With a go ahead from the two spirits among them, Erza flipped to the third chapter and the group readied to read. Several were nervous, especially among the shinobi. With a Hunter-nin there, Naruto was in danger, serious danger and the readers were unsure of what was to come should Naruto be confronted by a former comrade of the Leaf.

The train was making its way through the vast landscape as it was going to its next stop. With on it, members of the Fairy Tail guild that was on a quest.

"You know, we saw some of those being used in our world too. It looks like it's more common in Fiore though." Kakashi commented.

"They look pretty useful. Where did you see one?" Asuma asked his fellow Jonin.

"The Land of Snow, or I guess the Land of Spring after Naruto rescued Princess Yukie and she activated the heat generators." Kakashi informed, though he sort of rambled off into his memories of the mission toward the end. Oh how happy he used to be with his overly-reckless genin team. Back before his most favorite pain in the ass did exactly what he said not to.

Both the Shinobi and Mages were a little shocked to hear Naruto had saved a Princess. Then again, Kakashi and Jiraiya had both been boasting about the Great Naruto Bridge from the infamous Wave Mission during the break, so a Princess seemed par for the course.

But currently, in one of the cabins, they had different issues to worry about. Like the fact that Natsu's motion sickness was kicking in and he laid back like he was going to puke.

"So you have really bad motion sickness? That's a tough break." Asuma said with a chuckle.

"All Dragon Slayers have motion sickness, Wendy is just able to cure hers with her powers." Natsu said with a grimace.

The Shinobi chuckled slightly at such a weakness for a set of powers. It was humorous but they could also see the issues that it could cause.

"I swear Natsu, you are totally pathetic. One minute you're picking a fight and then you end up like this " Gray commented while looking out the window. How could that the dragon slayer challenge one of the most powerful wizards of their mage but not stand it riding a train? Of course, this was coming from the mage who would get off his clothes in a blink of an eye without anyone else or even his own knowledge.

Both groups shot a look at the pair of embarrassed mages.

In the cabin sat Lucy and Erza on the other side while next to Natsu sat the fish eating Happy who was sitting between the ice mage and the dragon slayer.

Lucy was a bit sympathetic but minded "it's got to be tough getting from place to place."

"Don't worry he'll be fine," Erza said as she offered a solution "Come here and sit next to me."

Natsu weakly replies "Aye…"

'I guess she wants me to move…' Lucy thought.

A snort from Tsunade sent the shinobi and some mages into chuckles at Lucy's thoughts causing the blonde to blush and Erza to shoot her an apologetic look, not realizing she had seemed so rude then.

Natsu sat next to Erza as she patted him on the head "Just relax okay…"

"…Aye."

"Huh, to think we thought she was like another Kushina…" Murmured Jiraiya with nods from a few of the Jonin.

CRACK!

"Ah there it is." Jiraiya nodded along with the Jonin and Tsunade. The genin looked shocked but the mages all laughed at the misfortune of the Salamander.

Natsu went K.O after Erza gave him a hard punch to his stomach to knock him out conscious so he landed his head on her lap.

"It was a good hit." Tsunade said getting a small smile from the redhead as thanks for the compliment.

"There, that should make the trip a little easier on him," Erza said like it was nothing serious after throwing a punch to the fire-eater while the others sweatdropped. Especially Lucy who thought:

'Okay, maybe she's not as sane as I thought she was.'

"Uh Sorry?" Lucy squeaked out as Erza shot her a hurt look.

With a huff the Requip Wizard continued on.

Gray then turns from the window to the armor wearing wizard "Hey Erza, I think it is time you started filling us in, I mean what kind of a mission are we going on here?"

"Wait." Lucy interrupted "Shouldn't we wait for Naruto?"

The shinobi and other mages nodded, a little surprised that Naruto had yet to join them. However they couldn't help but worry it had something to do with the other shinobi they had seen.

Happy pointed out of the window "Look."

She looked out of the window and saw something flying close by, it was a hawk with a letter attached to its claw, it flew next to the window before going upwards.

"What was that?"

"That was a messenger hawk." Happy said with his belly full "Jeez, are all of you blonds so dense."

Tsunade, Ino, and Lucy all growled as they glared at the cat causing him to shudder and begin sweating under the pressure.

"Watch your mouth, cat!"

