Hi!

Thank you everyone who has been keeping up with this story so far. In this chapter the main cast of Mondstadt is finally gonna make an appearance.

I'm having quite fun writing this story so far so I'm gonna do my best to keep a constant update schedule of 1 chapter a day or 1 every 2 days depending on how the writing goes. Sometimes I might not upload on schedule because either the chapter is longer, or I couldn't put it out at the time.

That's all for now, I hope you enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 3: Reunion

"Why have you summoned me Barbatos?" bowled out the dragon. "What has been done cannot be undone" Dvalin continued in an angry voice. "Then why do I see sadness in your eyes, sadness that's yearning for this song." asked Venti with a sad tone.

At that moment Narutos Rinnegan caught something coming towards Venti, he leaped ahead and pushed Venti out of the projectile's way, only for it to hit the Lyre he was holding. "Don't listen to him, dear dragon. He abandoned you once. What's to say he won't do it once again?" Naruto looked up to see a wired floating creature with what looked like frost coming from it. "YOU'VE BETRAYED ME? GOT ME HERE TO BE SLAIN BY HIM?" said the dragon looking at Naruto. "No Dvalin that's not-" *ROOOAAARRR*the roaring of the dragon interrupted him. "It's time for the dragon to serve it true MAST- *SPLITCH!*" "I think that's enough out of you" said Naruto while removing a red almost flaming kunai from what he guessed was an Abyss mages chest, the knife having easily gone through the things defense because of the fire chakra he infused it with.

He watches as the creature dies in agony while slowly dissipating in particles that were carried away by the wind. *ROARRR* Naruto turns in time to see the dragon starting to attack the bard. "WAIT DVALIN! I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT YOU, I'M HERE TO HELP YOU" screamed Venti at the dragon. "YOU ABANDONED ME BARBATOS, AND FOR WHAT? JUST SO YOU CAN APPEASE THESE MESLY HUMANS?" the dragon roared in fury, while turning away and going in the direction of the city. "WAIT DVALIN!" called Venti desperately.

"Venti we gotta go after him, he's headed towards the city, we can't allow that." said Naruto while grabbing his arm and pulling him to his feet. "Yes. But it would seem that the blood of Durin is still affecting him, the Abyss mage probably made something as a conductor for the curse, most likely where his old wounds were inflicted." replied Venti while gathering himself. "I think I saw them. They were in the form of two black crystals on his back. So, all we gotta do is destroy them?" said Naruto after he remembered the weird looking crystals on the dragon's back. "Yes, but we must hurry. He'll reach the city in no time." "Alright then, think you can keep up?" asked Naruto jokingly to lighten the mood. "Please! Try me." said Venti with a small smile seeing what he was trying to do.

Gudoudama(Truth seeking orbs) Naruto called out as the nine orbs appeared behind him. "Careful not to touch these, or you'll disintegrate." He said seriously, Venti just nodded as one of the orbs turned flat and went under Naruto feet acting like a board for him to fly on. Right as Naruto sat off, he immediately went after him with the winds he created. After he caught up, Venti noticed Naruto sitting cross-legged perfectly still with his eyes closed on the orb he was on. After a minute he opened his eyes that were now surrounded at the edges with an orange-colored mark and his blue eye having turned yellow with a bar-like pupil while his Rinnegan stayed the same just with a bar-shaped center, he also noted that he now seemed calmer and in tune with himself, even the wind he was controlling seemed to be drawn to him.

"This is called sage mode. It allows me to draw in nature's power." said Naruto without waiting for him to ask the question. "That's an impressive ability to have." stated Venti. It didn't take long for them to catch up to Dvalin. "Stand back and watch, or you'll get caught in the crossfire" said Naruto, Venti just nodded and went behind him. Naruto put his right hand up and immediately blue wisps of energy started coming out and taking the form of what appeared to be a ball, after some seconds the ball was fully formed but the blond didn't seem finished. After that a screech was heard through the air, and what looked like white blades started to spin around the now pure white orb in his hand. After the jutsu reached its peak Naruto put his hand above his head and said Senpo: Fuuton: Rasenshuriken (Sage Art:Wind Release:Spiraling shuriken). Venti was speechless, he had never seen wind being controlled like that, shit he doubted that he himself could do that and that's saying something.

Naruto looked at his target for a second before throwing his technique forward. Venti watched as the spinning bladed ball went towards the dragon, he was worried if the technique would hurt him to much but at the last second the ball went upwards and above the dragon, them *BOOM* the ball exploded, and a white dome made of what he could feel millions of wind blades took its place. He watched amazed as the dome expanded just enough to destroy the crystal on Dvalins lower back but didn't touch the dragon at all. "Stay focused Venti, we aren't finished yet" yelled Naruto at him bringing him back to reality. "Right!" he shouted back.

