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Disclaimer: I do apologize in advance for any grammar mistakes, or typos as this is not beta-read. Do not own Naruto, or Fairy tail. Would like if someone can suggest a beta-reader to me.
I have started an RWBY and Naruto cross-over. If you are interested, you can give it a try.
Anyway, continuing on;
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Chapter 11: Clues regarding the scroll
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Sasuke shook his head as he walked towards the rest of the team Natsu. He knew it was going to be troublesome to deal with them, especially Natsu. He was an odd ball of energy, and it was fun at first thinking of him as Naruto's and Sakura's doppelganger. But Naruto was a lot mature, and this guy was... just, what was the best way to describe. Yeah, carefree and plainly stupid.
Gray waved his hand at him. "Yo, Sasuke."
Sasuke nodded once he was near them. He turned his gaze from Lucy to Wendy before looking around. "Where's Erza?"
"She said she had some work, so she left with Master and Mira-san."
Wendy was the one to answer his question. Sasuke had a passive look on his face. "I see."
Seeing that he had nothing else to do, he turned around to leave, but Natsu stood in front of him blocking him from going anywhere.
Sasuke frowned as Natsu spoke. "Not so fast, Sasuke!"
This is going to be troublesome.
"What do you want?"
"Since Erza isn't here to stop me, I want to have a match with you."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Match with me?"
"Yeah... why, is that weird?" Natsu tilted his head to his side. "You said so yourself that you are strong. That is all the reason I need."
"Unfortunately, I am not interested in fighting right now." Sasuke said closing his eyes. "I need to set out as soon as possible, and I was hoping to meet Erza before that."
Wendy turned to Lucy, "I thought Sasuke-san was coming with us to the training camp."
Lucy gave a glance to the Wind dragon slayer. She chuckled nervously. "Sasuke-san never said that. In fact, it was Erza who declared it preemptively."
Wendy shared in on the nervous laughter. She clearly remembered yesterday's scene where an enthusiastic Erza hopped near a bored Sasuke and asked the same question to him who replied with a 'Hn'.
As they chatted among themselves, they suddenly heard Gray's voice.
"Natsu, you moron! Why the heck are you attacking him when he isn't interested?!"
They followed Gray's gaze, and saw Natsu throwing a barrage of punches at Sasuke. He had his fists enveloped in fire as they both moved at amazing speeds. Sasuke simply back stepped each of his attack, dodging it with ease.
That scene reminded them of Max's fight with Natsu the other day. The starting of that fight was something similar to this. Here, Sasuke wasn't using any magic though. They were pretty sure he didn't know how to use one. But, he was really agile seeing as he could easily evade Natsu's attacks with minimal effort.
The barrages continued for some time with no luck before Natsu got frustrated and jumped back. He no longer maintained his cheery expression. It was replaced with a serious one as he wiped off some dust of his cheek.
"This guy is just like Cobra. Maybe, he can hear my thoughts too."
Sasuke closed his eyes as Natsu got into a weary stance. He thought maybe Sasuke finally decided to attack him and go on the offensive. But, what happened next confused him a bit.
Sasuke opened his eyes slowly as the red sharingan gleamed to life in his right eye. Everyone present there gasped at the sight of the blood shot eyes.
"W-What is that?" Gray shouted.
"Maybe it's similar to Raijin squad's magic," Happy said as it took its spot beside Gray.
Lucy turned to the blue exceed. "I am not sure, Happy. If you remember, master said that Sasuke-san was from another world. Therefore, he cannot use magic."
Wendy nodded. "But maybe, they have something similar to magic in their world."
They could only speculate as Natsu stood at a cautious distance. He observed the patterns on Sasuke's right eye as his three tomoe spun wildly.
"...huh?!"
He didn't know what happenednext, but the spinning tomoe suddenly disappeared and his red eyes retreated back to his black orbs.
"What, man? Those were just for show, huh?" Natsu grinned. No doubt those eyes were terrifying and they were intimidating but it was only for a second. Maybe, it was for catching the enemies off guard with that, and attack them.
It was the only thing that currently made sense to him. He assumed that was the reason for Sasuke not attacking him after activating his red eyes since he was still on his guard. "Even if you can hear my moves like Cobra, it doesn't matter!"
With that, Natsu jumped into air aided by his fire boost. "Happy!"
"Aye, sir!"
