Reading The Fox Scroll Chapter 20 Race of Pranks

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AN: Another chapter! Please don't spam my reviews with "update more"… I do have a life outside of here and OTHER stories I want to write ok? I get it this is my most popular story (hats off to SpiritSage24 for an awesome original story) but I CHOOSE WHEN AND WHAT I WRITE! (The original chapter was about 6.4K words without reactions as a reference)

-I really wanna focus on my own fun stories and not stories like this one where it seems NOBODY thinks I do enough for it (I read all the reviews and PMS remember)…

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POSTED-August 26/2019(Monday)

-Reader Kushina Uzumaki

"Kaa-san Would you like to read?" Mavis asked Kushina who looked giddy.

"Of course I Do! Gimme Gimme!" Kushina replied almost jumping in her seat as Mavis passed the book to the excited mother.

"Is it just me or is it weird seeing Mavis-sama call Kushina-san 'kaa-san'?" Lucy asked her counterpart.

"Its kinda weird for me too. Even me and Juvia have not met Kushina-san before this day." FS Lucy admitted ad FS Juvia nodded but looked abit frustrated.

"What's wrong now?" FS Lucy said with sigh.

"Mavis-sama calling Naruto-sama mother as her own must mean she wants to marry Naruto-sama! Another rival in love!" FS Juvia declared as Kushina looked amused while Mavis looked Flabbergasted.

"Happy if Mavis-sama liked Naruto wouldn't that be weird? As she is like way older then him." Natsu whispered to Happy who looked terrified.

Apparently, he did not whisper quiet enough as everyone heard his question.

"Natsu did you say something?" Mavis asked nicely with a menacing aura. Natsu tried to avoid the question but Lucy, Erza and even Mira had the same aura around him. Every guy stepped back and bravely let Natsu try to talk his way out of this by himself.

"Nothing at all! Hehe… Kushina-san don't you want to start reading about Naruto?" Natsu asked desperately trying to appear non chalet luckily for him Kushina started to read.

"Race of Pranks." Kushina announced reading the title as she stopped for a moment. "Pranks? Naru-chan?" She said with a serious expression as everyone gulped although some members like Gajeel looked almost eager as if they wanted Naruto to get a yelling to by his mother.

After a tense moment Kushina cried tears of happiness and joyfully screamed "Naru-chan inherited my love for pranks! I am the proudest mother ever! I wonder if he has done any special ones growing up? If only I was with him then the pranks would be even more amazing!" Kushina was rambling much to everyone confusion.

"Kushina-san wants her child to be a prankster? I am not a mother but I thought mothers wanted their children to not prank?" Wen asked drily to Wendy who shook her head in nervousness.

Lucy could see where Naruto got his personality from and based on the look of her counterpart, she was thinking the same thing.

FS Juvia thought to herself 'If Kushina-sama passed on her personality to Naruto-sama would our child have Naruto-sama personality too?!'.

Naruto laid back on the grass, a slight frown on his face. It was the day of the twenty-four-hour race and he had just gotten done with his early morning training with Freed, who had just recently left to go prepare for the event.

To Freed's surprise Kushina gave him a quick nod of appreciation. "Thank you to your other for teaching my son." She said with sincerity.

"Uh. No problem Kushina-san he is not my student but I can see why my other would want to teach him. He is hardworking and has a drive to learn." Freed noted with a sense of pride making the Thunder Legion smile.

Naruto was currently working on his magic control, and he was beginning to get the hang of, but not to the extent he wanted. Naruto was now able to draw in a bit of magic and maintain it long enough to write down a couple of runes. But there was still one problem, he was still only able to utilize the magic he absorbed while in sage mode. When he deactivated sage mode, the collected magic would leave his body alongside the natural energy.

"Hmmm that seems like a problem." Makarov noted with a frown.

"That sucks!" Natsu shouted with a frown.

"It does seem rather unfortunate he cannot store it like mages although he does have chakra so I suppose it is more an annoyance then a true problem." Erza mused out loud.

Folding his arms behind his head, Naruto let out a sigh as he felt the light breeze sweep over him. He used to do this a lot in the training fields back in Konoha after a workout.

Kushina smiled sadly while FS Juvia and Lucy looked downright guilty. Mavis had a neutral expression despite being the only one who truly knew why Naruto appeared in her world in the first place.

Outstretching a hand upwards, Naruto stared at the sky and saw his friends from the Elemental Nations smiling down at him. "Guys... When are you coming?"

Lucy, who had come to tell Naruto the race was starting, frowned sadly from a distance. 'He really is homesick... And to think this whole time I've been selfishly trying to get closer to him without even considering his feelings...'

"Other me…" Lucy called out to her counterpart who didn't look up for talking.

Kushina gave a small wink to FS Lucy who smiled back. FS Juvia looked even sadder as she never really considered Naruto feelings on his original home. Nobody else knew what to say as despite Naruto not being from their world several of them considered Naruto basically a guild member already.

"Hey Lucy, is the race is starting?" Naruto suddenly said from behind her.

