Where have you been?

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Chapter 1

Just like any other day, the streets of Konoha were busy; children were running around and elders were strolling in the streets looking at different shops. The sun was shining and the birds were chirping and a certain team was walking down the streets. Yellow. Pink. Black. Team 7.

"Ano sa, ano sa, Sakura-chan! Let's ask baa-chan for another mission!" The familiar voice of Naruto Uzumaki exclaimed rather loudly disturbing a few by standers around them and of course his pink haired companion.

The pink haired beauty rubbed her temples in annoyance. "We just came back from Suna, I'm tired and I highly doubt Shishou has any missions now." Sakura explained, obviously very tired from their trip to Suna while the black haired just smiled.

Naruto pouted and folded his arms in front of him. "Sakura-chan is so mean, what if she has a mission for us?" He asked her, looking at her questiongly. "I need to get stronger to get Sasuke back!" He pumped his fist in the air, his face serious before letting his arm down to his sides again.

Sakura smiled softly. 'You are already strong enough, Naruto.' She thought before glancing over him with a small smile. "I'm sure your words will reach him someday." With a nod she stopped her tracks, making both of her teammates to look back why she suddenly had stopped.

"What's wrong, Ugly?" The pale boy asked her, with a fake smile. A thick mark appeared on Sakura's forehead but decided to ignore his name-calling. "Alright, let's go to Shishou for another mission." She stated with a smile, looking to Naruto who had a big grin on his face so wide his face might stuck that way forever.

"Alright, let's go to baa-chan!" He said.. Well more like screamed, before running off to the Hokage Tower. The two other teammates watched him go, Sakura walked a bit so that she stood beside Sai. "He never changes." Sakura said, smiling as she saw him bumping to a few villagers. Sai just smiled and walked with Sakura to the Hokage Tower.

I realize the screaming pain,

Hearing loud in my brain,

But I'm going straight ahead

With the scar...

Finally after waiting for his slow teammates, he quickly opened the Hokage's door. "Have no fear, Team 7 is here!" He yelled to the honey-colored Hokage, well… Too himself since the Hokage was busy drinking her Sake.

Looking up from her drink, she glared at the owner of the loud voice that disturbed the peace in her office. "Naruto! What did I told you about knocking?" She asked sternly. Said boy gulped and looked at his teammates for help, in which they just ignored him. "K-knocking before entering the office?" He inwardly scolded himself for stuttering.

"Ah, so there is something in that skull of yours." Tsunade muttered but loud enough for the team to hear. Sakura giggled slightly, Sai just smiled and Naruto looked as if he could explode any moment.

"Oi, baa-chan!" He began a faint noise of 'Don't call me that!' could be heard in the background but Naruto choose to ignore her. "Do you have any other missions for us?"

Tsunade rubbed her temples, why does every time he says something it will sound ten times louder? She looked around on her desk for a certain scroll, when she finally found it –after throwing her desk over three times, spilled her precious sake a few times, scolded Naruto for being loud as always. – She finally found it lying innocently in her hand.

"Why yes I do have a mission for you guys, it's a simple C- rank mission: escorting an old man to his hometown." Naruto pouted, escorting? How would he get stronger just by helping some old man to his hometown. They suddenly heard the door opening, revealing an extremely short old man with black eyes, he is bald but the outer rims of his heads contains white/grey hair. He also has a thick grey mustache; he wore a white t-shirt with a weird looking stamp in the middle area that kind of resembles a rooster, maybe a bird? He also had an orange jacket, a blue and orange hat and brown shoes.

Naruto crouched down to eye-level with the man but the man was still shorter. "Oi, old-man what's your name?" He asked squinting his eyes for no apparent reason. The 'old man' smiled kindly. "Makarov Dreyar." He answered, sticking out his hand for Naruto to introduce himself as well. "Ma-ka-rov? I prefer calling you old man." Naruto muttered mostly to himself, but Makarov heard him and decided to ignore him. "Well, my name is Naruto Uzumaki! Future Hokage of the Konoha Leaf village!" He exclaimed with a grin on his face, Makarov smiled at his enthusiasm mostly remembering a person who seemed just like him, personality wise.

