The Prophecy child

by Knight Rider204

What will happen when a boy who has never seen the outside world and carrying the burden of many, steps on Ishgar. He has been trained like a soldier. But a curse prevents him from making new friends and family while his own have been sacrificed for his sake on the land of his ancestors. NarutoXHarem. I don’t own the cover image

7. Entering The demon's den

THE PROPHECY CHILD

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Chapter 7: Entering The Demon's Den

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"Talking"- Normal person speaking

'Thinking'- Normal person thinking

"Talking"- Demon/ Dragon speaking

'Thinking '- Demon/ Dragon speaking

Disclaimer: Neither do I own Naruto or fairy tail. I just own my imagination

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-[At Fairy Tail Guildhall]-

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Curiosity.

Born from the mysteries of this world and driving humanity even further in its evolution. Such emotion was curiosity.

And right now the members of fairy tail were really curious because the boy in front of them was a big mystery!

Just in the middle of a normal day, two kids both dressed oddly with swords and a pretty roughed-up state came into their guild looking into joining them.

And that wasn't all...

One of them, a ten-year-old kid had even killed. And apparently in multiples too.

They were sure these kids were going to bring new shine and adventure to the guild. But now this kid wanted something from them. So all of them were at the moment, waiting for him to describe what favor he wanted.

In the midst of it all a boy with dark blue hair and dark eyes with a fairy tail guild mark on his right pectoral and wearing...well ONLY HIS BOXER!

Nevermind that! Although ignoring his exhibitionism, he had a very sour expression on his face. Gray Fullbuster was a young mage of the Fairy Tail guild and senior to every kid his age bar Cana Albenora or so he thought.

And as such being who he was, he demanded respect from this blond punk whoever he was! He was silent and hesitant for so long that now Gray was running out of his patience. So he did the next best thing he could do.

"Oi! Are you going to just stand there? Or are you going to spout out your stupid request? Cloaked freak!" Gray exclaimed angrily and loud enough for everyone in the guild to hear.

Although everyone didn't agree with the way Gray talked to the new guy, he was right. They also were losing patience and the suspense was too much for them to handle now! So all of them nodded in agreement with their resident ice mage.

Naruto on the other hand heard and noticed the one who barked at him in the corner of his peripheral vision. He turned around and finally noticed that the half-naked guy from before was someone he should've recognized before.

'That guy is one of the boys who were with Ultear's Mothers...'

But as he thought about Ultear his blue Azure eyes had a tint of sadness sparkle from their depths where all the sadness he felt was locked up. Two people noticed it, although didn't show any outward reaction.

Makarov was a man with immense experience in not only sorcery but also life as a whole. He could see under the cheerful and jovial persona the boy hid a very painful and sad past. But as he looked at Gray the sadness grew for silver of time. Minute. Almost unnoticeable but Makarov noticed nonetheless.

He narrowed his eyes a bit. He didn't know what it was but decided to ignore it for now...

"Well my boy, please state your request. We will try our best to help you in any way we can!" He told Naruto with a grandfatherly smile that again soothed Naruto a lot.

Naruto shook his head and cleared his thoughts, " I just want you all to keep my appearance and name a secret from everyone outside. As for the reasons, I want to be vigilant from outside threats and take missions without any care."

His odd request garnered much attention from the guild members and they started murmuring among themselves. All of them could see there was something more to it than the boy had just told them.

Makarov on the other hand understood that Naruto wanted to talk about his problems in private. If his last statement was anything to go by. The boy didn't want anyone else to know about his secrets or past.

He looked at the boy's companion and frowned. Even she had a surprised as well as confused look on her face just like everyone else which meant even she didn't know about the reasons behind his actions as well...

"Hey! I know you look like a dork compared to me, but you don't have to cover your face in shame because of that dude! Chill out no one's gonna judge you by your looks!" His thoughts were interrupted by Gray who had a cheesy grin on his face.

"Gray! Your clothes." Cana albenora chirped ruining Gray's teasing mood and causing him to panic and start looking frantically around the guild for his clothes.

Naruto had a tick mark on his head. Annoyed due to the half-naked boy's remark on his looks. He at least knew that he wasn't a dork even if he had never given much attention to his looks.

"As if I need fashion advice from an exhibitionist who strips shamelessly in public! Can you be any more perverted!" Naruto told him with a scowl of annoyance marred across his face.

Everyone started laughing at Gray's red face while gray had multiple tick marks on his head. He was about to retort with another one of his snarky comments but was cut off by the master himself.

"Naruto let's go into my office and have a talk about this, shall we?" His voice and face exuded such seriousness that the guffawing members all quietened down.

Naruto just nodded his head and headed up towards the old man's office with Erza hot on his heels. Noticing her presence a little hesitance leaked into Naruto's face which was immediately noticed by Makarov.

"Erza-chan, you can rest for the time being. I and Naru-chan will have our chat. Once we are finished we will call you back, alright!" He requested Erza in a smooth voice which prompted the girl to comply, albeit reluctantly.

Naruto suddenly gained a tick mark on his head due to the new nickname the old man bestowed upon him but kept his mouth shut, taking into account their current predicament. He sighed in relief and strode forward with quick strides as if in a hurry. He just wanted to get this done as soon as possible!

While both of them headed for the master's office Erza's eyes followed Naruto's figure with a sad and worried tint as she sat down at one of the tables in the corner.

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-[ Master's Office, sometime later]-

"...and that's it!" Naruto grabbed a glass full of water and chugged in its whole contents with eagerness.

Thirst.

He would've never thought he would be this thirsty just by recounting the events from the past couple of months. He had to tell the old man about everything that happened after he met his sensei, Ablaze.

Yeah, he didn't tell the old man anything about Ablaze being a Phoenix. After all Ablaze, himself told him never to reveal anything about their existence to anyone. He just told him that his master died after advising him to travel south and visit some select places where he would discover all about his magic in more detail. He told him how he and his companion traveled from the North towards the south direction.

By doing so, Naruto now had a solid excuse to continue his journey to the village hideouts scattered over all of Fiore. This was his first course of action. To retrieve any important artifact of his village and destroy the hideout, thereafter leaving no traces of it being there in the past. Now he had the perfect cover to carry out his next mission.

He also told the old man about his fight with the dark guild and about everything that happened in the Tower of Heaven. Also, he wasn't sure what was going on now in the tower because Erza practically refused to tell him anything about it. But during his explanation, he could feel the rage welling up inside the old man due to some unknown reasons.

Makarov on the other hand was livid with rage and animalistic fury for such mages who enslaved people and especially kids so young for constructing a stupid tower. Hell even calling these people "mages" was an insult to their profession. Although he was concerned with how these "dark mages" the blonde mentioned, were mere kids a little older than himself and seemed to be after his magic power. His suspicions that Naruto's special ability to hide his magic signature would cause a target to be painted on his back were indeed true.

"We must report this incident about your fight with the dark guild and the tower to the council!" Makarov whispered as if in deep thought more to himself rather than the blonde but Naruto heard him nonetheless.

He cared a lot for the younger generation of mages and believed that they were their future salvation and protectors. The safety of any child, be it civilian or mage was his priority. So reporting this to the magic council was of utmost importance.

"No, you can't tell them about me. You must make a viable story if you wish to report this to the council which excludes my presence from the given events completely." Naruto immediately rejected his statement with a hardened voice.

The old man was now totally flabbergasted by his answer. Why would he want to be hidden from the council itself? "Why?"

Naruto was now trapped. He didn't think this through. Of course, the Old man would want to report this to the council. He was the Sixth Wizard Saint for God's sake! Crap! He was struggling with a Myriad of emotions inside his mind. The old man was kind to him, so lying to him seemed pretty bad. On the other hand, if he told him about his origins...

NO! He wasn't allowed to. He cannot tell anybody about it unless the time is right or the situation itself calls for it without any choice. Besides he was pretty sure that Makarov would report the invasion to the council if he told him. After all, this was a matter of national security!

Makarov intensified his stare, giving the young boy a stern glare for his lack of an answer. Naruto just averted his eyes from the old man.

Crap!

Now there was no choice but to take a third approach to solve this matter. He steeled his resolve and hardened his gaze while looking at the master with as much seriousness as his childish face could muster.

Then slowly like a canvas is invaded by the colors of a wonderful art his Irises seemed to be rotating and took on a bright red color with an unnatural glow to them which gave his eyes a regal look like a very expensive crystal.

Makarov to his case held a serious expression as the blonde hardened his gaze. Perhaps he was going to admit something about the minuscule amount of dark magic within him or his supposed accidental killing of multiple people.

But when Makarov saw his eyes change he quickly lost his composure. His own eyes widened as much as they could and his mouth hung open in shock with beads of sweat rolling down his forehead due to the intensity of the blonde's stare.

How couldn't he? Those eyes were the most dangerous and mysterious ocular spells that belonged to only them. The powers of these eyes were unknown and the magic council would trade anything to learn or somehow have those eyes for themselves.

Now everything made sense...

"Are you one of them?" Makarov asked in a low voice almost whispering to himself. Questioning himself more than the boy in front of him.

Nonetheless, Naruto heard him clearly, he had expected this question, " No I'm not an Uchiha. I'm from their cousin clan and I am the only one who inherited the Devil's eyes in my clan."

Makarov heaved a heavy sigh. He knew that the blonde wasn't lying. He looked nothing like any of them. They were famous for their jet-black hair and eyes. Pretty normal traits really but coupled with their eyesight and stealth skills...well, that's what made it so hard for anyone to follow or collect intel on them.

"Very well, I think I know why you want to avoid the council. In the last decade, there has been only one Uchiha seen active. But seven years ago he was reported to have disappeared. At first, no one paid it too much mind. People from your clan disappeared constantly but then returned eventually..." Makarov contemplated himself but stopped when he saw Naruto's sad expression while he tried to hide the lone tear sliding down his cheeks.

Makarov sighed again. He was doing that a lot lately...

"Alright! Let's call Erza and then I will explain everything about guilds and their workings to you" he told the young lad and deactivated the silent runes in his office.

Naruto on the other hand groaned. Great! Another long lecture! He would've sworn he felt his legs melting off due to being stationary for so long.

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-[Next Day, Dawn]-

Early in the morning the artistic golden sun got up like a baby and started painting the dark black sky into a bright blue sky. The bright-looking milky clouds got up from sleep and started traveling around the sky visiting the wonderful environment.

This was the scene Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze woke up to witness from the window of the medical infirmary of the Fairy Tail Guild hall. Master persisted in him sleeping in the medical ward despite him insisting on the fact that he could sleep in the wild. He had done it for the last four years.

Erza on the other hand had been given a room in Fairy hills, Fairy Tail's female dormitory. He thought it was a little unfair that the girls had a dorm but the boys didn't. His idea was shot down rather harshly when Makarov pointed out that a mage named Gildarts had destroyed it himself when the boys broke out in a brawl. He had to face fault at that. Typical! Destruction was all he had witnessed from the moment he entered this place.

