A/N: Gah! Alright, ALRIGHT! I'll put out another chapter! I had no idea ya'll loved this as much as you did! I now present to you once more...

...NARUTOXCANA!

"Hello, my deceased fellows!"

~Uzumaki Naruto (unfortunately quite sober at the time of the quote)

Seven Years of Happiness and Sorrow

Seven years to the day, and he still looked upon that night with bittersweet feelings. That night had been wonderful. Indescripable. Seven years to the day, and he'd never forgotten her smile, not a once. Seven years to the day, and he longed to see her again. For reasons other than sex, of course. Seven years in which he hadn't been able to spend every waking moment with her; with the love of his life. Such were his thoughts as he stood upon the hillock, overlooking Magnolia Town. His last job had kept him away for much longer than he'd anticipated, lasting nearly three months. Now, that it was finally over, he'd taken a circuitous route back here despite knowing others would ask questions. Back to his family

He'd forsaken his classic orange white attire for the theatrical; favoring instead the colors of navy and crimson, a scarlet and azure. The red cloak and cape billowing out against his shoulders

"You're nervous aren't you, Naruto-sama?"

Naruto sent the speaker a heated glance as they moved to stand beside him.

She was a slender, well-endowed young woman with short, light-colored hair and fringes framing her face. She wore a black rose ornament on the left side of her head. As always, she wore that cloak of hers, clasped together by a star-shaped clip, bearing feathery protrusions all over her chest, shoulders, blouse and shorts. The cloak flared out grandly at her feet, where it was divided into flowing sections secured by ribbons. She completed the ensembe with a black pair of socks stopping at her mid-thighs. By all rights she was attractive. Had they met in a different life, he'd have bedded her in a heartbeat. As it was now, he merely glanced at her in commiseration.

"Oi oi, how many times have I told you to stop calling me that, Yukino?"

The woman-for she was emphatically female-bowed at her master.

"My sincerest apologies, Naruto-sama."

The sorceror opened his mouth to protest, decided against it. She'd been calling him that ever since she'd joined Sabertooth. And why shouldn't she? He was one of the founding member of Sabertooth, save for Master Jiemma, he had been here the longest. It was only natural she address him with the precious "sama" suffix, even moreso since he'd been responsible for her training. That didn't mean he had to like it, though. Well, he did like it, sort of. That wasn't the point! Mentally berating himself for the slip, his gaze drifted to the town once more.

"What makes you say say I'm nervous?" he asked aloud, fiddling with the gold band wrapped around his ring finger for the upteetn time.

"You've been fingering that ring of yours for the last hour." she observed, brown eyes appraising him questioningly. "You only do that when you're nervous."

The blond sighed; partner or no, he wasn't about to give the girl his life story just because she'd asked.

"Do you miss them?" she asked, softly.

Them.

Cana.

His family.

"A little."

"Do you want to see them?" Her gaze drifted down the hillock, toward the town gates.

Okay, now she was pushing it.

"Yukino." Naruto growled, eyes flaring slitted, pinnioning her with a gaze. "Drop it."

If looks could kill...

"G-Gomenosai, senpai!"

Huffing, the blond returned his attention to the matter at hand. Inevitably however, thoughts of his guild trickled into his mind. Thoughts of Yukino, as well.

She was his junior, in more ways that one, having joined the guild only after many years of service. She was like a little sister to him. She had heart. Not a thing like the other newcomers. Oh, he got along with Rogue well enough but he couldn't quite help but feel some measure of disdain for the Sting Eucliffe and the four new mages. These youngsters had no heart whatsoever. Not a one of them. Not Sting, not Orga, not Rufus an certainly not Minerva. If the master's daughter ever learned of his role in the in the support Fairy Tail, if she knew that her senpai was secretly responsible for its continued upkeep he was good as dead.

