Chapter 15 - Battle of Fairies

Age : Naruto – 16.5
Erza around same
Natsu and others – one year young

Dark guild destroyed – 23 in three months

I will like to warn the reader that this chapter is similar to canon with few changes.
If you want to skip this you can go to end to find the important things that occurred in this chapter which are necessary for future story.

"So there was something like 'Tower of Heaven' which we didn't even know about?" Naruto asked as he took a sip of tea especially made by Mirajane for him as it was rare for someone to ask for tea in the guild.

"Well it's taken care of by Natsu and gang." Replied Makarov as he eyed Naruto's tea. 'That looks good.'

"Who knows how many things are out there like that still unknown to us."

"You think too much Naruto. Just enjoy your life." Makarov continued, "By the way I was expecting you to know about them, at least be the one who destroys the Tower of Heaven."

"I was busy somewhere else."

"And what that might be?" Makarov asked.

Naruto closed his eyes as he tried to remember.

FLASHBACK

Naruto was caught and tied with magic suppressor handcuffs, standing between few of the dark mages of Grimoire Heart. He was currently in the flying ship which was also their head-quarters. How he got their? He simply placed one of his markings on one of the lower level mages and Hiraishined there. While he was in front of them, which included their guild master, one goat, one cock and few others wearing the same mask, his clones were searching for any information in their archives to which the dark mages were oblivious, obviously due to their cockiness.

After few minutes all the information from his clones flooded him as they dispelled themselves and he knew what was about to come. A large blast occurred in the engine side which shook the entire ship, courtesy to Naruto's clones. With the stealth of a Root ANBU, they never knew what happened.

Smirking behind his mask, Naruto cut his handcuffs with wind chakra and within a second dropped various smoke and paper bombs which filled the entire room with smoke and blasts. Breaking the window he jumped, free falling towards the ground.

END FLASHBACK

He replied as he opened his eyes, "I was trying to learn how to fly."

"You don't know how to fly? But you are a wind mage."

He shook his head.

FLASHBACK

As he was falling he saw the goat mage, Capricorn, if he remembered his name correctly following him. As he reached closer Naruto threw a kunai at him. Capricorn just moved his head sideways to avoid the impact but he never expected Naruto to come near him almost instantly. With no time to do anything he felt extreme pain as he saw a blue ball was swirling against his body, shredding his clothes and flesh at the same time. With a blast he was thrown back and with the next flash Naruto was gone.

END FLASHBACK

Naruto continued, "And then I was chased by a goat and had to run."

Makarov let out a big sigh, "I don't understand at all what the hell you are saying."

After sometime Naruto said, "So Erza was a slave there once. That explains her hollow smile when I first came to the guild."

"It was around what? Fours year back? And you still remember that?"

"These eyes don't forget Makarov-san."

"Makarov-san? No master this time?"

"It was wrong to say you master seeing that neither you taught me anything neither I am a member of guild."

Makarov led out an audible sigh once again as Naruto continued, "Either she has change and left her past behind or she has improved in faking a smile." He said as he looked at the redheaded Titania.

"Everyone has a past here which they don't want to remember. Fairy tail is a family which helps them move on. You know there is someone else who has exactly same look in his eyes like she used to have. The difference is that, he don't even try to hide it."

Knowing whom he was talking about Naruto replied as he left to take a seat in the corner to complete his book, "Maybe he is hiding."

After several minutes of reading the book he supported his chin on his hands as he closed his eyes and tried to remember his last few days, what he had done, 'Nothing.'

He remembered taking Erza to cake shop not once but twice for which others had started shouting something on the line of, "Two dates in a day Erza." But he didn't mind or it didn't matter to him.

FLASHBACK

Naruto and Erza were sitting in the shop. Erza was busy in eating her strawberry cake, taking all the pleasure while Naruto was looking at the clouds outside the window. Erza noticed he hadn't touched his cake yet.

"Aren't you going to eat your cake. It's delicious." She said as she patted the blond on his shoulder. With no idea of what holding back means, she put a little too power which made the blond disappear in a puff of white smoke.

