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"Place your bets! Lets see who wins the fight of the week between Naruto Uzumaki and Gray Fullbuster! The odds are 10 to 1 for Naruto winning!" Cana shouted out towards thge crowd that was growing excited on the fight. Gray looked like he was going to have a heart attack, while also being excited, while Naruto had a cold look to him as he stretched his legs and glared at Gray. The ice mage froze up when he felt as if he was in the middle of a sub zero blizzard without his magic.

"Can we please NOT do this? I am sorry if I ruined your lunch." Gray asked with a slightly bowed head before the cold King of Beasts in front of him. Heck, at this point he would do almost anything so that the cold killing intent of a hunter would stop assaulting him. The feeling of death gripping his chest was to much, and the fact somebody that wasn't even as old as Erza was when she became an S-Class mage doing this was frightening.

"You ruined my ramen, so I am going to beat you down in the most humiliating way I can think of." Naruto said coldly, his anger reaching the point that he had turned cold as his blood ran through his veins with a cold fury that radiated out of his very pours. Nobody ruined his ramen and got away with it without getting hurt or humilated, and this guy ruined the best part of the ramen that he had been looking forward to after not having ramen for months. Suffice to say, Gray was going to get an ass whopping of epic proportions.

"I won't lose to somebody that lost to Erza." Gray said to raise his own confidence, before Cana raised her hand to show that the betting was almost over. Erza went up to the betting both, and before Cana could try and hide the money box Erza placed over 300,000 Jewels on the table as her bet.

"This much for Naruto winning without a scratch." Erza declared her bet out loud, and a third catergory was placed on the board. She sat on the ground and watched what was to come with slightly eager eyes. She wanted to see how far Naruto had improved, since she hadn't truly fought him after his strength had been increased by the awakening of Fanalis blood. The fact he now had the black markings over his eyes showed that his blood was nearly done awakening. A Pure-Blooded teenage Fanalis was stronger than a Half-Blooded adult Fanalis, and even a Half-Blooded adult was stronger than most mages physically.

"I bet 10,000 on Naruto winning without a scratch." Wendy said as she followed Erza's lead, and not long later they both saw Morgiana watching from one of the trees near the forest with interest. She had slight bruises covered her arms and legs from her training, but she was still interested in what was going on. Even more so when Naruto was about to prove that he was a force to be messed with.

"Kick the Ice Strippers ass!" Natsu cheered nearby, while Gray glared at him. His attention was drawn back to Naruto when they all heard dark chuckling.

"Don't worry Dragon Breath, Gray is going to get his ass kicked. I will even let him make the first most." Naruto said with full confidence in his own skills, and the huge advantage his strength and Battle Cry gave him against ice type mages. They may be long distance type fighters, but Naruto could crack and break the ice of an ice dragon with his bare hands. The ice of an ice mage of Gray's caliber wouldn't be to hard to break. Gray didn't seem to like his words, and decided that the battle was ready to be started.

"Ice Make: Ice Dummy!" Gray said in frustration as forty clones made of ice formed around Gray, but everyone covered their ears when a loud metalic ringing noise rang through the battle field and not a second later the Ice Grays started to crack before shattering into ice. Naruto closed his mouth with a satisfied look on his face, before he held his hand in front of his body and made the bring it on motion. Gray tilted his body, and pointed his right arm out. Ice formed into a cylinder shape, before completing into the form of a cannon. "Ice Make: Cannon!" Gray shouted as he fired a ball made of ice at Naruto.

"Really?" Naruto asked as he swung his arm and extended his chain to wrap around the ice ball, before he hopped to the side to dodge the ball. Once it had been dodged, Naruto swung his arm and the ball followed it before being thrown back at Gray. Gray held his hand out, and a block of ice formed in front of him to block the ball of ice.

"You haven't seen anything yet, Ice Make: Floor." Gray said from behind the block of ice before he slammed both hands on the ground as ice covered the ground around them. Naruto closed his eyes for a second and smirked slightly.

"This may be able to trouble other people... but not me." Naruto said as he smashed his foot into the ground itself, breaking throught the ice with each step he took. There was nothing to slip on if every step he took broke through the ice and imbedded into the ground itself. He slowly walked forward to Gray, before ice shot up from the ground and surrounded him in the shape of a prison.

"Ice Make: Prison." Gray started in one position, before switching to other with his hands punched together. Naruto felt the ice on the ground refreeze and trap his legs, before going up his legs and freezing them as well before freezing up to his neck. "Ice Make: Body Prison." Gray said with a smirk, before that smirk vanished when Naruto flexed his arms and broke them out of the ice. Then he forced his legs to brak the ice, before he chest palmed his armor and broke the ice covering it.