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The jinchuuriki stood up from his crouching position and patted the dust on his pants. "Those are my teammates." He jabbed a thumb behind them, Makarov shifted slightly so he could take a look at his teammates. "Sakura-chan and Sai!" Naruto said before they could introduce themselves.

Sakura suddenly yelped, receiving attention from her teammates and turned her head so she could take a look at what just touched her butt. A hand. Just touched her. She looked at the arm that was inhumanly tall and noticed that it was from Makarov. Her eyebrow twitched and glared at the old man who had a pervert look on his face, obviously satisfied with what he could... Touch.

She wasted no time whoever in punching him out of the window.

And when he came back with bruises, her teammates had to restrain her from killing the poor old man.

After Sakura calmed down she turned her heels to look at her former teacher. "Shishou, where do we have to take the pervert?" She asked, still slightly pissed from his actions, ignoring the wails coming from Makarov.

Tsunade leaned back in her chair with a sigh. "You're going to bring him to Fiore in Magnolia." She grabbed a map showing where 'Magnolia' is. "It's about a six day trip to there but you're going to meet his bodyguards, here." Sakura looked at where she was pointing, she never thought there was a village called Magnolia. She glanced back at the man; he didn't really look suspicious either. The pink haired nodded curtly. "We'll bring him safe to the meeting point."

The Hokage handed her ex-apprentice the scroll, Sakura and her team bid their farewells and walked out of the office. Not before Sakura turned her head back to Tsunade when she almost wanted to leave. "How's Kakashi-sensei?" She asked softly.

"Still the same, we'll have to wait and see." Tsunade answered, her eyes softening as she looked at her former apprentice. "When you guys are coming back, I bet he'll be well again." She told her with a reassuring smile. Sakura nodded and left her office, closing the door afterwards.

Tsunade sighed and took a sip of her sake. Kakashi was still unconscious lying in the hospital, it happened during his solo mission. He got attacked by a rogue ninja and got stabbed and apparently the weapon they used contained poison, luckily the poison was now out of his body but he has yet to wake up. She just hoped that they were going to be alright, especially since Magnolia is far from what they're used to. She shook her head, they could manage, if not they always have Makarov. The Slug Princess sighed again; all this thinking is making her headache.

Fairy, where are you going?

Hikari zenbu atsumete

Kimi no ashita terasu yo

Team Seven and Makarov walked towards the gate of Konoha, where the guards Kotetsu and Izumo were being lazy as always. When the guards heard footsteps they looked and saw that it was Naruto and his team. "Oi, Naruto! Another mission?" Kotetsu asked Naruto as they walked to their small 'room', said boy grinned from ear to ear. "Believe it!" He exclaimed his trade-mark sentence." They soon bid their farewell to them and continued their way to Magnolia.

Sakura hummed a soft tune, not wanting to have an awkward silence on their way. Their client was walking with Naruto in front of them, having a small conversation about daily things. "Child, tell me a little bit more about yourself." Makarov smiled kindly, his eyes wrinkling as he looked up to Naruto who was looking at him confused.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I li–no I love ramen! I dislike those who treat other people like trash and my dream is to be the strongest Hokage ever!" Letting out a chuckle as he remembered the time when they first got formed as team 7. "And I promised, Sakura-chan to bring Sasuke-teme back! I never take back my words, that's my ninja way!" He said confidently, giving Sakura a grin in which a blush appeared on her cheeks.

"I see, this Sasuke person must be someone important to you." Makarov said, receiving a nod from both Naruto and Sakura. He smiled and looked over at Sakura, silently telling her that it's her turn. She took the hint and thought for a bit about what to say. "I'm Sakura Haruno, a medic ninja. I like reading books, training with Shishou, I dislike… I–I don't really know what I don't like, same goes for my dream!" She stuttered sheepishly, rubbing her hand at the back of the neck.

"Isn't it dangerous for a maiden like you to go out for dangerous missions? Are your parents okay with that, Sakura-chan?" Their client asked worriedly even though he knows that she could manage herself very well. Naruto and Sai stopped their tracks, Sakura hardly ever talked about her family. They never met her parents before nor did they know about them, so it definitely caught their attention.

