Ever since Kakashi joined the guild, which was about an hour ago, the members of Fairy Tail have redoubled their efforts to find out what Natsu and Kakashi's red eye/eyes did. But all they ever got when they asked about it was either "Hmm... Did you say something?" or "It's a cool looking eye." Needless to say, it frustrated them to no end.
All they even know about it so far, is that it can render you unconscious should you look at it, which is a powerful ability alone, but who knows what else it could do, right? If only they knew...
Even Makarov and Gildarts had absolutely zero idea what the hell it was, apart from what everyone else knew. Makarov simply didn't care, but Gildarts was more of the curious type, and he had the perfect idea on how to find out.
He smiled inwardly and walked over to Kakashi. "Alright kid... fight me." He said.
Kakashi stared at him blankly for a few seconds. "Hmm? Did you say something?"
The entire guild face faulted at Kakashi's obliviousness.
Gildarts sighed. "Yes... I did say something. I want to fight you, but you're only allowed to use your eye techniques."
It was the perfect strategy, in Gildarts opinion. If Kakashi's eye could do enough to be used in a fight by itself, then it worked out fine. If it didn't, he would still be getting information, and he would just let him use another kind of magic. Pure Genius!
Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Ehh... Fine." He said, closing the strange, orange book he had been reading.
Everyone was glad to finally be able to see the eye in action, other than knocking out Mirajane, so they were all smiles. That is, until Natsu burst out laughing and stared at Gildarts.
"Y-you just m-made the worst mistake o-of your life! HAHAHA!" He stuttered out between explosive fits of laughter. This caused GIldarst to gulp worriedly, and the rest of the guild to look at him in confusion.
"Oh, and by the way." He continued. "You may want to have the fight in a bigger arena than that training ground."
Makarov looked at him wearily, before nodding.
Natsu continued. "We can do it in Magnolia forest, I've used it to train before, and none of the citizens have noticed."
Makarov frowned. "But we don't have anywhere to watch around there."
Natsu shrugged it off. "Don't worry, I'll make some stands." He said, teleporting away in a swirl, as did Kakashi.
Makarov shrugged and hopped off the bar stool he was currently sitting on. He landed in front of the doors, and faced the guild. Everyone watched him attentively.
"Alright folks, listen up. Those who want to watch Natsu's fight, come here, those wh-" He couldn't finish his sentence, mainly due to the fact that the entire guild rushed him at once. Makarov grinned after he was done being run over. This is definitely going to be interesting. He thought.
They were about to leave, when another swirl appeared behind them, and Kakashi stepped out with his hands in his coat pockets, looking bored as all hell.
He looked at them, clearly confused. "Where are you all going?"
Now it was the guild's turn to be confused. "To Magnolia Forest, where else?"
Kakashi sighed. "And how do you expect to find the arena by yourselves?"
Everyone in the crowd gave him a sheepish grin. "Uhm..."
Kakashi eye smiled and motioned them to follow him. "Don't worry, I'll lead you there, it's not too far away. Just enough that the town's people won't notice." He said as he walked out the guild doors. The members just shrugged and followed him out the door.
In Magnolia, people were looking at the odd group of people, well, oddly. I mean, it's not every day you see a thirteen year old reading a book leading the most powerful guild in Fiore. The guild didn't seem to notice, however. They were to busy whispering excitedly among themselves about the oncoming fight. Makarov and Gildarts walked at the back of the group, while Gray, Erza, Aki, and the Strauss siblings were leading the pack behind Kakashi.
Erza eyed the book in Kakashi's hand suspiciously and caught up to him, walking alongside him.
"What are you reading, Kakashi?" She asked.
Kakashi kept reading for a few seconds, before looking at her with a blank stare, blinking a few times before responding. "Hmm? Did you say something?"
Erza sighed in frustration and leaned over to him, trying to get a better look at what he was reading.
