Welcome back, and I wanna thank everyone who was so supportive of me willing to Adopt Yagami's story. I will try to do right by both the story and Yagami. That being said, these next few chapter's will be extended (I'll be pulling some of the chapter portions from the future chapters of the original story-of which I am using the full story Yagami wrote up as a base template to try and keep relatively the same-to make this happen, and it won't be permanent) Anyways, please enjoy
(PLEASE NOTE THAT CHAPTER'S 2-3-(&)4 are all used to write this extended chapter rather than leave you all with a chapter of 3k (apiece)
"Naruto" Normal Speech.
'Naruto' Normal Thought.
"Rasengan" Jutsu/Power/Technique.
"Kurama" Demonic/Dragon/Youkai Speechs.
'Kurama' Demonic/Dragon/Youkai Thoughts.
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Seven years had passed since the day Tenroujima was taken down by Acnologia, bringing the top strongest mages of Fairy Tail down to the deepest part of the sea with it.
Fairy Tail, from the strongest Guild of Fiore had become the lowest, weakest Guild without its core members. They barely got any new mission requests, even losing their guild building to the new Guild in Magnolia town, Twilight Ogre, forcing the remaining members of Fairy Tail to move out of the town.
But if would soon change because deep underneath the sea, most of Tenroujima remained unscratched, wrapped protectively inside a giant Sphere with the symbol of Fairy Tail on the surface.
Inside, the core members of the Guild was sleeping, as time seemingly didn't move in there. Seven years and yet they didn't age a single day, all thanked to the magical Sphere that protected them and the mysterious young man who stopped most of Acnologia's attack.
However, unlike the mages of Fairy Tail, there was one single person within the Sphere that was still awake. Even though time didn't pass within the glowing orb and to him, it was just a few seconds after Mavis created the Sphere, he could still feel the time around him pass lazily.
And that young man was lying on the ground with both hands behind his head, looking at the sea outside the Sphere with his eyes half-lifted, a bore expression on his face.
He was a handsome young man around the age of nineteen to twenty, with spiky blond hair and bright azure blue eyes, three whisker marks on each cheek; he was also rather tall and has a lean, yet muscular build. He was wearing a black uniform-style jacket with an orange zipper that features several buttons on the waist and sleeves, allowing him to fold up the left sleeve and rear coattails, giving him easy access to the pouches on the back of his belt. He wore a red armband with the crest of Fairy Tail on his left arm.
"Two whales." The young man muttered, mostly to himself. "Mating season already?" he wondered out loud. He then yawned loudly and then blinked twice when he saw the first master of Fairy Tail stood above him, looking down at him with a smile. "You're blocking the sun, Mavis."
"You do know that we're underneath the sea Naruto." the first guild master smiled at him "We can't see the sun here." It was actually kind of dark inside the Sphere.
"The cloud as well." Naruto chuckled, closing his eyes. "How long?"
"Seven minutes." Mavis said with her head titled to the side.
"Seven minutes for seven years, those brats' bond is really something." Naruto nodded his head "Good for them."
"The bonds and faiths of Fairy Tail are becoming stronger and stronger with each generation." Mavis said softly, closing her eyes. "All of those thoughts allowed one of the three great Fairy Magics, Fairy Sphere to be activated. Their will and faith of each other become an absolute defense magic. It have become such a wonderful guild."
"Good for them." Naruto smiled and repeated his words before sitting up. "Hey Mavis, there..." But his eyes widened in surprise when the spirit of the first master of Fairy Tail wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Thank you, Naruto...for protecting them." she whispered softly, even though Mavis was just a spirit, she couldn't touch him, but he could still feel the warmness from her.
"Heh, don't mention it." Naruto smiled and stood up, his shoulder pass through Mavis' ethereal body. "There is a ship approaching, I think it time you bring my Island to the sea again." And he walks away.
~XxX-Earlier-XxX~
Seven years had passed since the day Tenroujima, wrapped protectively inside one of the Three Great Fairy Magic (Not that the world knew that), Fairy Sphere disappeared completely from the surface of Earthland, bringing the top strongest mages of Fairy Tail down to the deepest part of the sea with it. Fairy Tail, from the strongest Guild of Fiore, had become the lowest, and the weakest mage guild in Fiore. Without its former income, the guild fell into near bankruptcy and could no longer afford to keep their building, which was forced into foreclosure soon after. After they left it, the remaining members of Fairy Tail moved into a small tavern at the edge of the town and made it their base of operations.
"7 years huh?" Wakaba, a member of Fairy Tail, wondered his thought out loud as he blew out smoke from his cigar ,"It's really hard for me to believe that it's been that long." he said quietly.
"The good old days." Max said as he sighed longingly, "That really takes me back." he said in reminiscence.
"Nothing has been the same since then..." Warren stated tearfully as he looked at the pictures that fell to the ground after the new guild in town, Twilight Ogre, had come in and wrecked the place.
After learning the horrible news, the remaining members of Fairy Tail had tried to search for their family with everything they had, but not a single one of them was found. All different kinds of organisations had joined together in the search, but none of their efforts had also resulted in anything. The Magic Council had let them know that it was Acnologia who had eradicated the entire island on his own. It had shocked them to the core and taken all hopes from them because they all knew the story of the legendary dragon, but to kill them all in a single attack...
It was just that there was no human alive would be able to take on that dragon. However, while they were still in the middle of their tearful moment, they all heard a loud rumbling sound coming from above them, "What's that?" Droy questioned in confusion.
"Is Ogre coming again?" Jet asked, growling in frustration.
Quickly, the mages ran outside of the ran down guild hall and looked up, only to have their eyes widened when they saw Blue Pegasus guild's Magic Airship: Christina-2 floating above them. Before any of them could say anything, a voiced cried out from the ship, which for some reason, getting louder and louder by the second "Mennnn!" before it crashed into the ground with frightening impact, shocking the members of Fairy Tail. Looking back at the small crater that appeared once the dust had finally settled, everyone's eyes widened in shock when they saw it was the infamous Ichiya from Blue Pegasus lying on his side in the crater.
