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Play: Black Mages - Maybe I'm a Lion

"Ahahaha!"

Naruto jumped through the trees laughing as he knocked a vulcan's head off with a single kick to the neck, before he gripped the dead creatures hand and swung the body and knocked a vulcan out of the air that had jumped at him. Naruto jumped at the creature before he crouched down on his knees and exploded off the ground and jumped the dead vuclan hard enough in the chest that it's chest caved in so deeply it's rips broke and shot out of the other side of it's chest and killed the vulcan behind it.

Naruto jumped straight up in the air, before he put the vulcan in a headlock. He then went ahead and broke the monster's neck, and with a jerk backwards he sent the vulcan over to the growing pile of dead vulcan bodies. Naruto braced himself and blocked a punch from his left side with his forearm, and with a twist he got inside the vulcan's guard. He jumped up and kicked the creature in the chest with both his feet, and the better part was that in a crack his feet went inside the vulcan's chest. Naruto feet were coated in blood as he kicked the monster right in the heart, before he pulled one foot out and used it to rip the other one out. He flipped and landed on his feet, and with a grab and throw the dead monster joined his brethren.

Swinging his fist behind him, the shackles on his wrist slammed into the face of another vulcan and caved in it's head. Naruto turned around and looked at a group of between ten and twenty vulcans all glaring at him with murder in their eyes. Naruto turned around fully, before he held his arms out in a welcoming fashion.

"Who wants to challenge me next!?" Naruto shouted at the angry vulcan's, and when none of them moved from their spots he grinned and lowered his body into a crouching position. Darting off he ran straight into the center of the crowd of monkey-like creatures, and kicked one in it's long purple chin. He was punched in return by one behind him, before he turned around and kicked it in the stomach. The vulcan spat out blood, and blood gushed from it's stomach wounds while also covering his foot in the red life fluid.

"Kill him!"

Naruto jumped from his spot, before bouncing from tree to tree in an effort to pick up major speed. His speed wasn't enhanced near as much to the level of his attacking power, but he could use his strength to build up an impressive attacking speed. He could even use short bursts of powerful speed. Every tree he bounced from cracked, and the bark shattered. The vulcan tried to track him with their eyes, but they were to late as he became a blur among the trees.

There was an explosion of dirt that rose up from the ground, and rocks peppered the creatures along with blood when Naruto finally beheaded two of them and stopped himself by punching the ground. They all jumped him at the same time and formed a dog pile, and within that pile they started to punch away at him... before they were all launched off him when he used brute force to throw them away. Light cuts and bruises from the surprise beating adorned his body.

The vulcans looked at Naruto's grinning face, and to them it looked like his eyes were glowing a malicious white with his eyes shadowed by his hair. A few of them took a few steps back, before one got brave and punched Naruto in the head. Naruto's head tilted down, before he jerked it up and stared the frightened vulcan face to face with blood going down the left side.

"That all you got?" Naruto asked, before he slugged the vulcan in the chest and pierced it with his hand. His fist punched the creature in the heart, and blood erupted from it's chest and mouth. All the vulcans started to run away, and a few moments later Naruto learned the reason why when a few oversized tigers with grey fur glared at him. Naruto grinned at the new opponents, which were easily the same size as what were in the Forest of Death back home.

The four tigers all roared at him in unison, and Naruto's hair was blown back by the power of the roars. Naruto grinned when they stopped, before he took a deep breath and let lose a roar of his own. His dominant aura easily dwarfed those of the tigers, and he saw the animals take a few steps back while they reeled in shock while they had their fur blown back.

"Come on kitties, because I got all day." Naruto said with a grin when he stopped using his Battle Cry. Naruto was the first one to jumped into the fray, and he sent a devastating kick into the tiger's mouth and knocked out ALL it's teeth before he twirled and knocked it off his feet. He felt one of them bite into his shoulder, before her bet forward and kicked backwards so that he kicked the beast in the chest and made it let go of his now bleeding shoulder.

He stood back up straight and punched one in the eye hard enough so that he actually went intot he eye socket and punched the brain itself. He withdrew his fist, before kicked the falling body away from him. He hopped away, but wasn't fast enough at that moment when one of the claws of a tiger racked against his side. He spun in mid-air, and then used the tiger as a spring board to jump to the next tiger and knock it out with a kick to the side that knocked the monsterous creature from it's paws.