"Gray, if my physical strength can break through metal, do you think that ice this thin will hold me?" Naruto asked to let the situation set in, so that he could play a hunters gamne to make his prey realize how hopeless the situation is. This was something that Heavy had taught him about hunting prey. You had to make it realize that nothing it could do would allow it to escape. Hopelessness was sometimes the best weapon you could use against somebody, which was funny considering that Gray was starting to feel what was going on sink in.

"My ice isn't thin, Ice Make: Saucer!" Gray said as he held his hands in front of his body, and then crouched his knees slightly as a disk made out of ice formed in front of him before it started spinning like a buzzsaw. Gray jumped over the block of ice to throw the saucer at Naruto, before his eyes widened when Naruto vanished from view.

"This is why you need to have pants on!" Naruto said from behind Gray, and before Gray could turn around he was launched into the air holding onto his ass while Naruto grinned sadistically while making the poking motion with his hands while Kakashi had once done to him. The fabled forbidden taijutsu style, the 1,000 Years of Death. The only known attack to him that involved using two hands with four fingers to poke a person in the ass, and then use superior strength to send them flying.

"Ahhhhhhhh!"

Those watching the battle had their jaws on the ground when they saw Gray thrown through the air by an overpowered ass poke. Natsu and Happy were lauguing their lungs out, while some others started to snicker at the humilated boy in his boxers. If this didn't tramatize that is, because Naruto still had some trama when this move was done on him.

"Did Gray just get defeated... by an ass poke?" Cana asked out loud as everyone saw the knocked out Gray with his hands on his butt. He had passed out from the extreme mental stress of getting humiliated in that unique way. That and he finally knew that sometimes having a stripping habit made certain things so much worse for him, whcih would give him new reason to make sure that he never stripped again.

"I will take my money now, as you can see Naruto has not a scratch." Erza said as she waved over to Naruto's unflawed skin and body, not counting the whisker marks on his face he was without a visible scratch. The only scar on his body being the two he got from fighting against Titus. Ones that were currently covered up by his armor.

"I bet money on him not getting a scratch either." Wendy reminded Cana, and said woman sighed before dumping out the box and counting up the money between the two of them depending on how much they bet. They were the most specific, and in Fairy Tail the ones that got the most spot on bet got the money. They were about to take the money from Cana, before Naruto grabbed the money before they could and took a portion from both of their piles. Not enough to be selfish, but he was the one that had been fighting.

In the end, Erza had 1,500,000 Jewels to her, and Wendy had 50,000 Jewels to her pile. Over all they both got five times more than what they had bet, while Naruto got about 808,000 Jewels from the stack. This would be more than enough for him to afford an apartment for him and Morgiana, since pack members had to stick together. That and she was following him, so it would be cruel to make her join Fairy Tail just for a place to live. She wouldn't have to become a member of Fairy Tail if she didn't want to, so he would get a two person apartment.
(The money amounts to 100 Jewels for 1 US Dollar)

"I will do the same thing to ANYONE that fucks with my ramen ever again." Naruto said, before Erza slapped him in the back of the head for cussing. That completely ruined his angry image, something that he had wanted to keep up for a few more moments. Morgiana landed nearby after a quick jump to them, while Wendy jumped back in shock when Morgiana dropped out of nowhere. She hadn't even sensed her coming.

The joys of having extremely low magic reserves, nobody ever felt you coming. Even more so when you were a member of a hunting tribe. It didn't even have to be the Fanalis, since there were seven hunting tribes. The Fanalis were just the most powerful ones that controlled the Continent of Darkness, also known as the 'Savage Lands' by those that had seen the other hunting tribes. The Fanalis were actually the most accepting of guests for the most part. They would still kill people the intruded, but at least they didn't eat humans like some of the other tribes.

"I am back from training Naruto... hello Dragon Girl." Morgiana greeted with very slight hostility to her voice when talking to Wendy. Unlike Naruto, who saw nothing wrong with dragon slayer in general, Morgiana understood that their base nature was very different. The fact that Wendy was compitition for the type of 'prey' she wanted 'catch' just made her a threat. Not somebody that she could be friendly with any time soon.

"Hello to you to Tiger-san." Wendy said with a bit of hostility of her own, something Naruto didn't notice. Wendy also realized the threat that Morgiana posed to her, and her own goals. They might not exactly be romantic goals right now, since she didn't know what she felt, but she didn't want Naruto taken from her. The fact they each represented the Dragon and Tiger, natural enemies, didn't help matters. Naruto seemed to be the only exception to that rule, but then again that might be because he didn't care who you were. He didn't seem to hate dragon slayers, nor did dragon slayers seem to hate him naturally.

Both Natsu and Gajeel seemed to be nervous around Morgiana as well, so it wasn't just her.

People with the power to hurt and kill dragons, that weren't dragon slayers, just didn't sit right with them either.

