"Human Talking" / "Demon Talking"
'Human Thinking' / 'Demon Thinking'
"Jutsu/Spell"
*I do not own Naruto*
So what's the long story you have to tell me." Naruto asked and Hikari sighed and sat down looking at him with a bit of regret. She wasn't sure how he'd take it but he had to know. "Have you ever heard of the story of the sage of the six paths?" she asked him and he seemed to ponder the question. "Yeah why? Naruto responded and she looked down in remorse. "Well here's the real story".
=====Lore story jutsu======
Way back before the time of shinobi there was a man who was said to be the God of Shinobi. This man was the sage of the six paths. He gave the power of chakra to the world, he also had brought the tailed beast into existence. He soon after became very weak and ill from doing this. The tailed beast saw him as our father and we were very thankful. Of all my siblings I was special to him as I was the ninetails, but I was also the most naïve. I saw our tails as our power and I saw myself as being the best. It wasn't until my second jinjuriki I learned that was not true. My first vessel was The First Hokage's wife, My second… was your mom Naruto. She had taught me how to interact with humans as I hadn't done that before. I was just angry and filled with rage, but she helped me. I then saw the errors of my past and felt regret. It took a few months before I was ready to talk again, but she always visited the seal to come and meet me. After a while things had changed, and eventually she had signed the summoning contract for foxes. Overtime I had felt true regret in my ways but I always hoped to fix it. I was one of the last of my siblings to be sealed. And my sister Shoko was one of the first to be sealed. At one point we gave her the advice of not forcefully taking control of her host but she refused to listen. This led to some humans being more hostile. I just hope she takes my words to heart. This is the story I know.
=====End lore story=====
Hikari sighed and looked at Naruto as she divulged him into some of her past and let him hear her story. The result for her was shocking to him, she was created by the sage of six paths, his mom was her previous vessel sh- wait she was created by the sage of the six paths. "Hikari you were created by the sage of the six paths?" He asked her.
"Yeah, what about it?" She didn't understand where he was going with it until his face changed to show how hard he was thinking.
"Doesn't that make you like… suuuuper old?" Naruto would soon regret that question.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
"YOU IDIOT!" Even in the mindscape a chakra powered punch was a chakra powered punch. "That's not what I wanted you to pull from that Naruto!" She shouted as she punched him into the wall. He got up groaning and disoriented, looking around he noticed that it was about 3 A.M in the morning and shook Hikari awake.
"You punched me so hard that I woke up." He told her and she had no response but to blink twice.
"Well shit…"
====Next Morning Training Ground 8===
Team 8 was waiting by a pond at their training ground waiting for the day to start and enjoying breakfast thanks to the wonderful thing called pre-preparation and Hinata's surprisingly amazing culinary skills. As they waited for their Jonin sanseis to arrive they had started to wonder about what they would do today.
"Maybe more D-ranks? After that last mission I don't think we'll get to go outside of the village anytime soon." Hikari said as she leaned against Naruto while they relaxed. This caused the blonde to almost lose it.
"NO! If I have to catch Tora the cat one more time then we're getting The Fire Daimyo's wife a new pet!" He shouted with fire burning in his eyes and started to grumble about cats and foxes, this left his team to a sweat drop as they looked on disapprovingly.
As they chatted, eventually Erza and Kurenai joined them. "The chunin exams are coming up Team 8, we will be training until next week. Everyone has something they can work on so we'll focus on that. Hinata we'll work on your reaction time and Byakugan. Shino you could really use some more taijutsu or maybe weapon training. Something more than bugs, if someone has a counter to them then it's all over for you. You two will go with Erza. Naruto, Hakari, you two need genjutsu training. Just because you can't cast one doesn't mean you won't be caught. You're with me." Kurenai said and the two groups split up.
As time passed they were exhausted. Kurenai threw every genjutsu she knew and they weren't ready. But now she knew they could tell. Hinata and Shino were sore as well. Hinata was exhausted from being hit multiple times by rubber darts. Shino was trained to his limits in taijutsu with no bugs. After they satisfied her enough. Erza started teaching them some magic and basic level magic creation. Half way through the day they switched sides, Hikari and Naruto training with their magic and Hinata and Shino training with their family techniques.
Once they were dismissed for the day Naruto and Hikari were off to see Garra to tie up loose ends. Bringing with them a ramen to go for six. Once they reached the hotel they knew it was about to go down.
====inside with the siblings====
They watched… there was nothing they could do but… just fucking watch. Temari and Kankuro just sat there watching as Garra slept and DIDN'T kill everything around him. And while he slept that girl that formed from the sand earlier reappeared and cuddled up with him. He didn't even seem phased. All he did was stir awake and see her try to get closer. His response was cuddling her like they were a couple. They then fell back asleep. Temari and Kankuro did nothing but watch the whole day. But nothing happened. As they slept on and on, Temari heard a knock on the door and answered.