"I have some exciting news just for you, Fairy Tail." He said pointing towards them. Appearing to be unaffected by the fall, "I'm Ichiya." he introduced himself to them.
"We understand how you feel, Ichiya-sama, but won't you settle down a bit?" Another voice came from above.
"Yeah we could have floated down with my wind magic, you know, Ichiya-san." An irritated voice said.
"It's been awhile, everyone." A third voice could be heard next, this one softer than the previous three.
The three men landed on the ground gracefully, revealing themselves to be Blue Pegasus' famous Trimen: Hibiki, Ren, and Eve, "Why is Blue Pegasus here?" Jet asked in total confusion, but ignoring his question, the Trimen gathered around Laki, currently the only female fairy mage at the guild and started flirting with her.
"You are as beautiful as ever, Laki-san," Hibiki said as he stroked the lavender headed girl's hair.
"Those glasses, it really suits you," Ren said with a small blush, adding another compliment.
"Oh, ummm, thank you." She said nervously, unable to find any better response.
"Could you guys quit flirting and tells us why you're here!" Max cried loudly.
"Stop that right now men we are here on important business!" Ichiya stepped in after rising to his feet.
"Please excuse us!" the Trimen said in unison as they bowed their heads at Laki "Please forgive us!" they said.
"Why are you even here?" Warren asked.
"We've done it!" Ichiya said, dusting himself off and walking out of the crater.
"Something matching Christina's movement characteristics that we've recorded in the information archives has been detected in Fiore's Ethernano Reading…" Hibiki began with a small smile.
"Which means that," Ichiya said emphatically as he pointed his hands forward ,"Tenrou Island still exists." he finished dramatically.
"Well what are we waiting for let's go." Macao the current master of Fairy Tail said.
"Yeah let's get our friends back." Wakaba said happily. With that they began running to the port to get a ship.
They quickly boarded the ship and headed for Tenrou Island. "I have a question." Bisca said.
"Ask away." Alzack, her husband, said to the green haired woman.
"How do even know if they are still alive?" she asked.
"We don't, but if the guys from Blue Pegasus are so sure then we have to have faith." he replied.
Meanwhile Jet and Droy were celebrating the fact they would see Levy again. The two men dancing along the railing to the boat, "Will you two stop goofing off and pay attention!" Max yelled at them. when suddenly the ship stopped.
"Oi what the hell happened to the wind?" Wakaba asked.
"Yeah you're right we've stopped moving." Macao said. Walking to the bow of the ship he saw something standing on the water, "Hey do you see that?" he asked as he pointed out what he saw.
"Yeah what is it?" Wakaba asked.
"It's a person standing on the water." Alzack said.
"It's a girl!" Wakaba said.
"How is she doing that?" Jet asked.
"How should I know." Droy said.
With a smile on her face, Mavis Vermilion outstretched her arms to the sides. However, as she did so, massive golden pillars of raw magic power pused out of the water, the ship now rocking as the water beneath began to glow, the waves growing as something massive began to rise from the depths. And soon enough, the water bubbled up and allowed the holy land of Fairy Tail, Tenroujima, wrapped inside the glowing golden Fairy Sphere, to emerge from the bottom of the ocean, shocking everyone who was watching from a ship not too far from her. After gesturing them to follow her with her hand, Mavis turned around and flew away.
Fairy Tail's wizards landed their ship on the beach and tried their best to catch up to her, but she was simply floating away too fast for any of them to follow. Bisca glanced around, but was unable to see the little girl, "Hey, where'd that girl go?" she asked.
"I don't know, she just vanished." Alzack said.
"Jet, go after her!" Macao said.
Jet gave a nod and soon enough, he disappeared from view. However, after running for more than a minute, he slowed down in confusion. He should have caught up to her by now, so why hadn't he. He came to a screeching halt and looked around and confusion, and suddenly he gasped as he came face to face with a familiar mop of pink hair buried under the dirt.
"Natsu…" Jet said while the rest came running up behind him and stopped where they too gasped in shock. As quickly as he could, Jet ran as fast as he could and got to the fire dragon slayer's side. After giving a quick check to make sure that he was still alive and breathing, he grabbed his shoulder, while Jet and Droy tried to pull him from the ground, "Natsu, Natsu, are you alright! Speak to me!" Jet said to the pink haired dragon slayer
"Natsu, get a hold of yourself!" Jet and Droy said while trying to pull the pink haired Salamander from the ground, as half of his body was covered in earth "Oi! NATSU!"
"Wake up your bastard!" Warren cried out.
"WHAT!-SHUT UP! CAN'T A GUY SLEEP IN PEACE?!" Natsu roared and busted himself of the ground, ready to fight.
"NATSU!" the Fairy Tail Guild members cried happily as they leapt on top of him happily, that to be specific- Jet, Warren and Droy threw themselves on him with their arms wrapped around Natsu's neck, much to his shock.
"What the hell happened?" The pink haired boy wondered out loud, "Why did you guys come here?" he then widened his eyes in shock, "And by the way...DID YOU AGE A BIT? AND DROY GOT FAT TOO!" He cried out and pointed at the chubby boy standing next to Jet, his eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"You haven't changed at all..." the three cried out of happiness with tears flowing down their cheeks.
Natsu groaned and grabbed the side of his head, "Ugh, my head... We just got attack by Acnologia...then some guy came and somehow sent Acnologia away with a massive explosion.." he said, trying to recall his memories. His eyes then snapped open "What happened to everyone else?" he asked in worry.
"They're right here." Mavis said softly, earning the attention from the group.
"Who are you?" Droy asked in surprise.
"My name is Mavis, Fairy Tail's first master, Mavis Vermilion." She introduced happily, making the Fairy Tail group to cry out in absolute shock. She then slowly turned around and walked away, leading them to the spots where the other members of Fairy Tail where.
