Chapter 4 is here, please enjoy. This is where some of the divergeance begins and I take hings into my own direction.
"Naruto" Normal Speech.
'Naruto' Normal Thought.
"Rasengan" Jutsu/Power/Technique.
"Kurama" Demonic/Dragon/Youkai Speechs.
'Kurama' Demonic/Dragon/Youkai Thoughts.
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"You recover fast kid," Naruto said lazily as he leaned right before he elbowed Natsu right in the face without turning back, so hard that the whole guild cringe as they could feel the force of Naruto's hard, yet still lazy attack, "but you're not some cliche book or movie character that can become stronger every time they were beaten and are brought back to full strength. I've been in fight's that have ripped both heaven and earth apart, trust me when I tell you that literally can't beat me." Naruto finished with Natsu crashed into the wall.
"What kind of strength is that?" Everyone cried out as the entire wall collapsed around Natsu. Even though it was just a wooden wall, doing something like that with just a simple elbow wasn't something they could consider normal or human.
"You can make explosions that knock away a dragon, control sand, fire, you're very fast!" Natsu busted out of broken wall and leaped at Naruto again, "Now you're insanely strong as well. All of them make me all fired up!" Natsu cried and engulfed his fist in dragon's fire.
"Natsu, that's enough!" Erza was about to interfere, not because she was worried for Natsu or even Naruto, but afraid that Naruto's beatings would be too much for this small building to handle.
"By the way, do you know that I can also do this?" Naruto asked rhetorically as he took the straw from his glass and put into his mouth before blowing a bubble from the tip. Everyone gasped when the bubble got a whole lot bigger yet it still didn't explode in just a second and flew away from Naruto's straws and took Natsu into it.
"Oi, what the hell is this!?" Natsu cried out as he was taken into the air. Natsu tried to destroy the bubble by punching it rapidly with his flaming fist but much to his shock, it proved to be impossibly more durable than normal bubble "That's it..." He took a deep breath and his cheeks started to swell up "Fire Dragon's-"
"I would take a second think about what you're going to do before you finish that." Naruto warned.
"ROAR!" but as soon as Natsu used his signature breathe attack, the bubble exploded "WAH!" Natsu cried out as he was once again tossed away. The explosion was powerful enough to shake the entire building as well as knock who was standing down to the ground.
"Naruto!" Erza cried out while pointing his finger at Naruto, "Can you stop using destructive spells like that? You're destroying the guild!" and he said he would never do it Fairy Tail's style
"What spell?" Naruto asked her curiously and blew more, much smaller bubbles before using the straws to bust them normally "I'm simply blowing bubbles, is there something wrong with..." Naruto then glanced down when he heard giggling sounds belonged to a young girl with black hair tied into a braid and a small, orange cowboy hat on her head. She was reaching for the bubbles flying around Naruto with her arms raised above her head, a large and cute smile on her face.
But the smile soon disappeared when all of the bubble bust away.
Naruto looked at her for a second before putting the straws into his mouth again and blew out more bubbles. Asuka laughed happily as the soap bubbles surrounded her and used both of her hands to bust them, "Asuka right?" Naruto asked and the little girl nodded her head rapidly. Naruto then brought his hand out and from his palm, a white flower rose from it before blooming. Naruto then picked it out of his palm and gave it to Asuka, who smiled widely and took it.
"Thank you!" The girl cried out and ran back to her parent to show her parent the flower.
"And he said he didn't care much about us." Mirajane commented with a soft smile.
"The First accepted him into our Guild for a reason, you know." Erza nodded her head, also smiling "Oh, thank you Mira." Erza's face immediately lifted up with a thousand watt smile as Mira put a slice of strawberry cheesecake down to the table "And I heard from master that she was very wise."
"She sure is..."
Mira nodded her head before walking away just as the Guild master stepped into the Guild while carrying a stack of papers in his hands.
"Oh, welcome back master" Mira said brightly to the old master before coming over to help him carry the documents "How was the meeting with the Council?"
"Stressful, at least they didn't have many things to breath down my neck other than a couple of house's Team Natsu destroyed on their missions." Makarov said and jumped on the bar stand, letting Mira put the stack of documents down beside him, "By the way Naruto, nice job on your latest mission. The Director of Sorcerer Magazine promised to have good words about us on the upcoming volume, all thanked to you saving them from the pirates with...a giant water dragon."