"Eep!" Lucy squealed and jumped from being startled, her heart skipping a beat. "How are you..." She looked over to where the ninja was previously and found there was another Naruto waving at her before exploding into smoke. "Of course... a clone."

Despite everything Natsu instantly started laughing out loud despite both Lucy's glares "Man you still a scaredy cat Lucy!" Natsu chortled as Happy joined along.

"Shut it Natsu!" both Lucys shouted at the same time as Kushina just gave them a look of amusement.

'Gotta love that clone jutsu! Wonder if Naruto will use it for other purposes?' Kushina thought with a smile. She already knew that Naruto would unlikely settle for one girl and knew despite common thoughts that the shadow clone jutsu could be used to pleased more then one person at a time. She did mean that in a dirty way more of making sure each girl got time and affection without neglecting the others.

Naruto laughed as the girl pouted at him childishly. "Sorry, I sensed you were coming and couldn't help myself. Man, I got you good! Hahaha!"

"I guess laughter is another way to a mans heart." Mira mused as both Lucy's blushed and FS Juvia frowned. The guys gave Mira a weird look while the girls looked amused.

"Honestly, I come all this way to get you just to get pranked…" Lucy huffed and started walking back to town, the laughing teen following suit. 'How did I fall for this guy? He's such a child!'

"Naruto-sama is not a child! He is the most amazing man alive!" FS Juvia declared angrily as FS Lucy glared at her.

"That is not what I even thought! Don't take things out of context!" FS Lucy lectured as Kushina just smiled happily.

"Lucy its ok. Its how its starts after all. I mean my husband Minato was kinda flaky and I never thought much of him let alone of him as dating material. However, he proved my wrong and eventually we fell in love." Kushina revealed as FS Lucy blushed and everyone looked intrigued as they had now met Naruto's mother but his father was still a mystery.

"Mavis-sama do you think you could bring back Naruto's dad?" Erza asked wanting to meet the father of the man who intrigued so many people.

To everyone surprise both Kushina and Mavis face turned grim. "No, I cannot. It would require bringing back a soul that is no longer of this world and even in this world would create dire consequences." Mavis told them with a sombre expression. "Kaa-san was a special exception but anyone else would be essentially stealing their souls from the afterlife to put into a fake vessel and that is something nobody should EVER do." Mavis told them with a stern glare that made everyone wince.

"Uh Kushina-san can you tell us about Naruto's father?" Wendy asked meekly as Wen pat her head comfortingly. Kushina only smiled at the young and in her mind very adorable dragon slayer with a grin.

"Sure. Lets see… Naruto looks very much like Minato but has my personality honestly. Minato is pretty serious and quiet but is very kind and has a fierce need to protect others." Kushina summarized before she crossed her fingers looking discreetly at Mavis. Mavis nodded before there was a puff of smoke.

After the smoke cleared there was a lone transformed into the likeness of the late Minato Namikaze. After a second everyone finally got a look of Naruto's deceased father. Minato had a striking resemblance to his son with the same blonde hair and blue eyes although his eyes had a more sharp look and his face did no have the same roundness as Kushina or Naruto. He also lacked Naruto's whiskers.

"Wow Minato-san looks like his son." Mira noted with some amazement as everyone gawked at the similarities.

"Yeah Naruto would look like a clone of his father if not for some of Kushina-sans genes in their son." Erza remarked as Kushina smiled proudly before dispelling her clone.

"Shall I continue to read?" Kushina asked as everyone gave her a nod.

Stifling his laughter, Naruto wiped a stray tear from his eye and grinned widely. "Anyways, thanks for getting me. I probably would have been late."

Lucy nodded and stared at the ground as they walked, slowly falling behind the shinobi as her pace slowed. 'I'm terrible... All I've ever thought about was my love problems while Naruto's been hurting this whole time...'

"Hey, Lucy." Naruto suddenly said.

The celestial spirit mage stopped and looked up to see her fellow blonde staring up at the sky.

"Thanks, but, you don't have to worry about me. Just knowing my friends back home are worried enough about me to find a way here is enough to keep me going." Naruto said and turned back, and he grinned brightly. His messy hair ruffled a breeze picked up. "But thank you for worrying about me too, it means a lot. Honestly."

Despite herself Lucy felt her cheeks start to warm up as she secretly thought this was a pretty romantic moment and she thought Naruto looked kinda dashing right now.

Lucy stared at Naruto with growing eyes as she used a hand to keep her hair out of her face from the wind.

"What a sweet moment!" Mira gushed as FS Lucy blushed while Lucy looked away with her face red. She knew it wasn't her but could not help but think of the what if. FS Juvia sighed and relented letting her rival in love win this one fight especially when her Naruto-sama needed comforting,

Makarov just chuckled and thought 'Young love. There is not enough of it in this world.'

They stood there for a couple seconds before Lucy finally broke the silence with a chuckle. "Well of course, it's only natural for friends to look after each other. That's what a mage of Fairy Tail does!" She said matter-of-fact like, quoting what Naruto had told her countless times.