The Guild gathered in front of Mavis, with their eyes wide in surprise at the present of Fairy Tail's First Master, the one that was supposed to have passed away a very long time ago. They also saw an unfamiliar young man lying on the ground at the other side of the rock Mavis was standing on, his hands clapped together behind his head, looking uncaring about what the guild was saying.
"What now...so the first protect us?" Makarov asked happily through tears, smiling at the young woman with long golden hair.
"No...I'm just an ethereal body. Since I converted everyone's strength into magic, I had to give it my all." Mavis smiled with her eyes close. "Unwavering faith and resilient bonds will bring even miracles to your side." She then looked at them and smiled with her head tilted to the side. "It's becoming a wonderful guild, Sandaime."
Naruto looked at the ground and smiled softly, this really brought back some memories about a certain old man that took care of him when he was young.
"Young man," The third master of Fairy Tail turned to Naruto and asked with a kind tone, "weren't you the one who defended us against Acnologia's breath attack?" he recognized his feature's, for one so young to be so strong as to be able to deflect the strongest dragon's Breath Attack with ease..
Naruto hummed as he turned and looked at them. Everyone was looking at him their eyes widened slightly. Naruto wasn't surprised by this kind of expression at all, since Acnologia was currently one of the strongest beings here at Earthland-well, one of them anyways-going toe to toe and even actually sending him away, something that even a whole guild of High A-Rank to High SS-Rank Wizards when working together still couldn't manage to do wasn't something that you would see every day, "Yeah, so?" Naruto spoke up.
"I thank you for what you have done." Makarov said, bowing his head low to Naruto. "If not for you, we would..."
"Save it." Naruto cut him off with an emotionless tone, "Did you know that even without me taking the brunt of his breath attack, Tenroujima would have still been protected by the Fairy Sphere?" he then looked away, "The only reason I acted when I did was because that I didn't think that your bonds with each other would be strong as they were in order to draw enough energy out for the spell to activate in order to defend you, that's all."
"Oi! What the hell do you mean by that?!" Natsu cried out.
"Natsu." Lucy spoke up instantly, warning him.
"Can I ask what your name is?" Erza asked calmly, stepping up a little.
"Why would you need to know..." Naruto said with somewhat narrowed eyes.
"His name is Naruto Uzumaki." Mavis said cheerfully as her eyes sparkled in excitement, "And he is a mage of Fairy Tail too." where they all gasped at Mavis' announcement.
"Way to bust the bubble brat." Naruto said in a grumble, somewhat annoyed by her actions.
"THAT'S SO AWESOME!" Natsu cheered out in excitement much to Naruto's amusement, "I can't believe that we have someone as strong as you in our Guild!"
"You're a Fairy Tail's mage?" Laxus said in shock. He was after all one of the oldest member of the current younger generation and yet he'd never seen Naruto before...and he didn't look no older than him, in fact he may be even younger, "But I'd never seen you around our guild before."
"I stayed here most of my life." Naruto said shortly with a shrug, "Mavis taught me how to create a magical guild mark, so I made myself one." he said as he grabbed a rock and threw it straight to the lake in front of him; it jumped on the water surface a few times before sinking.
It wasn't a lie, only part of the truth.
By the time they realized what the guild mark capable of, they would start to question his power. If they knew that if they ever needed to call upon a hidden power and he was the one to channel his own power into them through the mark, things would be demanded.
"I think that it's understandable." the third master said as he nodded his head, "I think it's time for us to return to Fairy Tail." he said to his children and Natsu cheered out while everyone smiled brightly. "Naruto, do you want to come with us?" Makarov asked him. As a mage of Fairy Tail was a mage of Fairy Tail, no matter the way you joined or where you were, you were a family member of each and every single other member of the Guild.
"No thank you, I'm alright h..." but he stopped when he saw Mavis once again stood above him while looking down at him with interest eyes, "What do you want Mavis?"he sighed out once more.
He better off staying at the island; it wasn't a wise thing to have him return to the mainland.
The girl only smiled to him.
"You want me to come with them, don't you?" he asked again, this time a tick mark appeared on his forehead. Mavis nodded her head rapidly *sigh*, "...alright then." he stood up and walked toward Fairy Tail.
Whilethe missing member's of the guild cheeredhappily-some of the older one's joining in as well, Naruto simply walked towards the boat.
XxX
And sadly, "Ugmh..." as soon as the ship began to move, Natsu groaned with his hand covered his mouth as he stood at the sideline of the boat, his face green.
"Motion sickness?" Naruto asked the nearest person standing next to him, Lucy "Dragon Slayer eh?"
"Yes." She nodded her head before turning to the other dragon slayer. "All of them are really bad with transportation, save for Wendy." Naruto nodded. Looking at the girl who was running back and forth using her magic to heal the injured member of Fairy Tail, "I didn't thank you for saving us so...thank you."
"Like I said, no need for that." Naruto shook his head. "Even without me, you guys would have gotten out alive anyway."
"But still..." a frown made it to Lucy's face but then she smiled, "I'm still grateful for what you did, I'm Lucy Heartfilia, nice to meet you." she offered him her hands.
"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto took it and shook Lucy's hands. He wouldn't admit it, but she looked so much like her that he felt a pang in his chest. Where had she gone, why had she gone through that damned gate? He was brought out of his thoughts as the young blond woman spoke, "You said you stayed on the island most of your life and joined there with the approval of the first." Lucy asked curiously. "So, you never come to the Guild before?" she asked him.
"Yeah." Naruto could only nod his head.
"What kind of magic do you use? I had never seen something l... " she stopped as Naruto held a hand up to stop her inquiries, "Look, can we just stop this twenty question game? I don't ask you about your life, so please don't make the same for me." Naruto cut her off, making Lucy look at him in surprise and walked away with his hands in his pocket.
"How cold of him..." Gray said as he walked up next to Lucy, "What's his problem anyway?" he asked with a frown.
"I don't k...Where are you clothes?" Lucy turned away and cried out in shock when she saw Gray stood next to her without a piece of clothes on his body.
"Aw man, what the hell!" the Ice Make Wizard cried out.