Dvalin screeched in pain from the destruction of the crystal but didn't stop, instead he started flying even faster towards the city. "Shit" cursed Naruto out loud. "VENTI! I'm going to go faster, keep up." With that his speed almost doubled, Venti found it harder to keep up now, but he could still do it. When they caught up again the dragon had almost reached the lake that surrounded the city. "I apologize in advance for this Dvalin, but I can't let you reach the city." said Naruto to himself, even though Venti heard what he said he had faith that his new friend wouldn't kill Dvalin, but just stop him from reaching the city.

Naruto took out a kunai and infused it with wind and lightning chakra and threw it as hard as he could. The kunai went past the dragon and above the lake right in the middle of it. Throughout all of that Naruto never once took his eyes off the kunai, and when it reached its desired location, he focused his Rinnegan on it and said Amenotejikara(Heavenly Hand Power) and swapped places with it. Venti was watching Naruto when he suddenly disappeared and in his place was the knife he had just thrown. He looked to the middle of the lake to see Naruto floating above it while his eyes were focused on the incoming speeding dragon.

Naruto just stood there patiently waiting with his hands at his sides, as the dragon closed in, roaring in his direction one more time ready to send him plummeting to the ground. Naruto put his hands up and with a mighty shout he said SHINRA TENSEI(ALMIGHTY PUSH) just as he spoke from his body came an invisible force that was sent towards the dragon slamming into it and sending the dragon down crashing into the lake with such force that tremors formed and the ground around the water split.

Venti watched in complete shock at the power displayed by the blond, at this point he was convinced that the blond was not a mortal, but something even higher than the gods themselves. He watched as he just stood there hands now back down as the black orbs that he had created earlier disappeared while he was looking at the water that the dragon had crashed into, waiting for it to get up.

- 10 Minutes earlier: Knight of Favonius HQ -

Inside the office three people seem to be discussing something. They were Kaeya the Cavalry Captain of the Knights of Favonius, Lisa the librarian of the knights HQ and Jean the Dandelion Knight also acting grand master of the knights. "you're telling me that someone stole the Holy Lyre by brainwashing a nun and making her forget everything that happened. And these thieves were never seen entering or leaving the city." Asked Jean in a tired voice. "That's about it, yes. I've never seen a crime done better than this. Coming in, stealing an important artifact of Mondstadt and getting out without leaving a single clue, and all this done while the sun was still out." replied Kaeya with an impressed voice. "Maybe it was an inside job, after all that's the most reasonable conclusion we have so far." added Lisa with a serious voice. "I highly doubt that. No one in Mondstadt has any use for the Holy Lyre and if they tried to sell it in the black market my contacts would inform me immediately." countered Kaeya after thinking for a bit.

"*sigh* It's just that all these problems just pop out of nowhere. First, we have to deal with Stormterror attacking the city and other nearby settlements, then The Fatui starts pressuring us about it and now we have to deal with a professional thief that we know nothing about and left behind nothing that can lead us to him." said Jean while slumping down on her chair. "I just don't know where to begin solving all these problems." "Relax Jean, overthinking and tiring ourselves out is not going to solve any of our problems." said Lisa trying to support her friend.

After that all three stayed silent thinking about the situation when Kaeya got an idea, "I have an idea that could work. We can ju- *BOOM-CRASH*". The loud noise and the biggest tremor he ever felt stopped him dead in his tracks. After the tremors died down Jean slowly got up holding her head and asked, "What was that?" "I have no idea. But whatever did cause it could not be good." replied Kaeya after he gained his footing. As he said that the door came flying open and a knight came running in out of breath. He looked at the people in the office before saying with an alarmed voice, " Captain, acting grandmaster, someone is fighting with Storm terror right over Cider Lake. And he just sent the dragon flying down in the lake, that's what caused the tremors." "Kaeya! Gather all vision holders at the entrance of the city. We don't know if this fighter is on our side or not. We can't just turn our backs." ordered Jean as she got up to go towards where the fighting was.

- Back at the duo -

While Naruto stood there his attention went towards the direction of the city. He felt at least eight people that had a distinctive energy within them gather at the gates of the city. Naruto floated towards Venti. "Venti, we've caught the people's attention. What should we do?" he said to his friend. "Leave it to me." Venti said as he put his hands together and suddenly the wind started to pick up and formed almost like a dome around the place they were fighting on. "There done, should stop them from interfering." as Venti finished the water before them shot up and out came Dvalin. "Good just in time to." said Naruto.

*ROAR* Dvalin roared and turned his gaze to look at Naruto. "You will pay for that." he said angrily and opened his mouth to gather energy while aiming it at Naruto. "Venti brace yourself." warned Naruto as the blast from the dragon started heading towards them. When the attack got to the halfway point Nartuo bit his finger and shouted Kuchiyose:Sanjū Rashōmon(Summoning:Triple Rashomon), in less than a second three giant gates with demonic faces appeared in the attacks path with the first gate taking it head on. *BOOM* After the explosion from the attack hitting to gates died down from the three gates the first one was almost fully destroyed the second gate was cracked all over and bent while the last one was just a little dented. "Damn that did quite some damage." said an unharmed Naruto, impressed that the attack managed to reach the third gate. "Of course, it did, that was Dvalins strongest attack, I'm surprised that these gates you created can even stand." said an astonished Venti, who at this point just stopped wondering how strong the blond was. Naruto just chuckled at that and turned his attention back to the dragon who was one more ready for battle.

