Fairy Tail's Six Paths Sage Jinchuuriki
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail. Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima respectively. Certain elements of this story were inspired by other Naruto/Fairy Tail crossovers.
AN1: as everyone who follows me (not just this individual story) has seen I uploaded a chapter for two of my older fanfics: KH3 aftermth and Reading the Fox Scroll (with the latter with great joy to most of my fans lol)
I know the ending is rushed but I wanted it done so if you have a problem I will probably ignore it,
Posted August 28/2019 (Wednesday)
Chapter 13 Naruto the S-class babysitter
The next morning Naruto woke up a bit later than usual. He usually woke up just after dawn for some daily training and exercise but he figured he deserved a break from all of the recent events. He had slept till just past noon. He had discovered after arriving here that instead having dreams his consciousness could enter the Tail Beast sanctuary while he slept.
He had spent a few hours inside there just talking with all of the tailed beasts inside of him. For him it was a reminder of the world he had chosen to leave behind while the tailed beasts were happy talking with the prophesized saviour and their partner.
After waking up and making himself a quick breakfast he did something that was basically routine if he was at home or on Tenrou Island. Pray to his parents and his godfather even though they were in a different world and no longer alive. It helped reaffirm his belief that the choice he made was the right one knowing they were true heroes like he strived to be.
"Hey dad. I haven't had to use chakra much but if you were here with me, I am sure you would love to learn from this world." Naruto said to a plaque dedicated to his father. The plaque said 'Minato Namikaze, loving father, fastest ninja to ever live.
"Pervy sage. I am sure you would love this world as for some reason almost every girl is super big in the chest area." Naruto said with a flat tone and sweatdrop to a plaque dedicated to Jiraiya of the Sannin. The plaque said "Jiraiya-sensei, proud super pervert, greatest sensei ever, man who wanted true peace.
"Hey mom. I have still tried to live with the lessons you taught me when I was a baby. The hardest one of choosing a girl since it is all so confusing what some of my new friends who are girls means to me. I still wish you were here to tell me what do. I love you all." Naruto said quietly with a single tear running down his face as he closed his eyes in prayer. The plaque said "Kushina Uzumaki, badass mom, beautiful hair, loving mother, person I wish I could talk to most.
The tailed beasts inside of him stayed quiet but they all could see Kurama hang his head down with some shame visible. Despite Naruto repeatedly saying he did not blame Kurama for his parents' deaths Kurama knew he was responsible. Even if he had not driven his claw through their bodies his attempts at freedom forced Minato to use a Justus that resulted in his death and the removal of him would have eventually led to Kushina death one way or another.
Naruto than walked to the guild ready to take on a job with Lucy liked he promised the night before although he had a feeling that Natsu would want to tag along. Much to his surprise when he got to the guild everyone was on high alert and sombre.
"Guys whats up?" Naruto shouted as he entered the guild. Everyone inside jolted up and rushed to Naruto to his surprise.
"Thank God Naruto-kun! Something terrible has happened!" Mira said in relief as Naruto gave her a look of worry.
"What happened?" Naruto asked in concern.
"Natsu, Happy and Lucy stole a S-class job during the night and ran off to do it." Mira said with a frown.
"Those idiots." Naruto said with a sigh and a hint of disappointment. "So what is being done to bring them back?" Naruto asked as he knew that even simple S-class jobs would be too much for the team of Natsu, Happy and Lucy.
"I have sent Gray to bring them back and I will punish them for breaking one of the guilds rules." Makarov said gravely as he sat at the bar with a beer half drunk.
"Hmm…" Naruto hummed as he looked thoughtful.
"What's wrong Naruto-nii?" Lissanna asked.
"Gray might be able to bring them back but he could just as easily join them on the job instead." Naruto said after a moment of thought. This greatly shocked everyone but none so much as Erza who walked urgently to Naruto.
"Why would Gray approve of doing something so foolish?" Erza demanded with a scowl on her face.
"For the same reason Natsu and Happy convinced Lucy to go on a S-class job without telling anyone." Naruto answered with a frown. As everyone looked confused at him, he decided to elaborate. "Erza and I are the same age as Natsu is now but we have been S-class for several years now while Natsu's power is still only at A-class. Natsu and Gray probably feel the need to prove themselves and they think beating this S-class job is the way to do it." Naruto said out loud as everyone eyes widened in realization.