"You tell him Lucy!" Ino barked, getting an approving nod from Tsunade, though she was mostly joking, unlike the setting blonde genin. This of course left the poor celestial mage blushing from the awkward approval of her fellow blondes.

bathroom

The bathroom, where multiple stalls and toilets where was now empty except for one guy

Naruto had turned on the tap and started to wash his hands, he just was finished doing his business in the toilet.

"Ack! I don't want that information!" Sakura exclaimed with agreeing nods from several clothes and cackles from a few of the more childish boys.

Then in front of him, a hawk landed and cried against him. He then noticed that there was something attached to its paw.

A message.

"This is similar to our own Jonin, except while in the village the hawks simply call the jonin to the Hokage's tower for a mission, while they usually don't go to Jonin in the field but rather the various safehouses and outposts or other hidden villages." Iruka lectured.

"Sensei, please stop. You are killing people with boredom from your lectures." Konohamaru deadpanned at the teacher causing the scarred man to frown before glancing at his fellow readers.

The sight of so many bored stares made him flush and motion for Erza to continue.

"Oh, thanks, little man." Naruto took the paper and started reading it. The hawk left through the open window.

"Naruto-kun is kind even to animals." Hinata nodded as if instructing a class before blushing deeply when those around her chuckled at her crush for the blond.

Dear Naruto,

As you may guess this is not our usual way of communicating but because this is an urgent problem that needs to be dealt with, the Magic Council has decided that with your experience as a former combatant, you are chosen as the suitable person to accomplish this pressing matter.

"It's never good when a council contacts you directly." Kakashi mumbled getting a nod from the two Sannin beside him.

*Sigh* "I can already guess what kind of job this is."

"Heh, the kid already understands our pain, poor brat!" Jiraiya said while his fellow high profile shinobi snickered at the thought of Naruto dealing with similar issues they had to.

As you may know, the former legal guild Eisenwald has been stripped of its legitimacy, after several investigations including for accepting assassination quests have ended resulting into the order of disbanding the guild all at once.

It seemed like even after the guild was disbanded and the guild leader was arrested, our sources have found out a plot by remaining members of the guild have started to plot an attack, the leader of the rogue mages that are suspecting of plotting is none other than the Death God, Erigor.

The bathroom door behind him opened slowly, the person who entered was the white wearing mask in the station. Now wearing still his cloak, he closed the door behind him and locked it.

The gathered readers seemed to tense as the ANBU made themself known in the story once again. While the Fairy Tail mages were worried, the shinobi knew far better than they did how dangerous an ANBU agent really was.

Because Erigor is a highly dangerous individual, the council believe it's unlikely he's going to be able to rehabilitate and re-integrate into society, not after killing indiscriminately innocent people. So the Magic Council has debated about the subject of Erigor and we've decided that it's for the best that Erigor has to deal with.

"How dare they!" Makarov bellowed suddenly taking both groups by surprise in his intensity.

The Fairy Tail members quickly caught on to his outrage though. Even if that Fairy Tail wasn't really theirs, Naruto in that world was one of Makarov's children, and being forced to take on that sort of mission by the magic council sickened and worried them. It went against their ideals to kill except in the most dire of circumstances, and never in an assassination like this appeared. Even if the target was a criminal.

That's why we send you now, the order to defeat Erigor the Death God. It is for the greater better that Erigor won't pose a threat in the future.

"Council bastards!" Natsu growled getting murmurings of agreement from his guild. The shinobi on the other hand were a little uncomfortable with the idea that a normal occurrence for them was such an issue for their magic wielding counterparts.

Destroy this message after reading it. We hope you remember the agreement you made to the Council.

The leader of the Magic Council

Gran Doma

Makarov rolled his eyes at the name. He should have guessed that fool would be the one leading this sort of plan.

Naruto crushed the message in his hand furiously "Screw that old man and that damned deal…."

"Oh! That-a-boy, I knew he was fairy tail material!" Makarov crowed getting a round of cheers from his comrades. The shinobi sadly remained conflicted. They disliked the idea of someone as friendly as Naruto having to take an assassination mission, but it was a part of who they were as shinobi. Wasn't it?

The ANBU operative slowly was sneaking to Naruto and pulled out a kunai.

"I forgot about that guy!" Natsu shouted, getting an annoyed look from Grey and Lucy, but most of the room ignored him in favor for the story.

Naruto shredded the letter into several pieces before throwing it into the water, destroying it as it was asked.

"That is done…."

The ANBU took one last step before raising his kunai.

"Turn around!" Happy shouted, before being shushed by others as they got into the story.

