The Sage of Fairy Tail

by Arch-Daishou

With his defeat of Pein and paying his last respects to his late Sensei and Godfather. Naruto Uzumaki finds himself in Earthland by a mysterious golden light. In this new world does the young sage find what he truly looking for while protecting those he has come to love from the darkness to come? -postponed-

3. First mission with a dose of insanity

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail

A/N: Naruto's skills for those wanting a summary: Uzu no Kaze (Wind of the whirlpool) mixed martial arts form of (Meotode / Muay Thai / Piguaquanobe). Uzu no Ryu (Dragon of the Whirlpool) the blond's Kenjutsu. A free-form mixed with Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu.

(Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu is from Samurai X/Rurouni Kenshin which belongs to Nobuhiro Watsuki)

Expert level Fūinjutsu

Knows Fūton, Katon, and Raiton; (Wind, Fire, & Lightning Release)

Uzu no Kaze: Custom created Taijutsu by Naruto with Jiraiya's help during the 3yr training trip. The late Toad Sage also taught Naruto Fūinjutsu, Wind & Fire Release.

Uzu no Ryu: A sacred Uzumaki kenjutsu scroll left by his mother Kushina Uzumaki. Kakashi helped him learn along with teaching Lightning release.

Shinobi rank before landing in Earthland: Chūnin

(Mixed Martial Arts form all thanks to 'cradereric'. Meotode, Muay Thai, Piguaquanobe thanks to Godospartan the Kitsune)

Chapter 3: First mission, with a dose of insanity.

Through the silk rose colored curtains of the window, morning light begins gently seeping into the darken bedroom. Slowly the warm rays of sunlight soon land on the queen size bed in the room. Feeling the sudden warmth a single midnight blue eye reveals itself.

With small groan, a half sleep addled Mirajane slowly sits up. Her creamy rose thick bed sheet falling to her lap her black lace spaghetti strapped gown comes to view as she blankly looks around her room. The room itself is fairly decorated as one would expect of young woman.

From the rose covered walls and ceiling, two elegant hardwood dressers with several pictures on the top of one and stuffed animals on the other. Near the door is a desk with a medium size mirror attached. By the bed is a small cabinet with a lamp and a few books on top.

Letting out a small cutely yawn as she rubs her eyes, slowly cognitive thought starts up as a warm sweet scent hits her nose. A gentle smile crosses her lips as the door to her room opens revealing her roommate of two years, Naruto. Walking in, wearing only his grey sweats but no shirt, secretly much to her immense pleasure, while carrying a tray of breakfast for both of them. A morning ritual the two grew to enjoy before heading to the guild.

For Mirajane, in comparing the differences of varying male body types, from to, say, Natsu's and Gray's thin wiry muscular frames. To her brother Elfman's and Nab's near bulky body builders, Naruto is a balance of in between. His frame being lean and highly athletic combined with strong broad shoulders, rock hard six pack ads, to the well cut 'V' figure most men kill for, and the blond is any living breathing woman's wet dream.

And while he is not like Gray who goes nearly completely nude out in public, Naruto really has no sense of modesty at home for which Mirajane has absolutely 'zero' problems with it.

"How do you always know when I wake up?" Mira tilts her head smiling as the Blond sits in front of her laying the tray on her lap. "Thank you." She looks down seeing two full spread plates of scrambled eggs, bacon, French toast, and two warm cups of jasmine tea on the side.

"You're welcome, and I can pretty much have you well timed all in the mornings." The blond says coyly earning a playful glare from the white haired beauty.

Taking her fork, Mirajane starts with the eggs while Naruto bites into his French toast. As the two enjoy a comfortable silence, the blond's cerulean eyes shift over to first friend since being stuck in Earthland. Mira, who had no obligation to him whatsoever, yet a week after being here she bought this two-story flat house near Kardia cathedral for both of them and even helped him understand Fiore, the guilds, and the Kingdoms.

As far as anyone knows within Fairy Tail, Konohagakure no Sato is from one of the rare wild territories not a part of any of the kingdoms. A story Naruto is firmly sticking to, cause who in their right minds would honestly believe he comes from a different reality? His sanity gets questioned enough as it is.

Lightly sipping on her tea, Mira looks over to Naruto. "So, that job looking for that lost bracelet last week was easy right foxy-kun?"

"Sure, if you call me fighting a group of dark wizards and their pet demon as easy." The blond feels his eye twitching.

"Oh come on, we did save a town from them. And I got to have that beautiful bracelet after it was all said and done," Mirajane waving off her roommate's annoyance with a calm smile.

Snorting as the blond shakes his head he finds himself also smiling; "Well I can at least say we did not damage a single building or have anyone of the towns person hurt."

The white haired beauty shrugs and nods. "Master was actually in tears shaking our hands."

Honestly Jiji was literally dancing all over the guild like a crazed loon after hearing everything; the blond sweatdrops. He lightly hears the fox snorting in the back of his mind. Morning furball…

"Fuck you blondie." The Kyuubi growls out while yawning.

And thus we continue to our long 'joyous' sessions of friendship bonding, the blond replies dryly as eats his eggs. "So a full week and everyone seems to take to Lu-chan well enough."

Mirajane gives a small smile. "Natsu-Kun has taken quite a liking to her. I think they might be good together."

"As in like a Fairy Tail team or a little romance romp in one of those cheesy novels you love to read so much?" The blond looks dryly.

Puffing her cheeks cutely, she glares over. "They're not cheesy." Naruto only chuckles at her, which soon makes Mirajane smile and giggles. She never could pretend to stay mad at her friend no matter how hard she tried.

XxX ~ Lucy ~ XxX

Letting out a highly content sigh as the hot bath water soaks her skin, Lucy can't help but smile. It has been a week since joining Fairy Tail, and she has been having the time of her life. And with the help of Naruto and Mirajane, she found a lovely two story home close to the market district, which the buxom blond loves due to her love of shopping.

And while the rent is a touch expensive, being 70,000 jewels, the steep price is well worth it given the homey décor inside. Each room being rather quite spacious for welcomed guests, plus with plenty of closets for storage. A quaint looking fireplace, along with a retro style stove, pure white walls, scents of wood, she was fully in love with this house.

Lifting her arms above her head she stretches as she gets out of the water. Reaching a towel to dry her, Lucy lightly hums a soft tune. I really have to thank Naruto-Kun and Mira-Chan for helping getting me settled into Magnolia.

Slowly her bright tune stops as her expression turns solemn, remembering her talk with Mirajane and the master after Macao woke up.

XxX ~ a week prior ~ XxX

Sitting on her bar stool, Lucy keeps her eye on Naruto and Natsu laughing beside Macao and Wakaba at a nearby table with Romeo playing with Happy. Cleaning a glass mug with a cloth Mirajane notices the buxom blond's gaze.

"What's on your mind Lu-Chan?"

Blinking, the celestial wizard looks back to Mira. "Why were Naruto and Natsu really so gun ho about helping finding Macao for Romeo-Kun?"

As sad smile crossed Mira's lips while Makarov opens an eye. "A simple question to ask my dear. But both with very complex answers."

Lucy looks at the master in confusion as Mirajane takes over. "You see, for Natsu, I think he saw himself in Romeo-kun. See a few years ago Natsu's Tou-san left and hasn't come back. Well, I should say foster father. Natsu was raised by dragon." Mirajane smiles while Lucy's jaw drops, while also falling off her stool.

Slowly sitting back up on her stool the blond looks at the two in disbelief; "He was raised by an actual real life dragon!"

Makarov grunts in affirmation. "Should have seen the whole guild's expression when he said that when first arriving."

"He was found in a forest by the dragon as a baby. The dragon raised him as his own son learning everything from culture, language, and magic." Mira's midnight blue eyes soon took a sad tint to them; "But then one day the dragon disappeared leaving only that scaled white scarf behind. Natsu has been looking for him ever since."

Looking down at her glass water, Lucy gazes at the small reflection of herself mournfully. "So that's Igneel. He must really love him to be searching for him all these years."

"As for our self-proclaimed ninja. Naruto is also an orphan, but he had no one to help him." Makarov speaks quietly.

Shooting up her head Lucy looks to the guild master not seeing Mirajane eyes quiver some.

"From what little he told us his parents were murdered hours after he was born. But he never explained why nor why the village he once lived never properly cared for him." The old wizard grumbles with light frustration.

Lucy gasps covering her mouth hearing on the fate of Naruto's parents. 'He was just born and someone murdered his parents, why!?'

"You forgot master. When he was twelve he was taken in by someone. Think her name was Tsunade if I recall." Mira looks over to Makarov who only grunts. "And that one man who he saw as his grandfather, Hiruzen Sarutobi if I remember right."

The old master shakes his head; "But that Hiruzen fellow never took him in and raised him. Honestly I have more questions than answers when dealing with Naruto."

Looking at the two Lucy shifts her head back to Naruto who is now playing with Romeo. Mirajane also looks over; "We… All of us wizards, and one ninja of Fairy Tail… Carry wounds, deep wounds that leave only scars in our hearts." She paused for moment before adding quietly; "Even me as well…"

"Huh?"

"Nothing."

XxX ~ present ~ XxX

Shaking her head, Lucy takes a deep breath. "I can't be moping. I'll help them however I can, it's the least I can do for being so nice to me." Her eyes widen. "Oh, I almost forgot. I need to make a contract with my new celestial spirit."

Standing as she wraps a towel around her naked body, she walks into her bedroom. Her bright smile soon becomes her jaw dropping and her eyes popping out.

The reason for this is Natsu lazily lounging on her chair with a bag chips in hand and Happy eating a fish on her coffee table.

"Yo-GAH," The dragon slayer smirks before both him and Happy feeling intense pain from a perfect roundhouse kick to the wall courtesy of Lucy.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" Though a kick to the face was probably not going to allow anyone to answer right away.

Groaning as he sits up on the floor, while Happy is still in Lah, Lah land, Natsu looks up to an irate blond; "Mira told me you got a new house." The rosette haired man absently rubs his cheek, damn she could hit hard!

"She told you, so what?! So does that mean you can come in like that?!" Lucy huffs crossing her arms under her bust. "Do you have any sense of morals!? This is what we call trespassing genius! A KNOWN FELONY CALLED BREAKING AND ENTERING!"

Natsu sweatdrops. "Now you're just hurting my feelings…"

"I'm the one being violated here you jack-ass~!" Her ears soon twitch hearing the sound… Scratching! Sharply turning her head she sees in absolute horror, Happy clawing at her lovely new wall!

"I like the new place Lucy." The cat remarks absently.

"Let's try to keep it that way! Don't use my wall as scratching post you stupid furball!"

Looking over at the desk, Natsu lifts an eyebrow at a stack of papers "What is this?" Before he could even blink the said papers are snatched from his hand as Lucy hugs them tightly to her chest for dear life.

The dragon-slayer tilts his head. "So what is that?"

"It's nothing! Just go home!" Lucy nearly whines out.

A goofy grin sets on Natsu's lips. "Aw come on, your place is way cooler than mine. And I came to visit, I just got here."

"I hate boys!" Though the questionable maturity part of the statement never really hitting Natsu, making Lucy's point and case clear as day.

Both freeze hearing a knocking at the front door.

Lightly mumbling 'what now' Lucy leaves the room putting the papers on the shelf in the hall. "Don't touch anything!" Walking down the stairs rubbing her eyes the blond stops and opens the door. "Yes?" whatever anger she had in her system with Natsu vanished in an instant being replaced by embarrassment seeing Naruto and Mirajane at her door.