"Just doing my job." Naruto said simply.
"Wait a minute..." Natsu cried out while pointing his hand at Naruto, "He can make powerful explosions, control sand, fire, blows explosive bubble, can create flowers with his hand and now you can control the water too?!" He asked in shock, "Just how many forms of magic do you have?" Naruto only shrugged, "Hey, share some stuff about yourself and don't keep it for your lonesome like that, right Happy?"
"Aye!" The cat agreed with his friend with his trademark catchphrase.
"Wait...create flowers?" Makarov asked in shock "Does this mean that you can create and manipulating plants or maybe nature too?"
"Something like that." Naruto admitted with a shrug. No need to tell him he could turn this entire continent into a forest in a single hour by himself.
"What about it Gramps?" Natsu asked excitedly.
"That magic is the same magic as Warrod Sequen's magic, one of the Four Gods of Ishgar, the fourth strongest Wizard Saint." Everyone became dead silent by Makarov's announcement before turning their head to look at Naruto in shock "He is also..."
"One of the four founders of Fairy Tail alongside with Mavis." Naruto continued Makarov's words, and the Guild master couldn't help but nod his head, "She told me about him." But everyone was clearly didn't pay much attention about that, they was still trying to absorb the information about ONE of Naruto's magic was the same with the fourth strongest Wizard Saint's spell.
"This guy is like a powerhouse or something." Gray muttered with sweat pouring down his forehead, "By the way, is it possible to learn that many forms of magic like that?" he asked curiously.
"Don't know, never tried." Naruto shrugged. To him, it wasn't the truth but it was never a lie either.
The others mages of Fairy Tail gulped nervously. That question just now put a big question mark into their head about Naruto's power.
"Anyway, we also have a lot of things to worry about," Makarov took out from his pocket a small letter, "It seems Gildarts refused my offer of becoming the fifth Guild master and already went on a mission." he then took a cup of beer given by Mira and released a long sigh, "I'm too old for this job and seriously need to retire." he muttered to himself.
"You're only old when you think you are old." Naruto spoke up, "I won't call someone who could turn into a fifty foot giant and almost managed to stop Acnologia with physical prowess alone a old man. Sure, you got overwhelmed by Acnologia, but a dragon's physical strength only comes from their ability to channel the even greater level's of magic energy in their bodies to the muscle groups in question." He then put the book, one of the books Lucy sold to him into the bag he bought a few days ago and stood up from his seat, "Anyway, I'm heading out." He walked to the mission board and randomly took a mission request from it without looking. He then headed to the door and left the Guild without another words.
"If I didn't know any better, I would say that he said those words from experience." Makarov commented, "How old is he anyway? Twenty?" Mira only shrugged, as never thought about asking Naruto that question before.
"Alright, I need to train to fight him again!" Natsu punched his palm with a confident grin on his face. He was sure that next time they fought he would be able to at least land a blow on Naruto, "What's wrong Wendy?" Natsu asked when he realized that the sky dragon slayer was tugging his sleeve, trying to get his attention.
"Natsu-san, can you...and everyone," She turned to look at the rest of the team with nervousness, "follow me to this place, please"
~XxX-xxXXxx-XxX~
"Can this day get any more exciting?" Naruto asked sarcastically, holding a long mop in his hands and using it to clean the stone floor of Mercurius Castle. While he didn't expect to have a mission at the palace of the royal family of Fiore, he already predicted the mission would be all about cleaning duty or something like that. This mission was supposed to be done by a whole team, but Naruto didn't read the mission request until he was at the station of Magnolia Town.
But it wasn't something he couldn't handle, since he only had to clean the first and second floor of Mercurius Castle, not the whole castle itself. The man who was in charge of the cleaning duty was the one who requested the mission, saying that last night there was a huge party located across these two floors, but the other servants of Mercurius Castle were already filling their hands with lot of other works so as usual, like before, they would required the assistance of mages, who could speed things up with their magic.