"….I wonder when you would show up," Naruto said.

"Of course he knew all along." Tsunade chuckled as she shook her head. The Shinobi remembered suddenly, this was the number one unpredictable knucklehead shinobi after all. It took a bit more to get the drop on him.

The ANBU agent was surprised that he was spotted but this turned out to be his biggest mistake.

"Let's get this over with." Naruto pulled out a kunai from under his sleeve and tried to lay a hit on the masked agent who in response blocked it.

'CLANG!

"Kick his ass Naruto!" Natsu shouted. The Fairy Tail mages agreed, and the shinobi did as well though they felt a sliver of guilt being as it was a fellow Konoha shinobi he was fighting.

Onibas station

"Well, we're here." Gray said exiting the train as last "You think the Eisenwald guys are still going to be in this town?"

"What?! NO! GO BACK TO THE FIGHT!" Natsu shouted before a swift crack to the stomach dropped him like a sack of potatoes.

"Now does anyone else have something to say or can I continue reading?" Erza asked calmly to the group, scanning for any raised hands or possible interruptions.

"Dear Kami, she really is like a mix of Kushina and Tsunade, we might die here Kakashi." Jiraiya whispered to his grand-student while both shook slightly in fear.

"I have no idea, that's what we're here to find out." Erza replies as she was carrying the scroll filled with her baggage "I must say, I need Naruto to teach me that technique."

"Uhm, where is Naruto?" Lucy said before realizing something else "As a matter of fact, where Is Natsu?"

"Still on the train." Happy said while waving off the departing train "Aaand, there it goes."

Lucy dropped her luggage and stared with her mouth open at the train while Erza started blaming herself in an exaggerating way, and Gray….while not taking his clothes off he did bring up something.

"These Fairy Tail mages sure are a stange lot." Whispered Kiba to Shino.

"I fear we have little room to argue that point. Why? It is because most of our shinobi are just as eccentric." Shino said while pointing at the Green Spandex clad duo.

Kiba could only sweatdrop realizing his friend was right.

"That's strange," Gray puts his hand beneath his chin "Natsu, of course, didn't get out of the train because he's an idiot but I don't see a reason why Naruto stayed behind."

With Naruto

Naruto was leaning his back against the sink where he earlier was washing his hand, he was holding onto the mask of the ANBU agent he had defeated.

"No we missed it!" Natsu and Konohamaru groaned. The younger Sarutobi always was ready to see his boss kick ass.

He stared at the mask "I wish we would've met in a different situation" the blonde ex-shinobi turns to where the ANBU agent was.

"So polite even to his opponents." Mira pointed out with a smile.

He was laying on the ground, against the wall with his hands tied up from behind to the urinary.

"Ugh I hope that bathroom was clean." Several of the readers grimaced at the thought.

"You know, this isn't the first time I've been tracked down by the ANBU black ops."

"Yet he is still free? Naruto is definitely powerful there." Jiraiya commented.

The masked agent didn't respond. Probably because Naruto KO'd him. It was a man in his 20's, he was just a regular Leaf shinobi Naruto didn't know. He walked up to the man and placed the mask back on him and patted his head.

"Hopefully the hit I gave you in the back of your head will cause your memory loss because you're going straight back home," Naruto said to the unconscious agent while taking a few steps backward.

"He is so care free about the situation. This must happen far too often." Lucy said. She wasn't too off put honestly, he seemed to have a very similar mindset to her fellow guild members.

Naruto felt something drip off his head and felt it was the blood dripping off his head, he did get a cut from the guy but nothing serious.

Wendy narrowed her eyes at the cut. She disliked seeing even small injuries she couldn't help with. Such a kind girl.

He used his thumb to whip a little bit and went through a series of hand signs.

"Summoning Jutsu."

POOF! A small puff of smoke and there in front of him stood a small toad who had red skin and stripes and yellowish eyes, this was one of the gourd toads who had a shell on his mouth used for sealing.

"Wait if he still has his summons doesn't that mean he could easily be in contact with Jiraiya-sama and technically Konoha?" Sakura asked. The others turned to the Sannin who simply grinned and nodded his head.

"Hey little man, I need this man to be brought to Konoha, tell Pervy sage that its me alright?"

"Even when he is being targeted by them, he is still loyal to the village." Hinata whispered sadly, but the others could still hear her.

