hear. Erza shook her head at him.

"It was your 'manly' pride, wasn't it?" she asked with a small grin.

Naruto huffed "Don't say it like that. I wanted him to be my rival is all."

Cana rolled her eyes "Boys…" all the women nodded their heads in agreement while the men stared at them flatly.

Sasuke held the Kurama avatar in a front chokehold as another memory resurfaced. A younger Naruto holding Sasuke in the same position "How the hell do you think you understand? You've been alone from the start! It's because I have these ties that I feel this agony" Sasuke shouted taking a hold of his collar and kicked him away "How could you possibly understand what it feels like to lose all that?!"

Kushina scowled hearing that. Yes, it was true that Naruto didn't have anyone growing up and she hated herself for that but did people have to keep bringing that damn fact up!

Minato himself was frowning for the same reasons as his wife for what was said.

Kurama was thrown backwards by the Susanoo before jumping upwards to dodge a fireball coming from Sasuke's Susanoo. He evaded multiple more fireballs coming his way before slamming into the Susanoo while water went everywhere and sky started rumbling with lightning. The water cleared to show Kurama holding the swords back with his tails.

"What's the matter?" Are you just going to play defense?" Sasuke asked, the Susanoo arms wavering slightly from the struggle.

Kurama's avatar roared sending the purple avatar away before latching onto the foot with his tails and slamming him down on the water. He opened his mouth and a small bijuudama formed in front of him aimed down at the Susanoo.

Sasuke looked up at Naruto who stared back down at him. The uchiha's left hand twitched slightly getting encased by lightning. The sky rumbled with lightning once again before Sasuke's Kirin slammed down, biting on Kurama's neck freeing Sasuke. Kurama's hand reached up to the Susanoo who vanished from his spot along with the Kirin technique ending.

"He's using very powerful techniques" Erza said looking at Naruto pointedly. Kushina joined her and added.

"And you've only used Rasengan and Shadow clones. Why didn't you use that shuriken Rasengan or your kekkei genkai's?" she asked with narrowed eyes.

Naruto made a face at their complaining of him not utilizing his full powers "It's already in the past, so it doesn't matter now. Let it go mom" he said with a slightly annoyed tone.

Kushina sighed and looked away. He was right in that it was in the past but that didn't mean that she had to like it.

"That lightning attack was so cool" Natsu gushed in awe and excitement "Way better than anything Laxus has!"

The others rolled their eyes good-naturedly at him. Although they did agree with his last statement. They never had seen anything like that from him or maybe he was just hiding something from them.

Makarov chuckled. 'Laxus would like to see if he could make a technique like that' he thought fondly.

Sasuke stared down at the downed form of Kurama and Naruto and commented "If you keep stalling, you'll die.

Naruto slowly stood up within the avatar as he said "I don't wanna kill you!" a memory of Sasuke played in his mind.

"To me, you've become my closest friend" the younger Sasuke declared.

"You're trying to be alone again and I can't let that happen!" a small bijuudama formed once again as the blonde continued "Especially since we both know what that's like. That's why I can't let you…"

A Chidori formed on Sasuke's Susanoo's left hand before both of them charged at one another.

"Go there intentionally!" Naruto finished as they both clashed against one another with their techniques.

Everyone except Naruto held their breaths seeing the clash happen and waited to see who would come out on top.

A gigantic explosion rocked the valley and engulf both of them before the scene went white before both fighters were in some sort of white void looking at each other.

"Whoa, what is this place?" Lucy asked eyeing the beautiful looking place they were in.

Naruto shrugged. He never questioned stuff like that. It happened with Obito too but he never questioned it.

"But who won that clash" Gajeel grumbled in annoyance at all these interrupting moments. He just wanted to see the fight but it kept switching to these types of scenes.

"I think they canceled each other's attack out" Juvia theorized and looked at the whiskered jinchuriki who shrugged not wanting to spoil.

"Quit yapping" started Sasuke "We're both different from the two boys who fought here long ago. I know your heart and you mine."

"But you still wanna fight me?" Naruto countered.

"All the more, because it's you."

"I don't get why he would do that?" Natsu said frowning.

"It's because he wants to sever all the bonds he has before starting his plans" Erza explained getting him to understand but he held his frown still not liking friends trying to kill each other.

"I have to cut you out of my life" the black-haired teen declared.

"There's no guarantee that the world you'll rebuild after severing the past won't end up just like this one, you know" Naruto stated.

Makarov nodded "Indeed, there is no guarantee for this but the same could be said on your part, Naruto" he said looking at him. He was interested to know what he would get as an answer.

"I know that. But that's why we teach our ideals and ways to the next generation like ero-sennin did with me. We try our hardest to prevent situation's like Sasuke's by showing compassion and forgiving each other instead of continuing the cycle."

The old master grinned hearing that. That was a good answer in his books even if it was somewhat naïve to think only passing down ideals would be enough.

"That's exactly why I'll continue to watch over that world, so it doesn't."

"You're missing the point!" Naruto said in an irritated tone "The Five Villages are finally united!"

"Yeah. But that's only because they found a common enemy" Sasuke calmly replied. Images of Pain, Madara and Kaguya came to mind "To defeat the Akatsuki, Madara, and Kaguya, the five Villages had no choice but to discard their grudges and form an alliance in order to survive. But their mutual foes are now gone. Eventually, conflicts between each village will begin again."

"He doesn't have faith in them being able to forgive each other" Mira said frowning.

"It is not that farfetched seeing as we saw how doubtful they were in the story we were reading before the fight" Erza said reminding them of the war and casualties that took place before they realized their mistakes.

"They weren't united that time but I do see what you mean" Mira replied back nodding.

"So, this time, you're gonna become the enemy? And? What'll happen after you're gone?" Naruto asked

"That too" Mira commented.

"He's not immortal, is he?" Levy asked and got her answer in them shaking their heads "So, how would he go about fixing that issue?" she asked and thought it about herself. The jinchuriki just said that the book will tell you.

Sasuke wasn't fazed by his question "Finally, all the dots have connected and formed a straight line. I started with the Sharingan and now, I possess the power of the Rinnegan. Reincarnation, immortality… I have many options" he declared as Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly "I'll also be able to control things from the shadows, instead of through battle.

"Didn't you say he didn't have immortality?" Elfman asked in a confused tone.

"Um…" Naruto said trying to find the right words to explain it. Minato decided to answer for him.

"It's not necessarily true immortality he's talking about, but as Sasuke himself explained, thanks to the Rinnegan, he has many options to prolong his life by switching bodies, absorbing Chakra to prolong his life, are such examples he himself gave. It doesn't necessarily give you immortality but it is a tool that can facilitate as such" the former Hokage explained getting them to slowly nod after the slightly long explanation.

"These weird eyes have too much power" Cana complained while drinking from a bottle.

Everyone, even the shinobi easily agreed with her.

The whiskered blonde had an angry look on his face as he commented "You're planning to return to that hell, for the rest of your life, or rather for all eternity? While being hated by all?"

"To me, that's what a Hokage ought to be" Sasuke replied calmy getting an angry frown from the blonde. The scene returned to the fighting scene as both avatars separated. Both of avatar's partially destroyed from the clash. "That not even close enough to kill me."

"I told you! I'm not trying to kill you! I'm-"

"Enough" Sasuke cut off his speech and brought his hands into the ram hand sign. Nine gigantic orbs came floating towards Sasuke's back making Naruto look at him warily.

"I'm the strongest in this world right now. So, right now, right here will be my first step into the shadows" The Uchiha declared as chakra came shooting out of the orbs and into his Susanoo.

"This is bad…" Kurama said from within Naruto as they both watched the Susanoo get much bigger while merging lightning with the construct. "He's merging all the chakra that's been scattered into one and doing it unbelievably well too, almost unrivaled. He's just as good as Old Man Six Paths… Well, except he's doing the reverse thing. There's no Gedo Statue here, so he's making the Susanoo the receiving vessel. Something incredible is going to emerge" he said before warning him "Don't let down your guards, Naruto!"

The Susanoo was now, in some parts encased in lightning before a sword of lightning appeared in its left hand.

The guild was stunned by what they were seeing. They had thought that the previous version was a complete monster but this was just much worse than the previous one. Even the shinobi except for Naruto were surprised by it. Even if they had seen the technique multiple times but never had they seen it like that.

"What even were those giant orbs?" Gajeel asked incredulously. That thing looked deadly in his eyes. What the hell was this shinobi world to have these kinds of stuff. These constructs were big enough to casually step on dragons. And he would know seeing as he had seen and grown up with one.

"Captured tailed beasts" that answer surprised them as they were shown to be very powerful.

"But how you do still have Kurama then?" Erza questioned frowning slightly.

"Because he was split up and I had one half of his part" he explained. He hadn't really explained that to her yesterday. Only some parts of the fight.

"So, at that moment he had all of the tailed beast's chakra and his own powers?" Macao gulped and asked getting a nod.

"How the hell are you going to match against that with only half of Kurama?" Erza asked incredulously, saying what was on everyone's mind.

Naruto and Kurama shared a smirk as the jinchuriki pointed at the book getting everyone to look at Minato so he could read it faster. The reader merely chuckled and continued.

Crossing his fingers, Naruto summoned some Kurama clones to aid him.

"That jutsu again?" asked Sasuke "Naruto, that jutsu of yours symbolizes your weakness."

Naruto grimaced slightly remembering what was said to him that time. His parents sure wouldn't like what was coming and he hoped they wouldn't overreact too much. His mother was already complaining about him not using his other powers.

"That's right, it's a jutsu that covers up your loneliness!"

That comment got a reaction from everyone. Some of them frowned but most narrowed their eyes in anger.

Kushina glared at the stupid boy! How the hell was this boy the son of her gentle friend Mikoto? If she were alive, she would have gladly shown him to not open his mouth and spout of stuff like that! She took a deep breath to calm herself down. Just like her son had said, it was already in the past and he was atoning for his sins by helping everyone. Minato was thinking the same thing as his wife.

Naruto sighed seeing all the angry reactions. It was expected but they were probably going to hate how stubborn his friend was in his beliefs.

"He's an asshole" Natsu said scowling "Worse than Gajeel!"

Said dragon slayer growled at him wanting to retaliate but that Titania was giving them the stink eye and he didn't want to get beat up. So, he settled for a glare instead.

That caught Naruto off guard and gave Sasuke enough time to appear next to him before he was slammed by the lightning blade and soared downwards and landing harshly. The Kurama clones wasted no time and attacked him all at the but it was blocked by his weapon creating a shockwave.

2 clones held the Susanoo's arms tightly not letting him move while the third soared down from the air hit the lightning clad avatar with all his might with his tails. But it merely caused the head to wobble slightly. The clones roared and threw a punch with his left hand but it was destroyed by hitting the Susanoo.

"It isn't even doing anything unlike last time" Cana said a bit nervously.

They were at a stalemate before this but now the Kurama avatar couldn't damage him. It was amazing and unnerving how much more powerful he got because of the tailed beasts.

Sasuke brought his Susanoo's hands together causing the 2 clones heads to smack against each other harshly before jumping backwards and kicking away the clone behind him. A lightning weapon formed in his hand and the clone in front him, had his hand slashed by it and kicked in the gut sending him flying to a forest, destroying a big portion of it.

"Why that-" the Kurama clone was stopped by the lightning weapon getting thrown at his head before exploding because of the lightning strike.

"Whoa, that was brutal" Gray commented seeing how that clone died. The shinobi just shrugged while the others agreed with him.

The real Naruto and Kurama along with 2 clones charged against him while Sasuke easily defended himself from them. 2 bijudamas were fired at him but Sasuke merely swiped them away with his weapon letting them explode in the background.

Blocking the 2 incoming clones with his weapon, Sasuke kicked them away before getting pushed all the way through the clouds because of the real Kurama and Naruto. They engaged in another physical bout during that before Naruto was flying next to his 2 clones.

"You two went really high there" Kakashi commented seeing only clouds now.

"Good thing you did because if you were on land and used those techniques you are going to, then it wouldn't have ended well for the environment" Kurama added remembering how powerful those techniques were. Naruto nodded at both their comments, agreeing with them.

All 3 of them had a bijudama ready to fire while Sasuke had 3 lightning arrows ready to retaliate. Firing the attacks at the same time, the bijudama were sliced easily by the arrows and hit the clones and original creating a huge dome of lightning before revealing the partially destroyed Kurama's.

"They were sliced like nothing?!" Tsunade said in shock. She had expected the attacks to be at a stalemate but not this.

"It is quite terrifying thinking about how powerful those attacks are" Minato said remembering how easily the bijudama's could destroyed mountains. And here, they were sliced and destroyed like nothing.

"It's commendable that you and your clones didn't get that much damaged by that" Makarov said appraisingly. Everyone else agreed with that.

"You only hold a little piece of each Tailed Beast's chakra. You can't win against me now" Sasuke said before powering up "Nor this…" His chakra spiked up and a humongous arrow made by lightning appeared in front of him. It easily dwarfed Sasuke's Susanoo while lightning was crackling all around it.

Everyone bar Naruto and Kurama's eyes bugged out at the attack.

"What the hell is that thing" Cana shouted in shock, awe and fear. The damn attack looked like it was 3 times bigger than the enhanced Susanoo!

Lucy gulped "That thing is much worse than the 3 smaller arrows" she said slowly.

"Duh…" Happy said getting a ticked off Lucy to swipe at him.

"Now let's see you what you're going to do to counter that, Naruto" Makarov said, interested to know what will happen. The others leaning forward in excitement.

Naruto sweated slightly feeling how powerful it was "Not yet? Kurama!" he shouted as the scene showed a clone of Kurama sitting in a lotus position, amassing Chakra.

"I might have amassed too much, in fact" Kurama replied cheekily "It's everything that's available. Here it comes!" the clone dispelled as a beam of Chakra made its way upwards to Naruto and his clones.

Naruto felt a huge rush of power come to him "Here it comes!" he said while Sasuke watched his avatar start changing.

'I can feel it! How did he gain so much Nature Energy so suddenly?' Sasuke thought while extra arms sprouted off of Kurama and had 3 heads instead of 1 now.

"Let's do this!" Declared Kurama exhaling a breath.

"Yeah!" Naruto shouted spreading his arms out to his sides.

"Whoa!"

Everyone except Naruto and Kurama said in amazement seeing the transformation while the duo prided themselves in their power.

"That is so awesome" Natsu gushed again. This fight was seriously the best thing he had ever seen. It was pumping him up and making him feel so motivated to train and fight against stronger people.

"Indeed" Makarov said nodding his head. "It's interesting to hear that something like Nature Energy is capable of giving such a high boost" this energy wasn't really something he had heard about. He would think that it was Etharnano but it seemed to be a bit different from that. 'I wonder what would happen if he tried to use that mode in our world' he thought interested.

"It certainly looks much more powerful what with all those extra arms and heads" Mira commented.

"But how much more powerful are we talking about?" Levy wondered out loud turning towards the user who simply shrugged getting her to pout slightly.

Hey! He only used it for like 1 minute to use his attack. He didn't really think about how much stronger he would be in that form.

The bijuu raised his six arms and two gigantic Rasenshurikens started forming. One was a golden one while the other was a purple one.

"That looks deadly" Kakashi said seriously. He was astounded by how powerful his students had become. He had thought that the normal wind Rasenshuriken was a very powerful jutsu, but the ones he was seeing right now were just too much.

He smiled to himself. His cute not so little genin had grown up tremendously.

"So that's your strongest technique?" Gajeel asked him.

"At the moment, yep!" the whiskered jinchuriki replied having plans to learn and create new techniques.

"You finally decided to kill me huh?" Sasuke questioned seeing the attack.

Naruto let his arms fall to his sides replying "We've taken on a lot of responsibilities upon our shoulders…" a flashback of a young Sasuke beating him in a spar came to his mind "But you see, I…" another flashback came to mind of an older Sasuke saying he wants to fight him showing his surprised face. Naruto showed a determined face as he continued "I wanna fight, and win against you fair and square!" he declared

"But not against the current you!" the blonde said as he threw his attack forwards "You already know that too right, Sasuke?!"

Sasuke did not reply as he fired his own attack letting the arrow soar towards the incoming Rasenshurikens 'This fight with you right will be my last, Indra's Arrow… Currently the most powerful jutsu in my arsenal' he thought as the attacks were mere inches away from hitting each other. They finally hit each other instantly creating a huge dome of explosion while Sasuke continued his thoughts 'So just… die.' The dome expanded exponentially, parting away the clouds 'JUST BE GONE ALREADY' he shouted inwardly.

The dome exploded sending waves of water towards the statues of the legendary shinobi, destroying them in the process. Lightning was striking everywhere in the vicinity destroying forests and evaporating mountains. A huge shockwave was sent through the lands, even reaching Kakashi and Sakura along with the god tree.

A typhoon was shown in the sky while lightning continued to strike everywhere. The ground beneath was torched and destroyed.

Everyone was wide eyed and shocked seeing the damage and aftermath. No one had ever seen such destructive capabilities from anyone.

'So that's what caused that typhoon' Kakashi thought remembering seeing that from his position.

Natsu almost fainted from sheer excitement after seeing the results. As scary as it was, it was seriously awesome as hell seeing how powerful it was. Gajeel was thinking the same thing while others from the guild were dumbfounded by the power.

"My god!" exclaimed Lucy. She thought Natsu was destructive in his fights but this was over the top!

"I second that" Cana said in the same state.

Makarov sighed 'These two kids are so young and yet they're the strongest people I've ever seen' he thought seriously and in shock.

Naruto sheepishly laughed seeing how much they destroyed.

2 blurs were shown falling through the clouds towards the ground. One purple and the other gold. The Susanoo and Kurama chakra turned off as they both crashed on the ground.

Sasuke, with a roughed-up condition coughed and managed to get up with some effort looking towards Naruto who was in the same condition as him, having lost his jacket in the explosion. They were both breathing heavily "Damn it" Sasuke cursed standing up "You're not…"

Naruto crossed his fingers as he heard "Naruto!" Kurama said from within him "If my Nature Energy didn't make it to you in time, you'd have been blown away just now!" the bijuu complained slightly "And your chakra's already long been drain from-"

"Amataresau" Sasuke interrupted them both using his left eye. Black fire formed on Naruto's right hand but Naruto used Kurama's chakra cloak to shield himself before letting the fire drop to the ground and walking forwards.

"It can't burn through your chakra cloak?" Levy asked him getting a no.

"That's disappointing" Gajeel mumbled at the uselessness of that fire against Naruto.

"You both can't seem to use those stronger forms anymore after that attack" Mira commented "It will be interesting to see how you both will finish this now" she voiced out her thoughts with the others agreeing.

'Only a diversion, huh?' thought Sasuke 'I can't actually take him down with this…' he clapped his hands together continuing his thought's 'I need the Tailed Beasts-' his attempt was stopped by the pain in his eyes making him put his left hand on the left side of his face 'I've used too much chakra… can't maintain control!At this rate, I can't use my left eye's abilities either!'

Naruto rushed at him making Sasuke look up startled before he kicked him upwards while summoning 2 clones. Both of them kicked him upwards again as the real one appeared next to him ready to strike him as Sasuke turned towards the blonde with his Sharingan leaving a trace of red and punched him at the same time he got punched.

