CHAPTER 2
"Wow, so this is your basic armor?" Naruto asked as he stood in the middle of a training ground that he normally used. He was looking over his own body in surprise when he felt a light boost in his strength while he was wearing armor. He had awoken the day after he had passed out, and had been let out of the hospital without anyone being against him. Erza was floating nect to his body without any legs, her ghostly tail leading towards the center of his back. It turned out that she could go inside of his body, since he was her new link to this world, she had to follow him around.
"Yes, those were my everyday clothes." Erza said as she looked over Naruto and was giving him a look of approval. She had been wondering if Naruto could work passed the shame of wearing female clothes and be truly willing to do anything it took to grow stronger, and she was not disappointed in his strength of will. She was surprised by the complete lack of shame that Naruto seemed to have when wearing what most would call disgusting for a guy to wear. Of course, his current clothes he was wearing could be considered pretty average of the shame scale.
Because his old clothes were lost and destroyed, he now HAD to wear something new.
"Why did this chest shrink down though?" Naruto said as he pointed at the chest of the armor. It was strange, since Erza was so well endowed he would expect that her armor wouldn't fit him at all. He was wearing her silver chest armor that she called her basic setting. He had the shoulder blades already attached to his shoulders, protecting them from getting damaged. Metalic gauntlets covered him up to his elbows like her, showing off parts of his biscep. Black gloves could be seen under the armor, showing an extra layer of clothing. You couldn't see it, but Naruto had on his black shirt on under Erza's... HIS armor now. Erza had told him that her power was his power now, and she was going to help him master it.
The armor had shrunk down to fit his size, and the chest had flattened out since he lacked the breasts to use them. The armor was still slightly feminine, but because he lacked her boobs, the armor didn't see the need to have the chest become so large. Even her blue skirt shortened from her own length so that it was still doing down to mid-thigh on him. Her knee high leather boots had become his size as well unsurpisingly.
The clothes were a tight fit, yet the were layered so that he could bend and move around normally.
"You have no boobs. I got my armor when I was flat chested, and enchantments were placed on it so that it would always fit my body. So when I grew, it also grew with me. It will ALWAYS fit you, because it will always grow or shrink with you. You lack a chest, henceforth, no need for the armor to have breasts either." Erza explained to him simply and swiftly, not wasting even a second explaining the reasoning behind it, saying only what she had to. She was floating around him though and looking at the shape of his body. Not as in how it looked, but more how much trouble he was having standing using her armor.
Her armor weighed about 150 pounds easily, yet he seemed to be having no trouble moving in the slighest.
It was amazing, either that, or when she stole parts of his Yin energy to move and refuel her own magical container inside his body, she had shifted the balance even more than before, thus making his own body a little stronger physically thanks to the even more unbalanced Yang and Yin inside of his body.
"So let me get this straight, I imagine what armor I use... and then I draw on this... magic and surround myself with it right?" Naruto asked just to make sure that he got everything right. Erza nodded to herself lightly, because Naruto seemed to only understand the strangest or most basic of instructions available to him.
"Not exactly, not only did I use armor that gave me more powers, but also weapons with those armor. You have a good grasp on the basics of summoning my basic armor. It maybe though because my own magical container is well trained in summoning already though." Erza mused lightly as Naruto held his hands together in front of his body. Erza looked over at his hands and she could feel Naruto reaching into the second... THIRD energy source in his body. She was glad that he already knew how to draw on chakra, because it made it easy for him to learn how to sense his own inner energies and draw on them.
That didn't make him a master though.
"So awesome, what kind of powers does this armor give?" Naruto asked as he moved his body around a little.
"None really. Though in that armor I still had access to my basic telekinesis." Erza answered when a glow appeared in Naruto's hand, before a normal sword appeared in his hand. The sword was just average, being maybe 3 feet in blade length, and having a double edge to it. The handle had a firm grip on it, and the guard was slightly wing shaped in a way. Naruto gave a few practice swings of the sword, and Erza frowned. "You have no sword training at all, do you?" Erza asked blunty as she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Nope, none at all." Naruto answered as he swung the sword again. Of course he never had sword training before, so he would have to learn that before he could properly use a sword to it's best ability. Naruto pat his butt, where he had his pouch attacked to the back of the skirt. Naruto took out a shuriken and a kunai, before he threw the shuriken at a tree, before he wielded the kunai with a back handed grip. "Though, I DO know how to wield a short blade." Naruto said with a grin on his face as he gave a few practice swings.