Happy flew and caught him mid-air. He then flew in front of the sun blinding Sasuke's vision. He saw Sasuke covering his eyes with his hand, as he tried peeking from between his fingers.
Natsu laughed. "Victory is mine!" His entire body was then coated in fire and lightening. "Happy, leave me here."
Happy nodded as it flew a bit backwards and hurled Natsu in Sasuke's direction, with the sun behind Natsu to make sure to block Sasuke's visibility. As Natsu reached near Sasuke, he observed Sasuke jumping out of the way to disable his advantage.
"Too late!"
He went completely into lightning dragon mode, and leaped towards him at an astonishing speed as soon as he landed. His eye twitched when Sasuke's expression remained passive despite the disadvantage.
"Still confident that you will win, huh? See this- Roar of the Lightning Dragon!" He shouted, unleashing the massive wave of fire and lightning at Sasuke, who was now at point blank range. The entire area in an instant was destroyed with the blast just narrowly missing Gray.
"What the heck, Natsu?! You just killed our newest member!" Gray yelled, shocked by how this battle ended.
As the smoke cleared out, there was no sign of anyone. Natsu had a horrified expression as realization dawned on him. "W-What am I going to do now?! Erza will kill me!"
"Don't come to me saying that I didn't try to stop you." Gray shook his head.
Natsu was surprised by his friend's calm attitude. The aura surrounding him vanished as he took a step towards Gray shocked. "G-Gray, what the hell are you saying? I-I just- How can you stay so calm!?"
"Because, he's not real and I am still not dead."
Natsu's eyes widened at hearing Sasuke's voice, but before he could even turn, a sword impaled through his chest from behind. Blood sputtered from his mouth as he strained his neck to look into the Avenger's eyes.
"W-Why?"
"To teach you a lesson to never let your guard down, even if you think you might have finished your enemy. You must absolutely make sure of that before relaxing."
With that Natsu dropped down, as his conscious slowly faded away.
The next time he came to, he was met with the sight of a smugly laughing Gray, a worried Lucy, a disappointed Happy and a nervous Wendy.
All their attention directed to him soon as he sat up. He was currently under the shade of a tree, and was apparently resting on Lucy's lap as she had a flushed expression before she embraced him.
"I-I was so worried about you. I didn't know what happened, but you were yelling in your sleep. I wanted to know about your condition, but Sasuke-san was nowhere around."
Natsu had a small smile before he turned to the laughing Gray.
"So, what happened?"
Gray had to control his laughter to answer the confused Dragon slayer. "You got your ass handed is what happened."
Natsu maintained his confused expression as Wendy cleared his doubts. "You collapsed as soon as Sasuke-san activated his red eyes."
"C-Collapsed?" The entire battle came to rushing back to Natsu's mind as he suddenly got up. He ran his fingers across his chest to check the wound, where a sword was supposed to be impaled through, but it was all fine as if nothing had happened.
How was this possible?
"I-I don't understand?" Natsu stuttered. "I thought he had stabbed me!?"
Gray, who was now done laughing placed a hand on his shoulder. "It was all an illusion, you moron. The fight never happened. The match was finished before it even started."
"What?! But Happy was there too."
Happy shook its head. "It's all an illusion, Natsu. I was never there. Sasuke said so himself when he explained about what he did to you. He also said it was to teach you an important lesson while battling someone."
"I see." Natsu thought as he lowered his eyes. So, the whole sun blocking thing and that amazing strategy he used never happened. His friends became worried at the sullen expression Natsu was carrying but he was over it in an instant.
"Guess, I have to practice like hell in these coming three months."
Gray nodded as everyone had a determined look on their face. "Yeah, we all have to."
"By the way, where did Sasuke go to?"
Lucy placed a finger on her lip at Natsu's question. "I think he said something about going to Twilight Ogre's guild."
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"Sasuke!" Erza said, a bit too loud for her liking. "What are you doing here?"
"I was just here to-"
"AHHHHHH!"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the screams he was hearing from inside the huge wooden doors, followed by a laugh. They both currently stood outside the Twilight Ogre guild.
"That was-"
"Never mind that. So, you were saying?" Erza shrugged his statement, looking at him expectantly.
She flinched a little as Sasuke stared quizzically at her. He then shrugged since whatever must be happening inside didn't concern him.
"As I was saying, I-"
"AAHHH!"