Master Jiemma wouldn't just execute him for this, old friend though he might be. He'd kill him on the spot. They'd founded Sabertooth together, the two of them. Naruto had been one of the first mages to join the guild but after the Tenrou Island incident, he'd watched something twisted grow in the old man. If he had his way Fairy Tail would be run out a beaten-down old bar. Naruto's secret funds kept that from happening. Fairy Tail still had its new guild building-though it certainly wasn't new anymore-and he still had Cana. It was the best of both worlds. Only it wasn't.

Because Fairy Tail wasn't the top guild in Fiorre anymore. Sabertooth was. Naruto's eerie prediction seven years ago had bourne fruit and in the worst sort of way. Tenrou Island had been destroyed by the black dragon Acnologia and with it some of the most powerful mages of Fairy Tail. If Cana had taken the boat that day with Lucy and the others-if she hadn't met him-she would've shared in such a fate. As it was she'd taken charge of Fairy Tail, mercilessly whipping herself, and the remaining mages into something to be proud of.

It was only fitting given that she was the sixth master of Fairy Tail.

Thanks to her, Fairy Tail hadn't quite fallen off the map, but it was still a shell of its former self. Ranked the fourth most prominent guild in all of Fiorre its legendary status was now merely mediocre whereas Sabertooth once a small guild consisting of only a handful of members, now numbered in the tens of thousands. Whereas Fairy Tail...

Thanks to his rare brand of Lost Magic the blond had successfully managed to juggle, two lives at once and without sacrificing his magical prowess in the slightest. It was a strain to maintain however, as he'd done for the last seven years. The strain was unimaginable. He couldn't see his family nearly as much as he wanted. Couldn't kiss the woman he loved. Couldn't hold her in his arms and whisper away all her fears. He'd had to battle some increasingly vivid dreams as of late. But dreams weren't enough, not anymore. So the solution was obvious, yes? Go and see them. Hold them both and tell them how much he loved them. Simple enough, right?

Wrong.

Master Jiemma had strictly forbidden relationships between guilds. "To make skies roar... to make earth boil... to make the seas silent. That is Sabertooth." such were his words. "We've no place for weaklings here, my old friend, or have you forgotten our promise? To court the feelings of someone outside Sabertooth is to risk excommunication from Fiorre's greatest guild. Do you want that? Naruto most certainly did not want that. If you truly long for companionship, however, you may have the hand of my daugter, Minerva."

But Naruto didn't want Minerva, though the latter very much wanted him. Marrying the master's daughter was simply another way of shackling himself to the guild he'd once loved. He wanted Cana damnit. Marrying her had been the best thing he'd ever done. Sure they fought sometimes, and yes, more often than not she got drunk off her ass, but they loved each other. She certainly loved him enough to propose. Now that had been a shocker. He'd gone and picked out a ring and everything and here she'd been the one to get down on bended knee and ask for his hand in holy matrimony! He'd said yes, of course.

The fact that Cana gave birth to their wonderful daughter only two years later certainly empathized with his decision.

Her name was Cornelia.

Named thus after Cana's mother, she was little bundle of energy at only five years old and the pride of his life. She was also the reason he was contemplating excommunication. Too young to understand why her daddy kept dissapearing every day, and at the same time old enough to miss him terribly when he was away. Enough to make him want his family around all the time.

He'd tried talking his wife into joining Sabertooth a few years back when things got dicey between him and Jiemma. It hadn't ended well for him. He'd forgotten just how angry Cana could get when he pushed her. They loved one another, but neither was willing to leave their guild, and it had put a bit of a strain on their relationship as of late. Honestly, that woman got more beautiful whenever he saw her. And he hadn't seen Cana in such a long time. He owed Yukino an apology for snapping at her.

"Alright, you got me." Naruto admitted reluctantly. "I am nervous. And yes, I do miss them. Very much."

"You should go see them."

"Yuki, you know I can't do that." Naruto pushed a hand through his hair as he looked down at the preicpiece below. "If master finds out...

"Oh." Her face fell, and her smile shattered like glass. "I'd forgotten about master's rule...