Makarov was annoyed at this leaf village. It seemed that Naruto might not be in the same position as the one in the story, but he could tell the boy still deserved to be better treated. He looked forward to meeting him whenever their hosts would bring him. Several of the more mature wizards of his guild silently felt the same way.

The toad only nodded in compliance.

"Good. Because this dude got me missing my stop." Naruto went over to the door and before leaving "Thanks. Also," Naruto pulls out a small piece of paper and handed it over to the toad "can you deliver this to Mirajane? The bartender with the white hair?"

"Oh to me?" Mira asked surprised.

The toad nodded again.

He opened the door and went back to pick up his stuff, the gourd toad began

to ready up for transporting the unconscious ninja.

"Such useful little helpers." Levy said a little jealous. She couldn't help but imagine having little helpers like Naruto's toads.

With Natsu on the train

A man with a pineapple looking hair in a white colored suit was walking through the wagons and saw something interesting, a sick mage with pink hair and the most notable mark on his arm; the Fairy Tail guild mark.

"Well look at here, it's a Fairy Tail wizard." The person leaned his arm against one of the seats and asked a question in a friendly way "How's the guild treating you these days? Is it worth sticking around?"

"Oh, it's like an evil twin of Shikamaru who isn't lazy!" Ino said with a smirk causing the boy next to her to roll his eyes.

"Don't compare me to such a troublesome guy like that you bothersome woman." Shika remarked while feigning a nap.

Ino giggled at his reply but still couldn't forget the similarities between the man and Shikamaru.

"What?"

Natsu received a kick in the face by the person "Don't act all high and mighty because you're in a legal guild Mr. Fairy," the guy smeared "You guys just blindly follow the Magic Council, do you know what we think of you? Harmless little flies."

"How rude." Lisanna said.

"Excuse me."

"Enter the ever youthful Naruto-kun to defend his comrade!" Lee spouted off getting some smiles and light cheers from their group.

The guy turned around and received a punch in the face and was sent flying to the other side of the wagon.

"What a greeting." Erza chuckled along with the rest of the readers.

The guy rubbed his head and looked who hit him, it was Naruto standing there with his arms crossed and facing him "You must be Naruto Uzumaki, another Fairy bug."

"I don't see how they can look down the nose at your guild if it's known that you are a powerful one." Ino pointed out with a confused look at the man's attitude.

"It's because of their guild's twisted ideology. They considered any guild that was still legal as weaker or worth less for not taking the kinds of jobs that their guild preferred such as hit jobs." Mira explained with a few supporting nods from her fellow guild members.

"And you must be Kageyama, you're a member of Eisenwald."

Kageyama smirked as he stood back up "Yes I am, may I know why you know my name?"

"Pfft, Shinobi, duh." Kiba barked out getting puffed up chests from his comrades.

"I know of you because you resemble a friend of mine, had a ponytail just like you and almost the same face, the thing is you are different of him is your personality."

"Hehe, Shika do you think that maybe-" Ino started to tease her teammate.

"Don't finish that sentence you troublesome woman." Shika grumbled getting several laughs.

"Oh yeah?" Kageyama smiled "What's so different?"

"This ought to be good." Asuma said with a laugh ignoring the betrayed glare Shikamaru shot his way.

"While he's most of the time a lazy, sleeping and saying everything was a drag, he was a smart guy."

"What are you trying to say?"

"Well, you are complete the opposite, you're reckless, picks fights and full of energy but-" before Naruto could end his sentence he had to jump avoiding the shadows that were going to hit him.

"He is like your evil twin!" Ino sputtered out while trying to stop her laughter.

Naruto landed a few feet back and saw the shadows surrounding him "Guess I hit a nerve. But that's for another time, where's Erigor."

"Why should I tell you?"

"Because he's wanted by the Magic Council, that's why!"

"Let's see about that, you miserable fairy." Kageyama said before focusing the shadows around his fist and running up towards him while yelling "Shadow

Fist!"

Shikamaru grumbled about stupid magic copy cats making stupid attacks with their shadows. This just got mocking smiles from his friends causing him to grimace.

Naruto grabbed for his kunai and infused his chakra in it and said "Fool…."

Natsu meanwhile was just watching while also trying to not puke.

"As usual you are useless." Gray mocked getting the pink haired boy to literally roar fire before trying to pounce on the ice user.

Key term being trying as Erza caught him and smashed the boys' heads together before depositing them back into their seats.

BOOM!

With the sudden addition of more action Natsu was suddenly fine and paying attention again getting a head shake from Lucy who was simply too used to his antics.