"I can teach you how to wield a sword, but at least you have some basic blade knowledge. That will help out, so at least you aren't starting at zero." Erza sighed out. She had mastered the art of the sword when she was alive, and she would expect nothing less but complete mastery from Naruto when she was done with him. It would seem that right now his only skill that he could use of hers was actually summoning armor. He was only able to summon HIS current outfit because he had seen it on her corpse and on her ghost form. She placed her hand on top of his head, and he stopped swinging his kunai and looked at her.
"Hey, what armor is best for a hand to hand person?" Naruto asked after a moment.
"Hmm, thinking ahead... smart move. You only have two days... so in that time at best I show you one technique... you have a very basic grasp of using magic. Do you prefer defense or offense?" Erza asked, because depending on his fighting style it would decide what kind of armor she would teach him how to use. It would be best to teach him exactly what he needed to win, and then drill it into his head intil he could use it by instinct. She was sure that with his massive amounts of energy, his control over such energy would be pretty much the biggest issue, so a technique that took no real control over energy would be best.
"Offense is the best!" Naruto declared boldy, and Erza slammed her fist into the top of his head and sent him flying to the ground.
"Fool! Offense may be the superior form of combat, but never underestimate the good points in having a good defense either! I will be teaching you how to combine both offense and defense into a great fighting style, the Knight!" Erza exclaimed at him when he stood back up and rubbed the top of his head in pain. Naruto was groaning as he held his head, because this dead woman sure could hit as hard as a brick being thrown off a roof. He would have thought that she couldn't hit very hard since she lacked any muscle, literally as in she had no physical body.
She could hit him though, because she was linked to him. Of course, her hits only hurt, they didn't do any true damage to him other than an intense feeling of pain. There wasn't even a bump of his head from where she hit him.
"Ouch?! Okay okay, I won't just be on the offense! Did you have to hit me that hard?" Naruto asked with a near stupified expression on his face, and she looked sheepish for a second, before she got serious again.
"Sorry, but pain is the best teacher. I would rather hurt you now, than allow you to make a fatal mistake in battle from your own ignorance. Attack and defense go hand in hand, sacrificing one for another as a fighting style is foolish. Yes, in some cases it is needed, but your entire fighting style can't be based around it. You need to find your own unique balance. The Knight is the perfect balance of offensive fighting, yet defensive armor." Erza explained the basis of her fighting style, and how it would be a more use to Naruto than fully offensive. Naruto sat cross legged and listened to her eagerly. This was the kind of stuff that he wanted to learn in the first place, cool tricks that would help him in a fight.
"Okay, so how do I learn about your other armors and weapons?" Naruto asked Erza with a curious look, and she started to think about it for a second.
"Truly, it shouldn't be that hard to learn how. First, we need to find you a partner to spar with." Erza said out loud. Naruto grinned and crossed his armored hands, his fingers making a plus sign. Then Erza's eyes widened when she saw a perfectly identicle copy of Naruto standing next to Naruto, both of them wearing the Heart Kreuz Armor that she herself always wore, even when not in a fight. The clone looked down at his body, before frowning and closing his eyes.
"I can't use Requip." The Naruto clone said with a frown, and Erza nodded when she felt that this Naruto would be unable to enter the pocket dimension that kept her old armors and weapons. It would seem that the clones were a mostly Yang energy contruct, so they would have more trouble tapping into the magic inside of Naruto's real body. Of course, anything that was already on Naruto's body seemed to transfer over to the clone as well. The fact that both had swords in their hands showed more proof of that, so Erza nodded to Naruto.
"Very good idea. Naruto clone, remove the armor manually so that you will be faster and stronger than the real Naruto. The best way to learn is to fight somebody that is stronger than you." Erza ordered, and Naruto was surprised when the clone grinned at him sadistically and started to remove the armor from his body. Whenever the armor hit the ground it vanished in a poof, untilt he end result was the clone of Naruto wearing only the long black gloves, the skirt, a normal black shirt, and the boots. He was also still holding the sword in his hands.
"Wait, I don't think this-AH!?" Naruto shouted in shock when he brought the sword up to block a blow from the clone. The two swords collided, and the clone of Naruto stepped back and started to swing the sword again at Naruto's side even faster than Naruto could block normally. As it was, he barely got the side of the sword there in time so that he could keep himself from getting hurt. He jumped back and continued to retreat, and his hands went up and another clone appeared next to him... only for it to get popped when Naruto used the clone as a shield to cover himself.
