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The book was dropped in Tayuya's lap causing her to blink before exchanging a glance with Hagoromo.
"You're kidding right, I'm not reading this shit." She snarled.
"Oh come on, just read so we can move on with the story Tayuya." Kushina called out causing the girl to look back at her. She hesitated before giving the mother of all sighs.
"Fine whatever." She huffed as she opened the book up.
Galuna Island
Naruto was jumping through the thick forest, hoping from tree branch to tree branch while looking for any sign to the Kiri rogue nin named Kenji who was the sole survivor who was still on the island somewhere.
'I need to find him before he finds a way out of this island.' Naruto's thoughts spoke out in his mind as he needed rogue down, not only was he forced to do that, but he also would need to make sure his guild mates weren't near when he found him. The last thing he wanted was them to see him fight.
"I can understand why he is so cautious, but I still wish he would be honest with our others." Lucy said.
"I'm sure Naruto will come clean with you all eventually. He's probably got it into his head he is doing it to better protect you as his friends anyway." Kakashi replied.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked.
"He probably thinks that if none of you know about his shinobi abilities it will keep enemies he has from the shinobi world from going after any of you to get to him." Shikamaru answered.
"Too bad it probably won't work out that way." Jiraiya said quietly, only Shizune, Tsunade, and the other Jonin hearing him.
Or worse, he would find them...
Just then Naruto had to trip over something that he knew in a second was when he looked down.
It was a thin wire-trap, and he just happened to fall into it.
"Always a loser." Sasuke sneered slightly before leaning out of the way of a chair arm Tsunade had ripped off of Jiraiya's seat. Tsunade simply continued to glare at the boy while Tayuya, sitting next to him hurried with the story so as not to get caught in the crossfire of the Senju and Uchiha enmity given new life.
" ... Of course…"
Erza was running through the forest and was in a hurry, seeing those explosions got her to think the situation was getting out of hand.
BOOM!
Looking up again, she saw another explosion with a thick layer of smoke spamming into the air. Ever since the large explosion that she saw from the pirate ship, the redhead mage could only guess that mayhem was occurring.
And it was most likely coming from her fellow guild members.
"We're not all that bad." Lucy said quietly.
Village
In what remained of the destroyed village was nothing but ruins and the strong scent of acid that was burning in the soil of the former residents who by now have fled their homes and belongings that they now lost to the ravage of the mages who came to eradicate them.
Natsu was forced to face off against the two dark mages, Yuka and Toby, with Gray knocked out and Lucy now facing off with the rat-holder Sherry, he now had to fight off against the dog boy and blue spiked weirdo.
"Kick their asses for what they did to those folk's home." Kiba shouted getting a smattering of nods and words of agreement.
"No worries." Natsu said with a vicious grin while smacking his fist into his palm.
How Lucy managed to pick a fight with Sherry was even in Fairy Tail's standards 'odd' as she had grabbed onto the feet of the flying rat and managed to crash it somewhere outside the village in the woods, forcing Happy to go and look for her in case she was still alive.
"Well done Lucy." Kushina said simply causing the blonde to blush at the praise for what she considered an extremely embarrassing moment.
Now Natsu jumped up high in the air and made the first move, headbutting the dog-boy Toby and attempting to send a fireball at Yuka with no success, with the blue haired mage using a shield spell to deflect his attack, the flame-breathing Fairy Tail troublemaker knew this was going to be a dirty fight he cannot afford to lose.
"Good choice, fighting fair is for people who want to lose." Jiraiya said with a smirk. Most of the shinobi agreed, though Gai and Lee looked a little uncomfortable with the position.
"Ferocious flames," Yuka said, whipping the fires away from him while eyeing Natsu in an unimpressed stance. "Don't tell me you're the Salamander from Fairy Tail I heard about?"
Natsu did not respond to the guy's question as he was in no mood to talk, instead he tried to figure out the guy's powers that stopped his fire attacks from hitting him.
"I'm good!" Toby jumped back on his feet after being hit on the head, the guy must be a hard-headed person. No injury whatsoever.
"Okay, it's time to end this." Natsu warned the two dark mages with his fists raised. "Come on!"
Suddenly without any warning, a person landed right in the middle of the field with a loud crash and caught the three mages off guard. A dust cloud had covered the area so the young mages.
Yuka was the first to respond with concern. "What is this?" Not being able to see who it was but knew by the looks it was a person. "Toby, take care of the other guy, I'll handle the pink haired one!"
"Right, I'm on it!" Toby shouted as he began to run for the mysterious person as he ran for the person, possibly a Fairy Tail member who came to help, possibly that guy Gray who was knocked out earlier.
"You're mine!" Toby shouted sprinting with sharp nails jumping out of the tip of his fingers, reminiscing like claws. "Prepare yourself!"
The person in the dust cloud countered back by slamming his own fist against Toby's and the surge of power that came out of the person's inhuman hand turned into a claw of its own.
By this, a strong surge of wind erupted and the dust cleared off fast with everyone else having to cover their eyes to prevent the dust from getting into their eyes. Unfortunately for Toby, this would be a mistake as he found himself being kicked in the gut, hard, that it sent him away into the forest, away from the destroyed village.
"Who is this? Naruto?" Mira asked.
Once the dust cleared out, the only remaining people in the ruins were Yuka and Natsu who looked around quickly and noticed what had just happened.
"Toby." Yuka shouted out his friend's name as he looked around before turning back to his opponent. "Cursed, guess I'll have to deal with you first."
Natsu smirked as he cracked his knuckles. While both mages were about to face each other off.
"You know, me and Toby used to be members of a famous guild. So you shouldn't blow us off." Yuka said with his casual grin on his face. "In fact, we used to be part of the same guild. Surely, you've heard of the Lamia Scale."
"HAH!" Natsu's response was sending a fist of fire to the rogue mage who quickly protected himself from the impact, barely summoning the magic shield around him before the flames could engulf him.
"He's like you sensei. Always talking when he should be fighting." Sakura said to Kakashi.
"Well, when you reach a certain point you can banter. He isn't on my level clearly." Kakashi said flippantly, causing several others to laugh.
"Hey, cut it out!" Yuka shouted as he did not expect this kind of response from the Salamander and responded with anger. "Listen when I'm talking to you!" Slightly he was angered by being cut off.
"What an idiot." Ino said hearing Yuka whine.