Summoning 3 shurikens, Sasuke added his lightning nature chakra into it and threw them at the 3 clones that were rushing at him. The attack caused them all to get electrified and stop in their spot.

"More fuinjusu" Levy said in interest.

"It looked a bit like my requip" Erza added, also interested.

Sasuke wasted no further time as he used Chidori to cut through 2 of the clones and pushed back the last one who held onto his arm stopping him from moving away. The real Naruto came up from behind and punched him, sending him skidding backwards.

Sasuke's Chidori suddenly vanished and he looked over to see Naruto making his way towards him with a Rasengan in his right hand. He braced himself but Naruto tripped and fell down on the ground with his Rasengan hitting the ground.

Everyone sweat dropped seeing the failing attack.

"What even caused you to trip there" Tsunade chuckled. Her tone slightly teasing.

Naruto didn't respond to the jab and merely gave back a small pout. He had fought a lot and was honestly tired. It wasn't his fault, dammit!

Everyone got a good laugh at his reaction but went back to see the action.

Naruto lifted his head to see Sasuke in front of him before he got a vicious kick in the face making him land on his back. Sasuke straddled him while Naruto put a hand on his face but the Uchiha gave him a hard punch in the face before it turned into an onslaught of punches at his face as blood splattered on the ground from the hits.

The lighthearted mood was gone seeing the beating Naruto was getting.

"This is becoming very gruesome" Lucy frowned seeing the beating as some others agreed.

"Come on, get up and get him back!" Natsu cheered feeling bad from seeing his new friend like that.

The other hearing the positive vibe from the pink haired mage quickly followed his example as they cheered on.

Sasuke went in for a punch but his collar was grabbed by Naruto halting his attack. Naruto gave him a headbutt getting a groan of pain before kicking him in his guts sending him back.

"Heh, nice" Gajeel smirked at the display with his fellow dragonslayer doing the same.

Some of the others sweat dropped at the reaction from the 2 dragonslayers.

Erza shook her head "Those two, always thinking about fighting" she said with smile.

Naruto slowly stood and wiped the blood off his face looking at the downed Sasuke who stared right back at him.

'He's still not-!'

The Uchiha stood up slowly "Give it up already…" he cried out and charged against the blonde. Naruto breathed in deeply before doing the same.

"Sasuke/Naruto!"

They both shouted and struck each other at the same time. Naruto punched him in the stomach while Sasuke gave him a left hook. The blonde retaliated with a punch to the ribs before suffering an uppercut making him spew out some blood. Sasuke also spewed out some blood when he was once again punched in the stomach.

Naruto blocked a right hook with his left arm but suffered a left hook making more bleed spew from his mouth to the ground. Naruto went on to punch and kick whenever he could with his friend doing the same to him all the while they let out some shouts and coughing up some blood.

Everyone let out a wince upon seeing the back and forth punching and kicking between them.

"Why do I have the feeling that you two are going to fight for a very long time" Erza asked him and almost facepalmed seeing the guilty look on his face. Kakashi chuckled knowing how they actually did fight for the entire day.

A memory surfaced showing a younger Naruto being blown back by a punch, courtesy of Sasuke. "Damn it!" the blonde cursed but before he could do anything, Sasuke was upon him with his fist over his face.

"Sasuke wins!" Iruka declared making the Uchiha get off the whiskered blonde. "All right, both, make the Unison Sign" the teacher instructed.

Naruto groaned in annoyance "Not even a nod of acknowledgment?! You jerk!"

The girl students in the background were looking at Sasuke in awe while a pink haired girl was looking on with a worried expression while Naruto continued insulting Sasuke.

"I've got to get this off my chest! You turd! No, you hard, drippy turd!

They all turned their heads towards the blonde jinchuriki and deadpanned at his insults.

"Turd? Really?" Gajeel asked, completely disappointed with the weak insults.

"Yeah, they're even worse than the idiot's over here" Gray added pointing his thumb towards Natsu who dumbly nodded before realizing what he was called.

"Oi, don't call me that, ice princess"

Thankfully before they could get into a brawl, Naruto defended himself "I was young back then ok?"

"You and Sasuke were already rivals back then?" Mira asked as she giggled finding some resemblance between Natsu, Gray, Naruto and Sasuke.

"He was really stuck up then" Naruto grumbled remembering those days.

"The girl looks like a relative of Natsu" Lucy joked slightly but sweat dropped when she was being ignored because the mentioned mage was too busy in a glaring contest again the ice mage.

"But what is the Unison Sign?" Erza asked looking at the shinobi.

"It's a Konoha tradition where after a spar between 2 leaf shinobi, you make the unison sign to symbolize friendship and to honor your opponent" Minato explained briefly.

She nodded her head 'Maybe I should try and get Natsu and Gray to do that to tone down their brawls and as a reminder to not go too far.'

Naruto was bopped on the head by Iruka "I told you that shinobi Kumite is a time-honored and sacred tradition! Now, make the Unison Sign now!" he instructed the blonde sternly who was pouting from his position on the ground.

Naruto and Sasuke started walking forwards and brought their hands to do the sign before the memory vanished and it showed an older version of the pink haired girl waking up, leaning against a small boulder.

"That's Sakura, right?" Erza asked. She remembered what Naruto had told her about her also being on their team.

"Yes" Tsunade answered but rose an eyebrow "How did you know that?"

Erza opened her mouth before promptly closing it. She was unaware of the smirks on Cana, Lucy, Mira and Kushina's face as she pondered what to say.

She couldn't say just that she and Naruto were basically talking in his room all night.

The others from the guild looked at her in confusion seeing her being stuck and in thought "Naruto told me this morning when we met in the hallway" she answered after some seconds. They were going to keep pestering her if she said the truth and it would get annoying very quick. Thankfully, Naruto came to her support as he gave a nod to her words.

"You're finally awake" a voice said making her look to her left to see her teacher staring at her.

"It's dusk already?" she asked a bit confused. The scene showed a humongous branch of a tree with small silhouettes hanging off of the branch. The sunset behind it indicating the time.

"What kind of tree is that?" Levy asked intrigued.

"That's the Shinju, the god tree" Naruto answered as he briefly explained some details about it.

"What's that hanging off the branch?" Macao questioned eyeing the small silhouettes.

"It's the shinobi who are stuck in an illusion showing their ideal world while, in reality you're stuck in that cocoon" Kakashi answered simply making them lean in interest "Every single living being was affected by the jutsu causing them to go into this state" he revealed much to their shock "We only managed to survive because of Sasuke's Susanoo. The only ones who could cancel the jutsu were Naruto and Sasuke who did exactly that after their fight."

The guild took it all in hearing something like that. "That sounds really bad" Makarov grimaced thinking about it. It was essentially a fake world you lived in.

Sakura looked at her teacher in slight panic "Where are Sasuke and Naruto?" she asked urgently.

"They're currently fighting their final battle… In oder to settle things for good" the answer caused her to lower her head in sadness as the scene changed back to the destroyed valley of the end where Naruto and Sasuke, who were both tired but still fighting against each other.

"I was right on the spot" Erza muttered while Naruto chuckled to himself slightly.

"You two fought for an entire day?" Natsu asked getting a nod. "How did you not get hungry doing that?" the mage asked getting most of the room to facepalm.

'That's your priority?' all the others thought at the same time while Naruto just laughed hearing the question. He rather liked Natsu. The mage reminded him of himself.

Both were weakly dodging and hitting each other in very slow pace since they were tired. They both struck each other with a weak hit as they both panted. They slouched over on their knees as Naruto's headband loosened and fell on the ground.

"Hang in there!" Kurama said towards the panting blonde "It's not much but I've finished infusing some more chakra-" he stopped seeing Sasuke absorbing the chakra out of Naruto thanks to his Rinnegan.

"Smart" Levy complimented getting a scoff from Gajeel.

"More like a weak move, he should just continue without resorting to that" he grumbled getting an eyeroll from the bluenette

Naruto groaned weakly, his body falling down further "This is one of the abilities of the Rinnegan. As someone who possesses the eyes of the Uchiha, my victory is inevitable" Sasuke declared eyeing the downed form of his friend.

Standing up, he gripped his left hand which got encased in his Chidori technique 'Now, now, I can finally be alone!' the raven-haired boy thought

Kushina gripped the hem of her dress in worry seeing the scene play out. It was very unnerving for her seeing her son in this kind of position. But the reassuring smile on her son's face made her feel slightly better.

"Farewell… my one and only friend" Sasuke cried out going for the strike against him. Naruto from his position slightly narrowed his right before looking up at the Uchiha. Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly deactivated as Naruto brought his left hand forward and gave him a vicious punch to his chin that sent him hurling towards the wall and make a crater twice the size of the Uchiha.

"That's what I mean" Gajeel said looking at Levy before sending Naruto a respectful nod for the powerful punch.

"That was quite a punch" Elfman complimented Naruto. And to think it was without any of those chakra energy boost.

Tsunade nodded, agreeing with the statement. It made her wonder how much powerful it would be if it was encased by the nine tails' chakra combined with his six paths chakra.

"That was a great counter!" Kurama grinned "You didn't miss the fact that his Visual Prowess is weakened!"

Naruto picked up his headband looking at Sasuke who came out of the crater "Over and over and…" Sasuke slowly stood up as his voice started getting louder and more emotional "Over and over and over and over and over again!" he punched the wall repeatedly in rage as he continued "Just give up and let me cut you down!" he screamed in frustration.

"There was a lot of mixed emotions in that shout" Makarov commented. This fight was unlike anything he'd seen before.

"They did fight for the entire day" Gray supplied looking at his master who shook his head.

"There is much more to that line that him just being tired because it's a long fight" the old man answered somewhat cryptically while Naruto nodded, knowing what he was talking about.

Naruto panted slightly "Can't do that" he looked up with a small smile on his face "Cuz I'm you one and only friend!"

"The emotions in this fight are incredible" everyone nodded in agreement with Mira statement.

Sasuke gritted his teeth hearing his own words being repeated to him before taking a deep breath as his left hand was once again encased in lightning indicating him using Chidori.

"I figured as much. He's assimilated the chakra I created and infused for you, and made it his own" the giant fox commented eyeing the attack which was now mixed with black fire "And now Flame control. He intends to finish this with one last blast."

"That black fire again"

"But you can't use that armor anymore to block it"

The guild looks towards the blonde for answers who pointed towards the book as he was getting slightly irritated by having to explain so much stuff.

"Listen, I'm giving what remains of my own chakra" Naruto turned around to look at his friend "Once I do that, it's gonna put me to sleep. Don't unleash your jutsu until the last minute, so he doesn't absorb more chakra from you" Kurama advised him before continuing "Well, not that he can use his newly awakened Rinnegan to absorb chakra while shutting out his own jutsu-" he stopped seeing the blonde giving him a smile while lifting left hand for a fist bump.

Kurama's face turned into a surprised one before smirking and extending his own giant paw towards his friend's and partner's bumping them against each other. He watched as Naruto walked off. A memory started playing "Who are you to be so confident when you couldn't even save Sasuke?"

Naruto grinned looking right at the giant slitted eye "I've never given up. Once you give up, it's over. I will save Sasuke, and I'm coming after all that hate inside you too, someday!" he declared with his grin still on his face.

The memory vanished showing Kurama smiling watching Naruto walk off 'You really are a special one to me, kid'his eyes slowly started closing as he started to go to sleep 'So, I bet Sasuke thinks so too…'

Naruto smiled hearing Kurama's words while Kurama did the same inside the seal. They were both glad for the events that happened and that they were in very good terms with each other.

"You two have a very beautiful bond" Mira smiled at the interaction between the jinchuriki and the tailed beast.

"Yeah" the jinchuriki answered smiling himself. The dragonslayers were once again reminded of their pseudo fathers as they remembered those fun memories.

The two rivals eyed each other for a couple seconds before jumping forwards. Naruto put out his right hand to start his Rasengan as astral hands of all the people he bonded with started helping him in creating the jutsu.

"Is that possible?" Cana asked a bit awed by that getting a nod. The guild smiled at the way it was happening.

Kushina, Minato, Kakashi and Tsunade all smiled seeing their own hands helping Naruto. They would somehow always be there for him even if it wasn't physically.

"But will that be enough against that enhanced attack?" Gajeel asked raising an eyebrow.

"His attack has the weight of the bonds Naruto made throughout his life. It is more than enough" Makarov answered him.

They neared each other showing their younger versions growing up till their current versions once again before the jutsu clashed against one another. Another dome appeared and started expanding, destroying the vicinity. The area was engulfed in white obscuring the two clashing rivals.

Most of the room leaned forward in anticipation to see who was going to come out victorious between the two rivals.

The scene suddenly showed the moon indicating it was nighttime. "Ugh…" Sasuke groaned in pain and discomfort waking up slowly.

"Awake now, huh…"

"Ouch.."

The scene showed both of them laying down next to each other. Sasuke shifting slightly in discomfort and pain while Naruto just stared at the sky. Both of them were bruised and battered as they couldn't move from their spot.

"Another draw?!" Juvia was surprised having thought it would be the last attack. They wouldn't continue fighting after, would they?

"Seems like it" Levy said next to her, eager to know what's going to happen next.

Sasuke looked surprised seeing their condition before his attention was brought back to Naruto "It's just as you see it…" Naruto said calmy "If we move too much, we'll bleed to death."

"Why are they not showing your entire bodies?" Lucy questioned. They only showed their faces and some their chests and it unnerved her for some reason.

Naruto just shrugged his shoulders. He knew what had happened but the book seemed to want to keep it a secret for a while, so he didn't want to say anything.

"I have a bad feeling about this" Wakaba muttered to himself and his friend Macao who nodded.

"Just look at you…" Sasuke started looking up "Why do you insist on getting in my way?" he continued and questioned. He looked back towards his blonde friend "I fell into into the darkness and gained powers to cut everything my way. It didn't matter who it was. I tried to cut the ties I had with everyone around me, but you never thought of cutting ties with me."

A memory came to his mind "I'm the only one that'll accept that hate in you!" Naruto declared with a smile. Sasuke continued after the memory, "No matter what happened. Why do you care so much about me!?" he asked desperately.

"Oh" Cana said interest "Something you want to tell us, Naruto?" she asked teasingly. She couldn't help it as it was just too easy.

Some of the guild members chuckled at the joke with others like Natsu and Gajeel laughing loudly.

Said boy just groaned in annoyance at the stupid insinuation while Tsunade, Kushina and Erza all looked at her in annoyance for even joking like that but the brown-haired girl just laughed it off and continued drinking.

"Heh, look at you now, talking so much now just cuz you can't move" the jinchuriki joked slightly. "Don't you already know?" the blonde asked as if what was asked of him was a stupid question.

"Shut up and just answer me!" Sasuke retorted in annoyance at his reply.

Naruto looked over at him "That's because you're my friend" he answered simply.

Makarov chuckled "Such a simple answer."

"You said that already to him and he didn't get it" Mira put a finger on her chin adopting a cute thinking expression "How are you going to even convince him?" she thought to herself loudly getting some agreements from others.

"You already said that once. What does that mean to you?" Sasuke questioned after some seconds of silence.

Naruto breathed in for a second before exhaling "If you want me to explain it, I'm not really sure how to put it…" he slowly started smiling to himself "It's just that when I hear you blabbering about carrying everything on your shoulders, I-I can kinda feel the pain too."

Sasuke right eye widened in surprise hearing that response.

Everyone nodded in agreement with the explanation rather just saying you're my friend. They all agreed that it hurt to see their friends and precious people shoulder everything on their own rather.

"Well said" Minato complimented his son getting a beaming smile from him. Naruto felt really good seeing the proud looks on his teacher's, parent's and pseudo grandmother's face.

Kurama stayed silent but was happy for Naruto even if the Uchiha had done a lot of bad things against Naruto.

"It really hurts" Naruto continued not looking at Sasuke "There's no way I can just ignore it!" Naruto looked to his right to see his friend looking down and laughed to himself "Well, today I'm hurting all over so there isn't much I can do" he joked with a big grin on his looking at sky.

Erza nodded "You want to help them when they stumble and pick them back up while he or she does the same to you. You want to laugh, cry and do so much more with friends and loved ones" she looked over at Naruto with a smile "That's essentially what you want with Sasuke and don't want to see him suffer alone like that, right?" she asked remembering Naruto telling her that Sasuke would always like to stay alone.

"Yeah" he answered with a grin of his own.

Sasuke had a slightly somber expression on his face as he went into his thoughts and memories 'Naruto, I knew that in the past you were always alone. Like me, the last Uchiha left, you were cast out' memories of Naruto being lonely and him being lonely crossed his mind 'You acted like an idiot on purpose so that people would scold you because you wanted them to pay attention to you. At first, I thought you weren't considering at all. That you were just a weakling playing around'

Memories of Naruto pranking and taunting the villagers came to his mind while the villagers shouted at the boy in annoyance and anger.

"When you're lonely, you crave any kind of acknowledgment you can get" Juvia said in a sad tone remembering herself getting shunned for her powers and her trying her best to find ways to stop it.

The others looked at her in concern having not seen a side like this from the normally lovestruck girl. Gray put a hander on her shoulder showing her a smile making her instantly flush red from the gesture.

'But, after seeing you do stupid things and get scolded ever time. For some reason, I started to keep my eyes on you. That time I also realized that you your weakness had started to sink into me too' a picture of his family came into his mind 'I couldn't stop paying attention to you. When I saw you doing everything you could to create bonds with others, it reminded me of my family' a memory of a younger Sasuke smiled behind a younger Naruto 'And for some reason I felt relieved' his smiled turned into a downcast expression 'however I also thought it was a weakness.'

Memories of him training hard came to his mind 'I trained hard to escape from that weakness and to become stronger than my brother to take revenge on him' memories of him together with team 7 came to his mind 'But then you ended up in the same team as me and I got reminded of my family again. After clearing missions with you who wanted to become Hokage, I could feel clearly that we were both getting stronger and I realized that I wanted to fight with you' the image changed into one of team 7 back's 'I started to see team 7 somewhat like my family.'

Kakashi agreed with the statement of his student. He had been the same as he only had contact with Gai and sometimes with other Jonins but Team 7 really became his family. And he was really glad it happened.

"Aww, you guys took away his loneliness" Mira smiled at the sweet bond they had created.

The image focused on Naruto 'And that's why when I saw you suffer, I would feel pain too'

Naruto smiled hearing his thoughts. 'I knew he thought the same' the boy thought to himself.

'When I understand your pain, for the first time I considered you my comrade. But at the same time, I couldn't just let you become stronger. When I saw how strong you had become I-

A memory of Naruto saying something came back to him "I also knew that you were always alone too. I was relieved to see someone else like me and I felt so happy, I kinda wanted to talk to you right away" Naruto in the memory said to him. "But I didn't, cos I was envious of your skills and I decided you'd be my rival! You became my goal. For the first time, I had a bond" memories of their meetings after he deserted came to his mind "During our mission as team 7, I kept going after you cos I wanted to become strong and cool like you."

Kushina and Minato both frowned hearing that was his first bond. It made both of them mad to know that no one even bothered to try and form a bond with him. Not even the third who had promised to take complete responsibility for Naruto.