Erza's eyes widened when she felt a small tinge at the back of her mind.
"Stop the match! Naruto clone, get rid of yourself in the most painful way possible." Erza ordered to the clone, who gulped, and raised his sword before stabbing himself in the crotch. The clone exploded in a puff of smoke, before revealing that it wasn't there. The real Naruto yelped and covered his crotch when he felt a phantom pain go through his body, like he had felt that blow even though he hadn't even gotten his by anything.
The next thing that Naruto saw was a fist flying towards his face, knocking him back on his ass holding his face in pain.
"Naruto! Why didn't you tell me you got the memories of your clones!? Do you know how useful this would be towards your training!?" Erza demanded the answer out of him as he got back onto his feet. Naruto groaned and held his undamaged face as the strange pain filled him, only to blink when he registered what she was saying.
"My clones do what now?" He questioned with a strange look in his eyes. Erza blinked again, before she face palmed. She was connected to him, so the clones memories had been filtered into her own head as well. It wouldn't make sense that Naruto hadn't known this... unless every time he used the clones they were only around for a short while, or were always in Naruto's sight, thus he wasn't learning anything new when he used them. If they had learned something new, then Naruto might have learned this trick, but as it was she suspected he only used clones when he was around them.
"Your clones, when they pop the energy inside of them goes BACK to you. Everything the learned while alive is also sent back to you. Your shadow clones learn, and you learn what they learn." Erza tried to explain in the easieast way she could. Naruto's eyes widened, before ehe grinned and looked at Erza like she was a genius.
"That is so awesome. So you're saying I can look right and left at the same time?!" Naruto asked excitedly. She scratched her chin in confusion, not understanding the way he put that, but she nodded anyway. Erza held her hand out and 'summoned' a ghostly sword in her hand and turned so that Naruto could see her raise her hand above her head. Then she brought her sword down with both hands in a straight slash, and then she swung her sword fromn the left to the right in a quick slash.
"See this, make as many clones as you can and have them ALL doing this over and over until it become a habit. No amount of clone training in two days will make you a swords master, but it will give you at least the basic moves and grips for the sword." Erza ordered him as she showed him the two most basic sword strikes again. For a beginner, these two sword strikes needed to be mastered before you could begin any serious training. She would have him mastered these two sword strikes before he began any other true sword training. She made sure that Naruto was watching again, before she showed him the exact positions of her hands on the sword and did the motions again.
"Roger! Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto called out as he crossed his fingers, and his chakra started to flare around his body in a blue aura that seemed to swirl like a tornado for a second. Then the entire training ground was covered in multiple puffs of smoke, and Erza looked around with wide eyes when she saw an entire armys worth of clones at Naruto's disposal. She looked at him in shock, before pride filled her eyes.
'Naruto... you are going to surpass everyone that came before you.' Erza thought with a sense of pride when she saw the nearly unlimited, or even unlimited, potential that her apprentice had inside of him. His mixed brown and blue eyes looked at her, and a thin sheen of sweat covered his brow. She lost count of how many clones of Naruto there were after she reached the number 600, showing just how massive this boy's reserves were. At hir age, she didn't even have a tenth of the pure energy reserves this boy had.
"Alright all of you! Get to work on doing what Erza-sensei showed us!" Naruto ordered his clones with a loud yell, and all of them started to run towards the trees and start their training by using their slashes and chopping against the trees. There were plenty of shouts coming from the clones as the clones all did the same moves that Erza did, though they didn't show the exact same amount of grace. They were a bit more clumsy than she was, showing inexperience in their sword thrusts.
Erza was still impressed though, mostly at the determination.
"Naruto, while they work on that I want you to keep practice switching calling out the sword in your hand. While you do this, I will explain to you some of my more used armors. Then you will decide what one will help you the most, so that we can work on this. Students learn quicker when they are learning something they want to learn." Erza reasoned with Naruto, and he nodded with an almost feral grin as he looked at the sword in his hand and started to try and put it back into the pocket dimension that it came from. It took a few seconds, but when the sword glowed golden and vanished Erza counted 11 seconds for his time on making it vanish.
Naruto held his hands out again at both sides, before he closed his eyes and started to summon two swords at the same time of the same design."I learn best... under stress!" Naruto declared as he forced himself to try and summon more than what he had before.
