Yamai Orchid! Escort Missions are cursed!
Naruto, Natsu, Gray, and Sasuke all walked into the MagnoliaTown train station at 11 a.m. sharp, waiting for their contact. It was a long and tedious wait, as most people would look at them with awe, asking questions about what it was like to be in a guild, or more specifically the strongest guild, Fairy Tail.
They tried to ignore the fans, but they followed them…everywhere. It was irritating, and the only way they left was if they were going to miss their train. The four boys were only hoping that none of those fans would be on the train with them, or it may lead to problems. Them snapping at the fans, which would not be a good image for Fairy Tail.
It had been a good 45 minutes before the contact showed up. It was rather obvious as the man kept shouting, "I am the great Yamai Orchid are the Fairy Tail mages here?" Naruto walked up to the man, a smile on his face.
Yamai was relatively tall, middle aged, and had black eyes with black hair. His hair was trimmed and he wore an expensive black suit.
'This guy likes the color black,' Sasuke thought.
"Hello Yamai Orchid, I am Naruto Namikaze, and these are my teammates, Sasuke Uchiha, Natsu Dragneel, and Gray Fullbuster, and we are the mages from Fairy Tail." Naruto said, motioning to the respective owners of the names as he said them.
He looked back at Yamai who looked at them with a toff look on his face. He frowned deeply, annoyance on his face.
"I ask for people that can defend me from dark guilds, bandits and the like,-"
His tirade was interrupted, not verbally however, by Naruto thinking, 'If that's true you shouldn't have been shouting out who you were. Dark guilds could have been here for all you know, plus we could have been lying to you. People these days."
"-and they send me four KIDS! You won't even be good enough for a decent distraction. Two 15 year olds and two 16 year olds. I was expecting someone like the 'Titania,' Erza Scarlet, or the 'Demon,' Mirajane Strauss. I guess those rumors of Fairy Tail being strong were false."
He was about to continue his assault on Fairy Tail's honor when four intense blasts of killing intent struck him, causing his breath to hitch. His legs began to shake, and the look on his face turned into one of pure terror.
"Don't insult Fairy Tail. You don't deserve to meet Erza or Mira," the four boys hissed, anger written all over their faces.
The killing intent stopped, but the man still looked very weary of the four boys, backing away from them slightly.
"Now," Sasuke began. "If you don't want us here we can just head back and leave you to fend for yourself, after all, we 'Won't even be good enough for a decent distraction.'"
"N-no please stay," Yamai begged.
Sasuke nodded, before hearing the shout that roared out all over the train station, "All aboard to OakTown!" Sasuke looked at Naruto who nodded. "Time to go."
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It had been a relatively quiet trip, nothing of much importance had happened. In fact, Sasuke didn't even know why the man had requested bodyguards. The train was nearing OakTown without a problem. While his guard wasn't down, he was very confused as to why Yamai would need guards to protect him on a train that was already protected by a number of Rune Knights.
In fact, as he watched Yamai looking worriedly out the window he began to think back on his first escort mission with the original Team 7. Tazuna had looked around worriedly as he was being hunted by Gato. This man was doing the same, and while he was assured that there were no underworld lords around he had a feeling that Yamai was not telling the entire problem. He could force it from him with the threat to discontinue the mission; however that could be detrimental to Fairy Tail, so he refused to do it. Makarov wouldn't care if it saved them from a life or death battle, but the guild needed to get money somehow, and missions were the only way to do so. Then again, it could also get people to tell the full story of their missions to the guilds, not when it was convenient for the contact to do so.
He looked over at Natsu who was looking very green as he lay down on a nearby couch. Sasuke had no idea that Natsu had motion sickness. The dragon slayer hadn't mentioned it. While Sasuke did not feel at top shape on a moving platform as well, he didn't feel sick. He wondered what the cause of this was.
Naruto on the other hand was doing pushups. If anything Sasuke was proud of that. Naruto was his rival, meaning that the harder Naruto pushed Sasuke would just push harder to stay a level ahead of him.
Gray sat next to the sick Natsu, smiling at his best friend, and also rivals, misery. While Gray was in no means sadistic Natsu had hit him with Fire Dragon's Burning Star during training, and it had hurt a lot. It was funny how karma got back at the dragon slayer for him.
However all the normalcy stopped when the train came to an abrupt stop, as if it had slammed into an iron wall.
"The hell," Naruto asked as he got up and looked out the window.
In front of the train was…nothing. The only things there was a boy, around Natsu's and Gray's age, and a man who looked to be around 36 years of age, both of which stood there as if waiting for something….or someone.
"Yamai Orchid, come out and everyone here gets to leave alive," the boy said, smiling all the while.
Yamai began to stumble over his words as he looked at Sasuke and Naruto, both of which were looking at him with intensity in their gaze.
"Who are they," Sasuke asked. "They seem to know you."