Sakura cocked her head to the left, her pink locks joining the movement. "My… Parents? I-I guesses they're okay with it…" She said after a while, looking down at the ground and sighed. She never talked about her family, especially since she couldn't call it a 'family' anymore, who would leave their child alone to grow up by herself? Sighing once more she looked up and saw the confused face of Naruto. "What's wrong?" She asked worriedly at her best friend.

"S-Sakura-chan's parents left her alone?" He stuttered out in surprise. Shit, has she said that out loud? Giving them a half-heartily smile she nodded, what was the point in lying now? "I was with tou-san and Onii-chan one day and the next day they were both gone." Sakura explained, she was still… What was she? Angry, for leaving a nine year old by herself? Sad because she missed her dad and brother? No, she was disappointed. Disappointed because they were a family, meaning that no one would be left behind.

"… What was your father like, Sakura?" Said person looked in surprise at Sai who for once called her by her name, giving him a smile she looked to the clear sky. "Tou-san was like a…" She stopped with her sentence and thought about how to describe her father. "A dragon!" Sakura told them with a grin, while the other two just stared at her. Makarov just slightly narrowed his eyes at the pink haired girl. 'Dragon? No... She probably used that in a way to describe her father.'

"A dragon?" Naruto asked in surprise, how cool would Sakura-chan's father be? Would it also be possible for him to spew actual fire out of his mouth?

"Yup."

"How about your brother? How was he?" Surprisingly, it was Sai who asked the question. Sai was interested in Sakura's family, especially since she never told anything to them until now.

Sakura smiled as she thought of her brother, his smile that always made her smile herself, his carefreeness. She missed him, a lot. "He is almost like Naruto." At the mention of his name, the boy looked at Sakura wondering how her brother and he could be that same. "He's dense, stupid and reckless." Naruto frowned; he kind of expected some nicer things. "But he was definitely; loyal, protective and always wanted to prove his strength to others even though he already is the strongest person I know." She ended with a smile, wiping the up-coming tears from her eyes. She gave a short laugh and looked at Makarov. "I guess I know my dream now, my dream is to find my father and brother." She stated, staring at him with a serious face.

When she described her brother, there was only one person in his head.

Natsu Dragneel.

They walked in silence, Sai's 'introduction' to Makarov was just plain. Saying his name, naming his likes which was just… Drawing and dislikes that was Naruto or dickless as he liked to call him.
Naruto glanced at the one who requested escorting to this place he never heard before... "Mustache-man, where is this Magnolia?" He asked curiously, Makarov decided to ignore the new nickname and closed his eyes.

"It's in Fiore, southwest from Konoha it always been there for years. But it's not a ninja village like yours, we use.. Other kinds for that stuff." He explained with a nod, leaving the rest of the team with their imagination of what the 'other kinds' could be.

"No ninjas? Are there only regular people? Or pirates? Maybe fighting turtles?" Naruto could barely hold his fantasy down; his eyes sparkled in interest and couldn't wait for his answer.

Makarov grinned and shook his head. "Better than that; mages." He told them, folding his arms in front of his chest.

Both Naruto's and Sakura's eyes widened at this new information, "Mages?" They asked, crouching down in eye-position with Makarov. "There are actual mages here?" Naruto asked excitedly, in which the tiny person nodded his head in confirmation. Makarov looked up to the sky and saw that the sun was setting soon, they were a good distance from Konoha and it was better to set camp already than walking to prevent any rogue ninjas.

"Yes, yes, shall we set camp here so I can tell you all about it? He suggested, the trio nodded in agreement and started to set camp. Sai went and picked some wood, while Naruto and Sakura set the tents. One for Makarov and the other for Team 7, after a while Sai came back and placed the wood on the ground and looked to the others. "Who is going to make the fire?" He asked, obviously not going to make the effort to make the fire.

Before Sakura could scold him, Makarov already walked forward. "I will." He simply said, he balled his hands in fists and fire was surrounding his right hand's fist. Naruto looked at him in amazement. 'Is this.. Magic?' He wondered as he watched Makarov placing a hand on the wood so that the fire spread out, making a campfire. He put the fire around his fist out and turned around to face the children.

"THAT'S AWESOME!" Naruto suddenly yelled out, his eyes gleaming in amazement. "Old-man, how could you do that?" He asked, he didn't saw him using any hand-sign… Was he a wizard too?