"Oh my." The white haired beauty lightly covers her mouth with a faint blush.

Naruto smirks. "Why Lu-Chan, you're going to third base before even making it to first. Rather bold, dattebayo."

Seeing her fellow blond receiving a sharp elbow from Mirajane to the stomach, Lucy looks down. She shrieks seeing her towel had fallen off lying on the ground giving her two new friends a prime view at the body the gods have blessed her with.

Hmm, so she is a natural blond, Naruto thinks absently before Mira's other hand covers his eyes. "OI!"

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

As Mirajane prepares tea for everyone, due simply to the fact a now fully dressed and heavily blushing Lucy sits quietly at her table from sheer embarrassment, she kept an eye on the room. To her right sits Naruto, still smirking while Natsu laughing in his own chair. Coming back into the dining room with a small tray Mira puts down four cups of tea.

"Here we go!" Placing the tray in the center of the table, Mira sits in the last open seat while Happy sits on Naruto's shoulder eating a fish.

I can't believe this! Naruto and Mira both saw me naked! Was it possible to die from embarrassment?

"So Lu-Chan, how many spirit contracts do you have?" Speaking of the other blonde in the room...

Shaking out of her internal depression from hearing Naruto's question, she takes the ring off her belt. "I have six contracts." First placing three of her silver keys on the table with one the image of a clock, next a southern cross, and finally a Lyre; "With silver keys you can find any of them anywhere in the markets. I have Horologium the clock, Crux the southern cross, and Lyra the lyre."

"Met Lyra once from another celestial wizard, a real sweetheart that one." Naruto speaks up.

Lucy beams. "She always does have the right song to cheer you up." Next she places three golden keys each with a sign of the zodiac. "Now the golden keys of the Zodiac are very rare to find. The ones I have are Taurus the golden bull, Aquarius the water bearer, and Cancer the giant crab."

"A GIANT CRAB!" Both Natsu and Happy smile widely while lightly drooling.

Naruto face-palms while Mirajane giggles; Chouji would be damn proud of these two…

So says the idiot blondie with a ramen addiction, Kyuubi absently thinks to himself.

Lucy sweat drops; "I swear you two are so completely random, and absolutely obsessed with food."

"Trust me, they just think with their stomachs mostly every day." Naruto snorts.

Mira nods; "Very true."

Sighing, while shaking her head, Lucy stops as she remembers something. "I almost forgot! Again! I need to make a contract with the Canis Minor Nicola Naruto-Kun bought for me in Hargeon" The buxom blond winks. "You guys want to see how a celestial wizard and spirit make a contract?"

"HELL YEAH!" Natsu smiles brightly. Neither him nor Lucy seeing a look crossing Mirajane's eyes peering over to Naruto.

"You bought her a gate key?"

"The old man owning that shop had trumped up the price, but since I had the jewels and she wanted it, so I bought it. How we first met, besides, not like I am going to run out of jewels." The blond smiles crossing his arms while mentally hiding his pure embarrassment.

He hears the old fox snorts. "Old perverted Ningen had some uses."

Not… One… Word…

Mirajane lifts an eyebrow; her roommate did speak the truth when saying he did not have to worry about money four months after when he first showed up two years ago. But what annoys her is he never tells her how he is making all that money yet still takes jobs simply for fun or helping people in need.

"What if a contract involves blood seals?!"

Both Naruto and Mira look at Happy oddly as he flies around, while Natsu lifts an eyebrow. "Butt seals? Those sound damn painful."

Lucy sweatdrops while Naruto bursts out laughing with Mirajane giggling. "Leave my ass out of this thank you? And no there are not any blood seals or anything like that. Just watch."

Getting out of her seat Lucy walks over to her bookshelf. Finding the dark blue case she wants, she slides open the top revealing the silver key. Everyone watches as Lucy turns around extending the key in her hand.

"I call upon thee, in the world of the celestial spirits! I beckon you at my side at once! Pass through the gate!" Light soon shines under Lucy's feet as everyone see an outline of keyhole appear in front of her.

Open gate of Canis Minor: Nicola!

From the keyhole golden light seeps out and soon combines into a small sphere. What appears next make Mira blink while the boys –Kyuubi included- jaws drops. A snow white creature being the height of Happy soon plops on the floor. It has small beady eyes and a golden horned nose which looks like a carrot, its small body shaking as if nervous.

"Puunn~!"

PUUNN!? This coming from two dumbstruck men and one cat.

"Nice try." Natsu and Happy say together.

"D… Don't feel too bad Lu-Chan." Naruto says weakly.

"Oh shut up, I meant to do that!" Lucy huffs.

The blond Sennin feels eye twitching in disbelief; it's supposed to look like that?

"Still trying to figure out what the damn thing is." Kyuubi gives his two cents.

As for the second female in the room, Mirajane soon clasp her hand together; "KAWAII~!"

Lucy beams nearly squealing brightly sitting on floor with her knees hugging her new spirit friend; "I know right!"

Naruto, Natsu, and Happy soon face fault to the ground. Of course Mira and Lucy would find the damn thing cute.

"Nicola spirits hardly take much in summoning, so most people keep them as pets." The celestial wizard explains absently with Mirajane sits beside her now petting the little spirit's head while cooing.

"You know this whole pet thing don't sit well with me..." Happy whispers to Natsu out loud.

"Especially with a strange master like Lucia." The dragon slayer whispers out loud back.

Lucy's eye twitches while Naruto looks at the two dryly. "She can hear you two you know?"

"And for the last time my name of Lucy!" Letting go of her new celestial spirit friend as Mira now hugging the Nicola spirit in her arms. Grabbing a small notebook and pen the celestial wizard goes to work. "So, are you free Monday?"

"Puuun~." The Nicola spirit shakes its-his/her-whatever's head.

The buxom blond goes down each day of the week as Naruto, Natsu, and Happy just gawk. "This is a bit more tedious than I thought dattebayo." The young Sennin whispers.

"Got that right..." Natsu whispers back while getting an 'aye' from Happy.

Closing her little notebook Lucy smiles brightly; "Okay, contract all done!"

The little spirit jumps out of Mira's arms with a wide grin. "Pupuun~!"

Both ladies giggle as Natsu scratches his head with Happy on his shoulder. "Well that was easy?"

Naruto helps both ladies up with the buxom blond wagging her finger. "It may seem easy but it very important. You see a celestial wizard's contract relies on the promise between the spirit and the wizard."

"Hmm, that makes sense, helps build trust right?" Naruto looks to his new friend who winks at him.

"Very good, this is why I make it a point to never break a promise! Got it?"

Natsu looks at Lucy dryly. "Oh yeah…"

"As Foxy-Kun said, for celestial wizards to do their craft they need to build trust with the beings they summon. Like how people make bonds of friendships with other people." Mira's academic side coming out again as she smiles to Natsu.

Crossing his arms the fire dragon-slayer absently nods smirking. "That sounds cool!"

Naruto only chuckles while Mirajane lightly giggles at their dragon slayer friend. Beside them, Lucy taps her chin in thought. "Now what to name you…"

"Isn't it Nicola?" Happy asks on Naruto's shoulder. The little feline basically asking the same unified thought among Mira, Naruto, and Natsu.

Shakes her head the buxom blond looks back over to her friends. "No, that's the name of the species." Her brown eyes brighten. "OH, I know! Come here Plue~!"

The wobbly little spirit now known as Plue looks running up into Lucy's arms as she kneels back down holding him again. "Plue huh?" Naruto, Natsu, and Happy saying the same thought out loud.

"It's so cute~!" Mira squeals making Naruto sigh tiredly. This had to be one of those woman things Ero-Sennin went on about.

"I know right, it's like the cutest name ever! Right little Plue?" she hugs her new little spirit who waves his arms cheerfully.

"So, even though his sign is the little doggy he doesn't bark? That's kinda weird." Happy speaking up tilting his head.

Naruto looks over dryly. "Well for the two years being in Fairy Tail, I have not heard you once go 'MEOW~'!"

Seeing the blond Uzumaki acting like a cat sends both ladies into a small fit of giggles. Feeling Plue squirm out of her hands soon everyone watches as he dances oddly while muttering something in front of Natsu.

"What's he doing?" Lucy's open question gaining a shrug from Naruto and Mira. Natsu kneels down beside the little spirit.

"Aw, man! You are right about that Plue!" The dragon slayer giving the thumbs up with the little spirit mimicking him with big wide smile.

"YOU CAN UNDERSTAND HIM?!" Both Naruto and Lucy gawk while the Kyuubi face-palms.

Takes an idiot to understand an idiot…

Natsu nods. "Lucy did help us rescuing Macao and those other guys. She might be a weirdo, but she is a good person!"

"I'm the weirdo?" The buxom blond's eye twitches.

Both Naruto and Mirajane simply look at each other dryly. Standing to his feet the dragon slayer soon shows determined grin that slightly unnerves Lucy. Why is he staring at me? Lord he is so weird!

"I've made up my mind. Plue gave me one hell of a plan."

Again how did he understand him? Both blonds deadpan.

"Let's make a team!" The dragon slayer smiles brightly.

"The team?" Happy says jumping onto Natsu's shoulder.

Lucy tilts her head curiously while Naruto crosses his arms lifting and eyebrow looking over at Mirajane who only shrugs at him. "So you want to form a team like Naruto-Kun and Mira-Chan?"

"Aye, and with a team the payout can be bigger if the job is more difficult!" Happy speaks while munching on a fish on Natsu's shoulder.

Clasping her hands together, Lucy shows a bright radiant smile. "That sounds awesome; it should be fun!"

"WE HAVE A TEAM~!" Natsu nearly roars raising both his fists above his head.

"Aye sir...~" Happy cheers dancing alongside with Plue on the table.

"Contract signed and seal." Lucy giggles lightly blushing looking to Natsu. He can be so random but looks like he does accept me.

"Okay team, let's get to work." Natsu smiles as he pulls out a piece of paper. A suspicious gleam showing in both Naruto's and Mira's narrowing eyes. "I have our first mission right here."

Literally bouncing on her feet Lucy can't stop smiling. "This is happening so fast." She takes the paper from Natsu's hand, not seeing an evil smirk on his lips. "Let's see what you have."

However, that smirk from Natsu is not lost on Naruto and Mirajane who look dryly at each other.

"Shiro-Tsume Town, that not far from here… You're kidding?! All we have to do is take a book from a mansion of some guy named Duke Everlue?" Lucy's eyes widen. "And it's for 200,000 Jewel!" However she soon freezes when seeing a small warning disclaimer.

"It should be a piece of cake right?" Natsu grins crossing his arms.

Snatching the paper out of his fellow blond's hands. Naruto skims the paper seeing a sketch of a heavy set man in a business suit but with an odd large button. It made his skin crawl seeing the man sticking his tongue – like a certain snake he knew- out playing with his mustache with an ugly come over hair.

"Warning; Duke Everlue is an outright perverted womanizer. 'Who' is currently looking for young women with 'blond' hair..." The Sennin sighs in exasperation.

Mirajane crosses her arms under her bust glaring lightly over at the Dragon Slayer. "Honestly Natsu, that's just mean."

"But Mira~ I picked this because I knew it would be a piece of cake, I promise!" Natsu pouts while everyone hearing an 'Aye' from Happy. "Plus Lucy said Celestial Wizards never break their promises."

