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{SmallBasilisk28 here! -I've been out sick for the last couple of days but I'm okay after staying in bed resting up from whatever bug I caught.- Stories coming along great but I have to do a disclaimer again! I own nothing except the OC things I think up.}

Chapter 5

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A young woman with excited brown eyes and long blond hair that went down past her shoulders was seated at the bar talking with Mira excitedly while looking over her pink Fairy tail guild mark. Her name was Lucy Heartfilia an aspiring new mage that used Celestial Spirit Magic who still couldn't believe she made it to Fairy Tail after her adventure in Hargeon Town with the Fire Dragon Slayer Natsu Dragneel and his partner Happy. It was nothing but chaos dealing with the slaver Bora and his men but thanks to that Lucy was able to finally join Fairy Tail even if it wasn't the way she originally planned on joining in her mind.

"So what kind of Magic do you use Lucy?" Mira asked the guilds newest member as she wiped down the countertop.

"I'm a Celestial Spirit mage see I have three silver keys and three of the harder to find rare gold keys." Lucy explained pulling the six keys from her key pouch to show them off. "For the silver keys I have Horologium the Clock, Crux the Southern Cross, and Lyra the Lyre. Then for the golden keys I have contracts with Taurus the Golden Bull, Aquarius the Water Bearer and Cancer the Giant Crab." She informed her pointing out each key while telling Mira each Spirits name with a happy expression on her face. "I even picked up another silver key in Hargeon but haven't made a contract with the Spirit yet."

"So that means Fairy Tail has two Celestial Spirit mages now." Mira said happily clapping her hands together before moving to serve some of the other guild members waiting to order.

"Wait, what do you mean two Celestial Spirit mages?" Lucy asked slightly worried that if they already had someone stronger with her same brand of magic then Fairy Tail wouldn't want to keep her in the guild.

"Yep, you see Asura uses Celestial Spirit Magic just like you as one of his secondary Magics when working solo jobs." Mira told her placing the plates of food down on the tables before walking back over to the bar. "He even has contracts with six Celestial Spirits just like you do."

"Yo Natsu, I just saw Asura at the train station so if you hurry you could catch him at his store!" Max called out walking into the guild hall. Lucy turned hearing a loud crashing sound to see Natsu along with Happy who was hanging onto the back of his shirt running out of the guild leaving a trail of dust behind him.

"What does he mean by a store, I thought you said Asura was a mage and why did Natsu look so happy when he heard about him being back?" She questioned trying to figure out where she heard the name Asura from. 'Was it from an issue of Sorcerer Weekly?' Lucy thought trying to remember the mage's name when she heard Gray talking about stopping by Asura's store later before he left to take his next job. "Hey wait up for me!"

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At the same time at the store located in Magnolia Town's shopping center a seventeen year old Asura could be found grinning slightly from behind the counter in his store. He had changed over the past two years after joining Fairy Tail and after getting dragged by Levy and Mira had a new set of clothes as a gift for the opening of his store a month prior.

Asura was now wearing a long-sleeved black waistcoat with blue colored trim left open and untucked showing the white shirt he had on under it with the light blue scale patterned scarf from his father wrapped around his waist covering the black pouch on his side that held the six keys he had, black knee-length trousers a new pair of boots, two basic B ranked Magic Rings on each hand and a set of lacrima model headphones hanging loosely around his neck.

"Thanks for helping me out with my last job big brother." Asura told the older figure with a slight blush on his cheeks as he scratched the spot near his whisker marks embarrassed. It was a little harder than he first thought but Asura was still glad the man standing in front of him was nearby returning from a job and showed up when he got stuck dealing with all those monsters alone.

"I thought I said to stop calling me that brat." The older figure didn't even bother to face him as he watched Asura's clones working around the store trying to keep it clean and orderly. 'Kurama's Den huh.' The man thought ignoring the strange name the kid called his store as he took in the shelves filled with high B and low A ranking magic potions Asura's clones that brewed by hand along with notebooks and journals the kid had gathered during the last two years while saving up to rent the store they were standing in. There were sections for Caster Magic and Holder Magic on the left side of the store while on the right were shelves that held books on almost every subject you could think of from advanced versions of Illusion Magic to smaller skills like sewing and camping. It often made him wonder where the kid came across all these different kinds of strange trinkets as he glanced at the odd weapons and armour on the walls and in some of the display cases alongside the lacrima Asura normally fishes out of the water during his morning swims.

"I'm out of here brat." The man told Asura turning to stare at the teen who just gave him the same embarrassed smile before his eyes trailed over the open doorway leading to the workshop in the back of the store where the bellows, furnace, polisher, and a few more things an aspiring blacksmith would need. "Try to stay out of trouble Asura, you're a low S-Class mage now so I can't keep helping you with the small time jobs anymore."

"Before I forget thanks again for the headphones! You're the best big brother, I'll see you later!" "Yea thanks mister boom man!" Asura and Cole called after him causing the man to stop in his tracks for a brief second before he kept walking merely throwing a hand behind his shoulder showing that he heard them as the man Asura looked up to as an older brother figure disappeared from view. A few seconds after he left one of Asura's clones flipped the sign on the door to open snapping him out of it when a few customers came in wanting to check out the newest store in Magnolia.