The people at the previous station heard the explosion and saw that one of the wagons was damaged. Among them were the Fairy Tail guildmates.

"What was that?" Lucy questioned, "That is where Natsu is."

"As if." Gray scoffed getting a glare from Natsu but an even more forceful one from the redheaded knight.

"That's enough Gray." She said simply causing him to nod frantically and turn away. The rest of the gathered readers chuckled at the tight leash Erza kept the boys on with Tsunade and Sakura nodding their approval at Erza's handling of the boys.

"It couldn't be him because the train is moving," Gray commented, "it must be Naruto."

"Whatever it is, we need to move." Erza clearly stated as she saw a magic mobile and smirked: "I got an idea."

"Uhm, I got a bad feeling about this," Lucy said slightly shaken.

Happy flew up "Let's go!"

In the train

Kageyama was on the ground, covered in some bruises as he just was knocked back by Naruto who was still standing.

"Damn it, lucky shot." he groaned slightly and felt that something was missing out of his chest "Crap! Where is it?"

"Wait, he actually thinks it was just a lucky shot?" Several of the Shinobi asked together.

A strange looking flute a skull and three eyes rolled up to Naruto's feet as he picked it up.

The Fairy Tail guild members that had been on the mission narrowed their eyes at the flute in anger.

Naruto recognized it in a second "That's…."

"Damn it, he saw it." Kageyama cursed to himself as he grabbed something from his pocket "Hope this works. Here catch!"

Naruto looked up and saw something rolling towards his feet, it was an explosive tag that was on fire. He then saw the shadow user getting out of the wagon.

"How did he get ahold of something like that?" Jiraiya asked in an angry voice, though it was mostly to hide his worry for his godson's health. Not that he expected Naruto to actually be defeated by something so simple, but still he could be injured.

"What?!…."

Outside

In a ridiculous amount of speed, Erza managed to catch on the train, she was driving the magic mobile while one of her arms was attached to the mobile since the mobile is running on magic energy Erza now was tapping off.

All the while, Gray was stuck on the roof while Lucy and Happy were in the backseat.

Lucy began yelling "Natsu! Naruto!"

Then there Naruto jumped out of the window with Natsu following him just as an explosion went off.

"Boss is always living like he is in an action movie, it's so cool!" Konohamaru shouted getting some looks from the others.

"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked.

"Sakura, think back to literally any mission we went on. Think real hard about the things that happened." Kakashi said with a deadpanned stare. When the Sarutobi kid was right he was right.

"O-oh well when you put it like that yeah kind of I suppose." She blushed as she realized the truth to the kid's words.

Meanwhile Sasuke grumbled about glory hogging dobes and their ability to turn even catching a cat into something that included explosions and organized crime.

"Naruto, behind you!"

Naruto saw the mobile and landed on the roof on his feet getting a compliment from Gray.

"So cool!" Konohamaru cheered getting laughs and smiles from the other readers.

"Nice landing," Gray said before he noticed Natsu was going straight at him.

'BOINK!'

The readers roared in laughter whale Gray glared at Natsu who simply frowned at not sticking a cool landing like Naruto.

The mobile stopped and Naruto jumped off the roof, watching as the train kept going.

Erza stepped out and asked "Naruto, are you alright?"

"What about me?" Natsu asked.

"You're too hardheaded to get hurt from that." Lucy pointed out with a scoff.

"Yeah, I'm fine. But how come he had an explosive tag?"

"Who are you talking about?" Lucy questioned next as Gray and Natsu were at it again bickering at each other.

"Of course." The guild said with several eye rolls and annoyed sighs getting both boys to cross their arms over their chests and huff before glaring at one another for being copied.

"That hurt, you jerk!"

"Shut up you icy freak!"

"They are so much like you and Naruto were as kids that it hurts." Kiba pointed out to Sasuke getting a muffled 'hn' as his only response.

"SHUT UP, both of you!" Erza shouted at them and forcing them both again to shake hands nervously before turning to Naruto "Naruto, what happened?"

"Kageyama, a member of Eisenwald. He was on the train. We fought on the train and I was beating him."

"Eisenwald?" Erza interest spiked "Are you sure?"

"He pretty much admitted it, but that's not the case. He had the Lullaby flute with him."

The expression of Erza was enough to understand what it was so she ordered:

"Everyone back on the mobile!"