Sasuke disagreed with that thinking 'It's the opposite, I was the one envious of you. You had a kind of strength I was missing' an image of his elder brother standing aside Naruto came to his mind 'You always walked in front of me, much like my brother used to and today too' his thoughts came to an end as both of them fell asleep.

Naruto was a bit surprised hearing Sasuke's thoughts. 'I did not expect that' even Kurama was surprised at what the Uchiha had thought of Naruto.

"From seeing the emotions in the fight, you could tell you two had a good bond but this makes it look much more…" Erza said and stopped to think about it.

"A much stronger bond, like brothers instead of friends" Tsunade supplied knowing how a bond with a sibling feels like. The redhead nodded in agreement.

Both of them slowly opened their eyes feeling the sun shining down on them "Ugh.." Naruto groaned in discomfort "Where are we?" his face looked slightly panicked all of a sudden "Don't tell me it's heaven...?!"

"Looks like we've slept until morning. Once again you're still alive" Sasuke answered.

"Gh shit! I still can't move!" Naruto complained "I wanted to punch you until you opened your eyes once and for all!"

"You should care more about yourself when you're in such a condition, Na-chan" Kushina scolded her son. Her son sweated slightly fearing his mother's wrath and nodded his head getting a satisfied smile from the redhead.

Minato inwardly chuckled to himself seeing the scene.

The guild looked between Erza and Kushina once again and shivered 'There's 2 of them' they all thought at the same time.

"Hehehehehe…" Sasuke started laughing quietly before it turned-out full-blown making Naruto look completely confused at him.

"W-what?!"

"Do you still want to fight in your condition…?" Sasuke asked with an amused smile.

"Of course! I'm not giving up-

"I'll admit it" Sasuke cut him off smiling while Naruto looked on in interest "I…lost."

"Wow, that must have taken a lot for him to admit it" Erza blinked in slight surprise at the admittance.

"Yes, from what we have seen of his personality, it is definitely something big" Makarov added in agreement.

Both Kakashi and Naruto nodded in agreement with the statement. "But it's not about winning the fight" Naruto added and didn't have to explain it to them as they knew what he was talking about.

"Idiot!" Naruto shouted "There aren't winners or losers in this fight! I'm just trying to punch reason into a friend that won't listen to me! The real fight is after that!"

"Hey Naruto" Sasuke calmy interrupted.

"Huh?"

"I finally acknowledged you. If I die now, the destiny that according to the hermit has bound us so far will end too."

"Destiny?"

"Hermit?"

The guild asked confused looking towards the shinobi for answers.

Naruto had an annoyed expression but nonetheless explained some details of the parts about Indra and Ashura's part in their life to the guild.

"So, you two are essentially Indra and Ashura reincarnated making you both technically spiritual brothers and it's been a lifelong dispute between them causing generations of fights among them?" Erza summed it up and asked getting a nod. She slumped slightly "There is so much to this bond between you two than just childhood rivals or friends"

"I did not expect the reincarnation part" Levy added. She didn't even know that something like that was possible.

"It is certainly something very interesting but you said the cycle was over, right?" Makarov asked getting confirmation from the blonde. "So, it was a matter of acceptance between you two and none of the previous ones had done that if it ended with you two" he muttered to himself.

"Yes, the previous one was Madara and old man first who killed Madara but in reality, Madara had survived the battme causing it to just continue until both of them died and me and Sasuke became the next ones and even if Madara had really died then the cycle would of continued until-"

"Mah, Naruto, I think they understand" Kakashi interrupted with a smile making Naruto look around to see only Makarov, Levy, Erza and Mira listening while the others were out of the loop making him sheepishly laugh. He was just reciting what the Rikudo sage and even he hadn't found it that interesting.

"That would be revolutionary too. You can just dissolve the Eternal Tsukuyomi after I die by transplanting my left eye into Kakashi" Sasuke said not seeing Naruto get angry by the statement "I… wanted to deal with you by myself."

Erza frowned "He should not think that dying would the best case. He could help the village or the world with how powerful he is"

"He is actually travelling the world and helping everywhere he can right now" Kakashi informed them making her give a nod in satisfaction.

"You…" Naruto said in anger "You can't deal with anything when you're dead! Live and help me out instead of dying!" Sasuke looked over towards him to see a determined expression on the blonde's face "My dream is for all the shinobis to work together! And this includes you too!" he declared.

"Well, even if it sits well with you, what about the rest?"

"Urgh! Stop nitpicking will you! I swear I'll beat you up!"

Gray sweat dropped "You know that just saying you'll beat him up won't solve it, right" he said to looking towards Naruto.

Makarov facepalmed "You do the same thing with Natsu" he called him out getting the boy to blush.

"That's different because it's fire breath" the ice mage retorted but they all ignored him while Natsu glared at him from his spot.

Kakashi gave the old master a sympathetic look knowing how he feels since he experienced it with a younger Naruto and Sasuke.

"I might come for your ass again, you know" The Uchiha argued.

"Then I'll stop you again!" Naruto replied simply "Plus I don't think you'd do it anyway!"

"How… are you so sure?" the black-haired boy asked in doubt.

"Don't make me repeat myself again!" Naruto looked annoyed "You still don't understand, do you! Huh, who knew you'd be that stupid" he poked fun but stopped when he saw tears running down from Sasuke's eyes at his speech.

"Shut up, stupid" Sasuke said smiling as the scene showing both their dominant arms having been destroyed from the clash. Behind them, their predecessor's hand's forming the unison sign.

"What?!" Erza said in shock. She looked over towards Naruto and took in his right hand in hers"But how do you still have your-"

"Calm down, Erza" Naruto put his hand on top of hers stopping her slight panic. "This is a prosthetic which works just as fine as a normal hand, so I'm fine" he soothed her and she looked around to see everyone looking at her in amusement.

She blushed in embarrassment from her outburst and wanted to cough into her hand to regain some composure but it was currently being held by Naruto making her blush even harder. Naruto cheeks also went red seeing that and let her hands go while glaring at the snickering mages and his teacher.

Mira decided to save her friends from more embarrassment decided to point something out "The statue's hands are doing the unison sign" the others looked over to the screen and saw it.

Levy hummed "I didn't pick that up at first" she commented having seen the hands' part at first "It's actually quite symbolic" she finished with a smile.

Minato closed the book after having read everything in it. It started fading in a shower of lights in front of them.

"That was the most awesome fight I've ever seen" Natsu bounced around in his seat, still high on excitement from the fight.

"It was not just a normal fight, that's for sure" Gray agreed with his rival.

Afterwards, it delved into them thinking about the fight they saw while some went to the bathroom or went to get something to eat.

Minato meanwhile, saw another book appear in front of them. Picking it up, he saw the title and picture making him smile "Back to the main story then" he said attracting everyone's attention.

"Oh finally" exclaimed Kushina. She was proud of her son's powers and his achievements but she didn't like seeing him get hurt. It was better to see how the other version of her son would get to the guild and reunite with Erza.

They waited till everyone got from whatever they were doing before they started to continue reading.

Chapter 7: Get Strong or Give Up!

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January 15, X777: Hargeon Port

The sun rose upon the port town as everybody started to do their daily work. Civilians all walked around the market to purchase imported fruit and fish. Children were running around, chasing each other. And a few men were throwing papers to each building they could find.

A middle-aged man with black and white hair walked out of his store. He raised his hand to block out the sunlight that was pounding down on his adjusting eyes. The old man grumbled and yawned as he bent down and picked up the newspaper. He walked back into the store and warehouse he owned. He sat near the counter of the shop and flicked the paper open. He skimmed through the first few articles to find something interesting. And then noticed what was written on the front page.

"I would have thought we'd see Naruto or Erza but this is someone completely new" Cana commented.

"I have a feeling that it is someone Naruto met" Mira suggested.

Heartfilia Konzern Takes Big Bunce Down!

As we all know, for some time the big corporate Heartfilia powerhouse has been hounding the Bunce organization for their business across the countries. Wishing to join businesses and expand the rail tracks and increase their reach. But the Bunce group has held out, wanting to outdo their competitors in this field. But today, the Heartfilia Konzern has bought out the Bunce Corporation and taken control of the entire east half of the rails in Fiore. Ensuring that the Konzern will expand and grow to become even more profitable than it already was.

Everyone in the guild automatically turned their heads to look at Lucy who gave them a blank stare in return.

The shinobi sat there confused at the sudden action until Erza decided to elaborate "Lucy last name is Heartfilia" the shinobi all made an "ah" noise in understanding.

"But I'm not rich and don't have any of my family's money" Lucy sulked slightly remembering her having to pay rent when their jobs reward gets messed up many times.

But in the wake of this buy out, the Bunce Corporation has gone bankrupt. One of the oldest and wealthiest families in Fiore is now destitute. What the Bunces' are most renowned for is their artifact collecting through the ages. Their most famous purchase was the auction of 500 Million-

"Pfft, more fat cats having to live with the rest of us in the gutter. That ain't news. I swear, all of these rich guys are going to be joining us in the bowels of society soon enough." He spoke loudly so his assistant in the back could hear him as he lifted crates around. The older man waited for a reply but did not receive one.

"He's just a grumpy old man who always complains like jiji" Natsu joked getting some laughs while Makarov narrowed his eyes at him.

"It's only because you idiots can't control yourself" the master shot back as some looked apologetic but Natsu wasn't fazed by it.

"See, you're doing it again"

"Annoying brat!"

The others just laughed along while Kakashi sweat dropped 'It's like watching some other versions of Naruto and Tsunade-sama arguing childishly' he thought amused at the scene.

He looked back to the paper in hopes of finding something good. "Hmph, maybe there is something in the sports or funnies." He continued to rifle through the paper to try and find something interesting. He reached the middle of the newspaper and found the magical announcement.

He furrowed his eyes at the bad news he was reading. The articles over the last few weeks had all been about the same horrible rumor that was passing all over Fiore. That several dark guilds were starting to team up and work together. They had started to take control of weaker guilds and were building some kind of team amongst themselves. The man knew what that meant. That there was a dark cloud boding over the peaceful state Fiore was in. Causing a wave of fear and angst among most of the wizards and civilians in Fiore.

He then looked down at the following article which was written in a smaller box but was obviously just as important as the preceding note.

Damnation Sighted! Fear Strikes The Hearts Of The Peaceful People!

"There it is again"

"Damnation, it seems to be a dark guild" Erza theorized while she and everyone hoped they were wrong.

'There is already the ballam alliance and you add this supposed fearsome dark guild with it' Makarov frowned not liking the situation for their counterpart. He had a bad feeling about this "Damnation".

As most of the citizens of Fiore know, there is a rumor spreading around that the Dark Guilds are joining forces. Whether this is true or just an idea spread around by a joker, we cannot be certain. But we do know that a true threat has reared its ugly head into our eyes.

Damnation.

For those who don't know what Damnation is you must have been living under a rock for too long. Damnation is infamous across the entire nation and beyond as one of the oldest, largest, and most feared independent guilds in history.

They have gathered many followers and have trained to make each of their members stronger than most mages. And they have been watched and hunted by many guilds and mages for several decades. But none have succeeded, or returned.

At the announcement of this rumor, they have sprung into action. Several small groups traveled around the country in search of these guilds. To hope and reinforce their belief. That they will protect this country. By any way possible.

If you see any member carrying this insignia, please contact the closest Rune Knight Faction or Magic Council attention building.

Makarov sighed in tiredness. 'It looks like Erza was right in it being a dark guild' This was not something that was good as it was being portrayed as something very, very bad.

"Looks like you were right, Erza" the barmaid of Fairy Tail frowned not liking this guild for what they were doing.

"This is giving me a bad feeling" Kushina said in worry, she hoped that her son won't come in contact or across them.

The man looked below the emergency warning article at the emblem of the independent terrorist faction. A picture of a fist clenched within a burning fire. Signifying that they would do anything for their cause, even if they burned in the fires of hell.

"Man, it is scary to think that there are people out there like that. That can just kill and do what they want because they think it is righteous. Hey kid, make sure you stay away from those guys, okay?" The man barely looked over his shoulder to address his young charge that still paid no attention to him. Only picking up large crates that would crush most kids his size. The man growled in anger as he was still ignored. He mashed his teeth as a large tick mark grew on his head.

"So, Naruto is working for him" Levy nodded in agreement with what the boy was doing.

"Yes, he would certainly need money for the train and food on his way" Erza added.

"Why is your counterpart ignoring the poor man though" Wakaba raised an eyebrow and asked to himself.

"You know, I try to be nice and help him. Give him food, clothes and a place to sleep until his time to go. So you would think" he brought his hands down and crushed the newspaper as he turned around and yelled "THAT WHEN I AM TALKING TO THE UNGRATEFUL LITTLE BASTARD THAT HE WOULD ANSWER ME!"

The whiskered boy roughly dropped the crate and matched the man's angry glare with his own. "WELL WHY THE HELL AM I DOING THE JOB OF THE OWNER?"

"Cause I'm on my break, gaki! I need a break to take the stress off of my back!"

"Your back? You're not that old, you lazy bastard! You're just pushing all of the work on me so you can sit on your fat ass all day and read the boring paper!" Naruto stuck out his tongue and blew a raspberry at the elder man. "You're so stupid, Ojii-San!" He continued his mocking until the man appeared in front of him and kept his head firmly stuck between his knuckles.

"And there is your answer, Kakashi-san" Gray replied referring to Kakashi's previous question.

"As mature as always" Tsunade said sarcastically knowing his rebellious nature.

Naruto huffed "Says the person who always drinks on her job and throws stuff at me when I come to visit" he replied cheekily with a smirk.

The Senju got a tick mark on her head hearing that "That's because you always come flying through the window like Jiraiya and annoy me" she retorted while ignoring the part of her drinking on her job.

Kakashi sweat dropped while the others watched their childish argument 'She's always like this with Jiraiya-sama and Naruto' he thought shaking his head in amusement.

"What was that you little shit?" He rubbed his knuckles into the blond boy's temples as he tried and protest him to stop. "It sounds like you just called kind a stupid, lazy old man. But you didn't mean it, right?" Naruto sent some of his new magic into his fists as he tried to swat the man who was in front of him. But no matter how hard he tried, the man's superior height had kept him at bay. "Oh oh, gonna have to try harder than that, gaki."

Naruto smiled to himself seeing the interaction between his counterpart and the older man. It reminded him of the years he spent with Jiraiya during the training trip.

God, he missed that pervert!

The grey haired man started to laugh as he increased the speed of his nuggie. Naruto started to grow irritated at the futility of his fighting back. So he grabbed the arms of the man who was playing with him and swiftly kicked his leg up into the man's crotch. Parker stopped laughing as he felt the impact overcome him. His eyes almost turned white as he let the boy go and fell to his knees, holding his balls.

Every single male in the room unconsciously went to protect their balls.

"Ouch!" Gray summed up what every single male was thinking right now.

"Brutal" Gajeel muttered in sympathy for the man with everyone agreeing.

"Geez, I don't even know why I help you with this crap?" The boy whined as he picked the crate back up and put it with the others. Parker fell to his side as he looked up at the young boy.

"Be-because, I to-took you in when you came to the port last week. And I'm letting you st- ow, god- stay until the train sets off tonight." Parker took some deep breathes as he started to get the sensation back in his balls. Damn this kid can kick hard! "So make up for the free service and get working you punk. Oh god, my balls!"

"Why couldn't I leave when I arrived?"

The man sighed as he grabbed the bridge of his nose in annoyance. "For the hundredth time, the trains weren't moving last week. The company take overs between the train rail controls were to busy arguing to get any travel done. But they are moving again today so you can leave later." He walked to the counter and opened the paper again, "and get out of my life."

Naruto matched his grumble as he continued to get the crates ready for shipping on the boats in the harbor. He couldn't believe that he actually had to help this crotchety old man with all this work. When he finally arrived at dry land last week, he was starving and dehydrated. After a night of eating and drinking as much as he could, Naruto finally told all of the port men that he wanted to go to a special guild. They told him that the trains would not work until next week, so he had to stay put until then.

Every sailor around him did not wish to take him in for the time being, so Naruto didn't know what to do. But then, the salt and pepper haired Parker came from the crowd and said he needed an extra pair of hands. He had told the former slave that he could stay with him for the week, but that he would have to work off the interest. Naruto was not ecstatic about the idea, but hey, whatever helped him get through the week.

"At least he was nice enough to take you in and give you food and shelter for it" Erza commented pointing out the positives.

"Yeah, the food and shelter is important" Naruto agreed "I hope they had ramen" he thought out loudly getting some laughs and chuckles.

Naruto had to admit, besides the attitude the man showed, it wasn't so bad. He got much better food to eat then the stuff he had rationed from the tower. He was given new clothes to wear since his old ones were ruined, but he got to keep his boots. And sleeping in a bed was so much better than the alternatives he has had. Plus, with all the heavy lifting, he got many chances to test his Armor and chakra limit. And also, it was kind of fun to have an older figure take care of him like he was an actual kid. Not like a slave or weapon. Almost like a guardian or parent.

As Naruto started to finish with all of the lifting, he noticed that the sun had started to set. He had been doing all of the work for several hours and it was time to get his reward. He headed back to the shop/house and walked in to see Parker messing with something. He walked up to the counter and looked over at the man. "What are you doing, Ojii-San?"

The man lifted up the sack he was preparing and placed it on the counter. "I'm setting up for your travel, gaki. It ain't enough that you got stamina, if you don't eat you'll pass out like you did before." He grabbed the edges of the cloth filled with food and wrapped it up. "This should be enough until you arrive at a train station."

Kushina blinked before smiling "That's nice of him" she commented with her husband agreeing with a nod.

"Yes, you must have bonded really quick with him" Makarov smiled looking towards Naruto.

Naruto nodded, having a smile on his face. It was nice to see his counterpart's bonding with others after what he went through.

The boy started to shake in place with barely contained joy. "So this train is going to take me to Fairy Tail?" He looked up at the temporary guardian as the man brought his fist down on the boy's head and kept it there.

"No dumbass, I already told you I don't know." He turned his fist as the boy started to wave his arms in anger. "The train that is leaving tonight is a freight train. It only carries cargo and supplies so it doesn't have passenger cars and a schedule for us to check. So the train might go to Magnolia or it could go all the way to Seven. The trains won't start their normal travel again for at least two weeks." He looked at the kid with an inquisitive look, "you sure you don't want to wait until then?"

The more rational people in the room agreed with what the store owner said "Patience isn't really something I'm good at" Naruto mumbled getting them to shake their heads.

"You're going to have to sneak into the train"

Minato nodded in agreement with his student's statement before pausing "Why do I have a feeling this is going to backfire" Minato hoped he was wrong and everything went well.

The boy shook his head as he looked up at Parker sternly. "No way! I'm tired of being stuck in one place. If this train doesn't take me to Fairy Tail then I'll just walk from where it stops." He huffed in triumph as the elder man could only sigh and partly chuckle.

"Okay, okay. Can't defy you, huh? So, do you have everything?"

"Yep!"

"Swords?" Naruto picked up two wrapped blades that were lying in the corner.

"Check!"

"Book?" Naruto pulled out a journal that he kept in his pocket.

"Check!"

"Alright. One last thing." Parker left the prepared boy as he walked into the back of his shop. Naruto looked confused as the man came back with a long black cloak. He bent down and fastened it around the stunned boy's neck. "There. That will keep you warm and it will keep you hidden in the dark. Remember, if you get caught, you'll get thrown off."