Yamai looked positively ashamed, but began to speak anyway. "They are members of the dark guild Shadows Life, and they are here because I have something they want."
"Which is?" Gray asked.
"I own a gem that sells for not thousands but millions of jewels, this gem used to belong to them, and they were planning on selling it, however I acquired it when one of my previous business partners gave it to me. At first I thought it was a gift, however now I realize he was just trying to kill me."
Naruto nodded before walking out of the train, followed by Gray, Natsu, and Sasuke. The four walked up to the two dark guild members and growled, well Natsu did, Naruto just smiled.
"By any chance, could you just let us by," Naruto asked.
"No," the man said.
The man had spiky white hair that sprang out in all directions. Part of his spiky hair sprang downwards and covered his right eye, only showing his crimson left one. He wore a red scarf that had three ends, and wore a black semi-cloak. The cloak had an opening in the center, where four metal claws sprang out from the inside. He wore black pants, and a red vest under the cloak, which was underneath a long sleeved black shirt. Over the black shirt were two iron gauntlets in the shape of a lions head.
The boy had sharp, slightly long hair that created bangs over his forehead. He had silver hair, with golden amber eyes. He was tall and thin, but looked fit enough to be able to hold up a decent fight. He wore a blue overcoat, with black trim, and had baggy, dark brown pants covering his legs. His shirt was black and he had a cross-shaped scar under his left eye. On his back he had a skateboard, only instead of wheels it had two lacrima, making it more like a hover board.
"I thought you would say that," Naruto said, before both he and Sasuke charged the man. The man jumped backwards, followed by Sasuke and Naruto. The boys stood there, not at all surprised by the events.
"I am Akira Shuso, who are you," the boy asked.
"Gray Fullbuster."
"Natsu Dragneel."
"Well then, Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster, prepare to die," the boy said before drawing the hover board and landing on it. It began to pump Pressure Magic below it to keep the boy and the board afloat.
XxX
Sasuke lashed out with a punch as he activated his Sharingan. The two tomoi in each eye spun rapidly, notifying Sasuke that the man was planning on ducking under the punch and slamming his fist in the Uchiha's face. Sasuke processed the information quickly, before halting the punch and switching into a spin kick.
The man dodged and attempted to slam an elbow down on Sasuke, however Naruto appeared just in time, his fist already cocked back.
"Take this!"
The man blocked the punch with his gaunlets, negating all serious damage. However, the blunt force sent him from the air to the ground. Naruto charged the man as soon as he reached the ground, followed by a zigzagging Sasuke. Two fuma-shuriken appeared in Sasuke's hands before he shouted at Naruto to duck. The blonde did just that, as the two shuriken spun over where his head used to be and directly at the man in front of them.
"Gust Shield," the man howled and a purple Magic formula appeared in front of him. A blast of wind sprang from the formula, sending the shuriken into the ground near the man's feet.
He looked back at Naruto and Sasuke, both of which held objects in their hands. Naruto held his Thunder God Kunai, in a reverse grip, while Sasuke held two regular kunai he had made with his Arc of Embodiment Magic, also in a reverse grip.
Naruto swung out with the kunai, in an attempt to cut the man directly in the chest; however he flipped over the kunai and lashed downwards towards Naruto's head with his hand. However, Sasuke was there and lashed out towards the mans arm with his kunai. The man stopped his attack and landed behind the two, who stared at him. A drop of blood fell from the man's arm. He had a shallow cut there. He was to slow in removing his arm.
"Interesting," the man said. "You managed to wound me. I guess I should honor you with my name then. It is Lafan Jusgo. I do not care for yours. NOW DIE!"
With that, black clouds formed over the area they were battling.
Hey guys it's Kuma Akuma. Sorry for the short chapter, but I was rushed, and I am really busy next week, aka, I highly doubt I'll be able to upload as I have to study for a test, get ready for another basketball tournament, and I have a test in karate coming up. All of this is next week. Yeah, I know it sucks. Also, start sending in OCs people, I need em, I need em badly, unless you want me to make up all the OCs in this story. You don't want that. Also, I have been getting complaints about the bold when it comes to the Magic. Well I want to tell you that one I do value your opinion as you bothered to review period, however I will not be changing it, mainly for my personal helpfulness. It helps me when I read over the chapter, so I'm afraid I won't be removing that. Sorry. Thanks for reviewing though.
Next up is what you all were expecting. Me involving the Wave arc in this chapter, and probably throughout this entire arc. I know you were expecting it, and its not spoiling anything so yes I CAN tell you. Now I just want Yamai to die, I mean um, who said that, Yamai is awesome, just like Tazuna. Only ten times less awesome. So aka, not awesome. I'm sorry, I'm without my soda, I NEED IT. Well that's it. See you guys later, and avoid the Earl. Oh yeah, send me OCS FOR ALL OF MY STORIES. MAINLY THIS ONE OR THE NARUTO ONE THOUGH. I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS IS IN CAPS.