He quickly got up after he had completed his morning rituals. He headed towards the forest west of Magnolia and started his regular training.

He did the most physical task now. He had started his strength training since now he could start building up his muscles. His clones did the magic-related stuff. Like practicing spells, and trying to create new techniques since he had very less spells for his all-slayer magic and his further study in magic and seals.

After around six hours he was done. He cleaned himself in a nearby river and got dressed in his usual attire. A turtle next white t-shirt, black pants, and blue shoes. He had all his scrolls strapped on his utility belt and Ascalon strapped over his grey cloak with blue flames licking at its bottom part namely its hem. He had many such cloaks with the same design but different color combinations. They were high enough to cover the sword-like flame birthmark on his neck as Ablaze had told him. He also wore his ring on his right middle finger.

He took off towards the guild hall wondering what he would do now...

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-[In the Guildhall the same day]-

Gray was sitting at the table with Cana, again glaring at the new girl. She had been very reclusive since she arrived, just talking to Jii-San, asking where that cloaked freak was, and eating alone. Even now, she was sitting at a barrel and eating some bread and water. "Pfft, what's wrong with her? She's always by herself like she's better than us. Hey Cana, go talk to her or something."

The Card Magic girl looked at him with a tired expression. "Well I've tried to, but she just ignored me."

The stripper stood up with a cocky smile and pounded his fist in his hand. "Well, we can't have that. I may have to teach that newbie how to respect the great Gray-Sama."

"Since when are you great?"

Gray walked over to the seated former slave and tried to gain her attention. "Hey, you!" The girl just tried to ignore him as she changed her gaze. The boy grew ticked off as his patience ran thin. He lifted his leg and kicked the stool underneath her, causing her to fall to the floor. The noise had alerted the rest of the guild to see the two of them disagree.

"Uh, what was that for?!" She asked from the floor.

"This is a mage's guild. You don't go wearin' armor round here."

"Well, I'll take that under consideration when you start wearing clothes yourself." She patted her skirt as Gray blushed at the accusation, the entire guild cackling at the burn the new girl served him.

"Why you little!" Gray circled her and pointed his finger in a challenging manner. "I'd like to see you be so funny when I kick your ass!"

"I don't wish to fight you..." She then matched Gray's glare as she stood confidently, "but if you wish, then come at me."

"Hehehe, you're gonna regret that, armor girl." He kept his fist in his palm as magic started to build in his hands. An icy wind built up as he got in his stance.

"Ice Make: LAN-"

SMACK*

The entire guild looked in surprise as the girl just punched him in the head. The boy smashed into the wooden floor as his head smoked and his eyes swirled. She stood there with a smoking fist as silence built around them. Cana slowly stood from the bench and walked over to them. She knelt and poked Gray in the face, hoping to get some reaction. After receiving nothing, she stood back up and coughed in her fist.

"The winner: Erza!"

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The guild clapped in acknowledgment. Just then Naruto walked into the guild and sweat-dropped at the sight of a disheveled Gray with a bump on his head lying on the floor and a nonchalant-looking Erza with a smoking fist; which was likely the cause of the bump on Gray's head standing there with one hand on her hips.

Seriously, No matter who, females would always be scary!

He walked towards her and waved at the group with a happy smile to greet them. Erza noticed him approach and waved at him to come nearby, the other two took notice of this too. Cana also waved at him with a happy expression while Gray grumbled about crazy freaks before begrudgingly nodding his head at him in acknowledgment.

"Hey! Good morning!" Naruto greeted them in a chirpy tone.

"Naruto where have you been? When I came to the guild you were nowhere to be found?" Erza asked in a somewhat concerned and scolding tone peeved by his sudden disappearance.

"Well! I was training. Just got finished and headed to the guild for some breakfast or something. After that, I plan to get a job done and start making up some money!" Naruto told the group with a shrug and sat down beside Cana, opposite Erza and a still annoyed Gray who was rubbing the bump on his head.

"Training? But you haven't had breakfast yet! And I thought we were going to train together!" Erza again remained as stubborn as ever and dug in further.

Naruto just asked the waiter for some breakfast and settled down," Oh, I usually train on an empty stomach. I did train after breakfast on the road with you because your body wasn't ready after unlocking your magic for such training"

Erza frowned again but then sighed, "Master told me he will be taking me with him to one of his friends this afternoon."

"Hmmm, No problem Erza. We will train tomorrow or once you're healed up! You have to catch up to me afterall. Can't have my kenjustsu rival weak now, can l?" Naruto rhetorically asked while taking a bite from his meal as Erza smiled nervously at the praise that she thought was inadequate.

"D-Do you really think so?" Erza asked nervously poking her index fingers together under the table. Not that anyone noticed.

"Yeah, I bet. Soon we will have our rivalry spars to determine who is better in kenjustsu between us!" He said as he started eating his breakfast.

Erza just nodded her head with determination and a burning passion filled in her eyes. As their conversation was going on a now sobered up Gray and Cana were exchanging confused looks. What in the world is kenjustsu?!

"Um...If you don't mind. What is kenjustsu, Naruto?" Cana asked from his side but before he could respond Erza answered the question for him.

"Kenjustsu is the art of sword. Not like normal sword magic. It involves normal swordsmanship and takes it to another level with the help of magic. Not only sword but even the movements of our body, pattern and reaction speed are involved in the formulation of Kenjustsu styles. I have a freestyle while Naruto practices another style of swordsmanship" Erza explained with a silver of smugness and pride evident in her facial expressions and voice. That was what she studied on her own from the scrolls she read on the road.

Naruto nodded while Cana and Gray were both a bit surprised and awed at such an amazing magic. Or so they presumed because they didn't know even a tiny bit about swordsmanship. Gary recovered quickly and pretended as if it wasn't a big deal but Cana on the other hand wanted to continue the conversation further.

"Wow! So that's your magic you guys!"

"No, I also use seal magic...Um..it's like rune magic!" Naruto stated and further explained after noticing their confused expression due to the unfamiliar term.

Hearing this Gray scoffed and as usual found it as an opportunity to jab at the blonde, "Hah! Lame. Your some kinda bookworm weirdo now, aren't you? You're weaker than even Tomato over there!"

Gray snorted again as he pointed at Erza who was red in the face due to the obvious insult aimed towards her hair. She was about to thrash the boy into the ground with her fist for the second time this day but Cana coughed loudly, deciding to take the role of the mature one in the conversation.

"Well! I didn't introduce myself. I am Cana Albenora and I use card magic!" Cana introduced herself with a friendly smile and extended her hand forward.

"Oh! pleasure to meet you!" Naruto took her extended hand and shook it. He then turned towards Gray and looked at him expectantly, eager to know his magic.

Gray on the other hand just huffed and crossed his arms while looking away. This ticked off everyone around but none more so than Erza who was receiving this kind of treatment from the half naked boy for the longest period of time.

"Just answer already! CAN'T YOU BE A LITTLE POLITE WITH US FOR ONCE!" Erza shouted in annoyance while smacking the boy upside down on his head.

This again caused Gray to return to his previous position with a second bump on his head. He looked up to notice the dark glare Erza was giving him with a sweating Naruto and Cana backing slightly away from her with nervous expressions and beads of sweat running down their faces. He now felt terrified at the sight of the Volcano head in front of him.

He raised his hands weakly and gave them a weak thumbs up, " I am Gray fullbuster and I use ice make magic. Which is way more cooler than your magic, cloaked freak!"

He introduced himself with a weak grin on his face trying to feign toughness but it soon morphed into a cocky smirk as he looked towards Naruto with raised chin.

Naruto just sweat-dropped at his over competitive nature. He just sighed and finished his breakfast.

"What is ice make magic. I know card magic but I've never seen any kind of Maker magic." Erza asked looking at Naruto knowing he would have some knowledge about it.

Naruto was about to answer when a sudden chill spread into the air. All of them turned towards Gray who had his right hand placed on the palm of his left hand. He concentrated a little and then opened up his hands to show an exact replica of the necklace he wore around his neck.

Erza was amazed and she had to begrudgingly admit to herself that Gray's magic was cooler than her's.

"Think of it like modelling clay, Erza. You have to shape your creation with the right amount of strength,texture and magical properties. If you intensified a dense quality of magic in your creation, the product will be solid and it will be tedious task to shape it into any forms you desire. Likewise, if you diminish the substance of your magic, your creation will be brittle and weak." Naruto explained from the side while observing Gray's handiwork. He had to admit Gray was pretty accurate and fast compared to anyone his age.

"Brats exchanging magic now huh? Good for you. You'll learn among your peers and grow stronger the more you expand the knowledge about your's as well as others magic..." Everyone turned around and saw Makarov walking towards them in his wizard saint cloak.

"...And what better way than to learn from friends your age? Learning from mistakes and building experience while becoming stronger along your guild mates. Learn as much as you can from each other and incorporate it into your own magic as well." He continued and stopped in front of them.

"Bleh, What can I learn from this stupid cloaked freak! He uses rune magic! Really can you believe it, he should have become a rune knight instead of a mage!" Gray scoffed for the umpteenth time today. He viewed Naruto as a competitor to his superiority, being his age and all. Naruto on the other hand just rolled his eyes in exasperation.

Naruto's lack of action towards him even after teasing and belittling him so many times further infuriated him. So he continued childishly taunting him to provoke him in a fight and prove his superiority to the whole guild by defeating him.

"Enough Gray!" Makarov reprimanded him with a stern glare making Gray gulp. A shudder went up his spine when Erza also glared at him with the same dark look from before.

"Come on Erza-chan, we will go to Porlyusica and have her take a look at your eyes." He gestured towards Erza prompting her to follow his lead.

She looked back at Naruto and waved goodbye to him. He gave her a warm smile, silently praying her well being. He then turned towards the Request board which was a bulletin board full of several request for jobs ranging from E-class to A-class.

He skimmed through all of them. Deciding it would be beneficial to know the surrounding area a bit better through a job request.

He came up on a job request that seemed to be of his liking. It was a request to escort an old lady who wanted to collect various herbs and ingredients from the surrounding forests and mountains of magnolia. She expected a wizard who could help her travel and ensure her safety with his magic.

He then headed towards the bar counter and got the clearance from the bartender who approved it readily as it was just a C-class request and nothing more.

He wrapped the bandana around his head and exited the place along with the job request which was now stamped with his alias on it.

Both Gray and Cana sweat-dropped at his over cautious nature or in Gray's case futile attempt to look cool!

"He was serious about that hiding his identity part!"

"Tch! Whatever once I kick his ass he won't act so cool!" Gray scoffed again and walked away with his chin held up high.Cana just sighed at his behaviour. Boys!

Eventually both of them shrugged it off and continued onwards with their own business.

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-[Mt. Hakobe]-

Wind blew hard against his cloak and bandana as he trudged along on the snowy path of the desolate mountain of Mt. Hakobe. Naruto marched in the night as his footsteps were quickly filled in from the snowstorm.