"Nice save other Lucy!" Cana praised with a wink as FS Lucy gave her a cute pout. The rest of the guild chuckled at how an alternate Lucy still appeared to be on great terms with Cana.

Naruto kept his smile and the two began walking towards the town again. They had a race to get to.

"Line break." Kushina announced.

Starting Line...

"COOL! COOL! COOL~! Everyone, get to the starting line!" Jason shouted excitedly into the microphone as the contenders of Fairy Tail got to their positions. Makarov had just finished explaining the rules of the race.

"Um Master… You never did explain to us why there needs to be a yearly race?" Wendy asked curiously as Wen also looked curious as well.

"To check on the status of my guild members and make sure they are up to par." Makarov told them professionally.

"Then why is there a punishment game for the loser instead of say doing chores or something?" Lucy asked skeptically. When Makarov stayed quiet "Wait is the whole point of the race for the punishment game?!" Lucy asked outraged as everyone eyes widened.

"Please continue reading Kushina-san." Makarov said quickly as Kushina gave him an amused look.

'I knew it!' Lucy thought along her counterpart.

Naruto watched as everyone got into their starting spots before pumping a fist. "Alright, I'm gonna win this race for sure!" He declared, earning a couple smiles from the other members.

"As if!" Jet said with a glare.

"Jet you got last along with Natsu, Gajeel, and Gray when this happened to us." Erza reminded the speed wizard.

"It didn't count! That was bogus!" Jet declared only to be met with dry looks from the rest of the guild.

"It counted." Everything else said flatly at the same time while Jet head dropped in defeat.

'Who won?' Lucy asked FS Lucy wordlessly but to her surprise FS Lucy looked away with a massive blush and FS Juvia gave a huge glare at her counterpart.

"Hey Naruto."

The ninja turned around to find Jet walking up to him with a grin on his face. "Hey Jet, ready for the race?"

The mage nodded and smirked. "Yeah, though I'm afraid you're not going to be winning this race, not if I have anything to say about it."

Naruto returned the smirk and crossed his arms. "Oh yeah? I heard you were fast, so I guess that makes us rivals this time around then. But I ain't going home second!"

"Who knows maybe Naruto could beat you Jet." Levy as Jet looked at her betrayed.

"Who cares as long as you don't get last place." Gajeel grumbled as he was still bitter how he lost and tied for last place because he was stupid.

"I guess it does, good luck." Jet said and left to find Levy to show off.

"I admire your determination Naruto, but I have no intention on coming second myself." Erza declared and walked up to the blonde. She was wearing what looked to be a runner's outfit instead of her usual armor.

Kushina took a moment to stare at Erza's chest which was shown proudly in her causal but open runner outfit

'I seriously don't know what these girls in Earthland eat or drink to get to those sizes at that age.' Kushina thought with some envy as the only kunoichi she knew with bust sizes on the same levels as these girls was Tsunade and she used a transformation jutsu to stay in her prime.

She kept reading before anyone could notice her thoughts and hesitation.

"Hey Erza, where's Jay?" Naruto greeted and asked. They had decided to call Jellal "Jay" to keep his identity safe.

"Jay?" Kushina interrupted herself to ask.

"Uh Jellal. He is Erza's childhood friend." Lucy supplied as Kushina nodded her head in thanks.

"He's out on a job right now." She said and shook her head. She had tried to get the man to join them in the race, but Jellal had insisted on doing a job instead. Not that she was complaining. It was nice seeing her friend trying so hard to redeem himself.

Erza smiled proudly at her to her childhood friend. 'It looks thanks to Naruto Jellal is on his way to redemption quicker in that dimension.' Erza thought happily.

"Oh, that's too back." Naruto said before a familiar blue haired girl latched onto his arm. "Juvia found Naruto-Sama at last!"

Kushina chuckled in amusement at the blue haired girl's clinginess while FS Juvia gave a sigh of relief that her beloved mother did not seem to disapprove of her.

Struggling to keep his balance, Naruto laughed awkwardly as the affectionate girl held onto his arm. "H-hey Juvia, ready for the race?"

Juvia gained a fierce look of determination and nodded. "Of course!" She said before letting go and looking away shyly. "If Juvia gets in second place, because Naruto-Sama is going to win for sure, will Naruto-Sama take Juvia out on a date?" She squeezed her eyes shut and clasped her cheeks as they turned bright red. 'Ah! Juvia finally said it! Now, what will Naruto-Sama say-'

"Sorry Natsu, but I'm gonna win first place for sure!" Naruto said and Natsu pointed at him.

For a moment the entire guild was silent before they all dropped their heads. 'Typical bone head Naruto.' Was everyone thoughts.

"Naru-chan." Kushina said with a sigh. She liked her son was not turning into a pervert like Jiraiya and actively looking to hook up with girls but was she was abit annoyed her son seemed to inherit the typical male condition where they were oblivious to girls' feelings.

"Naruto-sama!" FS Juvia cried it while FS Lucy pat her friend sympathetically on the arm.

"No way! I'm gonna win this race with my secret technique! Just you wait!"