Maybe they thought it like that, but in Naruto's opinion if this mission fell into Natsu and his team's hand, he doubted the mess would be cleaned up after they finished their job and would result in the destruction of the castle at large.
Looking around to make sure that no one was around Naruto then opened a window and willed the water at the lake nearby, gathering it into one long tentacle of water before pulling it into the room he was cleaning through the window, as carefully as he could. Naruto then used the water tentacle to clean the room, leaving no piece of dirt or leftovers from the party last night back and speed his duty up tenfold.
However, when Naruto was about to will the tentacle to the doors, they suddenly opened and someone stepped in.
"Kyah!"
"Oops..." Naruto said as the whole tentacle of water pulled that person along with it too. It was a beautiful young woman with green hair and green eyes, wearing a white color dress and donned a fair amount of jewelry on her body.
"Hime-sama!" a rather tall man with dark skin, wearing a set of armor on his body ran in while crying out in horror, "You there, is it you who is doing this?" he asked while pointing at Naruto as the green hair girl was being swirled around inside the tentacle of water.
"Sorry." Naruto instantly will the water down to the floor and released the green hair girl from it. The tentacle of water then got smaller and smaller before disappearing completely from existence. It didn't take long for him to realize that he just gave the princess of Fiore a memorable ride on water tentacle.
There was a dirty joke in that somewhere, he was sure.
"Hime-sama!" The Knight cried out and immediately ran to her side, as the princess whole body was as wet as a drown rat, coughing roughly as she had gulped down a fair amount of water, "You fool, what the hell are you doing?" he screamed as Naruto.
"Well, you guys..." he was about to ask why didn't they knock before coming in, but then realized that this was Hisui E. Fiore's house, she didn't need to have permission before coming into a room or something like that, "You know what? Forget it." he then got down on one knees in front of Hisui and brought out his hand, willing the water away from her body and gathered it into a small orb, "There you go." He said and Hisui was stunned when she realized that she was completely dry.
"Now answer..." The knight grabbed Naruto's collar but the princess brought her hand up to stop him.
"It's alright Arcadios-san" The princess shook her head before looking at Naruto, "Half of this is our fault after all." She smiled.
"Well, at least you're reasonable." Naruto shrugged before standing up, offering his hand to her, "Here, let me help you up." Hisui took his hand and let him pull her up to her feet.
"What is your name?" Hisui asked with a soft smile.
"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto introduced himself then continued before the princess could say anything, "and before you ask, no I'm not a servant of this castle, I'm here for a mission request." he told her.
"That means you're a mage? That explains why you can control the water." Hisui nodded her head, "Which guild are you from?" she asked him curiously.
"Fairy Tail." Naruto said shortly and grabbed the mop, "Now if you excuse me, I would rather finish this job and leave without further interruption." And he walked away without any other words.
"How disrespectful!" Arcadios scolded as he glared at Naruto's back, realizing that during their short conversation Naruto didn't address Hisui with the respectful suffix she deserved, not even once. He also didn't apology for what he did to the princess and casually walked away like nothing happened.
"Don't worry Arcadios-san," Hisui let out a soft giggle, with her hand covering her lips, "I heard from father that mages of Fairy Tail were once all amazing seven years ago. But after the disappearance of more than half of their guild mages, everything went downhill for them." She then released a soft smile "I'm glad that they found their spirit back, Fiore really need mages like him, especially at this timing." she said to her guard.
"Are you sure your plan will work, Hisui-sama?" Arcadios asked.
"I'm sure." The princess of Fiore nodded her head, "It's time for us to destroy the Dark Mage Zeref once and for all, by activating the Eclipse Gate at the end of this years Grand Magic Games." She then walked away with her guard following closely behind her, completely unaware that Naruto was listening to their conversation this whole time outside of the door.
~XxX-xxXXxx-XxX~
An hour later, having finished with the cleaning duty and received his reward Naruto returned to Fairy Tail like always, pushing the door of Fairy Tail's guild building and walked in with his hands in his pockets. He looked around the Guild and saw that everyone was in the middle of an argument, with no one louder than Macao and his own son Romeo.
"How was the mission Naruto-kun?" Mira asked cheerily and immediately walked to his side.
