I Don't Own Naruto or Fairy Tail!
Prophecy Rebirth - Chapter 6
It has been one week since Naruto had joined Fairy Tail and the guild had bee even more lively with the happy child. It has been a long time since the older generation in the guild had included a child in the guild, there was Romeo but he was a mage's son so it was different. Erza had taken a week off from mission to help Naruto accommodate the boy to the guild, and so far it was going very well.
Many people had taken a liking to Naruto and the boy had recieved many gifts in the first week. Lucy, Mirajane, Cana, and Levi had bought the young boy several plushies to play with. Natsu and Gray didn't like that Naruto was playing with dolls so they each bought him some toy weapons. Gray bought Naruto a plastic sword and Natsu bought him a toy bow and arrow.
Erza herself had bought Naruto an entire wardrobe of clothes, ranges from the sizes of kids to adult just incase Naruto randomly grew again. Titania herself had been a little confused about whether or not she wanted Naruto to revert to his original age as he might not need her anymore. But after a few days of comtemplating Erza had came to the conclusion that she would look forward to meeting the true Naruto and hope that he would still need her then.
"Very good Naruto-chan!" chirped a proud Levi as she taught Naruto how to read.
Naruto grinned up at the girl as he blue eyes sparkled. "Thank you Levi..." said the boy with a twist of the tongue; the boy had been learning to talk for the last week and he had been doing very well. Soon he would be able to have full conversations with people.
Levi and Lucy, the two being the more academically achieved people of Fairy Tail, started to teach Naruto how to read and write. It turned out that Naruto was quite the genius, he absorbed everything the girls taught him like a sponge in water. In only one week he had almost caught up to the knowledge of a normal six year old, which was astounding according to the girls' expectations.
Erza chuckled as she sat next to Naruto. "Naruto-chan is learning these things much faster than Natsu ever did..." muttered the young woman as she thought back to the time when she taught Natsu how to read proberly.
Natsu looked at his friend indignified. "Hey!" exclaimed the young man a little embarassed. "Naruto is not being threatened by a Katana while he is reading, unlike me when you were teaching me!"
The S-class mage gave Natsu a look. "What?..."
The Dragon Slayer paled a little and quickly shook his head. "Nothing!"
Lucy ignored the sounds of the pink haired young man and passed Naruto another book. "Take a look at this one Naruto-chan!" It was just a simple children's book that was in the Fairy Tale genre. "I read this one when I was younger and it has always been one of my favourites!" chirped the blonde girl as she giggled at Naruto's smiling face.
"Thank you, Lucy." spoke Naruto slowly with a steady voice.
Levi raised an eyebrow at the title. "Legend of the Shinobi..." mumbled the blue haired girl softly. "I don't think I have ever read this one before...I assume it is about Ninjas?"
Lucy nodded at her best friend. "Yep, it is about a world where many people were Ninja, and they would work in Ninja villages to carry out missons!" explained the Stellar Mage with a smile on her face. "This is actually the children's version of the story, there is an original version where it talks about a great war and one hero who saved humanity from total destruction!" Lucy had a gleeful look on her face as she remembered how good the story was. "I think I must have read the book ten times overall; the storyline was epic and majestic...I swear to Kami I fell in love with the main hero of the book!"
Erza crossed her arms with an interested expression on her face. "Sounds interesting...maybe I'll give it a shot one day."
Levi also nodded with a bright smile. "Yeah, if Lu-chan loved it so much it must have been pretty good!"
Lucy smiled and nodded. "I have a copy of the book at home, I'll bring it to you guys tomorrow!"
As the girls were chatting among themselves, Naruto opened the small picture book about Shinobi. He saw men dressed in dark and masked attires as they jumped from tree to tree fighting their enemies. He noticed that all of them had a silver headband on their foreheads, and for some reason, the boy kept staring at the headband. Naruto tilted his head to the side in thought...for some reason the boy thought that he had seen those somewhere before...
Levi saw Naruto had a confused look on his face and decided to help him. "What is it Naruto-chan, do you not get something?"
Naruto looked up at the three girls with a small pout as he pointed at the picture on the page; right at the headband of the Ninja in the book. "Why is it blank?" asked the boy with a frown.
Lucy didn't get what the boy was asking. "Why is what blank, Naruto-chan?"
Naruto looked down at the page and pointed at the headband again. "That...why is it blank."
Erza leaned closer to the boy and looked down at the page. "Well the headband is usually just for protection..."
