400 years later.
Lucy had just made it to the beach as she tried to run away from the crazy pink haired lady who was screaming about love and the giant Rock Doll she had made to kill the blond fairy. As she trapped Lucy she decided to end it, however just before she could a familiar red haired woman showed up and delivered an ultimatum, "leave now before i strike you down."
Sherry, indignant, was about to refuse, but before could answer, the red-haired woman hit her with a devastating punch that knocked her out. Sighing in relief a bit away, Lucy paused for a moment before the red haired in her vision finally sunk in, causing her to scream out "E-Erza? What are you doing here?"
"Lucy," Erza greeted in an icy tone, her face showing clear discontent and anger even at her guildmate, which was followed by the question, "what made you and those fools think you had any right to an S-Rank mission without being qualified or having the masters permission?"
Lucy looked away, nervous and ashamed of what had led to this. She responded in a weak and pleading tone, that was complemented by an assortment of crocodile tears and a hint of some very real fear in the hopes that she would go unpunished, "it's not like I knew we weren't allowed, Natsu just told me we had a mission and by the time grey caught up I couldn't do anything because grey was knocked out too!"
The redhead in question answered, "it matters not whether you knew or not all that matters is you broke the rules. Take me to where you had last seen Grey and Natsu." deciding to do as she was told, and purposely ignoring the context of Erza's words she took the redhead in the direction of the temple retracing her steps to the cave with Deliora hoping seeing what was inside would change the mage's mind. Or so it went in Lucy's head 'If she saw what was here she would have no choice but to let us stay and finish the quest.
They made their way up into the temple and when Lucy started to lead her to the cave system where Deliora was they fell down when a bunch of the floors tiles collapsed bringing them down an unknown distance where they found a shrine to what must have been an ancient Deity as the room was covered in ornate decorations and had an absurd amount of what once must have been incense burned in honor of the god when they prayed, the room itself appeared to be made of gold and the inlays between the bricks had been filled with what looked to be either lacrima or precious jewels of some kind.
Being the well read individual she was Lucy commented, "these are at least 300 years old, they come from the Queendom that was here before it was Fiore, some kind of shrine from the looks of it."
Erza looked to the blonde and asked, "how do you know this stuff?"
Lucy responded, "Levy really likes history and when I asked her for a book to read she gave me one on the culture of this land before it became what it is today."
Erza regarded Lucy for a brief moment before speaking, "there appears to be some sort of spell here feeding off the Ethernano in the atmosphere, i cannot tell what it is because i am not very good sensing. We need to mov-" she was cut off by a flash of light and what looked like a barrier fizzling out of existence. Out of the newly destroyed barrier walked a tallish man with blond hair with whisker-like marks on his cheeks, The very same marks Erza also had on her own cheeks.
After stumbling out the man let out a horse whisper with a faint look of recognition, "...Irene?..." as soon as the word left his mouth he passed out. Erza quickly moved to catch him, being the kind person she was, and as she laid his head on her lap, her hands began tracing his cheeks, or more specifically, the familiar pattern they held.
"Erza, is he… your father?" Lucy asked in confusion.
However, the redhead was too distracted within herself and with a trembling voice, she tried to convince herself "it can't… be… It's not… possible." Feeling confused and slightly angry at the thought she may have been abandoned and that she might not have had to go through the tower of heaven and lose all her friends to Jellal's insanity, to avoid thinking of this she threw the unconscious blond over her shoulder and decided to Re-quip her heaven's wheel armor for the ability to levitate that it grants her. "Lucy… we're leaving… grab onto me." the redhead spoke as she turned to face the Holder mage who grabbed on to her to escape the chamber they had fallen into.
As they ascended Erza had a stoic expression on her face as they finally landed on the floor they had fallen through, Lucy deciding now was a good time spoke up, "Erza we should head to the village where I last saw Natsu."
Upset that Lucy took her to the temple rather than the village, the redhead questioned her, "why would you not take me there then?"
Nervously Lucy held her hands up and spoke, "well you asked me to take you to where I saw Grey and Natsu last so I did, it wasn't like I knew what would happen…"
The two wizards continued on their way to the village with the unconscious blond man, it was two hours before they finally made their way to the makeshift huts the villagers were using after their homes were destroyed by the jelly acid the giant rat dropped in order to deal with any people who might try to interfere with the plan to kill Deliora. As they came to the village Erza called out, "NATSU, GREY, WHERE ARE YOU, come out now and spare yourselves the beating." when Natsu and Grey emerged she smacked them both upside the head.