"Very good, pushing yourself. The armor you are wearing now is the Heart Kreuz Armor, and it grants no real boosts. It is heavy, so wearing it is a handicap and when it is removed for another armor even more power in unleashed. You can already summon this one fine though." Erza commented when she saw Naruto take 14 seconds to summon two swords in his hands. He was grinning to himself, before he started to make them glow as he de-summoned them back from where they came from. "The next armor is the Heaven's Wheel Armor, and it boosts Telekenetic powers and allows you to requip even more swords at one time. It also allows you to fly for short amounts of time. This one needs you to bring your telekenesis and summoning power up another few knotches to, so I won't teach you how to summon it yet." Erza informed him, and he pouted over at her as he started to summon the swords again.
"Then why would you tell me about it?" Naruto asked with a twitching eye.
"The Flame Empress Armor is a big help is battle. Not only does it allow you to use Fire Magic, but it will also allow for you to gain a higher immunity to fire. Strongs flames lose half of their power against the armor, and weaker flames have no affect at all. I seriously suggest this one." Erza explained to Naruto, suggesting it as the next armor that he was going to learn how to use. Of course, all of her armors were good to use in a fight... most of them were good in a fight, so she would let him decide after thinking it over some. She could see him working on summoning the swords again after he de-summoned them.
"Heh, badass. Sasuke uses Fire Ninjutsu. That would totally help with beating him up." Naruto said with a grin on his face.
"The Flight Armor increases your speed to immense levels, and it would help you would against people that are faster than you. Of course, it has a lighter armor so you trade some defense. Not suggested for somebody that can counter speed. Instead, I would go with the Blake Wing Armor over it, since it gives you an increased offense power and the ability to fly." Erza described to him, and the more he was hearing about those armors the more he wanted to learn how to use them. Increased speed, increased offense, increased number of swords, and even flying. That all sounded pretty damn cool to him, and the Flame Empress Armor sounded so badass.
"Neji attacks by poking people and pushing his chakra in them." Naruto informed her, and Erza nodded. In that case, no real armor would help when the enemy could attack you by pushing his energy inside of you manually. That would bybass the defense of most armors that protected the body, meaning her heavier armors would be out. She would have to suggest to him armors that would allow more greater mobility and speed.
"Then the Lightning Empress Armor or the Robe of Yuen. The Lightning Empress Armor is easy to move in, and it lets you use Lightning Magic and reduces the effects of lightning to almost zero, depending on their strength. The Robe of Yuen though would be a great choice, since it has elastic properties and can prevent energy from invading the users body and help reduce pressure damage." The teacher told her student, who seemed to have some trouble thinking of which of those two would be a better choice over the other ones. Of course, the Robe of Yuen would only really give him the advantage against Neji. He would need some help against all of his opponents, and as far as he could tell he would have to fight either Temari, Shikamaru, Shino, or that wierd Kankuro guy after he kicked Neji's ass.
Naruto had little doubt in himself that he would win.
Naruto had a real teacher now, somebody that was paying attention to him and helping him in some REAL training instead of just making him work on chakra control or making him summon a toad.
"So many good armors, and so little time... GAH! I don't know what to pick!" Naruto shouted as he summoned two swords at the same time without thinking about it. Erza didn't comment on it, knowing that Naruto would lose his unknowing focus on the swords and try and brag. She could tell that he was the person that would do great under a trial and error method on his own. She was just going to guide him, and after these... Chunin Exams... she would start the real training with him to truly master the art of the sword before she started training him with some of the harder armors to master.
She had a real plan for his training, but she was going to take it slow. If she rushed his growth, then he wouldn't truly master what he was learning. He would only master what he was taught, which was NOT the same thing. Once he truly mastered something, he could invent tricks of his own, but with mastering tricks he only learned how to use those tricks and nothing more.
"Tell me a little about the other peoples skills. You are not just fighting one person after all. Learn an armor than can help you with more than one opponent. Be sure to think ahead, and have a plan. Thinking on the fly is great, but sometimes thinking ahead is even greater. Your mind is your greatest weapon Naruto, with it you can defeat somebody ten times stronger than you." Erza told Naruto as she flicked him in the middle of the forehead. Naruto unknowingly de-summoned the sword in his left hand as he rubbed his flicked forehead. He smiled widely, before he frowned when he had to think about his opponents.