"Why?" Natsu responded to the guy with no interest "You think I care which guild you're from or who the other members are?" The dragon slayer said with no care for the blue haired mage. "We came here to help the villagers, and you are the ones who put them in danger - Which makes you Fairy Tail's enemy." Natsu's final statement was with a clear glare in his eye. "And that gives me more than enough reason to fight you."
Yuka growls at the Salamander as he was going to be forced to get his hands dirty, or to be precise, his one hand that he now has.
"Wave!" Yuka extended his hand and released a huge amount of magic towards Natsu's position as he was forced to dodge it before it could hit him. His magic did not fail to show results.
BOOM!
Natsu jumped away right on time as the wall behind him exploded, this guy's power was no small-time either. Proving himself to be an even more pain in the ass for the Dragon Slayer
"Oops." Yuka sardonically commented. "Guess you weren't ready for that."
Natsu landed on his hands and feet and reacted fast by unleashing from his mouth a stream of fire at the blue spiked mage.
Yuka's barrier yet again deflected the fire away from him with only using his hand. "The pulsing energy coming out from my hand defuses all types of magic. Which means, none of your spells will work against me."
"So that's why my firepower couldn't destroy your barrier." Natsu figured out while wiping his cheek after that attack. "Now I get it."
Shikamaru quirked an eyebrow in interest of how Natsu was going to get around his ability.
"I specialized in anti-wizard magic while I was with the Lamia Scale guild," Yuka explained while opening both of his hands with his magic. "No matter how strong they might be, all wizards are powerless against me. Even YOU!" He shouts, throwing both waves at Natsu.
Natsu quickly dodged the two projectiles and went on the offensive with a fist full of fire. "Oh yeah? Hah!"
"Wave!"
Again with his primary ability, Yuka nullified the flames of Natsu who attempted another shot at his opponent, sucking the air out of the fire covered arm from the young Dragneel who did not quit.
"Like I told you before, magic is useless against me." Yuka stated again to the flame user. "So why don't you make it easier for yourself and let me finish you off, so I can check on my friend."
"Hah! That doesn't mean I'll let you off the hook. I'll just have to crush you without it!" Natsu's next move was that of a bold one, raising his other arm and slamming it at the shield, smashing right through it with just inches away from Yuka's face who was stunned by this stunt.
"Look, I went right through it." Natsu grinned thinking it was no big deal. Just then an enormous amount of electricity shocked through the left arm of the dragon slayer.
"I didn't think that would be his only ability." Shikamaru frowned.
"AAAAAACH!" Natsu shrieked in pain as he'd made a very dumb move that only earned him a comment from Yuka.
"You put your bare arm inside a vortex of magic energy." Yuka said not very impressed. "Not a smart move." Seriously, this Fairy Tail mage must be a stubborn idiot who Yuka thought wasn't going to last long anymore, thinking he'd be dealt with easily.
But was he wrong. Natsu did the unthinkable and pushed his upper body inside the vortex, and it looked like it had almost no effect on the dragon slayer who smiled like a madman. Making the wave mage terrified.
"That's one way to beat it I suppose." Asuma said.
"Sometimes brute force is the best strategy available." Shikamaru agreed.
"What the F-"
"Your magic is no match for my brute strength! So what are you going to do now?!" Natsu continued to be scary at this point for the dark mage.
Keeping himself composed, Yuka's response was "You broke through, Salamander, but now you're stuck. Your flames aren't going to work now you are inside!"
"But I can still use them outside!" Natsu yelled back with his wicked grin "And you just gave me a great idea!" Flames were seeing coming out of the elbow that belonged to the arm that now was inside the shield.
"Smart play Natsu." Lisanna complimented.
The Dragonslayer was just grinning madly as he watched the fight.
"Fire Dragon-"
Yuka quickly figured out what he was doing, he was using his fire magic to increase the power of his punch like a booster!
"No-"
"Flame Elbow!" Natsu shouts as his fist connects with the face of the wave user and sent his body flying across the crater of the former village, knocking out Yuka Suzuki out in one swift punch as he landed on the ground.
That was another small victory for the Fairy Tail guild.
"Picking these other guys apart. That's Fairy Tail for you!" Levy said grinning. The guild and even some of the shinobi cheered to that.
"One down," Natsu said, turning towards the desecrated grave of Bobo and placed the gravestone back in its place. "We're going to find a way to change your people back to normal, Bobo, I know we will."
"And I promise you, I will avenge your death." He promised to the gravestone of the person he didn't know was actually alive.
"How Youthful Natsu-san! To take up the fight in the name of those wronged your flames are burning bright!" Lee crowed.
"Of course my flames are always burning bright!" Natsu replied. Tayuya was urged to carry on reading quickly by several who knew how both Lee and Natsu liked to yell.
Meanwhile
Lyon, the ice mage of Gray's past was standing in front of the frozen monster Deliora, staring at the beast that he sought to destroy with the power he obtained over the years, the strength he extended and the power he acquired that made him into the young man today.
Unfortunately, that was all built up on the basis of revenge. Revenge that had no limits. A path that perhaps contributed to his recent decisions he made that were questionable. Those decisions were that of getting involved with smugglers, not just normal smugglers who were locals. They were smugglers from the Land of Waves.
Meaning they were from the Shinobi Continent.
"Foolish child." Makarov said sadly. He was making a deal with the devil essentially. Still he knew that the Lyon of his world would eventually find the right path again largely thanks to the efforts of Gray.
Even if when it wasn't shown on the ice-mage's face, he was still overwhelmed with disbelief, the first time he met these people from this supposed continent that was on the other side of the wild seas that laid west of Earthland, his first initial reaction was that of skepticism of its existence until the smugglers confirmed its existence by showing a map of the continent itself.
They helped him and the other survivors of Deliora's trial destruction by bringing the frozen monster to the island. In exchange for serious currency of course. It almost cost a fortune for what these smugglers were offering. Let alone that he had agreed on not interfering in their settling of the new spot they used on the island to smuggle contraband to, opening a smuggling route between Fiore and Earthland in whole. Something smugglers from Alvarez and the Shinobi continent have long hoped for.
"He is indirectly causing a whole swathe of dangerous problems by supporting that." Iruka said worriedly.
"Revenge clouds the mind. It makes you believe nothing else matters." Kakashi said sadly while glancing at his wayward Uchiha student. The boy just ignored him.
That was one of the questionable decisions Lyon made that even made his followers disagree with, they wanted justice against Deliora for sure, but they did not want to be associated with criminals.
"In the end they still went along with it though." Mira said.
Lyon was lucky he only had to only speak about this criminal conspiracy, as he kept secret about his dealings with the more unpleasant folks that were the Kiri Shinobi...