"Those idiots! Master I request to bring them back right now for punishment!" Erza asked Makarov urgently who looked thoughtful.
"Wait. Let us wait for a few hours to see if they return. If they return voluntarily than the punishment will be lighter but if they don't return, I will go with Erza and bring them back for sure." Naruto suggested while Erza frowned but nodded her agreement.
"Very well. Erza and Naruto will go to Galuna island to bring back if they have not returned by sundown." Makarov announced as everyone gave a sigh of relief as two S-class wizards would soon bring back the reckless team.
Naruto walked over to the bar where Mira resumed bartending with a massive smile seeing Naruto again. "Hey Mira. You are S-class. Why didn't you volunteer to bring them back?" Naruto asked as Mira huffed her cheeks cutely.
"Silly Naruto-kun. As bad as they think Erza would be bringing them back I would break all their bones so they couldn't escape before brining them back." Mira said with a dark smile making everyone besides Erza shudder. "Just kidding." Mira giggled as Naruto laughed nervously although he thought Mira may not be 100% kidding.
"Honestly I am really disappointed in them thinking that doing a single S-class job would be a shortcut to make them S-class." Naruto mused as everyone listened closely. "In life there are no shortcuts to become S-class or getting stronger besides hard work and having the support of your friends." Naruto declared as most of the wizards looked at him in admiration. Mira openly smiled and blushed at his words; Erza gave him a look of respect while Makarov could not be prouder of him.
"Hey Erza do you want to do something while we wait to see if they come back?" Naruto asked the redhead as Mira frowned.
Erza realized that it would not worth doing a job in the short time thought for a minute. "Perhaps you can accompany me to taste some delicious cakes around Magnolia?" Erza suggested as she also realized she had not had time to enjoy the simpler things recently.
Naruto chuckled and nodded letting Erza take the lead as the left the guild hall to walk around to various bakeries in Magnolia town. Erza quickly discovered that despite not loving sweets as much as she did Naruto did enjoy sweets like her. The 2 S-class wizards had a fun afternoon hanging just chatting and eating sweets until the deadline drew near.
They both walked to the guild hall where to neither of their surprise Gray, Natsu, Lucy and happy were not inside. An enraged Erza crackled her knuckles menacingly and cried out "Ok times up! Now we are going to get them back to face punishment!" Erza started walking out of the guild without waiting for Naruto.
Naruto said with a nervous chuckle "Don't worry Master I will make sure Erza doesn't hurt them too bad." Naruto gave a thumbs up to seal the promise as he ran after the irate Knight. Makarov gave a sigh of relief as he was afraid Erza would lack any kind of restraint but Naruto would keep Erza focused.
"Now where do we get a boat?" Erza asked as she and Naruto walked to the harbour with no ships around.
"Don't worry about it. I got this." Naruto told her with a grin as she raised an eyebrow waiting for him. He took out a small strange capsule that had the word 'boat' on it before he tossed it into the water.
Erza was going to ask him why he was tossing that away but to her shock there was a puff of smoke. Before the capsule hit the water she heard a splash from inside the smoke and saw a shadow. After the smoke cleared she gasped a speed boat that was reasonably big was suddenly in the water where the capsule was.
"What was that?" Erza asked in amazement as she and Naruto stepped into the bat with Naruto setting uo the controls.
"Oh. This is a boat from West City transformed by their Capsule Corp technology." Naruto told her as she blinked. She had heard of West City and their advanced technology for innovations without using magic.
"When did you buy a boat from them?" She asked as she had heard West City technology was effective but expensive.
Naruto looked nervous "I got one on my last job with Mira-chan to West City. The mayor was so grateful for the help he offered me this boat. I tried o refuse but he insisted so I took it as well." Naruto admitted as only Mira knew of his job to that city.
Erza looked impressed as the boat started up and zipped across the water at high speed. Naruto told her it would likely take a few hours to get to the island so she decided to take a small nap in the pantry which had blankets as well.