"H-h-holy shit!" A frail and old weak voice sounding feminine from behind coughed out in a gruff tone. "It's freakin freezing out here."

He turned his head to the side to look back slightly and noticed from the corner of his peripheral vision, the trembling form of the old woman named Saya. She had a black hooded cloak draped around her, walking slowly while breathing heavily from inside the hood. Much to Naruto's lack of annoyance, it appears that the old woman was a cook and needed an assortment of ingredients found only in certain parts of forest around Magnolia.

Although that wasn't his problem. The problem was that she kept forgetting the exact places where the herbs grew and he had to navigate through the forest all alone searching said ingredients. Not only that but she was exactly like all the other old people he had met in his life. Troublesome!

"How are you not freezing?" The blonde looked to his right over his shoulder. Peering through the eyeslits of his bandana, he saw Saya pointing a shaking finger accusingly at him.

"It is chilly," The blonde said dully. "But I have a layer of special cloth in all of my cloaks that act as an insulator so that my body heat won't escape. Does that help you Saya-san?" He said in an overly polite manner that expressed how annoyed he was. This old lady had asked him about a thousand questions until now.If Saya had her hood down, you would see her right eyebrow twitching furiously.

"Well whoopty fucking doo to you…." She said sarcastically. Begrudgingly, she trudged along in the storm grumbling about stupid young mages with a head as big as the fiore continent and the late night chills of Mt. Hakobe. "Wait a minute…. I have the same cloak as yours young lad. How am I at the freezing point and not you?!" The old lady demanded.

'Troublesome old people...' He sighed and decided to humour her and sate her enraged curiosity or was it childish. Ah! The irony.

"It's because of my Magic" Was the only response she got back, causing the old lady to start grumbling to herself once again. This continued for about another 30 minutes before both Naruto and Saya saw a shadow loom in the distance.

"What is that?" Naruto asked, Saya just remained silent as they got closer. The closer they got, the shadow grew in size. Taking a final step both Naruto and the old cook looked at the massive structure that was before them. "What is this place?" They looked on as they saw an ancient run down fortress in the midst of the snowstorm. The structure looked to have been made of stone and at one point in time, looking as though it would have been a strong castle….. Now though, pillars lay broken on the ground, half covered in snow. All the windows were shattered. The gates were bent and broken at their frames, as well as the doors. Saya started to tremble slightly.

"W-w-well a-alright." She said quickly, "I think that we've got enough ingredients now. I was going to look for more to have extra stock and spend more time with you Naruto-chan but this place looks right as rain…. Sooooo we'll just head home now." She said sweetly and turned slightly before noticing that an annoying mage wasn't following her."What?" She tried to ask innocently.

'This old woman is so stinky...' Naruto's eyebrows were twitching violently inside his bandana beacuse of the nickname. He had suggested they return home four hours ago when the sun was halfway set but she refused, saying that he was running away from his duty and she had paid money for his assistance.

Besides that he could sense several non-human magic signatures with a high amount of dark power looming over the castle concealing their magic energy from escaping the perimeter of the runes set up around.

"This place is highly suspicious. It appears to have been manually trifled with so we cannot sense it from a fair distance. It is highly likely that it is used for some dark ritual or it can be the base of a dark guild. I will go check it out and try to gather as much intel as I can. You appear to be scared you can return home now."Naruto said with an amused voice.

"S-scared?! Me! Pfffftt! That's ridiculous!" Saya cried out indignantly. "I just don't think that you would find anything there." Naruto just ignored her and continued his trek forward.

"You think it's haunted." He said dully. He saw her body snap ridged for a moment. "Baka…." Naruto turned around sharply when a hand grabbed his hand from outside the cloak.

"Hey! I've seen those movies before." She yelled out. "That place right there is just screaming out ghost city waiting to eat up my soul!" She cried as she pointed to the gloomy castle. "Now unless you have some sort of magic where you can get rid of ghosts, then we're outta here." She said in a tone where it sounded like that was that. She started to march away with her nose up in the air, until she felt something snap out of her grip and she fell down face-first on the snow due to her momentum.

"DAMMIT!" She said, looking up she saw that Naruto was walking away from her. And with that, the old lady started to yell and scream at the blonde to stop his act of attempted suicide which he ignored whole heartedly.

"COME ON NARUTO-CHAN!" She shouted with anime tears running down her face. "DON'T DO THIS LAD! IT'S NOT HEALTHY TRUST ME! THE MOVIES ARE ALL TRUE! YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOST! COME ON! COME ON! I KNOW I WAS FREAKED OUT BY YOUR WEIRD GETUP AND ALL. BUT YOU ARE A GOOD BOY. DON'T DIE JUST YET!" She cried out as the blonde passed through the barrier by disrupting the runes and stopped in his tracks at the door.

"If you wish to help me so much...just notify master makarov of this and have him come over here..." He said as he passed the door and entered the castle.

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-[With Naruto]-

"Well this place isn't gloomy at all." Naruto said as he held up a torch in one of the hallways of the massive structure. After the old lady's little embarrassing episode out front, Naruto went through his supplies and brought out a torch and acted like nothing had happened at all. He brought up his hands into a familiar handsign.

'Kage no Bushin!' He said quietly as 3 clones popped into existence. The clones merely nodded at him as they took off down separate corridors. The original then started walking down the corridor passing the trash and rubbage that littered the hallway. Pictures of what looked to be many lords and ladies were now ripped and torn from their places on the walls. Desks and chairs were shattered and broken into pieces. Fine pieces kitchen ware and other household items lay everywhere.

Naruto continued down the hallway till a familiar scent entered his nose. "Blood." He whispered before picking up his pace and entering into the next corridor. He looked down the hall and saw blood everywhere. Along the walls, puddles were still on the floor of the liquid. No bodies were present though. Many clothes laid strunned off to the side into a pile. Many of them were ripped and blood soaked. Naruto's eyes widened as he looked down the hall.

"What happened here?" He asked himself and continued to stare down the hall. "I need to figure out what is going on." He told himself and continued forwards.

Taking a few turns here and there, Naruto followed the blood trail in the castle. Listening for any movement that might occur. His heart was racing fast in his chest as he went further and further into the castle. Soon Naruto picked up something. His ear twitched as well and his special senses also went into alert mode. He listened carefully for a moment.

"Whimpering?" Questioned Naruto as he snapped his head to the left and followed the path down a set of stairs.

"It's coming from down there." He thought out loud and started walking down the stony steps. The steps spiraled round and round until they finally reached the bottom of the staircase. In front of him stood a large wooden door. The whimpering grew louder as he continued to walk forward. Naruto touched the door slightly before taking in a breath and pushed the door open.

His eyes narrowed as they peered within the slightly litted room. There were cells upon cells of creatures that were locked up. Naruto peered closely at the closest cage. "Lycans." He said with an icy touch to his voice. As soon as he said that, his voice echoed throughout the dungeon.

ROOOAAAARRRRR*

Every beast seemed to lunge themselves at the him trying to rip him apart, but they were held back by the steel bars that were holding them in place. Snarls and gnashing of teeth were heard as the beasts tried to break their way through the metal to reach him but to no avail.

As he looked on he was reminded of his time at the tower of heaven. Although he had power; these Lycans didn't seem to have that. His hands were now clenched in anger. "These poor souls." He whispered as he walked past the cages locking up the creatures.

"There must be about 50-60 or so here." He observed. "I wonder who captured them all?" He asked. Someone or someones' who had imprisoned this many Lycans, had to have been a powerful force to deal with. Lycans were known for their speed and viciousness. People have gone crazy just because they have encountered these bloodthirsty monsters.

Naruto remembered learning about Lycans from his training and classes in Konoha. These evil beast were said to feast upon the flesh of anything they could really get their claws on. Even if it meant that they would turn on each other. Naruto looked at the mindless bloodthirsty beasts. They all looked relatively unharmed….. so was it just rumor that they would turn on another…. Or was it that they were being placated somehow….. Naruto thought about it for awhile before realizing something.

"Why are they transformed? Werewolves only turn into this form when the moon is full….. So how are they in this state?" He said as he looked upon the growling monsters.

"Maybe it has something to do with those shackles." He observed again. Naruto glanced at each of the wolf like creatures, noticing that each of them had on shackles around their wrists and ankles. Strange markings adorned the metal, almost like seals…. Most likely runes of some sort.

"Maybe….." Naruto said slowly before sighing. "These poor souls…." He said again sadness and anger radiated throughout his being.

"Once cursed, always cursed." He said walking a little closer to the cages to get a better look at the creatures. They had grown weary from constantly banging on the side of the cells and now just resulted to lying down and growling at the Cloaked mage. "Whoever amassed these creatures has tremendous power. If they ever loosened these monsters in an area, it would be utter chaos….." He paused. "I'll lay down some traps so that they will not make it out alive." With that, he pulled out of his belt, a scroll. Unfurling the scroll he knelt down and applied some magic to one of the seals present resulting in a *poof, and a stack of explosive notes appeared. He went to place a seal on the side of the cell.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THEM!" Boomed a snarling voice. Naruto jumped back, spreading out his senses, distinguishing where the voice had come from. He peered further into the darkness.

He lifted up the torch, that he had been holding onto, illuminating the back wall. Lying on the wall, was another of the creatures growling at him. It glared at the him with pure hatred.

"Step away from them!" It growled. The voice had a rough and manly ring to it. Naruto looked at the beast. Spikes were embedded into his palms and feet, piercing the wall behind him. Chains attached to the wall held the beast even more firmly to the wall. Naruto could see that the chains were digging tightly into the beasts flesh, in so much that blood could be seen dripping down the metal. His fur looked to be a dirty silver color, Naruto guessed from being in captivity. If Naruto had to guess, the Lycan, standing full height, would have to have been about 9ft tall. He had green eyes that seem like they could pierce almost anything. Naruto started walking toward the creature.

"You can talk?" He asked only getting a sneer from the beast.

"Did you figure that out by yourself?" He asked sarcastically, "Big bad Mystery Mage is smart no?" Normally, Naruto would have risen to his remark. But right now, he was more curious than anything.

"I was informed that beasts such as yourselves didn't have the capacity to form human speech patterns." He said before the wolf glared at him...again.

"That's because you're all a bunch of fucking morons!" He growled. "You stand here before me, calling us beasts and monsters when you were about to commit mass murder." He sneered, "From my view up here, you're the monster here." Naruto stared at the crucified beast.

"Your kind decimate villages. They commit mass murder themselves." Naruto said slightly annoyed that he was trying to defend himself from such a creature. "Hell, even when I first entered into this room, your mindless kind tried to mall me here." The lycan laughed cruelly.

"Typical human." He grunted, "You don't even care about anything else except to kill us monsters. You don't even know what the fuck is going on do you?" Naruto continued to stare at him.

