[5]
Minato hurried down the stairs, with Natsu and Sting right on his heels.
"You can't let him take us! You promised to protect us! You promised!" Sting shouted.
"Okay, okay the both of you chill out for a minute. Mard's not going to go to legal action, he knows what will happen if he tries." Minato said.
He faced both boys, with Rogue and Gajeel on the couch turning around to listen in.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Natsu asked.
"It means if he tries to go to court about this, he'll lose. Because I left money for all of you, and I can easily prove that he didn't run an orphanage." The blonde continued.
"What are you talking about?" Sting asked.
"He didn't run a legit legal orphanage. He ran a show. Sold off certain kids, just to experiment on the others. You guys." He explained.
The slayers rubbed their arms and looked nervous.
"Now you don't have to talk about anything you don't want to, but I can prove he was running an illegal experimentation lab on minors." Minato explained.
Natsu and Sting smiled a bit.
"But wait," Rogue stood up from the couch, "Mard isn't stupid. He's smart. He should know this already, why would he take you to court if he knows he's gonna loose."
"He might have something else in mind." Gajeel said, also standing up.
"Oh, I know that." Minato said.
The slayers looked at him in confusion.
"And I intend to find out what he has in mind. And I'll rip it from the roots." Minato said.
Natsu smiled evilly, Sting and Rogue smiled as well.
Gajeel walked up to Minato and turned him to him.
"I don't like this. Mard is dangerous with really deep magic. Devil's magic. If he-"he started to say.
"Gajeel it's okay. He's not gonna- "Minato started to say.
"It's not that!" Gajeel barked.
Minato's face softened.
"What if...what if he hurts you... or Kushina. How is that fair? Putting you in danger for protecting us, Mard is ruthless." Gajeel explained.
Minato smirked with a slight chuckle.
"You boys don't know your father very, well do you?" Kushina questioned, coming out of the kitchen.
The slayers all turned to her and then back Minato.
Minato lit up like a flame, his fire bright chakra robe and black markings on his body. A powerful energy that they have never felt before.
The slayers' eyes all rose in shock.
"I thought," Sting noticed the markings on the robe, "I thought you said your son, Naruto, had that power?"
"He has half, and I have the other half. Quite fetching." Minato said.
The slayers were all in shock. How strong was Minato exactly?
There was a sudden knock at the door, which made Minato power down.
"Hashirama, Madara? What are you guys doing here?" the blonde asked, once he opened the door.
"Legal work?" Madara asked.
Hashirama held up a stack of papers, "Ready to go over?"
"Oh yeah, we were supposed to do that today. Okay, can yall meet in the Dome Garden outside?" Minato asked.
Hashirama and Madara both nodded, and made their way to the room, thanks to Kushina.
"Hey guys, I'll bring you some lemonade real quick before I drop the kids off at school." She said.
Madara nodded.
"Hey Kushina?" Hashirama called.
She turned around.
"I think it's great that you and Minato are taking care of these kids. I bet they really appreciate it." He explained.
She smiled at them, "They are getting more comfortable with us as the days go on, we just wanna keep them safe."
"Is that all?" Madara questioned.
Kushina hesitated to answer, so she walked back inside.
"You don't think they are doing this to replace their kids, do you?" Madara asked.
"Replace their kids, never. Fill the void, and have some happiness so the pain isn't so bad, maybe." Hashirama answered, opening one of the folders.
"Mm," Madara paused, "Um. How's Mito?"
"Don't ask me about that." Hashirama said.
"Hashirama. Please, I don't mean to stir up bad feelings but, shouldn't we talk about it?" he asked.
"Why?" Hashirama questioned.
"Hashirama, we hooked up in a janitor's closet with your soon to be ex-wife not only five hundred feet away." Madara said.
Hashirama got up, moved behind Madara and leaned closer to his ear.
"You enjoyed it." He whispered.
Madara shivered a bit. "Don't do that." He said.
"Why?"
Madara licked his lips, "You- "he started to say.
Hashirama had lightly, used his pointer finger and thumb to cup Madara's chin. He leaned closer and pressed his lips on the Uchiha.
"Mm." Madara grunted, as Hashirama pulled back from him.
"You're telling me you don't want to continue?" Hashirama questioned.
"I didn't say that..." Madara said.
"Well, I wanna go public." Hashirama said.
Madara looked up at him shocked. From the back door of the house, Minato stood there as cool as a cucumber. He saw the whole thing, he nodded to himself.
So that's what's been going on.