"I should've won it in pour race!" Natsu whined before Happy snickered.

"Yeah maybe if you didn't trip on your own two feet." Happy snickered as Natsu grumbled. Lucy just sighed just happy she was not in the loser bracket and Erza as well.

Juvia's words had fallen onto deaf ears as Naruto was now talking with a couple other guild members.

"I don't like this new rule though..." Happy moped at the 'no flying rule' that had been added to this year's race.

Everyone looked at the grumpy Evergreen and Happy while Lucy noticed that FS Lucy had a smirk. 'Don't tell me Naruto found a way to?!' Lucy thought dangerously,

"I'm going to do my best too, Naruto-San!" Wendy declared.

Wendy blushed lightly as everyone looked at Wendy with tenderness.

'Truly a cute and innocent child.' Kushina mused to herself.

"Yup, do your best!" Naruto said encouragingly and pat the girl's head, much to Carla's annoyance.

"Keep your grubby hands off of Wendy, you beast!"

Kushina frowned and stared intently at the nervous white cat. "I have a feeling I not going to like your other very much." Kushina said bluntly as FS Juvia and FS Lucy nodded their heads in agreement.

Carla gulped as much as she thought Naruto was reckless even she could not figure out why her other had such an unnatural hatred of Naruto who she reluctantly admitted was not truly a threat to Wendy.

"Carla, be nice!" Wendy scolded as Naruto's eye twitched in annoyance.

'This cat...' Naruto had a nice little prank that had the stuck-up feline's name written all over it.

"Prank! How do he!" Carla hissed as Wendy looked conflicted. She was not happy with the way Carla was treating Naruto but she also didn't want Carla to get hurt either.

FS Juvia and even FS Lucy thought the punishment they heard Carla get was more then justified while most of the guild agreed Carla seemed to need something happen to her or she would never stop.

'Naruto-Sama...' Juvia moped as tears flooded from her eyes, a couple unlucky guild members getting washed away.

At this statement everyone got nervous and stared at FS Juvia who thankfully looked relatively calm at the moment. Juvia secretly believed her other was far too emotional ignoring or ignorant of the fact she did the same with Gray.

Erza chuckled and put a hand on the weeping girl's shoulder. "There there…" She then gazed into the crowd. "Hey Juvia, have you seen Lucy?"

"Another line break." Kushina announced.

"Hey Lu-Chan!"

Lucy looked up to find Levy walking towards her. "Hey Levy-Chan, what's up?"

The little girl smiled weirdly. "I should be asking you that, what are you doing all the way back here?"

Right now, the two were pretty far off from the starting line.

"Uh Lucy I don't think you will be able to win the race starting from back there." Erza told both Lucy's who gave her a raised eyebrow for thinking they could win the race. Although Lucy still was wondering what her counterpart was doing starting way behind the others.

"Ah, that..." Lucy laughed awkwardly. "Well, let's just say I'm taking precautions."

"Precautions?" the guild echoed as FS Lucy just gave them a smirk.

Levy cocked an eyebrow. "Precautions? For what?" She asked but before Lucy could answer, they heard a shout coming from the crowd.

"Levy! There you are!"

Jet ran up to Levy. "What are you guys doing all the way out here?" He asked before they heard someone shout that the race was about to begin. "Er-Never mind, just watch my start Levy!"

"As if I'll have time to watch!" Levy said as the teen ran off.

Gajeel raised an eyebrow while Levy waved him off with a smile. She secretly was pleased to see Gajeel jealous not that she would ever say it to his face. Jet and Droy sighed dramatically.

'I see those two like Levy but she only has eyes for Mr. Grumpy over there.' Kushina thought to herself.

"Come on, he only wants to show off." Lucy said with a teasing tone.

Levy deadpanned. "I wouldn't be able to watch even if I wanted to." As the girl finished her sentence, a whistle was blown, indicating the start of the race. And as soon as the whistle was blown, an explosion went off at the front of the starting line, causing almost everyone to fly off their feet.

Joy looked triumphant as everyone rolled their eyes. It had happened in their time too but most of the guild had a vindictive pleasure knowing Jet took part in the punishment games.

"COOL~! Jet is pulling away from the starting line right off the bat again this year!" Jason screamed into the microphone as the people on the ground groaned.

Makarov just chuckled and remarked "I never said contestants could not be messed around with." Kushina eyes sparkled as she had a pretty good idea what he son would do knowing about that rule.

Levy sighed, relieved that they had been far enough to not be affected by Jet's start. "See? Couldn't see him even if I wanted to."

Lucy deadpanned before noticing Naruto standing at the starting line, and looking like he was ready to go. "Remember when you asked why I was back here?" Lucy asked and Levy was about to say yes when another explosion went off at the starting line, only bigger this time. "That's why."

Just as the other members had finally picked themselves up, they were knocked down again as the ground beneath them shattered. "W-what is this!?"

"Come on! Not again!" Gray whined as everyone looked in awe of the destroyed race track starting line. While Jet merely pushed people back from the force of his run Naruto had destroyed the starting line completely.