"What do you mean?" He asked. The lycan simply flicked his head up and motioned behind the boy.

"Tell me Mage, do they look like mindless monsters to you now?" He asked. Naruto looked around once more at the beasts….. Only to notice that their entire countenance had changed. They were gathered around each other, huddled together, as if they were trying to keep warm. Whimpering could be heard throughout the dungeon as both Naruto and the leader lycan looked on at the sight.

"Their eyes have changed." He observed. Naruto looked closer.

"They're….. frightened?" He asked more to himself than anybody. The figure behind him growled.

"Of course they're frightened human!" He said, "But since when have your kind cared about us? When have you ever? You simply see us as demons because we're different than you! But what do you care? You're probably here just to kill us and be rise up in your disgusting human ranks!" He spat at the blonde. Naruto stood there for a moment.

'None of this makes any sense.' He thought looking at the caged beasts. 'Kaa-chan taught that these creatures are just mindless bloodthirsty beasts, incapable of controlling their killing nature.' He looked around once again at the imprisoned beasts. 'This shouldn't be possible.' He turned back to the pinned Lycan.

"How are you able to talk?" He asked. The apparent leader of the pack or so he assumed glared at the mage.

"Why the hell should I tell you?!" He snapped. "So you can go back to your precious Council and tell them that we're a little smarter than you thought. Hell no! I will not endanger my people any farther than your kind have already done!"

Naruto sighed, "Then at least tell me what happened here." He said, "Who did this to you? And why are you all imprisoned like this?" The Lycan snorted.

"Not like we wanted to be here." He said with a small frown on his face.

"What happened?" Naruto asked again. The Lycan on the wall stared at the blonde for a minute before letting out a sigh.

"There was an uprising in the clan." He said dejectedly. Naruto's eyebrow rose.

"Clan?" He asked. The Lycan let out a laugh, but this time, it wasn't one out of contempt, but sadness.

"You must think its strange don't you?" He said, "That monsters like us have clans. Out there, in the real world, we have no place in society. Only pain, death, and misery….. Is it so strange to think that we wanted to be around those that are just like us?" He asked looking down at the prison floor. "We're alone in this world. People look at us and they fear us. Even family looks at you differently after you have this type of blood running through your veins." He looked up at him. "Do you know what that feels like? To love someone so much, only for that one thing to be torn away from you because of something you didn't want?" Naruto's eyes shot wide open at the statement.

'Demon!'

'Stay away from him. He's evil.'

'You're a monster! You're the reason why our sacred land was tarnished'

Painful memories rose to the service of Naruto's mind as he listened to the Lycan. "We just wanted to be left alone in peace. That's why many of us came out here, to get away from everything." He smiled briefly before snarling, "But then they came. Lived between us for a while, gathered clansmen with the same motive as them and turned on us. He turned on us all!" He cried out struggling against his bonds, causing more blood to seep out of his wounds.

"Who?" Naruto asked. The lycan looked down at the guard.

"Garlord." He said with venom. "He's the reason why most of us are in here." He sighed, "Gavient was the Lycan responsible for gathering all of us together to live in harmony. He was a kind leader who wouldn't turn down anybody and help anyone in any way that he could…. Even if they weren't a lycan like us….. He would always welcome any creature that was in need of aid." He said sadly as he remembered the fond memories. "But there were also many who didn't agree with Gayient's philosophies. They said that it made us look weak and easy to prey on." He growled, "Then, a few months ago, more than half of the clan took arms against Gayient with the pit demons that arrived several months ago. Their leader Garlord, stood in the back and waited like the coward he was and waited for Gayient to tire out from the fighting. Even then he lost his right eye trying to take him down, but in the end….. He was victorious." He sighed once again.

"After that, most of those who sided with Gayient lost their spirit. Since then, we've been locked down here, half starved, beaten and tortured." Naruto noticed tears that had started to stream down the wolf-mans face. "So what are you going to do now Mage?" He sneered. "You going to get you're precious council to come and deal with us? If you do, you better get the entire fucking army. If you came just to save the little girl they just brought here then I'm afraid you aren't going to be any match for us." Naruto's eyes widened.

"What little girl?!" Naruto said quickly. The Lycan only looked down at Naruto with slight confusion on his face.

"I assumed that was you're primary mission in the first place." He said, "That girl with the green hair. Wait!! Now that I think of it she looked pretty rich...and royal I guess...What was her name again...Hmm Something like fi...Fiona...nah fiore I think….."

'SHIT!' Thought Naruto, 'Why would they kidnap someone and endanger revealing their own positions...wait now I know why those runes were placed outside and these people know runes?!'

"She's still alive?" Naruto asked urgently. The Lycan shrugged.

"No idea." He said, "They dragged her out of here about 5 minutes before you got here." Naruto snapped and turned on his heels and started walking towards the exit.

'How should I go about saving her?'

Naruto turned and looked at the Lycan on the wall. His eyes portrayed no fear….. Just sadness. 'They're monsters….. That's what I was always told.' He thought.

'Demon!'

'Die monster!'

Naruto winced at the painful memories. '…..Man…. I really am a hypocrite aren't I?' He thought as he started walking towards the beast. Behind him he could hear the rest of the beasts growling as he approached the one on the wall.

"W-w-what are you doing?" The girl behind the leader asked as the blonde got closer to the Lycan he was talking to. He stopped when he was about 2 feet away from the him. "GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" He howled struggling against his bonds, blood splattering over the Mage's cloak.

"Calm down." Naruto said, reaching up to take off his bandana for some breathing space. Naruto took off his bandana, revealing his face to the lycan. His eyes widened significantly.

"A-a child?" He whispered to himself as he looked at Naruto's face. Naruto seemingly ignored him as he took out one of his blades slashing the chains that held him bound, revealing deep wounds upon his body as the chains fell. He used wind magic to support his weight and helping him land safely on the ground. The Lycans stared in shock at what the blonde boy had done. He walked forward and examined the wounds on his hands and feet.

"These are going to be a little more difficult." He heard him whisper to himself. He took out a weird kunai, he then saw a faint blue light coat the blade before sliding it behind his paws, cutting the spikes clean through, causing his limbs to drop, one at a time.

His body then slowly went limp and fell on the floor gently due to the wind supporting him. He was laid down on his back as Naruto unfurled a scroll, using his chakra to unseal various medical supplies.

"Water Arts: Sacred Cures!" He whispered to himself.

"Who are you?" He asked quietly. Naruto continued to keep working.

"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze." He said, before looking her in the eyes. "And you?" He asked respectfully.

"…..Veradom Cromium…." He muttered quietly getting the blonde to nod his head, before getting back to work. "Why are you doing this?" He asked.

"Why not?" Came the blondes reply, causing his eyes to widen slightly at the simple response. "You're absolutely right. I have never tried to get to know of your kind. Seeing you now, yes, you have been cursed…. But you have overcome that curse." The blonde stated, "Your curse represents evil, but you do not. How can I judge something which is not evil." The blonde sighed. "You never asked for this curse to be placed upon you and yet you're judged for it. Judged for something which I don't understand… What kind of monster would I be….. If I didn't take the time to understand your pain?" The blonde smiled at Veradom. He stared up at the boy for a moment, his eyes misted for a moment.

'This boy….. What is he?' He thought as he continued with his work. Within a minute or so, the leader was patched up and bandages adorned his body. The blonde did the same for all the Lycans. They stared at him like he was some kind of alien with dinner plates for eyes and mouth open agape.

"Now, free your people and get out of here." The blonde said putting back on his bandana as he started walking to the exit. Enough time had been wasted here. He had to hurry and see if that Fiore girl was still alive. "I'll deal with the rest of your clan." Veradom's eye's widened.

"You can't!" He cried out after the boy, wincing still at his wounds. "A normal Mage can't hope to match the power of a pit demon and Lycan Army, let alone a boy! You'll need help!" He yelled, slightly fearful of the decision the teen was making.

"Well then…" The boy said still walking to the door, "It's a good thing then that I'm not a normal mage now isn't it?" He finished glancing back at the lycan on the floor, exiting the dungeon, heading back upstairs. Leaving behind a still stunned crew of Lycans along in the cells.

'My clone just dispelled and there seems to be something big going on in a part of the castle.' He hurried up sticking to the roof readying a very explosive entrance for these pit demons. They were said to be fire demons with unique abilities each, made out of shadow and lurking in hell. Although all of this wasn't important for the blonde.

Only important thing was that these monsters were S-class ranked and if there were more than one then this was going to be a very exciting fight. Naruto's blood pumped up with adrenaline as the anticipation of a thrilling battle filled up his being. He smirked, now he could test if he was ready for that Anbu Captain post or not.

But first thing first, save the girl...

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-[The Stadium of the Castle]-

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'Mommy! Daddy!' Thought a fearful six year old girl with wavy green hair and equally beautiful green eyes in the middle of an arena. Lycans lined in the stadium who were cheering and laughing. Whistling and howling at the scantily clad girl in the middle of the arena. The girl was wearing her tattered clothes that had once been a regal dress which was so torn that it barely looked more than mere rags. Her hands and feet had shackles on them, so she couldn't extend her limbs any great distance. She looked up at the head of the arena at the man..

He looked down at her, frowning slightly but then jerked up frantically as the pit demon besides him nudged at his side. He finally grinned at her albeit in much strain than before, showing off his impressive canines. He had short white hair, a massive scar ran down the side of his pale skinned face. His right eye no longer usable. He was a large, muscular man as well. 6'5" and wore a huge bear skinned coat. He was wearing black pants with large black buckle boots. He wore no shirt, that showed off his muscular body, along with many scars, showing his various battles that he had vanquished in the past. He stood up address the restless crowd.

"Brothers! Sisters!" He shouted out. "We have been oppressed for generations to our rights! No longer shall we, Lycans and pit demons, just hide in the shadows like wounded puppies! We are the superior beings to the humans. They should be the one's that cower in fear to us!" Cries of agreement rang out throughout the stadium. "Tonight, I give you a royal show, introducing you to the royal blood of this kingdom whose responsible for the loss of so many of our brethren." He cried out pointing down at the girl in the arena. Many growls and snarls were heard from the audience. "This…. Is princess Hisui! Daughter of Fiore's king! His heart and dearest jewel" More booing and growls were heard as various objects were thrown down into the ring. "She is supposedly the most important female in all of Fiore, but yet she is on her knees in front of us tonight! Let's show Miss Fiore, what happens when you try to take on a clan, with superior beings in it!" Cries of excitement rang throughout the arena. "Raise the gate!" The man shouted.

Hisui looked straight in front of her as a steel gate slowly raised itself up from the wall. Her eyes widened as tears started to form in them and her lips quivered in fear. She saw the giant begin to leave from its shadow. Every step it took, she could feel the ground shake slightly under her. A hoofed foot came out into the light as the rest of its body did as well.