The boy shook his head. "No...there should be some mark on it!"
Levi scratched her head in confusion. "What mark are you talking about?"
Naruto tried to think of the answer, but it was just not coming to him. "I don't know..."
Before anyone could comment any further about the headband or some mark that was suppose to be on it, everyone suddenly felt very sleepy. Naruto yawned a rubbed his eyes as he automatically crawled onto Erza's lap and closed his eyes against her chest. Naruto was getting very sleepy and he didn't want to read anymore...
Erza herself along with everyone else were starting to get real sleepy and one by one, all of the started to fall asleep right where they were. Erza sighed when she figured out what was happening and wrapped her arms around Naruto to hold him in place...
Natsu, Levi and Lucy all fell asleep on the table shortly after...
Makarov who managed to stay awake was sitting on the bar table with a rather serious look on his face. "You're back...Mystogan." groaned out the old man in a drowsy drone as his eyes looked back to see Mirajane lying on the ground asleep. "Do you really have to do that everytime?"
Mystogan was one of the few S-ranked mages of Fairy Tail and was considered a potential strongest man in the guild. He wore a dark blue cloak and his arms and legs were mostly covered in wrapping bandages. He also wore a dark blue bandana with a silver forehead protector, and a green mask that obscured the bottom half of his face.
"Hai Master..." muttered the man softly as he ripped off a request from the mission board. "I'll be taking this one..."
"Jiji..." muttered a small childish voice from one of the tables and the two men looked over to see Naruto rubbing his eyes...but he was awake. "Who is that?..." asked the boy as he wiggled around in Erza's grasp. The boy was very sleepy, but he wanted to see who the masked man was before he slept.
Makarov and even the stoic Mystogan were shocked at the boy managed to stay awake after a S-class mage casted a power sleeping spell. It was the first time the masked man had seen Naruto and he was even more surprised at the boy than the master. Even Erza and Mirajane could withstand the power of the sleeping spell...how in the world of Earthland did the boy manage to resist the spell...
Naruto rubbed his eyes and yawned. "I'm sleepy..."
The Master was in shock for a few seconds before he could utter out a sound. "T-This is M-Mystogan..." stuttered the old man still shocked. "He is one of the strongest mages in Fairy Tail..." Makarov was getting more and more surprised at Naruto; everytime he thought he had the boy's power figured out there would be something new. But never had he thought that the boy would be able to resist a spell casted by Mystogan...it should be impossible.
Mystogan nodded at the boy. "Hello there..."
Naruto grinned and waved his small arms at the man. "Hello...I'm Naruto!" greeted the boy as he leaned against Erza's amm to get a better look at Mystogan. "You look weird..."
Both Makarov and Mystogan still couldn't believe what they were seeing and just slowly nodded. "N-Nice to meet you Naruto..." muttered the man quietly brushing off the slight insult as childish behavior. The man looked back at the Master and asked a silent question through his eyes.
Makarov sighed. "He is a boy that Erza found on a mission about two weeks ago, and he is quite the talented young fella." muttered the old man tired, getting a little annoyed at the sleep spell. "It seems that he is much more than what I expected...seeing that he can resist your sleep spell."
Mystogan nodded silently. "Yes...to resist my spell at his age is nothing short of astounding." muttered the man in thought before he turned back to his Master. "Well I am off now Master..."
The Master nodded as he continued to look at the smiling boy. "Okay...undo the sleep spell."
Mystogan nodded without looking back as he spoke. "5...4...3...2...1..."
At the end of the count everyone abruptly woke up in surprise. Erza's arms flinched a little as she woke up and she pulled Naruto closer to her when she saw him smiling up at her. Natsu, Lucy, and Levi all woke up in turn. Levi sighed as she rubbed her eyes to rid herself of any remaining drowsiness. One by one the entire guild woke up and people started to pick themselves up from the floor, or the stairs in some cases.
Natsu grunted in annoyance as he patted his face. "I hate it when that happens..."
Lucy groaned and looked around at her friends. "What was that...did someone cast a sleep spell on all of us?"
Erza sighed and nodded. "Yeah...it was Mystogan, one of the most powerful mages in Fairy Tail." said the strongest female mage seriously. "Everytime he comes in to get a new mission he would put a sleep spell on everyone...for some reason he is very secretive about his face and doesn't want anyone in the guild to see him."
The blonde girl looked surprised. "That is way too suspicious."