Naruto ignored them as he walked to the end of the ship and looked at Tenroujima, the island that was his home after he decided to stay away from the world. He didn't know what Mavis was thinking, but she was a very wise child-at times-and knew what was good for him-every now and again- so what was her plan?
For now, he would stick with the guild and see how it goes.
After all, after so many things he heard about Fairy Tail in the past, maybe it was wise to stick to them for sometime, and interacting with others wouldn't be too bad after all.
x791 Magnolia
By the time they came back from Tenrou Island, seven years had passed by in Earthland.
Lucy looked around the Guild and she couldn't help but smile a little, it felt like a fairy tale she read a long time ago, though she never thought she and everyone of the Guild would end up in a situation exactly like that story. Last night, the Guild threw a massive party to celebrate the return of the missing core members of Fairy Tail, and even if she wanted too, Lucy would never be able to forget any moments of that night.
Drinking, singing and dancing...it was as if they were making up for seven years of lost time. And while, yes, Fairy Tail was no longer the best guild of Earthland, it was still pretty much the same as before. Everyone was happy and content, laughing and smashing their fists into each others face, before wrapping their arms around each other shoulder, tears of joy falling down their eyes...
Everyone...
Except for one only person.
Naruto Uzumaki.
He was once again at his personal spot, completely separate from the other members in the guild. He got a table for himself in a corner of the room. He didn't drink any of the beer Mira had given him or try to interact with any of the other members of the guild; he just said there, in silence all night and well into the morning. However, most of the members of the Guild were too lost into their fun to acknowledge the blond, who also appeared to be very grateful if they don't try to.
The fun continued until the doors of the small guild building opened and five very familiar faces walked in with a smile on their face.
"Welcome back, everyone!" Sherry Blendy waved to them cheerfully. She was a young beautiful woman with blue eyes, pink hair, large breasts, and a curvaceous body. She wore a black vest top and matching skirt. The vest sported a collar and tied reaching only to her mid-chest and aside from a light cloth band clasped above her navel, her belly and the under-inside portion of her breasts were exposed. She also wore a dark hair-band with points resembling cat ears, and long black gloves reaching to her upper arms.
"Looks like it's turned back into a noisy Guild" The one who said that was Lyon Vastia. He was a slim young man of average height with a muscular and toned body. He had bluish silver hair, most of which were spiky strands that jut upwards on top of his head, except for some which are kept pointing down and partially cover the upper left part of his face.
Behind him were Jura Neekis, Yuuka Suzuki and Toby Horhorta, all them wearing a smile on their face as they greeted the missed mages of Fairy Tail
"You guys!" Gray said in shock, standing up from his seat.
"Lamia Scale!" Lucy gasped. It'd been a long time since she last saw them, as they were a part of Fairy Tail's alliance during the battle against one of the strongest Dark Guild of Balam Alliance, Oracion Seis.
"When we searching for Tenrou Island, Blue Pegasus and Lamia really helped us out." one of the Guild's members informed them, forcing Gray to make a force smile as Lyon's smirk.
"Looks like we're in their debt now." the Ice Mage smirked.
"Don't worry about it, Blue Pegasus made it out there first, but we have much more power." Lyon smirked confidently.
"Who cares about that." Gray sweat dropped.
"Well, in these past seven years, we Lamia Scale have climbed up to the number two guild in all of Fiore." Sherry said with a smile, putting her hand to the above of her sizable chest, "That's just too bad for you, Lucy-san"
"So...does that mean number 1 is Blue Pegasus?" Lucy asked.
"Of course not!" Toby cried "There's no way that could happen!"
"Settle down!" Yuuka calmed his friend with his usual expression "No, it's not Blue Pegasus, you need not worry about that." he assured them.
"Well, enough about that..." Jura nodded his head in agreement, "What's important is that everyone is okay." His eyes then caught the young man who was sitting by himself in a corner of the Guild Hall, which was very strange considering what kind of a guild Fairy Tail was. In all honesty, he couldn't help but ask, "And who is that young man over there? I haven't seen him before, have I?" he asked curiously.
Immediately the Guild became silent, an uncomfortable silence, making the mages of Lamia Scale widen their eyes slightly at that. Naruto however, completely ignored the silence and continued to mind his own business, by closing his eyes and sitting completely still.
"Did I say something wrong?" Jura asked, looking around.
"No, not at all Jura-san..." Lucy shook her head with a nervous smile, "It just that Naruto is not...very sociable." she tried to explain to him.
"We met him on Tenrou Island." Makarov spoke up, drinking a cup of beer, "From what he told us, he had been staying there for quite some time now and joined Fairy Tail a long time ago." he informed the Lamia Scale wizards.
"Oh, is that so?" Lyon nodded his head, "This is kind of new, don't you think?" he turned around and asked Sherry, who couldn't help but nod her head.
"He is just shy, that's all." Mira said with a small smile, holding a tray with a couple of cups of beer on top of it, though she wasn't too sure herself when she said that.
"BUT HE'S SUPER POWERFUL!" Natsu cheered excitedly as he suddenly appeared in front of Lamia Scale's group and said with a cheerful smile, "He stopped a dragon's Breath Attack by..." however, before Natsu could finish his sentence, a table dashed across the ground where it suddenly appeared next to Natsu before it slammed into him, sending the poor pink haired boy across the room before crashing into the wall.
All head turned to the other side of the room and saw Naruto sitting in his chair there with a foot raised a little. After seeing him sitting still almost all night and all day in the same position, this of course was a surprise for the Fairy Tail's members, "I would like to keep that information for myself, thank you very much." He spoke up with a lazy tone, putting the picture he was holding into his pocket. He grabbed another free table and pulled it toward him, putting both of his feet on it and leaned back slightly against his chair "What?" Naruto asked when he saw that everyone was looking at him.
*sigh* Makarov sighed, "You get the idea." he said to Jura, of all the kids in Fairy Tail's younger generation, which he believed Naruto to be a part of them since he didn't look any older than nineteen, the blond was the hardest to read and to understand. If he didn't know any better he would think that Naruto wasn't a part of their guild, and didn't want to be a part of it.