"But you were trying to trick me!" Lucy yells waving her arms.

Rubbing his eyes Naruto groans as he dryly looks back to the paper. "I had planned on doing this one myself."

"You were planning on using that 'Henge' of yours?" Mira says with a serious glare.

Mira's question made Lucy look to fellow blond curiously; "Henge?"

"It's a jutsu that lets me take the form of any person, animal, or even an object. It comes in handy if I want to sneak into a place while out in the open." Naruto speaks absently with a cheerful smile.

Is that one of those weird ninja skills of his? Lucy wonders as sees Naruto put his hand together.

"Just watch, Henge." A puff of smoke soon covers the young Sennin which makes Lucy lightly jumps. But soon her jaw nearly drops seeing an exact twin of Mirajane smiling as warmly as the original.

"Well, what do you think?" Both Mira's say in unison.

HE EVEN HAS HER VOICE! Lucy continues to gawks as Naruto dispels the jutsu returning to his old self crossing his arms with a smug smile.

Mira giggles. "I better get going to the guild. Naruto I know will be helping out."

"Why, your already at the guild, so you're coming along too dattebayo," Naruto smirks.

Everyone is silent for a moment before looking right at the blond Sennin. "Huh?!"

XxX ~ Fairy Tail ~ XxX

With one eye open, and sitting at his usual spot at the top of the bar, Makarov watches a smiling 'Mirajane' humming a tune while fixing an order. Feeling a familiar gaze on 'her', midnight blue eyes shift the guild master which she gives a very Naruto-like wink.

Makarov mentally snorts; Honestly… While I appreciate Naruto giving Mirajane time off working at the bar so much. I will never get how well he can mimic her in that 'henge' jutsu of his.

"Huh, someone took the job for Duke Everlue?"

Gazing over, both Makarov and 'Mirajane' seeing Levy at the request board. Standing behind her, are the other two members of 'Shadow Gear', Jet and Droy. Jet being a slim young man of 18, with orange hair, wearing an open brown coat, with fur lining, a strange top hat with mid-wide brim and purple shirt underneath with an open collar, and black baggy pants tucking into his boots.

The last member of 'Shadow Gear' being Droy. A tall, slim young man with black hair kept in an unusual hairstyle, with a tuft of hair on top of his head. Wearing a white shirt and checkered green pants and sleek shoes. Over his shirt are two yellow belts crossing his chest.

Levy sighs; "Did somebody take it already? That stinks."

"It was Natsu I believe who took it." 'Mirajane' smiles. Glad boss made a Kage bunshin and dispel it letting me know what's going on.

Peering dryly Levy looks over; "Why I am not surprised."

"Levy, I think it is best that perhaps you did not take that job." Makarov gaining Shadow Gears attention. "I got word from the client not long ago, and this job may be more trouble than it's worth."

'Mirajane' tilts her head cutely over to the master; "Was the job cancelled master?"

Chuckling the old master shook his head; "On the contrary Mira, the reward was raised to 2 million jewels."

Everyone within an ear shot freezes, gawking over at the master. "2 million jewels!" Levy and her team yell in unison.

"What the hell, just for one stupid book?" Droy looks to his group/friends. "That's like monster slaying reward money."

'Mirajane' nearly drops her glass before shaking her head. Then it is a damn good thing boss and Mira-Chan are going with them dattebayo.

As most of guild was still talking in shock of the news, a shirtless Gray who sitting leaning his back to a table smirks with cigarette in his mouth. He smirks; "Now this just got interesting."

"Oh Gray, nice skivvies."

Blinking in confusion to 'Mira's' words he looks down jumping out of his seat. "WHERE THE HELL ARE MY JEANS!?"

'Mirajane/Kage-Bunshin Henged Naruto' mentally chuckles. This guy is too easy...

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

"Wh… Why did you turn off the seal..?" A certain pink haired fire mage asks

"Because you tried to trick Lu-Chan into this job dattebayo." the blonde ninja of the group clearly pointed out with amusement at Natsu's punishment.

"UGH…."

Despite showing surprise, Lucy, now wearing Spaghetti strapped pink shirt and black plated skirt, with her keys and whip attached to her belt, could not stop giggling at the sight on the carriage ride to Shiro-Tsume. Sprawled haplessly on the floor of the said carriage is Natsu with his severe motion sickness on full throttle. For which the poor man endures relentless teasing from the buxom blond.

Payback is a bitch, and Lucy is giving it in spades.

"Are you enjoying your carriage ride today master? Anything I can get for you?" The overly sweet playful voice of Lucy only making Naruto laugh harder at Natsu's sorrows.

"I can see the gates of hell..." Natsu groans, his stomach doing somersaults.

"Hey, I'm supposed to play the part of the master, so I should be the one giving the orders!" Happy whines in Mirajane's lap.

"Oh shut it you stupid feline." Lucy mumbles shaking her head.

Naruto calms himself enough looking to his best friend and roommate. "See Mira-Chan, it would have been dull if only I went with them."

Sighing with a smile Mira shakes her head; "You got a point." She giggles watching Natsu slowly sit back in his seat beside Naruto. "Besides you did bring this on yourself Natsu-Kun."

Letting out a small whine, Natsu weakly bows his head to Lucy. "I am very sorry Lucy, please forgive me."

Tilting her head to the side, tapping her chin, the celestial wizard pretends to thinks before finally smiling; "Oh I suppose~. You're forgiven."

Fūin…

Seeing a light blue glow from behind Natsu's neck, Lucy double takes at the dragon slayer's motion sickness vanishes within seconds. Taking a big sigh of relief Natsu relaxes leaning back on the seat. Mira lightly chuckles before looking over to Lucy.

"So, ready for your first big job?"

The buxom blond nods to Mira. "Now thinking on it, this job should be easy."

"Despite the fact being nearly suckered into it by dumbass here." Naruto comments dryly getting middle fingered from Natsu. "Sorry my man, but do not enjoy a ram jam."

Lucy covers her mouth blushing. Mira only looks wide eyes while lightly blushing. "Naruto!"

Natsu only tilts his head along with Happy. "What's a ram jam?"

That only makes Lucy finally lose it, laughing out loud with Naruto soon joining in. Mira finally follows in seeing lastly how confused Natsu is from the Sennin's innuendo comment.

Calming down after a few minutes Lucy looks to Naruto smiling; "As Mira-Chan said; this is my first job. So I will give it my all." The blond soon pauses for a minute. "Say Natsu. Why did you want me to be in a team with you?"

"Simple, you're a really nice person." The fire dragon slayer crosses his arms nodding to himself.

Whoa, did this guy just compliment me? A faint blush crosses Lucy's cheeks.

A hidden sly look of victory crosses Mira's eyes over to Naruto who rolls his. Lucy lightly beams; "Alright so all I have to do is sneak inside a mansion for some book."

"A mansion belonging to a fat pervert-Jiji." Natsu and Naruto say in unison.

Crossing her arms under her bust, Lucy leans forward accentuating her breasts; "Think I can handle a little fat old pervert." The buxom blond lightly purrs.

Natsu just blinks blankly while Happy eats a fish. "Yeah I can't tell you humans apart."

The buxom blond slumps till getting thumbs up from Naruto made Lucy smile. Though for some reason Mira's eyes lightly twitches seeing a faint blush upon the blond Sennin's cheeks.

XxX ~ Shiro-Tsume ~ XxX

Lucy and Mirajane both smile brightly getting out of the carriage seeing the outskirts of Shiro-Tsume Town which is built along a mountain side. While being so small it also was not connected to the railway system, the reason the group had to go by carriage.

Still, the place is a bustle of commerce, giving it a lively upbeat atmosphere.

Natsu smirks. "Now we're here. Let's go get something to eat." Prompting an 'aye' from his little blue feline companion.

Naruto deadpans at the dragon slayer, while Mira simply sighs shaking her head. Those two really do have one track mind, granted Naruto knew he was just as bad when he was a kid, but Natsu was nearly twenty years old for heaven's sake.

So what the hell is his excuse?

"I'm not really hungry… Say, why don't just eat your own fire?" Lucy asks looking around.

Natsu deadpans over in her direction; "That Tarsus spirit of yours, you said he is a bull right? Would you cut him up and make steaks out of him?"

A look of horror comes over Lucy's face. "I could never do that!"

"Well it's kind of the same principle." The dragon slayer mumbles looking for a place to eat.

"Now that has to be a pain right? You can eat any kind of fire but your own?" Lucy sighs with her hands on her hips.

A chuckle comes from Naruto; "Natsu, go look for some food. I'll go look for information on this Duke Everlue guy. Look after them Mira-Chan."

"Be careful foxy~." Mirajane turns to her friend, but the blond waves it off.

"This is me we're talking about, what could happen?" Naruto smirks before using shunshin and vanishing. Not seeing Mira looking dryly where he was.

"That's what worries me..." Mira mumbles, her hands on her hips.

Lucy lightly giggles. "Well I am going to look around town. Want to join me Mira-Chan?" The buxom blond looks over to the white haired beauty.

Mira nods. "Sure, Natsu-Kun, Happy, you guys go find some food and stay out of trouble okay?"

The rosette haired man waves walking off to the nearest restaurant in town.

XxX ~ Naruto ~ XxX

Appearing vis shunshin, well hidden on a large branch up in a tree Naruto sets his gaze forward. His target being the main reasons him and his friends being in this town. And the first thought in Naruto's head when seeing Everlue mansion.

What does one old fat pervert need with a place this fucking big dattebayo?!

A massive but compact three stories brick mansion with a patio roof, a medium size garden around that with a large brick square fence with metal railing at the top and durable metal doors. From everything the blond can see, it is finely crafted and was spared no expense in its design.

The Sennin could admit the place looks sharp but still too damn gaudy for his tastes.

Naruto really had to thank Jiraiya and Kakashi for quite literally pounding common sense into his thick skull. Shadowing himself throughout town the blond learned as much about Duke Everlue as he could get. Being that Shiro-Tsume town is so small it is ruled by feudalistic means.

This makes Everlue the top dog in this town, and his slimy little fingers in a lot of people's pockets. Whether that is through legal means, through threats, or under the table dealings. And while Everlue is smart enough to keep the Kingdom from finding out, he is not clever enough to hide it from a professional ninja.

"Surprised you haven't busted down that flimsy little metal gate brat." The old fox chiming in.

It's really tempting, given what I learned about Sir Duke Douche bag. But this is Lu-Chan's first job, plus as a team now with Natsu, I think Mira would agree she wants to see how this goes just like I do. Besides, once the job is done I will gladly report his fat ass to the legion stationed here.

He hears the Kyuubi snorts. "Impressed you actually learn 'tact' from those two fools."

An eye twitch and light growl from Naruto's throat was unheard before he was taking a deep calming breath; I can admit freely not being the sharpest kunai in the drawer, furball. But would you rather prefer I still acted like I did back when I was twelve?

Point taken, while the old fox still hated the kid's guts, he did have a very small sliver of respect for how strong the brat got after fighting that wretched little Uchiha. Guess nearly getting killed twice by your supposed 'best friend' woke up his container some.

Better head back to the others and meet the client for this thing. Still, all the trouble for one damn book.

You'd be surprised kit on how it is the tiniest of things can cause powerful reactions.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

"Be sure to save the fat and oily stuff for Lucy." Natsu talks while devouring a large cooked meat on a bone.