"Its no big deal… I could've done that too if I wanted to." Jet said smugly although everyone could see the sweat coming from his forehead.

Naruto laughed at the sight as he sped away from the starting line. "Sorry about that! But I got a race to win!"

Levy watched in awe at the now destroyed starting area. "He destroyed the starting line... just by starting..."

"I am not the only one who doesn't know what to say right?" Levy asked the room at large. Seeing the nods come back she said in relief "Glad to know."

Lucy sighed and put a hand on her friend's shoulder. "Naruto tends to go a little overboard and I thought this might happen, so that's why I came back here." She said and surveyed the area, cringing as she watched people pull themselves from the rubble. "...And I'm glad I did."

"Atta be Naru-chan!" Kushina said with pride. "Oh yeah line break." Kushina added making everyone sweatdrop at the mother.

Jet laughed as he passed through the town. "Hah! Looks like I got this race in the bag again this year!" The race had just started and he was already nearing the forest just outside of town. "Just watch me win again Levy!"

"You really like Levy, don't you Jet?"

The man blushed slightly and wiped his nose. "Well... Yeah, I do a little-Wait, what?!" Jet gasped when he saw Naruto running alongside him with an amused look on his face.

"Ok that can't be right! I am running using speed magic! Nobody can catch me!" jet said in outrage watching Naruto on screen matching his counterpart in speed.

"I guess Naruto is the exception." Erza remarked with respect as she noticed the smug looks on FS Juvia and FS Lucy confirming her suspicions.

"Yo!" Naruto said and Jet almost tripped on his feet.

"Don't give me that! How are you running so fast!?" Jet shouted as he tried to figure out how Naruto was keeping up with him. He didn't know magic, and he didn't say anything about knowing any speed enhancing techniques. 'Don't tell me... Is Naruto only using the power of his legs!?'

Naruto laughed before waving. "Sorry, I'd like to chat, but I gotta fly!" That said, the shinobi pumped even more chakra into his legs and zoomed forward.

"Oh no you don't!" Jet yelled and channeled more magic into his technique.

"Huh I guess that's pretty fast." Kushina remarked as everyone gave her looks of pure confusion.

"What do you mean Kushina-san? They are running so fast I can barely see them on the screen!" Lucy remarked shocked to see Naruto's mother almost unimpressed with the display.

"Its just I have seen certain ninjas surpass that kind of speed before with ease." Kushina explained and when she saw the incredulous and jaws dropping, she smirked. "I mean the 4th Raikage could run with the speed making him little more then a flash of lightning along with his father the 3rd Raikage." Kushina remarked seeing everyone stuttering made her feel a little proud of being a ninja. "My Minato could even cross entire countries in seconds if he been to the destination before." Kushina gloated. 'I guess in the latter case it is because of his and the 2nd Hokage Flying Rajin Justus but still even with the Shunsin jutsu Minato could easily surpass the speed shown on screen.' Kushina thought to herself deciding not to share these details.

"Oh lien skip again!" Kushina said cheerfully before anyone could comment back.

'Ok its official. Ninjas are like freaks of nature.' Lucy thought to herself.

"Jet had started off the race, but Naruto has now taken the lead! Our all time champion is now in second place, what a turn of events! Cool~!" Jason announced and turned the microphone towards Mirajane, who was watching the video lacrima right next to him.

"Huh perhaps at this rate I will not even get close to first place if they keep running at this rate." Erza

"They really are fast... The cameras can't even film them." The barmaid said with a sweat-drop.

"My thoughts exactly." Mira agreed with her counterpart as the Lacrima screen just showed a trail of smoke dragging behind the speed houses.

"Line break." Kushina announced as the screen changed views once again.

'Not bad.' Naruto thought as Jet slowly caught up with him, though he seemed to be pushing himself.

The two were now sprinting through the desert landscape that was just outside of the town, both leaving a massive dust trail behind them.

'Heh, I guess now would be a good time.' Naruto thought and brought his hands into a familiar hand sign. "Tajuu Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" The shinobi yelled as a ton of clones came into existence.

"He wouldn't dare!" Wakaba said in fear as everyone quickly realized what he could do with clones while he was running.

"That's my Naru-chan!" Kushina cheered with her smile full of pride.

"W-what are you doing!?" Jet asked nervously as there was now a mob of Naruto's around him. He wasn't really going to take him out here and now, was he? It wouldn't be against the rules.

Makarov looked amused while the guild looked at him begging him to find a rule against this. "Nope as long as you don't fly and don't get last place anything is allowed." Makarov declared.

"We are so screwed!" Macao said in despair.

"Come on people man up! What is the worst that can happen to our others?" Elfman said loudly as everyone gave him dull looks. It was universally known that saying 'what is the worst that can happen' ALWAYS made things worst.

FS Juvia and FS Lucy smirks confirmed that it was not going to eb pleasant. Mavis and Kushina giggled in glee as their favorite blonde was going to show off the Uzumaki pranking attitude.

"Alright guys, you know what to do!" Naruto said, ignoring the speed mage's question. "Get to work!"