"We came to talk." Hikari said, holding up the bag of food. With that Temari let them in to enjoy the show.
"This is hour fourteen." She commented on the status of her sleeping little brother and bijuu in his bed.
Hikari chuckled and Naruto was already digging into a bowl of ramen. "So what did you guys come back for?" Temari asked as she helped herself to the free ramen.
Hikari sat next to her and watched the sleeping pair. "We wanted to see the aftermath of what had happened. I wanted Shoko to make the contract but it seems that she might be doing that anyway." She said and Temari looked on at her questioningly.
"What does this mean?" She asked, wanting to know what they would do to her baby brother. While it seemed that Gaara had hated everyone and even disliked his siblings it was actually not that true. Well for Temari at least, when Gaara was younger before the shukaku took more control She would sing him lullabies. She was really the only person that loved him.
"It means he could sleep like he is with no problem, She would have more freedom like me, but we also want to see his seal." She said and Shoko started to wake up.
"Shut uuuup, I'm sleeping." She groaned, dragging out her annoyance in her sibling. "Garra, make a sand barrier." As she asked he did and made a small dome over the bed that they were sharing, this in turn just left them dumbfounded. Naruto looked at Hikari questioningly but she just shook her head and got up.
"Shoko wake up." Hikari said but nothing happened.
"Shoko, you need to get up." Still she was met with silence and Hikari sighed.
"I have cinnamon buns." She said and the girl burst through no problem.
"Where!" It didn't take long before the girl realized that she was tricked. All she heard go through her mind was a few words on repeat. 'Congratulations, you played yourself.'
"What do you want Hikari?" She asked and glared at the girl in front of her. She was ready to fight and bring this whole thing to the ground if that's what it meant. She didn't want to be trapped. She started to feel closer to Gaara just by sleeping next to him. There was something here for her. A reason to maybe just start taking her advice.
"Are you going to make a contract with Garra?" Hikari asked, wondering what this day would be like continuing on. To her surprise Shoko nodded and looked down.
"You're right okay… there I said it. I'll make a contract with him. I can tell you're happy since you've made a contract with your host. I'll make one with mine. I won't try to break his seal either." She said and looked away in embarrassment. Hikari's eyes started to glow and she spoke in a voice that sounded jumbled to them. They hugged it out and she turned and started walking to Naruto.
"What did you say?" He inquired about her new language.
"Oh nothing, just girl talk Naruto, don't worry about it." She smiled and walked off to the door. "We'll see you at the exams." With that they took their leave and headed off to stock up for what was about to await them.
============Two Weeks Later============
Team 8 had been busting their asses and training as much as they could and were still working on the finishing touches. They had all improved in some way. Hinata and Shino both expanded on what their families had taught them and continued learning low level magic skills. Naruto and Hikari focused on learning Jutsu and working their taijutsu and kenjutsu. Naruto had made use of his father's library to read up on seals in order to try to help fix Garra's. But he was hitting block after block. He knew of one person who could direct him in the right path but not entirely sure when he would get the chance.
===Ninja Academy===
Time went on, and soon enough they came to the day of the exams. Soon enough Team 8 all met at the Academy with their instructors. "You should all know that we're proud of you and the progress you've made." Kurenai said, addressing her team. "Not only have you come so far but you have also proven that you are more than ready for the chunin exams. We can't enter in ourselves with you but just know we'll be cheering it on."
They nodded and Erza looked at them. "You guys went through a lot ever since becoming an official Team 8 so now we want you to do one more thing. Go beyond being just Team 8." A small magic circle appeared above her hand and popped out a box, when she opened it the contents inside were a stamp and ink pad. Naruto and Hikari's eyes widened.
"Kaa-san you don't mean-" Naruto started but Erza looked at him with sincerity.
"I never let you do this back in the guild because I was too scared. I didn't want my sochi to go on without me. You were so small back then. But now Naruto I think it's time, I can't hold on to you forever no matter how much I want to." A tear left her eye and she felt pain but love for her adopted son, who to her was blood as if she gave birth to him herself..
She knelt down and hugged him closely. For the rest of the team as they watched it was a lovely sight. When they broke the hug Jellal appeared and put his hand on Naruto's head. There were words that were not spoken but understood.
"We've watched you progress Naruto and we knew this day would come, and Hikari please join us because you are not an exception to this. We both held you two closely in our hearts. And now that you are here for the chunin exams it's time that we acknowledge your strength." He said as they stood before him.
"I Jellal Fernandes/Erza Scarlet in the name of my status as an S-class mage decree Naruto Uzumaki, Hikari Uzumaki, Shino Abrume, and Hinata Hyuuga members of the guild Fairy Tail." They said in unison and the stamp glowed before appearing on them. For Hinata her marks appeared on her hands, Shino's appeared on his coat and his arm, Hikari had her's on her neck, and Naruto's had appeared on his chest and clothes.
Team 8 had now officially become Team Fairytail, and nothing was going to stop them now. Not even the chunin exams.