Yukino was one of the few people he trusted with his secret. They were two of the too few decent people in this guild, or so he claimed. Even Rogue, with whom he shared brotherhood, didn't know about Naruto's super deadly secret. He'd been forced to leave shortly after Cornelia's birth, for that had been when Sabertooth, began its expansion. Shortly after Master Jiemma discovered those five new mages, the guild he'd once started too call home had changed, and not for the better. No longer was it a guild of friendship and trust. No longer did the guild of whom he'd been a founding member; cherish important values like family and kindness. Now it was all about power. Bonds made you weak in Sabertooth, and as a result, most mages were largely antisocial with one another.

Many of those mages had sought to topple him from his position as Jiemma's advisor. Many were now nursing black eyes and broken bones alongside their wounded pride.

That was where the truth of his second Lost Magic came in. Instant Transmission, he called it. The ability to teleport to anyone in the world, merely by fixating upon their magical power. Granted you had to know that inside and out but in essence, Naruto could be in two almot simultaneously. at once. He was simultaneously in Sabertooth and Fairy Tail at the same time, using his status as a senior member of Sabertooth to escape unwanted attention whenever others became suspicious. He was also using it to kick some serious ass when the younger members of the guild came clamoring after him, trying to steal his position as one of the Great Ten Wizard Saints. Trying to blackmail him with the threat of

It wouldn't bode well do for any of his compatriots-Sabertooth or otherwise-to learn the truth behind his prescence now, would it? But the spell placed an enormous amount of strain, on his magic. He rarely used any of his larger spells anymore just for the sake of whisking himself away to see his family whenever the urge struck. Which was quite often. Which was right now. The longer he stared down at Magnolia the deeper his desire grew. The deeper it grew, the less chance he had of controlling it, until finally, finally...

"You know what?"

"Naruto-sama?"

"Screw the rules!"

Before Yukino could think to stop him, the founding member of Sabertooth pressed two fingers to his forehead. Even as she lunged forward to grab him, to stop him, to prevent him from risking his own life and possibly even excommunication, he was gone. A soft whistle of motion was her only answerment, and then Magnolia Town, practically lit up with the amount of magical power he'd just used. She could already feel his prescence halfway across town, located in the Fairy Tail building

She sank to her knees in disbelief.

"Naruto-sama...I hope you know what you're doing."

"Mommy?"

Cana Alberona Uzumaki, master of Fairy Tail, and wife to one of the most powerful wizard's in all of Fiorre, glanced down from the eternal hell that was paperwork, as as tiny hand tugged at her sleeve. Brown eyes shone with warmth as she saw a messy mop of dity blond hair peeking up at her, sharing her father's eyes of pure sapphire. Cornelia Uzumaki stared back at her mother solem blue eyes peeking around dirty blond tresses, another trait she shared with her parents. She waited patiently beneath her mother's patient stare, ruffling her little blue dress with tiny hands. How many times had those hands reached for her, when she should've been reaching for her father instead?

Sorror swelled in the young mother's eyes at the thought. Even the sunlight, pouring through the open window, was not enough to cleanse that misery. She felt so alone here, sequestered within her office. Unable to take on jobs because of her daugher, forced to rely on others for support. Forced to attend those boorish meetings-

"Mooooommmmy." Cornelia whined, tugging her mother's sleeve insistently. Cana sighed. For all her solemnity, her daughter was young and lacking in patience.

"Yes, sweetie?"

"When's daddy coming home?" she asked. "I miss him."

Cana's response was to pull the child into her lap and hug her into her breast.

"Soon." She whispered. "Very soon."

"How soon?"

"Sooner than you think." Cana shushed, cradling Cornelia's head against her chest.

Contrary to most women, pregnancy had done wonders for her. In the last year alone she'd gained another cup size, adding to her already trim figure, toned from years of taking on missions to prove herself worthy of the title of sixth master. To prove herself worthy, not just as a master, but as a mother. Mother to one of the most powerful children in the world. The child of Sabertooth's foremost Dragon Slayer and Fairy Tail's Sixth Master; a child of incomparable potential, and their only daughter.