It stood over 12 feet tall. Upper body of a man, lower of a bull. It flexed its huge muscular body, veins popped out of its neck and arms at it gave out a large roar. Brown skin, large horns on its head. It had a gold ring that pierced its nose. It was wearing a loose loincloth that barley hid its enormous male anatomy.

'A-a-a minotaur….'Naruto thought in panic from the stands concealed in the shadows. He had heard of these creatures. Horrifying stories of women who fell prey upon these beast. This beast would rape them, and wouldn't stop until they were dead. Slowly, the teen stood up, his blood boiling in rage at the sick act these monsters were going to perform. How could someone even think about doing such a thing to a little girl like that?!

Now, he understood. These were what real monsters were like! Sick to their very core.

"AND LET THE GAMES BEGIN!" Arram roared out. The stadium erupted with enormous cheers. The bull-like creature took a whiff of the air, before honing in on the jade head in front of him. Without warning the beast charged the girl, barely giving the girl enough time to dodge the oncoming beast.

The beast quickly turned again and charged another time. Hisui continued dodging left and right with wobbling feet and shaking all the while but the attacks of the oncoming bull didn't stop.

'I can't let it go on further!' Naruto thought furiously. He looked down at the stadium, 'I need to get the girl to safety.' His brow furrowed as he prepared to set of his explosive greeting.

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-[Stadium top floor]-

Garlord sat calmly on his throne above the arena, watching amusingly as the girl tried to get out of harms way from the beast. He was surrounded by two more of his kind. He took the form of a 14 foot tall, menancing being roughly humanoid in shape, though seeming to consist of or be surrounded by shadow and flame. He had a huge flaming axe on his back. To his side both of his brethren were a foot shorter than him, having a flaming sword and a fiery whip; they were constantly burning, and their weapons appeared to be molten.

"Arram I must say. I was skeptical at first, but it is quite handy to have a Royal Knight here in my service." He said to the man at his left with cold and gruff voice that sent shivers down everyone's spine. The man who was watching the sick spectacle in front of him had clenched fists which were held down by shackles. "You are definitely a huge asset to our army." He grinned wickedly as he watch the black haired man shake in anger.

Garlord was no fool, he knew that he needed to have something besides just strength and numbers...or in this case deliver proper ransom in order to take on various people, groups, organisations. Arram, was his first experiment. Kidnapping his wife and child, they trapped the Royal Knight and marked him. Threatening to literally rip piece at a time, his child and wife in front of their eyes, he was forced into the service of this mad beast. He made him kidnap the princess of Fiore to threaten the king and prove their strength to all of the kingdom as a serious threat.

Arram looked down at the arena at the struggling girl. 'Please forgive me, Hime' He thought. There was nothing that could be done without endangering his family. He clenched his jaw as he thought of the fact that he could never be with them again. There would be no way that he could return to society. They would never accept him. Even with his wife and child out of harms way…. He could never be with them again….. He…. He was a monster.

Garlord grinned even wider as he saw the man start to drop into depression. Soon…. Things would turn his way. His little experiment worked. He would have to enlist more of these knights to his cause. Their little runes were quite effective as well as powerful. He laughed as he saw the girl in the arena finally get caught by his little pet. "Looks like the fun is just about to begin." He laughed cruelly.

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-[Down at the field]-

Hisui looked at the bull like face of the beast which had a lecherous grin plastered across his face. He held her upside down by one of her foot in his hands as she was thrashing her arms around in desperation to get out of this monster's clutches. She didn't know what his intentions were but the savage look in his eyes made something at the pit of her stomach roll.

"STOP IT! PLEASE LEAVE US ALONE!" She shouted in desperation with tears streaming down from her red puffy eyes but even in this dire situation her accent was befitting of someone from the royal family. As she continued to thrash around wildly the beast just leered at her. The Minotaur suddenly started lifting her towards his ugly mug. His body and especially his mouth was reeking of something so disgusting to smell that her nose started burning from just taking a whiff of it alone.

She closed her eyes shut and her mouth scrunched up in disgust and pain as she felt herself being lifted more and more ...until.

While she was waiting for the inevitable sensation of pain she suddenly was hefted away for the strong vice like grip of the Minotaur. She wasn't expecting this. Even her small six year old brain made some conclusions. She didn't feel uncomfortable as she expected. Being snatched away or thrown away by a savage beast will be certainly a painful experience, she thought.

THUD*

She opened her one eye narrowly in fright, afraid of witnessing something horrendous in this miserable prison she'd been brought to. The first thing she noticed was a fog like loud exhale breathed out by the person carrying her in the chilling night sky with only one of his arm to around her side...

"Whew!! That was close..." The person said before turning his blue eyes to her which were full of warmth and concern at the moment. She was momentarily captivated by the depth of those azure orbs and stared at him in childish amazement. His face was covered by a bandana, a grey cloak with blue flames fluttering in the wild wind and some blonde hair peeking through his cloth.

CLINK*

She was snapped out of her stupor when she noticed him take his other hand away from behind him and holding a red Katana to his side. She looked around and found that the stadium had gone completely silent from their previous loud cheering. She quickly moved up a bit to get a look behind, over the boy's tall shoulder. She was feeling oddly safe and all her worries had disappeared completely.

She looked behind, only to witness the horrifying sight of the bull head of the Minotaur laying on the ground cleanly cut off from over his body. While his body was still standing stiffly with some of the fingers holding her chopped off. Blood was spurting out of all the injuries like a fountain. Now, she understood why she didn't feel any kind of discomfort when she was yanked away from the monsters grip.

She was feeling slightly ill seeing the sight of the blood on the floor. Along with all of the events from earlier, her body couldn't hold it in her anymore as she gagged trying but failing to empty the contents of her stomach after witnessing such a gruesome sight.

---

Everything happened in a few seconds for the occupants in the stands. One moment they were taking sick pleasure in watching the Minotaur about to rip the girl off her clothes, some even wishing they were the one's performing the act themselves. But the next second, the head of the beast is cut cleanly off his shoulders and rolls down onto the ground with a resounding thud. Then a figure appeared seemingly out of nowhere holding the girl in his one arm.

'King's army...' All of them thought in panic. Yes, they were strong but nowhere near strong enough to take down the army of the kingdom...atleast not yet. Garlord on the other hand glared intensely at a gobsmacked Arram who was watching the events turn out with wide eyes. He had used the runes to hide them. Also the person sent for rescue seemed too young and unnaturally fast. Even he couldn't follow his movements properly.

They didn't get much chance to dwell on their thoughts as explosions shook the stadium to the core, taking place under every pillar in the stands. Followed by many thumping sounds, courtesy to some strange kunais being embedded everywhere around them.

Naruto on the other hand frowned but quickly flashed her to his hiding spot. He couldn't do his job properly if she was going to be present. She was vomiting just by watching him cut the head off a monster which was pretty clean and not a gruesome sight, atleast to him. Judging by the number of monsters and their current position he was pretty sure that the sight of this stadium after his mission would be anything but pleasant.

Also, this girl had gone through the near experience of being raped. He knew she was too innocent to comprehend what would have happened to her but still felt sympathetic towards her. He helped her stand down on her feet which were still wobbling due to her mental trauma and stress. He checked her for any injuries, thankfully there weren't any other than some scrapes and scratches caused by dodging the Minotaur for a while there.

He sighed in relief, " Hey are you okay? Sorry I was a little late!" He exclaimed while scratching the back of his head sheepishly.

Hisui regained her bearings and suddenly lunged at her saviour rapping her tiny arms around his form. Naruto hesitated a bit but then hugged her back comfortingly. She felt that uneasy feeling she got from all those stares and the Minotaur fading away quickly and gave him a strained smile while looking up at him with watery eyes.

"Y-Yes, Thanks m-mister... We are really relieved you came here to save us... We were really scared... Did my daddy send you..?" She said with a cute tilt of her head to the side.

"AAAHHHHH"

Before he could answer her questions the barrier he placed around them burnt down two of the Lycans that managed to find them behind him. He figured that they would come out of the stadium area to follow them and that would ruin his plans. He quickly made a shadow clone of himself and had it watch over the girl for the time being.

"I'll be going now, you stay here with my clone. I have to dispose off those beasts and you cannot come with me..." he told her as he readied himself to take off towards the mark in the stadium.

"NO! PLEASE THEY WILL HURT YOU! LETS RUN AWAY AND TELL MY DADDY ABOUT THIS." Hisui shouted as she held one of his arm in her own in a vice grip. Naruto tried to escape but to no avail.

"Alright. I promise I will come back here without any injury on me. Now please let me go." Naruto requested urgently as he ordered his clone to take Hisui away from him.

"You promise us?" She asked

"Yeah!" He replied before disappearing in a flash leaving behind a clone sweat-dropping at the sight of an awe struck Hisui with stars in her eyes.

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-[ In the stadium]-

Naruto appeared back at the center of the field in the stadium as the panicking audience took notice of him. They started snarling and gnashing their teeth at him.

"You disgust me! Now come on let's see if you can hit me." Naruto said in a monotone but slightly mocking voice and made a hand gesture for them to come.

Immediately the Lycans started jumping off the stands and running towards him to rip off every limb of his body. Naruto on the other hand just observed and sensed every magic signature around the castle while looking at the oncoming army of Lycans. There seemed to be around two-to-three hundreds of them.

The first lycan reached within a foot of his position and tried to swipe at him with his claws coated in green magic. Naruto ducked and punched his throat making him choke and redirecting his claw attack to the second approaching Lycan. The others followed suit as they tried to land a single hit on this kid but failed miserably.

Once they realised they weren't any match for him alone they teamed up and attacked him in tandem. A lycan tried to punch Naruto who stepped backwards and used the punch as a platform to jump up while kicking the lycan backwards on the others. His teammates stumbled but were caught off-guard when he tossed a kunai with an Amaterasu formula 28 on it.

Boom*

A large portion of the army was burnt and was screaming for help from their fellow clan members. Naruto felt the madness of combat start to sear through his veins. He leaped and struck, hacked and thrust, stabbed and slashed like a flash of hot summer lightning. Limbs were shorn through his flying blade, Lycans went down before him like corn to a reaper.

At the other end, Garlord and his subordinates were bristling with anger at the Mage who was decimating their ranks with startling speed. They all including Arram were gaping like fish witnessing all the Lycans being thrown away like rag dolls with missing limbs, head and some explosions rang out around the battlefield. All by just a boy! The scene seemed like a festival of sorts with the boy at the centre lightning up their army like explosives.

Garlord snapped out of his shock and prepared his attack to take down both the boy and the army alike to retreat before the king's army arrives. Meanwhile Naruto sensed all of the enemies were within his range. He kicked aside a lycan and cut off his hands while he was falling behind with his kunai. He took another kunai out and flung both of them loosely in the air.

He then jumped up and kicked the kunais' backside together embedding them both in the head of the Lycans who jumped at him simultaneously. He used their heads to jump high up while taking out Ascalon still sheathed in its scabbard and cutting of the head of a black lycan in the process.

