Chapter 14: Spoiling Another's Fun
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"AHHH YOU MOTHERF-AHHH!" Naruto wished to vent out his tremendous pain before clutching his stomach. Naruto then fell forward after losing his balance, luckily landing on one of the swords embedded into the roof. Naruto gritted his teeth as he pushed himself off the sword. He then tried hard to raise his hand over his left eye, to see the reaction he was dying for.
"Just a little peek…." Naruto muttered as he tried hard to bear with the pain just to see Jellal's reaction. As Naruto's hand nearly reached his eye, a closed fist connected with his face, launching toward one of his swords. Naruto's impact caused the sword to release from the roof it was pierced toward. Naruto was slowed down by the blade as he landed on the near edge of the roof.
"Nice punch…. But should have went for the ki-" Naruto bit his lip and clutched his abdomen, as the searing pain refused him from finishing his line. Mystogan noticed this opening and went dashing toward Naruto. He took out his staff, ready to use a spell, before he had to dodge it when Naruto grabbed a sword and threw it toward Mystogan.
Naruto stuck his hand out, as he set up summoning one of his blade from his pocket dimension, but it failed. Not only was he not able to access his pocket dimension, who couldn't find the connection with his magic in general.
'Seems the spell really fucked with my connection…' Naruto thought before gritting his teeth, in both frustration and the still searing pain going through his body. He bit his teeth as he looked at one of the pierced blades a few feet between Naruto and Mystogan.
Mystogan was still a little staggered by the sudden flying blade toward him, but he had to focus quickly. He knew Naruto was unpredictable in combat if what he saw a year ago was anything to say.
Mystogan saw Naruto run toward a blade and he knew he must act. He planted 5 of his staffs forward, so he can call up a spell that would distract Naruto enough for a move meant to finish him.
"Skyscraper!"
Naruto was lifted 100s of meters from the roof he was just on, before being tied by four belts. He then watched the sky as a giant demon rip through the sky and head toward him.
Naruto just smirked toward the demon before biting his lip hard, causing blood to start to drip.
"Do you really think a simple illusion would work on me?" Naruto said with a smirk before he saw Mystogan prepare another attack, he once seen Mystogan use before.
"No, it was only there to by me time…" Mystogan said, causing Naruto to lose his smirk. He looked up and Naruto made the perfect response for what was going to happen next.
"Oh shit…" Naruto said before he was hit by a beam of light. He was sent crashing down through the roof, into a room Naruto was not fond to be in. He grunted in more pain before leaning on his elbow and spitting out some blood before looking up.
Instead of the masked man he expected to see, he was instead found in an even worse situation.
"He... he… hey Sarlet-chan…" Naruto said with a wavering smile before turning toward the other person in the room. A man who was glaring daggers toward Naruto.
"H-hey bud, sorry for ruining your plans…" Naruto said with an 'apologetic' smile, but Jellal could immediately tell Naruto was taunting him. He clenched his fists before another person. Hopped down the roof and landing inside the room, causing Naruto to sigh and lay back on his back.
'I'm in the room with a psychopath with a damn god-complex who I just happen to ruin his plans to resurrect his man-crush; a masked mysterious, tragic-origin type who attacks me when I try to talk; and then there is my crazy ex, who should not hesitate to kill me now… oh and I also don't have access to my magic.' Naruto said as he looked up toward the open roof and gave a small smile.
'How am I dealing with this shit…'
Natsu vs. Ikaruga
Natsu gritted his teeth as he tried to keep himself from falling.
"Uh… that crazy trick of yours is very similar to Naruto's you know…" Natsu said as he kept his eye out for the swordswoman who had a confident smile. Natsu till now tried many different ways in trying to get close to this woman, but all of the ended with him narrowly dodging with mere cuts.
"This power is nothing compared to his…" She said as her beautiful smile disappeared, in place of a frown. "But this power is still enough to kill you."
Natsu gave a confident smile as well as he crouched slightly before launching himself toward Ikaruga. She smiled as she prepared to use her ability against Natsu, but that is what he prepared.
Before she can land a hit, Natsu shot flames out of his left hand, causing him to change directions. His left arm was still damaged as Ikaruga was still able to land an attack on his left arm. Natsu quickly stopped himself as he launched a quick roar.
"Fire Dragon Roar"
Ikaruga quickly distinguished the flames with her blade, before she found Natsu appear through the distinguished flames with his fist pulled back and his own confident smile.
Fire Dragon Iron Fist"
Ikaruga picked up the sheathed blade to try to block the attack, but the force was too much. She was launched back hard, causing her to go through the wall.
"Huh… I need to hurry and find Naruto…" Natsu heard a small tremor above him causing him to smirk. "Found him"
Before Natsu can go to the top of the tower to fight Naruto, he coughed out blood as he looked down to see a blade stick out of the left side of his abdomen.