"Well... this Temari girl uses wind... this Kankuro guys uses weirdd puppets. Shikamaru makes people copy him with shadows... OH, and Shino uses bugs. Then there is this guy Gaara who uses sand, and Sasuke likes to use fire." Naruto explaimed as he thrust his fist into his other palm. He had a grin on his face at the thought of fighting and winning against people, though he didn't know how exactly he would beat them, he was being trained by an awesome teacher.
"Wind, puppets, shadows, bugs, sand, and fire... the Flame Empress Armor would be the best bet for you. Wind is weak to Fire, puppets are made of wood, which fire burns, and bugs are weaker to the flames as well. Shadows need shadows to work, and with fire you have a source of light than than wipe the shadows out. Sand is turned to glass through flames... and flames themselves won't affect the armor... I think the Flame Empress Armor would be the best fit for this occasion... though I may be wrong." Erza said, because she didn't know if Chakra infused sand would burn into glass or not. So far she only had experienced with regular sand being turned to glass, and for all she knew the chakra sand would be immune to turning into glass thanks to the chakra.
"Okay! Lets get to work! How do I summon the Flame Empress Armor!?" Naruto shouted with enthusiasm, and he worked in the question at the same time with just as much enthusiasm. Erza sighed, before she floated over to Naruto and placed the palm of her hand over her old eye inside of head. Naruto didn't blink even as she touched the brown right eye he had, and Erza used that as the link she needed to use her old magic container in him so that she could implant the image of her armor inside of his head.
He blushed.
From what he could 'see', the armor was a LOT more... feminine than the pretty neutral armor he was wearing right now. At least this current armor, the only really feminine thing was the skirt and the knee high boots. Though even some men wore skirts into battle for their fighting style, so that wasn't as bad as most would think. Naruto gulped with the blush still on his face, before he resolved the fact with himself that he was going to learn and master everything that Erza was going to teach him.
She gave him her old eye, and she was teaching him her old tricks. She already gave him a lot, so he would work his hardest to work passed the embarrassment. Naruto closed his eyes and he started to picture them armor in his head again, now knowing what it looked like so that he could get a good picture in his head.
'Oh cool, this armor has a lot of orange in it.' Naruto thought to himself as the armor he was wearing slowly started to glow. The glow then turned into golden dust and vanished, while his body started to glow instead, hiding the fact he was naked. Erza was watching with a passive eye as Naruto started to summon the armor she had suggested to him. He was taking awhile, and so far she had already reached the 13 second mark in how long it was taking him to switch between the Heart Kreus Armor and the Flame Empress Armor.
"Faster! An enemy would have attacked you by now!" Erza shouted at him, and the glow stopped and revealed him in his new armor after 21 seconds had passed by. Erza frowned at the time, but she had to admit that it wasn't the worst thing that he could be starting with. She looked to see that Naruto's face was covered with a blush as he wore this armor, and for good reason. The boy was looking very much like a flat chested girl fight now because of his lean form, and his face being a bit more like what she would assume was his mother's face. The red straight hair didn't help the look either.
He succeeded in summoning armor.
The Flame Empress Armor was made up of only the colors dark red, black, and orange metals and fabrics. The first piece of armor that would be seen was the torso armor that covered him from his pecs to his crotch, veru much like a one piece swimming suit, but without any shoulder pieces, leaving his shoulders and bisceps exposed. Of course, the magic of the armor affects the entire body, so Naruto's uncovered body was still very much being protected against flames, just not physical hits as much. Around his chest, the pecs, was a flatter piece of orange armor shaped similar to flames that left have of his upper chets exposed. The next was the stomach that had an outer dark red design of flames, connecting to black flames over the stomach, and then was the orange flame metalic design over the top of the crotch like a belt, with a black fabric extending down to cover the crotch like a bikini bottom... hey, just because it changes size doesn't mean it changes gender... because it doesn't.
Around his neck was an orange flame-like collar that had two dark red dragon-like wings coming from the back and pointing at the ground. Two dragon horn styloed clips were in his red hair, looking like the horns of dragons.
Long black flame-like stockings went up Naruto's legs to mid-thigh, showing off his thighs, but those were mostly for decoration than any real purpose. At Naruto's knees were orange flame like knee guards, connected to red dragon-like shin guards with armored boots shaped like dragon's feet. The final pieces of the armor were on the arms, going up to almost the biscpe were loose black gloves, and over them were elbow protectors made up of orange metal styled like fire. Then red metal styled like dragon scales with orange on the forearm. Then the gauntless ended with dragon-like red fingers, and on top of his hand were orange pieces of armor with four spiked pointed forward like claws were.