Levi giggled and nodded. "Yeah, no one here has ever seen his face, the only one who knows what he looks like is the Master!"
"Well I know his face too..." announced a loud voice on the second floor or the guild building.
The Master and all others looked up to see another S-class mage of Fairy Tail. "Laxus!" exclaimed Elfman when he saw the tall man. "You're back, this is a surprise!"
Laxus was a very tall and muscular young man with grey eyes. His hair was slicked back, its numerous spiky strands pointed backwards, though some of it fell down on his forehead. He had a distinctive lightning-shaped scar on his right eye. He was dressed in black pants, a purple buttoned up shirt, and a long thick coat that he let drapped over his shoulders.
"Mystogan is quite a shy guy, just let him be okay..." muttered the man with a smirk on his face. "But I am not the only one who knows what he looks like...the kid Erza is holding was awake too."
"What?!" exclaimed most people in the guild in unison as they all looked over at the young boy.
Erza was in shock too as she looked down at the boy in her arms. "Is this true Naruto-chan?..."
Naruto was just reading through his book and looked up at the other cluelessly. "What?..." asked the boy confused as he tilted his head to the side.
Makarov sighed and looked up at his guild members. "Yes...Naruto was awake when Mystogan walked in...I introduced them."
Erza and the other girls looked at Naruto in shock as Natsu giddily jumped over to the boy. "Wow Naruto, what did he look like?!" asked the Fire Mage with glee in his eyes as many others also istened in to see if they boy would answer.
Naruto giggled as he looked back at Natsu. "He looked weird..."
Many people just facefaulted at the answer and the people in Naruto's table just sweatdropped. Natsu was laughing as he patted Naruto's head; the little guy was getting better and better in his eyes. The Dragon Slayer had gotten quite a bit closer to the boy in the pass week and had started to treat him like a little brother of a sort.
Laxus chuckled and crossed his arms together. "Well it is good to know that kids now days are getting stronger...unlike the pathetic ones that I use to know." muttered the young man as he signaled to Natsu and Gray.
Natsu growled and jumped up on the table. "Damn you Laxus, come down and fight me!"
Many people cringed at the thought of fighting Laxus and the man himself just chuckled. "No thank you...it is boring when your opponent can't even land one hit on you." mocked Laxus before he suddenly disappeared with a bolt of lightning and appeared right next to Natsu. "Challenge me twenty years later..."
Erza stood up and glared at Laxus. "Shut up Laxus, you are far too arrogant!"
Laxus smirked over at Erza. "I am the strongest in Fairy Tail...not Mystogan, not you!" announced the young man in a condesending mannar. "This is not arrogance, this is the truth...and calling me arrogant is being arrogant yourself Erza." The female S-class mage was almost ready to attack Laxus for his claims. "Just accept it..." finished Laxus as he disappeared with a flash.
Levi frowned and shook her head. "What a jerk!"
Naruto was standing a the table in a daze after seeing the flash of yellow that Laxus created...it reminded him of something again.
Ignoring Laxus for the moment, Erza focused on a more important development. "How did you manage to stay awake, Naruto-chan?" asked the young woman as she sat Naruto on her lap. "I thought her were very sleepy before."
Naruto looked up at Erza with his big blue eyes full of wonder. "I was sleepy...but I wanted to see the masked man."
Mirajane, who was listening in to the conversation walked over and patted Naruto's head. "Wow, Naru-chan resisted Mystogan's spell." praised the Pin-up Model surprised. "Not even you and I can do that..." said Mirajane as she looked at Erza, who nodded back in agreement.
Gray crossed his arms and looked down at the boy seriously. "But how is that possible, Naruto can't have more magical power than us?"
The Master had joined the group and stood on the table beside Naruto. "It is not so much as the volume of Magical Power." said the old man as the table gave him their undivided attention. "It seems that Naruto's Magical Power is much more potent than normal people's, and he is able to resist charm spells that Mystogan uses." The others were astonished the Naruto had so much talent and potential, if he really masters his power, he would be unstoppable. "I have never seen such resilent and potent Magical Power before...I don't know if we can even call it Magic anymore."
Erza was concerned and wrapped her arms around Naruto. "What do you mean, Master?"
Makarov sighed and crossed his arms in thought. "Magic is the physical embodiment of the spirit. When the physical spirit of an organism connects with the spiritual flow of nature, the spirit forms Magic as a product of the connection." The other nodded at the Master's definition of Magic. "Magical Power is the product us being connected to nature, but it seems that Naruto has a power deep within him that he produces himself...and it is very powerful."