"I'm pretty embarrassed right now that I was forced to unsheathe my blade but... " Natsu looked back to see that the blade was actually extended from where Ikaruga was sent through. She walked out with her clothes in tears and her mouth bloody. "But you broke a couple of my ribs… and sullied my clothes."
Sigh
Naruto laid there as he clenched his face as he carefully waited for them to act first, since he now understood in what type of situation he was in right now. He was against a major handicap right now after all.
He stood up as he held a blade next to him loosely in his right hand. His eyes quickly kept shifting from Erza to Jellal, Jellal to Mystogan while he surveilled how to get out of this situation.
'If I tell them that right now my stomach hurts a lot…" Naruto contemplated before he quickly pulled up his blade to block Erza's strike, causing them to look at each other.
His cerulean blue eyes meeting her brown pair.
He smiled slyly, before grabbing her wrist by surprised. He pulled Erza in front of an incoming attack from Mystogan, causing him to stop quickly. Naruto used this opportunity to attempt a killing blow on Mystogan, but he had to jump back once he noticed that Erza crouched and was about to cut him right open with her own blade.
"That was a killing blow Scarlet-chan! Gramps would be disappointed if he saw that…" Naruto said before the corner of his eye, he noticed another Jellal appear and fuse with him. Naruto was going to act as he figured out what them coming together meant, but he couldn't as Mystogan appeared in front of him with his staff pulled back.
Naruto prepared to counter it, but Erza beat him to it as she grabbed him by the wrist and launched him back. He landed, as he stared at Erza questionably.
"Please forgive me Mystogan, but he is my foe…" Erza said as she stared at Naruto with both hands clenching her blade. Mystogan sighed before noticing Jellal smirk mischievously at all of them. He gritted his teeth before turning towards him. He honestly expected Jellal to be defeated by Erza by now, but guess his plan had to change.
"Sorry Jellal, but your opponent is me now." Mystogan said with a deeper tone, as he tried to hide who he truly was.
"Well since that nuisance over there ruined my plans, I need to improvise with three S class mages instead." Jellal said as he tried to go around the issue Naruto caused.
"I apologize, but I will have to stop you…"
Naruto vs. Erza
Naruto took a quick breathe before Erza requipped into her Flight Armor. Before Naruto can even react, Erza appeared midair behind him with two different blades. Naruto blocked the strike with one blade, but Erza did not stop there. She loosened her grip of one of her blades slightly, causing Naruto to lean forward due to the loss of pressure on her side.
Erza quickly used the speed boost her armor gave her, to unconventionally spin and try to strike his right leg. Naruto quickly recovered and brought his blade down to defend, but the force was surprisingly to much for him. His blade recoiled back after impact, causing an opening.
Erza, quickly changed the position of the blade in her right hand and aimed to pierce through Naruto's side.
Naruto's eyes widened before he loosened his right shoulder, allowing the recoiling blade to motion his body just enough for the blade to miss him.
Erza didn't stop there as she used the backhanded position of the blade to make an upper motion, slashing through his back. Naruto gritted his teeth before piercing the ground and launching himself away from Erza.
Erza didn't stop there as she launched herself toward Naruto, appearing over him. Her left hand let go of the blade it held, as it reached forward and grabbed him by the neck. She slammed him down and sat on his lower abdomen, preventing him from escaping. She held a blade over him, ready to end him before she stopped once Naruto did the unthinkable.
She blushed slightly when Naruto grabbed her ass with the position he was in. Naruto smirked as he used her moment of hesitation to flip her off of him. He quickly picked up both of the blades she dropped.
"I thought I told you to not get distracted during battle." Naruto said with a taunting smirk as Erza unexpectedly smiled back.
"You need to pay attention, you perverted idiot." She said as she pointed at her blades. Naruto looked down as he noticed runes shine on both of them. Naruto quickly found himself stuck to the blades, which fell down to the ground weighing a ton.
"Sigh… I really regret teaching you runes now…" Naruto said with an annoyed tone as Erza summoned a blade and smiled at him.
"Bet you are…" Erza said as she launched herself read to strike Naruto, but was surprised when Naruto picked up both blades after a few seconds, smiling back at Erza in the process.
"Though you need to work on the few kinks it causes when you combining two different runes." Naruto said as he lazily waved both blades in his hand. "Oddly Entrapment Rune is still active…"
Naruto picked both blades in a crossing position, preventing the piercing motioned blade from landing a vital hit. Naruto smirked before letting himself fall back. Erza quickly recognized his intended action, as she did the same earlier. Erza stopped herself from putting weight forward and crouched slightly, before spinning her heel and aimed to sweep Naruto's leg.
Naruto smirked as he twisted his body before having his legs sweeped. He wrapped his legs around her once he was in position. He twisted his body again causing her to fall back. Shocked, she quickly tried to get back up. Naruto saw this coming, as the moment she sat up, he did a spinning kick, causing her to fall back down.