Finding a good size restaurant with an outside lounge, both the dragon slayer and talking blue feline gouge themselves into a massive feast. Happy nods munching on a fish. "Aye, that does seem to be what she likes."

"Excuse me, since when do I like fat and oily food?" Speaking of the celestial wizard...

Whatever words Natsu and Happy were going to say died in their throats, as their jaws drops looking to their right. Winking, Lucy is fully decked out in a maid outfit with her hair now in twin pigtails. Beside her Mira only giggles seeing Natsu's and Happy's reaction.

The outfit in the former 'S' class wizard's opinion looks quite cute on her new friend. A very elegant business white puffy short-sleeve button shirt, with a black button up sleeveless vest, a black frilly short skirt, with a white apron over it, long white stockings, and high black heels.

"How is your meal Natsu-Sama~." Lucy coos with her hands behind her back seductively swaying slightly from side to side. "Do you require any more food Natsu-Sama, if so, I will get you anything you want~"

A shiver runs down the fire dragon slayer's spine as he robotically turns his head to an equally shocked Happy. "We were just kidding about the whole maid thing right?"

"Aye, I think she took it a bit too seriously." The blue cat says weakly.

Despite their attempt in whispering, it fails miserably with both Mira and Lucy looking dryly at the two. "We can hear you." Both say in unison.

"Mou~ and here I got all dressed up~"

A soft, feminine melodic voice with a seductive tone catches everyone's attention behind Mirajane. Eyes travel as Mira turns to a sight making Lucy and even Natsu blush wildly.

Rivaling Cana in height, but having curves even the beautiful fortune teller would be highly envious of, a bust even Lucy feels somewhat very self-consciously jealous over. Wearing a red buttoned princess dress with a black vest, red stockings one her long shapely legs with black heels. Her long sun kissed blond hair dual twin tails, her cerulean eyes and smile showing nothing but pure mischief with a hand on her gorgeous hip.

It takes full minute for Lucy to regain her speech; "Um, wh… Who are you?"

A cute pout forms on the tall buxom blond's lips; "Oh that is so mean Lu-Chan. But then again you're not looking at the right spot." Lifting a delicate finger to her cheek; Lucy's eyes bulge when seeing familiar whisker marks.

"NA… NARUTO..!"

"Actually it's Naruko in this Henge form." Mirajane explains as she giggles seeing her friend's jaws drop. "Would you be surprised Naruto is an actual full woman in this Henge form?"

Okay, this is so not fair, Naruto as a guy is a total hottie, but his female version is too?! Hell her boobs are bigger than mine... Lucy mentally whines slumping her shoulders.

However only horror is on Natsu's face. "I just thought Naruto was hot!"

Naruko only giggles. "Silly, Mira-Chan did say I am a real female in this form. I worked very hard getting Naruko-Chan as real as possible. So right now Natsu-Kun I appreciate the compliment."

"Uh… Sure… No problem." The dragon slayer weakly replies still quite visibly pale. Everyone hears an 'aye sir' from an equally dazed Happy.

Naruko would have kept smirking at the two if a pair of small delicate hands latched onto her breasts, making her let out a deep throated moan. "L… Lu-Chan, AH, you being too rough!"

So bold, Mira blinks lightly blushing while Natsu's and Happy's jaws drop seeing Lucy opening fondling Naruko's boobs. "Why are these things bigger than mine?! Hell, their firmer to, this is not fair!" Lucy whines while pouting.

No one was really paying much attention to the crowd gawking at one young lady groping another woman's bosom.

XxX ~ and then ~ XxX

Finally having to dispel back to his male form, just so Lucy would stop playing with Naruko's breasts, the group makes their way to the client's home for the job details. Although the buxom blond could not shrink any further under Naruto's mild glare. While the last three could not stop snickering.

"Lucy is a perv~!" Happy floats around Natsu.

"I am not a perv! It's called a lapse of sanity!" The buxom blond growls looking at the cat sharply.

Is that what ningen call it these days? Kyuubi thinks dryly.

Naruto grumbles as Mirajane waves it off; "Oh, your fine. Anyway let's focus on the job."

"Yeah sure, Naruko-Chan gets felt up and we walk it off." The blond Uzumaki mumbles out loud.

"You are Naruko-Chan." Everyone else answers in response.

"That is beside the point, Dattebayo!"

Natsu points ahead, ignoring the girls laughing the young Sennin's ranting. "Hey there is a mansion up ahead."

Stopping the group sees a rather classy looking, modest size two-story mansion. Not overly flashy like Everlue's or some of the more snobbish Daimyos back in his own world. Walking up to the front double doors Natsu knocks gingerly.

"This place is beautiful. Is this Duke Everlue's mansion?" Lucy whispers to Naruto who stands beside her and Mira.

"No, this is the client's." Mira responses looking over.

Lucy shrugs slightly nodding; "Makes sense, with anyone willing to pay out 200,000 Jewels they have to be rich."

A soft voice from behind the door snaps their attention; "May I ask who this is?"

"We're from Fairy Tail abou-." Natsu answers till cut off by the voice.

"SHH! Please lower your voice! May you please enter around to the back door? Thank you."

Deadpanning the blond Uzumaki looks over to Mira who lifts an eyebrow at him. "Now that is a little weird," Both comment in perfect sync.

Lucy just tilts her head in confusion along with Natsu; Okay…~

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

The interior inside the mansion while expensive looking, it is far more classy than gaudy. It is quite easy on the eyes in Naruto's opinion. In the center of the main hall the group is greeted by a tall man, in his fifties, in a good but rather slightly rough green suite with short gray hair and a small mustache.

Beside him is the blond Uzumaki assumes is the man's wife is an average height with fair skin, and brown hair curled at the end. The woman wears a aged but elegant pink shirt, a skirt, and a simple green necklace. The man gestures for everyone to take a seat in the study room's two large couches.

"I apologize for earlier, I am the client Kaby Melon. This is my wife, Marie." The older gentle states with calm smile.

"MELON!" Happy drools on Naruto's shoulder.

"You have a really tasty name." Natsu laughs.

Naruto face palms while Mirajane only sighs. "Natsu, that was rude," Lucy chides at the dragon slayer.

Waving it off Kaby only laughs; "Its fine my dear. I am quite use to it by now."

Hmm, where have I heard that name before? Mira thinks absently tapping her chin.

"I feel quite honored that members of Fairy Tail accepted my job. The renown rumors from your guild precedes you well."

Rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly, Naruto chuckles; "Thanks."

People have been cautious of this job since the reward is so high for something so simple. Lucy thinks quietly looking at her friends.

"And you're all so young too. May I acquire your names?" Kirby asks taking tea from Marie as she sets some down for the others.

"Name is Naruto Uzumaki, this is Mirajane Strauss. My fellow blond is Lucy, the furball is called Happy. And lastly, Natsu Dragneel." The blond Sennin provides introductions.

Kaby looks visibly surprises. "The Salamander and the demon Mirajane. Which would also make you the Sage of Fairy Tail correct lad?" Naruto nods smiling. "My, my, I am quite impressed."

Looking over Kaby tilting his head to Lucy, or rather her maid's outfit; "Is cosplay a hobby of yours young lady?"

Slumping her shoulders, Lucy whines quietly as Natsu and Happy only laughs. I want to go home now.

"Shall we get down to business Kaby-Jiji?" Naruto grunts being elbowed by Mira.

"Ah yes, to the matter at hand. I wish for you to retrieve a book called Daybreak. There is only one copy of it. And then incinerate it."

Both Naruto and Mira widen their eyes hearing the venom when Kaby mentioned the name of the book. Lucy also gasps while Natsu lifts an eyebrow; "So we don't have to steal it then?"

Resting his elbows on his knees, Kaby leans forward; "I am basically asking you to destroy another person's property without expressed permission. It would count the same as theft Natsu-San."

Lucy tilts her head in confusion; "That's… Surprising… I had figured you wanted the book back because it was taken from you?"

"I also thought that to." Mira also speaks her mind.

"Heh, for two hundred thousand jewels I'll burn down the whole damn building if you like." Natsu smiles lifting a finger with a small flame at the tip.

"I am not going to jail with you for arson!" Lucy almost yells out.

Marie blinks tilting her head; "My husband raised the reward. Did you not know before coming here?"

"I raised it to two million jewels." Kaby finishes.

A pin could have dropped at that moment at the level of silence in the room. Soon it starts with Lucy's eyes widen, Happy's and Naruto's jaws drop, Natsu's eyes nearly bulge out from their sockets, while Mirajane only blinks.

"TWO MILLION JEWELS..!" The entire group roars.

ALL THIS FOR A FUCKING BOOK DATTEBAYO!

"WHAT THE HELL!" Natsu almost falls from the couch. "Two million jewels… And if we divide that by 5..? I can count that high but it would be a freaking lot of money!"

"That would be four hundred thousand jewels apiece Natsu." Mira speaks up still in small shock.

"HOLY CRAP!"

Kaby sweatdrops; "Now, now please calm down everyone."

Lucy almost robotically turns to client; "WH…Why did you raise the reward so high?!"

"For 2 million Jewels who gives a damn?" Natsu counters sitting back down.

Sighing deeply, Kaby looks to his hands. "That book must be destroyed. I cannot forgive its existence."

At those words, Naruto narrows his eyes. What was it about what Kakashi-Sensei always said? 'Look underneath, the underneath.' Something about all of this feels really off now.

His fellow blond is also of a like mind; He can't forgive a book's existence?

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

As the group left the mansion Marie looks to her husband; "Darling, are you sure those children will be alright with this?"

Kaby smiles; "They are far from mere children my love. The Salamander and the demon of Fairy Tail are quite well respected. And I have heard many stories of the Sage; they can get the job done."

"That other guild failed last week; no doubt Duke Everlue has increased security around his mansion. Getting in will not be easy for them." Marie sighs. "I just don't want those young people hurt."

Her husband slumps forward; "I know; I know… But we must have faith in these children. I just need to remove that book, from this world."

XxX ~ Duke Everlue Mansion ~ XxX

"Excuse me~" Lucy knocks on the Everlue gate. "I have come about the maid position~?"

Not far behind a tree, Natsu leans out from behind along with Happy on his shoulder. Sitting up on a large branch, both Naruto and Mirajane watch quietly. The white haired beauty looks over to her friend.

"So why didn't you henge back into Naruko-Chan to help her?"

"Because, this is Lucy's first real job within the guild... She has to do this on her own with her teammate Natsu."

Lucy smiles slyly; Heh… I play this old pervert right, get inside, find and destroy that book. 4 hundred thousand jewels, hehe, can cover my rent and buy myself some new clothes!

Gazing downward to her right upon hearing cement scraping, she leaps back as it explodes. Instinctively a kunai slip into Naruto's hand from his sleeve. A large, feminine foot hits the ground cracking cement, Lucy squeaks at the towering shadow in front of her. A large muscular woman with short pink hair, dressed as a maid looks downward.

"So you're here for the maid application?" The woman's voice is deep, almost unearthly.

"Yes, ma'am..!" The buxom blond trembles

"Another to see the master, he will arrive post haste."

Close by the ground erupts again; "Boyoyo~!" Naruto cringes as the Duke Everlue himself lands beside his gorilla of a maid. "Did someone say master?!"

More like monster! Lucy mentally shudders.

Placing his hand on his chin Everlue leans a little forward; "Let's see here."

The blond smiles cutely; "Well I hope you like what you see Everlue-Sama." Oh man, he is seriously creeping me out. Now I wish Naruko-Chan was beside me right now. Stay strong Lucy!