He wasn't exactly wrong there.
But he trusted the Shodai's decision, after all she was one of the founders of Fairy Tail, a very wise young woman. If she said Naruto was a Fairy Tail mage then Naruto was a Fairy Tail mage.
After some time had passed, Lamia Scale left Fairy Tail and everyone soon returned to drink with each other.
"Beer?" Mira walked up to him and asked cheerily. At first, when she brought those cups to him, she didn't say anything to him because she was afraid that he would get angry or something likes that, but now when he finally said something, even if it was just a few words, she would admit that she could comfortably communicate with him.
"Thank you for the offer, but no thank you." Naruto replied shortly, making the smile on Mira's face disappeared.
"Oh, then...would you like to drink anything?" Instantly the smile returned to her face and she tried to make him opened up once again "You must be thirsty." she said.
Naruto turned to Mira and stared at her for a moment before sighing, with just a glance he could tell that Mira would never stop bothering him until she got what she wanted, "A cup of water should be fine." Naruto said and Mira smiled brightly at that, she quickly ran away and found an empty cup to get Naruto some water.
"You don't drink?" Gildarts spoke to Naruto, following Mira's example of trying to interact with him, "Not that I have anything against it, but you don't seem like the clean type boy to me, young man." his daughter, however was completely opposite, because she was drinking from a whole barrel of beer, holding her liquor even better than him, her father.
"I drink yes," Naruto said, taking the cup of water from Mira, "but to me, beer the same as a cup of water. Point is...I can't get drunk so what is the point of drinking in the first place?" Naruto asked him shortly before he gulped down the water in one gulp, "Thank you." he handed it back to the beautiful white haired girl, "What's your name, by the way?"
"I'm Mira, Mirajane Strauss." Mira introduced herself with a smile.
"Take over magic?" Naruto asked, making Mira widened her eyes in surprise before nodding her head, "Demons, I suppose, haven't sensed this magic in a while."
"You can tell?" Makarov asked in interest, he was sitting on the table beside Naruto's with a cup of beer in his hands. The third master-turned fifth master of Fairy Tail was pretty drunk, but he was still in the right mind to acknowledge the surrounding, "About everyone's magic?"
"No, only Mira here." Naruto said, "I can feel their emotions, the demons' emotion, coming from her. Of course, since demons aren't the friendliest ones, it is actually hard not to notice such a negative emotion coming from a cheerful young woman." he stated.
"You can sense emotions?" Gildarts asked in surprise, "Come to think of it, what is your magic anyway?"
Before Naruto could answer, Natsu suddenly leaped toward him with his first covered in fire, trying to punch Naruto on the face. Naruto, however already saw this coming and moved his head back a little, avoiding Natsu's punch at the last moment, making the pink haired dragon slayer's fist to collide with the table.
"OI! Don't go around attack people like that!" most of the members of Fairy Tail screamed out in a dramatic manner, pointing their hands at Natsu.
"Natsu!" Erza said out loudly with a stern tone, "What do you think you are doing?" she demanded.
"Lucy already told me that you don't want to tell us your magic" Natsu snorted in frustration as he stood up, punching his palm with fire flared around his body, now grinning with a confident expression on his face, "So I guess I will just have to force you to spill it and tell us what your magic is." he pointed at Naruto, "I challenge you to a fight" he declared proudly.
"No." was Naruto's answer to the challenge.
"What!" Natsu roared out in shock, "I'm challenging you right here! Not even Erza answered it like that!" he said pointing to Naruto.
"Aye, even though she always wins." Happy added in with his trademark gesture.
"Okay then!" Natsu roared and his magic flared powerfully, "I will force you to fight me then!" and charged at Naruto, who only turned his head to look at Natsu.
Even though Erza and even Makarov wanted to stop Natsu from attacking another guild-mate inside of the Guild, which was already too small for a fight in the first place, they couldn't help but hold their breath and try not to blink in order to fully see what Naruto would do. They all agreed that that the young man over there was powerful, too powerful for someone so at his age. Not even Gildarts, the Ace of Fairy Tail, could match a corner of the power of the mighty dragon King and yet Naruto managed to send the beast away and negated one of its strongest attacks with his own.
Little did they know that the rest of the Guild was also thinking the same, especially the one who was there to witness his power.
A small burst of annoyance flashed over Naruto's face and Natsu stopped in his place as his fist was about to collide with Naruto's face, a look of shock on the dragon slayer's visage.
Silence.
Before their eyes widened in shock when Natsu began to sweat uncontrollably, his eyes slowly widened and the look of shock turned to fear, as if he just saw something terrifying.
"Y-you..." Natsu stuttered before he collapsed to his knees.
"Like I said." Naruto turned back to his table, saying lazily as Natsu put a hand on his chest, trying to catch his breath "Not interested." he told Natsu.
"He...he defeated Natsu... by staring at him?" Jet gasped in shock.
"What the hell?" Gray muttered in shock.
Gildarts gulped slightly at that, he didn't know what Naruto just did, but clearly it was more than enough to put the incredible brave of Salamander Fairy Tail down to his knees, something that had only happened once before when he decided that he would no longer go easy on him in his trial to become a S-Class. He didn't even feel a slight bust of magical energy nor he saw his body move, all he did was sat there and...like Jet said, stared at Natsu.
"Have you had enough yet?" Naruto asked, glancing down the spot where Natsu was at.
"You're strong..." The dragon slayer of Fairy Tail said with a wide smirk, glancing up to Naruto ,"but...I won't lose to you!"
"Hoh-ho!" Everyone widened their eyes when they saw Naruto's lips curled up a little in a small smirk, the first expression they had ever seen on him other than emotionless and laziness, "Nice eyes you got here, kid." he remarked.
"Kid?" Natsu asked before exploding, "What the hell do you mean kid? I'm no older than you, bastard!" But he was immediately held back by Lucy and Gray.