Naruto got on top of the roof together with Gray while Natsu, Lucy, and Happy got in the backseat. Erza tapped her arm back to the mobile and they drove off forwards.

"Is that dangerous at all Erza-san?" Hinata quietly asked. The kind girl was always worried about others getting hurt after all.

"Not really, the only issue is if I push myself too far. Then I will be too exhausted to fight properly." She replied with a smile at the shy looking girl.

Kunugi station

A panicking crowd began fleeing after a man wielding a scythe just slashed one of the train conductors in front of them.

The man was an extremely tall, lean-built and muscular man, he had blue visible tattoos on his body and silver hair with a colored skirt with his feet wearing sandals, this was Death God Erigor, member of Eisenwald.

"Huh, a lot of our bad guys have no eyebrows too…" Do you think there is a correlation?" Sakura mumbled to herself getting strange looks from the others. Except for Kakashi who simply married his own eye in though. Sakura was right, team seven had ended up squaring off with more than one enemy lacking in eyebrows. It was strange.

"This train belongs to Eisenwald now!" Erigor ordered while his men were throwing everything off the train, even the passengers.

"Get everything off the train, luggage, conductor, all of it. If anyone tries to defy us to kill them all."

Kageyama then exited the wagon and spotted Erigor "Well look who's here."

Erigor turned around "Kageyama, I heard you were coming back aboard this train. It's quite of wreckage, care to explain what happened?"

"Come on, aren't you interested what I brought back with me?" the Shadow magic user pulls out the Lullaby flute "I finally managed to break the seal."

"Oh yeah."

"Finally we got it."

"You won't keep it long you bastards!" Natsu exclaimed getting determined nods from the rest of his team and a grin from their quildmates. The shinobi smiled at the idea of Naruto helping stop these guys. If they could do it alone, imagine what they could do with this obviously much more focused Naruto.

"Excellent." Erigor chuckled as he grabbed the flute and turns to the others "This is it, men. The forbidden Lullaby. Originally this was a tool to cast simple death curses. Useful but limited. That is until the great dark wizard Zeref transformed it into a demon flute. Now its song will kill hundreds, no thousands of people who listen to it. And it's all mine!"

"It seems there are always those looking to gain massively powerful weapons, no matter how peaceful the land they reside in. Maybe peace really is just a dream." Jiraiya though silently. He smirked slightly after that though. He was certain Naruto would prove him wrong. He could feel it in his bones, Naruto would change the world, no matter which one he was in. It all started with missions like this one. Naruto would put a stop to these criminals and spread a sense of safety to the people around him. Same thing he was doing in the elemental nations in their world.

The mobile was racing through the fields while all the occupants weren't used to such speed. Naruto was standing still on the roof while Erza was too focused on the road.

"Naruto, are you sure Erigor is in on this?" Erza asked out loud.

"There's no one else in that guild that is willing to do that," Naruto replied back to Erza "after the Magic Council had disbanded Eisenwald for its illegal activities, Erigor was the only one standing after their master has been arrested. He's more likely to lead this."

"Then we must take them down quickly." Erza said, "We cannot allow them to use that magic!"

"I can't help but feel that Erza and Naruto would make a perfect team together for all sorts of missions." Tsunade commented getting a somewhat surprised look from Erza.

"Actually I wish you were a kunoichi, I'd put the two of you on a team with Shizune and let the three of you go to work. It would be terrifying. For our enemies at least." Tsunade continued. Shizune hummed at the thought and even Kakashi and Jiraiya nodded in agreement getting an intrigued look from the Fairy Queen.

Then again after initially nodding both Kakashi and Jiraiya froze up at the thought of Naruto who was like a blond Kushina and Erza who was a like a mixture of Kushina and Tsunade being on a team. They doubted Shizune, who wrangled Tsunade daily into doing her job and limited the damage she could do, could properly control the two of them.

"Just slow down will ya!" Gray yelled, "You're using too much of your magic to drive this thing."

"Just keep on driving Erza!" Naruto yells "If you feel a little strung, I'll tap in for ya!"

"Hmm that suggests that Naruto's chakra has similar enough properties to Erza's magic that he can act as a stand in in for it's use." Shikamaru thought out loud before noticing the glances from others and rolling his eyes at their curious faces.

"Alright," Erza said before exclaiming "Let's GO!"