She soon blinks as Everlue turns around waving his hand; "I'll pass. Go home ugly."

Lucy's jaw nearly hits the floor, barely noticing the gorilla picking her up by the waist. "That's it. You heard the master. It is time to go home ugly."

"Sorry lass, but a man of my refined stature and standing can only have the best." Standing arrogantly as the ground erupts four more times behind him. "One such as me must have the fairest of the fair."

They say there are things people wish they can un-see. Right now, Naruto can feel his retinas burning at the sight of four of the ugliest women he ever seen in his life in skimpy maid uniforms. He did understand that beauty is within the eye of the beholder.

As of right now, though, the blond would rather rip out his own eyes out for Seiryū's sake.

Wrapping themselves around Everlue who smiles perversely, the four maids all coo affectionately.

"Our master is so kind~"

"Fu, fu~"

"You flatter us master~"

"You heard him ugly, go home."

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

At the base of a tree, Lucy sits with her knees up to her chest back in her old clothes, as she rest her head on her knees. Sitting beside her, Mira rubs her friend's shoulders soothingly. Natsu sighs disgruntledly standing front of them, Naruto not standing far looking at the mansion with Happy on his shoulder.

"Well that sucked." The fire dragon slayer grumbles looking to the buxom blond. "You're useless."

Lucy lifts up her head crying; "It's not my fault the bastard wouldn't know beauty even if it bit him in the ass!" You saw that gorilla woman right?!

"Have to agree on that one dattebayo." Naruto absently agrees getting an 'aye sir' from Happy.

Punching his fist into his palm, Natsu smirks ferally; "Well that just leave good old plan 'C'."

Lucy sits up with Mira; "Damn right. Time for payback on that old pervert! Uh, what's plan 'C' by the way?"

"CHARGE!" Both Natsu and Happy roar.

Both Naruto and Mirajane sweatdrop; oh boy…

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

"That girl wasn't very bright. So Fairy Tail this time has come eh?" Sitting in a golden chair with a cigar in mouth, Everlue chuckles; "Girl was dumb enough not hiding her guild mark. They are getting smarter at least in sending someone 'actually' beautiful this time."

Behind Everlue two tall silhouettes slowly appear. "How should I kill these idiots of little fairies, Boyoyo..!"

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

On the roof of Everlue's mansion the group appears via shunshin. Upon letting go of the blond's shoulders both Natsu and Lucy shiver. Even when Naruto tried explained the jutsu's mechanics, but it still was so strange for both of them, since it is more or less teleporting.

Mira smiles to the blond Uzumaki; "Thank you foxy-kun."

"I could have brought some people up here myself." Happy jumps off Naruto's shoulder.

"True, but I want you to save your magic for now. You might need it later." Naruto reasons.

Looking through the glass door Natsu grumbles; "Why do we have to sneak in? This is not exactly charging in."

"Because while the kingdom may have a garrison here. Duke Everlue is the real law of Shiro-Tsume." The blond Uzumaki speaks up dryly. "Little toad has his hands in the right pockets."

"And I already told you, I am not going to rot in jail with you." Lucy walks over beside the dragon slayer.

The rosette man grunts in annoyance as Mirajane giggles. "Oh come on Natsu, this is the stuff Naruto is really good at. Remember what he is after all."

Walking over to the glass door, Naruto pulls out two Senbon from his sleeve. Kneeling down he picks the lock in seconds. "It took me five long months learning how to use these damn needles. Baachan said I should be prepared for anything, why she taught me herself with these."

A shudder runs down his spine remembering being a human pincushion. Had to be all the times he called Tsunade 'granny', even if it was him being affectionate.

"Baachan?" Lucy tilts her head over to her fellow blond.

Naruto scratches the back of his head; "My foster mother, Tsunade Senju. She adopted me when I was twelve. We always had an odd mother and son relationship. But we loved each other, all that counts."

Natsu looks over to Lucy; "I thought you said you can never forgive that old geezer."

"Oh I won't forgive him. When we burn that damn book, I am going to use his toothbrush to clean the toilets." The buxom blond cackles evilly.

"Man that is so freaking gross." Natsu shakes his head

Hell hath no fury than woman scorned, Naruto thinks while cringing. Standing the blond silently opens the door.

Entering the room, they all shelves littered with books, antiques, and even full plate armor on display near the walls. Both Naruto and Mira look around curiously, along with Lucy and Natsu.

"What is this? A storage room?" The buxom blond asks out loud.

"RRAWWH..!"

Grabbing her chest, Lucy hyperventilates holding the wall, while Natsu laughs seeing Happy wearing a skull mask over his head. Both snicker at their busty friend, until being smacked on their heads by Naruto and Mirajane.

Heading out from the storage room, the group moves quietly through the mansion, checking room by room. Although for Naruto's case, he had to hold back the bile in his throat seeing a toilet with a bust of Everlue's head. Not to mention the giant golden statue of the man himself in the main room.

"Do we seriously have to look at every room? Be loads faster if we grabbed someone and make them tell us where it is." Natsu grumbles.

Naruto rubs his eyes; "The whole idea of an infiltration is stealth." Mira quietly nodding in agreement to her roommates words.

"Why don't you be like Naruto, act like a ninja?" Lucy looks over to the dragon slayer.

The said 'authentic' Ninja of the group feels his eye twitching; "Excuse me?"

A large goofy smile forms on Natsu's lips; "Like a real ninja?"

"What's going on inside that head of yours?" Lucy dryly looks over.

"Hello! I am a real damn ninja, dattebayo!"

The group stops as the ground in front of them erupts with the four maids jumping out; "Intruders Virgo!"

Appearing at their lead the gorilla woman glares; "Let's get them girls!"

"RRAWWH..!"

Scattering, the four ugly maids flee from a skull masked blue furred feline. Soon all are sent flying by a flaming right hook from Natsu. "NINJA POWER!"

A deep throaty growl and dangerous eye twitching shows Naruto is far from pleased. The young man maybe a goof most days, but being a shinobi he takes very seriously, and with a hell of a lot pride like any true Uzu.

"It's alright, let Natsu have his fun." Mira pats the blond on the head.

Quickly before the girls could even blink, Naruto pulls both back as Virgo leaps and lands on top of their dragon slayer friend, trying to flatten him. Lucy and Happy nearly scream till see Natsu pick up the large woman and throwing her off to the side. A magic circle appears at his feet, leaping up the dragon slayer kicks Virgo down the first floor hard with a flaming kick.

Landing beside the group, Natsu has his scarf around his face save his eyes like a mask. His hands together in the worst hand seal Naruto has ever seen "We must not let ourselves be discovered. We are Ninja!"

"Ninja!" Happy repeats on his friend's shoulder.

"Ninja are supposed to quiet you guys." Lucy moans dryly.

"That is not how you do a ram seal, you dumbass!" Naruto growls out. "And when the hell do I ever talk like that dattebayo! Ninja do not sound like that!" Mirajane giggles at the blond Sennin waving his fist angrily at Natsu.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Realizing the fight might have alerted someone, they dash through a large white door. Closing the door the group find where they needed to be, the study. All along the walls are built in shelves filled with countless books.

A whistle comes from Naruto; "That is a lot of books." Both Natsu and Happy nod in agreement.

"Some of these look priceless." Mira looks at one shelf.

Want to guess how he got a few of these priceless items? The blond Uzumaki thinks dryly. He absently hears the fox snorting.

"Let's start looking." Natsu cheers with an 'aye sir' from Happy.

"Everlue might look like an idiot, but has good taste in literature." Lucy comments looking around. "I might actually respect him a little if he reads all of these."

Stopping at a shelf Natsu's eyes widen; "He has Icha-Icha Paradise and Violence!"

"Those have been selling like crazy all around Magnolia!" Happy flies around the shelves.

"Actually, they have been the best-selling novels in all of Fiore for two years." Mira walks over beside Lucy looking around. "Just have no idea who the author is. He or she keeps a very private life."

No one noticing Naruto adjusting his collar uncomfortably, as he hears the old fox chuckling at him...

"Hey found a book on fish!" Happy smiles brightly.

Lucy sighs; "This is going to really suck. How are we going to find one stupid book with all these books?"

Pulling a book with a golden cover from the shelf, Naruto looks over to his fellow blond dryly; "Oh something like this Lu-Chan."

The blond shows the front cover of the book with the picture of a sunrise, above that in big bold words; DAYBREAK.

"We found it already?!" Natsu and Lucy almost shout.

Mira smiles clasping her hands together; "Way to go Foxy!"

Fire lights from Natsu's hand; "Alright lets burn it and get out of here!"

However, Naruto only looks at Daybreak as Lucy walks over to him. Upon seeing the author's name at the bottom, she snatches the book showing pure awe in her brown eyes. "This book was made by Kemu Zaleon!"

"Who?" The boys plus cat ask in unison.

"Kemu Zaleon, he was not only a great Mage but a brilliant writer." Mira looks over to Naruto and Natsu.

Lucy coos looking at the book. "I have read every one of his books! Even when I was a little girl I have been a fan of his work! Was this unpublished or something?"

Natsu shrugs; "Well, whatever. It all burns the same way."

In a flash, the buxom blond holds the book for dear life; "You are not burning this book! This is an artistic piece of literature. You're not going anywhere near it, pyro!"

"Lu-Chan, we would be abandoning the job." Mira reasons which Natsu nodding.

"Can't we just pretend we burned it?" Lucy was trying to reason with the pyromaniac

"I'm no liar!" Natsu hand lights in flames again.

"We won't pretend to burn it, because we are not burning it."

Naruto's words catch Natsu and Mira by surprise as they look sharply at him. Both were about to say something till seeing his eyes showing his finality to the discussion. "There is a reason Kaby-San wants this burned. I want to know what it is."

"Foxy?"

Naruto looks his partner's in the eyes; "Look underneath the underneath. Never take anything at face value, this is one of those times Mira."

"Aw, come on Naruto! We just burn the book and get out of here!" Natsu whines.

"Well, well… So that is the reason, Boyoyo!" The ground erupts as Everlue jumps out from a hole. "So you thieves are here to take the Daybreak from me are you? All this effort by so many Mages for one worthless little book."

"Wouldn't it been easier to come through the door?" Happy mutters on Naruto's shoulder.

Lucy lifts a delicate brow; Worthless? Kaby-San wants this destroyed for 2 million. But the owner calls it worthless? Her fellow blond is also thinking the same thing.

"Well this works out fine. If the owner thinks it's worthless I can have it and we can all go home!" The buxom blond beams.

Everlue nearly blows a gasket; "That book is mine! You can't have it, so get your grubby hands off!"

Natsu glances to Naruto; "Come on man, let me burn the book and be done with it."

"No~ I don't want to!" Lucy whines.

"This is our job Lucy!" The dragon slayer sternly looks over.

All the males gawk as the buxom blond sits on her knees; "Well least let me read it!"

"YOU'RE READING IT NOW!?" Naruto, Natsu, Everlue, and happy yell out.

Everlue growls; "Oh Bullshit, I have had enough. How dare you touch one of my possessions! Come forth, Vanish Brothers!"

Two bookshelves slide away from each other revealing a secret door. "You summoned us sir?" A calm male voice comes from the door.

Sennin, Demoness, and Dragon Slayer narrow their eyes as two men enter the room.