She'd grown up in a virtually empty guild. Hopefully, that would soon change. Soon, once the ship they'd sent out to Tenrou Island returned from its maiden voyage. Hopefully Ichiya-san and the others were right. They just had to be alive. They just had to be. Lucy...the others...father. The thought sent an unbidden pang of agony racing through her chest. She'd missed him. Wanted to tell him, all these years. If he was truly alive, he had to know. He deserved to know that he had a daughter.

"Mommy?"

A wrry smile tugged at her lips.

He deserved to know he had a grandaughter, too.

"What is it, honey?" she asked the little girl in her lap. "Is something wrong?"

Cornelia's smile was positively beatific.

"Daddy's back."

Cana opened her mouth to say otherwise, to assauge her daughter's fears-

-and promptly snapped it shut as the sound of footfalls entered the room.

Brown eyes flew wide open and whipped across the room. Her mouth worked wordlessly as a familiar figure stepped out of the shadows and into the light, form still shimmering from the after-effects of his teleportation technique. Her fingers flew to her face, stifling her gasp, her sob of surprise. Cornelia wasn't nearly as reserved.

"DADDY!" She squealed, tackling his leg, the only part of him she could reach. Cana felt herself rise from her chair, her body slowly stepping around the desk. She watched Naruto pick Cornelia up, but regretfully, she'd ceased to notice their daughter. The moment she'd felt his aura, his magical signature, her world had ended. Months, years of sorrow fell away from her, replaced by a joy so fierce it burned through her body, leaving a gaping hole where her heart had been.

Brown eyes met blue and held them there. Cana what this must mean, for him to be here, with them. Knew the chaos his prescence would cause, the hell that would rain down on their heads. And, she didn't care. She didn't fucking care. Not even a tiddily bit as her lips found and captured his, rocking the blonde's head back with a jarring stumble. Her fingers found his and her mouth closed around his again and again and again, still aware of Cornelia's prescence in their arms, but simply uncaring for her cries of "ew" and "cooties" and whatnot.

Drinking deep of him, she pulled away, pressed her head into his neck. Cornelia giggled in her ear, the sound sending fresh butterlifes fluttering thrugh her stomach.

"Welcome home," she whispered, softly, tearfully.

"Welcome home."

A/N: Lo and behold there you have it! Many more chapters are to come, and next time, we'll see everyone's reactions to Cana's child! He's a little preview of the shits thats about to go down, now that Naruto's gone and let the cat out of the bag. Cookie to you who realized what Naruto's element was before I revealed it! The two scenes below are mere a few of the ways things could play out once Jiemma realizes his right hand man's been sleeping with the master of the enemy:

You've betrayed us, senpai."

Naruto sighed, pushing a hand through his hair.

"You're making a mistake, Sting." His eyes drifted to Rogue, and he found nothing but sorrow in the younger man's gaze. "You too, Rogue. You don't want to do this." He stepped backward as the Twin Dragons stepped forward, herding him backward and into a corner. Blue eyes drifted lazily across the populated square, narrowing in annoyance.

"You'd take out all these people just to kill me?" His gaze snapped back to Sting. "You're a bigger fool than I thought!"

"The only fool I see here is you."

"You're making a mistake...

"Am I?" The younger slayer accused. "From where I stand, you're the one making a mistake!"

"You've been consorting with the enemy this entire time!" Rogue seconded. "You think we'll just let that stand?!"

"We looked up to you!"

"We respected you!

A muscle jumped in the blonde's jaw.

"Alright youngsters let me refresh your memory. Let me remind you why the first generation will always be stronger than the third!" The air itself seemed to darken around him. "Let me show you why the sun is always eternal, when compared to the light and the shaodw!"

He drew in a great breath.

"Tairyu no...

...HOKO!"

"Sleep with me."

"HELL NO!"

Minerva smiled cruelly.

"Or I'll tell master about your wife."

Dread struck him in the stomach like a frozen fist.

R&R!=D