Back at the Fairy Tail Guild

"I tell you once, Lisanna. Don't try and hook me up with one of these morons!" A drunken Cana said while holding another bottle of alcohol and was leaning against the table where she sat alone. As the matter of fact, the only ones left in the guild hall were Lisanna, Cana, and Mira who stood behind the counter as everyone else was either home or on a quest, the eldest Strauss sister listened to their conversation.

Several fairy tail members seemed offended and others simply giggled.

Lisanna was cleaning up the table where Cana was sitting at "I'm just saying Cana, you and Gray look like you belong to each other-"

Gray paled and Juvia glared at the girl causing her to lift her arms up in an attempt to calm the rain-woman.

"Ah hell no! I mean, I like Gray as a friend but I don't want to see that perv as my boyfriend, give me someone like Naruto…." She smiled while drinking her bottle, a blush appeared on her cheeks as she was predictably drunk, but it was of something else…

Juvia nodded and turned away while Gray seemed a little stung by the comments made by Cana. Mira turned a teasing look onto the card wizard causing her to groan at the inevitable teasing she would get. Meanwhile several Fairytail members were groaning about pretty boys like Naruto taking all the attention and Kiba and a few of Naruto's friends were a little stunned by the attraction that a few of the Fairy Tail girls had toward him.

Kakashi honestly didn't know why, he wasn't interested in his student in a romantic way but he acknowledged that Naruto was among the most attractive shinobi of his generation. One didn't spawn from the likes of Minato and Kushina without being stunning themself. That being said he had also seen women pulled in by the boy from Wave country to Spring Country and practically everywhere in between. If the boy wasn't as dense as a wall of bricks then he would probably have a couple kids of his own running around.

This sparked the interest of both Strauss sisters but Lisanna was the quickest to ask "Oh? Has our card player a crush on our Naruto?"

"Oh just like your big sis I'm so proud!" Mira teased her sister getting a giggle from the younger girl in return.

Cana took the bottle off her mouth and sighed out of satisfaction "And what if I have? Am I in your way?" The brunette made a smirk while pointing at the youngest Strauss sister "You are having an eye on him too, haven't you?"

"Hehe" Jiraiya chuckled. Oh he always knew that Naruto was his ticket to writing a masterpiece. From what he was hearing he might be able to get enough material to write his magnum opus.

Tsunade eyed the pervert suspiciously but didn't punish him yet. He was sure to know that if he used her adoptive little brother in his filth both she and Shizune would be having words, Sakura too if the look she was shooting a giggling Kakashi meant anything.

Lisanna was taken aback by this "W-what?"

"You heard me. I saw you looking at him like he was a piece of meat. I wonder what Natsu would think of you having a crush on his older brother figure…."

"Oh please, Natsu and I are just friends and you know it," Lisanna said turning around and bringing the plate filled with empty jugs to the counter.

"Oh, and I know after Naruto saved you, your eyes haven't been able to turn away from him," Cana said with a smile.

"Oh, well and here I thought you were following in my footsteps but it seems you can give it but not take it Lisanna." Mira sighed in a faux depressed tone getting several laughs at the blushing Lisanna's face.

This made Lisanna put down the plate hard and almost knocking over the jugs as she turned around and made a glare…..before she pouted.

Mirajane couldn't help but chuckle at this exchange and this caused the other two to turn to her.

"And you," Cana pointed now at the eldest Strauss girl "Don't laugh because are just as bad as us."

"Me?" Mira held her hand in front of her chest.

"Yes." Jiraiya said quietly his eyes focused on the illusion showing them along with the book reading. His fingers kept twitching wishing to write so terribly bad. He wasn't stupid though. He would simply save this all to his memory and write it down once they had a break. He was sure Kakashi would remember anything he missed. A promise of a limited edition signed copy and no doubt his grand-student would be a huge help.

"Yeah, ever since you met Naruto, you guys were mean to him like some bully," Cana started memorizing "and then after that Naruto saved all of you guys, you changed and became nicer to everyone, especially Naruto."

Lisanna and Mira frowned at the thought of them bullying him. Sadly Mira couldn't help but feel that it was probably true with how she used to act. Then again Lisanna never acted like that. So that was odd.

"That doesn't mean anything."

"Oh, and when you showed Naruto those pictures of that modeling gig of yours? Just admit it, Mira, Naruto trusts you and you trust Naruto to almost a couple degree."

"Blond Bastard, what the hell." Kiba said in mounting jealousy. Naruto was no doubt his friend but this felt like him rubbing it in his face. He could just imagine a cackling Naruto watching him. He felt the same after the chunin exams.