"Shut up Natsu!" Erza appeared next to him and quickly knocked him out, with a punch to the head. Grabbing the scarf of the unconscious boy she turned to Naruto and said with an apologetic tone, "My deepest apology Naruto, he is rather immature for his age. We assume he was dropped on his head as a child." she apologized.
"Don't worry, the kid reminded me of myself when I was young, o it's more than alright." Naruto shook his head, the smirk on his face turned into a small smile, "He's got guts and will, that's all he needs to grow strong." he said softly.
"True. Spoken like a Fairy Tail wizard." Makarov nodded his head.
Naruto Uzumaki turned out to be more mysterious than they thought.
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"Fairy Tail!" Makarov stepped out of his office with a mission request in his hands, "We have a new mission!" The mages, save for Naruto, cheered out loudly from hearing the announcement from the Guild Master.
Because of the absence of the core members of Fairy Tail, the guild was dethroned from the number one position a few years ago and became the weakest guild among the Mage Guilds of Fiore. Missions were rarely sent to Fairy Tail nowadays, especially missions from A-class and S-class with high payments. Most of the remaining missions were finished by Team Natsu and the returned, stronger members of Fairy Tail so around this time there was no more mission on the Guild's mission board, even on the S-class board on the second floor.
And of course, every member of the Guild was seriously in need for money.
"MINE!" Natsu cried out and leaped forward, trying to get the mission request paper from the master's hands.
"Forget it! That's mine!" Jet cried out and shot forward with his magic bumping into his legs.
"Oh no you don't!" Cana pulled out three cards and they began to glow with magic.
Naruto sighed, 'There they go again...' Naruto thought inside of his head while sipping a cup of orange juice. He didn't know what was so interesting about this guild that Mavis wanted him to come with them, but apparently it was interesting enough to make him stick around. For the past week Naruto had considered about leaving the place numerous times, but every time he came to this guild; something new happened and he couldn't help but come to the place every morning, though he would never admit it out loud.
The whole Guild then broke out in a massive fight, just like the last time a mission request arrived at the Guild Master's office. Erza let out a cry of disappointment after finishing her favorite strawberry cheesecake and stood up from her seat. When she was present in the Guild and not out doing mission with her team, the Scarlet head mage was always the one who won most of the missions for her team; more or less everyone was really afraid of her and didn't want to face her wrath.
But before she could make any move to stop the fight, the master raised his hand and took a deep breath before shouting out
"ENOUGH!" Instantly the Guild stopped their fight and turned their head to look at the master ,"Ahem, now that everyone had calm down...I have a few things to say before assigning this mission for a mage or a team. This is not a simple mission" His tone changed and became seriously, "This is an S-class mission." quite a few mages gasped out in shock. This was their first S-class mission in many years after the disappearance of the core members of Fairy Tail.
"YES!" Natsu cheered, "Give us that mission!" Team Natsu was the current one of the only two teams that had S-class mages in it, who was none other than Titania Erza Scarlet and the only chance any mage who wasn't S-class yet got the chance of doing the highest ranking missions was having at least an S-class mage accompany them.
"Unfortunately Natsu, your team won't be the one who get this mission." Makarov said, making Team Natsu groaned out in disappointment and the other to smirk. The master looked around for a moment before his eyes landed on a certain blond haired young man who was still separating himself from the Guild's every day activities, "I think it's time for Naruto to get his first mission."
All eye turned to Naruto and he couldn't help but look at the master, with an unreadable expression on his face.
"Really?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, you're a mage, right?" Makarov asked with a smile, "That mark on your hand show that you're not just a mage, but a mage of Fairy Tail so I think it's time you take a mission and start your career, Fairy Tail style." he finished with his smirk widened.
"No thank you," Everyone's face dropped instantly when they heard Naruto said that, but widened their eyes when they saw Naruto stood up from his seat. "Give me that paper and I will finish that mission, but I will do it my way." Makarov nodded his head with a smile before dropping the mission request down to Naruto, who caught it into his hand and read.
"But master, Naruto isn't an S-class mage yet!" Erza spoke up, "I mean he is strong yes, but isn't it illegal to have a normal mage goes on an S-class mission?" she asked him.
"Of course, that is the reason why I will need an S-class mage to go on this mission with him." The guild master said before turning his eyes to a certain white haired demon mage, who was rushing back and forth to serve beers to everyone present in the Guild, "Mira, would you like to go on this mission too?" this made her stop and looked at the master in surprise.
"Me?" Mira asked, pointing at herself, "I'm not sure master..." she said nervously.
"This is also a great opportunity for you to get back to shape." Makarov grinned. Mira lost her power after her sister's suppose death and didn't fight or even train in nearly three years, becoming weaker and weaker during that time and couldn't defeat the opponents she shouldn't have much trouble against. Plus, Mira seemed to be the only person Naruto talk and sociable with these past few days, having Mira spend some more times with Naruto alone could be a chance to make Naruto open up more to everyone.
"Naruto, do you want Mira to go with you or should I choose someone else?" The Guild master asked Naruto, who shrugged.
"No problem." he replied shortly with his hand waved above his head and started to leave the Guild.
"Hey, wait for me." Mira called out, putting the tray in her hands down to the table and quickly followed behind the blond young man.
~XxX-xxXXxx-XxX~
"Two tickets to Bosco, please." Mira said to the ticket seller and put the required amount of money on to the table in front of him. Naruto stood beside her with his back leaned against the wall with his eyes closed, seemingly uncaring about what was going on around him.
"Here you go..." The ticket seller said and gave Mira two tickets. The barmaid smiled brightly at him, making the man blush brightly at her smile before taking them into her hands and walked to Naruto.
"I got the tickets." she said, showing him the two tickets within her hands.
"Then let's go." Naruto said shortly and walked ahead again. Mira pouted at him, the blond didn't even take a glance at them. That was if she didn't want to admit that he was outright ignoring her. No one ever did that to the lovely drawing card of Fairy Tail before, let alone a teenage boy like Naruto.