'The only thing I wished for was to avenge my master's death by destroying this monster. Now with these Shinobi, I've brought myself into more trouble.' Lyon thought as he was trying to calculate how to deal with the situation right now.
"Hopefully Naruto will see they aren't totally in line with Kenji's crew." Kushina commented.
"I'm sure, Naruto hates killing, and while I doubt he will show mercy to Kenji's little band of scum, he isn't just going to go out and butcher the mages." Jiraiya said, having complete confidence in his godson. Whether he was from another reality or not didn't matter to him.
With the massive explosion in the smuggle cave, it most likely was destroyed and would gain attention from the Fiore Navy with the large smoke, and now he even had to deal with the Fairy Tail guild including his former friend.
He knew the clock was ticking, and it was ticking fast.
"Good, hopefully this smuggling route is closed for good." Levy said.
"Excuse me, cold emperor." That voice came from the disguised person known as Zalty, an small individual who held a particular interest in the revival of Deliora.
Not turning his face around, Lyon spoke. "What is it?"
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but I was wondering why you would spare the life of that wizard, Gray." The mysterious Zalty asked the young man with a group of masked followers behind him.
"No reason," Lyon replied whilst crossing his arms. "Other than I don't feel the need to shed any more blood."
This piqued the interest of several of the readers as it sounded somewhat strange. Like he was trying to mask his true feelings on the matter.
"You say that, but ordering your minions to kill those minions tells a different story," Zalty argued as he had his own suspicions for the cold mage. "It would appear you have a soft spot for your former rival." Questioning Lyon's further intentions as he was forced to respond to it.
"Nonsense, I simply have no desire to get any more blood on my hands, but if he happens to get in my way again, I won't hesitate to kill him."
"I doubt that." Makarov said with a small grin.
"Hmph, I somehow doubt that, boy." Upon hearing that, Lyon, Zalty and the masked followers turned towards the only other entrance and saw it was Kenji walking in, the leader of the rogue Kiri Shinobi that were on this island, or what was left of his group.
Makarov frowned deeply at the thought of even sharing a minor opinion with this man.
Zalty's grin grew wider on his face at seeing the former Kiri-nin. "Kenji, I'm pleased to see you're still alive. I can see you survived the tragic explosion that occurred in the cave." He smirked as the former Kiri nin approached them. Lyon wasted no time to ask some important questions.
"What happened back there?" The mage asked the Shinobi in an almost demanding way. "The smoke can be seen from all over the island-"
SLINK!
"This guy was already unstable but now he might just start killing people left and right." Ino said in a worried tone.
"I hope boss beats him fast, he needs to go down." Konohamaru growled out in a more serious voice than what most of the readers were used to.
The sword of the Kid nin was now pointed an inch away from Lyon's face. Taking the ice mage by surprise.
"I'm not speaking to you, boy." Kenji snarled at him before turning towards the green haired masked man. "Yes, I'm regrettable to say that the cave explosion has evaporated all the stockpiled goods that were there, with the smugglers with them."
"Oh, that's very unfortunate to hear my dear friend, it truly is a tragedy to know. Such fine workers." Zalty said as he noticed that the former Kiri nin was on his own. "What about your team? I don't see them."
"They're dead," Kenji answered as he ignored the reactions of them. "but that's not important right now."
"I doubt he cared to be honest. The only person worth anything in his mind seems to be himself." Erza grumbled.
"Oh?" Zalty's grin grew wider. "Care to explain?" asking the remaining Shinobi he knew.
"Not now...but I promise you, it will be interesting."
"How promising?"
For Lyon it was an mystery to know what these two men were talking about,
"Just say that you'll have to see it for yourself." Kenji chuckled with a wicked smile while turning towards the main entrance that led to the location of this enormous frozen beast.
"It will be promising to watch."
"If he is happy something bad will be happening." Gray said.
Meanwhile
As Natsu had already finished his fight with one of Lyon's companions, Lucy now was facing her own opponent, the girl known as Sherry who was in a state of fury after her rat companion named Angelica was knocked out when she crashed into the ground. Reason why the rat went down from flying? She just tickled the rat's feet and it stopped its tail from flying and it crashed down into the ground, being beaten in such an embarrassing way that could not be more described as ridiculous beyond belief even if you witnessed it first hand.
"Angelica...no..." Sherry's tears streamed down through her face as she was being extremely overly emotional about the state of her companion rate. "My poor...Angelica..."
"My head..."Lucy stood back on her feet and began rubbing her head. "Wait, where's that weird chick?"
"Always with the rude comments Lucy." Happy said while fluttering past her head.
"Whatever cat. She deserves it." Lucy replied, crossing her arms.
"Do you have any idea what you've done? It's horrible!" Lucy quickly reacted and turned around to see Angelica standing on top of the hill.
"You!"
"Because of you..." Sherry began in anger and tears. "the Cold Emperor will no longer be able to trust me, he won't love me anymore!"
"She is a weird chick." Sakura commented.
"I dunno sounds a lot like you with Sasuke." Kiba snarked, getting a fiery glare from Sakura, though mentally she felt hurt by his comment.
"Love?" Lucy was dumbfounded, was this woman really concerned about love in a situation like this?
"And look what you did to Angelica?" Sherry whipped her tears away. "I'll MAKE YOU PAY!"
"HELP MEEE!"
"This fight is terrible." Natsu moaned.
"It's not even a fight yet idiot!" Lucy shouted.
"Still terrible. Should have hit with something while she was shouting about her mouse." Natsu continued.
"I'm with the boy-Sakura." Konohamaru said with a sagely nod.
Sakura was now glaring at him, though as long as the boy was in Kushina's lap she wasn't about to do anything about it. Still her glare turned on her fellow shinobi to shut them up when they started trying to stifle laughter.
That shout warned both girls as they were slow to react.
A person came flying from the forest and crashed right into the hill where Sherry was standing on top off, with the impact being that the hill began to fall down and crumbling down with the girl falling down.
"Ahhh!" Sherry screams as she falls down with the destroyed hill and gets covered in debris as a big pile of dust covers the area for Lucy to cover her eyes to prevent being blinded.
The Celestial mage stood firm as the rocks crumbled down right in front of her and was even forced to keep her skirt down from flying up due to the strong surge of wind that did not help her situation.
"What was that?" Lucy said, trying to figure out what that was as she turned a peak at the hill that now was a pile of debris now in front of her.