"That is simply not true."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Cana laughed out as a faint dusting of pink settled on Mira's face as she became the target for teasing. She could take it but it was odd for her to be the target of such things.

POOF! A small puff of smoke appeared on the counter, making the girls wave it off and saw it was a small red toad.

It waved around a paper and handed it over to Mirajane who said

"Uhm…Thank you."

POOF! The toad disappeared, leaving the three girls surprised at what just happened.

"I say, it keeps surprising me the magic Naruto uses," Cana said under the belief all of this was magic because Naruto said so, only if they knew….

"Yeah, 'magic'." Cana huffed, annoyed for being lied to on her other's behalf. She understood Naruto's reasoning but the matter remained annoying.

Mirajane opened up the message and began to read it.

Mira, this is Naruto.

I need you to contact Master Makarov.

Eisenwald's Death God, Erigor is on the move with remnants of the guild, planning something.

Be quick.

"But I just sent a message to Master Makarov just an hour ago," Mirajane complained and then sighed "Ah well if it is that important. What the heck."

With Naruto and the others

Naruto was still on the roof of the vehicle as some dried up blood on the side of his head was being noticed by Gray.

"Hey Naruto, you're bleeding."

"Took us long enough." Gray commented.

Lucy and Happy's heads popped out of the window after hearing it.

Erza was listening in on this.

"It's nothing, just a bruise I got from that Eisenwald guy." Naruto waved it off. He half-lied since he didn't want the others to know he had a fight in the bathroom…

"As usual." Sakura groaned. Caring for Naruto's injuries was like herding cats. Except worse if he felt extra determined that day.

"Are you sure?" Gray asked while looking closely "It looks-"

"Believe me, Gray, if it's bad I would warn you guys. now just focus on the upcoming battle, okay?"

"So stubborn." Makarov chuckled. He really did remind him of his own kids in Fairy Tail.

"Right," Gray replied with a grin, it's been a while since he had a serious fight.

Erza smirked knowing that Naruto was right, there were more pressing matters. The others just sat down back into their seats.

Naruto was now being focused on the task he was given; taking out Erigor.

Erigor slashed his scythe into the seat where Kageyama was sitting after hearing what happened on the train.

"Threatening his own subordinates. Asshole." Asuma said getting agreements from the other readers and an annoyed eye roll from one especially broody Uchiha.

Kageyama barely got off the seat and looked at Erigor stunned.

"Let me get this straight, you allow a Fairy Tail fly to see the Lullaby flute and let him get away, and that Fairy Tail wizard had to be Naruto Uzumaki, Is that true?"

"Yeah but-"

"And not only that, you said that he's out for me. Is that correct?" Erigor asked clearly pissed at his subordinate's failure.

"…..Yes."

"Well to be fair Naruto is a tough opponent. Right Sasuke? I mean he had to throw your fight to keep from hurting you." Kakashi said. So what if he wanted the kid back in Konoha. He violated his number one rule, he deserved some snide remarks in the very least.

Not that he was going to actually get anything from the boy it seemed.

Erigor slammed his scythe between the wooden planks that laid between Kageyama's legs "We cannot afford to take any chances, especially not with Uzumaki on our tail. Fortunately, we have a strategy."

Kageyama smirked, "You mean about that next station?"

"I don't like the sound of that." Choji said as the readers narrowed their eyes.

"You shouldn't." Lucy agreed. She and her team knew what the man was planning, as he had done it in their world.

Erigor nodded "Yes," he turns to the others "It's possible that Uzumaki has some fellow of his flies with him, so take care of them in any given chance. Alright?"

"Yes, sir!"

"And for Uzumaki…" Erigor made an evil smile "I'll handle him, I always wanted to fight that kid…."

"Pfft, good luck with that wind boy, Wind is Naruto's natural affinity and he is far more powerful than a shinigami cosplayer." Jiraiya stated with humor getting chuckles from everyone else.

"Uhm, sir?"

"This could be interesting," Erigor smirked. All the while everyone was focused on him, they didn't notice something on the flute.

Like the fact, it was glowing a purple light in its eyes, all three of them.

"Damn Creepy Flute." All the members on the Fairy Tail team involved with the mission muttered.

"So who is reading next?" Erza asked.

"Jiraiya, you read." Tsunade commanded.

"Well I would but I-" Jiraiya began only to be impacted in the face with the book.

"I didn't ask you. I told you." She said with an annoyed expression.