"TAKE THAT, YOU DAMN BRATS!"
Sasuke heard a grumpy old voice from inside.
"Was that master just now?"
Erza had a dumb expression. "Did you hear anything just now? I know I didn't hear any!"
"..."
"So, you were saying?"
"AAAHHH!"
"Let's go over there," Sasuke pointed to a tree which was far from the guild, far from the current chaos.
She offered an apologetic smile. "Yeah, let's do that."
Soon, they reached the tree as Sasuke turned to her with a serious expression. She became nervous, wondering what he wanted to talk about.
"I am going on a journey." He said. Erza opened her mouth to protest but he raised his hand indicating her to stop. "Let me continue. I will be back by the time Grand Magic Games starts."
Erza's eyes trailed to her feet as she fidgeted around. "So, you won't be coming with us to Akane Resort after all." She mumbled very slowly. The disappointment in her voice was evident to the former avenger.
Sasuke felt hurt when he saw the poignant expression she gave. She then tried to bring a cheery expression after few moments of facing him. She must have been really looking forward to this.
"Well, it's good bye then." She gave him an eye smile.
Now, he was lost on what to do. If he were to act on impulse right now, he would surely regret it later. Should he just nod and walk away like he does every time, or should he do something to cheer her? The bond he was now having with Erza was similar to the one he has with Naruto. So, he shouldn't just ignore her right now.
As he was wallowed in his thoughts, he instinctively raised his right hand and smacked her forehead with his middle and index finger. Yeah, that was right. He could do the same sign as his brother always did to him. Whenever he requested something from his older brother, he would always flick his forehead and it did annoy the hell out of Sasuke, but it used to work. It calmed him.
All the sadness he held would be dissuaded after that.
"Maybe next time, Erza."
A slight blush stained Erza's cheeks as she nodded. He then, turned around and flickered away leaving Erza to stare the spot he stood before. She could only wonder why she felt disappointment when he decided to travel on his own, and didn't bother asking her to accompany him. She was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Mira yelling at her.
"Hurry up, Erza! I thought you wanted to teach them a lesson."
"Coming!"
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A month had passed.
Sasuke was now making his way through rubble of an ancient ruins that once stood where Team Natsu carried their mission months ago. He continued his walking, jumping on the stones and leaping his way through. He stopped once he spotted a dead body.
It was the body of a giant snake. Its skin was burnt badly, meaning it was probably Natsu who had burned it, or Erza with one of her armors. He continued checking its body before he got to its mouth. He bent on his knees, and took out his sword and forced open its mouth using the sheath of his sword.
'It's fangs are nothing like the snakes found in this world. I was right after all.' He then got up and dusted his pants.
"This was a snake summoned from the Ryuuji cave. But, who summoned it here?" He pondered.
After another careful observation of its surroundings, he burned its body using his Amaterasu. He, then made his way more deeper into the destroyed ruins. As he walked, he observed the summoning seals on the broken rocks, further confirming his hypothesis.
He also observed many engravings on the walls of the ruins, written in his own language. According to Natsu, it was something he couldn't understand. No wonder the dragon slayer couldn't read it. It was a language from his world after all.
Sasuke had to use his sharingan to learn the language here, though he could only understand what is written now and still couldn't write anything on his own. It was a torture having to be taught this by Erza. She was a true demon when it came to teaching. It made sense why everyone cowered in fear of Erza.
He came out of his thoughts as he had reached the end of the passage. He narrowed his eyes, the sun clearly shining on the huge engraving on the wall, making the view as clear as seeing in a fresh water lake. Before him was a huge Uchiha fan symbol and four dragons symbols surrounding it.
As he tried analyzing the stance the dragons were in, and using the vague information provided by Irene, he came to a conclusion that the dragons were controlled by the sharingan. Irene said she married an Uchiha general. Maybe, he was the head of all the Uchihas who remained in this world.
From what he heard from Levy, dragons were extinct and she also knew about the legends of Uchiha. Levy was a true book worm, and he doubted anyone would recognize the sharingan eye other than her even if he showed it to them, but they all do know about the Uchiha name. That was the reason he didn't reveal his last name to them, though Erza didn't reveal his name either.
The books lent by Levy meant that the dragons and Uchiha both perished four hundred years ago. What exactly had happened that led to their destruction? How was Irene even alive and what was the source of power for Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy who were first gen dragon slayers?
