No.1 Guild Konoha!
AN: I'm just going to respond to the reviews, I'm not going on a tangent.
Akira-Zenfune: Thanks! Sasuke is in the guild and you'll see him this chapter, on that note some of the side characters won't be in it, you can't exactly fit a military force in a guild.
Guest No.1: Thanks!
Mzr90: Thanks! I know there are grammar problems, I intend to fix them at some point, and probably when I have at least 10 chapters. And as for NarutoxLucy, we'll have to see, if I do decide to do a pairing though, it's the one that would make the most sense.
Lightningblade49: Thanks!
Guest No.2: Thanks! I find it rather ironic you mention the shape demon and then Kurama
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Chapter 2: Iruka's Issue!
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"How much longer my legs can't take this!" Lucy moaned, agony etched on her face.
"Well I did tell you we were far away from any highly populated area." Naruto said for what seemed like the hundredth time.
Lucy thought about the journey so far. It really was quite beautiful, despite the distance they had to trek. They had gone through dense humid jungle, over cloud-touching mountains, and only now had thy reached the vast, lush forest that surrounded the guild of Konoha. In total it had taken them a little less than a week.
"So what does the guild look like?" asked Lucy, curious to what a place so far from society would be like.
"Well it's got walls, a roof and two giant doors!" Naruto answered, truly believing he was answering Lucy's question.
"I know that, stupid!" Lucy shouted, it seemed she couldn't last 5 minutes without calling Naruto stupid; it wasn't like he lacked knowledge, no, he just lacked common sense.
" Well it's nothing that special, it's very traditional looking though, it's made out of pretty plain oak wood, it's roof is very slanted with red tiles and the doors are sliding doors. There aren't many windows though."
"It sounds nice, like a place I could call home, unlike that awful hotel I was staying in at Harrogate."
"Well it's a place I call home, and all the others, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi-senpai, there are lots of people at our guild to be honest- and they all call it home."
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"Hello home!" Naruto shouted at the top of his voice as soon as the perimeter of the small village around Konoha – Nami- was visible.
The village was surrounded by a large wooden wall, and in front of the main 'road' leading into Nami was a giant gate. At this gate there appeared to be two mages who seemed to be laying a game of cards.
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"Hey Kotetsu?" said a dark brown haired man, who was wearing a blue bandana.
"Yeah Izumo?" his black spiky (unnaturally so) haired friend answered.
"Why don't we take a quest?" replied Izumo, as he brushed off some crumbs on his navy coloured body suit.
"Because I'm exhausted, we only recently got back from that quest to find a four leafed red clover." answered Kotetsu, who was wearing a grey T-shirt and a pair of bottoms a similar shade of navy to his friend's body suit.
"We took that quest two weeks ago, honestly Kotetsu; you're the laziest person I know, aside from Shikamaru Nara that is."
The pair of friends laughed at this, and continued their game of cards.
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"Are all people in Konoha and Nami like that?" Lucy said, regretting offering to join.
"Well I suppose we each have our little things don't we, like you and complaining for instance." Naruto said, not noticing the enraged Lucy next to him.
"You don't say things like that to friends, stupid!" Lucy shouted.
"See your complaining again." Naruto said, oblivious to Lucy's rage. The way she looked at Naruto would have killed a lesser man.
Lucy looked around the village of Nami, she saw a young boy with brown hair (which many people seemed to have around her) he had a white and blue striped hat on his head and a frown on his face. She saw many buildings, all of which were relatively small, and had little paint and very few windows.
"How comes there are so few places with more than one or two windows around here?" Lucy inquired, curious of why even larger houses had so few windows.
"Well, most things we have are things we can get ourselves, wood, stone and even our food. So, with our location we get very little sand to make into glass, and what we do get we use for things like bottles and glasses- more important things.
"Oh."
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Naruto and Lucy had finally arrived at the ancient looking guild.
"Wow it really is very traditional looking!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Well Nami was once a strong hold against the dark wizard Zeref, so it's being around a long time." Naruto informed Lucy.
"Well from the sounds of it it's sparing time, let's go and watch." Naruto tolled Lucy.
"Really? Oh, I forgot to ask earlier, how many S-Rank mages does your guild have?"