"Cleaning duty, it went well." Naruto nodded his head and pulled out a few hundred bills of jewels again, giving them to the beautiful barmaid.
"What do you want this time?" Mira asked and accepted the money with a bright smile. Since everything in the guild was completely free, Fairy Tail's mages didn't need to pay for anything, which were usually beers. However, Naruto was the only, and also the first, person in Fairy Tail paid for his meals and drinks and also gave her a lot of tips, which at this timing when the whole guild was in a hard time, was very helpful for her as well as her siblings.
"Anything that you have in mind should be fine." Mira nodded her head before dashing away while humming happily.
Naruto couldn't help but chuckle lightly at that before heading to Lucy's table, the only place around the guild's hall that wasn't having a fight. The stellar mage was reading The Tale of Utterly Gusty Shinobi, with a very serious expression on her face, and from the looks of it Lucy was half-way done with the book.
"I hope you are enjoying it." Naruto said as he sat down in front of her with a smile.
"T-This is incredible...Are you sure it was poorly sold?" Lucy asked in amazement.
"Well, you can say that around my godfather's time everyone thought about it like a joke or something like that." Naruto chuckled, "It was a pretty long time ago, took me sometime to translate it." Naruto trailed off, muttering with a very small voice that even Lucy couldn't hear, "What is everyone talking about?" he quickly asked before she could ask anything.
"Oh, they are arguing about whether or not Fairy Tail should participate in this year Grand Magic Games." Lucy said.
"I heard about that." Naruto nodded his head. Hisui and Arcadios talked about it and something about Eclipse Gate and destroy Zeref once and for all, which for the first time in awhile interesting enough to pick his interest, "Want to climb to the top in a short amount of time?" he asked her.
"Apparently, it is the only way right now." Lucy laughed nervously.
"But...do you think you can win with your magic power as it is now?" Makarov asked while scratching his chin.
"Yeah, of course we do!" Macao agreed, being the leader of the oppose-the-idea team.
However, his son knew just the way to inspire the third guild master, "If we win, the Guild gets a 30,000,000 jewel prize!"
"We're going!" Makarov said with a wield smile and his finger pointed to the ceiling.
"MASTER!" everyone cried out.
"It's impossible! There's Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale..." Jet moaned.
"And Sabertooth is gonna be there, too!" Droy pointed out.
"And in the past, we've always taken last place!" Bisca said in worry.
"Don't go boasting that." Elfman shook his head while his siblings could only giggle.
"Don't let that bother you, we'll be fine!" Makarov grinned and punched the air rapidly.
"OH RIGHT! I'M ALL FIRED UP!" Natsu cried out with fire coming from his mouth, making the other mages back off in fear.
"He's lost it!" everyone exclaimed.
"When is this event happening?" Natsu asked, turning his face to Romeo
"In 3 months." Laki answered him.
"Alright! That's plenty of times for us to get ourselves in shape." Natsu grinned and punched his palm with a flaming fist, "Fairy Tail will once again be the number one guild in Fiore!" the other members of Fairy Tail nodded their head with a confident smile, believing that they could win this game to get their Guild back to the number one place, even though some others refused to participate.
Then, before anyone could speak anything more, Natsu moved toward Naruto and Lucy's table and grinned at Naruto
"What do you want this time, kid?"
"Train me?"
"Not fight me? That is a surprise." Naruto mocked.
"Hey! I'm being serious right here. With your help we'll probably become the top Guild of Fairy Tail in no time!" Natsu gave him a thumb up, "Or...you can join my team and join the event too!"
"Why should I?" Naruto asked, "It wasn't like I can gain anything from this event." he sighed.
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"YAY-It's the beach!"
How did those brats managed to drag him into this? Naruto wondered in his head when he stood on the hot sand of the beach and stared lazily at Team Natsu and Team Shadow Gear, with his arms crossed on his chest. The girls had stripped down to their bikini while the guys already in their colorful swimming trunk, even the blue and white cats were already geared up for scuba diving.
Yep...training his ass. Why did they choose the beach anyway? The other teams already went to various places around Fiore and from what he could hear they sounded serious about training and challenging themselves enough to actually push themselves, not playing at the beach.