- meanwhile with Jean and the others -

"It seems he noticed us." Stated Kaeya seeing Naruto look at them. "What are they planning?" questioned Diluc, a Nobel of Mondsadt, Owner of the Dawn Winery and a Pyro vision holder. "Seems we'll find out soon enough," said Eula, captain of the Reconnaissance Company, after she saw the bard put his hands together. "EVERYONE STAND BACK." shouted Jean as she saw a barrier form around the area of the fight. "This is a wind barrier, it's almost as if Barbatos himself made it." stated Barbara the younger sister of Jean and a nun. "Well, it seems like the fighting is about to continue." said Kaeya seeing the water shoot up.

"I wonder how they're going to survive that attack, it's the most powerful attack I've ever seen," said Albedo, the Chief Alchemist of the Knights of Favonius. Just as he said that out of nowhere three giant gates appeared before the attack and stopped it with a loud explosion. After the dust cleared out the gathered people saw the three gates still standing with the two people behind it unharmed. "Those two are definitely not normal by any means. Having the power to stop that kind of attack is definitely not something a lot of people can obtain." stated Diluc with narrowed eyes, while everyone there agreed with him.

- Back with the duo -

"Venti, when I give a signal, I need you to keep him still for a minute or this will seriously hurt him." informed Naruto, Venti just nodded and prepared to do his task even if it took all his power to do so, he would not allow his friend to get hurt. Dvalin lunged forward in an attempt to swallow them whole, they jumped away from the attack, Venti going to the side and Naruto up. Once Naruto found his footing in the air and prepared his final attack "NOW!" shouted Naruto, Venti brought his hands down with all his might and with it a strong pressure of wind pushed Dvalin dawn into the earth, not letting him get up. While in the air Narutos closed left eye had a line of blood coming out of it, when Naruto gathered the needed focus and chakra, he opened his eye and said Amaterasu. The place where he was looking, that being the crystal left on Dvalins back, ignited into black flames, burning away as if it was paper. Now Venti was struggling even more to hold the dragon down, but he didn't give up, even more so after he saw what was happening to the crystal.

When the crystal all burned away Naruto closed his left eye, with it the flames going away. After a bit the dragon seemed to regain himself once again, but this time he was calm in a way. "Barbatos? What happened here? What happened to me?" asked the dragon. "Don't worry my friend, I shall explain everything once you've healed up." said Venti in a happy tone. "Sorry to interrupt, but we need to get out of here, the barrier you put up broke when you held Dvalin down." interrupted Naruto while wiping away the blood from his eye. Venti looked at the edge of the clearing and saw the gathered people start to make their way towards them. "Damn, Dvalin get us out of here, I'll tell you what happened later." "Very well, hop on, I shall take us to my lair." said Dvalin as he started to fly away when they got on.

- At the city gates -

"It seems they're going to try and end this fight." said Diluc as he saw the bard keep the dragon down with wind after they dodged its attack. "The one that's flying seems to be preparing his last attack." said Jean, quite surprised to see someone able to just fly like that. "That black fire! My vision is reacting as if telling me to stay away from it." said a startled Diluc when the blond ignited the fire "Same here!" added Amber the Outrider of the Knights of Favonius."I can see why, after all it's burning that crystal as if it is nothing but paper." stated Lisa, quite concerned since she could tell that the fire held an enormous amount of energy. "Guys the barrier's down, probably the bard could not hold the barrier and the dragon at the same time." observed Kaeya.

"Let's go, it seems the fighting is over." said Jean when she saw the dragon and the bard talking. "Seems like they don't want to be acquainted with us." said Kaeya looking at them as the duo hopped on the dragon who started flying away. "*sigh* At least that seems to solve our Stormterror problem for now, which also fixes the Fatui one. Now I can focus more on the Holy Lyre thief." said a mentally exhausted Jean. "I think that those two might be connected with the Holy Lyre theft. After all they can just fly in and out the city unnoticed" concluded Kaeya. "You might be right, but for now everyone can return home, you all deserve some rest." said Jean, turning and walking towards the city.

- end -

And done! That took quite a while for me to finish having rewritten the begining quite a bit due to me not liking it.

Now to address some of the powers that Naruto used: First I always thought Naruto should've kept the truth-seeking orbs after all sasuke did get to keep his Rinnegan. As to why he used them as a board to fly instead of just doing so? He needed to stay still to get into sage mode so that's why. As for the Rashomon, well I always liked it and it's not limited to one user nor do you need a contract for it, since both Hashirama and Orochimaru used it.

Now for those who think Naruto will be to op that's only during the beginning, he will still be more powerful but not to the point where he can one-shot everyone, but that will happen towards the end of Liye and Inazuma

Anyway, thanks for reading see ya in the next chapter!