Wide-eyed she stared at the place where once the blond was sitting before realisation came to her like a slap as she looked at her remaining cake, once again dropped on the table due to the surprise. Fortunately he had already paid for the cakes. With a tick mark on her forehead she rushed towards the guild.

As soon as she entered the guild radiating large killing intent which paralysed the mages who were close to the gates, Naruto knew what was coming as his clone already send him the information about the small accident.

She directly crossed the guild and glared at the blond, "What was that? Leaving a clone of smoke like Wakaba? I dropped it again" She closed their distance as she looked directly into his eyes, "You are coming again."

"I treated you your cake. There was no point of me staying there. Was it?"

"It's weird to eat there alone and it's even weirder to eat with a fake clone." She replied with red cheeks remembering the customers laughing as his clone was vanished, leaving a deep shade of red on her face.

He wanted to ignore but when he looked around he found everyone had their attention on them. "Tch. Don't drop it this time." He went outside the guild while Erza following him.

"Woah Erza. Two dates in a day with Naruto." She heard the guild mates shouting which made her face red. When she looked at the blond she was surprised to see him as normal as ever.

FLASHBACK END

"Dates hun." He mumbled as he looked at the redhead.

She was seating with some other mages. One he recalled as Natsu who was easy to spot with his pink hair. Other was Gray, again easy to spot due to his 'Stripping magic'. And then there was Lucy if he remembered her correctly, the princess of Heartfilia family.

Erza moved her gaze and by mistake matched with Naruto and quickly became flustered as she looked down. Clearly she was still bothered about others calling that 'dates'.

He still sometimes couldn't understand others, why should anybody be concerned about what others have to say. Picking up his books and cup he shunshined, leaving few mages startled.

The sun was about to go down as Naruto pulled up his long gloves which reached up to his elbow. He put his chest and forearm guard in place as he sheathed his sword on his back. Pulling his shoulder length blond hair into a short pony tail while putting the left stranded hair behind his ear. He put on his mask as he looked into his deep black eyes reflection in the mirror. The very same eyes he had seen a year before.

FLASHBACK

A year back, Naruto was moving towards a dark guild at a blinding speed, jumping from tree to tree. After gaining much power and speed, he had decided to test it and who were better than some dark mages. The unlucky ones who were on his radar that day were causing havoc for some days. Suddenly he stopped on one of the branches as he said calmly, "I know you are there. Come out before I make you."

The next moment the person who came forward made his eyes wide as he muttered two words, "Itachi Uchiha"

Preparing himself as he held the hilt of his sword he asked the obvious, "Why are you here? And how did you get here?"

"Uzumaki Naruto, you are one tough guy to find. You can release your sword, as I am just here to talk. Now how I get here? Maybe same way as you, only this time it was not forced."

As the two talked Naruto never released the grip on his sword.

END FLASHBACK

'So the masked bastard know where am I and he can send anyone. If what Itachi told me was right than he can only send one person at once. Not to forget that high level travel is not possible regularly.' He thought as he left.

Magnolia Harvest festival was just around the corner and he was asked by Levy and Makarov to stay and see it at least for once. But he left Magnolia anyways saying he had something important and he will try his best to return by then for his sister. But they both knew he didn't want to as he was not social type, so they didn't push.

His next stop was Shirotsume town where a dark guild by the name of Ghoul Spirit was spreading bad rumour about Fairy Tail so he decided to pay them a visit.

He reached there only to find the guild already destroyed. Seeing no one there except for some human statues, he deduced one thing – the attack was at least a day before. By the look of the position and the way those statues were holding the weapons he knew they were real mages turned into the stone statues.

Magnolia town was livelier than ever. Being the day of Harvest festival, people were busy in doing their portion of works. And so does the Fairy Tail guild, quite busy for the preparations for Miss Fairy Tail contest.

Far away from all the festivities one blond was moving towards a certain a guild with a great speed. The guild known by the name of Naked Mummy was a dark guild, working under the Oracion Seis.

After moving for few hours he finally came to stop as he hid himself in the shadows outside of the guild. Looking around he tried to find the various points of entry but stopped as he felt an itch on his chest. Closing his eyes he concentrated, 'Makarov-san. What he wants now.' He decided it was not the time for Naked Mummy to disband, but before he left he saw three people coming out of the guild.