"Pfft, you look like some small boogeyman" Gajeel snorted and laughed to himself in glee seeing the boy with the cape.

"It's like Sasuke's cape" Naruto said to himself "Chibi me looks good" he smiled to himself satisfied with it. Maybe he should get himself a cloak, but more like his Sage cloak or a Hokage cloak.

"Aww, he looks so cute in it" Mira gushed, giggling to herself along with Kushina, Lucy and Cana.

Naruto looked at his new cloak and played with it as he started to laugh. "Thanks Ojii-San, it looks so cool." The old man laughed at the childish behavior Naruto displayed. He could tell that the boy hadn't received many gifts if he was this happy about some clothes. Which would explain why the usually serious boy acted so young around him. This was probably the first kind of experience he ever had with someone who treated him just as a kid.

Naruto and Parker walked out of the shop and faced toward the smoke from the train. Parker shifted and looked down at the young man. "So, are you ready?"

Naruto grinned like a mad man and cocked his fists. "Hell Yeah!"

Parker laughed as he placed his hand on the boy's head and patted him. "Good. I'm expecting to hear great things about you soon. Becoming a famous Mage would be great for my business."

"Yeah. And when I come again, I'll show you just how much I have grown."

"Ha, that's good. Because when you come back, I expect you to work off the rest of your tab."

"What?" the jinchuriki said confused and surprised.

"You must have eaten a lot there for you to still not have done enough" Minato teased his son slightly. He chuckled when Naruto pouted at him.

"What?! What do you mean?"

"Never mind! Just get going kid." He slapped the boy on the back and sent him off. Naruto laughed as he started jogging to the soon to be departing train. When he reached further down the road, he turned around and cupped his hands over his mouth.

"Thanks Ojii-San! Take care!" He waved to the distant man as all Parker could do was shake his head and wave back.

Naruto ran off as he heard the train start to whistle. He arrived at the station and hid behind some crates and barrels. He looked over the wooden covers to see some foremen conversing and packing the freight cars. As they finished talking, Naruto took this chance to run in the shadows and jump into the empty spaces.

"It's his inner ninja coming out to help him sneak in" Happy said sagely as he tried to replicate some hand signs with his paws.

Kakashi was intrigued though as he voiced out "I wonder how you're fighting style is going to differ since you do not have access to Shadow Clones or any of your other shinobi techniques" thanks to those shadow clones, Naruto had been always unpredictable and even with his other techniques but now he didn't have those.

"He might fight similar to me as he does have swords and uses Requip but he's still young and has time to learn other magic" Erza replied to Kakashi statement getting a nod. The young adult in question himself was also curious to how he would fight using his magic.

Naruto kept crouched in the narrow opening of the packed crates as he stayed perfectly still. The men continued to load the train as he waited for the train to start. After a while of baited breathing, the engine started to boom and the wheels started moving. Naruto had to hold himself back from jumping in joy at finally getting on the road.

As the train started speeding forward, Naruto pulled open the fright door and looked outside at the passing terrain. The wind pressure blasted on him as he felt a cold wind flow over. But after a moment, he looked outside and marveled at what he saw.

He saw fields and rivers glowing in the luminescence of the moon and stars. The mountains and trees could be seen as far out in the horizon. Naruto could only smile in amazement at the beautiful landscape. He first unrestricted view of this new world.

Naruto just kept watching the terrain speed past as hours could have passed and he wouldn't mind.

Many smiled sadly at the scene as they remembered his tragic past.

"It's his first time ever seeing a place like" Lucy frowned feeling bad for the boy.

"It was because he was locked up"

"Only smart thing you've ever said and we already knew about it" Gray scoffed at Natsu getting a growl from him. The ice mage smirked seeing his jab being successful but they didn't get into a scuffle as both Erza and Kushina were giving them warning looks.

Kakashi still felt some shame for himself. Even if his counterpart had tried his best, he himself had left Naruto alone for 12 years. Tsunade felt the same.

Naruto's parents felt like their heart was going to break. Even if it was a Naruto from another universe, it still hurt them to know that he basically never got to enjoy his childhood while he had never seen anything like this for 12 years. They would have loved to come across Hades and Danzo right now.

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Erza walked towards Fairy Hill as she yawned from the full day of work. She had started to take missions on a regular basis, going on one at least every day. She had started off with just simple tasks, like helping merchants and promoting shops around Magnolia. But now, she was starting to take new mission that went out of the town limits. She had found a strange sense of accomplishment every time she saw someone thank her for her help. She almost felt bad for taking the reward after finishing her work.

Some turned to look towards Erza and smiled in amusement at her while said girl blushed, being a little embarrassed because she had felt the same as her counterpart years ago.

"It's understandable for someone with her past" Naruto commented in understanding. He had felt the same when people from Wave when they saved them. He had never gotten any attention like that before that mission and it had been weird at first.

As Erza arrived at the specialized dorm for the Fairy girls, she saw someone standing in front of the doors. A little girl with mismatched sized blue hair nervously stood in front of the door. She was wearing a little yellow and orange dress with a brown skirt. Erza walked forward until she was a few feet closer to the girl.

"It's Levy-chan's first appearance in the story" Jet smiled remembering the past.

"But why do I look so nervous?" the blue haired girl asked in confusion.

"Levy?"

The little blue haired girl looked behind her at the voice behind her. The older girl behind her was wearing her normal armor. With her hair put into a small ponytail and looking at her with those blue and brown eyes. She had felt very nervous when she joined the guild last week and she could feel a strong air around the scarlet girl.

"And another deviation from our universe" Cana said.

Erza nodded in agreement explaining towards the shinobi "Levy actually joined the guild a bit before I joined it" the shinobi now understood.

Levy was curious as to why she had joined later. She had been an orphan and didn't know her parents before she joined Fairy Tail but her past might be different in that universe.

"E-Erza-San?"

"What are you doing out here?"

The little new Mage started to play with the hem of her skirt as she couldn't voice herself immediately. "I-I was going to join everyone in the dorms. B-but I'm too nervous." Erza looked at Levy with an understanding gaze. She could sympathize with the Solid Script Mage's nervous feeling. She felt the same way when she finally arrived at the dorms a few weeks ago. She softened her face and gave the shorter girl a smile.

"I had felt the same but I quickly became friends with Cana which got me out that"

Cana agreed "Yes, I remember those times, but you look much more nervous there than you did here" she narrowed her eyes slightly in thought.

Makarov frowned in worry 'The guild members and their pasts might be different than ours since there is already more than 3 deviation from our reality' it made him think how different it was going to be than theirs and he hoped it was nothing bad.

"I understand. It feels uncomfortable and nerve wracking to come to a new place like this." Levy nodded her head as she fiddled with the grip of her luggage beside her. "I didn't think that I would ever be able to sleep in a new place like this. But you know," Erza put her hand on Levy's shoulder and got the girl's attention. "You'll never know unless you try. And I'll be here with you to take the first step."

Levy gave a weak smile as a small tear pooled in her left eye. The older girl was trying very hard to help her integrate easier into the guild. She and Cana had already started to play with her and Levy got many good laughs seeing Erza punish Gray every time he streaked in front of them. It helped her get thought the pain of losing her parents and the memories of those horrible men.

Both girls smiled at each other seeing them interact like that. It was a very sweet moment between them but it was interrupted by Lucy's comment.

"What do they mean by horrible men?" the blonde girl frowned in concern for her best friend in the guild.

"It's gotta have something to do with that Damnation guild" Natsu theorized in a serious tone not showing his usual goofy nature because of concern for his friend.

Everyone's worry kept getting increased each time more of this guild was mentioned as the bad feeling kept getting worse.

As Erza led Levy into the dorm through the doors, she gawked at the beautiful rooms. The furniture and woodwork made the whole lobby as beautiful as a jewel. But before Levy could get more accustomed to the sight, she heard some footsteps coming from the doorway to the kitchen.

A wrinkled old woman wearing a violet dress emerged and looked at the two girls. "Well, where the hell have you been young lady?" She walked out with a ladle in her hand and pointed it at the armored girl. "You were supposed to come back here an hour ago."

Naruto felt a wave of sad emotion over the room making it not that hard for him to guess why it suddenly happened when the older woman came in.

Many had sad smiles remembering the woman who unfortunately died "It's good to see her again after all this time" Erza remarked sadly.

"Yes, even if she was strict, we all loved her" Mira added, saddened as well but also a bit happy seeing more from her.

The shinobi felt a bit out of place but gave them looks of understanding as they had all lost someone precious to them.

Erza sweat dropped as she backed away from the small woman's seemingly angry visage. "O-Obaa-chan, I was coming back from a mission that was taking longer than I thought. It wasn't my fault that-"

"Uh uh, none of the sass. I'm reducing your portions today." Erza's eyes grew wide as she started to shake her arms wildly in protest to the older woman's decision. Levy just continued to watch as the normally unflappable armor girl was being played with by the short woman. "And who are you?"

Levy stopped her giggling and stood at attention. "I-I'm Levy McGraden, ma'am. I-I'll be living here from now on, I-if that's okay."

Naruto laughed nervously "She does look a bit intimidating" he commented with a sweat drop getting some laughs around the room 'Why are most old women so scary' the blonde thought shivering slightly as Tsunade was an excellent example.

Lucy was a bit awed "I have never seen someone make Erza act like that" Erza herself wasn't offended or anything as she was glad to see Hilda again.

"Oh don't worry, she made all of us act like that" Mira replied and smiled remembering the old lady.

"Great, another mouth to feed. Like this wasn't bad enough." Hilda sighed as she scratched her head. "Well, I guess I'll have to give you Erza's half of the food." Erza looked at the dorm mother in shock as she continued to lower the amount of food she was going to eat. "But I have no beds, so you are going to have to live outside in the trees with the birds."

Lucy laughed nervously since a part of her wanted to meet her but now, 'On second thought, I think it's better I didn't meet her.'

"She's like you baa-chan when you threatened me to eat healthier food instead of just ramen" Naruto shivered remembering those times of him having been forced to eat healthier food because of not only Tsunade but Sakura.

Tsunade sighed in annoyance "It worked only a bit and Kakashi still had to bring you healthier food after that" both Kakashi and she smiled back at Kushina and Minato who were giving them an appreciative expression for making sure Naruto ate good food.

Levy looked at the aproned woman with big round eyes as she had no words to express. "Of course, I could use that other room but I like to keep my useless junk in there. Well, I guess I can clear some space for you today." Levy breathed out in relief as she looked up at Erza. The two of them looked at each other and laughed nervously at the strange circumstances they had gotten into.

"Well, if you two are just going to stand there, I guess there will be more food for me." Levy and Erza both jumped and ran towards the kitchen, voicing their reasons that they should eat.

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Viola Train Station

"Uh God, my back is starting to kill me." A man with a bandana around his hair whined to his foreman partner. The other man dropped the other side of the crate they were carrying and took off his cap.

"Looks like we go back to Naruto then"

"Yeah, he is already at Viola which is only a few days from Magnolia by train" Makarov added seeing the unspoken question in the shinobi's expression.

'It won't be long now till those 2 get back together' Kushina thought, excited to see the reunion between her son and her fellow redhead.

"Well, what do you expect? When you take a job where you have to do nothing but heavy lifting, your back is going to starting taking its toll." He waved the cap in front of his face to cool himself down. He put it back on his head as he prepared the next car for cargo removal. "C'mon, help me with this will you."

The bandana man groaned as he straightened himself out and walked over to the handle of the car. The two men both grabbed the handle and pulled, sliding the wooden door over and out of their way. They prepared to take out the crates but stopped at what they saw.

A little blond boy with whiskers was leaning against a crate, eating a sandwich and reading an old book. He kept chewing on the bread until he noticed that something was looking at him. He looked over and his heterochromic eyes met the black eyes of the two men. He threw the rest of the bread into his mouth as he stood up and dusted himself off. He picked up the cloak he was sitting on and wrapped it around his neck. He then put the book into the back of his pants and picked up two large wrappings and strapped them to his back.

"Thanks guys. I was in here for two days. I didn't even know I arrived yet." He jumped down from the higher ground of the car and casually passed the two stunned men. The whiskered boy continued to walk through the station and into the town like nothing had happened. The capped man looked over to his friend.

"Pftt hahahah" Cana spit out her drink and started laughing from finding the scene amusing seeing how casually he walked away.

Gajeel, Natsu and others joined her while some just smiled in amusement "Those poor guys don't even know how to react to it" Mira said and giggled in glee.

"S-should we tell someone about this?"

"N-no. Too much of a hassle. Just pretend that didn't happen."

"But when they found out that some kid just traveled in the cargo hold and we let him walk off, we'll get fired."

"'You mean 'If' they find out."

The man with the cap cupped his chin as he nodded. "If. If is good."

Naruto walked down the streets of the beautiful town. Buildings and stands could be seen as far as he could view. As he walked by, he got out of the way of some young kids playing tag. The new Mage walked through the town and silently chuckled at what he saw. This was so amazing. He had never seen so many people together that were all just living their lives. Even back at Hargeon, he mostly stayed to the shop. Parker sort of kept him busy with all of the work.

Naruto walked up to a fruit stand and looked up at the bearded man that owned the place. "Hello little boy. How are you this fine evening? Are you hungry?"

Naruto poked his stomach as some grumbling noises came out. "A little."

"Bottomless pit" Tsunade poked fun in good nature at her favorite blond.

"Looks like you have a rival in eating lots of food, Natsu" Mira giggled seeing them grinning at each other.

There was no doubt in her mind that those two would hold an eating competition between each other.

"Well lucky for you, I have the best fruits in all of Fiore right in front of you. I have apples that have been gently picked from the healthiest trees. Bananas and oranges that make all others taste like garbage. Here, have a taste." The man handed Naruto an apple as the little boy inspected the red fruit. He brought it to his mouth and took a large bite from it.

His eyes widened at the wonderful taste in his mouth. "Wow, this is great. Thanks mister." The bearded man laughed a throaty chuckle as the boy devoured the red apple.

"No problem ma boy. The first one is always free, but the next few will cost you. But how about this, I'll give you a whole sack of apple for only 300 jewels. What do ya say?"

"What are jewels?" The boy questioned as he finished his apple. He looked at the core and threw it to the side as he raised his palm for another. The man just stared at the boy with a stone face.

"Get out of here kid. You're bad for business." Naruto tilted his head and walked off, leaving the bearded man to shake his head in disappointment. He continued to walk down the streets, watching strange four wheeled carts speed past and people walk around in stunning outfits. He looked over the houses and saw a mountain range not too far off. He walked up to a woman wearing fur and tugged at her skirt.

"How rude" Kushina scowled, not amused by the behavior of the vendor.

"He could have at least been cordial and explain it to the kid" Makarov shook his head in disappointment.

'Looks like Parker-san didn't explain that much to Naruto' Erza thought a bit disappointed 'Or he might have thought that Naruto already knew.'

"Um, excuse me. Do you know where I can find Fairy Tail?" The woman looked down and saw a boy dressed in black with strange eyes. Naturally, for any high-class member of society, she reacted as she was expected to.

Overly.

"Oh, OH. HELP! I'm being mugged by this-this ruffian!" She screamed as other people started to talk and gather around them. Naruto panicked from all of the screaming and crowded space and ran out the clearest path he could find. He continued to run until he couldn't hear that old woman's shrill voice pierce his ears anymore. He breathed out in relief as his heart stopped racing.

Everyone just deadpanned at the screen as Naruto was completely confused "How can she even think that was me mugging her?" he couldn't help but ask.

"I-I honestly don't know what even happened with her" Erza sweat dropped agreeing with her crush.

"Well, the way you are dressed in complete black does look a bit scary" Cana theorized and shrugged her shoulders making Naruto's shoulder slump a bit.

His chibi counterpart wasn't even scary looking!

Kurama rolled his eyes "Scared by a black outfit" he scoffed "If they ever saw someone like me, they would die from a heart attack" the comment made Naruto laugh inwardly.

It was probably true.

Naruto looked around at his surroundings. All he could see were people, stores and roads. As he surveyed, he noticed a woman who was putting down a crate of sugar outside of her store. He gulped as he walked up to her, thinking this was going to go just as well as the other meetings with people. He tugged at her long skirt and got her attention. "Excuse me."

The brown-haired teenager felt a tug on her skirt as she looked down at the shorter boy. He had blond hair and strange scars on his face as well as two different colored eyes. He wore a black cloak and had two wrappings on his back. The girl thought he looked very strange as she bent her knees to look directly at him. "Yes?"

"At least she doesn't overreact like that previous woman" Naruto grumbled, pouting slightly because of her thinking his chibi counterpart looked strange.

"To be fair, it is quite surprising to see someone with whisker like birthmarks on their faces" Mira placated with a smile "But you get used it quite fast"

"They're not that strange" Cana chimed in "They look more cure than strange to me" she complimented and winked at Naruto getting him to blush irking Erza. She smirked to herself seeing that.

It was just getting too easy for her!

"Do you know where I can find the Fairy Tail guild? I try to ask people but they either interrupt me or scream at me." He grumbled in annoyance at how he was treated by the people he met. The girl tilted her head in confusion at what the strange boy had said.

"Um, honey, Fairy Tail isn't here. It's in Magnolia. This is Viola." The woman saw that the boy just looked at her cluelessly as she shook her head. "Magnolia is a long ways away. A week by cart and a few days by train."

Naruto deflated as he realized what she said. The train didn't stop at Magnolia and had shot way past where he wanted to go. Naruto grabbed his head as he whined in irritation. He kept stomping his feet until he breathed out and let his hands fall to his side. "Um, Nee-chan, can you tell me which way it is? I'll just walk there myself."

Makarov shook his head "That's not a good idea for someone your age and inexperience."

"It's just like we don't let academy graduates go off without their jonin sensei. Minato added agreeing with the older man.

The girl gasped as she looked at the boy in shock. "What? You can't go all the way there by yourself, it's too dangerous. There are monsters and crooks that could kill you. And the dark guilds and Damnation reports have sent people into riots. You would never make it."

"Not to mention, that new guild" Erza muttered with narrowed eyes. She hadn't forgotten that the guild might have something to do with her friend's, Levi's past.

"I wonder what change caused this guild to form" Juvia thought out loud.

"They have to have some motive for what they are doing" Lucy insisted remembering the Lullaby mission where the dark guild had their own motives for what they were doing.

Naruto shrugged off her warning as he looked around. "It's alright Nee-chan, I can take care of myself. See ya." As Naruto started walking, he felt a pair of arms encircle his chest and pull him into a developing chest. He started to squirm out of her grip and felt his air start to cut off.

"Oh no you don't. You need to listen to this Onee-chan and stay where you are." He started to wave his arms wildly as he tried to escape her grasp. She heard a muffle vibrate in her chest and pulled him out what. "What?" He took a deep breath and looked up at her with a slight pink hue dusting his face.

"I said I don't care! I want to join Fairy Tail." He almost pulled out of her arms before she dropped to the street and brought him along. She increase her vice grip and brought Naruto in deeper.

"No way! I'm not letting the death of some impatient kid stick to my soul. You are staying here." She continued to grapple with the boy as people on the street watched them with a variety of interest.

"Awww, that sister loves her brother so much she doesn't want to let him go. How sweet."