Mira then turned back to the ticket seller and looked around; it seemed that he sold drinks as well.
A few minutes later, Naruto found an empty cabin all for the two of them and walked in first as the train began to move. Putting his hand on the window frame Naruto turned his eyes to stare blankly at the world outside the window, completely unaware of that his partner walking into the cabin and closed the door behind her. Naruto didn't blink as he felt something cold press against his cheek and turned his eyes slightly to the side to see Mirajane holding an orange bottle of cold drink with the picture of a slice of orange on it, smiling brightly at him.
"Don't just space out like that, Naruto-kun. It will become a bad habit." Mira said as she took the bottle away from Naruto's cheek before saying that to him with a smile, pushing the drink she bought for Naruto forward again, this time in front of him "Here, I hope you will like it." Naruto looked at Mira for a second before taking the orange bottle from her hand. Mira sat down on the seat opposite from Naruto and put the straws of her own bottle of lemonade to her lips and slowly sipping the cold juice.
"Thank you." Naruto said shortly before staring out of the window again.
"So, what..." But before she could finish her question, Naruto brought out the mission request and showed it in front of her face. Mira blinked once before taking a look at the mission's details. This mission was about finding an ancient artifact which was stolen a couple of days ago and from the look of it, Mira was sure that this would take them sometime. But the payment was good and that money would help everyone a lot in the Guild a lot at this hard time.
"The stolen artifact they are looking for is in the hand of dark mage, possibly an entire guild." Naruto said and put the piece of paper back into his pocket before starting to drink his own orange juice.
"H-How do you know that?" Mirajane asked in surprise, as she didn't recall any information about the thieves from the mission request. Naruto then pointed his hand to the window outside and Mira couldn't help but turn her head at the direction he was pointing. Since the train wasn't moving very fast, Mira could see a large panel above Magnolia's station and surprisingly it was about Bosco Museum of Magic Art, the place that currently the owner of the ancient artifact they were looking for.
"Its owner of the missing artifact is the Bosco Museum of Magic Art, one of the two only museums in all of Earthland that is applying magic into their security system. Only a mage who specializes in sealing magic can pass through that kind of security." Naruto said with a blank voice, "Also, the stolen artifact is a magic staff has the power to steal magic from other wizards, it is particularly useless for normal thieves and can only be used by mages of exceptional skill."
"How do you know it is a staff?"
"At that station while you were still busying smiling at that booth operator," that statement made Mira blushed slightly, "He had a newspaper, and I happened to read the article on the first page. It was about presenting a historic discovery of magic, the Staff of Absolution." Naruto said as he then brought out the mission request and showed it to Mira once again, "The same artifact we're looking for. However, it was stolen a couple of weeks ago, yet we didn't see or hear anything about it from any of the various media outlet's, with the exception of this mission request; which meant the museum wanted to stay as quiet as possible about this since it was a very powerful and dangerous artifact. It also explained why a now nameless Wizard Guild was able to receive this kind of mission, because they don't want to make an unnecessary fuss as well as delay the day."
"A-amazing...you're able to tell that much..." Mira said in amazement, "You're so smart Naruto-kun. You're like...a detective or something." she admitted. Mira and everyone else at Fairy Tail could never imagine something like this from Naruto.
"It's nothing special, basic observation." Naruto shrugged and shook the bottle, hearing the sound and he could tell that there was nothing but ice-cubes left inside. He reached his hand forward and to Mira's surprise, he exchanged the bottles with her before leaning back in the same position like before, "I only pay special attention to everything that happens around me. The answer for a problem could be anywhere." he told her, "Keep that in mind." he stated.
"I see..." Mira nodded her head, "But how did you know about that staff?" she asked. The Staff of Absolution? To be honest she had never heard nor read about a magic artifact that could steal other's magic before, and something that dangerous should be recorded in books. She was no Lucy or Levy, but Mira also did a lot of research in the history of magic when she first learnt how to control her own magic.
"Did you know there is a massive library on Tenrou Island?" Naruto asked her, "That library belonged to Mavis, but she let me have access to it while I was there, you can say that I learnt a lot over the years." he told her. It was only half-true. Naruto did read some of the books in Mavis' library to kill some of his boredom, but it soon turned out to be boredom too after he had read it so many times.
"Anyway, now that we know who behind it, this mission should be easy enough." Mira said to Naruto who only shrugged.
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"Oh my, if it isn't the beautiful Mirajane Strauss." The director of Bosco Museum of Magic Arts said while rubbing his hands together, following behind Naruto and Mira as the two made their way inside the museum, "I had heard that you and the other mages of Fairy Tail finally returned after seven years of being missing, I must admit that I'm rather surprise to see your beauty is still as marvelous as before, as if you haven't aged a day." The two had arrived at the crime scene and instead of stopping like Mira to examine the broken showcase Naruto walked to a picture on the wall and stared at it with his hands in his pocket, "Is it because of your magic that grants you the ability to keep your beauty?" the man asked, rather flirtatious toward Mira.
"No, it's something else." Mira shook her head and kneeled down to examine the floor around the showcase. Naruto was right, there were some runes written on the floor around it, showing that there used to be a magic circle around the Staff to prevent anyone from touching it. From the first look, the runes were very complicated but she could recognize the magic, which was rather powerful and well-prepared, "Tosi-san, you said...someone broke into this room two nights ago without alerting the security system and stole the staff?" Mira asked, "They must be very strong to be able to get through this kind of barrier."
"Yes, I believe that they are mages." The man nodded his head.
Naruto glanced around the museum and saw many guards; some of them were mages and seem to be on guard.
"Yes, my friend also thinks that they are no ordinary thieves, isn't that right Naruto-kun?" Mira smiled at Naruto, who was still having his back at her before standing up, "I promise to find them and bring the Staff back to your Museum, Tosi-san" Mira smiled at him.
"Oh, I have no doubt Mirajane-san" Tosi smiled at the former model.