'It's time...' He thought inwardly. But even then a chill went up everyone's spines in reality.

"Don't blink. Everything will be over in a flash..." He shouted without any visible emotion gaining attention of the three pit demons who were preparing an attack to kill him and the army.

He then disappeared out of the view and all they could hear were the screams of agony as the Lycans weren't even aware of their untimely demise until they were cut off cleanly in half. From above, all the pit demons could see was a yellow flash that left nothing but destruction in its wake.

After about a minute, all was over as silence hung over the place. Blood was splattered everywhere. Bodies and limbs were strung around everywhere. Guts and intestines were flung all over the place. Naruto stood in the middle of it all with his cloak fluttering in the wind and his still sheathed sword leaking small traces of blood.

The sight terrified the pit demons to their very core. A boy just finished off their whole army who were magical beast and didn't have a speck of blood on him.

"Wh-What the hell!!?" The one on left shouted in fright.

"H-He just killed all of them in an instant!" The second one on the right stammered our while looking at Garlord for further orders.

Garlord just snarled and glared harder at Arram who himself was bewildered by his fellow human's skills, "What was that damned technique? It wasn't normal rune magic I know it! And how the hell did he find us? Did you just fool us with your runes or called for external help with the help of some kind of secret message?" He shouted with his voice increasing with every second confusing the blonde who could hear it.

"I-I-I don't k-know...There is no magic I know of that could do such a thing!" Arram replied while glancing occasionally at the boy who was walking towards them fearlessly.

Garlord also took notice of this and silently ordered his subordinates to continue their attacks. Thrusting his arms forward...

"Unison Raid: Fire-shadow vortex"

All three demons exclaimed simultaneously as a large vortex of fire and shadows sped towards the blonde who was devoured by the flames and screamed to the heavens due to the burning.

"Foolish brat! Did he think he was walking in a park?." Garlord scoffed and was about to go search for the princess to use as a distraction to retreat from the royal army that was undoubtedly on their way here after pinpointing Hisui's location now that the runes had been destroyed.

Suddenly he was kicked in the back of his head by a water encased leg that sent him flying in the stadium. He coughed up a little and then looked upwards just to snarl in annoyance at the figure of the same boy fighting his subordinates. He looked at the corpse of the his adversary that he thought he had killed only for it to poof out of existence in a cloud of smoke. Damn, he didn't sense that attack! What's with this brat?!

On the throne room Naruto ducked under the punch of the demon's giant fist, side stepped the other demon's punch while grappling said hand and kicking the sword demon in the gut sending it as well in the stadium.

Now the remaining demon suddenly used his shadow whip to attack him. Naruto jumped backwards fortunately, for the ground he was standing on a moment ago went up in a burst of flames. Taking advantage of the obscured vision of the demon he kicked back the wall and launched himself towards the demon.

Water swirled around his fist and took form of a mini tornado. With his fast speed, Naruto punched the demon on his jaw, cracking it in the process and launching him towards the other demons.

He looked down to notice the sword demon approaching him with his sword held high for a downward slash to cut him in half. He parried the strike and turned on his foot while attempting to cut off the demon's head swiftly. But just as Ascalon's tip was about to reach his neck, the demon sunk down into the ground while grinning at his surprised expression.

'So this one can sink into the shadows and the other one can burn anything with his shadows...' he thought just as a large fireball with wisps of shadows leaking through it sped towards him. Naruto jumped down but to his surprise the attack continued to follow him. Naruto seeing no other options, slashed the fireball in half with his blade which resulted it into diverging in two different directions and exploding behind Naruto's back.

Naruto was again not given any breathing space as the leader with axe rushed him and jumped high making the ground tremble due to his gigantic size. The axe intent on cleaving him in half, Naruto unsheathed his sword and parried the strike surprising Garlord due to the immense strength he possessed to block his gigantic axe. But to his utter astonishment the blade started syphoning off on the fire of the blazing axe stealing off his magic through it.

Using his surprise Naruto kicked out his legs from the ground and stabbed him in the chest but the demon rolled of the ground receiving only a slight cut on his shoulder. The demon snarled and gritted his teeth due to the pain in his shoulder and jumped back.

"Who the hell are you pesky human? And...and the blade it's not normal either!" Garlord shouted out expressing his surprise.

"My identity is none of your concern! And as for my blade I hope you liked it's service." He said while bowing mockingly in front of the demons.

"Don't be so full of yourself! Our weapons are special too!" Both of the lower demons exclaimed loudly. Then they started eating their own weapons, drooling and chowing down on their weapons hungrily.

Naruto could feel Ascalon's subconscious shudder witnessing their actions and fed it some of his own magic placating it a bit. He refocused when the temperature in the air seemed to go up as the flammable objects in the ground caught up fire.

Both of the demons burped simultaneously, then grinned at Naruto in a manic manner; eyeing him like a prey.

"Burning shadow snakes"

Suddenly from the body of the whip demon several shadow tendrils launched at him in high speed like snakes lunging at their prey. Surprised due to the speed of the attack, Naruto jumped back while the attacks followed him burning everything in their path. The demon controlling the tendrils smirked evilly when Naruto was cornered and with even more speed, all of the tendrils coming out of his body attacked Naruto at once.

Naruto, frustrated by his lack of offensive success scowled underneath his bandana. Sensing the approaching danger he jumped on the stadium wall and started running on it in high speed surprising the demons further more. He made a release handseal and muttered under his breath...

"Kai"

Now feeling less restricted, Naruto observed his opponents. Suddenly out of his own shadow the former sword demon lunged at him.

"Burning shadow claw"

He swiped his hands at Naruto, who had to jump back on to the ground still avoiding the annoying shadow tendrils following him. He saw the demon leader build up some magic and found it as an opportunity to take out his most dangerous adversary. He rushed him with his blade held in a reverse grip with golden flames licking at its top.

SQUELCH*

"What!"

He exclaimed in surprise. His attack was stopped abruptly when he stepped on a shadow patch that latched onto him and held him firm on the ground while absorbing his magic and body inside itself.

'So the leader can absorb magic and bodies of his opponents with this freaky burning shadows..." his thoughts were interrupted by his other honourable foes.

"Burning shadow spikes!"

The former sword demon yelled as several flaming shadow spikes jutted out of the ground and rushed him. But it wasn't the end here...

"Burning shadow prison"

The other demon announced as his shadow tendrils closed in on Naruto's form from all directions with burning rubble attached to it.

"It's over brat! No human can defeat us demons...HAHAHAHHAH...Burning shadow incinerator" the leader exclaimed with a manicn laugh which Naruto ignored and flashed away from his position.

The area of convergence of the attack erupted in a large explosion of white flames and moments later the other two's attacks too joined the fray blocking everyone's view of the situation due to the intense light and heat of the attack.

As the attack ended, both lowly demons started laughing hysterically at their victorious move and flamboyant attack while the leader seemed to be a little troubled.

"HAHAHAHAH.. Take that! Now that brat will be screaming in pain in lord Garlord's stomach for eternity..." One of the demon's wheezed out through their laughter.

"Yeah! I wish I could hear him..ugh.." the other demon started but was abruptly cut off when a tri-pronged kunai pierced through his skull and he gurgled out blood before losing the life out of his eyes.

The leader and the laughing demon stopped what they were doing immediately as their companions dead body hit the ground and they widened their eyes in horror.

"Gothmog, pay attention. I don't sense his energy being absorbed into me!" Garlord warmed him urgently but it was too late. Gothmog was filled with rage and anger due to his brother's death in front of his eyes. The only thoughts he could process were of tearing off his enemie's limbs one at a time!

"He should've not let his guard down like that! Don't you think so?" Naruto pointed out. He was perched upon one of the remaining pillars of the stadium.

Gothmog set his bloodshot eyes upon the blonde and gnashed his teeth at him. He snarled and rushed at him while emitting a large amount of magic. Naruto just raised an eyebrow at the demon's increased animosity and hostility towards him. He didn't think they would be affected due to their comrades death.

"Burning shadows: Buddha's palm" Gothmog announced his attack as he jumped up and threw both of his palms at the blonde while using as much magic as he could muster.

Two large open palms completely made up of shadows and flames rushed at the blonde with melting intensity.

Naruto exhaled loudly. Didn't they learn their lesson the first time? He unsheathed his blade and made several cutting motions in the air. Moments later the demons attacks was cut off in the same manner as his blade's motion and fell to the ground, harmlessly.

Naruto quickly rushed the still airborne demon and slapped his hand lit in blue flame like energy on the demon's torso. Suddenly Gothmog fell to the ground, creating a crater on the floor due to his huge size. An immense pressure washed over him, he was unable to lift his body from the ground. It was like the gravity was increased ten folds.

"It was unwise of you to rush me... You..." he pointed at Garlord who was watching the spectacle in dread and horror realising they were outclassed from the beginning, " ...You said I was pesky and demons were superior to humans, right? Well I don't think so!"

Garlord looked up at the blonde from his position and snarled, rage now filling his being. Was this human mage questioning his believes? His pride would never allow it! If nothing else he will kill this brat for sure tonight!

Naruto not receiving any answer but just a glare in response shrugged his shoulders and concentrated on his magic. He clapped his hands together in a praying position and closed his eyes...

"WATER SLAYER'S : LIQUIDATION! " Naruto whispered in a calm voice and waited out for the result. The demons on the other side tilted their heads in confusion due to the odd stance. They were expecting an attack. Did the brat withdraw mid-battle or did he run out of magic?

Their questions were answered as the whole ground shook along with the old castle as water came rushing forth from all the directions. All the corridors, gates and even the roof holes were flooded with water. Hell even the ground below was wet as was noticeable due to the still kneeling demon being unable to stand was trapped in the mud and drowned inside to increasing water level.

"NO! NO PLEASE HELP! ITS BURNING MY SKIN IT'S BURNING..." Gothmog shouted in agony as the water started burning his skin. His eyes were bloodshot and wide open while his mouth was agape in silent scream as he drowned below into the deep abyss of calm water.

"Would you stop if that girl from before had begged you to stop? Your blunder was committing such an act...an act beyond mercy...disgusting for even the most evil demons...and you were going to perform it upon a child nonetheless. You deserve no mercy. Scumbags!" Naruto spat as he glared coldly at the water beneath where the demon met its agonising end.

Garlord's eyes were as wide as saucers and sweat rolled off his face like river. He didn't even have time to mourn his brethren. He was terrified of this human brat now! He changed the whole battle stadium into his favour in just one move. And he didn't even seem to be winded. This brat was a monster. He saw no way to escape but to use his strongest technique.

Naruto turned towards his last opponent and readied Ascalon to finish him off at last. He was about to rush off and severe his head off his body when the shadows suddenly started moving around him.

"The depths of the pit accept me..." Garlord started chanting with both his hands spread in opposite directions with open palms facing away from him, "...Let me be one with you and vanquish all of my enemies..." he said as the temperature around Naruto sky rocketed.