"Well, they interpreted that in the wrong way"

"At least he is suffering in a good place" Macao grumbled seeing the boy getting hugged to her chest.

He got some eye rolls from the females at that while the more daring perverts such as Kakashi gave him a discreet thumbs up which went unnoticed by Kushina.

"My goodness, children these days don't even have the decency to be in a private place anymore."

"Why don't you do stuff like that with me." "For the last time, I'm tired when I get home."

"Hmmmmmm, I like this."

"Besides if you want to join a guild so badly, we have one up the pass. Blue Pegasus is one of the most famous guilds in all of Fiore. I'm sure Master Bob would give you a spot so you don't have to kill yourself." She felt the boy fight even harder as her grip started to fade.

Happy gasped "She's trying to get him to get over to the other side" the cat said as if the girl was committing a sin. His partner, Natsu followed his example by protesting loudly.

Cana decided to tease her new favorite pairs "And she's trying to separate Naruto from Erza" she giggled like an old pervert drawing some laughter from others.

Naruto sniffed with red cheeks 'They're never gonna stop teasing us' he looked over and saw the mentioned redhead also with a flustered expression making him intrigued 'Is she like that because she is interested in a relationship with me or just embarrassed' he thought. He remembered Hinata doing the same whenever someone mentioned him and he was near her but Hinata was much worse as she even fainted and her entire face going red because she liked him.

He decided to not dwell it on too much and just get her to know better like they have been doing for the moment.

"For the last time, I only want to join-" Naruto stopped his fighting as he lay on the girl's chest and looked up at her. "Wait. Did you say Pegasus?"

"Huh? Yeah, why?"

"And Master Bob?"

"Yes, his is the guild master for that place. Why do you care?" Naruto didn't answer her as he just remembered the stories his old grandfather told him so much about. And about his friend Bobby, and the horse ranch he started.

"Ca-can you show me the way?"

"Bob was the one who was flirting with the women and men, right?" Naruto asked, accentuating the men part.

Makarov chuckled "Yes, he is indeed that one" he stifled his laughter seeing the horrifying look on the poor boy's face.

Both Gray and Natsu started cackling evilly seeing his face getting a glare from the boy "You shouldn't even worry about Master Bob but someone else" Erza shivered remembering Ichiya but didn't notice that the comment only made his horrified expression become worse.

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The building was large, larger than any other he had ever seen. It was formed by pink bricks that covered the entire building. It had two large towers and colored glass framing the windows. At the sides of the building were intricate wings that looked like a bird's. And over the door way was a banner with a pink horse covered by two flowery ornaments.

Kushina sweat dropped slightly "It is certainly a unique place to say the least" she commented, now feeling a bit worried for what might happen to her son there in a place that looks like that from the outside.

Tsunade just gave Naruto a smile and said "This'll be fun for your counterpart"

Naruto felt a wave of nervous tension spill over him as he walked up the beautifully crafted steps. He reached the doorway and took a deep breath. "Okay, here goes nothing." He grabbed the handles of the door and pushed forward. A bright light took over his view as he squinted and tried to see past it.

As the light died down, Naruto saw what he could only describe as a huge ball of wealthy people. Several men and woman were dressed in the fanciest and most stunning garments he had ever seen. The room was dimmed slightly to give the entire place a fancy visage. Every adult was holding onto a glass with the most finely imported wines and beverages. They were talking about important events and parties they had recently been to. Naruto felt a sense of amazement strike him at what he was seeing.

He then felt like it was pretty obvious he wasn't a member. From the way he was dressed in hand-me-down pants and shirts while the men were dressed in suits and tuxedos.

"Huh, they don't seem that bad" Cana said having expected something special like their guild which was mostly a brawl when people entered.

"That's because you haven't seen the…" Erza paused to find a correct way to address them before continuing "weirder ones that I've seen."

The guild except for Makarov blinked, now remembering that Erza had met the guild previously.

He walked through most of the crowd as they all talked and laughed. He noticed a wooden platform with stools in front of it. Behind the bar were hundreds of wonderful wines and glasses. And looking away from him was a round man with a bald head. Naruto couldn't see his features from any angle he could make. So he jumped to the leather stool and sat at the bar, waiting in baited breath.

Naruto took several deep breathes as he prepared his question. "Um sir, can you help me? I'm trying to find a Bobby-San, do you know where I can find him?"

The bald man let out a content sigh at what the new voice said to him. "Ah, Bobby, I haven't heard that name in a long time. Why do you ask?" Naruto chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.

"Well, I remember hearing that name in some old stories and I thought he could help me." He lowered his hand and put it on the counter. "So can you tell me where he is?"

The faceless bartender let out a strangely feminine giggle at what he just said. "Oh, that shouldn't be too hard." He turned around and looked at the boy as the young man gained a slightly surprised look. The bartender had squinted eyes and lipstick on his lips. And his cheeks were vibrant red with some strange paint. A pair of white wings came into view as they popped out of his back. Naruto finally noticed that the man was wearing a strange pink dress that no man like him should wear. He was also wearing a stranger hopped necklace around his neck.

The transvestite lifted his hand to cover his mouth as he let out a tiny giggle. "I am Bobby."

The shinobi were wide eyed while the ones who had met the master at Clover were the same when they compared this version to the one in the flashback.

"Wuh- but… how?" Naruto couldn't even form his sentences properly as to how the man went from the one in the flashback to this.

"I admit, it was a bit shocking when I saw it at first too" Makarov said knowing what they were thinking.

Kakashi nodded to himself "This would be the perfect guild for Guy" that comment got them to start laughing and remember the eccentric jonin from the earlier chapters.

"He would probably drag you there too, Kakashi" Minato mused out loud getting his student to look at with a blank stare for the joke but others found it amusing seeing as they laughed even louder than earlier.

Naruto's eyes turned white as his blood turned to ice and his face went pale.

Bob moved towards the bar counter as he rested his chin in his hands, looking the new boy directly in his empty, fear stricken face. "And may I ask why such a cute young lad would be asking for me? And what it is I can help you with, mr.-"

Naruto shook violently as sweat poured from every part of his body; even the parts he didn't know could get sweaty. "N-N-Na-Na-Naruto Uzu-Uzumaki, s-sir-ma'am!"

"Oh, Naruto-chan~, that is a very nice name for such a nice young boy. And I love these whiskers you have on your face. They are so mesmerizing; I've never seen anyone with something like them." Bob reached forward to touch his face but Naruto lurched back, accidentally falling out of his stool. Bob looked over the counter at the boy who was sprawled on the floor with stars over his head.

Naruto felt really uncomfortable for his chibi counterpart right now while Kurama was dying from laughter inside his mindscape.

"BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA, your other version as a kid did attracted someone very nice there, Naruto" Naruto entered his mindscape to glare at him. He knew his friend was joking as the man wouldn't do something like that and was just curious.

"Don't worry, Master Bob is a good person and he was just complimenting you" Erza placed a hand on his shoulder to help him calm down and he nodded slowly. The master of Blue Pegasus also complimented her a lot so she knew.

Kushina was grumbling to herself about old weird men not letting her Na-chan go back to Erza getting an amused smile from her husband to see her rooting for them to become a couple in not only the story and here too.

"Oh my, are you okay?" Naruto looked up at the concerned elderly man but froze when he saw that half the man's body was coming out of the bar! The man walked out like he had no body and bent down, meeting Naruto on the floor. "You are lucky. Not many boys are as tough as you."

Naruto crawled backwards as he tried to get some distance between him and the man-lady. Beer and wine from some of the most expensive variety. Men and women all looking like they came from the most famous banquet in the country. And now a half man wearing a dress was coming on to him while he walked through walls.

Could this get any weirder?

"*Sniff* *Sniff*"

Minato paused in his reading to look at the image that was in front of them along with the others. "W-wh-why is he sniffing Na-chan" Kushina asked weirded out by the event. Even Inuzuka's didn't go randomly sniffing everyone.

"I assume, this is the one you were talking about, Erza?" Tsunade asked with a raised brow.

"Y-yes" she nodded in reply.

The others wondered if the same thing had happened to Erza when they had met. The normally headstrong girl seemed to be very uncomfortable when talking about him.

Naruto stopped in his tracks as he felt another force behind him. Something that was inhaling his hair as he was lying on the ground. Naruto raised himself on his hands as he turned around; trying to see what was keeping him from safety. What he saw was so horrifying and traumatic, that it would affect his life for years to come.

"~Men~"

"AAAHHHHHHHHH!"

"Well, you're going to be the same as Erza regarding him" Makarov chuckled feeling slightly bad but also amused by the scene.

Erza looked at her crush in sympathy seeing the same thing that happened to her happen to him.

"Now your counterpart has his own version of guy while you have Rock Lee" Kakashi snickered to himself seeing his student.

"Rock Lee?" Elfman asked curiously.

"He's Guy's student who idolizes him and well" Tsunade chuckled "He replicated the rivalry that Kakashi and Guy have with Naruto here" she finished pointing at the blank faced blonde.

The challenges just kept coming even if he entertained them or just made up an excuse.

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Erza punched Gray over the head as she saw the boy walk through the guild almost naked. She sighed in disbelief at how this boy could just walk through an open area without realizing he was in his skids. "Geez Gray, are you ever going to learn? No one wants to see you strut naked."

"Aww, I wanted to see what happened to Naruto" Cana pouted at not getting that opportunity.

Naruto deadpanned "You just want to see me suffer."

Minato shook his head at them but looked towards the ice mage in the room who had lost his clothes "I can't help but ask why you strip yourself so often?"

Gray rubbed his head in embarrassment and cleared his throat "It's just a habit that I picked in my childhood."

"Gray-Sama, I don't mind it at all" Juvia suddenly appeared next to him with his clothes startling him.

"Ah" the previous Hokage said in understanding. Hell, even he was a bit weird in his childhood as Kushina had jokinly pointed out that he was stalking her. Shaking his head, he continued to read.

Gray grabbed his aching red bump and glared at the armored girl. "Shut up Erza! If you have a problem tell me don't smash my head in! I can't take any more of it! What if my brains turn to mush?"

"You mean more than they already were?" Gray glared to the table where Cana was silently drinking her juice as Levy laughed at what the fortune teller had said.

"Hahaha, th-that's mean, Cana-San. You shouldn't make fun of Gray-San so much." Levy held her sides as some joyful tears appeared in her eyes. Cana just sighed and tapped Levy's back to help the girl.

Gray looked at Levy after having Juvia calmed down "Yet you're laughing" he pointed out accusingly getting a giggle from her. He turned to glare towards the snickering pink haired dragon slayer.

"Mushy brain, hahahaha" Natsu mocked and laughed at him getting him to look towards the amused Cana.

"Look what you did" he grumbled accusingly.

"Technically it was my counterpart" she replied back cheekily.

"Don't act like you wouldn't have said the same" the ice mage argued back stubbornly and threw a glare towards his rival.

"Levy, you shouldn't bother with honorifics here. All sense of decency and politeness goes off faster then Gray's undies." The Ice Maker yelled at her choice of an analogy but was smacked by Erza again because he still hadn't put on any clothes. "Just call me Cana, okay?"

Levy smiled and nodded in agreement. The two girls noticed Erza had sat back down and continued to eat her cake. "My goodness, I'll never be able to eat in peace with someone like him around." She took a big bite of her cake and smiled happily at the wonderful taste. She swallowed and looked at her guild mates, "thank god there aren't two of them."

Most people in the room started laughing at the remark knowing exactly that it did happen. "You jinxed yourself there, Erza" Mira pointed out getting a blank stare from the redhead.

"I didn't notice, thank you for pointing it out Mira" Erza replied sarcastically to her former rival who merely continued to smile at her.

"You know it was my pleasure, Erza" the white-haired girl said with a wink.

"Do you think they're going to go back to how they were before" Natsu whispered to Gray referring to their rivalry.

"I don't think Mira can act like her past self anymore" he whispered back.

"What are you whispering for?" Lucy asked suspicious of their behavior.

"Ignore the idiots Lucy, something interesting might happen here" Cana advised her friend who looked at her weirdly.

'Why are so many from the guild staring at Erza and Mira so intensely' the blonde girl thought confused.

Many other members of the guild looked to them thinking the old rivalry might make a small return here but Erza just merely shook her head a with a smile.

"Yeah, keep eating Erza. One day you'll eat so much of it that armor is going to pop right off of you." Erza grew a tick mark and started to pull the cheeks of Gray after his smartass remark. Everyone who saw only laughed as she continued.

"~~~~aahhh~~~~"

Erza stopped her torture as she dropped Gray and looked off into nothing. The three young mages all looked at the dual eyed girl as they wondered what she was doing. Cana looked between all of them as she touched Erza on the shoulder.

"Did your counterpart just hear that from all the way in Magnolia?" Wakaba asked, completely caught off guard by it.

Erza shivered "Even my counterpart seems to be haunted by his weird stuff from so far" she commented.

"Hey Erza, are you ok?"

The scarlet girl looked back at her with a startled movement. She took some quick breathes as she regained her bearings. "Yeah-yeah I'm fine. It's just…"

"What?"

"I felt like something horrible just came into this world."

Naruto grinned and looked Erza "You have some sort of sixth sense for these kinds of stuff?" he joked.

"Ha ha" she laughed mockingly but her crush didn't even lose his smile as she just rolled her eyes in good nature at him "Well at least my other isn't being torment by Ichiya right now" she shot right back and mentally cheered for herself seeing him lose his grin.

"Ouch" Naruto winced for his counterpart "I'll give you that one" he grumbled and looked away, defeated.

Erza let a victorious smile cross her face after that but missed the grins or amused smirks on some people's faces.

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"Ah yes, this is quite an interesting and unique scent." The short stature man mused as he silently nodded and looked at the new boy. The new boy who was currently clawing his way out of the wall and trying to run, his eyes pale from the experience of seeing his 'handsome' face no doubt. "The scent that makes me see the wonders and experiences that such a young youth has gone through. ~Men~."

The short man with the orange hair, shiny flat nose and high cheek bones walked over to the now slightly calmer boy and reached out his hand. "What is your name, my young friend?"

"N-Naruto. Who-who are you Ossan?" He took the hand given to him and stood back up, noting that he was about the same height as the strange troll thing in front of him.

Erza coughed in effort to stop herself from laughing but looked at Naruto with a grin "As rude as it is, it is quite a funny and fitting to call him a troll"

"Chibi me is doing a good job in giving nicknames" Naruto complimented his counter and cross his arms with a cocky smile "But I'm still the best Naruto when it comes to that"

Erza chuckled remembering Naruto's story "I suppose from the stories you told me, Rabbit Granda for Kaguya, Ero-Sennin for your master and Six Paths Gramps for Hagoromo-san are still ahead of this one" she said unknowingly revealing the fact that she and Naruto talked with each other every night.

"Don't forget Bushy Brows, Bushier brows sensei and" he looked over towards Tsunade who instantly knew what he was talking about and gave him a mean look that dared him to say it "Baa-chan for Tsunade baa-chan" he finished with a cheeky smile getting the older woman to breathe in deeply to calm down.

"Kid's got balls" Macao praised. Impressed with how daring he was calling Tsunade with a title like that when it clearly ticked her off.

Some others were still wondering who this Kaguya person was and how Erza knew about her.

"Ossan? I am not an old man my boy. I am only 21 years old. But it is understandable." He moved his hands in a wonderful formation, lights and stars seemingly appearing from where his hands moved. "I am looked up to by many as their wise and wonderful Sempai. A man who has seen the wonders and beauties of many lands and people." He struck a pose with his body in a different direction and his hands sparkling at the young boy.

"The man who changes the world in One Night. Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki. ~Men~ ~Men~ ~Men~"

"All these sparkles and strange way of talking with this "men"" Kakashi said and chuckled a little "Definitely seems like the Guy of that world"

"He seems like a good person despite his weird habits" Minato said pointing out the good.

Erza nodded agreeing "You're right, Minato-san"

Naruto was silent as he could only gawk at the absurd man. Soon enough, other members of the guild gathered around and saw what one of its most famous members was making so much fuss about. The people gathered around and looked at the frightened blond boy in a cloak and wrappings.

A male member voiced his thoughts, "My, what a strange boy."

An older man then said his piece, "His clothes are quite horrendous. He must have gotten them out of the garbage."

Then a female member walked up to the boy and pulled his cheek, gaining some grumbles of protest in return. "But these little lines on his face make him look like a kitty. And he is soooo cute too. He is going to be quite the looker when he grows up."

"Well," Cana said, a sly grin forming on her face "We already know how good looking he'll become" the brunette said winking at Naruto before looking at Erza next to him "Don't you think so, Erza?"

Erza narrowed her eyes at her friend knowing what she was doing despite the innocent smile she was trying to put on.

"I agree" Mira piped in with an innocent smile sending winks to other girls to rope them in who agreed after that before looking at her former rival expectantly.

Naruto didn't know if he was blushing from embarrassment from the compliments or if he was just red from annoyance for being called a kitty.

Erza knew they were just trying to get to her. If she got flustered, they would already know which would be their win. Or she could quell down her embarrassment and answer which meant they would still win but it was a bit better for her than for them, so she smiled confidently and nodded "He is quite handsome now" she admitted as their smiles dropped slightly but they still cheered inwardly having gotten her to admit it.

Naruto rubbed his nose in embarrassment but saw his mother and Kakashi giving him thumbs up getting him to chuckle slightly. Makarov patted his back with a laugh seeing his condition and the teasing he was getting.

Other female members started to gather around and play with the boy who was trying to squirm out of their grasp. They all squealed and giggled as they started to pull on his cheeks and look at his wonderful eyes. Soon enough, a pair of heels started to click against the floor as another member made herself known.

"What is going on?" Some of the other male member looked away from where the blond boy was being gang banged and looked at the teenager who asked the question. A young woman with light green hair and wearing a red coat asked as she wondered what all the noise was about.

Bob walked over to the teenaged girl. "Ah, Karen-chan, I see you are back from your mission. How was it?"

"It's the woman from Loke's past" Lucy said surprised and a bit angry for what she had done to Loke and the other spirits but remembered that she had learned her lesson from Loke even if it was too late.

"Loke?"

"He was a member of Fairy Tail who…" Makarov explained briefly getting them to understand.

'Maybe he might show up' some of the members thought, thinking the sadistic woman might summon him.

"About the same as all the other missions I get. I just had to let them take some pictures and we were done." She looked back to where most of the female members were gathering around. "What happened here?"

Kushina blinked in confusion "Let them take some pictures and that was it?" she asked "Was she some sort of model?" the redhead asked the guild who shrugged.

"It might have been for the magazines" Mira answered and explained it briefly but they didn't know much more than her being someone abusive to her Celestial Spirits.

"Oh, you mean what is with all the excitement?" Bob let out a girly giggle as he looked to where a pair of booted feet was swinging back and forth in the pile. "We just found ourselves a new toy and the girls want to test him out."

"Is that so. Well, I'll have to see what he is like myself." She started to pat herself down and realized that she had lost something. "Can someone help me find my purse?"

"I have it Karen-San." The green haired beauty looked over to see a young man about the same age as the aforementioned blond boy run up to the slightly older woman. The boy in question had messy brown-blond hair, wearing a small black suit. He ran up to her and handed her the purse. "Here you go Karen-San."

