This was great Naruto decided, he was resting in massive pool filled with his favorite food in the world, ramen. Next to him was girl who seemed to be a hybrid of a human and ramen who was giggling at him. ``hihihihi, oh lord Naruto you're the coolest guy in world´´ she smiled and tilted her head slightly causing her golden hair made of noodles to sway lightly.

Naruto looked at her and said ``oh ramen you're so beatuiful and delicious!´´ he grabs a part of her hair and starts to eat it. The girl ¨ramen¨ giggled once more ``lord Naruto you always know just what to say´´ another big smile.

Naruto relaxed in the pool of broth floating on his back and enjoying himself in general, but suddenly Ramen stood up and looked down at him. Naruto looked up at her in confusion when she started to lean forward. ``what are you doing Ram-OOF!´´ he was cut off when she fell down on his stomach.

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Naruto opened his eyes and sat up quickly, looking around he realized several things were wrong. One the room he was in had been flipped onto it's side. this was easy to tell since the roof of the carriage he had been in for the last two days did not have an actual roof it was simply a large cloth spread over the top to cover the things inside. That cloth was no longer above but rather beside him, the second thing he noticed was that there where sounds of fighting outside.

Naruto quickly made his way out of the cart and looked around to see what was happening, what he saw was something he would never forget.

The large heavily muscled man with a shaggy beard that Naruto had come to know as Buster, who looked a bit like a bear was having a fistfight with and actual BEAR.

``HAHAHA! Come at me you rabid beast! HAHAHA!´´ the man laughed loudly as he punched the bear in its face and stomach. The beat did not seem to feel the blows to much as it quickly replied with a roar and furious swipes of its clawed paws. Buster guarded with one arm and punched once more with the other.

Naruto watched this exchange with a look of disbelief on his face, gramps had said that on his journey he would see cool things and meet awesome people but he didn't think he would see anything like this so soon.

Buster was still laughing loudly as ever, even when the bear managed to claw him across the chest he only laughed harder. ``HAHAHA! Good one BEAST! But now it's my turn! HAHAHAAAAA!´´ as his laughter turned into a yell Buster took a single large step forward, as he came close to the bears stomach he delivered a punch so hard the bear was blown back almost two meters.

The large beast stood back up to it's full height and stared down at Buster, but after a few seconds it fell down onto it's side unconcious.

Buster laughed as he always did ``HAHAHA! That was a good fight beast! It has been some time since I faced an opponent who has made me use my THIRD strongest punch! HAHAHA!´´ he turned around and faced Naruto.

Naruto flinched at the sight he was treated too, Busters chest was covered in blood from the large wounds left by the bear claws. ``HAHAHA! Naruto it's good to see you are up again we are getting close to Era! Hmm!?´´ he leaned down to get a closer look at Naruto, the wished he wouldn't though the blood on his chest was freaking him out. `` Naruto! You look a little pale are you feeling alright!? HAHAHA!´´

``i-i'm fine, but what about you, you're bleeding a lot man!´´ Naruto eyes where wide and his face pale, this was the first time he had seen so much blood.

Buster looked down at his chest and said ``oohooo?! It seems that bear scratched me deeper than I thought! HAHAHA! We better get going then, I know a good hospital in Era! Move a bit Naruto I need to flip the carriage up! HAHAHA´´ he laughed as he went to the other side of the flipped carriage and took hold underneath it. In a single motion he brought the vehicle upright again.

Naruto noticed a problem though ``hey the horses are gone.´´ he paused and took another look around ``and the other guy!´´ indeed the horses where gone and the other man that had been working with Buster. The other man had been strange in Narutos opinion, during the two days they had traveled together he had not said a single word, he hadn't even told him his name.

``the horses ran of when the bear attacked and he took of after them! Well since we don't have horses I guess ill just have to pull the cart! This will be a great exercise! HAHAHA´´

Naruto looked on as Buster grabbed one of the ropes that had one been bound to the horses and started pulling the carriage along the dirt road. Naruto stood still and watched the burly man, he had beaten a bear, lifted the carriage which probably weighed like a LOT, and was now pulling said carriage on his own.

Naruto easily concluded that this man was some kind of superhero. He nodded to himself, that was totally what Buster was a SUPERHERO!

``HAHAHA! Naruto don't just stand around, lets go! HAHAHAHA!´´

``aah! Yeah! Wait for me!´´ Naruto happily ran up to the carriage and hopped on. This journey was going pretty well he decided, he had seen something cool, met someone who was really awesome and was now on his way to become the greatest magician ever!

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never mind this journey sucked. When Naruto and Buster had finally gotten to Era, Buster told Naruto that he would be heading over to the warehouses so he could pick up new things and continue his work making deliveries. As they parted Buster said to Naruto ``Mayor Sarutobi said that you were going to become a magician, right?! Then go and get strong Naruto! And then one day you will be strong enough to battle beasts like I do! HAHAHA! Until next time Naruto! HAHAHA´´

The man continued laughing loudly as he walked away, carriage in tow.

Naruto looked down at his feet as Buster got further and further away. But then he looked up with determination in his eyes. Buster had said that he could be as strong him, that meant he had the potential to be a superhero! RIGHT!?

Naruto looked pleased with himself as he wandered into the massive city that was called Era. All he had to do now was find one of the big guilds and join it. Though which one should he choose there were a lot of guilds that were considered strong from what he had heard.