Garlord spared him a last glance full of hatred and blood thirst all the while grinning like a mad man, "...Burning Shadows White Fire abysss"

Garlord's body dissolved into shadows as Naruto's eyes widened in astonishment and horror. The shadows surrounded him from everywhere as the water started boiling and converted into steam. The bodies of all the Lycans and demons around him started burning in white flames.

Naruto sweated all over. He had been in the presence of the strongest pheonix yet this heat was too much even for him. It wasn't like Ablaze's flames were not this much hot but they were warm with his love for him and that kept him safe from all but his deadliest attacks.

He had taught Naruto that flames cannot be controlled. Every flame had its own purpose, it was as if flames had their own mind. Ablaze's flame was full of warmth and love while this flame was full of evil bloodlust and hatred for him. The purpose of this flame was to devour him to his very core.

But Naruto cannot let that happen. He had so much more in his life. To find the truth of magic, to bring justice for his village, to free seliah and protect her as promised, to find Ultear and ensure she is safe and last but not the least make many more friends like Erza and Fairy tail...

"Do you feel despair now boy... this is my space, no one can escape out of this...Burn with me to the hell brat... this self sacrificial technique is the ultimate fire move of pit demons no one has ever survived it..." Garlord's voice snarled out from all the directions as the white fire started burning all around the sphere of nothingness.

It was like time and space was non-existent. The burning white fire lit everything around, the air was burning out depleting him off precious oxygen. He started suffocating while the shadows seemed to latch onto him more and more.

Before it was too late, Naruto raised his sword, held in both of his hands. He channelled a large amount of magic in it. It exploded in Golden fire that seemed to protect him from the surrounding evil as the white fire seemed to be avoiding the golden light.

"ASCALON : JUDGEMENT OF HEAVENLY FIRE!!"

He took a last inhale, swung his blade down in a powerful thrust as the golden fire plunged into the dark abyss with piercing force. Everything was blinded for a moment as the shadows itself were burned out to ashes. Naruto stared blankly as he breathed heavily; at the burning shape of Garlord which was writhing in agony due to his attack.

"Impossible...No! No this can't be happening! Why are you not dying! This is impossible...NO! NO! I CAN'T DIE LIKE THISSSSSSSS..." As the demon's voice trailed off Naruto kneeled in front of the demon and clapped his hands in front of him in a praying manner.

"Thanks for giving me the great idea..." he whispered to himself and walked off to take the other shackled man out of the castle.

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-[ Outside The Castle ]-

Naruto heaved a heavy sigh as he flashed both Hisui and the enslaved Royal guard out of the now demolished castle. The water pouring into the building along with the last attack had worsened the condition of the castle beyond repair and it was already starting to fall apart on itself. He didn't sense the Lycan around either, so they must've evacuated away due to the water entering their dungeon.

He was just glad that the fight took place in a snowy area or else he would have had to use small area attacks to take down all of them. But either way it didn't matter because the last demon didn't die because of his water technique anyway.

He was cut short in his musings as a slight movement in the corner of his peripheral vision distracted him towards itself. It was Hisui and she was trembling like a weak leaf in the wind due to the cold weather. The older man seemed to be holding up much better than the little lady.

Naruto took out a scroll and unfurled it. After applying some of his magic into the seal, some of his supplies appeared in a poof of smoke, startling the other two observants slightly due to its suddenness. He took out a white scarf and wound it around Hisui's trembling form to help her with the cold. Then, he started using his Water Arts: Sacred Cures to heal her wounds slowly.

The guards eyes widened exponentially at his actions. Healing magic was a lost art, difficut to find even in ancient books nowadays and this boy was able to perform it at his tender age. He hadn't looked at his face up until now but from his body build and voice, Arram concluded that it was a child.

Hisui basked in the warmth of the scarf and the energy radiating off the blonde. She marvelled at the sight of her wounds slowly healing themselves as the mysterious figure continued to tend to her injuries. She glanced towards the side and noticed their new group member who was a guard she had seen a couple of times before.

Her inner musings were interrupted by the blonde's smooth voice cutting through the air; gaining her attention.

"Sorry! You had to see all of the nasty stuff in there little lady! I didn't think there would be anyone inside anymore when I entered the castle to investigate but things lined upto each other and I had to kill those beasts to rescue you." Naruto said in an apologetic tone as he looked down in slight guilt.

"What are you talking about?" She asked getting him to look back at her. "Did you see how awesome you were?!" She said excitingly surprising him even more. "Swoosh! Then you disappeared. Then all that water came out rushing and you flashed us away as well!" She said excitingly as she tried to mimic his movements that he made while using hiraishin.

Naruto cracked a smile under his mask and then started laughing wholeheartedly while looking at the girl's childish attempt to imitate him. Hearing him laugh made Hisui a little embarrassed at her unlady like behaviour. Her embarrassment turned into anger when the blonde didn't stop laughing.

"Hey! Are you laughing at us? We'll have you know we are also learning magic, so one day we'll become even more awesome than you are?!" She said haughtily pointing an accusing fingers at him.

"I doubt that! I'm the coolest but you can certainly try little lady. And sorry I couldn't stop laughing because you just looked so cute trying to imitate my technique there!" He smirked and laughed even more watching her become an even more brighter shade of red.

Hisui felt warm and embarrassed at the same time when Naruto complimented her or was he making fun of her chibi size. She huffed and looked away crossing her arms over her chest.

"We'll have you know, we are the smartest in our age group?! Are you trying to be sacra...sacrit...umm..." she exclaimed and tried to question the blonde further but was struggling with a specific word in her sentence.

"Sarcastic, Hime-Sama!" Arram corrected as he witnessed their childish bickering and couldn't help but smile a little.

"Ahem! Yes that's it. Are you trying to be sar-cas-tic with us?" Hisui asked again. This time being assisted by Arram who mouthed 'sarcastic' for her from behind the blonde mage.

Naruto stopped laughing and looked at her now with a scrutinising gaze. So this was some kind of princess, huh? Then how could she be kidnapped so easily? He glanced at Arram from the corner of his eyes.

'The runes...' he narrowed his eyes dangerously at the man from under his bandana. Arram flinched as he caught onto his suspicion and looked down at his lap in shame due to the apparent conclusion the mage came upon.

But before any of them could say anything further about their situation and conclusions the castles came crashing down on itself making all of them flinch and Hisui to clutch tightly onto Naruto's side.

Arram chuckled with mirth when he witnessed the scene unfold, " You live upto your name Fairy Tail Mage!"

Naruto just sweat-dropped with a deadpan due to his debut as another destructive mage of the guild but he swore he would try to lessen the old man's problems the best he could...although there was no guarantee!

"Mage? You aren't from our guards unit mister..." Hisui muttered with a slight tinge of sadness in her voice as she tilted her head to the side to look at him in the eye.

"Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze from Fairy Tail, little lady!" Naruto introduced himself while bowing down slightly to offer his politeness.

" We are Hisui. E. Fiore. And our father would want to meet you for rescuing us Naruto-san! He is the king, maybe we could talk to him and have you become one of the kingdom's knights!" Hisui exclaimed in delight while explaining her plan to secretly not part away from him.

'Shit! She is the princess of this kingdom. Way to remain undercover Naruto!' He face-palmed mentally but smiled pleasantly in reality not that anyone could see but he had to keep up appearances.

Naruto then turned towards the guard, ignoring Hisui's puppy eyes making her pout. He took out his kunai channelling some wind magic in it, scaring the shit out of the guard.

"W-what are you doing?" He asked fearfully while backing away slightly.

"Helping you guard-san" Naruto said without even looking up at the him and swiping the chains open with his blade.

"Why?" He asked looking down at his hands which were slowly turning demonic with some fire licking at the palm. "I've been cursed. I needs to be put down before I can infect anyone else!" He said with mild urgency overcoming his own fear of death while Hisui gulped nervously not ready to witness another murder today. Naruto's hands slowed down slightly before looking the man in the eyes

"…..No." He said looking back at the man's hands. "You have been cursed, but you can control that curse." Arram's eye's widened slightly.

"You must be joking?!" He said loudly. "You and I both know that when they mark you; you can't control their mark!" He pointed at the blonde, with slight accusing manner to guilt trip him. "It's your duty as a Mage of Fiore to rid this world of monsters such as me!"

"And do you think of yourself as a monster?!" Naruto shouted back surprising the red-head who took a step back slightly startled by the blondes shout. Naruto briefly recounted his own time of realization not so long ago with another one of the Lycans. He looked down at the man in front of him. "Why did you help them?" He asked the man who was staring at him in both fear and confusion. The man was breathing heavily, sweat and blood dripping from his face from exhaustion and his injuries.

"H-he h-has my wife and my child in prison here." He panted out. "They came one night to our house while I was out on patrol and took them." He said with tears in his eyes. "They left a note saying to come alone and if I told anybody…. I would receive my family back piece by piece." He turned his head and clenched his teeth. "They ambushed me and marked me….. Because I was a Royal Knight… They wanted to use my abilities to enhance their own….. To give them an edge over the organized government….and to bring them their 'target'..." He glanced at a confused Hisui and looked back up at the blonde, tears were now falling freely down his face. "I never wanted to hurt anybody….. But my wife and my child… They are all I have left in this world! I understand if you must exterminate me, but please…. I beg of you…. Let me see them one last time before you do." Naruto looked down at the pleading man next to him before raising his gaze back to the distance sensing someone approaching.

"What truly makes a monster?" The blonde said quietly, but enough for the man to hear. "….. What makes a monster?... And what makes a man?" He said putting a hand on his stomach. "We spend our whole lives believing in one thing when in reality, we really know nothing until we find out for ourselves…." He looked down at Arram, "I….. I want to put my faith in you….." He said, getting Arram's eyes to widen significantly. "All we know about them is from what rumours had spread across the land….. We really don't know them….. I don't think they are evil….." He said quietly.

"But rumours have hints of truth in them as well." Arram pointed out hesitantly. "It has been documented that these beasts have demolished entire villages."

"It has also been documented that men have utterly demolished entire nations." He said getting a look of surprise from both of them. "Does that mean that we're just monsters like them?" Arram's eyes widened again before he closed them slightly and nodded in understanding. "If we give them a chance, I do believe that we can achieve peace with them."

"Do you truly mean that Naruto Uzumaki?" A new voice came from the entrance of the room. Both heads whipped towards the sound of the voice, which revealed to be a man in his early twenties standing in the doorway. He was thin and had a fair complexion. He was wearing rags that barely covered his very bulky figure. His white hair was slightly messy and his purple eyes were piercing those of Naruto's. Naruto looked down and saw his hands and feet wrapped in bandages. Recognition formed across his face.

"You're…So it's just as I expected. You can change into humans like the host at the stadium. But how...?" He started only to be interrupted again.