"Oh, thank you Hibiki-kun." She bent down a little and took the purse from his hands. She held his face with her hands and looked him in the eyes. "You are so kind to me. That is why I love you so much." She gave him a kiss on the cheek as the boy blushed and swooned a little. "Always be my little man, okay?"

"Why do I have the feeling that she takes a little advantage of his crush on her"

"Because she probably is" Lucy answered.

"She might just be teasing him, Lu-chan" Levy said sweat dropping a bit at her slight attitude towards the sadistic woman. It was understandable seeing as Lucy was a Celestial mage.

"Yes ma'am!" The boy saluted as the woman playfully laughed. Bob only chuckled a little at the young man's enthusiasm to her teasing. And a few feet away, another young girl was sitting at a table with another boy, watching what was happening with a cute pout.

"It's not fair! Why does she get everything just because she's pretty? She keeps teasing Hibiki-kun like he was her own personal play toy. What do you think?" The blond girl with the wavy ponytail hair asked her booth mate in irritation. She got no answer in return so she looked over to the fair skinned boy. "Ren-kun?"

"Huh? Oh sorry Jenny, I wasn't listening." The black haired boy said as he looked off into the distance. "I was thinking about what Aniue said to me earlier about making myself more appealing. Like I should play a different attitude or get a little tan." He looked over to his female friend with an inquisitive eyebrow, "would I look good with a tan?"

"Watch out for those things Ren-kun, I hear they are bad for your skin."

Ichiya walked over to his master as the commotion about the whiskered boy continued. "Master?"

"Hmm, what is it Ichiya-chan?"

"Well, it is about the ~perfume~ of that wonderful new lad. You see…"

"Ah, he seems to have an enhanced sense of smell" Kakashi said and thought back to a bit earlier as he looked at his student "That explains why he sniffed you."

Naruto crossed his arms "He wasn't just sniffing chibi me, he was inhaling his hair" the blonde grumbled stubbornly.

"He seems to call scent perfume and finish his sentence a lot of times "men"," Tsunade grinned to herself "Like you and your son Kushina, maybe he is an Uzumaki who ended up in that world like my grandfather" she joked getting them to look at her as if she was crazy.

"Ha ha" they both mocked at the same as they looked at each other before laughing again. The others were merely amused at the chemistry between mother and son.

Bob looked at his guild member with an inquisitive look. "What is it?"

"Sir, that young man has some traces of ~perfume~ similar to your friend from a few weeks ago." Bob's eyebrows lifted in surprise as he kept his eyes closed. That was more than surprising.

Everyone looked a bit surprised by the reveal.

"Could it be someone from the tower?" Minato asked to himself thinking back to that time and trying to find out who it could be.

"Maybe someone from Jellal's ship managed to escape" Erza thought hopefully. 'They could report it and others wouldn't have to suffer for years or something different might happen' she thought afterwards.

"It is certainly a possibility" Tsunade nodded in agreement "They will probably tell Naruto about it and knowing Naruto, he would rush towards the person in order to find him"

The mentioned blonde gave a sheepish smile to one of his faults being pointed out.

"ENOUGH!"

Everyones' attention landed on the panting boy whose clothes were all messed up and pulled out. He took in some deep breathes as he looked over to the strange sniffing man and the transvestite. "What the hell kind of place is this? I try to ask a guy something and it turns out he is a woman. Then some guy sniffs my head and I get attacked by all these girls. What is this place?"

Ichiya stuck another pose as he pointed to the worried child. "My dear boy, this is the pinnacle of beauty. Where the most fabulous of men and women come together to save this nation. We are a beauty that matches the wonderful creature of legends and myth. We are Blue Pegasus."

All of the members gathered together and struck their own individual poses. "Our motto: Pants are Optional!"

"What kind of motto is that" Tsunde asked with a raised brow.

"Some things aren't there to be questioned, Tsunade-sama" Kakashi said sagely getting an agreeing nod from his student.

"Pfft, our motto is much better" Natsu scoffed knowing theirs was better.

Gajeel crossed his arms "They're all just a bunch of weird idiots" he grumbled finding this part a bit boring and annoying.

Makarov scoffed "You idiots shouldn't talk when you start brawls every day that I have to break up" he complained roughly getting them to become silent.

Naruto only sweat dropped at the craziness this weird guild was showing. He shook his head as all of the members laughed and dispersed, forgetting about him and going back to their conversations. "There is no way Rob-jichan's friend owns this place. It is just too weird." Bob stopped his musings as he heard what the whiskered new boy had said and walked over to him.

"Did you just say Rob? As in Robby-chan?" Naruto looked up at the strange man in surprise.

"Ye-yeah. I met Rob-jichan when we were stuck together and he told me so much about all of his friends. And he said that his friend Bobby made a guild named Blue Pegasus. Are you really that Bobby?" Bob nodded his head with a heartfelt smile. "You are nothing like the stories said."

Makarov fondly thought back to those times and chuckled "All of us changed in one way or another from that time" he himself was a perfect example with becoming someone wiser and much calmer as he got older.

"You were just like us Master, causing destruction everywhere" Elfman accused him getting the old man to become silent. The rowdy members of the guild gave their master a guilty look making him glare back stubbornly.

"I think you should read further Minato-san before a brawl starts" Mira sighed and advised knowing how a brawl started this way in their guild.

"Yes well time does crazy things to all of us." He laughed a dainty laugh as he concentrated on the boy once more. "When was the last time you saw him?" Naruto looked down in shame and pain as he was forced to remember that awful memory.

"I-I left him hurt on a boat to get off the island. I thought he was going to be safe but..." He clenched his fists in regretful anger. Bob looked at the boy in worry as he put his hands on the boy's shoulder.

"It's alright. I think I have someone you might want to meet." Naruto looked up at the confused man with wonder as he was led out the back of the building. Naruto saw a long road pass going into the forests and into the mountains. He looked up at the cross-dressing master.

'Is it possible that the person is actually Rob' Makarov, Minato and Kakashi theorized inside their mind.

"A friend of mine lives right up this passage. He lives in the mountains around the snowy area. Tomorrow, I'll show the way there and I'll be able to help you then." He was about to lead the boy back inside before the young man sprinted down the path and into the trees.

"Wa-wait! It's almost dark out! It's too dangerous by yourself!"

Naruto turned around and yelled back to the old Fairy Tail member. "It's okay Bob-San, I can take care of myself. I'll see you soon." The boy sped forward into the snowy mountain range.

Bob raised his hand to signal for the boy to come back but he was already too far. "*Sigh* My goodness, that boy is so impulsive. He's just like Makky-chan and Rob-chan in the old days. I hope he will be okay."

Kushina sighed "Your counterpart should have listened to him Na-chan."

"Mom, even if he is young, chibi me isn't that weak" Naruto frowned slightly and replied back.

Kushina shook her head "He's different from you Naruto, he didn't grow up as a shinobi who trained but," she clenched her fists at the reminder "He was used by Danzo for years and was stuck in that damn tower for years after that without having any guidance in combat" she finished bitterly and angrily. Minato put a hand on hers to help her calm down with a frown at the reminder.

He understood her but unfortunately, they couldn't do anything about it now.

"He also doesn't know that much about his magic powers yet" Kakashi grimaced slightly thinking about his student's counterpart situation. He hoped nothing would happen or that he encounters someone from that Damnation guild or any other Dark one before getting any kind of training.

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Naruto stomped forward through the snow as his boots crunched into the white frost. His path had been covered by the frost and he couldn't see a clear path through. All he could see was illuminated by the light from the moon and the stars. The night had come faster then he had expected as noises and strange calls were being made through the bushes and trees.

Naruto took in the scent of the pine trees and the snow around him. And even though he wasn't certain, he thought he was being followed. It wasn't a mage because they didn't follow him from behind. It wasn't even a person from the sound of continuous crunching of the snow. Naruto continued to walk forward until he was sick of it and faced the moving bush.

"So, something is following you in the dark" Gray narrowed his eyes in thought racking his brain to find out what it could be.

"We know it's a not a person but a creature, so that rules out any Dark guild members" Erza commented, her tone a bit relieved but still worried for Naruto's counterpart.

"Whatever is there, show yourself! I'm sick of hearing you follow me like some pussy coward freak! Come out now!" He turned around as the sight of his flapping cloak and wrapped swords was intensified by the moonlight.

He waited a few moments in baited breath as he got no reply in the end. Then a low, loud rumble over took his ears as he heard branches break and snow crunch. Naruto felt his breath hitch as out of the trees and bushes came a white scaled lizard monster with wings. The thing was quite large, bigger then him but smaller then what Kurama shrunk into. At least a medium sized creature with sharp talons and fangs. It looked young for its size and race, whatever it was? The creature stared at the boy, its black eyes made more threatening by the reflection of the moonlight.

"A wyvern!"

"It's a child wyvern" Makarov corrected his guildmember and looked at the whiskered blonde "It's still something that is out of your league right now, so your best option would be to distract him and run afterwards"

"But seeing as it's dark at now" Tsunade leaned a bit forward "It's going to be difficult since the creatures typical have better vision than us at nighttime's" she would know seeing as she was a medic and had done her research a lot.

Naruto waited a few moments until he let his hands slowly come out of his cloak. He continued to look at the monster as Excalibur and Kusanagi started to form in his hands. They continued to stare at each other as neither the boy nor the creature made a move.

Suddenly, the lizard lunged forward at the boy, its teeth blaring as its mouth was wide open. Naruto's eyes widen in surprise as he rolled to the side, dodging the beast's bite. He landed on the floor and saw that the creature had taken a bite out of the tree he was in front of. The lizard pulled back and looked at the boy that had dodged him.

"This will be a very difficult fight but I forgot that you actually copied those weapons"

"It raises your chances slightly but it would still be difficult" Kakashi support Gajeel's words but paused 'Are the weapons as durable as the originals since Naruto isn't that experienced yet?' he asked himself hoping they were.

Naruto put the swords in front of him in an x-formation. He sent some Armor to his feet and sped forward, swinging his sword at the monsters wings. The creature ducked down and dodged his swing, hearing the air being spread above its head. Naruto continued to swing his swords like an experienced amateur as the creature swiftly moved side-by-side.

Naruto made a weak swing as he stopped it mid-arc and brought his Excalibur down on the creature. It took the blunt of the weak attack with its scales as the boy tried to cut through the hard body. Naruto mashed his teeth as he got no further in his cut. He brought Kusanagi up to follow through with attack but the lizard swung its spiked tail and broke the tip of Excalibur. Naruto made a sound of displeasure as he jumped back to avoid the second swing from the tail.

He held on the broken knight sword and gripped the Japanese sword tighter. The nervous whiskered boy felt his heart beat as he continued this fight. He barely had any personal experience in fighting that wasn't changed by Kurama and was an amateur at hand-to-hand and swordplay. The only fighting he had done was with flunky wizards and weak jailers. The lizard brought its tail crashing into the snow as some vapor came flying up. It leveled itself and glared at the slightly panting boy.

"There is the glaring issue that even took your slight advantage"

Their worry for the boy was growing by the second and the fight had only just begun.

It opened its mouth and felt some magic pool together in the back of its throat. Naruto stared in wonder as the white energy started to crackle and form into sparks. His eyes opened in fear as he realized that he was about to be shot at.

The lizard shot a bolt of lightning that headed straight for the stunned boy. Naruto instinctually raised his Excalibur to protect himself but the force from the attack destroyed the rest of the cracked steel. The blade broke into pieces as part of the attacked nicked Naruto in the shoulder, causing him to roll back. He steadied himself and glared at the lizard as its attack faded out.

"This is not looking so good right now" Mira frowned hoping nothing bad happened.

"Don't count him out yet" Kakashi said looking at the barmaid "Naruto is unpredictable in many ways and he'll find a way to even the fight" the silver haired further supported his student getting him to beam in happiness.

"Kurama's chakra might also be triggered this time like against Jellal" Gajeel said hoping he was right. It was always cool to see that powerup in his opinion.

Naruto ran forward with all of his might and sent more Armor to his arms and legs, increasing his strength. He threw the hilt of Excalibur at the creature to gain its attention as he grabbed Kusanagi with both hands.

The lizard jumped to the side to avoid the useless hilt but was right in the path of the boy's next attack. It leaned back to avoid most of the swing but Naruto raised his blade and shifted into the creature's scales, drawing some blood from the scratch. The creature made a weak growl as it avoided more of the attacks.

Naruto's blade made weak but quick contact with the scales, his strengthened swings caused scratches to appear all over its body. When the creature shifted to the side, Naruto made a fast cut into the first layer of the monster's wing. The creature looked at the small scar appearing on its wing. It growled in anger as it looked at the whiskered boy.

Naruto held the blade in front of him and matched the heated glare it was giving him. The creature flapped its wings and gained the height advantage, blocking the light from Naruto's eyes as it swung its talons at the boy. Naruto used his magic to take the blunt of the attack but fell to his side. He groaned in pain as he looked back up to see the lizard prepare the second attack.

He jumped up and held the blade up, parrying the attacks from the talons as he was forced backwards. He took several steps back as the creature continued its charge forward. Naruto felt his back land to a tree and felt another attack get prepared for his head.

As the reptilian ram its claw forward, Naruto added all the strength he could and thrusted the blade forward. Kusanagi pierced the creature's paw and continued into the base of the leg. As Naruto moved the blade, the lizard roared out in pain.

"Wwwwrrrraaaaaaaaaaaa"

The winged beast flew back and landed on the snow, its blood staining the pure white frost beneath it. It held back another roar in pain as he softly limped on its pierced leg. Naruto got his back off the tree and leveled the blade back at the creature. "Dumb move to attack me, you bastard. Now get out of here before I make you wish you never met me."

The lizard raised its head and half of its face was darkened from the moonlight. It continued to glare at the human until it opened its mouth and gathered more magic into it. Naruto prepared to dodge or receive the next attack by any means.

The lizard opened its mouth and shot the lightning straight into the ground, evaporating the snow and raising a cloud of dust and vapor. Naruto's eyes widen in surprise at the clever strategy the monster had played on him.

"So, these wyverns are actually smarter than it looks like" Tsunade said intrigued. "It's going to use his vision to his advantage" she said grimacing.

The scene brought Naruto back to when he could have gotten attacked by Zabuza from anywhere during his first mission 'But there is no Kakashi-sensei this time and Kurama isn't there anymore'

It made him think on how he should improve in other areas so when Kurama was blocked in any way then he wouldn't get in trouble.

He raised the blade and waited for any signs that he could see in the covering. 'Did it run? Was that a cloud covering to keep it safe?' Whatever it was, Naruto had decided to take this chance to get out of here and run.

"This is good" Wakaba said.

"Yes, he seems to have scared it off" Macao added impressed.

Some of the others were not so sure yet and kept silent as they looked at the reader and silently told him to continue.

Just as Naruto had turned around, he was met with the sight if the lizard creature ongoing forward with an open mouth. Naruto panicked and raised his Kusanagi to intercept the beast but the monster's jaw broke through the blade and clamped down on his left shoulder and arm.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Naruto let out a scream of bloody murder as the creature painful mashed its long fangs into his arm. He continued to scream as he could feel the creature's teeth pierce his muscles and veins. He felt the intense pain maximize as the creature's teeth reached the bone and broke into the marrow.

The room was silent as they saw his arm basically getting bitten off by the wyvern. Makarov shook his head in worry "You two spoke to early" he said looking at the two friends Wakaba and Macao who didn't even responds as they were too focused on the screen.

Kushina was getting even more worried right now as she couldn't help it as a mother.

"Don't worry mom, I won't give up from that" her son reassured her making her feel slightly better and it only increased by Minato giving her an easygoing smile showing his confidence in his son. They were both worried but they also knew that it won't end here as the book still had a lot more chapters.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!" Naruto clawed at the creature's face in a futile attempt to fight back as it swung its head side-to-side, partially tearing the skin in the shoulder and giving a partial view of the bone socket. Naruto tried to do anything but he couldn't concentrate, the pain was just too intense for him to focus on making magic.

The creature increased its jaw strength as more pressure focused on the bone, already having pierced the Auxillary artery. Blood spayed out as it covered Naruto's lower left cheek and the creature's flaring teeth. Naruot continued to scream and cry in pain as his body flailed around and tried to do whatever it could. His hand continued to shake on the ground until he finally grabbed something.

Naruto felt the partial blade of Excalibur that he had thrown earlier sit in his hand. He held the broken sword in his hand as he started to pound against the monster's teeth, trying to weaken its hold on him. He pierced the gums and drew more blood as the creature let out a muffled scream of pain. In retaliation, it bit down again, completely breaking the arm as its teeth pierced and separated the bones and joints into a grotesque mess in its mouth. His arm was now bloody and bent in several different directions along the entire limb.

Naruto felt an even worse pain shoot through him as he felt weak and powerless from the blood loss. He continued to hold onto the broken Excalibur in hopelessness. He looked on in semi-consciousness as the creature dug deeper into his arm. Until Naruto finally saw a way to fight back. He lifted the severed blade…

And brought it into the eye socket of the lizard.

"You two are really going at each other" Lucy grimaced at the gore between the creature and the fighter.

"That was a good move" Gajeel complimented.

"But is it enough to make sure he get's his arm free" Erza questioned hoping it was. She didn't know much about child wyvern's since she had only fought adult ones but they were much stronger and more durable.

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Levy continued to braid the hair of her scarlet friend as they both sat in the armored girl's room in their pajamas. She hummed a silent tune as Erza just smiled at the strangely good feeling of doing such a girly thing. As Levy finished looping the last braid through, she smiled in delight.

"Why did it suddenly go away from the fight at that moment" Gajeel grumbled in annoyance at the interruption.

Natsu nodded "Yeah, I agree. I want to know what happens afterwards"

"There has to be a reason for the scene to switch" Minato placated calmy "Something interesting might come up here" he theorized getting them to stop their grumbling.

"Finished." The scarlet girl opened her different eyes as she picked up the small braid from her still growing hair. She looked at it in a mirror Levy provided her and smiled at how she looked. "So, what do you think?"

"I love it Levy. I think you did a great job." The new Mage laughed at the praise she received from the older girl. Erza continued to admire the way it looked in the mirror. "I think I should keep it like this. Maybe I should grow my hair out, what do you think?"

Cana wanted to ask Naruto and tease both him and Erza again but held back seeing the mood in the room and knew it wouldn't really help to joke at a time like this.

'Oh right, he already called her beautiful when they just met' she though back to their first meeting.

"I think it would look good on you Erza." The two girls laughed as they continued to talk to each other. "Hey Erza, why did you join the guild?"

Erza opened her eyes and looked thoughtful into the sky, looking up at the full moon. "I... I heard a lot about it from an old friend of mine. He used to tell me so many stories about the wonderful times he had here and I wanted to see if I could have something like that." She looked over to the bluenette who was looking up at her with wide eyes "and so far, I think I can see why it is so wonderful."

Levy nodded in agreement as she smiled back at Erza. She fiddled with some of the things she had brought from her room over to the other girl's. Erza stayed there in momentary silence until she decided to ask. "Why did you join Levy?"

Levy flinched as she remembered the events that had happened at her old village. "My daddy died when I was really young, before I can even remember. And I was always taken care of by my mommy. But she was always really sick, needing to stay in the house all of the time." She clenched the fabric of her pajama pants as she found it hard to say the rest.