Naruto looked around the many buildings around him and stopped, it seemed he had wandered further than he thought when he was thinking, because he had no idea where he was now. Turning a few times so he could get a grip on where he was, 'man this city is way too big' he thought.

As he looked around a sign caught his interest, it read ¨Magic shop¨ in weird stylized letters. Naruto smiled, what better place to look for a magic guild than a magic shop! Naruto happily ran towards the shop and laughed like Buster always did ``time to take my first step to becoming a wizard!´´ he proclaimed.

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Sakura Haruno sighed for what she counted as the 74th time that day, her father had put her in charge of the family's magic shop that day since he had some errands to take care of. And her mother was working at one of the clothing shops in another district so the only one who could take care of the shop was Sakura.

She ran a hand through her long bright pink hair and sighed once more, 75 she thought in boredom. She reached under the counter and brought up a magazine, weekly sorcerer read the cover with several pictures of different magicians in the background. She read the main article again, it was about how fairy tail had gotten into a guild war with Phantom lord and after a huge battle emerged victorious.

Sakura sighed one more as she flipped to the next page, 76, and looked at a list of the 5 strongest guilds in Fiore, at number one was fairy tail. ``humph would be great to be a wizard, then I would get to go out and do things not just stand in this dull shop´´ she sighed unhappily, 77, she really wished something interesting would happen.

Well ask and you shall receive, the moment she finished that thought the door to the shop swung open and a kid with spiky blond hair wearing a completely orange tracksuit. As soon as he entered he started to bounce around the shop oohing and aaahing at the items littering the shelves.

Sakura was shocked to say the least, she had never even seen an orange tracksuit before were those even sold or did he make it himself? She watched as the boy picked up a magic pen and started to scribble happy faces in the air in a multitude of colors. She came to a realization, she was the shopkeeper today she had to act like it!

``umm are you looking for something in particular?´´

The boy looked over at her, at first he looked confused, then deep in thought, and then his face lit up with a grin. He jumped over to the counter and leaned closer to her as best as he could. ``hey hey do you know which of the guilds is strongest?!´´ when he came so close she got a good look at his blue eyes and strangely enough whiskered cheeks.

``fairy tail´´ she replied like she always did when she knew answer to a question. ``wait why do you want to know about that?´´ she asked in return. ``because I'm a wizard! But hey hey where is fairy tail!?´´ the kids enthusiasm was starting to annoy Sakura.

``if you want to know where fairy tail is then you just have to look at a map of Fiore you know.´´ Sakura says and the kid responds quickly ``why would I look at a map of the country, I thought the guilds were all in this city.´´ at Sakuras deadpan look he continued ``i mean this city's freaking huge I thought they had everything here!´´

Sakura stared at him ``are you sure you're a wizard?´´ the kid looked put out at that and mumbled ``cut me some slack here i'm new to all this.´´

Sakura sighed, 78, and apologized ``sorry it's just that I thought everyone knew things like that, oh and here´´ she said as she ducked under the counter and came back up with a folded map. She started to unfold it on the counter and put a finger on the map ``we are here, the capital city Era. And you want to get to fairy tail, which is in magnolia, over here pretty much on the other side of the country.´´

she looked up at the boy in front of her and flinched at his expression he looked like he was going to cry. ``o-o-other side of the country... getting there will take months DAMNIT! aargh I dont wanna fight a bear!´´ he continued to shout weird things but stopped when sakura asked ``what are you talking about? If you take the train you'll get there by the end of the day.´´

the boy was silent for a few moments before voicing a critical question``what's a train?´´

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Naruto sat on a bench in the 'train station' waiting for the next 'train' that was due to arrive in the next few minutes. Next to him sat the girl he had met in the magic shop earlier, Sakura, it was a good thing that he met her otherwise he might have actually hiked all the way to the town called Magnolia.

He looked down at the weird ticket he had payed for, apparently he had to show this to someone on the train in order to get to place he wanted to go to. He didn't really understand how this was supposed to work but he decided it would be best to do as Sakura told him, she seemed pretty smart. He did wonder one thing though, why was she still here ``hey Sakura?´´ she turned to look at him ``why are you still here? I mean like with me?´´ she sighed and smirked at him ``since you're an idiot I felt like had to take care of you.´´ also 78. Naruto looked happy at that ``oh thanks saku- HEY WAIT IM NOT AN IDIOT!´´ Sakura giggled at him

Not long after Narutos shout the train arrived and Naruto stared at it in awe. It was like a huge metallic.. worm, it was kind of cool. He smiled widely as the doors on the sides opened up and loads of people poured out, getting up and waiting for the crowd in the train to get out Naruto turned to Sakura. ``i guess it's time to say goodbye sakura, it was nice meeting you!´´ he smiled widely and as he turned back to the train Sakura said quiclky ``aah hey wait! I never asked what your name was!´´ he turned back to her and grinned ``my name is Naruto Uzumaki! And you better remember that coz im going to be the greatest wizard ever!´´ he waved to Sakura as he entered the train. Soon he was going to get to fairy tail and then he would finally be able to start practicing his magic for real.

authors note

okay next chapter naruto will get into fairy tail and start practicing his magic.

Also I guess I should explain a few things. Naruto will start out pretty weak in this story and get progressively stronger. Naruto will join fairy tail about a week after the Phantom lord x fairy tail guild war.

These chapeters have been around 2000 words long and I feel like that works well for now, I might make longer chapter later but for now I think this will do.