Seconds later two of them were on the ground and the third man was pinned on the wall by Naruto who looked into his eyes with his sharingan activated. The dark mage found his consciousness fading as he stared at Naruto blankly.

"Where can I find Oracion Seis? What are they upto?" Naruto asked lightly

"I don't know" the dark mage replied without any expression on his face. Knowing he was telling the truth due to the obedience genjutsu placed on him. Naruto looked at him for few more seconds as he dropped him.

Before he left he threw some kunais inside the guild and seconds later several blasts occurred. The mages came swarming out only to find three of their mages lying unconscious.

Back in Fairy Tail guild hall Makarov saw a ray of hope as Erza was reverted back to her body and Mystogan was about to join the battle of Fairy Tail. 'I guess I prematurely called for his help.' He thought as he remembered calling for Naruto via the Hiraishin lacrima he had given him earlier, seeing his only mages left trapped inside the guild.

FLASHBACK

"Heh, Gray got defeated by Bickslow. Now who will defeat the Raijin Tribe?"

"Ok Laxus, I surrender."

"Not happening, How can the mighty master of Fairy Tial can surrender at a time like this?" Laxus continued as his face got an ugly laugh, "You can give up your position of master to me."

"You fiend. You want a fight, I will give you one." Makarov declared looking dangerously at his grandson.

"How? You are not even allowed to participate and who is left?"

Makarov didn't reply as he turned towards his office. In his office he picked up a box, opening it he took out its content, a small yellow lacrima. He clenched it in his fist as he poured his magic in it. 'I guess I have no choice.'

END FLASHBACK

As soon as Erza left to participate in the battle Makarov sensed a presence as Natsu sniffed the air to find the source of new smell. Makarov turned to see Naruto standing behind him wearing his ANBU gear with the Fox mask.

Identifying him both Natsu and Gajeel tensed as they both remembered their last clash. Unconsciously Gajeel touched his chest where he had felt the chidori.

"Master, who is he? I also saw him during Phantom battle." Asked Natsu, not really recognising his smell as Naruto's uniform was made to hide his smell with the cost of continuous loss of minimal amount of chakra from his body, but with his enormous well he had, it was not a big deal for him. Gajeel flinched at the mention of Phantom lord guild but still didn't remove his gaze.

"An ally. That's all you need to know right now." Makarov replied and turned to face Naruto once again. "We have a problem. Find Laxus and his team, especially Evergreen and made her cancel her magic which had made them into stone." He finished as he pointed towards the stone statues. Naruto's eyes scanned the statues and stopped at a figure which he recognized as Levy.

A thought occurred to Makarov as he held his head, "What if you can't get out of this rune also?" His fear was right to some extent, as Naruto was not really a Fairy Tail mage so there was a chance that rune will not allow him to exit much to Makarov dismay.

"Don't worry. I am not the real one." With that he vanished in a puff of smoke. Real Naruto just opened his eyes as the memories of his clone came flooding in. 'So where are you Evergreen?'

Standing on top of one of the tallest building he looked around with his sharingan, focusing his eyes he caught a green figure. That was one of his lucky day for sure.

With Erza and Evergreen, Evergreen was quite pissed at start to see someone escaping her stone eyes. Just as she was about to launch her attack a new voice reached into her ears.

"So with that ugly green outfit of yours, I guess you are Evergreen."

Both female mage traced back from where the voice came to find a man standing on roof of opposite of road. Erza recognised him as someone who had saved her and others during Phantom assault, while he was a complete mystery for Evergreen. "Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter. I would like you to turn Fairy Tail mages back to normal."

"And why should I do that?"

"Don't tell me later I didn't warn you."

"Is that a threat?" Evergreen mused as she pulled her spectacles below.

"Don't look into her eyes." Erza shouted from below but it was too late for Naruto. Back in the Root days he was generally on the different side of the statement, it was for first time someone had told him to not look into others eyes. He felt his tip from legs and hand turning heavy as his body reacted on instincts pushing chakra suddenly towards his already activated sharingan only to convert it into Mangekyou.

Evergreen smirk vanished as she found her surrounding getting red and instead of her going down, the whole ground lifted to reach to her feet. She found herself unable to move and Naruto appeared in front of him.