"Right!" The clones yelled and scattered in groups of blurs.

"Line break." Kushina declared.

Jason let out a series of "Cools" as he brimmed with excitement from the race. "Naruto and Jet are still far in the lead, let's see how the other contestants are doing."

The video lacrima flickered from the trails of dust Naruto and Jet were making to Natsu, who was using his flaming fists as a boost to make him go faster.

"Go other me!" Natsu cheered as Happy yelled along with him. Lucy had a feeling that Natsu would not be cheering for long.

"Line break." Kushina said as the scene changed again.

Natsu smiled excitedly as he rocketed through the rocky landscape. "Damn, Naruto and Jet really are fast! I better kick it up a notch." That being said, the flames on his fist grew brighter and as a result he began to run faster.

"That's the way! I will catch up in no time now!" Natsu said proudly watching his counterpart run faster.

"Hah!" The dragon slayer yelled triumphantly as he neared a natural stone archway. "Watch out guys. I'll catch up in no ti-Ack!"

"Wait what?!" Natsu said in outrage.

Natsu was cut off when something caught onto his foot, causing the teen to trip and fall. Natsu fell to the ground, rolling across the dirt a couple times before finally coming to a stop.

"Wha the hell is that?!" Natsu yelled as it showed his other trapped hanging by his ankle. It did not help the rest of his guild mates were holding backs laughs at the expense of his other self.

"Wow Natsu really threatening." Gray said mockingly as Natsu glared heatedly back.

After the spinning in his head stopped, Natsu tried to get up but found he couldn't move. "What the- I'm stuck!" Natsu cried out as he fruitlessly tried to move, but found that he was all tied up in weird metal wires. "What the hell is this!?"

"Oh ninja wires gotta love it." Kushina said in a chirpy voice pleased with her sons first prank.

'Kushina-san seems a little too for it.' Wendy thought to herself with slight fear while Wen seemed more amused than anything else.

"So, you're the first to fall prey? Of course it was you, Natsu. Hahaha!"

The pink haired teen growled as he heard a series of laughs above him. "Naruto! Get me out of here!"

"Why that smug little." Natsu said with a glare muttering in anger.

Naruto could be seen laughing on top of the rocks, laughing his butt off in fact. "Ah, this is great... Hm?" He raised an eyebrow as Natsu's body was engulfed in flames. "Heh, sorry but those wires won't burn."

"Haha! Blondie got you good!" Gajeel chortled as he tried to hold himself from laughing till his gut blew. "Of course, I would not fall for something like that." Gajeel said in a superior tone as he and Natsu yelled at each other. Levy just sighed although did see the smirk between the FS girls making her worried.

"Naruto!" Natsu screamed and started rolling and bouncing around, all the while spouting out nonsense and spitting out fire.

"Wow Natsu you seem abut preoccupied to race." Mira said with mirth in her voice as Natsu face grew red with embarrassment as the guild kept laughing quietly at his expense.

The blonde laughed again before stopping and peering out in the distance. "Ah, looks like everyone else is coming. Better get ready."

"Oh, I can't wait to see what Naruto has in stock for little old me." Cana said with a confident and seductive smirk as Kushina raised an eyebrow. She declared there was another line break

A group of guild members were trekking through the rocky landscape when they noticed Natsu all tied up and on the ground up ahead.

"Wait a minute. Wasn't Natsu tied up somewhere else?" Erza said with her eyes widening.

"He couldn't be that devious, could he?" Laxus said out loud as he considered Naruto strong but simple minded.

"Natsu? What's he doing there?"

"Hah! Serves you right, ya hot head!" Gray snorted and ran right passed him.

"..."

"Ok that is not Natsu. No way he wouldn't respond to a jab like that." Warren noted as Natsu frowned.

"Screw you guys! Its not fault you always picks fights with me!" Natsu defended himself as Kushina decided to keep reading.

The other mages found it odd that the dragon slayer didn't retort back, so they all stopped and walked over to him.

"I have a feeling this is going to end badly." Patherlilly declared as everyone gulped.

"Hey, Natsu? Are you alright?" Max asked and went to shake Natsu'a shoulder, only for the slayer to explode into a cloud of smoke. "W-what the!?"

When the smoke cleared, the was a note that had a cartoony drawing of Naruto sticking his tongue out and words that read: "Look up."

"Screw that stupid blonde." Macao grumbled luckily none of the FS girls or Kushina heard that particular comment.

Mavis was giggling at Naruto's rather cute prankster side,

The group gulped, already knowing what was coming next, and looked up to find a bunch of Naruto's standing above them on some rocks, all of which carried a variety of tools and trinkets in their hands.

"This is seriously not fair having to race against this guy." Wakaba whined as several members nodded while Kushina only grinned.

"Charge!" One of the clones yelled and all hell broke loose.

"Owowowow~! Stop it!" Nab yelled as he tried to run from a clone, who was throwing tiny balls that exploded at the ground around him.

"Why does he have all this stuff with him!?" Warren cried out as he was now completely covered from head to toe with orange paint.