"I finally have the store I dreamed about even if I still owe her a lot of money." Asura muttered with a small smile watching three of his clones working for a few seconds before he pulled the headphones over his ears going back to work humming under his breath.

Minutes later Natsu and Happy came in through the back door of the store never once noticing Lucy and Gray who got dragged along by the blond following after him. "Why is Natsu using the back door instead of the front like everybody else?" Lucy asked Gray while trying to be as quiet as possible.

"Asura gave him and gramps a spare key the day after he started renting the place." Gray told her with a shrug walking through the door Natsu left open to get a few things he needed for his next job. Quickly walking in behind him Lucy closed the door only to turn around seeing something that had her entire face turn red.

Because pressed up against a table that had photos and schedules scattered about was Natsu pinning a slightly flustered Asura giving him little chance to escape while leaning closer as his black eyes darkening with a certain edge to them. Wrapping an arm around the slightly shorter mage's waist Natsu pulls the blonde closer towards him while at the same time using his free hand to keep Asura from looking away finding the few times he can surprise his fellow Dragon Slayer cute. Natsu didn't give him a second to try fighting him before kissing Asura ignoring Lucy who looked ready to pass out as he cocked his head slightly deepening the kiss their tongues intertwining hard and passionate fighting for control neither mage would give an inch on. Natsu took a step back moments later when he needed to breath dodging the blast of water ment to take his head off with a grin seeing Asura's flustered face with the new set of headphones barely hanging around his neck.

"Natsu how many times do I have to repeat myself. Quit. Trying. To. Surprise. Me." Asura said his face completely red from yet another one of Natsu's surprise visits. 'I'm starting to rethink giving him a spare key.' Asura thought when Natsu pulled him into another hug while he was grumbling under his breath.

"Always one more time." Natsu replied with a small grin still on his face bringing his forehead to rest against Asura's own. "Just means I get to hear your voice more often even if you're yelling at me." Asura looked away his face turning redder only getting Natsu to grin wider knowing he got lucky catching his boyfriend when his guard was completely dropped. 'That's a point for me Asura.'

"You two almost done yet?" Gray's voice cut in causing Asura to jump slightly falling backwards taking the table with him in a loud crash. "I need a few things from your store before I have to head out towards my next job Asura." The Water Dragon Slayer scrambled to his feet hurrying to the register followed by Natsu who was talking about a job request he picked out for their team.

"So, um, are those two you know Natsu and Asura a thing?" Lucy asked Gray still looking red as she held her nose trying not to have a nosebleed.

"Yea matchstick asked him out a few months ago when Asura was packing his things to move into the floor above us." Gray told her taking a book about winter spirits off the shelf skimming through its pages while he waited telling Lucy about the day Natsu asked Asura out on a date.

{Flashback}

"Yep I have almost everything packed and should be moved in by the end of the week." Asura replied when Mira asked if he needed any help moving his things out of Natsu's place since he was staying there until recently. "I've got to wait a bit longer though to get a vending license from the head merchant's guild Fortune's Market since I want to open a legitimate store that sells to guilds but afterwords when everthing is set up I can give everybody at Fairy Tail a discount if they shop there." A few people hearing that slapped him on the back thanking him while the master was over near the bar crying muttering about how high supplies and repair bills cost him.

"Y-yo Asura." Natsu called out to him in a nervous tone causing the guild to fall quiet looking around for any signs of her since Erza wasn't supposed to be around today. "Can we talk in private?" Looking closer most of the people watching could see Natsu looked slightly red as they walked out of the guild when Asura walked off with him.

As soon as they left though Mira pulled out a viewing lacrima placing it on the counter while at the same time Cana pulled up a seat getting more people to crowd around them when they saw it was Natsu and Asura on the screen. "We've been best friends since we were kids right? We spar and go on missions together right?" Natsu asked trying not to look Asura in the eyes when he nodded.

"Yep why are you asking?" Tilting his head slightly Asura wasn't prepared when Natsu started fighting him neither of them using magic as they rolled around in the dirt throwing punches at each other. Everyone watching through the lacrima kept their eyes on the fight a few wondering why neither of them were using magic when Asura pinned Natsu after a few minutes holding his hands above his head. "What's wrong with you? You've been acting weird ever since I told you I found a place"

"I like you as more than just friends okay." Natsu blurted out in a hurry looking away from Asura not wanting to see his best friends reaction to what he just said.

"Well I kind of feel the same way." Asura mumbled but everyone heard it getting Cana to grin while a few other people groaned hearing their confession.

"You llllike each other." Their heads snapped up to see Cole and Happy flying in the air above them sending a recording of everything that happened back to the guild.

{Flashback End}

"Shocked a few people at the guild when we found out about the two of them but apparently Cana knew and made a killing with the bets she placed on who Asura would wind-up dating." Gray told her smirking slightly still finding it funny when the two of them couldn't step foot in the guild for weeks after that without someone bringing it up causing them to blush embarrassed.