The first man entering is average in height, wearing a white long sleeve shirt with green lining, black pants, and martial arts sneakers. He is bald save the back of his head which is braided in a long pony tail. On his face are four kanji symbol tattoos.

On his back appears to be a long metal staff frying pan.

The second is a tall lengthy build man, wearing a blue long-sleeved jacket with yellow stripes, blue jeans, and combat boots. His black hair styled like four long points, wearing an orange bandanna wrapped on his forehead. Both men having a cloth on their arms showing the symbol of the wolf.

"Can't believe these runts are from the Fairy tail guild." The tall man crosses his arms.

"They're from the Southern Wolves." Mira speaks up beside Naruto. "A mercenary guild. The shorter one is the older brother, the taller is the youngest."

The older brother nods respectfully; "Very astute, Mirajane Strauss."

A feral smirk crosses Natsu's lip as he cracks his knuckles; "So, hired muscle huh?"

"Boyoyo! The Southern Wolves are always hungry, prepare to die fools!"

Despite the intense air in the room, Lucy reads happily which makes the males plus cat gawk at her. While Mirajane only giggles at the sight; "Lu-Chan really does love books."

The older Vanish brother looks dryly. "What a joke."

"Got that right." The younger brother mumbles back.

"This…" Quickly standing, Lucy looks to her friends; "Hey can you guys keep them busy? Like you said Naru, look underneath the underneath. I think I found something."

Naru eh, heh... Shizune-Neechan always called me that. The blond Uzumaki absently smirks before turning serious. "Mira-Chan, go with her. Happy you go to." The three nod as they run off.

Everlue narrows his eyes; A secret? It must have slipped by me somehow. Perhaps Kemu left a treasure behind! "Vanish Brothers; I will take care of the girls. Kill these two brats!" The fat noble vanishes making another hole in his floor.

The older brother rubs his eyes; "Selfish clients can be so tiresome, Otouto."

"For real Niisan." The young brother shakes his head.

Natsu loosens his shoulders; "I got dibs on tall, flashy, and creepy."

"You cocky little bastard!" The young brother growls, a hand from his older brother stops him.

"He is baiting you Otouto, calm yourself down. We will take him down a peg soon enough."

The blond Sennin shrugs; "Guess that leaves me with the other one."

"You will find me not so simple to defeat, Mage," The older brother narrows his eyes.

A growl comes from Naruto's throat; "I am not a damn Mage. I am a Shinobi!"

Lifting his nonexistent eyebrow the older brother looks critically; "A non-mage in a wizard's guild? That is rather odd."

"Yes, it's rare, dick weed, but some do join." Naruto retorts dryly. "Been in Fairy Tail for two years thank you very much."

"At any rate, the man beside you is a fire Mage correct?" The older brother looks to Natsu.

"How did you know?" Natsu narrows his eyes.

The younger brother shrugs; "We have surveillance crystals all over the mansion. We saw you fight Virgo with the flames on your feet. The female blond has celestial gate keys on her belt. She is a celestial Mage."

"Meaning, the girl you call Lucy is a 'holder-type' Mage. You and Mirajane Strauss are an 'ability-type' Mage." The older brother finishes. "However, I heard Mirajane had lost much of her power due to the death of her younger sister, Lisanna Strauss."

Before the young Sennin could stop his friend, flames coats Natsu's clinch fist as he charges forward. "You don't have the right to speak her name!" The dragon slayer's voice being nothing but rage as he roars.

Appearing in front of his younger sibling, the older brother pulls out his large metal long handle frying pan from his back. Flaming Fist collides with metal; Natsu's eyes harden seeing the flames slowly vanish from slamming into the frying pan's flat back end.

"You will find your precious flames useless with me. Fighting fire Mages is one of my specialties!" The older brother narrows his eyes.

"Then how about fighting a Shinobi!" The older brother lifts his weapon in time to block Naruto's punch. But to the mercenary's shock he skids back a few feet. Keeping the pressure, the blond is on the older brother with roundhouse kick. Again he only hits metal, but the force sends the oldest brother through the doors and out of the room with Naruto on his tail.

Natsu smirks popping his knuckles. "Looks like it's just you and me big guy."

The older brother just scoffs, not liking the attitude form the Fire Mage. "Don't underestimate me, I eat Fire Mages for breakfast!" With a roar, the younger brother runs forth with a pulled back fist.

Grinning from ear to ear, Natsu jumps to the side of the punch to his chest, turning around and spinning with a rising leg smacking into the merc's face, knocking him back with a flip.

Though he was flipping from the crushing kick to the face, the younger mercenary of the duo corrects himself, landing on his feet and acted fast, seeing Natsu rushing in with a wild punch. Catching the fist of the Fire Mage, the Mercenary pulls Natsu around like a whip. He only set up his actual hit, with a quick reversal he cut with a knife hand to Natsu's neck, attempting to knock the Mage out.

Cursing under his breath at being caught into such a counter attack, Natsu blocked the blow, kicking off the ground as he was slammed into by the knife hand and arm. The momentum causing him to spin upside down, where he landed on both hands and gripped the ground, twisting and striking out like a top with his feet. "Take THIS!"

The younger brother of the merc duo was caught completely off guard, and was hit once, spun around form the hit, and then kicked hard in the back by a second hit, causing him to land on the ground, failing to catch himself.

Pushing himself up and flipping to his feet, Natsu slammed his fists into each other, and grinned. Fire magic swirling around him, he breathed in. "FIRE DRAGONS ROAR!"

The Mercenary, without his pan, could only jump out of the way of the fire coming his way. This was a good thing as well as a mistake, as Natsu jumped up, spinning like a ball before springing his legs out and crashing them against the Merc's head, causing the tall younger brother to fall into the ground at high speed.

Though the fight was not over just yet, as the merc landed on his feet, the ground crumbling under him from the force. Looking up to see the fire Mage rushing down for the final blow, he went for the counter.

With a dropping spear kick, Natsu was smirking in victory, and a little too soon it would seem, as he soon found himself punched in the gut by a powerful fist strike, the merc dodging his kick and taking a jab of his own enough to cause Natsu to fly back in pain.

Landing on the ground, Natsu grips his belly and groans a bit. "Damn it! That hurt you prick! Low blow!"

The response the younger mercenary gave was a scoff, a spit of his blood, and a glare. "Mage's always think they have flashy fighting moves, when all they got is magic and no physical prowess. I'll admit, you've given me a good fight, surprised me a good amount. But I won't let you beat me so easily."

The mercenary jumped into the air himself, ready to end Natsu with a dropping knee attack. This was where Natsu decided to just end things and get their reward. Flipping himself back, Natsu dodged the knee attack, before kicking out against the Merc and slamming his feet into the chin of the taller brother.

The move also proving to give Natsu the momentum to flip right-side up again, he grabs the mercenary and drops him to the floor. "That's it, you egotistical mercenaries think Fairy Tail is for show huh? Well this will show you our potential!"

Natsu pulled the Merc up, upside down, in front of him, and a fire engulfed his body and more so on his fist. "FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!"

And with that, he gives the taller brother of the duo a sweet punch to the gut, sending him flying through the doors ahead.

XxX ~ Naruto ~ XxX

Back flipping over the railing to avoid hitting it, the older brother skids when landing on the first floor. Looking up, he sees his opponent front flipping and landing on the first floor in front of him. Cerulean and raven stare blankly at each other.

"Have to admit you are good." The older brother states calm as ever.

"I busted my ass to get where I am, I better damn well be." An object slips into the blond's right hand.

Lifting a brow, the older brother sees what looks like a sword hilt, oddly vajra in design. "Is that a magic sword? So you are a swordsman?"

Well, as far as most people in the guild and Earthland think it is. "A gift from my mother, her grand uncle made it himself. As for being a swordsman, it's a work in progress. Only know two techniques, and getting the speed down for it is a bitch."

"Let's see how good you are then Shinobi." Hearing a sound the older brother sees a blade of yellow lighting come to life from Naruto's sword.

Without hesitation, Naruto put the sword to his side, as if sheathing it. Bending down a bit he glares at the older mercenary. "You asked for it." In a blinding flash of speed, Naruto was on the frying pan wielder instantly, slashing upward with a heavy speed strike.

The older of the Merc duo could hardly block in time, but managed to pull it off by spinning the large pan itself down in the way, the metal sparking from the lightning, but unable to absorb the chakra of the blade. The force was enough to open the older brother to Naruto's spinning kick to the gut.

Although the kick connected, the older brother backed off in time to reduce the strength it hit him with, making him unbalanced and trying to correct himself. Giving Naruto an opening, it was taken by the blond Sennin, who came with a fierce downward slash.

The pan wielding merc dragged the handle down in time to block the blade, which sparked against the pan handle fiercely before he turned, throwing Naruto off to the side before swinging his pan in time to finally land a blow.

Naruto ducked down completely under the pan, backing off from where he was about to land, and where the pan was aimed at. Without missing a beat, Naruto slashed for the mercenary's feet, trying to cut him down.

This was not going to be easy, however. The older of the duo jumped along with his swing, seeing Naruto dodge his blow. The momentum of his swing turning him around, backing him away a bit, and raising his pan for the next attack.

Naruto, seeing this, stands up to ready himself for this attack. Though what he thought as a downward slam turned into a swinging handle strike. The pan wielder knowing his weapon well, as he struck forward with the handle's tip, swinging it around to slam into Naruto's head.

Seeing this change in attack, Naruto risked the pain for his ending blow. "Wrong move!" With a speed the mercenary was unaware of, Naruto stepped forward, under the handle strike, and slashed for his hands. Though not a real blade, and not really cutting any flesh, the pain of the electrical current was undeniable as the older brother mercenary screamed from his arms being hit by a powerful yellow lightning, scarring his arms and forcing him to drop the frying pan with flailing arms, sending it right for Naruto, who jumped back quickly to dodge it and pull off his finishing blow.

Applying chakra to his legs, the blond quickly leaps high into air, avoiding the Pan flying at him. Looking up, the bald man sees the young Sennin coming down with his lightning sword raised above his head.

Ryu Tsui Sen!

He had no time to scream as the older brother feels pure pain from being slashed from right shoulder to the left of his waist. Standing to his feet, the blond watches his enemy fall on his back. His cerulean eyes gaze solemnly at the now unconscious man.

"Being I am a Ninja, I understand you some since you're a mercenary." The lightning blade of the Raijin no Ken fades as the blond looks at the hilt. "But piece of advice, never underestimate anyone."

Fire Dragon Iron Fist!

As those words left Naruto's lips, the younger Vanish brother flies into view, while in flames. Hitting the ground hard and unconscious partially burnt. Coming out of the study Natsu smirks down at his friend; "That chump was all talk. Saying how Mages don't know how to fight."

"Obviously they have never been to Magnolia." Naruto chuckles.

The dragon slayer rubs the back of his head sheepishly; "Though I think I overdid it."

Neither one noticing Virgo's eyes beginning to glow.

XxX ~ Lucy, Happy, and Mirajane ~ XxX

Down in the mansion's sewer system, Mira sits beside Lucy as she rapidly reads Daybreak with 'wind reading glasses'. Sitting on the white haired beauty's lap, Happy looks up to Mira. "Agree with Natsu, it would have been better to burn the book."

"I trust Foxy's instincts. Also, something did not feel right when we spoke with Kaby-San." Mira looks down to the little blue feline.

Closing the book and taking off her glasses, Lucy looks over; "Naru was right. You won't believe what is hidden in this book. We can't burn it now, no way!" Both ladies stand dusting themselves off. "We have to take this to Kaby-San."