He kicked out at the last tiger, before the creature BLOCKED his kick with a slash of his claw. Naruto kicked again and got the same results, before he started send faster and faster kicks that just kept getting blocked by what he guessed what the leader of the tigers. The tiger slashed at him, but he blocked it with a punch to the middle of the paw. Neither before had Naruto traded blows like this with a tiger, and minutes turned into hours for the two of them. The two not dead tigers woke up and seemed to watch Narutp and their leader duke it out, and the aura went from deadly like earlier to an understanding brawl.

'This is so much FUN!' Naruto though as claws lightly scratched his chest, and his fist tagged the beast in the maw. He knocked out a tooth, while blood splurted from his wound. Naruto started to adapt to the tiger, and his fists started to open up as he went for claw strikes to block the claws. Both Naruto and the tiger surged forward and crashed foreheads together, before hopping back and meeting hand for claw again. The two living tigers from earlier had actually layed down and watched them go at it.

Then as one both fighters dropped down. The tiger was panting in a tired position, as his wounds piled up with light bloodloss. Naruto fell to his knees panting lightly as he felt the damage from his fights pile up, and slight bloodloss as well.

"You're a tough bastard, you know that?" Naruto asked with a grin on his face as he looked at the tiger, and the tiger looked at him right back with an respectful gaze. The tiger growled at him in a non-threatening way, and Naruto somehow understood it. It has been said that through combat understanding between great warriors can be reached. During that fight Naruto and this tiger began to understand each other, and they were both impressed. The two tigers came over and helped their leader stand up, before they walked away.

Naruto and the tiger leader looked at each other one more time, and Naruto grinned when he figured out who his new rival was. The tiger looked at the first human to ever stand up against him without the use of magic in any way. A human that fought with the power and fury of a tiger. Then as one both Naruto and the Tiger roared up into the sky and made the air vibrate with their combined power, and in that moment a bond had been forged in blood between them. The long high pitched ringing sound that followed Naruto's loud yell, and the deep reverberating sound of the tiger's roar harmonized perfectly to become a song of power.

"Lets have another go again sometime... Saber, and you better be stronger." Naruto said as he stood up on slightly shaking legs, and the tigers stopped with their leader giving him a look. The tiger closed it's eyes, before it opened them and Naruto saw the acceptance in Saber's eyes.

Naruto activated his wings, and he started to fly towards the guild. He got there in a few minutes, and his wings vanished just in time for him to walk into the guild. He quickly go the attention of everyone there, and Wendy rushed to his side.

"What happened to you!?" Wendy shouted in worry, and Naruto smirked when she started to treat the bite on his shoulder. Sure Naruto would sometimes come back to the guild with bruises, but never this much damage before!

"I was just having some fun in the forest; nothing to worry about Wendy." Naruto said with a grin to himself, and Saber took the top spot as his rival at that moment. That beast had unnatural strength like himself. The creature was powerful, and had his respect for fighting him to a draw like that.

"Look at you!" Wendy said in worry, and he chuckled lightly.

"No pain, no gain. If I want to get stronger I have to expect to get hurt, and I made friends with some of the wildlife in the forest." Naruto said out loud, and Wendy sighed in frustration before she continued to heal his cuts until she started to run low on magic. She would have to leave the bruises on their own until she regained enough magic to heal them.

"What am I going to do with you?" Wendy asked with a sigh, and Naruto laughed to himself lightly.

"Well hopefully you are going to heal me." Naruto commented, much to her secret amusement. She sighed and started to eat some air while healing him, and Naruto sighed in relief. Wendy smiled when the last of his bruises were finished healing, and she looked over him in satisfaction to see she hadn't missed a single spot.

"You are all fit again, but please don't overdue it." Wendy requested, and Naruto looked at her like he had never seen her before.

"Wendy... by now you should have figured out that if I am going to do something, I will most likely overdue it to the point of being overkill." Naruto said, and she hung her head in depression at how he just told her he wasn't even going to try and take it easy on the training.

He was Naruto Uzumaki! Training was in his nature!

He wouldn't stop training until he was the best of the best!

Chapter End.

There is a point to the meeting between Naruto and Saber, and that point will be brought up later. Naruto might be learning Requip from Erza, but she is a primarily weapon fighter. Naruto is a primary fist fighter, so who better to learn to fight from than a huge tiger. Naruto has shown to learn by doing, so he will grow into a strong fighting style by naturally fighting Saber. Naruto's roar doesn't sound like a roar, it sounds more like a powerful yell with a high pitched metalic ringing behind his voice.

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