Seeing Erza asleep Naruto felt no reason not to summon a shadow clone to pilot the boat while he laid back and relaxed. He did a hobby that Shikamaru was well known to do cloud watching. After a few hours Naruto felt the boat start to slow down.
"Boss we are here." His clone told him before dispelling. Naruto nodded before he turned off the engine to go wake up Erza.
"Erza wake up we are here." Naruto said softly gently shaking Erza's shoulder. She blinked for a few seconds to get the sleep out of her eyes before she is alert again.
"Yes. Let us go." Erza announced as they went back up with Naruto pointing to the island as eh parked the boat.
"I sense Lucy's magic power weakening over there so I think we should go after her first." Naruto suggested pointing in a direction as they walked onto the beach. Naruto had returned the boat back into capsule form so nobody would try to steal it while they were gone. Erza thought for a minute before nodding as she agreed it was the best move.
Naruto and Erza instantly started running towards Lucy's location. After a few minutes they arrived to a different part of the beach to a bizarre situation in Naruto's opinion. Lucy was on her back exhausted while a rock golem was poised to crush her with him sending small amounts of magic connecting the golem to a shaky pink haired woman. He also saw a rat in the corner about to strike.
Naruto pointed to Erza and the rat which made Erza nod as she ran sword in hand towards the huge rat.
"Now my lovely Rock Doll. Crush her!" Sherry said with glee as she barely held on with the last of magic being used. The Rock Doll obeyed her commands as it raised it foot up.
'No I can't move!' Lucy thought to herself as she closed her eyes expecting pain. After a few moments she still felt nothing until she heard a family voice.
"Need a hand Lucy?" Naruto said with a grin as Lucy widened her eyes with happiness and glee.
"Naruto! You're here!" Lucy said happily before she realized Naruto was holding onto the rock golem foot with one hand!
"What's wrong?! Crush them!" Sherry said in frustration as her Roc Doll was stuck unable to escape the grasp on Naruto's hand.
"Sorry lady but nobody hurts my friends and gets away with it." Naruto said coolly as Lucy eyes sparked touched by Naruto's words.
Naruto tugged making the Rock Golem fall towards him and to Sherry shock he punched the Golem with one punch destroying it completely.
"No. Angelica avenge me." Sherry said dramatically as she felt the last of her magic disappear with the destruction of her golem. She slumped over and gasped in horror to see a red-haired woman walk past her beloved Angelica who was knocked out.
Before Sherry could say another word, Erza ran and punched her in the gut knocking her out. Seeing as Lucy could not move Naruto pulled her into his arms once again as Lucy had a mild blush.
"Lucy would you like to explain yourself?" Erza asked angrily as she held a terrified Happy by his tail. He had come back to check on Lucy only to be caught by Erza before he could fly away.
Lucy whimpered and stammered to afraid to talk so Naruto decided to be the peacekeeper. "Erza lets find the others first and let explain themselves first ok?" He suggested while Erza sighed and nodded. Lucy gave Naruto a grateful look as he sent her a small grin in response.
After tying a rope to his stomach so he could not escape Erza had Happy do recon until he found where the villagers had relocated themselves. They entered the new spot while Erza roughly tied up Lucy's hands and not her whole body after Naruto's protest that she was still injured. Erza kept a hold of Happy's rope while they waited for Gray and Natsu to show up. Several minutes later an injured but bandaged Gray walked in surprised to see Naruto and Erza.
"Naruto? Erza? What is going on? Why are Happy and Lucy tied up like this?" Gray asked but flinched when Erza gave her a dark glare.
"Gray where is Natsu?" She asked impatiently as Naruto just watched silently in the corner.
"Well he and I got separated awhile ago but I am sure he is still around here." Gray told her as she sighed.
"Very well. I will now hear what you have to say for yourselves." Erza said with a black expression.
For the next several minutes Gray and Lucy explained about the job, the demon hidden in the temple and the curse affecting the towns people while both Naruto and Erza were silent.
After a moment Erza said emotionlessly "Gray, once we find Natsu we are heading back to Fairy Tail." This got shocked gasps from Lucy, and Gray while Naruto frowned.
"Erza, I know we broke the guilds rule but these people need our help." Lucy protested but flinched when Erza's glare turned to her.