"We're not here for playing you know." Carla said blankly. Her words clearly went against what she was wearing.
"Aye!" spoke the blue cat.
"Surely we know." Erza, who was wearing white bikini said with a smile before jumping into the water, "But what we need now is modulation. Enjoy games, enjoy foods, enjoy sleeping." She said excitedly while playing with the waves.
"But..."
However, before Jet or Droy could say anymore words, they were knocked away into the air by Natsu and Gray, as the two were making their way to the beach with a massive grin on their face, running so fast that they create two massive trails of dust behind them.
"My dear sea!"
"I'm coming!"
And they jumped into the water and started to compete with each other in various contest.
Naruto bought himself a cup of coconut and a hot dog before finding himself a rather quiet spot to enjoy the ocean view and at least, Fairy Tail's teams would be too lost in their fun to care enough to disturb his peace.
He had to admit though; Fairy Tail had some very attractive girls. Looking at the girls while they were having playing with each other in the sea like that, with their more than impressive assets (of course, not in Levy and Wendy's case) bouncing behind their skimpy bikini, Naruto couldn't help but sigh and smile a little. Those brats did deserve some relaxing time after all, after everything they came through with just their belief. Some of the reminded Naruto of himself when he was young while others was a lot like people he used to know. It had been a long time since he was caught in so many memories like this.
"Mind if I sit here with you?" Naruto turned his head to the side and saw Erza, standing barefoot on the sand while holding a basket in her hand.
"Sure." Naruto shrugged and Erza sat down next to him before opening her basket and reached her hands inside and pulled out a white Canvas sheet.
"Why don't you join us, Naruto?" Erza asked softly. Naruto was still wearing his normal clothes and didn't appear to like the idea of joining any of them, "You know, go out there and swim or find some fun to do." she told him.
"I don't really want to..." The blond shook his head, "Plus, we have three months before this Grand Magic Games tournament start, plenty of times for us to prepare, and for me to find something entertainment enough to do."
"Like training us?" she asked him.
"More like beat the living hell out of you brats." Naruto said and finished his hot dog, pulling out a cloth from his pocket to clean his hands.
Erza couldn't help but sweat drop at that. It was somewhat a miracle that they managed to pull Naruto out of his usual spot at the Guild and make him come with them, with a promise that he would help them train for the GMG as long as they let him do whatever he want along the training trip. Master Makarov said that it was a great chance for them to get closer to the only loner of Fairy Tail and help him get out of his shell. Erza could see the same thing the master saw when he looked at Naruto, the blond was a lost soul who already lost the belief in family and the people who was close to him and hell, he might no longer believe in anything in this world.
Someone who preferred to be alone rather than surrounded by family was someone who seriously need help, and Fairy Tail always more than happy to provide them that, especially to the one who was even wearing the symbol of Fairy Tail on their arm. Erza then pulled out a small bottle of sun cream from her basket, staring at it for a second before giving it to Naruto, "Can you help me with this?" Erza asked and pointed at the sun tanned Gray and Natsu, "I really don't want to have the same skin color like them." she said.
"If you don't mind." Naruto said and folded his sleeves up. Erza nodded her head before lying down the canvas sheet with her head resting on her arms.
"Oh, and no funny business." Naruto shrugged at her words
Naruto squeezed the bottle and squirted a fair amount of clear fluid into his right hand. Naruto put the bottle away before spreading the cream around his palms by rubbing his hands together. Naruto then moved closer to Erza and put both of his hands down her bath, starting to spread the cream on her back by moving his hand slowly on her smooth skin.
"Mm...You're really good at this." Erza couldn't help but say when Naruto's hands spread the cream over her shoulder and along her arms.
"Thank for the compliment" Naruto said with a small smile before saying, "There done."
"Thank you." Erza smiled at him before closing her eyes with a soft smile.
But in the end, it was going to be proper training from the afternoon onward.
~XxX-That night-XxX~
While everyone was happily enjoying the hot water of a local hot spring, with the guys trying to peek on the girls, Naruto sat on top of a large bolder and stared at the stars on the sky above him. Reaching his hand out and opened his palm, Naruto let a small stone flew into his hand before throwing it with some force into the ocean.
Fairy Tail.