"He leaned over the towering wall, desperately trying to peer through-" She kept reading for a few moments, then her eyes widened, and hissed at him. "HEY! What the hell is this?! Why are you reading it in public, you fiend?!"
Kakashi raised an eyebrow and tilted his head. "Is there a reason I can't?" He asked.
Erza huffed furiously and glared at him. "You know perfectly well why you can't! And that material is too mature for your age!" She told him, sounding like a fourty year old mother.
Kakashi sighed. "You're younger than me." He pointed out, before leaning into her ear. "And I isn't that a little... hypocritical, Erza?" He whispered.
Erza went as red as her hair, and almost tripped and fell in surprise. "Wh-what? N-no! What a-are you talking a-about?" She stuttered out.
Kakashi laughed and shook his head, returning to his book. "Classic..." He muttered to himself. If only Jiraiya were here... he thought sadly.
Erza dropped back to where Gray and the Strauss siblings were walking. She tried to act like nothing had happened, but failed miserably, as she was still blushing furiously. Mirajane smirked and turned on her.
"Well you're looking awfuly flustered, fatty. Something interesting happen?" Mirajane teased.
Erza glared at her, and huffed. "We will not talk about this matter!" She stated, and turned away, ignoring her. Mirajane just snickered, but the others were too scared of Erza to even make a noise.
NEAR THE FOREST ARENA
People began to get excited when Kakashi called out that they were almost there. Gildarts stretched his arms a bit and had a determined look on his face, causing Makarov to laugh. Kakashi on the other hand, just kept reading his precious book, completely ignoring everyone in the crowd. Gray and the others finally managed to summon the courage to speak to Erza.
"Say, Erza, what do you think those eyes can do?" Gray asked, still rather nervous.
Erza tilted her head and rubbed her chin, thinking. "Hmm... I'd say more than just knocking people unconscious. If that's all it could do, Kakashi would never of agreed to only use eye techniques."
Gray nodded, accepting her reasonable answer.
This time Lisanna piped up with a question. "Do you think Kakashi's will be more powerful than Natsu's eye? I mean, Natsu only uses one, and Kakashi uses two!"
Erza nodded. "I suppose so, but there's no way to know unless they tell us themselves."
Kakashi heard all this and smirked, shaking his head. If only they knew what was under that head band... He thought. But if Natsu didn't want them to know about the rinnegan, then it wasn't his business to tell them, although he did see Natsu's logic. I wouldn't want to draw attention to myself either, but it seems I already have... He thought bitterly.
Shaking his head of the thoughts, he kept leading the group until they finally reached the arena.
The arena itself was massive, at least the size of a fifty meter pool, and that bleachers that surrounded it fit the scale just fine. The entire thing was made of oak wood, but still looked perfectly stable.
As soon as the guild saw it, they rushed into the stands, trying to find ideal seating to watch the impending fight. Makarov went to look for Natsu, figuring that Natsu would have a good place to sit, since he supposedly built it hiimself.
Turns out Makarov was right, and he found Natsu sitting a viewers box above on the of the bleachers. He jumped up right beside Natsu to watch the fight.
"So, you built this thing?" Makarov asked, raising an eyebrow at Natsu.
"Yeah, pretty good, huh?" He responded.
Makarov nodded. "Indeed, although if I may ask, how did you build it in such a short amount of time?"
Natsu smirked and made a shh motion. "Shh... Trade secret."
Makarov sighed in annoyance, but nodded none the less. "Fine."
Natsu was quiet for a few moments, before speaking up again. "Wait a minute, don't you have to do your whole referee thing?" He asked.
Makarov shrugged and shook his head. "Didn't feel like doing it this time, so I let Erza do it."
Natsu shrugged and accepted his answer.
Down on the field, it was dead quiet. The crowd had completely stopped talking, anticipating the fight before them. Kakashi and Gildarts stood on opposite sides of the field, with Erza on the side near the middle, in a referee outfit.