"And?" Erza said flatly as her expression did not change.
"Erza! Let us finish this job at least and save these people!" Gray protested angrily as Erza looked unmoved.
"This job is posted across all the guilds in Fiore. Another guild can handle it once we leave as this was not an approved job." Erza said coolly refusing to back off. When Gray looked ready to argue she summoned a sword pointing at him threateningly. Seeing this Naruto knew he had to step in.
Naruto walked in between Erza and Gray so Erza lowered her sword down. "Erza is right, people who break the rules are trash." Naruto said seriously as Lucy lowered her head down in shame, Erza nodded approvingly while Gray glared. "However, those who abandon their comrades are worst then that so I am choosing to become trash to stop becoming worst." Naruto announced passionately as he stood with Gray.
Erza eyes as she became speechless, Lucy looked at Naruto with star filled eyes while Grays respect for Naruto skyrocketed. Erza was still indecisive so Naruto decided to add the cherry on top. "Besides Fairy Tail's reputation will plummet when everyone hears 2 S-class wizards quit a job halfway through." Naruto said with a wink as Erza blinked and scowled.
After a minute she sighed and cut Lucy and Happy binds away. "Very well. They can finish their punishment after we finish the job." Erza declared as Lucy and Gray cheered while Naruto smiled.
The group than heard a loud rumbling in the distance as Lucy shouted "Guys it must be the temple!".
"Natsu is probably the cause." Gray said as everyone agreed and they started running in that direction. While they ran Gray explained his past with the Demon Deliora and how his teacher sealed it away using Ice Shell. Naruto was in particular interested in a spell that sealed away a target in exchange for the castor life force. He thought it was similar to the Reaper Death Seal.
However, Kurama decided to interject "It is not the same Naruto. From what I can understand the Ice Shell keeps the target sealed in this world meaning it can be broken. That moon drip can I fluence and melt it since the target is still in this world. However, the Reaper Death Seal seals away the soul of the target which makes it impossible for the seal to be broken unless they are willing to kill themselves using that accursed Uzumaki Reaper Mask."
Naruto teased Kurama that he was starting than people thought before he cut off the connection as they neared the tower.
"Listen up! Lucy and I will take care of the followers on top to stop the ritual and Moon drip! Naruto and Gray will go below the temple and take down Lyon and anyone else!" Erza commanded as everyone ran in their own paths.
When they got inside they were stopped by Lyon but Gray decided to fight him alone while Naruto went on ahead to fight the last lackey Zalty.
"Good luck Gray." Naruto shouted as he went past Gray and Lyon deeper into the temple. 'That must be the demon.' Naruto thought as he saw a massive demon somewhat smaller than Lullaby but bigger than Cell. It was trapped in an ice barrier like Gray told them but its head was no longer frozen and it looked like the ice was melting even now. 'That must be the moon drip affect to dispel magic.' Naruto analyzed before he heard a loud explosion.
"Naruto!" Natsu yelled as he turned around to see the S-class wizard walk towards him.
"Bad move Salamander!" Zalty yelled gleefully as he used Arc of Time to control an orb and smash a distracted Natsu into a wall trapping him.
"Dammit!" Natsu yelled as he struggled to get free.
"Well now that he is out of the way I get to play with the infamous Naruto Uzumaki. S-class extraordinaire." Zalty said with a grin as Naruto stepped forward.
"For some reason I feel like I should know you but I can't quite out it in down." Naruto told Zalty who looked confident but was sweating on the inside.
'Dammit I was not expecting him of all people to interfere.' Ultear thought furiously as 'he' used Arc of Time to control a dozen robs at once. He than launched then all at Naruto who looked bored. After the smoke cleared to Ultear's shock Naruto was standing in the same spot but the orbs were surrounding him with not one hitting him.
"Your are a fast one aren't you? Doesn't matter though! Nobody can escape my magic!" Zalty claimed as he kept launching balls by speeding their time up and even trying to stop it in mid air to confuse Naruto. To his frustration Naruto effortlessly dodged every attempt without with a bored look.
