Naruto wasn't one to get embarrassed; he was well known for being the center of attention in a lot of situations, involuntarily or not. So he couldn't comprehend why he felt so uncomfortable in front of the large crowd that was made up of all Fairy Tail Mages. Kakashi and everyone else stood out beside him with calm expressions; he had a calm expression, but on the inside he was a wreck. As he thought about it, he couldn't even figure out why he felt so anxious. He wanted to move away from the bar where Mira had been smiling at him for the last fifteen minutes that he had been standing there, waiting for Gramps to get everyone to pay attention; the woman was honestly starting to creep him out. To keep himself from fidgeting around, he crossed his arms against his chest, glancing around the crowd.
He had never seen Madara's son, really wasn't all aware until recently that he had one; but it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the tall hulking figure at one of the tables was undoubtedly Madara's grandson. The same jet black and long spikey hair, red eyes, and the ever-present slight scowl imprinted on his face. The only differences that were un-Uchiha like was dark tanned skin, lack of eyebrows (what's with people having no eyebrows), and many... several piercings that seemed a little unnecessary. To sum it all up, the man looked like he was the legitimate child of a motorcycle gang and a group of emo/goths. Naruto didn't know what he was expecting the guy to look like, but this was the last visual image he imagined. Apparently, Madara had a similar feeling as his right eye gave a slight twitch.
Kurama bursted out laughing with tears brimming his ruby-red eyes. 'That's what that Uchiha scum deserves! What the hell kinda kid is that?! He looks like he just broke out of prison!'
'You should know better than to judge a book by it's cover, Kyuubi. After all, that's how we have been treated for centuries.' Shukaku grumbled as he rolled over to face away from the obnoxiously loud fox.
Another one he could identify immediately was the pink haired teen that he had seen yesterday fighting with the dude in only his boxers. He didn't want to automatically condemn the poor guy to the title, but he had a feeling that he had to be related to Sakura. Not only did they share the pink hair, although Sakura's was a great deal lighter, but same facial shape and noses.
"Mira would you please gather Gajeel, Natsu, Elfman, Lisanna, Laxus, as well as Ezra. Come to my office as soon as possible." Marakov grumbled as he gave up on trying to get anyone's attention. Besides, he figured it might be better for everything to be handled in private before announced in public. It's not everyday you find out you have family.
Gajeel crossed his arms as he viewed the newcomers. Looked like a bunch of weaklings to him. The blonde haired guy, though, made his instincts kick into overdrive; he gave off a great deal of power, but he held a calming aura around his being. Which was quite confusing to say the least. The other man that caught his interest was the black haired one, that looked eerily like his old man Metalicana in human form; he didn't like that at all. It didn't help that Lily decided to up and disappear once they returned from their mission. Add to the fact that the bookworm was nowhere in sight, neither was the two dunderheads that usually followed her on her heels. That could only mean Team Shadow Gear was off on some mission; Levy probably getting hurt because of her two poor excuses of teammates was so weak.
"Gajeel, Master wishes to see you in his office." Mira gave a sweet smile that only made said man grumble at having to get up. He took his sweet time walking across the guild, taking notice that he wasn't the only one headed towards Marakov's office. Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Elfman, Ezra, Lisanna, and Mira was quickly following behind. Now, Gajeel wasn't as intelligent as his Shrimp; but something fishy was going on for the guilds most powerful mages to be called to the office. No one ever really visits the office, seeing as Marakov reserved those visits for usual S-rank situations, or for a therapeutic talk.
He could only pray to Kami it was the latter.
He could tell he wasn't the only one slightly uncomfortable with going to the kami forsaken office; Laxus was scowling harder than usual, Ezra's eyebrows furrowed, Lisanna was visibly concerned, and Mira was still smiling with her eyes closed. Gajeel had to admit that the lady sometimes creeped him out; More than Juvia's obession with the Ice Mage.
He didn't bother to knock as he barged in with a scowl to realize things got really complicated with the visitors being seated across the room. Okay, therapeutic talk is out of the question; mission maybe?
"Oi, Old Geezer, what's all this about?" Natsu exclaimed loudly to the Master who was sitting on top of his desk. Gajeel was taken by surprise when a pink haired girl clenched her fist with a murderous scowl.
"Show some respect, Weirdo!"
"Weirdo?! Listen Lady, I am amazing! You're looking at the most awe-"
Gajeel blocked the flaming idiot out as he scanned over the room once again. The blonde haired teen had leaned himself against Marakov desk with his arms crossed, looking slightly amused at the pink haired teens antics.
"Enough!" Ezra growled as she hit both of the duo in the head with amoured covered fist.
"Someone's getting a taste of their own medicine." The blonde muttered with a wince as he watched. Gajeel didn't know what it was, but the guy had a... protective aura that made him feel more at ease than he ever has; not even Metalicana gave off that feeling. Who is this kid?
"Alright, children, calm yourselves. I called you in here for more than fighting one another." Marakov called out as he closed his eyes, feeling a headache coming about quickly. Now how was he to go about this whole situation?