She raised a black and white flag. "The fight between Kakashi and Gildarts will now commence! No maiming or killing! GO!" She yelled, bringing the flag down.
When she said the word, people thought the combatants would rush at each other. But to their disappointment, both of them stood still as statues, analyzing their opponent.
After about ten seconds, the crowd gasped in awe as Kakashi's mangekyo sharingan spun into existence in his eyes. Gildarts got into a ready position, to be prepared for whatever Kakashi prepared for him. But unfortunately for Gildarts, Kakashi was an opponent like no other.
Almost as soon as Kakashi's eyes activated, Gildarts' eyes widened when he seemingly burst into chirping song birds. The birds flew straight towards him, and swarmed him, obscuring his vision greatly. He looked around frantically, trying to peer through birds and see his opponent, but to no avail. Then he tried hitting the birds and using crash magic to send them off, but it still didn't work.
To the crowd, it looked very confusing. When Kakashi's eyes activated, they saw him look into Gildarts eyes, then run towards him. They looked at Gildarts, to see what he would do to defend against Kakashi, but all they saw him doing was looking around frantically at nothing, clawing at the air, and shooting off random waves of crash magic.
Makarov narrowed his eyes. Must be some kind of illusion magic. Quite powerful, too, if it was able to ensare Gildarts. He thought.
Natsu on the other hand just laughed inwardly. Anyone who didn't live under a rock in the Elemental Nations knew about Itachi's 'signature' genjutsu. And it seems Kakashi took some inspiration, and from more than one place as it appears.
Back down on the ground, Kakashi was only meters away from Gildarts, with his fist raised back. He's still in my genjutsu, but if he shoots a wave of crash that's too powerful it could release him. Either way, I'll need to coat my fists in chakra to keep up with his crash enhanced punches. Kakashi thought.
But he was snapped out of his thoughts by the sight of Gildart's mighty fist racing towards his face, which was currently unprotected, due to the fact that his fist was currently raised back to ready a punch.
Kakashi smirked at Gildarts' look of premature victory, and flared his mangekyo. The guild looked on in confusion, as it looked like Kakashi was doing nothing to defend himself against Gildarts.
Then, as if he was a ghost, he jumped through Gildarts, slipping right through him as if he wasn't even there. Gildarts was off balance and in shock, so as soon as Kakashi was behind him, he released his chakra punch on Gildart's back and sent him flying forwards.
Gildarts stood up, and peered at Kakashi suspiciously. Could it be a thought projection?!... No! That's impossible! Then what the hell is going on..." He thought.
Makarov was also stunned into silence. That cannot be a thought projection, since he hit Gildarts. But then what kind of technique is that? It was as if he was a ghost, and then normal again...
Similar thoughts ran through the heads of the rest of the guild members currently sitting in the stands, or on the ref's stool.
This time, Gildarts charged Kakashi without looking into his eyes, and engaged him in close combat. Kakashi's sharingan eyes flicked around madly, anticipating Gildarts' each and every move, letting Kakashi dodge easily, as if the punches were in slow motion. To the crowd though, it looked as if the Kakashi was dodging the barrage of kicks and punches at lightning speed.
Following the little hand to hand exchange, Kakashi jumped backwards, and stared at Gildarts with his Mangekyo, pushing chakra to his eyes.
While Kakashi was doing this, Gildarts also jumped back, and picked up a piece of rubble, much to the confusion of the spectators.
All of a sudden, a swirl appeared in front of the Kakashi's eyes, and multiple, massive shurikens poured out, flying straight at Gildarts.
Gildarts threw the pebble at Kakashi, who was still shooting giant shuriken out of his eyes. Gildarts saw the pebble hit Kakashi, and smirked as his theory was confirmed, before shooting a huge wave of crash magic to destroy the shuriken pointed at him.
When the smoke cleared, Gildarts pointed a triumphant finger at Kakashi, and declared loudly. "Aha! I've found the weakness in your magic! You cannot be ghost-like and attack at the same time! Am I correct?"
