Disclaimer: First Chapter
The Dark Lands are NOT the remains of the Shinobi.
Story Start!
Naruto and Wendy waited outside of the barrier around the Ruins of the Dark Lands patently for their 'teammates' for this mission to arrive. Naruto looked at the barrier again, and saw that it was a black grid barrier. He picked up a rock and threw it at the barrier, and he grinned when it bounced off the barrier and smacked Wendy in the back of the head. She tripped and fell on her face, and while he had done it by accident... it was still funny to see her luck take place. Wendy had the luck that she could be in a completely flat field, and be the person to trip over the ONLY rock. Or even trip over nothing at all, yet still trp.
"Owwie..." Wendy moaned as she held her forehead in pain from it hitting the ground. Her magic didn't let herself, it just let her heal others. Naruto helped her stand back up, before he looked at the barrier again. He was curious, because from what Wendy said it only kept people and attacks made by people out. Animals seemed to have no trouble going through, if that bird flying into the barrier meant anything.
"So what happens is a person touches the barrier with their hands, because if I can't hit it with my fists I won't be very useful in breaking it." Naruto said as he looked at the barrier, and Wendy laughed very lightly and went up to the barrier and placed her hand on it. She knew that the barrier didn't hurt people, but it was strong. It was said that this final barrier had even been hit by the Crash Magic of the Ace of Fairy Tail without even a crack. Naruto went up to the barrier and placed his hand on it, before he tripped forwards anf fell through the barrier when he met with no resistance.
"You just went through the barrier!?" Wendy shouted in shock, before Naruto sat up and looked at Wendy with a grin. Wendy gasped when she looked at Naruto, or more exactly the changes to him. His blond hair was a blood red, and his eyes took on the same blood red color. Naruto looked at himself, and he felt his strength increase to new levels. Naruto sweat dropped when he walked by through the barrier, and Wendy was shocked that his hair and eyes turned back to their normal blond and blue.
Naruto jumped through the barrier again, and his features changed to red again. Then he hopped back and his hair and eyes went back to blond and blue once more. He also noticed that he got nstronger when he was in the barrier, but was weaker outside of it.
"Well this is weird, cool, but weird." Naruto said as he stood next to Wendy outside of the barrier and noticed that her jaw was up. Naruto placed a finger under her jaw, and closed it for her with a light smile on his face. She blushed and out of instinct she opened her mouth and bit down on his finger for being to close to her mouth. Naruto's face went blank, before he jerked his finger out from between his teeth. "Damn you have some bite to your jaw." Naruto said as he looked at his bleeding finger, and without thinking about it he licked the blood off.
"I'm so sorry about that!" Wendy said with a bow, before she blushed deeper when she saw him licking the blood off of his finger. Two words camr to her mind that nearly sent her over the edge.
Indirect Kiss.
Wendy pulled his finger away from his mouth, and she imediantly got to work healing it. A red blush going down passed her neck, and steam coming out of her ears comically. Naruto tilted his head in confusion over her actions, but otherwise made no move against her treating his small bite.
"You okay Wendy, you are kind of red? We can quit this mission if you aren't feeling well." Naruto told her as he lifted her her bangs and placed his head against her red face, and her eyes widened at the physical contact. Naruto frowned lightly when he saw that her body heat was a little above what it should be. "Wendy, just say you aren't feeling well and we can go home together. A mission isn't worth your health to me, and neither should it be to you either." Naruto said with a serious frown on his face, and she blushed deeper that the obvious concern for her wellbeing.
"I'm fine, it is just how... moist the air here is." Wendy said as she avoided his gaze, even though she didn't know why exactly she couldn't look him in the face. Naruto nodded and excepted that with a nod. Sometimes he forgot that other people didn't live in a land named the Land of Fire. When you were used to humid, and hot all year round you sometimes forgot that oher people weren't used to the heat. The only nation that was hotter than his home village was the desert village place he had heard about from Kakashi-sensei once.
Naruto and Wendy looked over onto the waves again, and they each saw a boat heading towards their location. Naruto grinned lightly when he saw that the Fairy Tail members waves at him from the front of the boat. On the front of the boat the first person he recognized was Mickey Chickentiger, a blond girl with a blue bird on top of her head. She wore a tight tiger print one piece dress, tiger print arm warmers, and thick gloves. She had two horn hair pieces attached to her head. She had strange blush marks on her cheeks, and her chest was relativally flat when compared to people like Erza or Lucy.
Naruto only knew her name because she prefered to fight without magic like he did, and she still kicked some ass. He would expect nothing less from somebody with tiger ion their name... even though chicken came before tiger. That might explain why she used bird magic, and had a bird familiar on her head... that wore a hat. She was an A-Rank mage though that was known by the name of Oni-Princess for how ruthless she was, and her high temper. The second Fairy Tail mage was Joey Fullborn... an extremely muscular man that only wore pants and boxing gloves. He had tan skin and blond hair, an even from here both Wendy and Naruto saw him trying to impress Mickey by flexing his muscles.