Laying on top of the debris was Toby, looking beat up and with whirlpools in the dog boy's eyes, whatever happened to him, he now was unconscious and in no state to fight anymore.
"Oh, I was wondering what happened to him." Lucy said.
"Hey isn't that the-"
"Ugh, mutt boy seriously got a hard skull, I'll give the fucker that."
"So it wasn't Naruto, it was Tayuya that attacked him. Thank you Tayuya for helping them." Erza said bowing her head slightly.
Tayuya looked extremely uncomfortable with Erza bowing toward her and went back to reading.
That profanity language got the well-mannered blond to suddenly feel very uncomfortable after hearing that unidentified voice from behind her, making her turn around and reach for her whip.
"Try it blondie." Tayuya said with a smirk causing Lucy to glare at her.
"Who is there?" She demanded with her hand over her only weapon as she looked at the forest until she saw a person emerge from it.
...
"Calm down, girly," Tayuya walked out of the shadows and saw the blond with the whip. "There's no fucking need to try and force your sexual frustration on me. So put your toy down."
Several in the group cracked up at this while others blushed badly, none worse than Lucy however.
"Toy? This is my weapon!" Lucy said both embarrassed and ticked off by this assumption and insult by this woman who just appeared out of nowhere. "And by the way who are you? I could've handled that girl myself, look what I did to the rat."
"Name's Tayuya and a nice 'thank you' could help, blondie, seriously, if I was you, I would chill the fuck out." The redhead said stretching her arm she used to slam that dog boy. "Shit, that fucking bastard, my fist still stings from his fucking skull."
"Well you could be nicer about it." Lucy grumbled. She blushed as Tayuya shot a look her way.
"Jeez, what's with the cursing?" Lucy crossed her arms at the redhead as she was disliking the language of the redhead who had the mouth of a sailor. "Sure, thank you for helping me out, but you don't have to be like that."
"To be like what?" Tayuya turned around with a stare at the celestial mage. "What are you trying to say there, lady?"
"Jeez Lucy you sure are rude." Happy remarked.
"You aren't helping, cat." She growled.
It was then that Sherry was slowly coming back up from under the rumble without the two women noticing it. With Lucy being on the defensive thinking she got on the wrong foot.
"What I meant by is that you don't have to be so hostile." Lucy tried to sound understanding to her as she took a look at her. "I mean, what if you find some guy who-"
"Oh no, don't even THINK I have any interest in settling down, you can get that out of your mind." Tayuya clearly stated, not wanting anyone to think they can dictate to her. "Especially with no boys because of my own reasons.'
That got some looks from the other readers.
"Look away and mind your fucking business." Tayuya snarled and the looks snapped away.
Lucy tried to appease the clearly angered Tayuya. "I didn't mean it like that!"
"Then what did you mean?" Tayuya countered while pointing her finger at her. "Come on, speak up. Tell what you were trying to say."
"YOU WILL PAY!"
"She looks unhappy." Ino joked.
The ground erupted and shook around the area of where the girls were standing on, interrupting the conversation that both women were having.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING!" Yelled Lucy, losing focus and falling right on her butt, not balancing herself in time.
Tayuya on the other hand stood firm on her feet as she slowly turned around to see that in front of her was a large golem monster made out of rocks and earth standing larger than herself, with on top of it, the dark-pink haired woman.
"Chakra is unfair." Levy complained.
The shinobi seemed to be trying hard not to look too smug.
Sherry eyed down on the unmoved Redhead and raised her voice to her. "You must be the one who beat up Toby to a pulp." Referring to her comrade who now was laying still in a pile of dirt, unconscious but still breathing. Not knowing how lucky he was.
"Yeah, so?" Tayuya responded to the question with little interest to her opponent. "Who are you supposed to be, his girlfriend or something?"
The group stifled laughter at Tayuya's words.
"How dare you insinuate such nonsense!" Sherry took great offense to that question as if she was being accused. "My heart only beats for my leader, the cold emperor!"
"She has it bad." Lucy sighed out.
"The cold emperor..." Tayuya sweatdropped hearing that name. "Honestly, that must be the most fucking boring name I have ever heard."
The stifled laughter started to crack through.
Oh man, that triggered such a response from the pink haired woman...
"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF THE COLD EMPEROR LIKE THAT!" Sherry screamed at Tayuya in fury. "IT IS AN EXCELLENT NAME FOR SOMEONE SO SUPERIOR, STRONG AND CUNNING LIKE HIM!"
"Jeez, it's only a name." Lucy said, not able to comprehend what this woman's obsession was with this guy.
The group gave in and fell to pieces in laughter while Lucy blushed slightly at the fact that she was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"You tramp!" Sherry did not take lightly to this and accused her opponent. "I know what you are doing, you're trying to lose my focus, so you can take my place in capturing my love's heart. Forget about it! Nobody will stop me!" Raising his fist up, the golem prepared to give a crushing hit.
"Nothing comes between me and my love! NOTHING!" Sherry exclaimed in anger as she ordered the Golem. "Smash her!" The golem's arm jerked backwards at the command of the pink haired girl. Ready to smash her 'love rival' into a pulp.
"She's totally bonkers." Kushina said in awe of the girl's delusional appearance.
"Tell me I was never that bad." Sakura said weakly.
"Trust us, you were nothing compared to that chick." Kiba replied getting nods all around.
Lucy shouted. "Look out!"
BANG!
The ground shook yet again when the golem hit its rock arm into the position where Tayuya stood and in the process destroyed anything untouched in the area. Leaving a dust cloud in the position where the golem struck his arm into.
Sherry laughed, feeling victorious as she gloated. "There, you red harlot, stay in your place where you belong and don't come between love."
"You are gunna regret running your mouth you little bitch." Tayuya growled darkly.
CRACK!
"Huh?"
The arm of the golem began to show cracks, and crumbles started pouring down to the ground in seconds. The whole arm began to disintegrate for a matter of fact. This got Sherry to look shocked at what was happening. Those were also the direct thoughts of Lucy.
'Why is its arm disintegrating?'
"Serious, woman, you've got to try harder than that."
Natsu and Konohamaru had stars in their eyes at the cool moment.
The white in Sherry's eyes widened when she heard that voice. She took her eyes from the golem's crumbling arm to the cloud dust that was slowly clearing away. It only took a few more moments before a bliss of wind flew the remaining cloud away and revealed the hollow sight that was in front of the puppeteer magic user:
Tayuya stood there with her fist against that of the Golem, having stopped it with her bare fist against the giant living rock. A sight that was for those to witness unimaginable.