Kakashi eye smiled. "Very astute of you, Gildarts." He said, nodding.
Gildarts raised a fist in victory. "YEAH! Now let's get the real fight started!" He declared, flaring his magic power, causing the ground to shake. The Fairy Tail members' eyes widened in shock, having never seen Gildarts go so far.
Said crash mage shot towards Kakashi at blinding speeds, appearing in front the silver-haired shinobi in the blink of an eye. Gildarts threw a clumsy punch towards Kakashi, but it still looked as fast as ever to the spectators.
He's trying to get me to attack, then he's going to shoot crash magic at me. It's all too obvious really, but this is boring. I'll just humor him for a bit I suppose. Kakashi thought.
Kakashi's prediction basically became reality. As soon as Kakashi phased through Gildarts punch, he jumped into the air, and activated his Kamui to send more shuriken at Gildarts. Gildarts smirked, thinking his plan had worked, and used a huge amount of magic power to send a massive wave of crash magic at Kakashi.
The wave appeared to hit, as a huge plume of dust appeared around Kakashi as it reached him. Gildarts frowned, thinking he had gone too far.
Then, the dust cleared, and everyone gasped in amazement. Around Kakashi looked like a blue skeleton, grinning maniacally, with Kakashi kept safely inside. Gildart's crash wave hadn't even put a scratch in it.
Kakashi eye smiled. "Well... this was pretty fun I guess..." He said.
As soon as the words were said, the skeleton's fist rocketed towards Gildarts, and pounded him into the floor before he could even react, creating a huge cloud of dust. Everyone was stunned at the destructive power of the skeleton.
That's crazy! That weird skeleton was able to put Gildarts into the floor with a punch! Thought Gray, Lisanna, and Elfman.
He is definetely someone I won't want to cross. Thought a nervous Erza, Mirajane, Macao, and Wakaba.
Certainly a different sort of ability than the ghost-mode. But still... to be able to stop Gildarts with a skeleton... Thought Makarov.
When the dust cloud cleared, everyone gasped at the massive crater it had created, and in the center was an unconscious Gildarts Clive.
The crowd was dead silent. A thirteen year old just beat Gildarts. Gildarts. The guy who single handedly causes Magnolia to rearrange their whole city just to make way for him. To them, it seemed impossible, but then again, someone had just done it.
After a few seconds, Erza remembered she was the ref and got her act together. She raised the flag up high into the air.
"The victor is Kakashi Hatake!" She declared loudly. The crowd cheered.
"Did you see that skeleton?! That was so cool!"
"I know! And it knocked out Gildarts in one hit!"
"Can Natsu do that?"
Kakashi just waved at the crowd and disappeared in a swirl of leaves, appearing next to Natsu and Makarov.
"Yo." He said, holding up a peace sign. Makarov jumped in surprise, and Natsu just nodded at him.
Kakashi looked at Natsu. "You wanna go do a mission? I need the money for some furniture."
Natsu tilted his head, confused. "furniture? For what?"
Kakashi eye smiled. "I bought a house earlier, but it cost me all my jewels."
Natsu whistled. "Damn, must be a damn good house if it cost you that much."
Makarov was confused. "How much was the house, Kakashi?"
"About a million." Kakashi responded casually.
Makarov's eyes widened in surprise. "How on Earthland did you get all those jewels?"
Kakashi shrugged. "Few bounty jobs I did before joining the guild." Makarov nodded, accepting his answer.
Natsu just shrugged. "Alright, let's do it." He said, nodding at Kakashi. They both promptly disappeared in a swirl.
JUST OUTSIDE THE GUILD HALL
The members were just returning, led by Makarov and Gildarts. People were still chattering excitedly about the recent fight.
When they got in the doors, their jaws dropped, except for Nab, who just burst into tears. The request board was completely empty, every job request gone like the wind.