Kushina pulled up to the academy, and put the car in park. Wendy hopped out of the car, and undid her blue hair letting it drop. She looked over her shoulder looking at Hanabi Hyuga. The youngest daughter of the Hyuga's leader.
Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, and Rogue hopped out of the car.
"Can Minato and you find a way to keep us from Mard?" Rogue asked her.
Kushina smiled, and ran her hand through his black hair, "Yes, knowing Minato he's probably gonna prove that Mard is unfit to care for any children. And best placed in our care." She said.
"What if Mard digs up dirt on Minato? Like the past?" Natsu asked.
Kushina's face dropped, making Sting and Gajeel glare at Natsu.
"Sorry..."
"It's fine. Even then, we are better care than Mard is. Now, go to school and be normal teenagers okay?" she said.
"So, I can bring a girl home for the night?" Gajeel questioned, making his brothers laugh.
"Do that and I'll bury you six feet under." Kushina warned, using her finger at him.
He smiled, as his brothers patted his shoulders to walk along.
"Wendy, want me to walk you to class?" Natsu asked.
"Please." Wendy begged, she kept staring at Hanabi who was then blocked by Romeo Conbolt.
They hugged each other.
Inside, Yukino unzipped her black and white FAUX LEATHER DETAIL JACKET by her locker and shoved it in. She pulled out the school's blazer and put it on. She reached down to fix her black Faux Suede Ankle Boot.
"Yeah Yukino! Whoo!" shouted Laxus Dreyar, walking down the hallway with his friends.
She rolled her eyes at him, just as Hisui walked up to her in her BELTED EMBROIDERED COAT.
"Hey cousin." Hisui said, she clicked her Badgley Mischka Womens Meg Ankle Boot.
"Hey, how was the home situation last night?" Yukino asked, as both girls leaned on the lockers.
"You mean, being forced outta the closet by our couin's vicious brother? Peachy." Hisui said sarcastically.
"I'm so sorry about that." Yukino said.
"It's okay, not your fault. I'm just glad they sent him away, but now my parents know about me. They could barley look at me for the rest of the night." Hisui explained.
Yukino touched her cousin's shoulder just as she saw Sting, Rogue, Natsu, and Gajeel walking down the hallway.
Yukino checked out Sting, he noticed, and grinned at her. Hisui turned to her cousin.
"Don't tell me you're into the newbies?" she questioned.
"Well I can't say they aren't yummy to look at. So hot." Yukino playfully fanned her cheeks, making Hisui laugh.
"What's so funny?" asked their cousin, Lucy.
"I gotta go." Hisui said.
"Hisui, wait. Please." Lucy begged, grabbing for her cousin, "I'm sorry for what Noel did last night. It wasn't fair."
"Mm, glad you think so. I gotta go, gotta do the morning announcements." Hisui said, yanking her arm away from Lucy.
The blonde sighed in frustration, and closed the button on her black TRIM DETAIL HIGH LOW BLAZER. She kicked her black CHLOÉ cutout ankle boot at the locker.
"Calm down, she's just mad." Yukino said to her.
"She's acting like I 'outed' her." The blonde defended.
"I know you're upset, but it was your brother. I don't even know why you told Noel that." Yukino barked.
Lucy sighed, "I wanted us all to be close like a family, and tell each other everything. I never thought he would announce that at the dinner table in front of her parents."
Yukino sighed, "Note to self, don't tell Noel anything."
Lucy shook her head, and then looked over her shoulder to Natsu and Gajeel walking up, after they dropped off Wendy.
"Oh my god, them." Lucy said.
"Once again, they are yummy to look at." Yukino said, she moved to intercept the boys.
"Again?" Lucy questioned.
"Hi, I'm Yukino. I think you met my cousin yesterday." She explained, "Hisui."
"Mm, I see the resemblance." Gajeel said in a low voice.
Natsu hit his brother in the stomach with his arm, "Nice to meet you. I'm Natsu, this metalhead is Gajeel."
Yukino smiled and nodded to them both. "This is my other cousin, Lucy."
Lucy pushed back her blonde hair, and extended her hand to shake Natsu's.
Natsu gripped his fingers around her hand and shook it softly. Lucy gasped for a minute.
Natsu's eyes.
His smile.
His fire power going up his arms.
Her power behind him, blasting his back.
She reached up and touched his face, in the nude.
The light shined brightly around them.
She laid in a bed with him at her side.
His smile.
She snapped out of it.
"You okay?" he asked.
Lucy nodded quickly, but she couldn't stop staring at him.
"Loke!" Yukino shouted behind her.
Lucy jumped when she felt Loke's arm wrap around her stomach.