"N-No." Sherry said, petrified by what she saw. "That's not possible, it cannot be possible!"
"Why do so many people say that when they get taken down? Not all of them can be that arrogant right?" Lucy asked. She was disappointed that all she got in reply was a set of shrugging shoulders.
Not impressed by the slightest bit, Tayuya had put minimum effort into stopping the giant monster's attack and looked right at the petrified opponent that just pissed her off by saying something that was over the line for her.
"Did you just called me an 'red harlot?" Tayuya asked directly to Sherry. "Because I clearly heard you calling me that."
"My other is gunna fuck her up." Tayuya said with a bloodthirsty grin.
'Wait, she's offended by being called that?' Lucy wondered, it was strange to her really, but she also couldn't help but be amazed by the fact someone just used her bare hand to stop a magical golem's fist. 'Whoever she is, I don't want to be on her bad side, anymore.'
"Good call." Erza whispered leaning into her friend's side.
CRACK!
That sound came from Tayuya's hands that she just cracked up, feeling like she was going to do something drastic that might cross the line with her promise of not using 'lethal moves' against her opponents.
"Because I'll be damned to be called a harlot by a fangirl bitch like you." Tayuya stated, walking over to the golem as she stretched her arms for what she was going to finish. Taking small unnoticeable repeating breaths, she was going to finish this pathetic excuse of a fight in one go.
"Damn right fangirls should be crushed!" Kushina and Tsunade cheered causing Sakura and Ino to flinch slightly.
Determined to not lose, Sherry broke out of her shocked trance and shouted. "I'm not done. This is for love; DIE!" She instructed both the golem's good and bad arm to raise up and try to plummet the redhead. "For the cold emperor!"
The two arms slammed into Tayuya's position again, this time the disintegrating one broke off into numerous pieces, destroying it totally in the process and handicapping itself in a mere second. Which ended up in an unfortunate attempt as Tayuya had already jumped up in the air, just above her opponent's position.
"What?!"
"Too slow, bitch." Tayuya said as she tightens her fist with a grin. "Time to face the music!" Like a wrestler, she slammed right into the golem's head and destroyed the monster with one blow, crushing its whole body into dozens of boulders and pieces.
Flying out of it was a beaten Sherry who just hit her head against a nearby tree, knocking her out into unconsciousness. Laying defeated close to her other comrade who shared the same fate by the hands of Tayuya. She approaches the unconscious body of Sherry and takes a closer look at her before kneeling down to her and examining her.
"Normally, I'd like to kill you right now by snapping your neck right now. I don't tolerate fangirls in general." She moved her foot onto Sherry's throat with whimpers coming out of the girl's mouth. Near to closing the girl's windpipe and ending her life right there.
It just happened that Sherry's eyes slightly opened and was wondering what was going on while feeling something on her throat. With her eye vision being fuzzy, she doesn't know who was speaking to her.
"Girls like you are easy prey where I'm from. You die quicker if not captured. There is where the nightmares normally start." Tayuya said having dealt in first hand with what happened to captured Kunoichi who were dumb enough to let themselves surrender without much of a fight, and how they go through absolute hell without any compassionate mercy that would be given to their minds and bodies by their enemies.
"Tayuya…" Kushina began worriedly, but she was cut off as the girl continued reading loud enough to drown her voice out.
Tayuya just stood there for a moment before taking her foot back from the girl's neck and was saying. "Luckily for you, I'm not supposed to kill you. Take that as a lesson."
More whimpers escaped from Sherry's mouth, her attempts to come back were futile as she went back unconscious. Possible never going to know how close she was to death's doorstep.
Lucy on the other hand just got up from the ground and saw from a distance that Tayuya was standing over Sherry's body, but could not clearly see what she was doing and was about to call her out-
"Lucy!"
"Huh?" The Celestial mage turned around and saw Happy flying towards her, much to her delight. "Happy, it's you."
"You don't normally act so happy to see me." Happy mumbled with crocodile tears.
"It's because I'm normally not." Lucy fired back causing Happy to drop into Hinata's arms as he had been hovering over her. The faint glare shot Lucy's way surprised the blonde but the Hyuga girl immediately set out to pet and stroke the cat into a happier mood.
"Of course it's me, silly." The cat landed on his tiny feet right in front of her. "Did you get hurt?" Happy asked for the wellbeing of her fellow guild member.
"Y-Yeah, I'm alright. No worry." Lucy said as she turned around. "All thanks to that girl Tay..." She turned around to see the girl. "uya...wait, where is she? She was just there." pointing at the empty space where just a moment ago were the redhead and the opponent were seen last, with both of them gone.
"I think that falling down has caused you an hallucination, Lucy." Happy said thinking she had a screw loose in her head, well, not like he already thought of it. "Maybe you'll need a beauty sleep to get your thoughts straight."
Lucy growled at the cat and responded. "Listen here stupid little-"
"So mean!" Happy cried dramatically causing Hinata to begin petting him again and shoot a slightly more menacing glare Lucy's way.
For her part Lucy was simply pinching the bridge of her nose at the situation and tryin her best to put it from her mind.
"There you are."
"Ah, I was wondering when I would arrive." Erza said matter-of-factly.
That voice chilled the spines of the blonde and the cat one they recognized it. They were instantly scared for their lives once they began turning their heads slowly towards that voice and their faces began to turn pale when they saw it was none other than Erza. With that stern look on her face, the two did not have to figure this much out.
"I assume you two know why I am here," Erza said with the tone she gave. "Don't you?" Lucy/Happy's eyes began to tear up. Knowing they were in deep trouble.
"We're screwed."
"You will face punishment." Erza hissed with a small smile.
As the scene was continuing, the three Fairy Tail members were oblivious to notice that from a good distance, they were being observed by the red toad with goggles, Kosuke. Not being able to feel pity for the girl and the cat.
"I'll guess I need to wait for them to return to the village before I hand over the message."
"Ah so Naruto has a message for you all. Maybe he will be telling you where to go, to avoid getting hurt." Tsunade said.
"We're plenty strong as I think you've seen." Erza argued.
"True, but shinobi fight to kill or die, from what we've seen so far you all don't. It has more of an effect than you might realize." Tsunade explained.
Meanwhile
A small campfire was set up in the middle of the forest, made of two tents and a few wood logs to sit on. It was only just built as the fire was just lite up.
A couple of twigs was dropped on the burning fire by the Kiri swordsman Chojuro, who even though still hurt from the fight in the smuggler's cave, was trying to put his leg back into work, if it meant he'll need to walk on his injured leg, then he'll suck it up and do it.