Gray looked skeptical. "What the hell happened? There's not a single team in this guild that could do all those at the same time, and yet the only people that aren't here are..."
"Natsu and Kakashi." Makarov finished.
Macao stared at Makarov. "Surely you couldn't have let them take all the jobs."
Makarov sighed. "No, I didn't. But I didn't tell them they couldn't either, I just assumed that they would only take one, or maybe a few."
Everyone else sweat dropped, except for Aki, who raised her fist in determination. "I WANNA FIGHT EM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME!" She yelled.
"WHAT?!"
30 MINUTES LATER
The members of the guild had just settled down after the exhilarating fight. People were sitting at their regular tables, with their favourite foods. Aki had decided to sit with Erza's group, since they were similar age.
Aki was still talking about how she wanted to fight Natsu and Kakashi.
"I wanna fight them soooo bad! They're so strong!" She exclaimed.
The rest of the group sighed and looked at her. "You couldn't even beat Natsu one on one... How do you expect to fight Natsu and Kakashi at the same time? And Kakashi just beat our guild's strongest member one on one, so you really have no chance. Even if you did want to challenge them, they probably won't even be back for a lo-"
She was cut off by two swirls in the room that spat out Kakashi and Natsu. Kakashi eye smiled, gave them all a peace sign, and said "Yo." Natsu just waved and walked to the bar. Kakashi went to Erza's table. He sat down, ignoring the incredulous looks of all the other mages currently sitting at the table.
After a few seconds, he looked up, and raised an eyebrow. "What?" He asked.
They all exploded. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU COMPLETE SO MANY JOBS SO FAST?" Erza yelled.
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU TAKE SO MANY? WE NEED MONEY TOO Y'KNOW!" Gray screamed.
"FIGHT ME!" Yelled Aki.
"CAN YOU TAKE OFF YOUR MASK?" Asked Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman.
"I don't know, because we wanted to, no, and no." He responded while pulling out his book.
Erza narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean, you don't know?" She asked.
"If I tell you, you won't pester me, yeah?" He asked. Erza nodded.
Kakashi formed a cross seal with his fingers. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He called out.
Suddenly, a poof of smoke appeared next to Kakashi, and out of the smoke emerged a perfect copy of himself.
Erza raised an eyebrow. "That's a strange way to make a though projection, but that still doesn't explain my question."
Kakashi smirked under his mask. "Actually, this isn't a thought projection, see?" He said, making the clone tap her on the shoulder.
Erza's eyes widened. "Clone Magic?... Very rare indeed. So is that how you completed the missions so fast?" Kakashi nodded.
"But wait a minute. Clone Magic is rumored to require a great amount of magic power to even create one clone. How could you create enough to get all those missions done?" She asked.
Kakashi shrugged. "It's not me, it's Natsu. He made a few thousand clones to do the tedious chores while we cleaned up the bandit camps."
At this point, the whole table joined in. "A FEW THOUSAND?!" They all screamed. "Just how much magic power does he have?" Asked Gray.
"A lot." Responded Kakashi.
It was at this point that Natsu wandered over to the table.
"Hey guys." he said, waving with a smile. "Kakashi, Makarov said we needed to name our squad for it to officially be a 'team'." He said.
Kakashi shrugged. "Fine." He responded.
"So what should the name be then?"
Kakashi rubbed his chin, thinking. "How about 'Team Ghost'?"
Natsu nodded, smiling. "I like it."
But suddenly Aki piped up with a question. "But that's Kakashi's ability... Wouldn't it be a little selfish to only name the team after one person?" She asked. The others nodded at her logic.
Natsu laughed, before activating his mangekyo and putting his hand through the table. "But it's not only Kakashi's ability." He responded.
Everyone's jaws dropped. "Well never mind then." Aki responded weakly.
And with that, the two laughing members of Team Ghost left out the guild's doors.
Just so you know, Kakashi can use the perfect susanoo, it's just that he didn't need it to fight Gildarts.