"Well there's Ji-Ji, the pervert, Ba-Chan, Kakashi-Senpai, Asuma-Senpai, Kurenai-Senpai and of course Gai-Senpai."
"What, that's loads of S-ranks!" Lucy said in utter shock.
"And that's not counting retired ones, like Ji-Ji's friends, Stern, Snobby, and of course Creepy."
"Are they still S-Rank level?" Lucy questioned.
"Well Ji-Ji is, so probably, yeah."
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Naruto and Lucy had made their way to the back of the guild and she was surprised at all the people there, all of them fighting.
"Go Kakashi-Senpai!" called Naruto to what Lucy assumed was someone Naruto respected.
The one she assumed was Kakashi had gravity-defying grey/silver hair and wore a pure black piece of body armour and loose black trousers. On his body armour was scorch mark that made her presume one of his two opponents was a fire mage. On his forehead he had a yellow guild mark on his forehead.
The first of his opponents had dark black hair down to the bottom of his neck and spiked at the back. He wore long white robes, in contrast to his opponent. He had a red guild symbol on his forehead, where most people in the guild seemed to have it.
The black haired boy's teammate had bright pink hair and wore a red top with white circles on, black gloves, boots and shorts with a pink skirt. On her forehead he had a white Konoha guild symbol.
Both the pink haired girl and black haired boy seemed exhausted compared to Kakashi.
"Kakashi-Senpai, you're slipping if you let Sasuke hit you!" Naruto called to the grey haired man.
So the boy was called Sasuke it seemed.
"Sakura, cover me!" Sasuke called out to his female teammate.
The Sakura leapt forward towards Kakashi whilst Sasuke jumped away.
"Cherry Blossom Explosion: 100 Petals!"
One hundred miniature pink magic seals appeared around Kakashi and each shot out a single petal. When the petals hit Kakashi there were one hundred pink explosions.
"Will he be all right?" Lucy asked anxiously to Naruto, thinking that this had been taken beyond the level of a friendly spar.
"Yeah, he always finds a way to escape, no matter what you do, its pretty damn annoying to be honest."
As Naruto foretold, a highly damaged scarecrow stood where Kakashi was, it exploded in Sakura's face before revealing Kakashi.
"Fire Make: Burning King Lion!" shouted Sasuke, unleashing the spell he had being charging up.
A large beast of flame, at least two and a half metres long roared and charged at Kakashi, rising it's front right paw to pin Kakashi down.
"Secret Spell of Water: Mega Pressure Wave." called Kakashi, a large blue magic seal forming in front of him.
"Adamantine Wall." whispered a red and white robed old man.
A wall of solid metal rose up in between the lion and wave and cancelled them both.
"That's enough both of you! We have a guest; I expected better behaviour than that. Now than dear what's your name and reason for being her, my names Hiruzen and I'm the guild master."
"Thank you Guildmaster-Sama, my name is-"
"Her names Lucy and she wants to join the guild Ji-Ji." interrupted Naruto.
"Thank you Naruto, but I'm sure Lucy can speak for herself you idiot." spoke Hiruzen whilst hitting Naruto on the head.
"So Lucy-Chan, where would you like your guild mark, and in what colour would you like it?"
"On the back of my right hand and in the colour pink please."
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Lucy had learned that many members of the guild were currently out, but she was still enjoying meeting those that were there. The only one she didn't enjoy meeting was the one who had a seat specially made in between the dango stall and bar, Anko Mitarashi, she was a women with purple hair, spiked up in a bun at the back, and wore a long beige trench coat and mesh armour. She gave Lucy the chills due to her rather sadistic nature.
"It's not fair Ji-Chan, you've got to send out a search party for Iruka-Sensei, he's being gone for a week!" cried a young boy with brown hair and a beige T-shirt and black trousers.
"I'm sorry Konohamaru-Kun but he's a mage, and it was only a simple mission, he'll be alright."
"But he said he'd be back in two days!" screamed Konohamaru
"I'm sor-"
"We'll do it Ji-Ji! Won't we Lucy!" shouted Naruto
"Oh…Em, Sure!"
"Well me and Sasuke will help you won't we Sasuke?" added Sakura.
"Okay."
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Iruka's mission had being simple, dispose of a small fire demon that had being annoying the residents of a small town. It would be an easy mission for any competent mage.