"What happened? You were supposed to be turned into stone." She demanded

"I am turning into stone, even now also I can feel my body turning slowly, and that is my real body."

Looking her confused look he continued, "This is my world. When you looked into my eyes and tried to reach my magic and mind to alter it, you made it easy for me do the same. Here I control time, space and mass." He said as stabbed a sword into her thigh. She screamed in pain as her wound healed instantly. "So as my body is turning into stone in real life, we are here for next three days." He stabbed her again as he continued, "Congratulations. Only 71 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds are left."

She gasped after hearing that, "Only one second passed? If this is illusion then why does it hurt like real?"

"Oh this is just the start. You pain is only going to increase from this point." He finished as several other bodies of Evergreen emerged, each surrounded by two or three Naruto. As they stabbed her together, her eyes bulged out as water came out of her mouth.

"You still don't want to turn them back? This could end here or there is chance you will never wake again unless someone finds a very good doctor for you." Finally to prove his point again he once again stabbed his sword in her gut. She found her consciousness fading but instant later she was back. "Whatever you chose, you magic will be cancelled if you lose your consciousness, right?"

"O-Ok. I will do it." She said between her sobs of pain.

As soon as Naruto felt his body going normal in real world, he cancelled his Tsukyomi.

A second earlier Erza shouted, "Don't look into her eyes." She saw their eyes meeting and a second later Evergreen fell from the building screaming an inhuman scream. Naruto dashed forward to catch her before she could make contact with the hard ground and placed her down.

"What happened?" was all Erza asked as she approached the two.

Without caring to give a reply he shunshined from there to appear in a nearby alley. He clenched his head in pain as he stood taking support of the wall. 'I am feeling backlash of using Mangekyou instantly.' He found his vision getting blurry for a second and once again returned to normal. 'Porlyusica-san's treatment's effect is wearing off. I should go and see her.'

Back in the guild Makarov and others smiled as the hostages returned to their normal selves. Makarov read on the runes as some new texts appeared, "XXX vs. Evergreen: Winner XXX"

'So Freed doesn't know about him, that's why his name is not appearing.' He realised.

"XXX?" Happy said to himself, "Must be that masked guy."

On different part of the city, in the cathedral Laxus got agitated as he smashed the pillar. 'That old man have someone else left. Even his name is not appearing. How could you get defeated by some random person, Ever?'

After collecting his bearings Naruto went towards the guild. He reached in time to witness the madness of Laxus as he heard his message loud and clear. Makarov dropped down clenching his chest. Seeing the danger on Makarov's life he send one clone to Porlyusica to inform her.

'Not only the guild but he intends to play with the lives of thousands of innocents.' His features became dark as he vanished thinking, 'Does someone like him should be allowed to live?'

If you haven't read this chapter then you can find the gist here:

Basically it was Naruto who had to use Tsukyomi to beat Evergreen
After use of sudden mangekyou, he found his sight became blurry and then normal, then he mentioned , "Porlyusica-san's treatment's effect is wearing off. I should go and see her."
Naruto remembered his meeting with Itachi a year ago in Earthland

So, next chapter "Naruto vs Laxus"

Naruto's second Mangekyou ability will be revealed in next one or two chapter

Some short time pass spin off of this story:

"Dear Fairy Tail, today I would like you to meet your saviour." Shouted Makarov in joy holding his beer mug.

All the mages started cheering to welcome their unknown hero. As he came into view, everyone became silent.

Within seconds music was heard as he took his steps, only multiplying the cool effect of swirling wind and leaves around him to a large proportions.

Naruto smirked behind his mask, 'I am glad I learned this Entry music genjutsu in Roots. It's good for dramatic entry.' As the music started getting louder he himself flinched. Slowly by slowly he started making the words from the song which was also started, 'This was not a part of my genjutsu.'

As the beautiful music turned into horrible song, he heard the word, "Colourful colourful, shooby doo bop"

Suddenly his eyes shot open as he looked around to find himself sleeping in the guild. He looked at the stage to find the culprit, Gajeel singing with such a pride. As Naruto's eyes turned red he charged towards him with Rasengan in both of his hand, "You dare to wake me up?"