Mirajane looked a little worried along with the others. "So will he even be able to use magic, or can he only use techniques that his power can do?" asked the white haired beauty with concern. "Like that clone thing Naru-chan can do."
Makarov shrugged. "There is only one way to find out!"
Erza, along with everyone around him suddenly looked down at the boy peacefully reading his book. Sensing the stares, Naruto peered away from the page and looked up at the group. "What?..." asked the boy as he turned to Erza. "Er-chan?"
Erza smirked and lifted Naruto into her arms. "Come on Naruto-chan, I'll teach you some Magic!"
Naruto brightened and smiled. "Really?!"
Erza, along with everyone at the table made their way to the backyard of the Guild and set Naruto down in the middle. Most children of Fairy Tail, including Erza, had trained and honed their Magical Abilities in the same field, it was fitting that Erza teach Naruto magic there. The Master, along with Natsu, Happy, Gray, Lucy, Mirajane, Levi, and Elfman all stood to the side as the observed how Naruto will take to Erza's teachings. From what Natsu and Gray remembered...Erza would be a very scary teacher.
"So what type of Magic are you going to teach Naruto, Erza?" asked the Master from the sideline.
Erza smirked as a sword appeared in her hands. "What else...my speciality of course."
Natsu's eyes widened. "You are teaching him Requip!" exclaimed the young man. "Isn't that a little hard for a kid?"
Erza grinned and shook her head. "Not Requip, I'm just going to teach Naruto-chan some plain sword magic." said the young woman as she knelt down and handed Naruto one of her many her Katana's carefully. "Here Naruto-chan, try holding this...be careful, it is sharp and heavy."
The boy reached out to grab the hilt of the sword and pulled it from Erza's stretched out arms. "Katana?..." mumbled Naruto as he lifted the blade up without any apparent difficulty. The Katana was a regular steel Katana forged it high heat. The blade was a brilliant silver and the hilt was black with gold diamond patterns.
Erza smiled as the others were slightly shocked. "Wow...Naruto is quite strong for his age and size." muttered Natsu as he eyed the heavy looking sword.
The Master nodded. "Yes, that Katana is at least twenty pounds, for a chlid like Naruto to lift it is quite something..."
Erza smiled at Naruto's talent and patted the boy on the head. "Okay Naruto-chan, I know you can already feel the energy inside you." said the red haired beauty. "This is just like when you made your clones...try to focus all your power into the sword and slash it down to the ground."
Naruto nodded. "Okay, Er-chan..." mumbled the boy as he held the blade with both hands and stared at it. Naruto could still remember the power he felt when he attacked Erigor a while ago, and he tried to find the same power inside his body. The boy knew where his power was...he could always feel it, and all he needed to do was to draw it out like before.
'Remeber Naruto, you have to grind the two sides together to make the wind sharper...'
Naruto suddenly had a vision of a bearded man explaining something to him, and somehow that made him remember what to do with the Katana...
Erza and the other all watched in astonishment as a light hum filled the air as the Katana in Naruto's hands was covered in a blue buzzing aura. Naruto had covered the blade with some sort of energy, and it looked to be quite powerful. The energy was flaring and grinding against the blade like the teeth on a chain-saw, and it was becoming faster and stronger by the second.
"Focus power into the blade..." muttered Naruto, repeating what Erza said before, as he lifted the blade higher into the air. "And slash it down to the ground."
'Kazegiri no Jutsu!' Naruto had another vision, this time was a blonde girl who had tied her hair into four ponytails, and she was sending blades of wind out from her giant fan.
Naruto acted on muscle memory and slashed the blade down swiftly, and as the blade traveled towards the groun, a cresent blade of semi-transparent wind slashed out from the swing and blasted towards the farside of the training field. The spectator watched in shock as the blade of wind travel at blinding speeds and eventually sliced through a very large tree. The blade sliced clean through the large trunk of the tree, and it toppled over to the ground.
Erza's jaw dropped of the sight. "W-What the hell?..." muttered the girl as she ignored the loud thud the tree made when it fell to the ground.
All the others were just as shocked as Erza, even the Master had widened eyes. "Holy Kami..."
Naruto had a bright smile on his face as he pointed over to the tree as he jumped up and down in joy. "Wow, did you see that?!"