"What do you fools think you're doing? Natsu you aren't cleared for this quest and Grey you were supposed to stop them from coming here, the master is furious at you four for this, Grey if you help me escort the others you won't be punished." Erza said to the Ice-Make mage. Who objected. "I can't do that. I have business here that I have to finish, nothing you say or do will stop me." hearing this rebuttal the redhead in question Re-quipped a plain steel sword and leveled it at Grey's chest. "If you don't return i will have to force you and failing that i will eliminate you."
The Raven haired mage wasn't phased by her threats, and walked as close as he could to the sword without cutting himself and answered her in a frigid tone, "it doesn't matter I refuse to leave before dealing with Lyon and Deliora." in answer to his she spoke, "fine then." She Re-quipped the sword into her hammer space and punched him in the stomach to knock him out so he would recover in peace.
"Oi! I'm not going back without Happy!" Natsu yelled at the redhead indignantly, before squinting his eyes, "hey, what's that on your shoulder?" he asked the woman he was deathly afraid of even if he would never admit it out loud. "Why do you have someone on your shoulder?" all the sudden Natsu was mortified, "did you kill that guy? That's shady even for you Erza."
"FOOL!" she yelled in response to the accusation, before taking a minute to compose herself and then continued, "why would i carry a dead man. No, I carried him here because I had questions for him about why he has the same marks on his face as I do." as she spoke the man in question started to stir, he spoke "hey, I'm comfortable up here and everything but think you could let me down?~"
Naruto turned his head as much as he could before speaking again, "and while I'm not getting shit on yet, you don't happen to have anything to eat, because looking around I think I was sealed away for a solid minute." just after he finished Erza dumped him on the ground.
he jumped to his feet, after that an energy bar smacked him in the face. "Thanks!~" the blond spoke to the aggressive redhead who totally stole his look, "I know Irene and I were popular but to think we would have a fan go so far as to combine our looks… never thought that would happen, but really you got her look down pat good job." he said to Erza not realizing every word just made her angrier and that the others who were there had all backed up.
Looking ready to explode she smacked him and said, "look I don't know who you or this 'Irene' are but I have questions for you, mostly about how we have the same marks on our face."
Surprised the ninja asked, "jeez, you people don't even know who the Queen is? How long was it sealed for? What year is it then?" the group of people gathered stared at him as if he was crazy.
Finished with his questions he looked around at the assembled group and saw two familiar faces, Natsu and Anna(actually Lucy) and so he spoke again "oi Natsu where's your bastard brother I want to smash him for sealing me away and you Anna, Irene will have what's left of you for committing treason and siding with the king. But first I'm gonna kick your ass, hurry up, summon your spirits so it won't just be me bullying a weak little girl."
Natsu having heard about himself having a brother was confused but also pissed at this random guy for threatening Luigi decided to speak up, "hey! I don't care who you are if you continue to threaten Lucifer like that then I'll kick your ass no matter what. And what do you mean my brother, I don't have a brother, only my dad Igneel, who has been missing for years."
"Wait! Igneel's missing? Since when?" Naruto asked with a frown. That was concerning to him to learn that a dragon king had gone missing, especially with how weak his dragon slayer was, he doubted Natsu could even hurt a dragon much less help with the war effort.
"What about the other Dragons? Metalicana and Grandeeny and Weisslogia and Skiadrum… hell, what happened to the other Dragon Slayers while we are at it? Wendy? The other children? Seriously, when is someone gonna tell me the year, it's really important."
Natsu confused and more than a little upset answered with his own questions, "it's 784X and Igneel took off on July 7th 777X, but what do you mean the others and you still didn't tell me about my brother? ANSWER ME DAMMIT." he shouted at the end of his sentence.
Naruto frowned… "Kid, you were left in Igneel's care in the year 3xxX. Just as the Dragon Civil War kicked off in Dragnof… What happened to Dragnof? What happened to Irene? How could the inventor of Dragon Slayer magic just be forgotten?!"
Erza stopped the two cold "What nonsense are you talking about? That was over 400 years ago!"