Lucy only nodded her face still red when Asura walked back carrying a backpack filled with the supplies Gray wanted. "Gray your clothes." Asura told him while handing him the cheap throw away backpack knowing how many times he's lost all the others. "And your supplies cost 13,000 Jewels."

"Crap not again." Gray looked around trying to find his clothes while Asura just smiled taking his seat behind the counter when another fight broke out between the Ice-Make mage and his boyfriend.

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Days passed as Fairy Tail's Twin Dragons stood back to back in the wooded area outside of Nordopolica searching for any signs of the horde of monsters terrorizing the city. "So I heard you found Macao for Romeo with some blond chick." Asura said while adjusting the rings on his fingers in case anything suddenly happened.

"Oh, you mean loony yea she's kind of nice but mostly bossy like Erza." Natsu replied tapping his chin trying to think if he knew anything else about her. "She doesn't seem to know that much about jobs since she followed me all the way to Mt. Hakobe without wearing clothes for the weather and she even went with snowcone to destroy some book without reading the job's request first." In a flash of black light the pair of them vanished seconds before a large axe ripped apart the area they were just at seconds ago.

"Where humans go?" A large Vulcan asked stepping out of the wood followed by a dozen more Vulcans just as big with weapons of their own.

"Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" In another flash of black light they reappeared behind the Vulcan with Natsu headbutting it in the back at high-speed seconds before Asura made a gripping motion in the air using Requip to pull a large great sword out of his pocket dimension. The great sword Asura forged multiple times by hand using his fathers claw was from tip to handle six feet long with a single-edged large blade one foot wide. The blade is a lighter color on the bladed edge while the rest of it is a darker grey with the handguard riveted in place. At the moment it was covered in bandages keeping the runes running down it and the Fairy Tail symbol in the middle of the great sword hidden but that didn't matter when Asura grinned running at the other Vulcans while they were confused.

"Twister." A voice called out as the Twin Slayers fought summoning a powerful storm to hit the area lifting up trees and other debris while sending the smaller Vulcans flying.

"Took your time getting here Loke." Asura called while Natsu was sent flying back when one of the Vulcans got a cheap shot in. "Natsu!" Getting his attention Asura swung his sword like a bat at the same time he saw Natsu shifting his body mid-flight to where his feet would hit the side of the blade using the power from it to send him flying back at the boss Vulcan.

"Missed my train and had to take a later one." Loke replied slamming a smaller Vulcan into the ground his hands glowing from using Regulus. Turning he saw Asura bringing out one of his keys before turning back to the fight at hand.

"Open the Gate of the Golden Ram. Aries." With a quick gust of air Loke blinked seeing a Vulcan flying past him before turning back to Aries with a small grin seeing her training was paying off even if she was still timid most of the time. "Ready Aries like we practiced."

"I'll try my best, sorry." Using her Wool Magic she sends wool all around them then jumps into the air seconds before Asura starts swinging around in circles creating a typhoon of wool. Jumping through the typhoon Loke grabs her before she could get caught in their trap like most of the Vulcans were. "Thanks big brother." Loke just smiles putting her down as Natsu took on the boss Vulcan.

Over with Natsu's fight he ducks down the tree behind him splintering when the axe ripped through it. "Humans ruined everything!" With a roar of rage the Vulcan starts smashing everything around it with the large axe in its hands. Grabbing ahold of the axe on accident while trying to get out-of-the-way Natsu got thrown into the air looking up when in another black flash Asura appeared in the air above them.

Grasping his hand Asura twisted mid-air launching Natsu back down at the boss Vulcan who was staring up at them. "Fire Dragon's Flame Elbow!" Disoriented from the attack it took another swing with its axe only for Loke and Aries to grab it the dirt breaking apart under them from the force but were able to keep it still. Natsu seeing them keeping the Vulcan in one place used Fire Dragon's Claw kicking the Vulcan in the face knocking it out.

"Yea! That's another job completed by Team Natsu!" Natsu cheered seeing all the Vulcans knocked out while Asura just laughed under his breath seeing him that happy. "Now lets hurry up and pick up Happy and Cole from the hotel so we can go out and celebrate!" Hurrying to tie the Vulcans up to be shipped away from the city Natsu ignored Asura talking with Loke about his health and if the runes worked fine.

Author's Notes -

Hope you like the chapter.

The merchant guild Fortune's Market is off of Tales of Vesperia if anybody was wondering about the name. Like with the landlady I didn't want to create an OC guild and figured why not when I thought of it. It all serves a purpose for later and Fairy Tail already has merchant, mercenary, bandit, and treasure hunter guilds so again why not have a head merchant guild.

The sword Asura's using is basically a fake Buster Sword. Like the thought and when I was thinking off a weapon for him it was either this or a warfan and I picked this.

It's been a two year time skip so he's picked up a few more tricks. He's picked up Teleportation among a few other that I don't want to spoil at the moment.

Surprisingly I've got a few people with suggestions for the Gate Keys and why Naruto/Asura should have more than just two. Quite a few of the ideas are pretty good and I'm seriously considering a couple of them.

Response - (Thanks for your reviews.)