"It won't work. It doesn't matter how you effect their time you won't hit me." Naruto told Zalty. He once again dodged another assault but this time leapt up and flipped in mid air. "Sky Devil Force Palm!" Naruto said as he launched a burst of wind at Zalty. Zakty was quick enough to jump backwards as the air bomb destroyed the platform he was standing on and made the cave creak.
Before they could continue their fight, everyone heard a massive "ROAR!" as a loud screeching could eb heard.
"It can't be!" Naruto said in shock.
"It is!" Zalty said with glee.
"Deliora has been revived!" Naruto and Zalty said at the same time.
"I have waited all these years and it has finally come. My time to surpass Ur is here!" Lyon said as he crawled exhausted from his fight with Gray towards the demon.
"Hmm it seems the odds are no longer in my favour. Farewell for now!" Zalty chuckled as he ran off before anyone could stop him.
"Tcchh. He is nothing the real problem is Deliora is back now." Naruto mused as Gray entered the cave.
"Dammit you can't even stand up let alone fight!" Natsu yelled at Lyon since he got free of the wall finally.
"I will beat Del~~" Lyon said before Gray went behind him and chopped him on the neck. Lyon instantly collapsed as Gray gave him a look of pity.
"Don't worry I will clean up your mess like our master did for us." Gray said coolly as he crossed his arms in a X shape. "Ice Shell!" Gray announced before Natsu or Naruto could protest.
Before the spell could take effect Deliora roared and shot a beam of energy at Gray. "Aargh!" Gray shouted in pain as the beam hit him and the spell was cancelled.
"Gray!" Natsu shouted in concern as Deliora started firing beams randomly at the ceiling. This caused the cave to start to shudder as debris started falling.
"Dammit at this rate it is going to collapse the whole cave on us!" Naruto yelled in realization as he avoided another rock from above. "Natsu! Gray! Take Lyon and get out of here! I will take care of the demon outside!" Naruto commanded.
Natsu was about to argue but Gray shook his head as he picked up Lyon. "Be careful ok?" Gray told Naruto who gave him a thumbs up.
"I will never let me friends die." Naruto told him as Gray gave a nod. Gray and Natsu along with Lyon ran though the entrance as the cave continued to get weaker and weaker.
As soon as his friends were safely out, he gave the demon a look of determination. "Now it is just you and me big guy." Naruto announced as the Demon yelled in response.
Naruto put a massive amount of Devil Slayer magic into his hand and leaped towards Deliora. It tried to punch him but he swerved in mid air and did a massive blow at the demon's chest sending it flying through the cave and into the ocean many miles away.
Meanwhile outside the cave several minutes after
Erza and Lucy had joined up with Gray and Natsu.
"This is bad! Some it feels even more powerful than before it was sealed!" Gray revealed to the shock of the others.
"How could that be? It was sealed by your master all those years ago!" Lucy asked in shock.
"Could it be? That the moon drip not only released the demon from its seal but somehow gave the demon more strength?!" Erza said in horror as Gray glared at the prone Lyon.
"We need to help Naruto now!" Natsu yelled as everyone nodded and prepared to head back into the cave.
"Help who?" Naruto said playfully as he appeared behind them without a scratch except some slightly damp clothes.
"Naruto!" Everyone yelled as they gave him looks of relief.
"Is it done?" Erza asked referring to the demon.
"Yup! I guess I can be called the Demon Killer huh? That is 3 for me!" Naruto said cheerfully as everyone sweat dropped at his attitude.
Naruto thought back to what happened minutes ago
After sending the demon flying Naruto flew towards it at high speed using Sky Devil Slayer magic. He arrived to see the demon already standing with its magic power keeping the water away from it.
"So, it looks like you are a toughie huh?" Naruto remarked as the Demon gave him a look of loathing.
"That magic…" A growl could eb heard from Deliora.
"What you can talk?" Naruto said in mild shock as eh thought Deliora was a mindless beast.
"That accursed magic used to slay my brethren. Devil Slayer magic. Ha!" Deliora hissed ignoring the jab at its intelligence. "What gives the right for humans to slay us huh?" (AN2:) Deliora shouted in hate as it glared at Naruto. "Is it because we live forever unlike you mortals? Or is it arrogance for killing what is different than your species?" Deliora asked as it charged a beam intending to end the life of the human in front of it.