He sighed as he massaged his temples. It was a pretty huge topic and he knew it would take a lot of time to figure it out. So, he left the riddle for another day. He, then quickly walked towards the centre of the slab. He spread his legs as he unsheathed his sword.
"Chidori Nagashi!" He stabbed his sword into the ground, and blue lightning spread and destroyed the surrounding ruble. He stopped manipulating lightning through his sword as soon as the whole area got cleared.
"I would have preferred to do it elsewhere, but this is the ideal spot for the summoning. I can see why the past Uchiha chose this place to hide the scroll." He took out the scroll belonging to this dimension. It was true, this place was secluded and was far from any civilization, an ideal place to summon, or in his case, experiment.
He tossed the opened scroll into the air and got himself distance. Unlike the previous experience he had with scroll, the portal was stabilized after producing a gust of wind. From the looks of it, he deduced that Naruto was supplying the chakra required and was keeping the portal open on the other side. Now that both the portals were open, it should have been stabilized on the other side too, and there must be no need to supply it with anymore chakra.
"So, this is how it actually looks, huh?"
The portal was like an actual door filled with blue substance inside. He then pressed his right palm against the floor, chakra molded along the finger tips.
"Uchiha Flame formation!"
Pillars made of red flames were spread into the sky, surrounding the scroll from all sides. A single bead of sweat ran along his forehead as he used the same jutsu Obito used to shield the Juubi during the war. But, this was a bit different. He made it work in a way, that it enables anyone from inside it a.k.a anyone coming from his world could move through the barrier without any damage. It was a one way unless he was present to undo it. Meaning, no one from here could enter into the portal, but anyone from his world could come here but requires his presence to go back.
He wiped the sweat of his forehead.
"That's one thing done."
He took out the flier hiring mages to retrieve the scroll. It was the same flier that Gray saw and picked it for team Natsu that led to Erza dimension travel to his world, for which he was glad in a way. It helped him resolve himself better and gave him clarity on his role now. He felt himself like a true dimension traveler now.
If Sasuke could find out who wanted the dimension travelling scroll, and their reasons for it, it could help him solve the questions he had in his mind. He frowned as he carefully examined the scroll and came to a conclusion on who was the hirer.
"This is going to earn me a lot of trouble. I might even be branded as a traitor if I go through with this."
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Hisui E Fiore was the proud princess of Fiore and daughter of the king. She was a sweet, caring and kind person and cared deeply for her subjects. She was a slim, petite young woman. She had wavy light green hair that reached down to the middle of her back with two strands that frame her face as well as a set of tufts that obscures the majority of her forehead, with the prominent tuft in the middle reaching down to the top of her nose. She also had large dark green eyes with long eyelashes.
She had just finished her journey of surveying few lands and was on her way home. After travelling for a lot of time, they decided to take a break in a forest. The soldiers broke their march and collapsed on their feet. It was a tiring day, but soon they were going home. She wore a short dress that exposed her back and parts at the sides of the skirt. It also had a flower like pattern along the breast-line. She also wore long gloves that cover up to her elbows with frills at the end of them. She styled her hair differently, pulling it back in an upward ponytail.
Darton, her trustworthy advisor came towards her. "You must also rest, your majesty."
Hisui shook her head. "I will, once all the soldiers are seated."
Darton chuckled at the kind nature of their princess, wondering for a brief moment about the future of the kingdom as a wave of relief hit him. He bowed. "If you say so."
She got down from her horse and started walking towards an opening which was some fifty meters away with the thick trees in between.
"Princess Hisui, where are you going?"
She turned back to see Darton run up to her. Though he had just sat down, he could never compromise with the safety of the future ruler of this kingdom. "It's alright, Darton. I am just taking a stroll."
"Then I'll accompany you."
"There is no need. I doubt anyone would attack me here, in this forest. And it is not far away. Just a few meters in that direction."
"But I insist."
"You clearly need to rest. I have been taking a lot of rest and if I don't walk now and then, my legs will get stiff."
"At least take few sold-"
"Darton!" She commanded in a stern voice. The short man immediately bowed down.
"I am sorry, your majesty."
She shook her hands. "Now go and rest. I'll be back in a while."
"Yes, your majesty."