Levy frowned at the change of her past and shook her head "I didn't know any of my parents in here but it looks like my counterpart's past is different in that universe" she informed the shinobi who didn't know.

"But if your mother was still alive then why didn't she join you in Fairy Tail" Makarov asked to himself remembering when he recruited her into the guild when he found her alone.

"A-and one day, sh-she passed away and I couldn't do anything to help her. I-I was supposed to stay at the village in the orphanage until another family member could take me in. B-b-but..." Erza shifted on the bed and looked behind her, seeing that Levy was holding her sobs and trying not to cry. She turned around and embraced the girl in a hug, Levy taking the chance to let out some sobs into her chest.

"The-these horrible men, wi-with fists of fire just attacked our town, killing so many people. They sa-said that the town was harboring lawless fugitives, an-and that they had to take care of them itself. Only a few people and they almost destroyed the town. M-most of us got out but we had nowhere to g-go. And I heard about this guild and I wanted to be safe and stay away from them." She let out a few more sobs as Erza's eyes softened in understanding.

"I-I-I wanted to have another family."

They all felt their heart go out for the poor girl's situation as Levy's eyes were watering slightly 'Even if it's my counterpart, it still hurts to know that happened to my parents' she thought sadly.

"Are you ok, Levy" Lucy asked in worry.

"I'm alright, it hurts to know and see this even if it's not me" the blue haired girl explained getting them to fall silent and think about it.

"I agree" Kushina piped in knowing how she felt each time Naruto got in trouble.

Erza patted her back to calm the shorter girl down, hoping to help her through this. She had heard in the papers and whispers from older guild members about that horrible guild. It spoke of saving the country and its people, but it was only a terrorist group that thought it was doing the right thing. It was obvious that anyone who attacked a single group of the independent guild would incur the wrath of the entire battle force. And they would hunt down the guild that started the fight and take it out. It was suicide to try and fight those men.

Erza thought back to how her friends would have reacted to something like this. People who killed others just to get their point across and raise their own image were no different than the jailers. She clutched onto the crying girl and thought back to what her old blue haired and whiskered friends would have done against men like that.

"It's okay Levy. We are here for you at any time." Levy looked up from her spot and into the kind brown and blue eyes of the normally armored girl. "We are your family. And we will protect you always. So never forget that okay."

"That's right, we are all there for each other" Makarov smiled at his pseudo family getting them to shout back in agreement loudly.

The shinobi smiled at their close relations 'He's like the third gramps who thought of the village as his family' Naruto seeing the similarities between the master and the hokage position.

Levy made a weak smile as she nodded and continued to hug her new friend. Erza wondered if they would be safe if those monsters ever came to their door knocking. Fairy Tail was very well known for causing trouble and spreading bad news. She just quietly listened to the sobs of her friend as she opened her eyes with new found determination.

If she ever saw them, she would make them pay.

"Hell yeah, we would make sure to make them pay" Natsu shouted, energized to know about a possible battle.

"Calm down, Natsu" Lucy brought him back to reality making the boy pout but Levy laughed a bit at his antics.

"This Damnation guild justify what they're doing by saying it's in the name of peace huh?" Naruto said remembering his fight against Pain and what he was told.

"Reminds me of Akatsuki" Tsunade commented.

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"Wwwrrraaaaaaaa!"

The lizard let out an excruciating muffled roar of pain as it kept biting the disfigured limb. Even as blood poured out of the pierced eyeball and down the side of its face. Naruto kept twisting and pushing the blade further into the bloody eye. He kept his teeth mashed as blood started to excrete from his mouth from the pressure and pain.

"Back to the fight" Gajeel said interested, having forgotten about it because of the topic of Damnation and Levy's past.

"It doesn't look like he's budging from his attack" Erza said frowning at the wyvern not letting go of his arm.

"He needs to hit him in the other eye" Natsu shouted once again.

Lucy sighed "No matter how many times we tell him that it is a book he is talking to, he doesn't get it"

"That's Natsu for ya" Happy replied to while still munching on his nearly finished fish.

"How about that you bastard? You like that? Have some more!" He harshly pulled the blade out and thrusted back into it, blood spraying out over his right hand. The reptilian just kept letting out more muffled screams as it held onto the arm, the boy making no attempts to stop stabbing. The creature then started to pull on the limb as the boy planted the hilt back into its ruptured cornea.

"Gawk!" Naruto felt the lizard like monster pull on his dismembered limb, ripping the muscle fibers and stressing the socket joint loudly enough for him to hear. Naruto knew what was going to happen so he pulled the blade up, meeting the skull bone of the eye socket. They both knew that they weren't going to be able to use the damaged area ever again.

So they had a contest to see who could make the other one's more painful.

"That is not going to end well, the creature seems to have much more durability and strength" Tsunade said shaking her head at the strategy.

"At this rate, your arm could get pulled off"

"Don't think like that, Kakashi" Kushina glared slightly getting him to sweat slightly. He was being realistic is all.

The creature pulled with its disrupted might as it still felt intense pain from the eye gouging. Naruto just tried to pull the blade out as the bone and fibers were being pulled out of the shoulder. They both put the last of their strength into it as they made the final blow.

"Rraa!"

"Aahh!"

The creature completely pulled out the left arm, leaving only some stray fibers to float from the exposed socket.

Naruto pulled the blade with all of his might, cutting into the skull and making a deep gash along the left side of its face.

The creature spit out the broken and dismembered limb as it stared to flail around, taking in the intense pain of having its skull pierced and pulled. It continued to roar until it started to flap its wings and take off. The creature left unsteady as it flew back into the depths of the mountain range.

"And you actually lost your arm"

Naruto grimaced slightly "At least he flew away and I didn't die" he voiced out in a small voice.

"You could still bleed to death" Erza instantly argued back at his dumb point making him blink.

"That's not good"

"You think" she said palming her face in exasperation at his nonchalant attitude in this situation.

Naruto was silent, and near breathless, his eyes wide open as the strange felling took over him. He felt no pain or anxiety, only a slight sting and a sense of cold washing over him. He moved his blood covered face to the side and looked over to the left. Past his blood geyser spraying socket was his dismembered limb, lying on the floor like something the cat had dragged in.

Even though he was numb, he could have sworn he could still feel the former body part move.

The white snow started to be bleached in crimson blood as he looked up into the sky, flakes falling down the trees once again. He felt the cold take over as he let out some sporadic breathes, visualized by the cold air. He lay on the floor as he didn't know what to do.

He couldn't feel his legs so he couldn't stand up.

He couldn't move his arm and crawl his way back to the blue guild.

Hell, he couldn't even say anything because his voice wouldn't come out.

"He's going into shock" Tsunade said now sounding a bit more panicked as there was no one to help him.

"He needs to use Kurama's chakra to start his healing ability before he loses consciousness" Mira said as her heart beat frantically in worry for him.

"Yeah that's right, your other was impaled by spikes a couple of chapters ago and he healed from that thanks to Kurama" Gajeel reminded them of the incident as some showed unhappy faces at that time.

"He can't" Naruto answered shaking his head "Before I could control Kurama's chakra, I needed my emotions to go wild in order to use them or Kurama lending me some of it but now I can't do neither since chibi me isn't even feeling anything and Kurama isn't there"

The blood started to bleach the wrappings on his back, the original Kusanagi's rags started to turn red. Naruto only hoped that none of his blood got onto the book or it would have been ruined. As he lay there, he remembered that the book was on his right side and the cloak was keeping it from getting touched by the snow.

Heh, he was lying here bleeding out and he couldn't even think of his own predicament.

Maybe this is what Kazuya-San was feeling as his time came?

No! Not like this! Naruto wasn't about to come all this way just so he could die in the middle of a snow covered road in the deep forest. He still had to find Jellal and get him back. Milli-chan and everyone were probably still out there. He had just gotten his freedom; he wasn't about to lose everything again.

He still had to see Erza.

He still wanted to see Erza.

Erza and Naruto both blushed from the teasing grins sent their ways.

"There is the push you need to use Kurama's chakra"

Their entire faces were red now as they knew that Naruto was feeling like this because he wanted to see Erza!

The girls gave Erza a wink and while Naruto got a thumbs up from the others.

As the blood started to pool together, Naruto thought through some possible options. Maybe he could wrap his wound and run back. Or maybe the snow and ice could cover it. God, he wished he could heal himself!

"He might be too panicked to think about Kurama's chakra" Lucy muttered worriedly but Minato shook his head.

"Don't worry, he does realize it" the previous hokage assured having read ahead a bit when they were teasing his son and Erza.

"Actually, now that I think about it" Tsunade said gathering the attention to her "Kurama's chakra might be able to stop the bleeding but would it be able to grow an arm?"

"Kurama?" Naruto asked his friend the question while the fox went inside him shook his head.

"I have never tried to do something like that, I did heal your destroyed organ when Sasuke pierced it but I didn't try it after you got your arm blown off since I didn't know what it would do because I am just a mass of chakra and an arm consists of much more. I don't know what would come out as your new arm" the fox explained getting Naruto to accept it since Kurama wasn't sure what would happen.

"He hasn't tried anything like that since he doesn't know what would happen because he is just chakra and an arm is much more than that" Naruto explained to the awaiting members of the room who understood now "It's also why he didn't try it when I lost my arm against Sasuke"

"It's understandable to do something like that when dealing with the unknown" Kakashi added. As much as they knew about the bijuus, there was still much more to learn. Maybe Naruto could go even to a higher level thanks to Kurama and they didn't know it just yet?

Naruto's eyes widened as he realized his best choice. He remembered all the pain and blood he lost as a child weapon, and how those were healed.

Kurama's power.

He closed his eyes and calmed himself down, remembering how he used to do it as a child. He opened his eyes once again to see he was no longer in a snowy field but a watery sewer. Here, he could stand and walk, no longer feeling the pain. He looked to his side to see that his arm was still gone, even in this mental mindscape. But that didn't matter right now; he had more pressing matters right now.

He walked up to the old, rusty bars of the jail cell and peeked inside. Just like he remembered from years ago, the featureless, expressionless hunk of non-moving chakra body was still sitting there. He was still reminded of what his old friend had looked like by this empty husk.

Naruto knew he couldn't access the full power of Kurama's chakra because the former Biju's mind and soul weren't in control. The body was just a husk of energy, memories and emotions. He couldn't even touch the power unless his mental state was pushed into such a state of angry frenzy that he just let himself go.

Levy turned towards Naruto having thought back to his fight against Sasuke seeing Kurama's chakra again "Do you think that your counterpart might be able to use that golden form in the future like you?"

The blonde went silent in thought thinking about it but couldn't answer it, so he went into his mindscape looking at Kurama expectantly since he also heard it.

"Just like your arm situation, I don't know if it's possible since you are the first person to get that form and no one else before has been in this situation except your counterpart" the bijuu explained to him getting Naruto to nod in acceptance.

He came out of his mindscape to tell them what Kurama told him letting them think about it.

"So, it is not necessarily something we can rule off" Erza said in interest.

"That would be awesome if my other could spar fight against you in that" Natsu said in excitement hoping it was true.

And he knew that the chakra would not be able to heal him like it once did. But even if it could make some skin and cover the worst of it, there could still be a chance. Naruto walked forward and lifted his hand, trying to touch the unmoving orange body. His hand made contact with the leg of the former indestructible creature and the chakra started to slowly form a round his arm.

He opened his eyes back in the real world and saw that the wound had started to scar over and partially heal. Naruto also felt some strength return to his limbs and body. He thought that it had finally worked.

Until...

Naruto felt an immense spike and burning sensation take place over his left gash. He mashed his teeth again as he let out another pain staking yelp of agony. He looked to his side to see a vile red energy take over the former left shoulder. It started to bubble together and form outward, making a formation.

"This is pretty graphic" Lucy said not liking the scene that much.

"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" Gajeel shrugged not finding it that bad opposed to Lucy.

Inside of his mind, the chakra started to turn black and gather together on his left side. Naruto tried to claw at the amorphous black energy that made a small string towards the unmoving body. It started to form its own version of an arm as the unstable energy made a claw of some sorts.

Naruto felt a horrible burn as the red energy started to form a white mass where his shoulder left off. As some time passed and he tried to fight back, more and more of an arm started to shape itself underneath the red covering. Fibers and veins were created from the powerful energy and wrapped around the bone. Finally, muscles started to take shape and finish of the product.

"Fascinating, to think that the Kyuubi's chakra is able to heal someone to this extent" Tsunade said in awe. 'Looks like Naruto's healing ability is much better than I thought.'

"You should have just gone and done that when I lost my arm, Kurama" Naruto said remembering the 1 year that he had to live without his right arm.

"Don't be so quick to think that all it took was pain for your arm to come back. There has to be some sort of disadvantage for this. Even with me at your side, you can't just lose an arm and expect me to just recreate one back for you" the fox replied back sternly at Naruto. His jinchuriki went silent before giving him an apologetic face.

But then it changed. The skin was darker and jaded. It twisted around and the exposed bone started to stretch and point at the end, making his fingers closer into claws. A strange dark fur had sprout out of where the first of the skin laid.

"And there is probably what Kurama himself was thinking of"

"So, if Kurama had done this after you lost your arm against Sasuke, then you would have gotten this too huh?" Kushina commented in thought. She thought it wouldn't be that good as even though people didn't outright dislike Kurama anymore, they would still find some way against her son's because of the arm.

"Those stupid humans would probably think you're turning into me" Kurama said with a roll of his eye.

"No offence Kurama but I think my normal arm is probably better" Naruto said to him "The whiskers are good enough"

Naruto noticed none of this as the pain and sensations were taking their toll on him. His vision started to tunnel and fade as a strange feeling had started to take him over. Why did he do this alone? Why did nothing ever go right for him? How come he always saved people but they never helped him?

What did he do to deserve this?

Why was his life like this?

He should teach these people a lesson! He should show these people he is not someone to be fucked with! He should kill them!

He should kill all of them! It was what he did best!

"Whoa, where did that come from" Eflman questioned, completely caught off guard by his sudden bloodlust.

"Kurama was treated as a tool and kept getting sealed making him cynical and full of hatred towards humans" Naruto said sadly and a bit angry "His chakra is effecting chibi me causing him to become like this" he explained. It was essentially like him going four tails on Orochimaru.

"Poor Kurama, they didn't deserve to get treated like that" Erza muttered frowning.

'Should not have done what you did ji-sama' Tsunade sighed remembering her grandfather starting all of this. Even if he had good intentions, it completely backfired.

Naruto's faded eyes widened at why his thoughts had suddenly swerved to murder and torture. He then realized that all of those pent up emotions from the chakra were affecting him worse then he could even believe.

He tried to keep some semblance of himself as his whiskers had started to grow a bit rough. And his hair was getting spikier as he lay on the ground. And he didn't realize it, but his blue eye was close to changing into crimson.

As Naruto had this panic attack and a strange change happened to his left arm, he didn't realize that another pair of feet was making a crunching noise in the snow as it came closer to him. He tried to lift his head but all he could see were some boots speeding towards him.

"It could be someone sent from Master Bob" Erza commented hoping she was right and it wasn't someone like a dark mage.

"Or it might be that person from the mountains" Kushina added.

"Yes, it could be Rob who might still be alive" Makarov voiced out his theory from earlier getting some surprising and doubtful looks from others but Kakashi and Minato nodded in agreement.

"Oh no, this is worse then I thought. I had heard noises from the cabin and thought someone was killed, but this. And not you. Why did this have to happen to you?" The feet had sagged a little as the figure bent down and patted the irritated boy's head, earning more growls from the feral changing boy.

"Don't worry, I'll fix you right up."

Naruto tried to look up but still found no result. But he did notice something that his pain and anger soaked mind didn't notice before. He had heard this voice before. It was soft. It was calming.

The screen showed the person which caused some of the to be surprised.

'Looks like I was right' Minato, Kakashi and Makarov all thought happily.

Erza smiled tearfully seeing that he was alive and sniffed slightly "But how did he survive that attack from Jellal?" she asked out loudly. She was a bit jealous since he didn't survive in this universe but still happy nonetheless.

"Outside help?" Juvia suggested.

"There is no other way, he was injured when he got on that ship, so you should be right" Minato explained 'But the question is, who helped him?'

"And I am so happy to see you again Naruto-kun."

And it all went black.

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Date: X768, April 9 Age:27

We have just moved from our old town into this new one. It is quite a nice place. It's called Rosemary. It is quite beautiful and very peaceful.

'Rosemary' Erza mulled about the town in her mind. She hadn't heard of it but it was expected with how the Zeref cultists picked up people. 'It's probably destroyed by now' she thought sadly.

We have some wonderful neighbors with a little girl of their own. She is about the same age as Erza and I just know they are going to be wonderful friends. Her name is Kagura and she is almost as cute as Erza.

Almost. But not quite.

I hear that she has an older brother but he wasn't there today because the father took him out to get checked at the doctor's.

It's Erza's Birthday tomorrow. My baby girl is going to be turning 3 years old. I can't wait.

Erza frowned slightly trying to remember anything from those times. 'I really can't remember anything' she thought sadly but her thoughts were interrupted when her shoulder was bumped slightly. She looked over to see Naruto grinning at her having sensed her emotions.

She smiled back showing she was alright and was accepting the revelations about her parents and their past.

'Maybe I can try and find my father's journal' The tower of heaven might be a place she hated but there was the possibility of the journal being and the swords still being there.

Erika and I have planned to take her out of town and go across the sea to show her the land. Erza is always happy when she was out and playing in the grass or dirt.

We have to get preparing for her little party. We might even let her take another bit of cake.

Just one though. For a little girl she really loves strawberry cake.

"Erika also seemed to like strawberry cake" Makarov chuckled "Like mother like daughter huh?"

Erza smiled happily knowing. Even if she had never met her parents, it was always good to know she had that in common with her mother.

The metal fingers slowly closed the book and held it firmly in his grasp. His other wrinkled hand came up and rubbed the bridged of his nose. It was just too much to read about what her wonderful life was like before she ended up there. And it hurt even more when he kept re-reading the end. And he knew that if the unconscious whiskered boy behind him had found this personal book and those swords, then…

*huff* It was just too much.

'So he did probably know about my parents' Erza thought frowning inwardly but not showing it on the outside. She was slowly accepting the other information about her parents but this one still irked her. Even if she was a kid, she still deserved to know about parents.

She almost let out a yelp when she was poked by a stern Naruto who had sensed her turmoil 'Right, he can sense my emotions' she thought pouting slightly. It was nice of him to keep checking on her but it was also something that could get annoying. She let those thoughts go away from her mind and just decided to enjoy reading more about this book of their counterparts.

"Does he have some sort of armor on or is it something else?" Kushina asked a bit confused at the man's state.

"It's metal reformation prosthetic casting…" Makarov explained it briefly getting the shinobi to nod in understanding. It was not a bad concept even though Naruto's was advanced since it also contained Hashirama cells.

He heard an uncomfortable grumble come from behind him. His blond charge had been unconscious for nearly a day, recovering from the horrible wound and the resulting regeneration.

Naruto let out a painful grumble as he tried to move, his body feeling sore from the physical exchange from earlier. He slowly opened his eyes to look into the ceiling of an unfamiliar building. It looked like a building with a roof made of wooden planks. He was on a bed close to a wall in a small cabin.