He used magic that was support in nature, and with it he increased the muscle power of his allies. Naruto didn't know him as a person, nor did he know Mickey but he had exchanged greetings with them before now.
"Hey midgets!" Mickey shouted as she jumped off of the boat and landed on the ground, while Naruto sweat dropped and glared at what she called him. Wendy blinked for a moment, before pouting at being called short.
"Do you want to learn how hard this midget punches?" Naruto asked with a smirk on his face when she backed away with her hands raised in surrender. A person that could go punch for punch with Erza like he did without magic, was not somebody she wanted to test.
"You just called yourself a midget." Wendy pointed out after a moment, and Mickey laughed lightly at him with a look of victory. She jumped away though in fear when he punched the palm of his hand, and she was reminded that this boy was being trained by Erza.
"Don't leave me behind like that Mi-chan!" Joey said as he jogged up to them, and Mickey jumped at him and kicked him in the face hard enough to knock him off his feet.
"Don't call me Mi-chan you musclehead!" Mickey yelled as she gripped her fist in front of her chest, and her bird started to fly around in a circle above her head angrily. Joey stood up and started to run at the barrier with his fist raised.
"If I break the barrier you should go on a date with me!" Joey shouted, and when he punched the barrier everyone winced when they heard a crack... from his arm. He stopped moving, before he fell to the ground holding his arm. Wendy ran over to the man and started to heal him right away, while Mickey chuckled next to Naruto slightly. Sure, he was hurt, but it was pretty much self caused.
"Idiot, it Gildarts couldn't break the barrier with his Crash magic, what makes you think you can do it?" She asked sarcastically, and Naruto himself chuckled at the idiocy of the other man. Wendy finished healing the guys broken arm in seconds, having gotten practice healing broken bones from the times Naruto would come back to the guild with broken ribs, arms, legs, pretty much anything you could break.
"I thought the power of my desire to date you would give me the strength to break the barrier." Joey said truthfully, and Naruto nodded slightly. Sometimes when youy were doing something for a goalk like that yuou got the motivation to tap into inner potential... to bad for this guy that Naruto was pretty good at seeing how much potential people had. Joey had pretty much already reached his max potential. Sad, but true.
"In your dreams muscle boy." Mickey said as he bird landed back on top of her head, and Naruto looked at it for a second to see that it's magic reserves and Mickey's were connected in a way. Joey was crying man tears, while Wendy awkwardly pat him on the shoulder to try and make him feel better. Sometimes she was too nice for her own good.
"Then I will dream about you tonight!" Joey said with a happy look on his face, and Naruto face palmed at this guy. Wendy was sweat dropping as well, and Mickey's eye was twitching in annoyance. Then suddenly they all felt it start raining for absolutely no reason, and out of the water came a woman wearing some kind of blue dress coat and a fur hat. Her had blue eyes and hair, and she held a pink hair colored umbrella over her head.
"Drip drop, drip drop. Juvia has arrived on time for the mission, no?" The girl named Juvia asked out loud, and Naruto walked over to greet her. Unlike other people, he wasn't really bothered by the rain. Contrary to what most peole thought, tigers enjoyed the rain. It masked their scent for them, and allowed them to hunt better. The noise drowned out their foot steps, and it made it harder to see them. Over all, rain was good for hunting if you knew what you were doing, and nobody knew that better than a tiger.
"Hello Juvia, my name is-" Naruto started before he was interupted by Juvia, who gave him a small look of interest.
"Naruto Uzumaki, mage of Cait Shelter. Juvia also knows that your partner is Wendy Marvell. Juvia hopes that Juvia's rain is no trouble for you drip drop." Juvia told him, and Naruto looked at Wendy to see her just as surprised as him. Naruto extened his hand to Juvia and she looked at it for a moment.
"Your rain isn't bothering us at all Juvia! I think it is pretty cool that you can make this much rain without thinking about it. You must be really strong!" Naruto said with a bit of excitement in his voice, and Juvia blushed very lightly and looked at Naruto with a very small amount of emotion in her suaully unexpressive eyes. She took his hand in her own, and started to shake it slowly.
"Juvia is now very happy to be on this mission with you Naruto-sama drip drop." Juvia said, and Naruto looked at Wendy with a smirk. Said blue haired girl palmed her face when she felt his ego grow from here. Naruto let go of Juvia's hand, before he blinked when Juvia grabbed it with both of her hands and pulled him closer. "Juvia is now VERY happy to be on this mission with Naruto-sama." Juvia said again, and Naruto laughed awkwardly.
"I am very happy to meet you to Juvia... chan? I would love to have a spar with you some time. You seem really strong." Naruto said, and Juvia let go of Naruto and turned around with her hands on her cheeks. Naruto laughed lightly at her behavior, even though he didn't know what it meant.