Erza chuckled still in shock as she knelt down to the boy and grabbed the Katana from him. "That was great Naruto-chan, I am so proud of you." mumbled the girl almost sheepishly as she kept looking at the destruction the boy had made with only one simple swing with one simple Katana.
Naruto giggled and ran to hug Erza. "That was awesome, Er-chan!" cried the boy happily. "Let me do that again!"
"NO!" cried everyone besides Erza in unison as they walked closer to the boy.
Lucy, Levi and Mirajane all surrounded Naruto with Erza. "That is enough for one day, Naru-chan." said Mirajane still in a little bit of shock.
Levi nodded along and patted the boy's head. "But that was amazing, Naruto-chan..."
Lucy sweatdropped as she poked Naruto's confused face. 'Anymore, there would be no trees left here...'
Naruto looked at all the girls surrounding him with wonder, and just nodded after a while. The boy didn't understand why everyone was acting so strangely, he thought using the Katana was really fun and he wanted to make more wind things to slash through trees. Naruto pouted and looked visibly disappointed about not using the Katana anymore, and eventually just leaned into Erza. Erza wrapped her arms around Naruto and lifted him up as she shared astonished looks with her fellow female mages.
Gray shakily looked over to Natsu, who was equally appalled. "What the hell...how did the kid do that!?"
Natsu, who was holding Happy, shrugged lightly. "I wish I knew..." muttered the shocked young man. "Do you think Naruto can teach me how to do that?"
Elfman looked at Natsu with an incredulous expression. "Are you nuts, I don't think Naruto knows how he did that himself!"
Mirajane walked back to the group of men and looked down at the Master. "Master, do you know what kind of Magic was that?" asked the girl as everyone listened in.
Makarov looked serious as he stared over at the falled tree. "That felt like Wind Magic...but again, it felt different that one I have felt before...it just doesn't feel like magic." said the old man as he looked at Naruto, who was trying to sleep in Erza's arms. "But Naruto seem to have done that naturally...so it may be something that he just instinctively knows how to do, just like his clones."
Natsu walked over to Erza and patted Naruto's back. "This kid really have some weird powers..." said the Dragon Slayer with a smile on his face.
Lucy nodded at her partner's words and looked down at the boy. "If he is this powerful now...how strong will he be when he is back to his original form?!"
Gray chuckled and stuck his hands in his pockets. "He's going to be a monster...maybe right up there with Laxus and Mystogan." Mused the Ice Mage as the others smiled at the thought.
While Gray was only joking, the Master was seriously thinking that Naruto would even surpass Laxus and Mystogan. 'There is something with this boy...he is not a normal human child.' thought the old man deep in thought. 'His power is incredible for a boy his age, even Laxus didn't have that much power when he was six years old, and he had Dragon Lacrima implanted into him.' Makarov physically shuddered at the thought of Naruto unlockling all of his powers. 'This boy might be in the league of Gildarts...'
Erza got over her shock and was surprisingly filled with excitement. "Okay Naruto-chan!" exclaimed the S-Class mage as the boy looked back up at her when he heard her voice. "Starting tomorrow I will teach you everything I know in Swordsmanship, and when you age again you will be stronger than Natsu and Gray!"
Natsu and Gray instantly reacted and stepped towards Erza. "WHAT, THE KID CAN'T BE STRONGER THAN US!" cried the two with odd uniformity.
Erza just ignored the two and started her way back to the Guild. "Are you hungry Naruto-chan, lets get you something to eat." chirped the red haired beauty as she kissed Naruto on the cheek.
"Ramen!" cried Naruto happily.
Natsu and Gray continued to look at Erza, expecting some sort of reaction. 'She just plained ignored us...' thought the two mages, feeling a little hurt.
The other girls just giggled at Natsu and Gray before they followed Erza and Naruto back to the Guild building. Lucy looked back at Natsu and just patted him on the head like a puppy, giggling at the look on his face. "Come on Happy, lets get some lunch." said the stellar mage as the cat climbed onto her shoulder.
"Lets get some fish!" cried Happy loudly.
Elfman and the Master followed the group back to the building. "Man...I need a drink." muttered the old man as Elfman nodded along, sake sounded really good at the momemt.
Natsu and Gray were the only two left on the field...
"Everyone just left..."
"Yeah..."
The End!
Next chapter will be the start of Galuna Island Arc, which I think I will skip entirely by having Naruto stay in the Guild during the mission. I will mention the mission being taken by Natsu, but the duration of the arc will be Naruto learning and remembering different techniques in the guild.
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