"Hey, you okay after last night?" he asked, kissing her forehead.
Natsu turned his head away back to Gajeel.
"You mean, my brother being a first-rate asshole to my cousin, no." Lucy said.
Loke wrapped her up, as she wrapped her arms around his waist.
"Oh uh, this is Natsu, and Gajeel." Lucy introduced.
"Oh hey, nice to meet ya man." Loke said nicely, shaking their hands.
Laxus came stomping up behind them, with his followers.
"What's this?" he questioned.
"Jesus Laxus, can you ever lay off?" Lucy questioned.
"What? I'm not doing anything," he said sarcastically, "I was just coming up to meet...our new students."
"You trying to start something again?" Gajeel barked, turning around to face him.
"Hey hey." Natsu said, he pulled Gajeel back revealing a deep-rooted scar on his arm.
"What's that?" Laxus asked, grabbing Natsu's wrist.
Natsu's face angered, he gripped Laxus's wrist and started roasting it.
"AH!" Laxus shouted.
"Get your damn hands off me!" Natsu barked, shoving Laxus off.
"What the hell!" Laxus snapped, until Freed and Bickslow caught him.
"Now who needs to calm down." Gajeel whispered in Natsu's ear.
Gajeel wrapped his arm around Natsu and pulled them along.
"Nice job Laxus, piss off anymore people and we're gonna have to put you in a psych ward?" Sasuke Uchiha questioned, walking up with his friends.
"Could you damn ninjas, just mind your own business?" Freed barked.
"Not talking to you Freed." Kiba barked.
Natsu and Gajeel halted in front of the Uchiha. Natsu looked closer.
"Are you a...?" he started to ask.
"Uchiha. Yeah. I am." Sasuke answered, "I'm guessing you've seeennnn, which one?"
"Spiky long hair, hangs around Hashirama a lot, has a purple eye." Natsu explained.
"Mm, that's my uncle." Sasuke confirmed.
"Easy around the Uchihas, they are very sneaky." Erza Scarlet said, making Sasuke turn to her.
"But delicious." Cana added making Erza smack her arm.
Sasuke smirked, turning back to Natsu and Gajeel.
"Easy around these guys, ninjas are ruthless." Mystogan Fernandes said, walking up with his twin brother; Jellal.
"And you wizards are cocky." Choji snapped.
"And this is stupid." Gray Fullbuster said, walking in with his brother, Lyon. Ice wizards.
Natsu eyed Gray closely, the Fullbuster studied him back.
"What's going on out here!? ALL OF YOU GET TO CLASS NOW!" barked Makarov Dreyar.
His deep voice cackled through the halls, making everyone jump and quickly scatter.
Once class was dismissed, everyone was gathered in the gymnasium. Gym class was also known as the 'Fighter Hour'. Where students gathered up together to take each other on.
Lucy was up against her cousin. On the platform, high above the ground towering over the other students.
Hisui was panting, and Lucy was sweating.
"Are they gonna knock each other out?" Natsu whispered to Sting.
Sting shrugged, "I have no idea, but they have some strong magic. Bringing out spirits to fight for them, some golden ones." He explained.
"Mm." Natsu said.
"Looks like they are about to end it." Rogue said, pointing out.
"You always get everything! Everything! You just get it all!" Hisui barked.
"Would you stop taking everything out on me! Be yourself for once!" Lucy shouted back.
Hisui's face angered, and started to say...
I ask that the heavens make the stars descend to earth.
Illuminate... by all means... this land... this world... this land!
By your hand, let everything be illuminated.
Twinkling, shooting, falling... Let the stars descend before us!
Gottfried!
"Hisui! No! She's not supposed to perform that spell!" Yukino shouted.
Lucy smirked and started chanting another spell.
Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens...
All the stars, far and wide...
Show me thy appearance...
With such shine.
Oh Tetrabiblos...
I am the ruler of the stars...
Aspect become complete...
Open thy malevolent gate.
Oh 88 Stars of the heaven...
Shine!
Urano Metria!
"LUCY!" Yukino barked.
Loke jumped up on the platform, and snapped both girls outta the spells.
"UH!"
"AGH! LOKE!" Lucy shouted.
"I guess they weren't suppose to do that." Rogue whispered to Gajeel.
"You got that right." He answered.
"Now you both know you aren't supposed to be doing those spells! Celestial princesses or not! I will knock you both out if you do those spells again! You know you can't do them without Yukino." He barked at them both.
"And I'm not getting in this." Yukino barked.
"I don't need a second person to perform my spell! I was born first, I'm stronger!" Lucy barked.