'Naruto-sama called Juvia Juvia-chan, he must have affection for Juvia. Naruto-sama thinks that Juvia is strong, what are these emotions Juvia is feelings drip drop?' Juvia thought to herself as Naruto walked back to the group, who were trying their best to stay under a tree and out of the rain.
"Are you sure letting a person from 'that' guild is good for this mission?' Joey asked Mickey, and she crossed her arms and looked at Juvia. From what the rumors had said, Juvia the Great Sea was the least violent of Phantom Lord. Well, she was the least hateful towards Fairy Tail. Right now she looked stranger with her obvious affection... over a 12 year old. Okay, Mickey would admit that while short Naruto was well built for his age. A nice lean body, and he radiated a sense of primal power, but still his age was a turn off for most people.
"... As long as she doesn't start things, we won't do anything against her either... if she does though." Mickey said as she punched her own palm to show what she was going to try and do to one of the elemental Four of Phantom Lord. She wasn't to eager to fight against an S-Class mage so soon, even more so one that used a long distance magic when she herself used mainly hand to hand combat.
"So who are we waiting for from Blue Pegasus?" Wendy asked the older mages, and both of them got uncomfortable looks on their faces. They would prefer not to remember their limited interaction with THAT man. It wasn't goof for ones health, nor sanity to have prolonged interation with him.
"How about we start trying to take down that barrier now." Mickey said eagerly as she started to punch the barrier, and Joey started to punch it next to her. Wendy sweat drop, before she sighed and sent a tornadow of wind at the barrier. She was surprised when the things just phazed through the barrier like it was nothing. Mickey pointed her hand at the barrier, and in three puffs blue birds with hats appear from her hand and tackled the barrier before exploding into fireballs.
'Oh this is going to be funny.' Naruto said as he tensed his legs and jumped over them, and throught he barrierl. His eyes and hair turning blood red once he passed the red barrier. Standing in front of the two Fairy tail mages he grinned at their shockes looks.
"You are inside the barrier!?" Both of them shouted in unison, before they noticed his visual changes and the fact that the ground under his feet seemed to crack a little from him putting pressure on it.
"The barrier only stops humans from entering... and we aren't sure if Naruto is human or not." Wendy admitted, and Naruto shrugged. After being called demon for awhile, and treated lowly not being human wasn't a big deal as long as people didn't think less of his for it. He was 12, yet he could go toe to toe with people with magic without using magic. Naruto walked out of the barrier, before Wendy gave him a small smile for his small bit of fun.
"Not human... that is pretty cool! You have to fight me later!" Joey said with a thumbs up, and Naruto grinned and gave him a thumbs up back. He was happy fighting any challenger at any time, no matter how strong they were. Even if he wouldn't get stronger from it.
"Juvia is made from water, so maybe she can get through drip drop." Juvia said as her body turned blue and watery, with the design for her face made from the water. Even her clothes turned into water, and she walked forwards into the barrier and she was met with some resistance at first before Naruto put his hand inside her and pushed her through the barrier with him.
"I am surprised nobdoy had tried that before." Wendy said as Naruto went through the barrier with her, and his features changed again. Only this time they all noticed that Juvia was still in water form.
"Juvia is not able to turn back." Juvia said with she held her arms out and water dripped off of her and touched the dry soil. She looked up and saw that her rain hadn't followed her into the barrier, and had stopped raining outside the barrier.
"This is so cool." Naruto said as he stuck his head INSIDE of Juvia's chest, and the water around her face turned purple lightly in what wendy and the others assumed was a blush. Naruto grinned inside her, and Juvia put a water hand to her cheek.
'Naruto-sama is inside Juvia.' Juvia thought before Naruto pulled his head out when he needed to breath again. His spiked red hair layed flat on his head from the weight of the water. Shaking his hair and getting the water out, his hair started to spike up again.
"Hey Wendy, me and Juvia-chan are going to go and see if we can shut the barrier down from the inside. Something has to be making this barrier." Naruto said with a smile grin, and Wendy smiled with a nod.
"Be safe Naruto." Wendy told him quietly, and Naruto looked at her before turning around and walking towards what was left of the ruins. She watched as Juvia walked a bit closer to Naruto than she needed to be, and her eyes narrowed for a split second... before she blinked when she felt an unknown emotion stir up inside her chest.
She really needed to ask Master Roubaul about this.
Chapter End.
Juvia was hooked to Naruto because of how nice he is naturally, and he doesn't look at her any different than he would any other person. The fact he doesn't mind her rain is a plus, but don't worry, her affection will be mostly one sided. She will consider Wendy to be her 'love rival' while Naruto remains ignorant to this. Juvia fell for Gray at first sight, so why not Naruto at first kindness. If Naruto can remain ignorant of Hinata's love, then Wendy and Juvia will be easy for him to overlook without thinking. Juvia is only 17, so the age difference isn't that much. Naruto also looks a little older than he is, which helps.
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