"What a ridiculous name!" the blond commented before throwing another stone into the sea, this time, he threw it so hard that it disappeared from view.
The name of "Fairy Tail" represented a sense of adventure for one to be able to discover more about mysteries and fate.
Do fairies really have tails?
Do they even exist...
Like them, the place as an eternal mystery...
A never ending adventure
What ridiculous motto.
But for an unknown reason, they managed to make him want to stay here with them.
If it wasn't for their spirit...he would have left a long time ago.
~XxX-The Next Day-XxX~
Erza Scarlet gasped for breath as she received a heavy kick from Naruto, the one who accepted to start their training with her being the first victim of his so called hellish training. The kick was so strong that he sent her several feet into the air before falling down to the ocean, yards away from the beach and had to stab the sword down to the sand under the sea to regain her balance and stop herself. However as soon as she looked up, she saw his fist coming right at her and Erza barely had time to move her head out of the way to dodge his punch, which missed her only slightly.
Titania raised her sword and made another attack, but suddenly felt her sword got stuck in the sand as if something was keeping it there. Her eyes widened when Naruto raised his leg and knee her hard in her gut, making the swords-woman cough in pain and was then knocked down to the water by a simple hit to the back of her hea, "Just to let you know, your armors literally protect nothing when you go against a fighter like me." Naruto said coldly, "Get up! If you have energy to gasp for air, then you have energy to force yourself to your feet!" he bit out as Erza immediately pushed herself up and wiped the wet bang from her face, her eyes burning with determination. Erza then re-quipped her armors, changing from Kureha no Yoroi (Black Wing Armor) to Hisho no Yoroi (Flight Armor) in just a blink.
"I see." Naruto said when Erza charged at him with such speed that she became nothing but a blur but it wasn't something Naruto couldn't handle. As soon as Erza was a foot in front of him with her spear thrust to his chest, Naruto moved his body out of the way and grabbed her spear, side stepping and grabbed Erza's wrist and pulled her right arm with him when he got Erza, using her own arm to headlock her, a kunai pointing at her hip, "You decide to exchange power for speed, that's a good strategy." he complimented her.
He wasn't kidding when he said he was going to beat the living hell out of them.
Natsu, along with everyone who was watching dropped their jaw to the ground in shock at the sight of Titania Erza Scarlet, the strongest woman of Fairy Tail being pushed down without a slightest chance of fighting back like that, "But you will have to try harder if you want to beat someone superior than you in every aspect." Naruto stated before raising his hand with his index finger pointing up, "And next time," Erza yelped out in shock when a tentacle of sand suddenly wrapped itself around her ankle and pulled the scarlet head woman into the air, hanging her upside down much to her shock, "Try to check your surroundings." he told her.
"How can I check the surroundings when this whole place is covered with sand" Erza defended herself by crying out the oblivious.
"I take that you don't have any armors to use against sand." Naruto chuckled and in a flash, Erza's white bikini was back to her body. The sand then put Erza down before sinking back into the sea, disappeared without trace.
"I read the manual about the Grand Magic Games and it seems there won't be any team battle until the end of the tournament so I will have to train your strength first." Naruto said. Shame, with this kind of team he would really love the idea of pushing them through hell with the bell-test, since it'd been a really long time and he really missed those days, "The good thing is that you guys have three months to prepare." he told them.
Everyone nodded their head in agreement. It was a good thing.
"HA! The other Guild's better open their eyes!" Natsu laughed loudly and excitedly, "I'll show you our overwhelming power after these three months training!" immediately after Natsu finished his over-confident statement, Natsu was splashed in the face by a large orb of water controlled by Naruto, soaking him head to toe and packed enough force to knock him down to the sand.
"Don't get full of yourself brat." Naruto smirked slyly before darting his eyes to the waiting group and his eyes landed on Lucy, who was sitting on the sand, "Lucy, you're next." He said.
"Me?" Lucy pointed at herself with a nervous smile, if Natsu or even Erza stood no chance against him, then what chance does she got against Naruto "I'm not..."
"Nonsense, stand up and show me how well you can cooperate with your spirits." he told her.