"For pranking." Mavis and Kushina declared together while they grinned.

"I fear for our first Masters soul. She appears to have been corrupted." Warren said with fear as Mavis did not look even slightly in disapproval at what was happening to their others.

"Come and prank me like a man, Naruto!" Elfman demanded as a clone stepped up to him. The large man raised an eyebrow when the clone exploded in a puff of smoke, and when the smoke cleared it revealed another Elfman.

The guild was quiet for a moment before Elfman started crying. "That is not a real man!"

Evergreen patted her not official boyfriend on the back softly as everyone started laughing at the transformed clone none more then Happy himself.

Well, it was Elfman's head, on Happy's little body.

Elfman looked at the transformed clone in shock. "That... That's..."

"Man! Be a man!" The clone said in Happy's voice.

"That's not manly..." Elfman said and fell on his knees depressed. The clone now laughing historically in Happy's voice.

"That's my boy. Mommy is very proud of you." Kushina said with pride and love as most of the guild choose not to comment on Kushina weird pride for her sons pranking habits.

'Glad I kept running...' Gray thought as he looked back and watched the massacre unfold. He cringed when Max fell victim to the One Thousand Years of Death technique. That must have hurt.

"What the hell is that! That's gotta be some kind of harassment right there!" Max declared as Mavis just giggled.

"Its funny is what it is." Mavis declared as Max hung his head in defeat.

However FS Juvia had a massive blush and thought 'If Naruto-sama did that to me would I be in heaven itself?' FS Lucy knowing of FS Juvia weird fetishes just sighed.

*Tsss!*

"Huh?" Gray stopped when he heard a hissing sound behind him. "What is that?" He asked no one in particular and whirled around, only to hear the hissing from behind again.

"What is that hissing?" Gray asked only to sweatdrop when FS Juvia and Lucy were trying not to laugh.

"Well if Gray gets hammered too I guess its ok." Natsu declared with a resigned smile as Gray grew outraged.

"Hey Gray."

Gray heard Natsu call out from a distance, the real Natsu. The fire dragon slayer hung upside down and dangling from a rock archway.

"Well flames for brains. Anything is better then getting hung upside like your other;s lazy ass!" Gray retorted as Natsu butted heads with him.

"Are they always like this?" Kushina asked with some amusement.

"Pretty much." Lucy replied as Erza bonked both their heads to make them desist.

"You got something stuck to your pants."

"On my-"

As soon as the ice mage checked the place where Natsu was referring too, he swore when he saw firecrackers attached to his pants, with a lit fuse. "Oh shi-!"

"That is insane! That's totally not cool!" Gray said as everyone chuckled at him.

"Oh I am sure it will be ok as along as your other gets it off his pants in time." Cana told him with barely concealed chuckles. Juvia looked worried until she realised it was not her Gray-sama in danger.

Natsu cackled with laughter as Gray ran around in panic, frantically trying to knock the now exploding firecrackers from his trousers. "Hahaha! That's what you get for just leaving me back there!"

"You tell them other me.!" Natsu said in approval as Gray just grumbled.

"Natsu! What's going on here?"

The teen looked down to find a familiar blue cat looking up at him. "Happy! Quick! Get me down from here!"

"Thank you my most loyal friend!" Natsu told Happy who just nodded.

"Anytime best friend!" Happy said happily as Kushina decided to ignore this moment and continue reading.

While the cat began to help his friend, Cana, Wakaba, and Macao ran past them in the distance.

"Sheesh… Naruto's going all-out, isn't he?" Cana said with a sweat-drop.

"I find it funny since I don't haver to be the target so its cool with me." Cana sang as everyone sweatdropped at how uncaring she was to the fate of her other self.

"Yeah, let's just keep going and hope he doesn't notice us." Macao said and Wakaba nodded in agreement.

"Oh darling~!"

Wakaba flinched when the screechy voice of his wife sounded from behind him. "M-Millgana!? What are you doing here!?"

"The cruelness! He is truly the devil!" Wakaba said dramatically as he had tears running down his eyes.

Mira frowned before glaring at him "I remember I using her face when you tried to ask me out when you had a wife." Mira reminded him sternly as Wakaba whimpered at the models glare.

"Don't blame me if I am attracted to your loveliness." Wakaba defended as every girl looked at him in disgust.

"Yeah and don't blame me when I want to have a stick to keep you away me from me at all time." Mira declared with a sigh as Lissanna was happy her sister was sticking up for herself.

The husky woman was running behind them, and catching up fast. "Darling~! Wait for me~!"

"No way!" Wakaba screamed and ran passed the other two mages, his wife passing them as well.

"Ok I guess there goes another one down." Gildarts said with much amusement. He knew he was not back in the guild yet but seeing this 24-hour race filled him with great amusement.

Cana and Macao stopped in their tracks, gave each other a look, and watched as the smoker ran for his life.

"Hahaha! That was great! If he's that scared of her, why did he marry her in the first place?"

Everyone turned to Wakaba expectantly but he refused to dignify that with an answer so Kushina kept reading.