Sparks flew between Morgiana's and Wendy's eyes for a second, before Naruto waved hello to Morgiana and the mood calmed down.

"Hey Mor, how was training?" Naruto asked with a grin on his face, and she smile pleasantly at him and raised her arm with her smile firmly in place.

"I am going to have bruises for a few days, but the results will be worth it." Morgiana said as she pointed out the multiple purple spots on her arms and legs from her durability training. She and Naruto might have the same strength and speed at the moment, but he was much more durable than she was. He also has his weapons and his 'Byakko Mode' to fall back on. She needed to get her durability up, and then she would work on finding some kind of weapon of her own to use.

"You know, Wendy is a great healer. I am sure that she could heal you right up, right Wendy?" Naruto asked with a smile, before Wendy looked at the bruises on Morgiana and remembered that this girl had a pet name while she didn't. It may be petty, but she wasn't going to heal Morgiana of her bruises for having a pet name. That and she had better things to do, like train with her new dragon slayer spells.

"Gaaah! My asshole!"

"Looks like Gray woke up." Erza pointed out to the small group, while Natsu went over to mock Gray over his humiliating loss. Oh how he was going to love reminding Gray that his stripping habit had led to getting his ass poked like that. The fact that said ass poke knocked him out would be even more hilarious.

"I have always wanted to do that to somebody, and this was the perfect chance... I am not going to say sorry." Naruto told Erza without her saying anything about it. Naruto was not about to say sorry over things that happen while in a fight. Gray butt problems were a result of Naruto trying to help the man get over his stripping habit. The fact that Gray stripped for some reason was a mystery to him... one that he didn't care for solving.

"I wasn't about to tell you to. Gray deserves his punishment for ruining somebodies precious meal, so what his got were his... just deserts." Erza tried to joke horribly, something that nobody commented on for their own safety. Everyone that heard her laughed awkwardly, just so that she didn't get pissed off. Let it be known that while Erza barely has a sense of humor, when she did joke she expected everyone that heard it to laugh.

"That was just horrible, and ramen isn't a desert. It is a meal. Cake, now that is a desert." Naruto told her without laughing, and she lowered her head in a mini depression at not getting the one person she wanted to laugh, to laugh at her joke. At least he wasn't insulting cake, just saying it was a desert.

"Cake is a meal on peoples birthdays." Erza agrued just for the sake of arguing, and Naruto shrugged.

"I have never had a cake on my birthday, so that isn't really true." Naruto said to himself as he put a finger to his chin. Now that he thought about it, he had never had a birthday party either. It was always on the same day the Kyuubi was defeated, so people just and mourned the aniversery of the Fourth Hokage death and the deaths of all those that had died that day. Not something that was good for the mood of a party.

"Then what do you do for your birthdays... when is your birthday anyway? I have to know that." Erza asked as she summoned a small notebook that she filled with the birthdays of her guildmates that knew their birthdays.

"Normally I don't do anything but train, but last birthday I was stuck on that boat to the Continent of Darkness. I guess you could say that it isn't important to me." Naruto said as he tried to avoid the topic. He honestly didn't want people to worry about his birthday, because it might be lonely he prefered it that way. After learning that the Kyuubi had once been sealed inside him on that day, it wasn't something he liked to think about in general.

Would you want to celebrate the day that you had a curse placed on you, and if the Third Hokage had been telling the truth both his parents died on that day as well. So not only was his birthday the day he was cursed, but it was also the days his parents died, and he became an orphan.

Yeah, not a day worth celebrating. Even if deep down he wanted to celebrate it with people he loved.

"Tell me." Erza demanded as she got in his face and used her 'Momma Erza' look on him to compell him into giving her the answer she wanted. Morgiana and Wendy had to admit that they were curious about when he was born. Wendy didn't know when she was born, while Morgina knew around the time she was born, but not the exact day. So learning when other peoples were was kind of a fun thing.

"October 10th, hey Wendy want to get a mission. I am suddenly in the mood for some action." Naruto said with a grin as Erza put the information she just received into her head. Wendy nodded quickly, so before anyone could react he grabbed both Wendy and Morgiana before summoning his wings and flying out just as Erza realized that she had missed Naruto's birthday.

She would have chased him down... if Gray's underwear didn't just land on top of her head. Her eyes lit up in feminine anger as she went over to beat the hell out of the stripper, and stop that little habit before he infected the one she saw as a son with it.

Momma was about to teach a guy why stripping was bad.

Chapter End.
Do you think that Naruto would seriously try and inflict life threatening injuries on Gray? Nope, what he did was much worse. The mental scars will run much deeper than any physical ones, and the fact that Naruto's strength against ice made Gray and others see that even if he didn't use magic he was far above a lot of them. Now others will be scared to try anything against him, similar to how they fear and respect Erza.
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