Hisui angrily stared at her cousin.
"Cool it, Lucy." Loke barked.
Lucy turned away from him, and hopped off the platform. She walked towards the locker room, staring at Natsu, on her way, and kept staring at him. He stared back at her. She hurried into the locker room, and kicked the metal.
She pushed back her blonde hair and fixed her dark navy shorts stuck in her butt. She decided to change into a navy-blue one-piece swimsuit. Locked the door to the pool. And dove under the water. She took to the surface and broke it. She pushed back her wet hair, and swam to the middle of the pool. So, she wouldn't feel the bottom of the pool. She laid her head back in the water, and floated.
For a moment, she felt peaceful. Until she felt the water ripple around her. She straightened up and looked all around. Someone broke the surface as well...
The dark blue haired beauty pushed her hands through her long hair, Hinata Hyuga.
pushed her hands through her long hair.
"Hinata." Lucy said, swimming over to greet her.
"Hey, I thought I was the only one to come into the pool when stressed." Hinata explained.
"Mmm, great minds think alike I guess." Lucy smiled.
Hinata smiled as both girls started to do laps, back and forth. Left to right. Up and down.
After they swam, they went back into the locker room. They dried their hair, laughed at each other, and put their clothes back on. Hinata pulled up her black Aprance Paper Bag Pants for Women Casual Trouser Elastic High Waist with Pockets, which the school approved. She slid on her black Block Heeled Thigh High Suede Boots. Lucy slid on her olive green FAUX LEATHER DETAIL JACKET, as Hinata slid on her grey FAUX LEATHER DETAIL JACKET.
"Uh, hey what do you think of these new guys?" Lucy asked.
"The slayers that Minato and Kushina adopted? Yeah, kind of shocked me." Hinata said.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked.
"I mean after the...death," her voice trailed off, "I didn't think they'd ever consider kids again." Hinata explained.
"Well, that's not what fully happened Hinata. Minato and Kushina were approached about that, they were asked. They went to the orphanage and took them. No one really knows why though." Lucy started to say.
"Sshh." Hinata said, out loud.
She looked around, her eyes activating.
"There's someone in here."
Lucy rubbed her arms, suddenly feeling cold.
"That's dark magic." She said.
"Very, very dark." Hinata stated.
"Very nice ladies." Someone said behind them.
Hinata and Lucy slowly turned around to a glowing purple magic circle. Dark crescent marks. Dark power. The girls' eyes went up in shock.
"Oh my god!" Lucy shouted, pulling Hinata with her out of the locker room.
The purple circle started to leak out some magic like a plague cloud. Following them. The girls tore into the hallways of the school.
"What the?"
"Hey hey hey." Sasuke reached out and pulled Hinata in by her waist. "What's going on? What is it?" he questioned.
"That!" Hinata shouted, pointing to the dark purple cloud.
The smoke turned into that of a person. The man cackled.
"You little babies." He cackled.
All of the students stayed by each other's sides as the man cackled.
"I've only come here for one thing, but looks like I'm sitting on a gold mine." The man said looking around at all the students.
He smiled again until all of a sudden, he was blasted back into the wall behind him canceling out the cloud. Everyone turned around to the four slayers standing side by side.
"Looking for us?" Natsu questioned.
The man stood back up, "AH. The slayers, the real slayers. I'm afraid it's time to say goodbye to the good life, you're wanted elsewhere." He explained.
Natsu turned to his brothers who shrugged at him.
"Do you honestly think we'd go with you?" Natsu questioned.
"You don't have a choice." The man growled, "You think just because some richy richy picks you all up, you can run from it all?"
"You don't control us." Sting barked.
The man flared up, and grew more and more angry.
"NOW!" he barked, making the students jump.
The slayers shook their heads side to side, slowly. All of them then flared up in their power, dragon force. White scales on Sting's arms and all up his face. Black scale marks on Rogue's arms and all up his face. Gajeel's body turned to pure metal. And Natsu's body grew fire scales all up his body and his face. Pure dragons.
Everyone looked amazed at them and backed up.
"Being out here now, we can experience our powers thanks to Minato." Natsu said.
He recounted a memory of in the backyard with Minato, he taught them how to use some of their powers to their fullest potential.
The man backed up a bit until he bumped into another slayer. Wendy, also powered up. The man looked shocked as Wendy tilted her head to the side.
"I always knew you were a powerhouse, even for a little girl." He said.
"Would you like to take my brothers on?" Wendy snapped.
The man paused.
"You have no idea what I'm capable of, let alone them." She gestured towards her brothers.