Naruto tried to prop himself up but felt the ghost pain from his left arm still strike him for an instant. He noticed that the smaller of his wounds had been patched up and healed. But he couldn't see what had happened to his left side. As he was about to look, a voice made itself known to him.

The screen showed the scene play out and some were surprised as they noticed Naruto's left arm.

"Looks like Naruto also got a prosthetic" Minato stated looking over at his son's arm.

"It looks cool" Naruto said smiling as a thought came to his mind "Chibi me could even get a reputation out of it like Kakashi-sensei did with his sharingan."

"You know, I could only guess that you were making a reckless move to come out here by yourself. Bobby probably tried to stop you but you probably ran off in a hurry." Naruto looked to his right with blurry eyes as the figure with his back to the boy continued to stir a pot of food. Naruto could see his swords and journal lying by the man's side and thought he had taken them from him. He tried to get back up and leaned on his side but find it was futile.

"But I have to say it is endearing to see you come so far." Naruto looked up at the back of the elderly man as he finished stirring. A metal gauntlet hand landed on the book and patted it. "That little boy who was so anxious to get out has brought himself all the way here. And with a mission of his own no doubt." The man turned around and looked at the boy.

Naruto's eyes widened in shock at the sight in front of him. His top hair was shaven off but he still had the long beard that Naruto would pull to get his attention. The right side of his face and neck still had burn scars over it but they had healed somewhat. He was wearing a thick jacket as he sat in front of the pot on the fire. And his eyes still had that look of pride along with that smile that helped him through when he was in pain.

Naruto felt tears well up in his eyes. "R-*sniff*Rob-jichan?"

"I forgot that Naruto must have thought that he died" Mira said smiling at the reunion between the two.

"Poor boy has gone through a lot already, so it's good to see something good happening to him" Makarov said being happy his friend was alive and the boy had his grandfather figure back.

"It's so good to see you again Naruto-kun." The man said as some tears formed in the side of his eyes as well.

Naruto tried to lift himself up but flinched as some pain passed through him once more. Rob saw this and took up a chair, bringing it to the side of the bed. "Ah, don't stress yourself Naruto-kun. Your body still needs to grow accustomed to the prosthetic metal."

"Pro-prosthetic what?" Naruto asked his grandpa as he heard a strange clanking to his left. He leaned over and saw something attached to his left shoulder. He lifted the arm and saw what had happened.

What had replaced his left limb was now a strange metal gauntlet. It was a silver arm that had layered points skipping on it. At the tip of his hand were the fingers that were moving with his thought. He flexed his fingers and noticed that the arm followed with his command. He followed the casing and saw that it was attached at where a nasty fresh gash was evident around his socket joint. He stared at the arm in wonder and horror.

"Wh-what is this?"

"That is a Metal Reformation Prosthetic Casing. It was used a lot during the war for injuries and amputations. It's actually quite handy." He lifted his right arm to show the boy his own. Naruto looked up and saw that where the burned and severed arm left off was followed by an exact replica of his left arm. The man lifted it up and started making fists and shapes.

"What does it do?"

"It's actually a powerful tool that can be used in combat or used for sealing stuff" Makarov explained to everyone since he was the only who knew about it.

"Sealing? Is it like that fuinjutsu?" Levy asked in surprise.

"Ah no, what is meant by sealing is for example: blocking a poisoned arm off from coursing throughout the rest of your body. It is in basic words a wall to stop energy or poison or something else. It is not actually like what we have seen of fuinjutsu"

"Heh, well it was meant for use during combat when soldiers were either wounded or poisoned. The casing was supposed to act as an extremely powerful sealing tool to cut off any poison or ailments from coursing through the rest of the body. And it was used to help amputees integrate easier into society with a functional prosthetic limb." He moved in closer and helped Naruto lean against a pillow on the head board.

"It feeds off the magical impulses the body sends through the body and function as a normal limb. So even if the body part was no longer useable or" he lifted his right hand once again, "blown to smithereens, you can use it again. I collected a bunch of this metal after the Cabria War ended. I thought it may come in handy if I ever got myself hurt too bad so I kept some in all of my houses. Looks like I was lucky."

Naruto lifted his aching arm again and gazed at its strange feeling. "What happened to mine?"

Rob stopped his little laugh as he stood back up and picked up a bowl. He poured out some hot soup and brought it back to the bed. He pulled out the spoon and blew on it to cool it down. He lifted it to the boy's mouth, signaling him to take a sip. Naruto leaned forward and took the tip of the spoon in his mouth; the broth poured into his mouth and slightly burned his tongue.

Many smiled at the scene between the young boy and the older man.

"Your counterpart will be out of commission because of this" Tsunade said shaking her head "Rushing in without a second thought could lead to many bad things happening" she looked straight at Naruto knowing he understood what she meant.

'I need to mature a bit more if I want to be Hokage' the boy thought realizing his rushing and impulsiveness would cost him sometimes. Even if he was the strongest, it would still not be wise to do something like this.

He swallowed the soup and realized it was one of the best things he had ever eaten. Rob continued to feed him as he watched the boy greedily eat the food. "When I heard roaring from the forest, I thought that a Wyvern had flown from the mountain and attacked someone. As I ran, I noticed a young Wyvern fly from the forests like it was hurt. And when I came close to where the fight was happening, I found you missing an arm."

Naruto looked up at the man from where he was being fed and remembered what had happened. The horrible burning sensation and the thing that sprouted out of his side. "A strange red bubble started to form around the open wound and I didn't know what was happening. But soon you started screaming and holding onto it as a new arm started to grow from where the old one was. Then it started to change."

"What do you mean change?"

"Like what was being made wasn't human. It was a claw, like a fox's arm but mixed with a human's. It actually looked like it had fur and was tearing up the ground underneath you. And you didn't look like you were faring much better yourself. You looked like if I left you there you were going to change into a monster. So I ran over and knocked you out."

Naruto finished sipping the contents of the bowl as Rob laid it off to the side. "I thought you were going to be taken over by that arm so I thought fast. I covered your arm in the casing, hoping for the best. I knew it wasn't magic taking you over and I didn't even know if it would have worked. Lucky for me the reformatting cut off all energy the energy, not just the magic."

"So, right now Kurama's chakra is blocked off by that metal?" Minato questioned getting a nod. It was interesting to know that it had this capability.

"Yes, and Rob left a lot of power in it meaning it can actually be used as an extra power or a trump card" Makarov explained getting Naruto to perk up.

'So chibi me's arm is like a constant mini sage mode' the 18-year-old thought in interest.

Naruto nodded at his explanation even though it basically went in one ear and out the other. He closed his eyes and quickly jumped into his mindscape, to see what had happened. When he did, the boy noticed that a strange shield was covering everything in front of his left shoulder and cutting off all sight on the other side. Like a massive wall built around a boy's arm. Naruto looked down at the metal. "So, when can I take it off?"

"Ah, that is not something you can do unless it's destroyed"

"What" Naruto asked disappointed "But I can just take this one off fine" and to prove his point, he took off his prosthetic arm.

"What the…" many of the guild said in shock and surprise at how casual he did that while Natsu found it amusing as he laughed.

"Knock that off" Erza said sternly getting Naruto to chuckle.

"Alright alright" he said and put his arm back on like nothing happened while Makarov chuckled.

"Well, yours seems to be a lot better than metal reformation prosthetic casting" Makarov said impressed with the technology of the shinobi.

Rob coughed uncomfortably at his question. "Well, you can't. The metal basically forms to almost a second layer of skin and takes the place of the affected limb. It is extremely difficult to remove and take off. Even so, in your case it would be a bad idea. That energy was cut off but it is still stored inside the case of your arm. If you find a way to take it off, it will build up and take you over again. And I won't be there to stop you this time."

"Oh, that too" Kakashi said referring to Kurama's chakra acting up again if it was destroyed.

"Seems like you'll be stuck with that forever then"

Natsu crossed his arms, seemingly in deep thought "Do you think Gajeel would try and eat that" he asked getting them to facepalm while Gajeel looked at him like he was idiot.

"I wouldn't do that you stupid Salamander" the dragonslayer replied getting him to huff.

"It was just a question?"

"And it was a stupid one" Gray mocked getting some nods in support. Natsu just pouted and looked at his partner.

"You agree with me, right Happy?"

"Aye!"

"So you mean..."

"Don't ever take that off." Naruto nervously nodded at the simplified explanation. He felt an awkward silence take over the cabin as they both stayed silent, the flickering of the fire being the only sound they heard. Until Naruto shuffled underneath the sheets.

"I..." Rob looked down at his young friend "I'm really glad that you are okay." Rob saw that Naruto's eyes were kind of watery as Rob smiled and wrapped his arms around the young boy. Naruto felt the nostalgic feeling of being kept safe in the man's arms. They both laughed for a little bit.

"What happened after we separated?" Naruto flinched at all of the events that had played out after he had left the burned man on the boat. Naruto started to explain everything that had happened to him afterwards. The meeting and betrayal of Jellal. Losing Erza and falling into the tower catacombs. Waking up and living on the island. And how he had found the graveyard. Rob nodded and listened to everything that he had said. After he was done, they stayed in momentary silence.

"And what about you? Rob lifted his squinty eyes and looked at Naruto as he stared back at him. "I thought that you died when your ship exploded. How are you still alive?"

Rob chuckled as he looked at his young charge. "I got some help."

"You were right Juvia" Gray said nodding getting the girl to swoon in happiness at her crush's acknowledgement.

"Looks like we'll get to see how he survived and who helped him" Minato said turning the page to see the flashback.

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Naruto ran off the deck of the ship as multiple other salves were setting the ship up for travel. The older male slave in charge grumbled as he looked to the damaged, singed man. "Oh fuck this! I ain't taken care of some burning corpse!" He walked over and roughly grabbed the burnt arm of the former Fairy Tail Mage, earning a pained gasp of intense pain from the poor man. He dragged the body to the edge and prepared to throw him overboard.

"How could he even think to do something like that" Erza snapped in anger at the man. If she had been there then she would have gladly thought that person a lesson.

"Calm down Erza, I'm sure someone will stop it" Mira placated getting her to lean back into her seat, a bit embarrassed at her outburst.

But just as he was about to, a pair of small hands grabbed the man's arm and held his throw in place. The older man looked down and met the heated gaze of a slanted eyed red haired boy with what looked like a small snake on his shoulder. "What are you doing?" The boy questioned in his little voice as he grabbed underneath the burnt man's arm and lifted him up. "You heard that punk, you can't just throw him overboard like that."

"It's that snake guy that attacked Naruto" Natsu said a bit surprised by the boy saving Rob.

"I completely forgot about that guy" Naruto said scratching his head. He had thought the boy was someone very rude but he was actually not a bad person here as he saved Rob.

"That guy is basically dead already. And he would just stink up the ship if we left him on here." Several other large men followed behind him as they all had fearsome looks on their faces. "We are throwing him off." The man reached down but was intercepted by a small wall.

In front of the boy and the burnt man were several other children, blocking their path. A fat boy with orange hair. A little boy with sharp yellow eyebrows and a shaven head. A black-haired boy with bags under his eyes. And finally, a little girl with white hair and a feather resting on her ear.

Erik glared at the in anger as he gripped the elder's arm. "We are not letting you kill this man. You would be no better than those fucking jailers if you did something like this. So, Fuck Off!"

"It is sad to know that the children know better than the adults who should the ones to guide them" Makarov sighed in disappointment at the older slave's reasoning.

"Humanity has always been like this" Minato said sadly.

The man's anger reached its peak as he started to reach for the boy but the child wall had intercepted him. The children all held the bulking slaves back as Erik carried the man over the deck. They reached a small life boat and Erik gently laid the man down on the benches.

"Here Ossan, you should be safe here. I can't guarantee that you'll find land but it is better than being thrown off the side of a boat." He prepared the ship to leave as the older men had captured the other children and had started to put them on a life boat on the other side to throw them off. Rob barely lifted himself up and looked at the crimson haired boy.

"Why are you helping me?" The boy stopped his preparation as he looked to the old man. He smirked at him as the snake shook its tail.

"Cause I can't let that freaky cat bastard be the only one to be the hero." He waved the man off as he started to lower the boat. Rob felt the last few feet fall faster as the boy was taken and thrown onto the row boat with the others.

"I'm not a cat, stupid snake boy"

Erza shook her head "So your short rivalry with that guy was what essentially saved Rob-jisan" she said a bit disappointed that Erik didn't do just from the good of his heart but also not let Naruto do better than him.

"But he was thrown off board by the other men in doing that" Lucy pointed out getting the redhead to blink and feel a bit bad for thinking so badly of boy.

Rob felt the waves take his ship as he laid there, feeling the flow take it. He then heard another explosion and saw that the ship had blown up.

He realized that he being crippled had just saved his life. But he could only regret at the feeling of forsaking his friends and those young children. As he silently floated on the water.

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"I floated for a few days until I was found near a beach in an old town. The closest guild there was Lamia Scale, so I got some help from a young lad named Jura and I was on my way. Blue Pegasus was just a week's travel so I headed there. I got some help from my old friend Bobby and I walked up here. And have decided to stay here for the time being."

Makarov was a bit confused "Why didn't he contact me or visit Erza" he said frowning. Why didn't Bob say anything to him.

Erza also frowned along with him feeling disappointed that Rob didn't contact her.

"It's only been a couple of weeks since he got there. He was probably busy a lot but would have done it but now he has to help Naruto" Minato pointed out.

That got them to feel a little better but they were still a bit confused as to why Bob didn't send a letter to Makarov.

Naruto nodded as his eyes lowered in sadness. He was so worried about Rob and had thought he was dead. What did he know? Old people like him just never gave up. He continued this train of thought until Rob interjected.

"What are you going to do now, Naruto-kun?" Naruto looked up and then back down at his hands, lying in his lap.

"Well, I guess I'll leave and go back to Fairy Tail. That is where I wanted to go in the first place. And when I'm there, I'll go looking for Jellal and everyone again. It should be pretty easy. This was just a setback."

"Hmm." Rob grunted in agreement as he picked up the bowl and walked back over to the stew. "And what if it wasn't?"

"What?"

"I said what if it wasn't?" Rob tuned around and looked at the boy. "What if you lost because you were weak?"

"I-I'm not weak. I've fought hundreds of ninjas. And I beat all of those jailers back at the tower."

"That was mostly because of Kurama's powers" Kakashi commented.

"And your counterpart doesn't have that anymore"

Naruto nodded in agreement "Chibi me should start training his magic more before going to Fairy Tail like I did with ero-sennin"

"Yes, but you beat those ninja with the help of the power from Kurama. And those jailers would have lost against a strong gust of wind. Those aren't achievements to be proud about."

Naruto grew angry at what his friend was implying. "What do you mean?"

The man stood up and towered over Naruto with his height. "I'm saying you aren't going to be lucky like you were today. That was only a child Wyvern. An adult one can fight up to several experienced mages by itself. And there are some mages out there that would kill a child like you for just the boots on your feet. Maybe even less than that." Naruto continued to glare at him until his eyes weakened and he nervously gripped the sheets of his bed.

Rob softened his eyes as he knelt down and put his hand on the boy's shoulder. "I don't want to see you get hurt anymore. You have so much to give to this world Naruto-kun. And I know that people would be crushed at the thought of losing you." Naruto looked over at him. "I know I would."

"So, what do I do?"

Rob smirked as he stood back up and pounded his flesh hand against his chest. "You are lucky to be in the same house as one of the most experienced mage's in Fairy Tail history. I can fight of multiple mages and monsters by myself. And~..." He looked down at Naruto who was watching only him. "I may just feel like teaching you that strength."

"That's surprising but that means chibi me gets to learn that" Naruto said happy for his counterpart getting the training he needed.

"Rob might not have been the strongest of us but he was the smartest and most skilled in various magic" Makarov said supporting his friend's words.

"Your counterpart is in good hands with the training!"

"Really Rob-jichan?!"

"Yep. And you are lucky. That new arm of yours can probably be used as a strength."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I mean that when I cut off the flow in your arm, I left off a large amount of power still in there. So if you use it right" he winked at the kid and gave him a thumbs up "that power can become your trump card!"

"Trump card?" Naruto looked into his hands as he still couldn't understand what he meant. "What do you mean by that?" As he did that, he let his arms powerlessly swing out.

And as his left arm made contact with the cabin wall, a chunk of the wall exploded out and vaporized the snow and wood. A loud crash and dust cloud rose up from where the impact had destroyed a part of the cabin wall.

As the dust cloud floated out, it left an image of both Naruto and Rob looking at the hole. Their eyes blackened out by their hair as they both kept stone faces on. Naruto started to shake as he sweated profusely.

"Eh-ehe-ehehehe. He-hey, Rob-ji-jichan, l-look." Naruto turned around and looked at his older parent. Sweat pouring down his face as he tried to completely ignore the damage he had caused. "I blew up a wall with a punch. A-ain't that cool?"

Naruto laughed to himself "Ha, my other proved him wrong in being able to destroy a wall with a punch" he then turned towards Erza with a cheeky smile "And he did that before you hehe."

The others sweat dropped at him holding that over Rob and her but when they saw how she looked slightly miffed they almost face faulted.

"Yes, it really is Naruto-kun." Rob's face betrayed no emotion as he looked at the boy with a smile. "And it will be even cooler after the training we will start after you fix this wall."

'Da-Damn It!'

Naruto pouted at him having to do that while Erza smirked at his expense.

"Well, that's another chapter done" Minato said while suppressing a yawn. They had read quite a lot and just as he closed the book, the sky was once again darkening.

"Man, I'm tired" Gray said releasing a yawn and standing up causing some of the others to do the same. Not long after everyone had vacated the room and gone to their own bedrooms where they would sleep while Naruto and Erza continued to talk with each other for a couple of hours before also going to sleep.

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Phew. This chapter is a very long one. I don't know why I just realized this now but there is already 150k+ words and it hasn't even reached canon yet or Naruto's reunion with Erza! The original has almost 800k+ words and thinking about it now makes me wonder how much words this fic will have around 30 chapters or something…

We don't know anything about Levy's past, so I made her past not tragic but still sad as she is an orphan.

Before anyone points it out, I know six paths mode or Rikudo mode is not his strongest form which is Baryon Mode but Naruto here doesn't know about it. So, for now it's still his strongest.

I hope you guys like the fight and the reactions. As awesome as it was, one thing I really disliked about the fight was how stupid and dumb Naruto was fighting. He only used Rasenshuriken once and literally chucked away his Truth-Seeking orbs for some arrows he could dodge… Ughh that really bothered me so much with how Kishi made Naruto such an idiot during that fight. Sasuke was using his rinnegan, Amaterasu, Chidori and Kirin while Naruto didn't use even 1 of his kekkei genkai's…

I also switched in-between using scenes from Anime and the Manga. I didn't want it to make too long with all the flashbacks, so at the last clash, I just switched to Manga.

Someone mentioned if there was the possibility of another fight being shown. The answer to that is no! This will be the only fight from the Naruto series that will be shown. After this chapter it'll continue with only showing 'Titania and The Hunter'.

Now that my rant is done, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and do check out the original story written by Master Attlon and be sure to leave a review.

See you next time!