She was stunned for a moment, before her instincts took over and brought her blade up. She gritted her teeth as she struggled to keep the blade away from her throat. He was slowly winning the battle of strength, but he was forced into alert once a pillar of flame appeared out of the ground.
moments ago…
Ikaruga stood there calmly as she held both hands on her blade, trying to ignore the urge to fall from her injuries. While Natsu was in the same situation, as he held his side, trying to slow down the blood flowing out.
"Extend!"
The blade once again extended toward Natsu at a quick pace. Natsu quickly launched his body to the side, but that is what Ikaruga expected. Natsu noticed a weird rift in the air around her blade, before having the front of his abdomen be cut open enough for him to bleed. Natsu stopped as he crouched, holding his stomach.
Ikaruga smiled before the extended blade caused her to lose her own balance. She retrieved her blade back to normal from the ground.
"You are sure to die, dragonslayer." Ikaruga said as she used her blade as a crutch to pick herself up from the floor.
Natsu gritted his teeth as tears formed in the corner of her eyes. He could feel the damage being fatal, isas he more blood came out.
Igneel
Natsu let his head fall down to the pavement, eyes wide with tears shamelessly escaping.
Happy
His eyes began to blur as he coughed, caused by blood caught up in his esophagus.
Fairy Tail
A cold sensation began to form around him as his vision was completely blurred, body slowly becoming weaker.
Naruto… Naruto
It returned to him; the very words Naruto once said to him. Words Naruto denied being genuine, but Natsu truly believed in them. Natsu gritted his teeth as he tried to use pure willpower to stay conscious. Tears streamed out of his eyes as he clenched his teeth. He picked himself up before clenching both fists on his sides. A puddle of his own blood formed below him, but he could care less as he used a spell he co-created with Naruto.
Secret Arts: Fire Dragon's Fiery Eruption!"
Ikaruga was confused at first before she watched fire swirl around to form a pillar around him. The pilar ripped through the ceilings, passing from room to room. Ikaruga could only cover her eyes with her arms, shielding her eyes from the intense heat. The fire was not close enough to damage her tissue, but that did not mean she was not feeling the intense temperature.
Her squinted eyes looked partly over her arm as she watched the pillar of flame erupt through the ceiling, heading toward the top room she recalled being where her employer is at.
She could only take steps back from the increasing heat, before someone grabbed her by the hair. She turned her around before kneeing her in the stomach. She coughed, before she found her head being covered by a sphere of water. She only could take a few glances at the pair, before falling unconscious.
Naruto was confused by the sudden flames, before being punched by a sudden fist.
Simon did not try to waste any time as he went for another punch, as he watched Naruto stagger off of Erza.
Naruto dodged the fist by, oddly spinning his body to Simon's right side. He then landed a swift back-elbow strike under his eyepatched left eye, cautiously avoiding the metal chin plate.
Simon was shock from the sudden elbow, before watching in horror as the two blades Naruto had stuck in his hands, motioned to decapitate his head.
he was stopped when Naruto had to change his intended target, as Erza tried to sneak a piercing strike towards Naruto's back.
Naruto held her blade down with both blades, before noticing a small dim of a light disappear on both hands. He grinned before letting go of the once trapped blade of his left hand. He switched that sword to a reverse grip and went to strike as Simon attempt to take a step forward.
Erza took the opportunity from Simon's momentary distraction as a que to summon a spear. She gritted her teeth as she lunged forward to pierce Naruto. What she didn't expect was for her to land the intended fatal strike.
Naruto coughed blood as he looked down to see a spear going through his right shoulder, avoiding anything vital. Naruto reached down to remove the blade, but Erza stopped him as she set a blade resting on his neck. He looked back to stare at her torn eyes.
"I'm sorry, but let me put you out of your misery." Erza said as she forced a smile, as tears began to fall. Naruto's eyes widened before the world around him went blank.
Cough cough
Naruto woke up from his resting place as he tried to catch his breathe. He clutched his head as he pushed himself off the grass he was laying on, before leaning on a tree close to him. He coughed a couple times before looking around.
He felt sick and fatigued at the moment, but this was the side effects of these eyes given to him by Hades. He chuckled as if wondering if these eyes were really worth all the trouble it was causing.
He clutched his chest as memories of the Tower of Heaven kept appearing today.
'Well it should be expected… we are going to meet again.' Naruto smiled softly as his eyes slowly began to blur. He looked up to the sky as he began to chuckle softly.
"I messed up a lot Kushina…" Naruto began. "Destroying my home… betraying Fairy Tail… The Tower of Heaven…"
"But today I will find redemption."
End.
The climax of the Tower of Heaven is important to further the plot, so I inserted a small time skip to the Oracion Seis Arc. I also wanted to further to the story to close into the Tenrou Island Arc which is the most important arc to the story.
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