Fortunately for the stellar mage, a certain celestial maid with pink hair came to her rescue by poking her head out of the sand, right underneath Lucy. The blond cried out in surprise and blushed slightly when she found herself sitting right on top of the pink haired maid's head, "Hime, emergency!" Virgo, the Maiden Celestial spirit said with her usual emotionless expression, "I'm ready for the punishment."
"Why are you here?" Lucy asked as she got up and helped Virgo out of the sand.
"Virgo!"
"The maid spirit" Carla pointed her paw at Virgo and said blankly.
"Lucy has been in the Fairy Sphere for seven years...which means that all the celestial spirits who made contracts with her were staying in the Celestial Realm" Gray said, crossing his arms.
"Oh poor spirits! Because of Lucy's fault...Lucy's fault" Juvia cried.
"No...that's not a big problem for us." Virgo looked down, her eyes still showed no emotion but everyone could see some sadness in them.
"What happened?" Levi asked curiously. Everyone turned their eyes to look at the Maiden, waiting for her answer.
"The Celestial Realm is in a crisis of extermination" The maid said, "Please...please help us" this made everyone, especially Lucy gasp in shock.
"What?" the blond asked in worry.
"What happened?" Natsu asked.
"The King of the Celestial Realm is waiting for you" Virgo bowed her head, "I'm here to pick you up" she informed
"Sure!" Natsu cried out "Let's go to help them! We're friends..."
"Wait! We humans cannot go to the Celestial Realm, can we?" Lucy asked her spirit.
"You can enter the realm in the celestial clothes." Virgo replied before a big magic circle appeared underneath them and shone brightly "Ready to go?" She asked.
"Hey, I'm not going, I have stuff I have to do." Naruto said.
"Naruto," Lucy turned her head to Naruto in surprise when they saw him stepped out of the magic circle, "You don't want to come with us?" everyone turned their head to look at him in surprise, but Naruto only waved his hand to them.
"Don't want to...because it's not my business." he said simply with a shrug and turned around, walking away with his hands in his pocket, "Plus, with you guys not around, I can at least have some alone time."
"Oi!" Natsu roared, "The Celestial Realm is in danger and you're not going to help?!" the others immediately stepped in to hold him back before Natsu could do anything stupid and get beat up by Naruto, again.
"Naruto...Uzumaki..." Everyone immediately stopped whatever they were doing and turned their head to look at Virgo in surprise after they all heard her said his name. It couldn't be that Virgo could possibly know someone who spent his whole life on the Island, unless the two had met before in the past.
Naruto turned his head around slightly and looked at Virgo, who was also turning her head to look at him.
A small smirk appeared on his face.
"Send my greetings to the old man, Virgo." With that, he turned around and walked away. Lucy couldn't help but widen her eyes slightly at this.
Was Naruto talking about the Spirit King?
"I will..." Virgo bowed her head and with that, the magic circle teleported them away, leaving only Jet and Droy back much to their confusion.
"Shouldn't you warn them about the time in Celestial Realm?" A voice inside of Naruto's head asked him, but Naruto only shook his head with a small chuckle.
"That is their problem for listening to Virgo's lie." Naruto said and headed to the nearest bar.
"What do you intend to do now?"
"My own training of course." Naruto said shortly "Don't want to slack off forever since I'm going to participate in this GMG with them."
"Heh...and I thought you said you don't care about them."
"I might be a bit paranoid, but I have a bad feeling about this Grand Magic Game, this...plan that girl, Fiore was talking about." Naruto leaned back against the chair and put his feet onto the table, with his hands behind his head "Plus, Mavis is going to be so mad at me and won't stop bugging me if I let anything happen to her pride guild."
"You seem to care about others a lot more lately, aren't you?"
"Nonsense, humans of this era are weaker than any genin from the village, only those who have experienced true life or death battle can somewhat challenge them if any were still alive." Naruto clicked his tongue in annoyance before closing his eyes.
Now, other than training, what should he do during this time the brats are away?
His eyes opened a little when he heard loud talking noise of a group of people and saw a very familiar blonde walking ahead of them, wearing a very sexy swimsuit on her body. Maybe after he worked his magic on this girl he could go visit her and see if she would be interested in joining in on this little mortal glory business called the Grand Magic Games.
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