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Five years.
It had been five years since Naruto had left Fairy Tail and decided to live with his tribe in the Country of Darkness, the land of the Fanalis. The past five years had treated Naruto VERY well, in the fact that he had hit a major growth spurt over the last few years. While once he had been UNDER five feet tall and rather scrawny before, his Fanalis blood had corrected everything in the last five years of proper eating with his people, constant working out by hunting powerful prey, and fighting among his people for fun.
Those combined had changed Naruto.
He had grown from his small height from when he was 13 into a proud height of easily a few inches OVER 6 feet tall. Naruto almost measured up to the 6'6" point, being around that height and almost fully matured into adulthood. His muscles had come in, and he was covered from head to toe in POWERFUL and lean muscles that you could bounce a damn coin off of. His larger than average muscles were shown off with Naruto wore a the golden armor of his people. The armor had nothing to cover his muscled arms, other than some LIGHT shoulder padding. He was still wearing a golden armor plated roman battle skirt, and he now wore armor on the front of his legs covering his knees and shins. He now wore battle sandles as well, that didn't really cover his feet.
Around his ankles he wore his chains proudly, and strapped to his waist was his silver sword that he used with pride as well. Strapped to his back was his shield, and connected to the front of the shield was HIS half of the white and black tiger crests, the crest that had fused with the shield.
His face had told the babyfat he had once had, replaced with a tough look, and his skin had tanned a bit more than it used to be. The biggest change was that his hair to look MUCH like that of the fourth hokage from when Naruto had been a ninja. The markings around Naruto's eyes had become much sharper than they had been before, showing a near full maturity in them.
Next to Naruto was Morgiana... who had grown her hair out and lost much of her babyfat and gained a cup size in the chest... that was actually as far as the changes went for her. Yes, she had grown a little taller as well, but not to the same dramatic increase in height that he had. He wore the same armor as him, but her's had a more open chest to show off her breasts.
There was one change that both of them had in common, attached to both of thier lower lips were silver ball piercings showing them to be full warriors of their tribe.
At first... Naruto had only wanted to escape from the harsh reality that he would only bring trouble to where he went. Then after being welcomed back to the tribe with open arms, and greeted by the friendly faces of those around him, Naruto had started to become truly happy. Everyday he and the others went off to hunt in changing groups everyday. No two members hunted together two days in a row, and everyone got along, except Rohroh and Myron, with each other. He could spar with allies that could handle being punched by his FULL power.
Speaking of power, while before Naruto had the physical strength to lift a building... now Naruto could lift something the size of a small mountain before he started to truly struggle. He and Morgiana could BOTH throw around giant boulders with one hand like they weighed nothing at all. Naruto had learned that his strength would soon be reaching it's natural peak, before he would start to have to train if he wanted to see any improvement in it. His daily spars with people had honed his battle reflexes and instinct to their fullest, and he had learned how to shift into his true form now with relative ease if given enough time to actually do the transformation.
"There is the target." Morgiana said as she looked from behind the shadows of the tree they were hiding in, and Naruto leaned down and saw what they were hunting today. Today they were hunting the sub-species of dragon known as the Wyvern, and this one was a BIG one that was nearly as big as Titus had been when that dragon had been alive five years ago. Naruto grinned and nodded to Morgiana, and she nodded back.
Both of them RUSHED off together, and the Wyvern was given one second to respond before they were on it.
It did not respond fast enough, by the time it even noticed them Naruto had already kicked the wyvern in the neck and broke the creature's spine. Morgiana kicked the neck on the other side and broke it back into a normal position, but the creature was still dead. Naruto grabbed the tail of the creature, before he started to run and drag it behind him like it was no problem at all. Morgiana ran next to him with a smile on her face, another thing he liked about being in this country.
He never recieved looks of anger, of hate... he only got respect and kinship from his fellow Fanalis. There was no need to hide his past, or who he was from any of them.
"You know, sometimes I can't help but wonder how Fairy Tail is." Naruto commented as he ran, and Morgiana nodded.
"I don't care about Fairy Tail, as you know, but I am sure that a visit at this point won't hurt anything. Five years without seeing them must leave you with a desire to visit... you still bear the Fairy Tail mark on your arm." Morgiana said as she sent a glance at the mark, that even after Naruto attempted to burn off, just stayed on him like it always had.
"You know what, I think I might just go back for a little bit. I am a lot stronger now than I was back then... and seeing Wendy again will be nice." Naruto said, knowing that they had been trying to find him for awhile now.
Of course he had known that they had followed him, BUT, unlike them Naruto had spent the first 3 years in the dark lands of the country of darkness. They couldn't have followed him even if they wanted to, and Naruto had managed to keep his tribe from starting a war over his friends. After 3 years of looking and not finding him, his friends had... just apparently either given up or started to look back in Fiore in the hopes that he had gone back and started travelling around.