"Yesterday, as some of you know, we had some visitors. After a long talk, I found out some rather... interesting information... involving all of you. I'm not quite certain how to go about all this, seeing as I never had to do anything of the sort, but all of you is related, in some form or fashion, to someone in the room." Marakov spoke quickly, his words blending together slightly before he took a breath. "Good luck guessing which one, now go along."
The whole room was silent as they all tried to process this information. Happy seemed to be the only one to squeak out a questioning, "Huh?"
Marakov blinked, only just noticing the blue cat perched on Lucy's shoulder.
"Lucy, Happy, what are you doing here?" Marakov questioned sending a glance at Mira whom shrugged.
"Natsu dragged us along." They chorused perfectly with a claw and finger pointing to said boy.
"Don't take offense, Jiji; but that was a sucky introduction." The blonde gave a small smile towards Marakov who had had a faint blush on his wrinkled cheeks.
"I told ya'll I didn't know how to exactly how to do any of this. Besides, you children run your mouths so much, I thought you could figure it out on your own! I don't have to hold your hands through this!"
Naruto smiled softly as his comrades all looked around at each other in question. Who would go first?
Kakashi cleared his throat, slipping his orange book into his vest. Naruto watched his perverted Sensei give a nervous sigh. During the nights they had to camp out under the stars and assign guard duty, Kakashi would tell stories of his kids. It had taken a while for Sakura and Naruto to realize what the children in the stories held in relation to Kakashi... but when they did they never let the man get too lost in those memories. Kakashi was the whole reason they even came on this trip, wanting to find his lost children.
Kakashi held a hand up, doing his classic closed eye smile. "Yo, I'm Hatake Kakashi. Not certain you remember me Mira-chan, Elfman, Anna-chan."
Mira narrowed her eyes at the tall man. She had little memory of her childhood, a lot of it was unclear and fuzzy. Apparently, her and her siblings had already met this man, but when?
The only guy she could vaguely remember was...
"Daddy?"
The whole room grinded to a halt as Natsu's jaw dropped, his eyes comically round. Laxus raised an eyebrow at the petite woman before glancing over at Kakashi with a calculating gaze.
Elfman tensed behind his two sisters. He didn't have any memory of his parents, mostly having to go by what Mira told him and Lisanna. Is this man... actually his father?
Kakashi looked like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. Honestly, he expected them to not even remember him. The last time he had saw them was when Lisanna was two.
He blinked in slight surprise when Anna-chan tackled him in a hug, tears flowing down her face. He saw the hesitation in his two oldest, which was really understandable; didn't make it hurt any less, though. With a small wave of his hand, Mira had joined in on the hug before Elfman hugged everyone. The touching scene was slightly ruined though when Elfman started hugging a little too hard, causing Kakashi's face to turn blue.
Madara gave a roll of his eyes and a small snort as he looked pass the white-haired family reunion to his Grandson. "Uchiha Madara." His baritone voice carried though the room, snapping Gajeel's attention within seconds.
Madara? Isn't that the man that Metalicana was constantly ranting about? Something about a idiot Uchiha's and 'vengeance'.
Gajeel narrowed his eyes in suspicion, before cutting to the chase. "Why the hell do you look like Old man?"
Madara was certain that would have been obvious by now; apparently the Uchiha intelligence wasn't passed down as much with the kid.
"Seeing as I'm your Grandfather, I would hope I bare some resemblance."
Gajeel blinked, before rubbing his ears. "I don't think I heard ya right, geezer. Ya sure ya took your meds?"
Naruto fought off laughing for the sake of the Uchiha whom had a major tick mark across his brow.
I like this boy...even if he is an Uchiha...and related to Madara, Kurama grinned.
"Well, guess it's my turn, huh?" Sakura whispered as she turned her gaze towards Natsu. "Alright, baka. I'm Haruno Sakura, also known also your twin sister."
Natsu nearly choked on his spit as he pointed towards himself in disbelief. "Me?"
"Yes, you. Who else ya idiot?!"
Natsu was quick to duck behind Ezra with whimper causing everyone to sweatdrop at his antics. "Take the scary Lady back!"
Ezra looked over at Naruto seeing him smile fondly at the others. "Well, we already know each other and how we are related." Naruto nodded his head slightly, still unable to wipe the small smile from his face.
Seeing that, thinking everything is over, Marakov cleared his throat gaining everyones attention; really, he just wanted to get Laxus' and Naruto's attention.
"Ah, we have one more revelation. Naruto, I want you to meet Laxus. Laxus, this is Uzumaki Naruto." Marakov paused for a moment to think it through before nodding. "Better known as Namikaze Naruto."
Over half of the room looked indifferent to the reveal, reasonably so. However, Laxus looked like he had been struck by lightening, pun intended.
He was quick to send the harshest glare yet towards Marakov, who merely stared back with a grim expression. "Y-you have no right to joke about that, you b@$tard!" He snarled as he stormed from the room, slamming the door in the process. The picture frames across the walls fell with the screech of glass breaking.
"Well, that went better than I thought it would."