"Boyoyo~, Wind reading glasses eh, care to share little girl? Secrets don't make friends you know."

Gasping, Mira jumps back as two arms come through the wall grabbing Lucy's wrists, making her drop the book and her glasses which break. The wall opens revealing Everlue as he sneers at the ladies and flying cat.

The blond squeaks painfully as Everlue holds her arms tightly behind her back. "I will never tell you." She growls out. "You're an enemy of literature! A man like you does not deserve to know!"

"An enemy of literature?" Everlue sounding offended. "Each one of my books I read to the last page girl, my works of fine art proves I am cultures greatest friend! Are you suggesting of man of my high social status is comparable that of some uncultured peasant!?"

"HAH! Your ugly maid collection says you don't know squat about beauty!"

"How dare you mock, they are the very definition of beauty!" Everlue grips her wrists harder. "What secret does it hold? Let me guess, Kemu must have buried his fortune. He must have placed a treasure map within the pages. Tell me girl!"

The answer he got from the buxom blond is her tongue sticking out, blowing raspberries at him. Snarling, Everlue was about to snap Lucy's arms till being strongly dropped kicked in the face by Happy. His grip loosens, but in a second a very sharp object flies through the air, making the short man letting go of Lucy and ducking out of fright.

Running over and grabbing the book, Lucy stands by Mira who threw the object in question. Flying back over to his friends, Happy lands on the buxom blond's slender shoulder, as Everlue leaps out his hole, shakily looking behind him. Imbedded in a pipe, he sees an odd three point dagger with writing on the handle.

Shaking off his fear, Everlue looks back at the ladies in anger; "You little brats! I had commissioned Kemu to create that book. So whatever secret it holds rightfully belongs to me!"

Lucy smirks as she lifts her arms revealing a golden key in her hand. "Looks like the tables have turned tubby. Give me the book and I might go easy on you. But all things considered, I just give a good smack anyway."

"Oh, so you are celestial Mage I see. But it seems for a student of literature, your intelligence is flawed. You child believe the weaker party has rallied to defeat the stronger foe." Everlue smirks viciously; "But your power is not match for my 'Diver' magic Boyoyo!"

"He's a Mage?" Both Lucy and Happy yell as Mira narrows her eyes.

A hand grabs the back of Everlue's suit before he could sink back into the ground. "I had about enough of you, you damn gopher." The aristocrat feels himself flying backwards before his nerves feel intense pain when hitting the wall.

The buxom blond gasps. "Naru!" her fellow blond glaring where Everlue hit the ground. She soon blinks in confusion; "Wait? How did you get down here?"

Naruto smirks showing the tri point kunai in his hand as Mira explains; "You see? There is a seal on Foxy's kunai. When I throw it, it is kind of like a summoning and he teleports wherever you are when throwing It." The blond hands her hack the kunai. "Thank you Foxy."

"Hiraishin no jutsu; something my dad made. He left a few of his special kunai set so I can use It." The blond Sennin soon groans. "But I am still having a hell of time making a custom seal of my own, my dad and mom were both geniuses at Fūinjutsu."

Crossing his arms, the blond Uzumaki leans his back against the metal wall. "He is all yours Lu-Chan. Kick his fat ass."

"You got it!" The buxom blond smirks as Everlue stands holding his head. "I read every page of this book. It is a horrible adventure novel, idolizing you as the main hero!"

Naruto, Mirajane, and even Happy deadpans at the short fat man; "Seriously?"

Everlue shakes off the mental cobwebs; "Why should 'I' not be idolized?! But yes, the plot itself was crap. And to believe such terrible work actually came from Kemu Zaleon. Inexcusable..!"

Lucy clinches her fists; "How can you be so arrogant! You forced him to write it!?"

Everlue scoffs; "Arrogance you say child? Kemu should have felt both honored and privileged to write a story of my magnificence!"

"Then why did you have to blackmail him into doing it?" The buxom blond nearly yells.

Mira blinks looking over to Naruto who glares dangerously at Everlue. The said tubby bastard shrugs unconcerned. "What is the big deal? All he needed was the proper encouragement. Any fool would have jumped at the chance to have me as their main role. But the stubborn fool said no."

"What the?" The more this man talked Lucy feels bile coming up her throat.

"So I gave him an ultimatum. Write the story or I revoke his entire family's citizenship. In the end he gave up and wrote the story." Everlue actually having the gall in smiling proudly in bringing down another human being.

Mira looks in shock; "You would have withdrawn their citizenship? But they would never have been able to find another line of employment in the workforce guild!"

"How much authority does this guy have?" Happy looks equally in shock on Naruto's shoulder.

Well since sir Duke douche bag is the richest prick in town, he can do whatever the fuck he pleases. Naruto mentally growls. In his mind the Kyuubi watches with one eye open.

"But I did not care for his actions for rejecting me once. So I had him write in a jail cell, rotting for three years." Everlue smiles maliciously. "He finally realized my greatness when I crushed his pride!"

Something in Lucy finally snaps; "You bastard, all this to feed your vanity! It was to protect his family; it's why he had to write your character as some heroic character of justice, when it was all bull crap! A true writer's pride would never break to a big idiot like you!"

The tubby bastard soon glares at the buxom blond; "How do you know so much of these facts?"

"Because Kemu-Sama wrote everything within these pages! He used all of his magic into making this book! He was a Mage before becoming a writer." Lucy smiles victoriously along with Naruto.

A deep cold chill runs down Everlue's spine; if he wrote down about how I made him write my story. Then he also wrote every last backhand deal I ever made! You bastard, even in death you still mock me Kemu. UNFORGIVABLE..!"

"But there is much more! A secret not even meant for you! And that is why I will never give this book back to you!" Lucy lifts her hand holding her golden key; Open: Gate of the giant crab, Cancer!

In a flash of light a tall lean build man appears. Wearing a blue stripped button, long sleeved shirt, black leather pants and shoes, black shades covering his eyes. His short black hair in corn rolls oddly, and on his back are six large crab legs. In both of his hands at very sharp shears.

Immediately drool forms from Happy's mouth and stars in his eyes; "A GIANT CRAB! Oh, yeah! Nothing says I am going to kick your backside like a tough guy wearing sunglasses!"

Naruto's eye twitches; "Please do not drool on my sage coat, dattebayo." Mira giggles at her friend's grief.

"Hey Lucy? How would you like your hair done today, baby?" Cancer asks in a deep raspy voice.

Happy's jaw drops as he weakly looks to Lucy; "Can you send him back?" Naruto face palms.

"Oh, shut up you stupid cat. And can you focus please Cancer?" Lucy mumbles in pure annoyance. "Take care of baldy over there please."

"Awesome, you got it baby."

His mind racing a hundred thoughts a minute, Everlue seethes; "Damn you Zaleon… I will not rot in hell with you. Do you hear me ZALEON?!" Raising his right arm, a golden key is held formerly in his hand.

Open: Gate of the maiden, VIRGO!

No way! He knows celestial magic too!? The buxom blond's eyes widen in shock.

Ripping through the ground like a beast, the gorilla maid roars; "Did I hear my master summon me?!"

Everlue point to the thorns in his side. "Fetch me that book Virgo."

"You got to be kidding! She is a celestial spirit?!" Lucy looks to Cancer who nods 'yes' to her. "Oh, crap."

However, everyone's eyes soon widen like dinner plates as they see, of all people, Natsu hanging on the gorilla woman's back. "Where the hell am I?!" The dragon slayer soon sees Naruto and growls. "You bum, you used that damn Hiraishin of yours without taking me with you!"

"What is the meaning of this!?" Everlue's eye twitches.

The said blond only gawks as Lucy finds her voice; "How did you get down here?!"

"How? Well since Naruto ditched me I saw her getting up. So I jumped onto her back and find myself here."

"You… Grabbed a hold of her… That means you passed through the spirit gate with her.." Lucy only gawks in sheer shock. "No living human can survive a travel like that! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

Should I say anything about that? The blond Uzumaki mentally wonders.

"I'd doubt she'd believe you gaki." The fox retorts dryly.

"Hey Lucy, what do I with gorilla lady!?" Natsu yells hanging on Virgo as she tries to grab him.

"You finish what you started, DUH!" Lucy yells back.

Everlue growls pointing at the Fairy Tail crew. "Virgo, I want you to clean up this rubbish!"

Front flipping off the large woman he skids to a stop with a feral grin. Virgo raises her fist. "As you wish master."

FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!

Everlue's eyes bulge out of their sockets, as he sees his prized maid slamming into the ground, making a massive crater, courtesy of Natsu's flaming fist. Grabbing the whip from her belt, Lucy lashes it forward wrapping it around Everlue's throat.

"You dirty little mole man! GET HIM CANCER!" She lifted Everlue into the air with her whip.

"You got it baby." The celestial spirit sprints with blinding speed.

Wow he is fast, The shared thought of Naruto and Mira.

"You don't even have what it takes to be even a support character! You're just another greedy villain!" The buxom blond yells as Natsu roundhouse kicks tubby in the face over to cancer.

"I am done, is this what you wanted, baby?"

"Hah, oh yeah, way a go crab man." Natsu smirks.

The celestial spirit is soon back beside his master, as Everlue hits the ground unconscious, now bald and no mustache. Both Natsu and Happy cheer as Lucy pulls her whip back on her belt, giving a high five to Cancer. She then hugs the book warmly to her chest.

Both Naruto and Mira smile as they look at one another. "I'd say Lu-chan kicked some ass, dattebayo."

"She is a true member of Fairy Tail." Mira smiles standing beside her partner.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

As they leave the mansion, Naruto sent a Kage Bunshin to the council troops stationed in town. Before that little bastard can blink he will be in jail where he rightfully belongs.

When knocking on the door, with Marie surprised in seeing everyone again, she lets them in to see her husband. Kaby is both surprised and relieved seeing everyone back and safe. Standing in front of their client, Lucy sits the book on the table as she sits down beside Natsu.

"I am glad all of you are safe." Kaby looks down at the book with a hard expression. "But I asked you to burn this book."

"I completely understand you wish to destroy this book. Because you wish to protect your father's legacy, because you Kemu-Sama's son aren't you."

Natsu, Happy, and Mira's eyes widen as Naruto crosses his arms. "Look underneath, the underneath. Score one for Kakashi-Sensei."

Kaby sighs looking at the book. "Yes. I am Kemu Zaleon's son."

"Have you ever read it?" Lucy asks softly.

"No." Kaby shakes his head; "I could never bring myself to do it. But it would be waste of time. As my father said this is trash."

Despite Naruto having a firm grip on the back of Natsu's waistcoat, both Mira and Lucy hold each of his arms restraining an angry dragon slayer. "That was your fathers! Who gives a damn if it's worthless, it was made by your FATHER!" Natsu's voice and body shaking with rage. "Some people would kill for that kind of memory!"

"That enough Natsu, at least let Kaby explain himself." Lucy strains holding back her friend.

Kaby sighs as he takes the book from the coffee table; "Daybreak, it caused my family nothing but heartache since its creation. Thirty-one years ago my father returned home, and upon returning he took a butcher knife to his right hand and cut it off."

The girls plus cat gasp, as both Natsu and Naruto stare wide eye at the older gentleman. Gripping the book in his hand, they all saw regret on Kaby's face. "I said terrible things to him when he was placed in the hospital. When I left I heard he committed suicide. For the longest time I hated my father for so weak he could not standup for himself."