"He really should let it rest." Wendy said in worry for the boy.
"He'll be fine in time Wendy, sometimes you have to grin and bear it like he is though." Commented Mira.
"Here." The blue spiky haired young man said dusting his hands off. "This will keep us warm for now."
"ACH!"
That sound came from Ao, the leader of the infiltration mission who now was being treated for the wounds he sustained from his fight against his former student. Getting bandages put over his body by Hotaru who was busy binding it up properly around his back.
"I'm almost finished." She said working on her last roll of bandages. "You're lucky I found some extra on the body of one of those bastards you failed to take out."
"Shut it, girl." Ao said in pain, not taking this for a second. "I did not ask for your opinion-Agh!" He grunts.
"Stupid." Several people said, having been in the caring hands of medics before. Definitely should know better than to be rude to them.
"Oops, sorry." Hotaru faking apologized with much distaste for this man who was such a hard ass to deal with. "I'm almost finished, so sit still and be silent for a moment."
Chojuro, seeing this, tried to be a peacemaker and said to Hotaru. "Thank you, for helping us out. We're very grateful."
"Are you deaf, boy? I told you that it's none of their buis- Agh!" Ao shouted in pain, grunting in pain again before sharply turning a glare to the girl. "You're doing that on purpose!"
"Of course she is you're being a jerk." Natsu scoffed.
"If this idiot gets it you would think this guy would too." Gray said while shaking his head.
Ignoring that comment, Hotaru smiled at Chojuro and replied. "It's nothing. I'm glad I could help."
"That's how you talk to a medic!" Tsunade said while shooting a look at Jiraiya who scratched at his cheek bashfully.
"Your compassion can be your downturn, Hotaru. Don't you forget that."
That comment didn't come from Ao, but from one of the tents that was set up, and coming out was Utakata who just finished up making the last tent and gave some advice to his 'self-proclaimed student' Hotaru.
Pulling out his bubble pipe, he reminds one of the key lessons he was forced to give her. "Remember that what I told you, never let your guard down."
"This Utakata seems rather cold." Lisanna pouted.
"It's not likely to be all his fault. Jinchuuriki are treated poorly after all. It has an effect on them." Kushina said sadly.
Hotaru nodded to her master. "Yes, of course. I'll remind myself of that." Just then a figure lands right in front of the group, in the shadows, causing the three males to ready themselves for combat.
"Calm down, shitheads." It was Tayuya revealing herself. "It's just me, so keep your dicks in your pants. Alright?" she walks up forwards with two bodies with bags over them.
"It's Tayuya. Good." Chojuro said, lowering his sword down and smiling to see she was back, then he noticed the two bags. "Uhm, who are they?"
"Some friends I made." Tayuya answered while throwing them down next to the fire, and explained. "They are mages who tried to destroy the village."
"Then why bring them here instead of killing them?" Ao stood up with his body halfway covered in bandages. Asking without giving a thought. "Why spare them?"
"This guy has been getting on my nerves." Gajeel growled. Many heads nodded along with him.
The two bags where Toby and Sherry were in, were beginning to move upon hearing this. They panicked and rambled around trying to loosen the surrounding ropes before they both got a kick in the sides by Tayuya.
"Quiet, you two." Tayuya told them as she sat down on one of the logs. "Can't do that I'm afraid. For one, our friend who's currently not among us has forbidden me from it, and secondly, they still got questions that need answering. Like what the fuck's going on here and why they are dealing with this Kenji and his team."
"Kenji alone." Hotaru told her, stating to her the further information to the others who looked at her. "I saw your friend kill one of them, Seiko to be precise."
Some of the readers grew uncomfortable with the reminder.
"Seiko you say?" Ao said processing that for the moment before nodding. "Good, one less threat to worry about." Knowing Seiko as one of his former students, he was honestly glad he was no more amongst the living. He'd turned into one of the vile Shinobi he had ever seen, with what he had done to many innocent villagers, it was for the best that he was not alive at this point.
Several of the shinobi, and even some of the more experienced wizards agreed.
Tayuya looked at the long haired girl and wanted confirmation. "Are you for sure?"
"I know what I saw..." Hotaru said. "He killed him in front of my eyes, without a second he ended him."
That unfortunately only got the two hostages to move more horrified upon hearing it, making efforts to get free but to no avail.
"I'm kinda happy they are getting so frightened. Kind of a scared straight thing." Jiraiya commented idly.
Utakata then told the rest. "I took out Suina and Saburo."
Chojuro, quickly turned his head around. "Really? Why haven't you said anything?"
"No one asked." Utakata said bluntly, for he did not want to speak about his last encounter with his friend he had slain. "It's already done, now there's only one other Shinobi left that's not standing here."
Several people chuckled at Utakata's blunt answer to Chojuro's question.
"Two actually, if you could count me in, but that's okay." Everyone quickly turned their attention to the dark part of the forest where they saw Naruto come out walking. Well, limping slightly as he was slightly irritated in the leg by his unfortunate encounter with a wire trap he had.
"Hmm, depending on how strong Kenji is, that could end up making all the difference." Asuma said.
"Nu-uh, Bos is gunna make that guy a red smear on the ground you just wait!" Konohamaru shouted.
"Good evening, everyone." Naruto greeted with an eye smile he made
"I see you came back, shithead." Tayuya smirked while being a bit glad. "Good to see you still part of the living." She threw him a bottle of water. "Here."
"I love seeing the two of you working together even the small things." Kushina chirped happily.
Tayuya continued to read though a small smile slipped onto her face as well.
"Thanks." Naruto said catching the bottle before opening it and taking a sip from it as he sat down just next to Hotaru and Ao. "Alright, now that we're all here. I'll just get straight to the point. With the smugglers and the cave destroyed. Kenji's team is now dead except for him."
"What if he left the island already?" Hotaru suggested that possibility. "I wouldn't understand why not."
"Because you're not Kenji, that's why." Ao said, shaking his head. "He's not going to run, that's not him. He'll not leave this island before he personally has slit everyone's throat on this island for interfering in his plans. Especially now with all his equipment now up in flames and smoke up in the air" That was true as a large plume of smoke was still coming from the mountain where the smuggler's cave was, like a volcano after it erupted.
"How much was stocked up there anyway?"
Chojuro accidentally answered that. "Enough to burn the Hidden Mist three times."
The shinobi were shocked. That was a huge amount of ordinance.
The wizards were a little in the dark but could infer enough form the expressions of their counterparts.