So, obviously Iruka had ran into something un-expected.
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"Umm... Mayor East… Mayor East… Mayor East!" shouted Sakura.
"What child?" asked the mayor who was busy doing paperwork.
"Do you know where the mage you hired went?" asked Sakura.
"Oh, he headed to the small ravine to the west of the town."
"Aren't you worried it's taken him so long?" questioned the rosette
"I don't get involved in mage business Miss." replied the mayor.
"Well we will be back with him shortly, so don't worry sir!"
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The chasm was a , just as the mayor said, to the west of the town. It seemed highly un-natural, and stuck out from the beautiful grassy prairies behind it.
"How are we going to get down there safely?" said Lucy.
"Like this Fire Make: Stairway to Hell." confidently said Sasuke.
The group of four made their way down the illuminated (by the flaming stairs) crack, and found a frightening sight. Iruka was chained to the side of the chasm, the chains were made of dark purple magic. Iruka himself had brown hair in a ponytail, and a tight fitting grey top on as well as black bottoms. His skin was somewhat tanned, and his blue guild mark was on his forehead.
"Iruka how did this happen!" shouted Sasuke.
However the chains seemed to prevent Iruka from speaking or moving. But Sasuke's question was answered anyway, when a demon, twice the size of him with leathery red skin and two ivory horns.
"Darkness Demons Crushing Claws!" called the demon in an ancient sounding voice.
Long black coloured magic extend the demons already long, sharp looking claws. It ran towards the group with its left arm raised, ready to strike.
"Gate Of The Bull: Open!" called Lucy, bringing up a golden gate key.
"I'll save you Lucy!" cried out the bull, bringing its axe up and clashing with the demon.
However the demon easily brushed the bull aside, causing it to collide with Lucy and send them both flying into the wall.
" Fire Make: Nunchaku!"
"Cherry Blossom Storm!"
"Shape Demons Conical Breath!"
A pair of flame Nunchaku appeared in Sasuke's hands, and he leapt into the demon and slammed the nunchucks into the demons waist, causing it to back off from the group. All of a sudden a wave of cherry blossoms collided with the demon, causing many small cuts to appear on its leathery skin. Then finally Naruto's attack hit the demons left arm, separate it from the demons body.
"Blasted Demon Slayer! Die! Darkness Demons Piercing Horns!"
The demons horns elongated, and it used it to lunge at Naruto, as if using a spear.
"Cherry Blossom Shield."
A large pink magic seal was suddenly in front of Naruto, and it created a wall of cherry blossom petals, preventing the demons charge.
"Fire Make: Flaming Arrow!"
An arrow of fire shot at the demon, piercing the demons right arm, causing a yelp of pain from the demon, quickly replaced by a grunt of pure anger.
" Darkness Demons Evil Cry!"
A large mass of dark magic shot at Sasuke, it was quickly blocked by another wall of flower petals, causing it to dissipate.
"Shape Demons Cuboid Limb!"
A cuboid of blue energy was formed around Naruto's leg, and he ran at the demon and kicked it with the enhanced leg, causing its chest to shatter, ending the demons life.
"Shape Demons Cube Fist."
Naruto smashed his fist into the black chains on Iruka's arms, and destroyed the chains.
"Thanks, Naruto, I didn't expect it to be so strong, but it goes to show the next generation will always be better than the previous I suppose, huh?" spoke Iruka quietly.
" Iruka have some of this." said Sasuke, handing him a bottle of water.
"Thanks."
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"Here's you're 50,000 jewels, and some gems from the mayors treasury, to make up for the added difficulty." told the secretary to the group of mages.
And so, the team made their way back to the guild
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Well that a wrap. I just noticed that someone posted another review saying that the chapter felt rushed. Well that's partially true, I'm worried that slow but longer updates = forgotten fic, but once I feel more secure I'll try and get into that routine. But I have noticed likes to delete some words, so I've looked through the fic and proof read it, and found no mistakes (but there will be some) but I'm sure FF will mess it up at some point. Oh, if anyone wants to beta/ help me, and can prove you're not a random imbecile (I don't you are but…) just send me a PM/ review. And I'll also accept any ideas people have. BTW Lucy seems weak at the moment, but quite frankly at this stage in canon see is. I plan for her to get better though, so don't fret.