Marie places her hands on her husband's shoulders as he speaks again; "Years later I deeply regretted everything I said to him. I can never got back and take away all the things I said." The group looks at him quietly as keeps his eyes on Daybreak. "So for some measure of atonement. I will burn away this shame."

Placing the book down to reach for matches in his pocket, Daybreak soon begins to glow brightly. Soon the letters of Daybreak rise from the book, soon they begin to shift around.

"You're wrong Kaby-San. Kemu Zaleon, or rather Zekua Melon, cast one final spell upon this book." Lucy explains as the 'Daybreak' now becomes 'Dear Kaby'. The book soon opens as the pages glows brightly with letters soon coming off the pages and into the air.

"Your father did not stop writing because he wrote the worst book in history. He stopped because he wrote his masterpiece. A letter to you, the son he loved with every fiber of his being. And when you read it the way he intended, it is easily the best work he ever wrote!" Lucy smiles seeing light tears in Kaby's eyes.

Naruto chuckles as Mira smiles brightly. Good way to finish a mission.

XxX ~ Nightfall ~ XxX

Walking back home to Magnolia, only Lucy drags her feet looking to ground moping. Beside her, Mira rubs her friend's shoulders gently with Naruto having both his hand behind his head. In front Natsu walks with Happy flying beside him.

"We could have had two million jewels," The buxom blond quietly whines. "Two months' worth of rent and clothing shopping down the drain."

Her fellow blond chuckles as Mira sweatdrops. "Well, the job was to burn the book Lu-Chan. But since we didn't, we failed." That only made Lucy slump her shoulders. "If it's that bad, foxy can help out, right?"

Naruto blinks owlishly. "Huh? I will?"

In slow motion, with big puppy dog eyes, Lucy gazes over to her fellow blond. "You will Naru~?" And like an idiot Naruto looked. Whatever resistance he had become jelly when seeing those big brown eyes almost tearing up.

Ah, damn it!

Now it is Naruto's turn to slump forward as Mira giggles at him. "I'll pay it for ya, dattebayo."

Her depression vanishes in seconds as Lucy squeals jumping up and down. She quickly hugs Naruto, who glares over to Mira, who only sticks her tongue out at him. All the while trying and failing to ignore, the buxom blond's large breasts press on his body.

Natsu looks back to everyone. "Besides, it would be wrong taking money from those two since they really did not have that much money at all."

"Aye, since they were borrowed a friend's rich house." Happy flies over to Naruto landing on his shoulder.

Letting go of Naruto, Lucy looks over to Natsu. "How did you know they never lived there?"

"That was easy. Their scent did not match the one of the mansion." The dragon slayer smiles.

Why am I not surprised; Lucy sweatdrops.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

At a clearing, Natsu gets a camp fire going, while Naruto pulls out a scrolls filled with food and some drinks. Everyone sits eating quietly while keeping warm. Sitting beside Mira, Lucy sighs contently.

"Still, it was a blessing to read such a good book from Kemu-Sama."

A Cheshire smile slowly grows on Natsu's face; "I got you all figured out. All those papers on your desk. Your trying to become a writer aren't you."

The buxom blond blushes a storm peaking both Naruto's and Mira's curiosity. Lucy quickly waves her arms; "Please don't tell anyone! This is my first story and it's not really good yet."

"How will we know if it's not good if we haven't seen it yet?" Mira tilts her head.

Quickly crawling on all fours, Lucy cups Mira's hands pleadingly; "Please Mira-Chan. Please don't tell anyone I am making a book."

Sighing, looking over to Naruto who shrugs, Mira nods back to Lucy. "Okay, I promise not to say a word." She is quickly hugged by the buxom blond.

Naruto snorts while Natsu laughs.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

After a good night's sleep the group keeps walking through the forest by dawn's light. However, Natsu cannot stop snickering seeing Naruto and his Kage Bunshin piggybacking both Mira and Lucy. The reason being the group is walking through a swamp.

"I'd say Mira-Chan is comfortable boss." The clone snickers along with Lucy on the said clone's back.

A twitching eye from the original blond, as Mirajane has fallen asleep on his back, her arms wrapped around his neck, her head leaning on his, smiling contently. It is something about his abnormally high body heat and the few times when Mira was too tired working at the bar to walk home, he carried her. Every time she always falls quickly asleep, snuggling the blond's back like he was her favorite teddy bear.

"I really don't mind, but Mira-Chan really likes to cling when doing this." Naruto mumbles absently making the others chuckle. It was true, first time it ever happened she never let go, so he had to sleep in the same bed with her.

It was a rather interesting, very awkward, an insanely hilarious morning for both of them.

Shaking off her muses, Lucy looks to Happy who is sitting on Natsu's head. "I don't know about this you guys, are you certain we are going the right way?"

"Happy said this is the quickest way home, so we're going this route." Natsu mutters dryly.

"Aye sir, have a little faith. Trust my nose! It never lies." The blue feline puffs his chest proudly.

"It never lies, when there is a lot of fish nearby dattebayo..." Both Narutos retort shaking their heads.

Lucy sighs in exasperation; "It's dogs that have great noses. And what does smell have to do with direction?"

Walking out of the swamp, Natsu looks dryly at Lucy who is still piggybacking on the Naruto's clone. "Why don't you walk for yourself?"

"Because my feet hurt, and Naru is really warm and relaxing. Besides, I don't hear him complaining." Lucy smiles resting her chin on the clone's shoulder.

Both blonds shrug; "Helping a friend and being a gentleman. There is nothing wrong with it."

"And if I recall correctly, you use to act just like that bonehead lizard brat over there."

Oh shut up…

Natsu only grunts rolling his eyes, hearing a noise from some bushes the males stop narrowing their eyes. Instantly the dragon slayer jumps into the bush ready for a fight as both Naruto's pull out their Raijin no ken into their respected hands, ready to blaze in a moment of trouble.

"Do you always have to fight Natsu?" Both Naruto's hearing the underlining worry in Lucy's tone.

"Aye, get' em Natsu!" Happy cheers.

Leaping out of the bush both Naruto's and Lucy sweatdrop. Glaring at each other, Natsu and now revealed Gray, in only his boxer mind you, growl at one another. Leaping off Naruto's clone Lucy looks to the two fellow blonds as the clone dispels.

"Why is Gray in his boxers?"

Stirring, Mirajane yawns cutely looking up at the scene; "It's just Gray, you get used to it after a while."

The buxom blond looks at Naruto dryly as he nods; "Sadly you do…"

Looking back over as Natsu and Gray as they argue she sighs. "They can be so childish…"

As she said that, the ice Mage stops arguing when seeing Mirajane piggybacking on Naruto. "Wait, Mira was still at the guild when I left."

Naruto snorts while Mira giggles; "That was Foxy's clone henge'd to be me."

"Jiji knows I do it because Mira-Chan needs a break from time to time at the bar."

Gray's eye twitches. "Why did you never tell anyone?"

"Nobody asked!" Mira and Naruto say in unison.

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"You were coming back home from a job?" Lucy asks sitting on a rock beside Mira.

"Yeah, I took a short through the woods since it's faster." The ice Mage comments sitting by Naruto and Natsu, and fully clothed.

The group takes a small break at cliff where Happy sits at the edge fishing at the river below. "See, I told you this was the quickest way."

The buxom blond looks to the feline dryly; "Oh yeah, if your nose was so awesome, how did not know Gray was right in front of us?"

"There are some things you don't' want to smell."

A vein pops on Gray's face glaring at Happy; "What did you say?" Shaking his head Gray stands; "Whatever, we best hurry back anyways. Erza is due back anytime now."

Paling, the dragon slayer gawks while Naruto and Mira perk up. Lucy lightly gasps; "'The' Erza."

Naruto rubs his chin; "That's right, Erza-Chan went on a monster hunting job three weeks ago. Offered to help but said she had it."

Happy walks over with a fish in his mouth; "Well she is the strongest woman in Fairy Tail."

"I can't wait to meet her~!" Lucy coos while blushing before getting serious and looks to Naruto and Mira. "But you know, I never seen a picture of her in sorcerer's weekly or anything what's she like?"

"Scary." This comes from Natsu, Gray, and Happy.

Lucy sweatdrops as Naruto shakes his head; "Erza-Chan is a very kind person, she just strict when coming to certain things." The young Sennin quickly stands smirking at Lucy making some hand seals. "As for how she looks… Henge...!"

The two other males, plus feline freeze while Lucy blushes. Appear before her is a striking beautiful long red haired woman, with a slender, voluptuous figure that rivals Mirajane. From the waist up she wears armor with the Heart's Kruez symbol on left breast, from the waist down is a blue plated skirt and thigh high leather boot.

Her almond eyes show nothing but strength as she smiles down at Lucy. "Well, what do you think?" the redhead's voice husky with a hint of sultry.

Erza looks like this!? She is so~ beautiful… Lucy almost swoons at the sight as Naruto dispels the jutsu. Shaking out of her stupor and catching her breath the buxom blond grins up to her friend as she stands.

"With a body like that why doesn't she flaunt it?"

"Erza-Chan is much more reserved than that. She just likes keeping things in the guild orderly and functioning. She even scares Master when she is on a roll." Mira speaks up as she stands dusting off her dress.

When hearing a large sigh of relief, Naruto, Mira, and Lucy sweatdrop looking over at Natsu, Happy, and Gray. "Serious guys, you two freak out just at the sight of her, dattebayo."

"Because she is scary as hell!" Natsu, Gray, and Happy yell out.

"Well if you three did not act like idiots it would help!" Naruto yells back. "And you wonder why she whips your asses?!"

Before either could retort an explosion of sand at the center of the group catches everyone off guard. Coughing and slowly standing from the smoke Gray looks around in annoyance; "What now?"

"HAPPY!" Natsu quickly stand looking around frantically.

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The said blue feline only mumbles while being held over an unlit campfire. Around him as several shady looking people. Two identical twin brothers almost drool; "Finally we get to have some protein!"

"No barriers for us today!" The other twin rubs his hand together.

"No, 'your asses are getting kicked six ways to Sunday' is on you menu, dattebayo!"

Looking up, Happy's kidnapers see the feline's friends glaring down at them. Fire appearing on Natsu's clinched fist as he growls; "You assholes better hand over Happy before I really get angry!"

Ice forms on Gray's hands; "I say we just go with Naruto's plan. Let's kick their ass!"

Before the would be kidnappers knew what hit them, they are getting thrashed by an angry Naruto, Natsu, and Gray. At the same time, Lucy and Mira untie and free a very relieved Happy who hugs the white haired beauty as she returns it. The ladies glare over as the boys tying up the five Mages to a tree.

"Lu… Lulla-" The short bald gray skinned Mage mumbles.

Walking over, Lucy kneels down beside a standing Naruto; "What did you say?"

"Lullaby…"

Naruto's danger senses scream as he grabs Lucy, while Natsu and Gray also jump out of the way as a shadowed hand runs over the ground. The five Mages pale as the shadow hand appears underneath them and closes. In seconds they, along with the tree is pulled into the ground.

"What the hell was that!?" Natsu and Naruto yell out.

Mira runs over helping Lucy while Gray looks from side to side; "Whoever or whatever that was they moved fast."

Flying over, Happy lands on the buxom blond's shoulder; "You okay Lucy?"

Mira and Naruto look at each before looking back to the hole in the earth. Something is going on… And it will happen soon.