Hotaru gasped at that and looked pale by hearing this while Ao and Utakata gave no real reaction to it. But for the two captives under the bags with ropes, they themselves were shocked to hear about all of this.
Tayuya whistled at that. "Well, that's months of stockpiling gone." She smirks looking at Naruto who was the one causing it. "He's going to be pissed if he finds out it was you, Naruto."
"Well, he can work his anger on me tomorrow, when I go and find him." Naruto said as he closed the water bottle. "Enough time for him to try something while we're stuck on this island."
"Looks like you may just get your wish Kono." Iruka said with a grin as the boy practically shook in place with excitement for the oncoming fight.
"It's getting late now." Utakata informed then as he was a bit tired. "Let's go to sleep."
"Agreed." Ao said as he turned to his pupil. "Chojuro, you're on first guard duty and watch our prisoners, Utakata will be next. Okay?"
"He's so bossy. I don't think I like him very much." Choji commented.
The boy nodded. "Yes, sir."
"Dismissed."
Everyone stood up and went to their tents to take some sleep, Tayuya was the first one to enter the only other tent that was reserved for the females as Hotaru was the second to enter, but she quickly glanced over to Naruto, who she saw was still sitting on the log.
Noticing her looking at him, Naruto asked. "Something wrong?"
"You're not going to sleep?" She asked him with some curiosity. "I don't feel quite tired right now, I'll stay here." Naruto answered the girl's question as he looked over to the two prisoners. "Besides, someone needs to keep eyes on these two. So go ahead, take some sleep. You'll need it."
"Oh...okay."
Turning back to the fire, the blonde began pulling out a box with in it some fresh caught fish he was going to eat, but then he did not expect the next thing to happen to him-
*Kiss*
Jiraiya giggled briefly before getting the his lights knocked out by Tsunade.
"Control yourself, it's just a little thank you kiss, perv." Tsunade grumbled.
Hotaru just kissed Naruto on the cheek, catching him off guard completely, with his cheeks actually tinting up for the moment but his mouth being kept closed under his mouth mask.
The girl took a step back after the kiss that luckily for her was unnoticed by everyone else.
"Thank you...for saving me..." Hotaru said before turning around and going to her tent to sleep, leaving the former Leaf shinobi on his own.
"Just like back home, Naruto is always saving princesses and the like. Outside of Konoha he's practically every fangirl's dream." Kakashi mentioned.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, Naruto doesn't even realize it but he has girls from Demon Country to Snow country sending messages regarding his marital status often." Shizune said with a frown, feeling protective of her brother figure.
"No problem...was just doing...what I felt was right." He said still stunned by it. He then proceeded to make his own food ready as he hoped that the next day, he could finish his mission once and for all.
"Hope the others are doing alright." Naruto said, referring to his guild mates he knew were not far away from here.
"Always focused on others first." Jiraiya said in exasperation, but he had a fond smile as well.
And he knew that someone recently had arrived.
"Erza...of course you would come."
"Of course I would." Erza seemed to agree getting odd looks from the others.
Next morning
"We can't just leave! What about the villagers?" a bandaged Gray protested. Just woken up in a shift made tent by the villagers, he encountered Erza who had arrived at the island and had already found Lucy and Happy as they both were bound in ropes by the redhead woman. She'd just given orders to return back to the guild and abandon the quest, effective immediately.
"I'm only here to apprehend the fools who've broken the rules of the guild, that's the only reason why I'm here." Erza said standing by her only objective. Only getting contested by Gray.
"I can see where both sides are coming from. Still I lean toward helping the villagers." Makarov said getting looks from the guild and shinobi both. Erza simply sighed and nodded her head. She had largely done the same.
"Rules? Have you ever seen what's happened here? To the villagers? Their homes? Or the big pile of smoke that is coming from the mountain?"
Even through the day, the largely black smoke was still coming from the mountain, it could've been seen from miles away from the coast, and it was still sky-high. Possibly even attracting the attention of the harbors on Fiore.
"That's why I am bringing you guys back to the guild. You've already caused too much damage and I will not allow you to inflict more." Erza stated with no hesitation. "Now tell me where Natsu is, and we will leave immediately."
"I don't know."
Erza glared at Gray. "Don't lie to me."
"I don't know, honest!" Gray shouted back with a hint of anger. "I haven't seen him ever since last night. He went AWOL."
Lucy then just remembered something and brought it up. "What if he's with Naruto?" Her just bringing that up got Erza's cold face to turn to her with anger written on it.
"That's right, technically Naruto was there on his own mission. It just happened to be connected to the same mission that Happy, Natsu, and Lucy stole.
"What? Naruto?" She demanded an answer to that comment. "You're telling me Naruto is on this island too?"
"Y-Yes." Lucy teared up admitting it. "He's here too, we crossed paths when we were looking for he told us he's on a different mission to Galuna island, that's all I know."
Erza became stricter and asked. "Where is he?"
"That we don't know. We split up when we explored the tunnels." Gray spoke in defense for Lucy. "Naruto and Natsu haven't been seen for the whole night. They must've gone into the forest by themselves."
"And you tell me Naruto has not told any of you why he is here on Galuna in the first place? What is his mission?" Erza asked them, wanting to know everything. Getting only shaking heads from Lucy and Gray who had no clue on Naruto's reason for being on this island in the first place.
Erza facepalmed at this. "Great, is there anyone in here who actually knows something?" By this Happy then spoke up for the first time.
This caused a few people to chuckle at Erza's situation. Even Erza smirked slightly, her other's situation was a little funny.
"Maybe Kosuke can help you with that." The cat pointed out at the entrance. "There."
Everyone turned to the entrance of the tent, and indeed just sitting there was Kosuke, Naruto's primary messaging toad, who looked a bit uncomfortable at the shouting that was happening.
"Kosuke."
"I forgot he was waiting to give them a message. I wonder what Naruto has to say?" Mira pondered aloud.
"Sorry to interrupt, but I got you a message from Naruto." The toad pulls out a small rolled up scroll and hands it over to Erza who kneeled down to his level to accept it. "That's all I came to do here."
"Wait, tell us where-"
"Yeah, summons are usually extremely loyal to their summoner. If they have even a hint of something going against their summoner's wishes or betterment, they are more likely to do that than even keep talking to you." Jiraiya explained.
POOF!
Kosuke disappeared in a second, right before Erza could ask where Naruto was, sighing in annoyance, she stood up and opened the scroll and began reading it out loud.