"Well, I will once more travel with you on this latest journey back into Fiore. Though, I do admit to having my OWN reasons for going back." Morgiana said while griping her fist at the thought of seeing Wendy again.
Morgiana knew this was foolish, but she couldn't truly go after Naruto until after she had destroyed Wendy in a fight. Until Wendy lay defeated at her feet, Morgiana could not rightfully stake a claim on Naruto as her mate of choice. She knew that she had a rival in the form of Wendy, and that meant that until that rival was defeated there would always be a seed of doubt in her mind. Defeating her rival before mating was a MUST, it showed dominance as a woman, and the fight proved that you had strong enough feelings for your male. No other female Faunus was truly interested in Naruto, either because they were mated, or their was an age and maturity issue. Some were to young, those their age group were mated, and others slightly above their age group just had no interest in mating period, or Naruto as a male.
They saw each other like family, not like male and female.
Morgiana was the only pure-blooded female Fanalis that had any such feelings for him, and she had already defeated all her half-blood rivals... but ONE rival remained to this day that she had yet to defeat in true combat. She needed to defeat Wendy Marvell and PROVE that she was the most dominant female for Naruto, and display her power to him in a show that their children would be the strongest of all if they were to mate.
What could she say, the Fanalis were a blood soaked tribe of non-humans with humanoid forms. They were still very tuned with their instincts, and the need for a strong mate and child was always there.
"Wendy?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Wendy, I will not let some dragon remain standing as my rival much longer. You may have proven yourself to me by defeating all MY suitors, but the fact remains I need to do this." Morgiana said with her fist gripping so tightly that she started to draw her own blood, with Naruto feeling sorry for Wendy when they saw each other again... and then he realized that she might slap his face... if she could reach his face.
He wondered what Wendy would look like now that five years had passed.
"I am in so much trouble though, maybe I should wait a few more years... and then go back." Naruto said with a shiver when he remembered that Erza might NOT be so happy with him for waiting five years before he went back.
"No chickening out you big baby, own up to your mistakes like a man." Morgiana teased with a small smile, nudging him in the arm with her elbow, with Naruto nodding.
"You don't have an angry redhead... nevermind." Naruto said when he realized their tribe was finned with nothing but red haired people with short tempers... and one bald guy that shaved his head. They ALL had rather short tempers actually, so him saying she didn't have a red haired person with a short temper on her ass was kind of stupid.
"Yeah, you get a good taste of that foot in your mouth." Morgiana said with a dull tone, knowing that he had just placed his foot in his mouth.
The next thing Morgiana saw before it hit her was the underside of Naruto's foot, before she was knocked off her feet.
"How about that taste of foot." Naruto said with just as dull eyes when Morgiana got up and started to run back to where he was, a large foot mark across her face.
"It tastes like dirt and wyvern blood." Morgiana told him seriously as she spat out some of the blood that Naruto had gotten on the bottom of his sandles from kicking the wyvern... and the dirt that the blood got mixed in with.
"So basically, it tastes like Rohroh's cooking." Naruto said with a growing smirk on his face as Morgiana shivered.
Rohroh had a hole in his face, so he rarely chewed or cared about the taste of his food. He made sure to pack it with SO much spice that to anyone other than him it tasted so horrible that all the food went to those that could stomach anything.
"Don't even joke about that, tonight is his turn to prepare the food over the flames." Morgiana said with a sour expression on her face. The last time she had eaten the spices Rohroh had used instead of smartly going fishing for something else to eat, she had ended up... well throwing up for hours on end.
"His food can smell fear just by looking at you... I think it growled at me the last time he cooked. I didn't eat it to find out if it was alive or not... but I am pretty damn sure it growled at me." Naruto said as he recounted his own memories with the large man's cooking... not that Naruto could really complain about other people being large. Naruto had grown to be a large man himself.
"It did growl, all it did was growl. Rohroh has a stomach of steel and a heart of stone... I think I heard it scream when he bit into it... then silence." Morgiana finished off their small coversation with a deep running shiver. Naruto nodded, and soon they saw the place they were camping for the night... and this time the number of warriors in the hunting triube had grown as more Fanalis were coming out of the dark zone. What was once less than ten, had grown to almost twenty Fanalis all hunting together... their food intake was huge. This wyvern would last them two days before the picked the bones clean and used those bones to fashion spears and other weapons that they would trade off to another continent.
They lived simple lives, but they still sold off what they didn't need.
"What is that?" Naruto asked when he saw some people tied up in the middle of camp, but they were hidden from view by the rest of the tribe surrounding them.
"Damnit! I am Erza Scarlet of Fairy Tail, just let me see Naruto and I will be on my way!" An adult female voice called out, getting a pale look from Naruto.
Shit... Erza was here... she had been captured by his tribe... she was a human.
This was going to end very badly.
Chapter End!
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