Makarov motioned them to sit, in which they obliged before sitting Indian style on the ground, folding his arms in front of his chest again.

"I could do that because, I'm a wizard!" He confessed that shocked the team, a gasp leaving Sakura's lips.

Sakura bit her lip and furrowed her eyebrows… A wizard, fire… Natsu…

Fairy Tail.

Fairy Tail guild, a place where family is, known for destroying thing – courtesy of Natsu – and their loud parties which consists of drinking and getting drunk. Also one of the strongest guild in Fiore and in this guild is Natsu Dragneel, the dragon slayer. He's known for destroying at least something on every mission he goes and of course fighting with his rival; Gray Fullbuster and today isn't different.

"Oi, Droopy-Eyes did you threw that ice-block? I bet it was you!" The voice of Natsu Dragneel boomed through the guild, said 'Droopy-Eyes' opened his eyes and glared at Natsu.

"So what if it was me, Pinky!" He retorted back, standing up from the bench and walking towards Natsu.

"I'm going to kill you no–don't take your clothes off, pervert!" Natsu yelled, his eyebrow twitching in annoyance of Gray's… Weird habit.

Gray looked down and saw that he was indeed… Naked. "W-When did this happened?" He asked in surprise, before running somewhere to fetch some clothes.

"Bastard, don't run away from a battle!" The dragon slayer yelled when Gray ran away to get his clothes, lifting his fists up and his fire dragon magic surrounded his fists and ran after Gray.

After putting his pants on he glanced back and saw that Natsu was running towards him, Gray turned around and stood in position. "Ice Make: Floor!" Thus making the once wooden-floor, ice. Natsu widened his eyes in surprise and lost his balance making him fall over but still hitting Gray in which both of them collided to the wall. They wasted no time in getting up again. "You're gonna die, Frosty the Snowman!" Natsu yelled at him, his nose suddenly twitching. Natsu leaned back, some of them –Wendy, Gajeel and Erza– thought he was going to use Fire Dragon Roar and stood up to prevent him from burning down the guild..

Sneeze.

Everyone in the guild looked in shock at Natsu who just… Sneezed… Cutely.

Natsu wiped his nose and looked at Gray who was on the ground, he raised his eyebrow but shrugged anyways. He always knew he was stronger than him without doing anything, Natsu walked away from Gray and to the bar where Mirajane was.

"Mira, give me something spicy please!" He said to her, Mirajane nodded and began preparing something for Natsu. He furrowed his eyebrows at the weird feeling when he sneezed, as if something was talking about him? Suddenly, something pink flashed in his mind. Natsu clicked his tongue and began eating his macaroni with flames when Mira placed it in front of him. "Thanks, Mira." He said with his mouthful.

A blue cat with white wings suddenly flew to Natsu, landing softly on his pink locks. "Natsu, where is master?" The blue cat asked cutely. Natsu's eyes shifted to above him where Happy was, "I don't know, Happy." He said with a shrug, "He was going to visit an old friend or something." Mira, who was standing at the bar glanced at Natsu and walked over to the pair.

"Master is in Konoha, he's supposed to come back in six days." She explained to them, her eyes suddenly widened as if remembering something. "Natsu, I have a mission for you and your team!" She suddenly said, Natsu looked at her at the mention of a new mission and nodded to her to continue. "You have to pick up Master in three days! He's being escorted by people from Konoha, but you have to meet them in three days in the Stone Forest to escort him back to the Guild." Natsu nodded that he was going to accept the mission. A simple escort mission wasn't that bad, they were the strongest team in Fairy Tail.

"Alright, we accept!" Natsu stood up from the bar stool and walked towards the door, "Gray, Lucy, Erza; let's go!" Said people turned their head to look at Natsu confused, but they quickly picked up with what he meant. A new mission, all three of them stood up and walked to the doors. "Ja ne, minna!" Lucy called to the guild, receiving response back from everyone and left with the team.

If only both Natsu and Sakura know what they are going to see.

End Chapter 1.

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, I haven't wrote any fanfics for months so I'm sorry if this turned out to be… Not great! Sorry for any mistakes, feel free to leave a review and hopefully I'll update this next week or maybe earlier!