"Erza, I know you're on the island, I've sensed your presence here the moment you arrived. I know Natsu, Happy and Lucy have come here with an S-class mission, I let them on my ship to Galuna island, that's my fault, but I got a classified mission to fulfill. Master Makarov knows the rest. From Naruto."
"A classified mission?" Gray asked, wondering what it meant. A mission he and master Makarov talked about in private. "Is it one of those again, Erza?"
"So others in the guild know that he has unique missions at least. I wonder what the limit to their knowledge on his situation is?" Kurenai commented.
"Probably extremely limited outside of the few we've seen him to be connected with, that Mystogan, and Makarov especially." Iruka replied.
Erza nodded. "I'm afraid so, Gray." She agrees closing the scroll. "Apparently we've crossed paths with Naruto's secret missions." An rare encounter like this that she thought was near impossible, both Gray and Erza noted.
Lucy was left not understanding what they were talking about and asked. "Uhm, what are you guys talking about?" Instead of answering, the two walked out of the tent leaving Lucy alone with Happy.
"A taste of your own medicine Lucy!" Happy crowed only to dive into Lisanna's arms at the look sent his way causing the youngest Strauss to giggle at the duo's antics.
"Hey, I-" She gave up once they left the tent, and she began wondering. "What is it about them suddenly, so secretive?"
"Lucy, it may be for the best that you know that Naruto is a bit of a secret person when it comes to this." She heard this now from Happy as he began explaining. "We should've told you sooner, but when Naruto goes on one of these 'secret' missions that he gets from Master Makarov or with the master's permission where he goes off by himself."
The Celestial mage hearing this asked for more about this subject. "What secret missions are you talking about?"
"Like I said, we don't know because they're secret. The only one knowing about is Master Makarov, and he doesn't disclose anything about Naruto's record to anyone, not even to Erza or Laxus."
"It's even more restricted than I had expected." Asuma commented.
"Maybe but it's probably a good thing to hold their cards close to their chest." Kakashi added.
"Not even them? But they're some of the most powerful mages of Fairy Tail." Lucy argued.
"That's a mystery that everyone in Fairy Tail likes to know." Happy said as a fact. "But no-one wants to openly talk about it, or we brush it off because we tend to give up about it."
"I have a feeling that Naruto's secret missions won't remain secret for too long around you all. You seem like a curious bunch." Jiraiya said with a laugh.
"And now that this secret mission is happening here, your curiosity has sparked up, right?" Lucy asked the cat who nodded. This was something she now noted, now there's possible a reason why she encountered that redheaded woman Tayuya who beat up those two mages.
This quest for that golden key now made more questions than ever.
"You're thinking what I'm thinking, right?" Gray asked, they both stood outside as they just tried to decide what to do with this news. "Erza, you cannot lie to me that you're not interested in what Naruto's mission is."
Erza was walking in rounds while thinking. "I know, but I cannot break master Makarov's orders."
"Yes, you most definitely should listen to Erza." Makarov said.
"Master don't be a hypocrite, you just said only a moment ago you would break the rules and help the villagers." Mira said with a small laugh.
"Hmm things changed young Naruto has things under control with his little group of companions." Makarov said with a shrug, though the small blush showed he may have simply forgotten what he'd said earlier.
"Forget about Master Makarov for the moment." Gray told her. "We're talking about finding out what Naruto's missions are and maybe finding out what he's hiding." Gray stated his reasons, getting on the wrong foot with Erza who looked at him.
"Are you saying you don't trust him, as a guild mate?"
"No, I'm not saying that. You know I don't doubt Naruto, I never did." Gray defended himself. "I just want to know what he's hiding from us, from everyone in the guild. Aren't you curious about the weeks-long missions he goes to and then coming back without any funds, or his magic writing that even Levy can't even read? Or the one time when he happened to arrive just in time when Elfman, Lisanna and Mirajane needed help, and he stopped Elfman from-"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Erza suddenly shouted as she halted Gray's bringing up the questions of Naruto's background secrets. Gaining even some stares and looks from the other villagers who quickly took note to not interfere with their conversation.
Gray took a better approach and explained himself. "Look, I'm not accusing Naruto of anything, nor is anyone else from the guild. It's just everyone is having questions about him, his background, his past, his magic, even what happened to his eyes we don't know anything. He's not like Mystogan who barely hangs around with us, or Loki who only has one secret. Naruto on the other hand has things we don't even know about. Is it wrong to ask a guild member about that?" Gray made a point, with still many members liking Naruto, they also raised behind the curtains, questions about his trips, fighting styles, magic use and other things that were a mystery to them.
"Perhaps beginning so secretive is beginning to backfire here." Tsunade said warily. Her mind went to the secrets kept from Naruto all these years. They were beginning to backfire in that case as well, if they hadn't already.
Erza sighed as she could not help but agree with her icy guild mate. "I understand, Gray, I really do, but now we're in the middle of an island with an S-class mission that-"
"Natsu will not abandon, and surely not if he finds out Naruto is doing one of those secretive missions. You know that." Gray said reminding her Natsu wasn't going to give up either. "So please, let us handle this."
...
Turning her head back to Gray and telling him. "You'll find Natsu. Try and finish this mission as fast as you can. I'll go find Naruto."
Gray would have protested if he could, but got other priorities for now, like stopping his old friend Lyon from enabling his revenge. "You know I will most likely find him in a fight, right?"
"Knowing Natsu, he's most likely to." Erza said. "You do what you must do. Okay?"
"Good." Gray said as he took off and began going for the temple again where he found Lyon's intentions, leaving Erza on her own, thinking if it was the right choice she made.
Anyhow, she'll still need to track down Naruto, and face him.
"That will be an interesting conversation." Macao said.
Meanwhile
Walking down the isles of the temple, deep under the ground, Natsu was trying to figure out where he was going. Trying to find the wizards who had ordered the attack on the village and making them pay for it.
"Where are you, you bastards." Natsu said with his fist covered in fire. "If I have to burn this place down to the ground then so be it!"
"So he was just lost." Tenten said in actual awe at the situation's stupidity.
At the camp
Naruto was seen walking towards the two hostages who still had their bags over their bodies. With the camp still sleeping and him being on guard duty, he took his chance.
He took off one of the bags and got the one that was Toby, who woke up by the light and was gagged, but his eyes gave away the shock on his eyes when he recognized the face.
"Let's go for a walk."
"That's ominous." Lucy said weakly.
"Finally my turn is done, take this shit." Tayuya said gruffly as she offered up the book.
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