"We should go look for them soon Naruto-kun." Mira then walked to Naruto, but got curious when he was still staring at the picture in front of him, "You have any idea where to look for first?" She whispered to Naruto. Mira had no idea where the Staff was and where should they look for it first and the local town people did say that there wasn't any Dark Guild or Dark Mage ten miles radius around the town.
"Right here, in this museum." His words shocked everyone, including the Director of the Museum and Mirajane, as well as all the guards standing around the room, "Isn't that right? Tosi-san?" Naruto turned around and faced the man.
"Naruto-kun, what are you talking about?" Mira asked, still shocked from what he just said.
"I don't think I understand what you are trying to say sir." The director of the Museum said, with a smile on his face thought it became somewhat nervous, a dead give away for anyone who knew what to look for.
"He lures mages here to steal their magic. You're the one who stole the magic staff and made it look like a group dark mages broke into this place and stole it." he stated plainly as he glanced to Mira, "Mira, do you remember what I said about sensing other emotions?" Naruto asked and Mira couldn't help but nod her head, "Well, unless that the bald headed moron over there is holding some grudge against you or he simply want to feel your ass," Mira sweat dropped at that statement "...he is having a rather dark and negative emotion toward us."
"Is it the truth Tosi-san?" Mira asked, looking at the man with her eyes hardened.
A cruel smirk then appeared on his face as the man looked at Naruto and Mira darkly, a magic circle appeared within his hand and in a flash the Staff of Absolution appeared and glowed with an aura of dark magic. Naruto glanced around and saw that the guards around them removed their clothes and appeared to be bloodthirsty mob of dark mage, with magic weapons glinted dangerously within their hands.
"I must admit boy..." Tosi laughed as he held the staff within his hand, "you're very smart. The first mage who didn't fall into my trap right away, unlike many others who got their magic being taken away from them before I ended their life." He chuckled darkly before saying "Tell me, how did you know I took it?" he questioned Naruto.
A smirk appeared on Naruto's face, as he crossed his arms on his chest and a cool aura appeared around him. Mira couldn't help but look at him and gulped slightly; waiting for the usual quiet blond to show off his awesome intelligent like that teenager detective who was turned into a kid in a series she read when she was younger, "Well, that is only my instinct. I wasn't all that sure about it so I decided to test my theory through a joke but...you felt for my trick right away, which was rather pathetic I must say." Mira immediately face-palmed, having expecting Naruto to say something a little more cool than that with all that know it all aura around him.
"You..." Tosi gritted his teeth in anger before pointing his staff forward "No matter, I will just take your magic and your life then!" And the Staff of Absolution began to glow.
"Stay back Naruto!" Mira cried out and stood in front of him with her arms raised a little but to her shock, Naruto suddenly pushed through her and walked calmly toward Tosi with his hands in his pocket. Her eyes then widened in horror as she saw golden energy started to be released from Naruto and was sucked into the staff. Tosi grinned in satisfaction as he felt himself got more and more powerful, in a few seconds and the stupid blond mage would collapse and his body withered away like an old leaf. However, much to everyone's shock, Naruto kept walking forward like nothing happened and stood directly in front of Tosi with a lazy expression on his face. Mira wanted to interfere, but something was telling her that she should stand here and watch what would happen next.
"Go on, suck all the energy that you can out of me." Naruto challenged with a sly smirk as more and more energy was drawn from his body, "Yeah, you feel like a mosquito sucking my blood, nothing more than a pitiful annoyance." Naruto stated. His hand suddenly shot out and grabbed the Staff, his grip hard enough to actually crack the ancient weapon slightly, "Sorry pal," he said in a very low tone, so low that only Tosi could hear him, "but the last time I let some guy use this Staff to suck all the energy he wanted from me, he turned to something that I would like to call a pain in the ass and destroyed a whole city before I cared enough to put a stop to it." He then tightened the grip around the Staff and to Tosi's shock, the cracks began to grow across it, "Can't let you do the same thing, and I ain't sorry." Naruto then pushed the Staff forward and hit Tosi hard on his face, knocking the mage out.
The blond then raised the Staff before calling out, "Super Weighted Boulder Technique" causing the weapon to glow before slamming it down to the floor, so hard that it broke the stone floor and impaled deeply into it, the ground shaking from the force. Standing up Naruto snorted, "Let's see..." Naruto hummed as he reached his hand into the man's inner pocket and pulled out a stack of checks, "Since we found your Staff, we will take the reward for this mission, Three million jewels." Naruto then wrote down the amount he needed before perfectly copying his signature, which Naruto saw on the mission request. He then tore away the check from the stack, "Thank you." He wrote down a few more words and threw the booklet down on the man's face, "Let's go Mira!" Naruto said and walked out of the Museum.
"W-Wait for me Naruto!" Mira cried out and quickly followed behind Naruto, as she crossed Tosi's unconscious form she couldn't help but glance at the stack of checks on his face.
Her eyes widened when she saw the words Naruto wrote on it.
Fuck you!
After the two mages of Fairy Tail left, the dark mages managed to get over their shock and fear before they quickly ran over to check on their leader, some gathered around the staff and tried to pull it out of the ground. However, no matter how they tried, the dark mages could make the staff move a single inch. The technique would make it all but impossible to move, and the seal he inscribed would make sure it would destroy itself in fifteen minutes after they left, leaving only the top of the staff to be identified by the museum.
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"I'm back, everyone!" Mira said cheerily and opened the door of her Guild, letting Naruto walk in first before following behind him much to the shock of their fellow guildmates.
"That...was fast!" Erza stuttered, "You found the artifact already?" she asked in surprise.
"Not me, Naruto found it with his super intelligent mind." Mira pointed to her head and went into a thinking pose, "You won't believe how cool he was." everyone turned their head to look at Naruto who sat down heavily on his usual seat and closed his eyes.
"Interesting, I must say i was expecting that." Makarov nodded his head with a smile.
"Master...can I talk with you?" Mira walked toward the third master and whispered to him, "Alone?" she requested.
"Of course my dear, please follow me." Makarov nodded his head before leading Mirajane away.
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