It only saw a flash of light before it felt great pain with its beam dissipated.
"Funny I never said I was killing you because you are a demon." Naruto remarked from behind Deliora.
Deliora could only look down in horror as a giant hole appeared on its chest with cracks appearing and spreading across. It looked behind at the human and was shocked by what it saw. Naruto had yellow energy covering his entire body with black markings. The energy looked like yellow flames while one hand was outstretched. It realized somehow this human had torn through its body before it could react.
"I killed you so you would no longer hurt my friends anymore." Naruto revealed with a serious expression.
"Human! This cannot be the end! Praise lord Zeref! Banzai! Banzai!" It shouted as the hole in its chest expanded and it turned to dust in the next moment.
"Well you haven't used my chakra in some time." Kurama remarked from inside the seal.
"I guess I haven't." Naruto agreed as he deactivated chakra mode and starting flying back to his friends since he could tell they were at the cave again.
End flashback
Erza reminded them that breaking the curse was the S-class job not defeating the demon so they went back to the village. The elder insisted that destroying the moon would be the solution and much to Lucy and Grays shock Naruto and Erza agreed.
"Do you want me to toss a Rasen-shuriken up there?" Naruto offered but Natsu angrily said he wanted to destroy the moon.
Erza sighed and allowed Natsu to use his fire to booster her throwing strength and used a spear enhanced with light magic to throw. Naruto only grinned while Lucy and Gray looked at shock when the spear hit something and cracked the sky.
It turned out that the moon drip released an evil membrane surrounding the island and by destroying it the villager's memories returned. The villagers were really demons who could transform into humans and not humans cursed into demons. They decided to celebrate and even the troublemakers were forgiven and allowed to party with them all night long.
By next morning Lyon and his friends had already disappeared and the village elder was insisting on paying them.
"Please Erza-san let us pay you and your friends the 7 million reward." The village elder pleaded. Gray, Natsu and Lucy eyes widened in greed as Naruto just looked intently at Erza.
"It is hard to refuse but we must. This was not an official sanctioned job so it would bring shame to our guild if we accepted the money." Erza declared as their heads dropped and the elder looked disappointed. Naruto leaned over and whispered into both the elder and Erzas ears. After a moment they all nodded. The Village elder put something into Naruto's hands as they said their goodbyes.
"Here Lucy." Naruto said as he handed her a golden Celestial key and 70 000 jewels.
"Wait I get all this?" Lucy asked in shock as she put the money away and held the key in reverence.
"Consider this your months rent Lucy." Naruto informed her with a grin.
"Why does only Lucy get money?!" Natsu whined before Erza bumped him on the head.
"If you guys wanted to go on an S-class job you could've asked and Erza or I or both would happy to take you along." Naruto chided as Lucy looked wide eyed.
"Wait I thought only S-class wizards could take S-class jobs?" Lucy asked in confusion as Natsu and gray suddenly looked very nervous.
Naruto sighed and explained how non-S-class wizards could go on S-class jobs IF they followed a S-class wizard with the pay usually being split in favour of the S-class wizard.
"THAT is why you don't get anything but a punishment. Next time you trick someone to prove a point it will be a lot worst." Erza warned Natsu. "Next tie you are ordered to bring someone home do it!" Erza yelled at Gray as both boys looked terrified.
Naruto than put his boat back in the water (which impressed Lucy and horrified Natsu) before they were on their way back to Fairy Tail. Lucy kept asking what the punishment was with Natsu and Gray being terrified, Naruto shrugging and Erza just smiling in amusement.
AN2: I used a Bleach quote (modified) here. Hint its from the Heunco Mondo Arc.
I did intend for a chat between Naruto and Ur (in kinda a linked mindscape) but choose not to do it because it would require a lot of explaining and I knew I would get bashed for something so random.
Yeah I KNOW I condensed an arc in one chapter but I felt a good portion of it was off screen (the parts with Lucy, Natsu and Gray happened like canon). Next chapter will be a short Changling (from anime episode 19) than Phantom lord arc! I need some help with that arc so please send some suggestions and PMS my way for what you think I should do with it! (Juvia will still end up with Gray so DON'T ask me to change that!)