Seeing as Darton went back, she made her way towards the thick trees and bushes. Her dress was torn a bit near her knees due to the thorns, but she did not mind. Being surrounded by men all day, and only smelling the sweat and trench of her soldiers, she needed to have some fresh air.
As she got to the opening, she realized it was the cliff of a hill. They had been traveling near the top of a hill, and she didn't know about that since the navigators handled the path.
She stared wordlessly at the scene spread beneath the cliff, as the green forest stretched endlessly. The air was quiet and only the chirping of birds and air rustling against the grass filled the air. This was peace, and one of the very few occasions she enjoyed it. She was born in peaceful times, so she didn't fully know about the value of peace but knew enough as she was one day going to rule this very kingdom and it was an important qualification.
She was careful as to not go to the edge of the cliff, as it was steep over there. Her gaze wandered all over before it fell on a familiar flower just before the edge. A rare beautiful red flower that her father once said that it was her mother's favorite. It was hung by her mother's dress in her old photos. A fond, old memory of her mother.
She turned back, about to call few guards to fetch it, but decided against it. They were travelling non-stop on foot and she didn't want to break their peace and resting time. The king has to be adventurous some times.
Convincing herself of that, she got onto her knees and leaned over, stretching her right arm. It was just a few inches away, so strained her right arm even more and bent it. Her finger tips were just caressing against the petals.
"Almost." She thought to herself as she brought her left hand in front of her to lean even more. This enabled her to reach its stem in her palm. She ripped it of near its root and her adventure was successful. She was so delighted at her success that for an instance, she tried to even bring her left hand towards the flower to touch it. This became the reason for her near death experience. She tripped over and let out a ~kya scream as she rolled down the steep.
As her head rolled, she widened her eyes as she reached the end of the steep. Next moment, no ground was beneath her, and the momentum made her to fall down with her face facing the floor. The gravity began acting on her body, and she was about to experience the full wrath of the gravity, if it were not for something tightly gripping her waist.
As she turned her head back, few droplets fell of her eyes making her realize that she was on the verge of crying. Pushing the thought back in her head, she turned to face her savior and was surprised to see a complete stranger. It was a raven haired man. His both eyes were visible as his bangs were motioned downwards due to the gravity. His right eye was a normal black orb, dark as ocean's pit, but his left eye was the one that most intrigued her. It was purple in color with many concentric rings in it. It also had six comas circling them, three placed each in the starting two rings.
"What are you doing?! You almost killed yourself." His voice was deep and rash. It was kind of annoyed and irritated. He took the support by holding his left bandaged arm against the edge. He tightened his grip on her waist as she blushed at the contact and close proximity.
Reminding herself of her status and breaking herself from his left eye, she yelled. "Hurry and pull me up! Just who do you think I am?!"
The raven haired man frowned as he immediately pulled her up and dropped her onto the grass rather harshly. He, then landed in a swift motion in front of her.
"H-How dare you!"
"I don't care who you are, but if you value your life, be more careful."
Now that she observed him with a straight head, he was kind of attractive, attractive enough to make her blush a bit even as she tried to order him. He wore a complete black outfit, with black cloak except a white inner belt and the inside of his cloak painted white. His front bangs framed his face with his left bang covering his left eye.
She blinked her eyes in surprise as he began walking away. She held out a hand, "Y-You!? What's your name?"
Without turning around. "Sasuke."
"Princess Hisui!"
The guards rushed towards them as soon as they heard the scream, but found a raven haired man whose clothes were dangerously similar to the dark mage, standing a few feet away from her. They soon surrounded both of them, with more of them near the guy. The Raven turned back and faced her.
"...Hisui? As in Princess Hisui?"
She was a noble after all, even though she didn't like to put herself above others, it was a necessity of those who were supposed to rule one day. "Yes. So, do you wish to change your attitude towards me now that you know who I am? I'll give you a chance to do that."
The heiress expected him to bow down immediately, stutter and do everything a commoner does when met with a noble, but she kind of wished inside, hoping that he was different somehow. Her wish was granted alright. But, not in the slightest way she imagined.
The Last Uchiha had unsheathed the blade he had hidden under his cloak and pointed it at her, as the soldiers drew their weapons too. "I have few questions for you, princess."
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(AN): Had written the fight between Natsu and Sasuke since many of you requested it. Hope you liked how Sasuke fought him and also him trying to teach Natsu some basic stuff.
