Mirajane didn't know how to feel about the strange group of people. Don't get her wrong; they don't seem like bad people... but they gave off this weird vibe that left her stomach uneasy. Only a few of the visitors had returned from Master Marakov's office, which didn't seem that out of the ordinary. They had seated themselves randomly throughout the guild at tables and one stood over in the corner against the wall reading a small orange book.
Mira looked to the nearest one, to see it was a short pink haired girl with pretty emerald eyes. She had seated herself at table with Lucy both conversing all the while staring at the Fire Dragon Slayer whom was butting heads with Gray once again. Lucy looked to be enjoying the conversation as she rambled on happily.
Turning her sight to the next stranger, she was greeted with the tall man leaning against the wall reading his book. His silver gravity defying hair and masked face definitely called attention to himself. He wore a similar green vest like the pink-headed girl. The man seemed content as he lost himself within the pages, not taking any notice to the chaos that surrounded him; usually new comers were slightly panicked with all the fights. Mira could have sworn she had seen the man before, but her memory failed her. He seemed so familiar...
The last one was another boy around eighteen with bright blonde hair and the most alluring blue eyes that Mira had ever seen. He wore a green vest as well, must be a uniform of sorts. He was seated at the very back of the room with a bottle of water, his eyes unfocused. His cheeks had three scar-like marks on both sides, but they were barely noticeably. He was extremely tanned; well, compared to most the men in the guild, he was. The corners of his mouth was tilted down and it seemed whatever he was thinking was something important. Strangely, he reminded her of Laxus; but less... unapproachable. She didn't know the boy, but she was certain he wasn't the silent type... nor always so sad looking.
She sighed, wiping down the counter where Ezra's cake had left behind a crime scene of icing; the poor red-head had already moved on with another slice as she kept to herself in a corner, wary of anyone coming her way. Mira smiled as the woman sent a harsh glare towards the stripper and salamander, probably still sore about the death of her first slice of cake a few hours ago. Despite Gray and Natsu arguing so loudly, the hall had become a lot more calmer than it had been earlier that morning.
"I don't think you should drink so much, its really bad for your health."
Mira turned around to see the light pink haired girl staring in concern as Cana lowered her barrel of liquor with a scowl. "I drink like this all the time, what's so wrong with it?" She snapped before taking another long gulp from the barrel.
"A lot is, ma'am. You see, i'm a medic... I know how dangero-"
"And I now know how annoying you are." Cana grumbled as she turned her focus back to her beer.
"Don't worry about Cana; her alcohol tolerance bests most of our men here in the guild. She's always drunk this heavily, if she didn't... well, she wouldn't be our Cana-"
"Yeah! Cana is super manly!"
Mira smiled as her little brother yelled across the hall, drawing some attention from the strangers. "Sorry about that. That's my little brother, Elfman. I'm Mirajane." She chirped as she watched the girl swivel her head around to stare at the large body of Elfman who was standing on top of a table posing.
The girl smiled slightly, "My name is Sakura, I didn't mean to be annoying; being a medic is something that I have drilled into my system for the past few years." Mira smiled forcefully at the girl, why did it seem like she wanted attention?
"It's okay. So what brought you here to our crazy guild?"
"Ah...well, me and my comrades came here looking for some family members. Marakov said that we could meet them all tomorrow, since some are away on missions."
Mira's brain automatically scanned over everything that poured out of the girls mouth. She fought not to smile creepily at the girl as she started pairing up possible candidates of who was related to who, and how. If the pink hair wasn't a big enough give away, she really didn't know what was.
She looked back towards the blonde teen, curious as to whom he could possibly related to. No one in the guild had blonde hair except for Lucy and... Laxus; there is no way those two could be related.
"That's Naruto. And the man against the wall is our Sensei Kakashi." Sakura informed, breaking the Mira from her train of thought. Sensei? Must be a team then.
"So what type of magic do you use?" Mira questioned as she looked at the girl who merely blink. She didn't offend the girl, did she? Surely if she was placed on a team, she would have some type of use, right?
"Magic? What's that?"
Mira fought not to face plant into the bar. How in the world did she not know? Magic is used for almost everything!
"You know, Magic. The stuff we use in fights, and everyone has a certain magic that only a few can perform..." Mira trailed off, not quite certain how to explain it any further. She never had to explain this anyone.
"Macao, Wakaba! Come here for a second!" She called out to the two men at the end of the bar besides Cana. Macao looked over with a raised eyebrow as he saw the white haired girl waving her hand. He slowly trudged his way over with Wakaba dragging behind him with the casually lite cigarette between his lips and his eyes squinted in annoyance of having to get up.
"How do explain magic? Sakura doesn't know what it is." Mira informed to them, but it was mostly aimed at Macao whom had a frown on his face. Raising up his hand, his fingers was covered in a dark purple substance that had Sakura wary.
"This is my magic, called Purple Flare. Its a type of fire magic that I can use in offence and defensive situations. I don't know how to explain it, other than showing." Macao shrugged as he aimed the last part towards the She-Devil.
Although it was rather vague, considering all the different types of magic there is, Sakura seemed to brighten up like she had gotten an idea.
"I know what your talking about now! You use Magic, like we use Chakra." She held out her hands as a green glow emitted from them. "I'm a field medic, I use 'magic' to heal injuries."
Mira smiled at the girl, she was just a little slow... like someone else she knows. But what was chakra? Is that just a different name for Magic that they used? It would have to be because she had never heard of Chakra.
"I'm sorry for being troublesome, but i'm not from around here really. This is my first time visiting this continent." Apparently whatever she said must have been shocking, because now she had Mira, Macao, Wakaba, and Cana's attention all on her, their eyes wide.
"What?!" Macao and Wakaba yelled causing Sakura to tilt her head. "I said this is my first time visiting. Are you two hard of hearing?"
Mira giggled as the boys began to stumble over their words in outrage. "So where are you from? I didn't know their was anything across the ocean."
"The elemental nations, there is several small countries but there is four main ones: Wind, Earth, Cloud, and Lightening. Me and everyone else lives the Land of Fire... well, we did." She corrected quietly.
"What happened?" Wakaba asked, feeling a sense of dread for he had a feeling of what the reply was going to be.
"The past few years the nations have been at war, only last month did it finally end. We won the war, but everything got destroyed in the process. Everyone that came here... is all that's left really. We decided that we might as well come here to look for some of our family that we lost several years ago."
Mira's eyebrows creased as she fault back small tears at the thought of how hard that must have been on everyone. "I'm so sorry for your loss."
Wakaba nodded in agreement as he looked anywhere else but at Sakura; feeling guilty even asking something that was obviously tramatic. Macao was too busy trying to drown out the new information with a mug of beer, Cana following closely behind.
"No reason for you to apologize, it's in the past now." Mira frowned at the deep baritone voice, unable to recognize it. Besides, it didn't hurt to show some compassion to others. She turned around, mouth open to give a good sized piece of her mind; but it quickly snapped shut.
"N-naruto..." Sakura turned around, crossing her arms across her chest subconsciously. "Sorry... I really didn't think you would hear."
The blonde merely blinked as he jabbed his thumb behind him half-heartedly. "How can I not? I could hear you loud and clear across the room. And that was without concentrating on it." He gave a small nod of acknowledgement towards the groups of Fairy Tail members before turning back to his teammate. "Sensei said it's time to head back to our rooms... something about arrangements."