The man grew annoyed and readied the dagger, the ancient one.
"WENDY!" Natsu shouted.
The other students wanted to help, but Romeo got there first. He held up his arm with some type of flame on it, to harden his skin. He cocked his head to the side at the man.
"I think it's time for you to go." he said.
The man looked at him angrily.
"You don't come into our school and threaten people that are ours." He hissed.
Wendy looked at Romeo with shock and wonder.
The day ended, and the school was shutdown for the night. However, Neji Hyuga stayed behind in the school's council room. He put some papers away and untied his long brown hair. He stood up from the round desk table and gathered up his things in his brown Genuine Mens Vintage Leather Backpack.
"Leaving so soon?" someone said by the door.
He jumped and turned to the door to see Sasuke standing there.
"What are you doing in here?" Neji questioned.
"You've been avoiding me. Every time I come down the hallway, you turn the other way. Every time I try and contact you, you brush me off." The Uchiha explained.
Neji looked away for a moment, and then rubbed his arm.
"What do you want?"
"I wanna know why you cut me off, we had fun over the summer. Why'd it end?" Sasuke questioned.
Neji shook his head, "You know damn well why it ended." He snapped.
Sasuke gulped and licked his lips.
"You almost outted me in front of my father, because what? You didn't have complete control over me?" Neji barked.
Sasuke gulped, and looked around the room.
"The second I pulled away, you wanted control. You Uchihas, always, want control." Neji snapped.
"Oh, and you Hyugas have such morals?" Sasuke barked, stepping closer to Neji making the boy back up into the table, "You Hyugas kiss ass and then show your power when you cornered. Remember how you almost stopped my heart?"
Neji stuttered to speak.
"Exactly, don't walk around like you Hyugas aren't as just as bad as my clan." Sasuke barked.
Neji crossed his arms and looked away.
"My family knows who I am, they know I'm bisexual. There's nothing wrong with it." Sasuke said.
"You have that luxury, I don't! My father will hurt me if he finds out that I'm..." Neji started to say.
"What? Gay?" Sasuke barked, "I might be bisexual and have more of an attraction to girls but, I still like boys too. And I liked you." He stepped closer getting very close to Neji.
Neji leaned back, bumping into the table, gasping.
"Tell me you don't feel the same." Sasuke whispered.
Neji gulped, "I'm not answering that." He turned away.
"If you don't tell me right now, I'll take you right now Neji. On this table, right here," Sasuke gripped Neji's waist, "Right now."
Neji shuddered, but then turned to Sasuke's eyes, "Last time. That's it."
"As long as I can have you." Sasuke said.
He pulled Neji to his lips, and the Hyuga didn't back off. He kissed back with just as much passion. Neji pushed off Sasuke's Motorcycle Vintage Hand Buffed Leather Armor Jacket. Sasuke wrapped his arms around Neji's waist and lifted Neji up, placing him down on the table.
"Uh." Neji grunted.
Sasuke pushed him down on the table, flatly. Neji looked behind him for a moment, wondering if he should just stop this now. He ignored the thoughts. He undid his button down, and Sasuke pulled it open showing his chest. He leaned down kissing Neji passionately, as Neji kept his legs up and sighed lustfully when the Uchiha's lips explore his neck.
Kushina opened up the front door, but groaned in annoyance at the visitor's scarlet pink hair.
"Mito, what is it?" she asked, frustrated.
Mito turned around, tear-soaked eyes, and her make up was running. Kushina's eyes went up in shock.
"Wha-?" she started to ask.
"I tried," Mito cried, "I'm not here as a member of Uzumaki. I'm here as a sister. I tried to be a good wife to Hashirama. I tried. He's with someone else now, and I'm humiliated. I can't...I can't...I..." she wailed.
"Come here, come here." Kushina pulled her sister into her arms.
Mito cried on Kushina's shoulder; she rubbed her back.
"It's gonna be okay, it'll be okay." Kushina said.
"Uh, I'm sorry am I interrupting something?" someone said behind them.
Mito wiped her eyes quickly, Kushina kept her arm around her sister. As they both turned to Gildarts.
"Sorry." He said again.
"No, no. You're fine. What's up?" Kushina asked.
"Well I was gonna ask your husband what he was planning to do legal wise against Mard after the attack at the school today, but I see a crying woman and make-up ruined." He said.
"Jesus." Mito looked away.
"Well, that can mean two things," Gildarts said, "Either a broken heart or a chance for a coffee date?" he said talking directly to Mito.
She turned to him, cocked her head, and formed half a smile.