Finally having regained some of her bearings, Lucy spoke up adding her own two cents, "Um… Dragnof was destroyed over four hundred years ago Erza… don't forget we found him in a shrine sealed away."
Perplexed Erza responded, "then why is he talking to Natsu like he knows him or talking about the dragons if Igneel left in 777X. And we still don't know who Natsu's brother I-" interrupting her Naruto spoke up and answered her "that's easy Natsu's brother is the world renown mage Zeref, even if I don't like him I have to admit he was easily in the top 10 hardest fights I've had, like how do you kill someone who's functionally immortal and causes death to every living thing around him… jeez what a dick, and he only beat me because of that blonde hag next to you over there. Seriously anna watch it I'm coming for y-'' being interrupted like he did Erza Lucy speaks up "ah… my name isn't anna it's Lucy and the only magic I know outside of some small gimmick items is Celestial Spirit magic and it's been like 400 years, it's safe to say she's dead."
Grinning the whiskered man responded "well you look like her so I'm gonna pick on you in mostly harmless ways. Unless your last name happens to be Heartfilia"
Upon hearing her last name, Lucy squeaked in response to the thinly veiled threat.
Erza, sick of listening, decided to speak the question on her mind. "Are we related? we have the same marks on our face."
Naruto, feeling bad for her decided to put her out of her misery and spoke, "no it's impossible, I was the only one in my family to have those marks, given that they aren't genetic, as well as the fact that I am an only child and a war orphan from day of birth. Not to mention as embarrassing as it is when I was sealed away I was a virgin… unless Irene molested me in my sleep but... that's unlikely to have happened."
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To start we're gonna address some reviews
Q:"Renaxan: While the idea is good, i think you really forced the plot to play with naruto here. Man, naruto didn't even use sage mode and immediately went bijuu even though you give him mokuton. Kinda leaving a bad aftertaste especially with that king stuff."
A:this depends on the scene in question, in chapter two it was to show his strongest form and his passing out was just for relationship building. Now his fight with Acnologia, it is canon that Kurama doesn't like Naruto using powers other than his and to top it off normal sage mode wouldn't be enough to beat the black dragon.
Q:"drakon45:it's a good story but I must ask. Why does everyone go for Naruto to get sealed away? it's just so overused now."
A: We had Naruto sealed away because it's convenient but i hope you like the spin we put on it, as far as Pel and I are aware no one has done the same as us but if someone has please let us know so we can apologise for stepping on any toes.
Q:"AvexedAuthor:Nonce, makes me wonder if Erza will have both energy types or just chakra boosted and dense magic reserves."
A: unfortunately she won't have chakra as she is not his actual child and she just gets his whiskers nothing more.
Q:"anonimo:with gudoudama naruto would not have problems killing zeref or those dragons."
A:While yes the truth seeking balls would have slapped the dragons (that whole scene was for the sake of establishing the relationship between naruto Irene so don't take it too seriously please) against Zeref who is more immortal than kaguya they wouldn't do much.
As for the rest of the reviews, thank you so much for your support and positivity regarding the story, Pel and I will continue to bring you this for as long we conceivable can. I just want to say once more that updates will come two to four times a month(more likely 4 because Pels a pushy bitch(love ya buddy but it's true)so just a heads up), we have this story planned to end with the alvarez arc so expect a lot more content and we have several original arcs planned because we don't want to cuck the main cast IE: lucy, natsu, grey, elfman, erza, mira, E.T.C. so expect that as well, if you have any ideas let us in the reviews or PMs. on a side note thank you guys for almost 200 follows that means a ton to me for you guys to like this fic so much.
FAQs
Natsu saying the wrong name in regards to Lucy, it is on purpose i don't know how many remember because i barely did but natsu got her name wrong a lot at the beginning of the anime.
Naruto being a virgin. Well i think most of the fics that have him lose it with jiraiya are just wish fulfillment because there is no evidence to support that, not to mention he didn't even realize he agreed to have sex with shion that shrine priesstess from one of the movies.
Naruto's 'Bipolar' personality in this chapter. Just remember after the war he matured quite a bit as well and he went through an additional war as well with Irene so while we want to stay faithful to his slightly playful part one and two self we also have to take the rest of canon into account as well so while at times he can be playful(it will be frequent enough) he also knows when to be serious.