In Naruto's right hand, because he was right handed, there was a red sword with an orange flame designed guard. The red blade of the sword had a black center, and it was shaped like flames slightly, being a little more curved on the sides, while being double edges, and ended in a sharp point. The blade was about 3 feet long as well, and a 4 inches wide.
"Flame Empress Armor!" Naruto declared with a grin on his face, even though his cheeks were tinted with pink. He was embarrassed to wear this armor, but hey, he turned into a naked woman to embarrass people for fun. This was nothing when compared to that, or so he told himself. Naruto felt Erza smashed her fist into his head, and he yelped and jumped up before holding it in pain.
"To long, so do it again until you cut down the time to a minimum of five seconds!" Erza demanded of him. She expected nothing less than him to meet her standards, and 21 seconds was far to long for him to summon this armor. She would work him to the bone until he found it in himself to cut it down to what she wanted it to be. The clones in the background practicing basic sword slashes all stopped and started to chuckle at what Naruto was wearing, before they shivered and got back to work when they saw Erza give them a death glare.
She was pretty, but she was ALSO scary!
"Yes Erza-sensei!" Naruto yelled with a salute as his body started to glow, and Erza began to keep track of his time when he switched into the armor before. She mentally got to 14 seconds, but that armor was the easiest to get into, so she didn't count it for him. She looked around and saw the clones still practicing, before she saw one clone had shown improvement. Erza mentally forced that clone to pop, since she was connected to Naruto, she could force his own clones to pop with a mental command it would seem. The clone's experience started to spread out over all of the other remaining clones, and they all started to imitate the popped clone, showing even more improvement now that they had an example.
"Basics! If you lack the basics, then you will fall! Punching, kicking, slashes, and dodging! This four are the basic moves that you will use in a fight! Remember them! You can learn a hundred fighting styles, but one person that has mastered the basics is worth even more than somebody that knows those hundred styles! Master your body!" Erza shouted out loudly, with her voice reaching all of the clones. They started to grin, before they were filled with insperation to improve in this boring task. Erza closed her eyes and smiled to herself when she heard their enthusiasm sky rocket and their roars of effort piercing through the air with each strike.
It was pretty damn loud!
"Understood Erza-sensei!" The real Naruto shouted out as he changed into his newest armor, and she frowned and shook her head.
"Shame! You feel shame over your body, showing it off! The true path to mastering this power is forgetting your shame! This is your body, and you have NOTHING to be ashamed of! These armors are clothes, and clothing are made to be WORN! In a fight, gender has no meaning! What your clothes look like has no meaning in a fight, or out of it! Are you ashamed of your body Naruto!" Erza demanded his answer as she shouted her own insperational demands at him. Naruto was back into the other armor, and he had a surprised look on his face. She was very much right, in a fight did it really matter how you were dressed? If your clothes could distract your opponent for even a second, was that not a good thing?
He made the Sexy Jutsu to distract people after all.
"I am NOT ashamed of my body!" Naruto called out, and Erza smiled, before she looked serious.
"My armor! YOUR armor will protect you, and everything you care about if you let it! If you are ashamed of it, then YOU will only hesitate!" Erza yelled at him over the sound of the clones yelling out even louder than before. She smirked when she saw Naruto grow even more determined as his body glowed, and she started to mental counting of how much improvement her speech will have caused him in.
Forgetting a sense of shame was the biggest hint to speeding up the exchange between armors.
16 seconds is what it took for him to switch between armors, and that was a vast improvement from what he had taken to do before.
'I am doing better! So this is what it is like to have somebody REALLY teaching you!?' Naruto thought with an excited grin playing on his lips. So what if he was going to get mocked at first, when people saw how strong he was getting they would have no right to make fun of him. They would be forced to notice him and accept him as a strong person. Erza on the other hand was looking at the symbol on Naruto's left biscep.
'He might not know it, but this boy... he would have fit right in with Fairy Tail. I just know it, the spirit of Fairy Tail lives in him.' Erza thought with a genuine smile on her face. She watched as his continued to train his heart out, switching between the armors without stopping. Erza called out to him and made him stop when he was in the Flame Empress Armor, before she floated next to him so she wouldn't have to shout. "Naruto, you have a lot of chakra in your. With that chakra inside of your body, fueling your new magic. I want to see how much magic you have, so I am going to teach you a strong, but easy, Swords Magic technique." Erza started, and Naruto was already smiling at her.
This was going to be good!
Neji was going to get roasted!