"Do you truly mean what you say Uzumaki-san?" He said seriously. "Do you truly wish to know us and achieve peace with us?" His eyes scanned the blondes intensely looking for any form of deceit. Naruto kept looking at the man for a minute before sighing.

"If I didn't mean what I had said, I would have never freed you from that dungeon." He said truthfully. "I forgot what it was like to be on the receiving end of something that you didn't ask for." Naruto looked down slightly ashamed before looking back up at the man, fire in his eyes. The man's eyes slightly widened at the resolve that he saw. "I promise that I will do everything in my power, to make sure that true peace will be achieved." Everyone in the vicinity stared at the blonde for a moment before the man let out a soft chuckle and started walking over to the boy.

"Very well then Uzumaki-san." He said as he came closer to the boy. He held both of his hands forward like requesting something. A bright light encased his eyes as he ex-equipped a giant egg with red markings, " We shall help you any way we can! We found this egg near a forest. It was found when we were about to get arrested. We respect life the most and I entrust this to you in hopes that our friendship would grow even stronger!" He declared and handed the egg to the blonde.

"I'll help you so that you can continue your life..." He told Arram smiling pleasantly...Too pleasantly, "...But you must do something for me!" Naruto closed the gap between them and whispered something into his ears.

Arram's eyes widened significantly as he heard further and further to the blonde's request and then gulped fearfully at the end while nodding frantically.

Naruto stood up straight and sealed the egg into his scroll for the time being. He took out a big scroll and instructed the guard to sit in the middle. He then started writing in a startling speed; drawing weird kanji while the spectators watched dumbfoundedly.

"...Veradom-san. I suggest you flee with your clansmen. I sense some magic signatures approaching, they won't take kindly to your presence. I hope we meet again in our paths. Remember if you need help or want to meet me; come to Fairy Tail." Naruto said not looking up from his work

Veradom nodded and was about to take off when he notice the little girl standing to their saviour's side. He approached her when she flinched in fear and took a step backwards. His eyes fell a little but he bowed in an apologetic manner.

"We are very sorry for the actions of our clansmen, Hime-sama. I am Veradom Cromium." He apologised wholeheartedly while some tears leaked out of his eyes.

Hisui saw his look and the tears in his eyes. She felt that she could trust this man and even if he tried something, her new friend would protect her. She was oddly trusting and dependable on Naruto.

"N-No need. We are not angry. Besides if your men didn't do what they did we couldn't have met our first friend..." She said in a reassuring manner but then quickly slapped her hands on her mouth after muttering the last part and blushed bright red in embarrassment.

Veridom's eyes widened significantly as he heard her. Being accepted felt rather...pleasant and warm. He nodded happily and took off towards his clansmen to locate a new home for themselves.

Naruto heard Hisui's request but kept quite preferring to work on the seal. He stood up straight and clapped both of his hands on Arram's back.

"Fuinjutsu: Evil encampment seal" He announced as Arram started shaking in pain but kept in place as instructed. Although he screamed loudly enough that even the people at the base of the mountain could hear his shout. As Naruto finished and Arram fell unconscious on the ground, he relaxed and walked upto his equipment to collect them, his back facing a nervous Hisui.

Hisui bit her lower lip in worry due to the lack of answer from the blonde. She fidgeted with her index fingers as she stole glances at Naruto.

"A-Ano... I didn't mean it just now... I mean... I want to be your friend...?" She asked hesitantly.

Naruto didn't say anything but turned around and removed his bandana showing her his face. She blushed again when he looked at her seriously but then he smiled making her relax. He walked towards her and bent down near her...

"Let's go. Hop on you look tired my new friend...Hisui-sama." He said with a cheesy grin on his face as Hisui smiled brightly and hopped on his back.

He covered his face again and Hisui puffed out her cheeks cutely in mock anger. Naruto walked towards Arram and dragged him with his foot making Hisui sweat-drop. Hisui felt bad for her guard but she was selfish and didn't want to walk in cold, to leave her current warm ride.

They walked for hours while Hisui slept peacefully on his back and Arram kept groaning in his unconscious state due to being constantly dragged on the snow. Suddenly he saw multiple footsteps head their way, one of them being oddly familiar.

Two short men and a tall beautiful woman ran in front of the group of people followed by many Royal guards following them. One of the short man was Makarov dreyar, his guild master. The other one was a short man with white long hair and dark eyes. He seemed to be gravely worried and in a hurry. Although when he saw Hisui perched upon his back his face showed some signs of relief. His expressions turned serious and wary of him when he noticed the knocked out Arram along with his spooky appearance and red katana.

The woman on the other hand was very beautiful with an odd resemblance in looks with Hisui. She had long wavy green hair, jade coloured sparkling eyes and Snow White skin. Both the man and woman had royal clothes and a regal posture.

"Hold still Scoundrel! How dare you kidnap Hisui-sama? You will face punishment like no other for harming Hime-sama." The leader of the guards warned as multiple guards surrounded him with their spears ready to strike him at the slightest of movement.

Hisui started stirring when she heard noise around her. She rubbed her eyes cutely and yawned before noticing her father and mother standing opposite her. She launched herself from Naruto's back, kicking him slightly in the process making him grumble about barbaric girls receiving an amused chuckle from Makarov.

"Daddy! Mommy! Thank god you are here! We were so scared!" Hisui shouted in happiness as tears leaked through her eyes; clutching onto her father for dear life.

"I am also glad my precious daughter. I won't allow anyone to hurt you anymore. Kabo" He said in equal happiness but then turned towards Naruto and glared , "...guards arrest this criminal immediately!"

Makarov coughed up to get everyone's attention, "My apologies my Majesty, but this young lad is the mage I said was in the area. I'm sure there is some misunderstanding regarding the situation, he would never do such a thing"

Naruto smiled under his mask while the king seemed to relax a bit due to the master's reassurance. He was still wary of the young mage though, taking into consideration his spooky appearance that totally freaked him out. Although the soldiers were a different story...

"He injured Arram, my lord. We must apprehend him now. And you.." The leader pointed the tip of his spear at the blonde's neck causing some blood to leak out of the small cut but the mage didn't even bat an eye at the wound.

"...How dare you touch Hime-sama with your filthy hands, commoner!" He asked or rather demanded in a threatening manner.

Hisui panicked noticing the blood leaking out of her friend's wound and clutched her white scarf tightly, " Officer! Please refrain from hurting our friend. He has helped us very much today and deserves our gratitude. And this is how you treat him. Also, he is our first real friend so you should treat him with respect!" She shouted in anger prompting the guards to lower their weapons with shocked expression which was mimicked by the king himself.

The queen on the other hand smiled happily and makarov rose an eyebrow in interest. Naruto just smiled again and handed Arram's unconscious body to the other guards.

"Ara, Ara...My Hisui-chan has made a new friend. It is a pleasure to meet you young prince, We are Hiromi E. Fiore the queen of this kingdom." Hiromi smiled sweetly and took Hisui in her embrace.

"Sorry for our misconduct young mage. We are Toma E. Fiore the king of the kingdom, kabo . But we must ask why you prefer this type of clothing that conceals your form so much? Kabo"The king introduced smiling and offering his hands to the blonde.

"It is a pleasure, my majesty, my lady..." he shook Toma's hands respectfully and bowed to the queen whose smile widened in response, "...as for my clothing I prefer to keep my identification secret to keep under radar...Precisely, to avoid detection from my enemies and have them know my possible locations" Naruto explained sheepishly but then elaborated noticing their confused looks.

The family gasped hearing his reasons while makarov just used his poker face to hide his annoyance due to the blonde's clothing preferences but he had to agree on his reasonings.

"Oh my! Enemies! But you are so young" Himori covered her mouth with a worried expression.

"Indeed, young lad. We will help you with this enemy of your's as a reward for helping my dear Hisui-chan, kabo" Toma declared with a determined voice.

'No you can't...' Naruto thought bitterly but shook his head and sighed mentally before answering the king's queries.

"Unfortunately, it is unclear who the enemy is as of now, my majesty. But myself and master are trying to deduce their identity. Aside from that I have Hisui-hime's friendship as a reward. Besides my friend..." he pointed at Hisui who blushed at being called out on her embarrassment the umpteenth time while Himori giggled in her hands.

"...knows my appearance and I can assure I am not spooky. Don't you think so Hisui-sama? " he asked with a mock salute to the jade haired girl who pouted at him causing her mother to giggle again.

Toma sighed in relief but then blushed in embarrassment for being read so easily by the younger boy.

"Mommy, Naruto-kun is just shy. He looks pretty cute daddy, not at all spooky" Hisui teased and giggled noticing the slight twitch of Naruto's eyebrows upon being called cute.

All of the others laughed out loud at his actions while Makarov was stunned to silence but due to a different reason.

'This boy impressed a princess on his first assignment. He is a jewel...' he cried anime tears at the thought of having an edge over council for having a mage with close relationship with the king.

Then his perverted side took control of his thoughts as he thought about Naruto's future. But then a thought struck his mind that caused him to pale considerably.

'What if he breaks her heart and the king disbands our guild immediately...' he started crying comically again while the others sweat dropped at the odd sight of the old man not knowing his inner turmoil.

Naruto noticed his changing expressions and grew worried of his mental state but then remembered the guilds reputation of being destructive. He promptly misinterpreted the old man's cause of worry.

"Master Makarov, I am sorry but I destroyed a whole castle while rescuing the princess..." At this makarov grew a horrified expression while he looked worryingly at the king, "...But don't worry it was old and already half broken."

Makarov again started crying proud tears of joy, " Naruto you are such a considerate child, I am so proud of you!"

Naruto sweat-dropped again while the others just laughed at the old man's antics.

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~{ Author's Note }~

Sorry guys for the late update but I had to do much re-editing for this one. Also guys please review I feel so empty when no one reviews about my indecisive problem with magic and i don't know how to set up polls yet.

And I took long because i re-evaluated my writing style. I read many more fictions and came to the conclusion that I wasn't doing a great job in delivering my audience with the best of my capabilities. So I would like it if you could review and tell me if I have improved in writing or not.

This chapter is pretty long too if you noticed. From now on I'll keep my chapter's long.Depends on what I plan on accomplishing with it on the plot.

And one more question do you guys want lucy to be in the harem. Tell me your opinions and reasons for wanting or not wanting her to be in the Harem.

Also, tell me if my fight scenes captivate your attention. Almost all of my Chapters have fights because they are what this fiction focuses on. But they aren't cannon and you guys have to imagine it. So please tell me if I am doing my job right or I am a cringe writer who just makes you do all of the work. Really ot is hard to write them and deliver my own imagination to you in words but I enjoy it.

Most importantly, I hope ya'all enjoy it readers...

Whoops I forgot, we reached 100 followers. Yeah, I know it's not that big of a deal but for someone who wasn't allowed to admit in a school due to his poor English to reach this much appreciation in a few years through self-hard work is a big thing. I mean at least 100 people think I can write!

Ja Ne!