They turned around to find a laughing Naruto.

"Yo!" He greeted casually.

Macao smirked. "Whatever little prank you're planning, it won't work on me. I've got years of experience when it comes to kids and their pranks."

Macao felt powerful by his other words although he still sweatdropped as this kid seemed so unpredictable nobody was probably safe.

Naruto cocked an eyebrow. "Is that so?" He said before doing a couple hand signs, and his body was consumed by smoke.

Macao was confident that he'd be able to handle anything the blond threw at him. But what he didn't expect was for Naruto to transform into Cana, the only thing covering her private areas being the evaporating mist. "Guh!" The man flew back and fell to the ground, his nose bleeding profoundly.

There was a moment as everyone just processed what was on the screen before almost every male had a nosebleed and fall over themselves from the lust. A few notable exceptions were Laxus and Freed who looked completely unaffected while Gajeel and Elfman had their cheeks pulled by Levy and Evergreen respectively before anything could happen.

However one male was not amused "I swear to all the Gods I will kill that kid for defying my sweet little girl's body!" Gildarts declared in irrational dad side taking over. Kushina narrowed her eyes at the threat so before anyone could react she sent a chakra chain at Gildarts.

However before it could make contact Mavis snapped her finger and the chain stopped in midair before it could reach the S-class wizard. "That's enough kaa-san." Mavis said with a frown as everyone then realised that Kushina had reacted before any of them registered it. Kushina frowned but then the chain disappeared as she stopped supplying chakra to it.

'Ok Kushina-san is very powerful. None of us could even see he chain besides Mavis-sama and she formed it so quickly out of nothing. It almost seemed like…" Erza thought in wonder as Cana snapped out of it to glare at her dad.

"Stupid dad! It is up to me to decided what to do with my life not you! I actually found Naruto's little trick quite funny so back off!" Cana yelled at Gildarts who looked like a kicked puppy.

"Cana-chan! How could you be angry with your dear papa? I was just trying to defend your honour!" Gildarts whined as his anger vanished seeing his little girl anger at him.

"Because I am not a little girl! If people want to gawk at my body it is fine with me!" Cana told her dad with a glare as he whimpered.

"I am actually abut impressed. It seemed like Naruto got the proportions down to the T for Cana." Erza said with respect as Wendy blushed at the busty brunette lack of clothes shown by Naruto's clone.

"I am guessing he took a peek with her outfit being pretty generous." Lucy said with a dry voice pointing at Cana's bikini top as Cana chuckled good naturedly.

"Well whatever the case I gotta say I bit flattered Naruto took the time to measure my sizes in his mind!" Cana said with a wink as FS Juvia started gritting her teeth at the hint. Even FS Lucy did not look impressed as Kushina raised an eyebrow at the flirty brunette.

"Uh Kushina-san can you please continue to read?" Makarov asked politely as he held his nose while most of the females were annoyed at the guys reactions.

That did it, Cana couldn't take it anymore and burst out laughing. "Ahahaha! Okay, that was a good one!" She cried out while holding her sides.

"See dad? It was funny." Cana said smugly as Gildarts just murmured that his little girl had become a sexual deviant (not that he had any right to talk) because he did not raise her.

"Of course, Cana-chan was not embarrassed." Lucy said with a sigh as Cana had no trouble teasing guys or wearing a bikini top as her 'casual' outfit.

The clone transformed back, a frown on his face. "Okay... Why aren't you embarrassed? Or mad? Why are you laughing!?" He demanded, frustration clear in his voice.

"Honestly I see no problem with it. Seduction is a good way to make a guy lose his guard correct?" Erza remarked unphased as Mira shrugged and Cana agreed while the other girls looked scandalous. Several males like Makarov, and Wakaba just grinned in approval.

Cana wiped a stray tear from her eye and sighed. "If you thought I'd be embarrassed for showing a little skin, then you thought wrong man." She said and gestured to her bikini top, a confidant look on her face.

"Yup we all expected that answer." Lucy said drily as Cana just laughed while her father was grumbling that he would murder anyone who tried to seduce his 'little girl'.

"Oh... Guess I didn't prepare as much as I should have." Naruto said and sighed, getting another laugh from the brown-haired beauty.

"Oh Naru-chan… Its ok I know you will do better next time." Kushina cooed to her son while everyone could not help small smiles from appearing seeing Naruto's mother so supportive of her son's actions.

"Don't worry, I'm sure your prank would have worked if it was anyone else, well maybe not Mira... But whatever! Looks like you owe me a drink later!" She said and turned to leave when the clone called out to her.

Everyone turned to Mira who only smiled innocently before she said "I don't think me or my other would mind letting Naruto take a closer look for his jutsu." Mira winked as everyone jaws dropped in shock at the model's words. "Geez I was just kidding." Mira assured everyone with a pout as she was not looking for a relationship and she was sure her other was not either. Not that she thought Naruto would be a bad boyfriend or anything she simply was looking in the market.

FS Juvia and FS Lucy exchanged a looked knowing the irony of those words would eventually turn up in the book.

"Ah, wait! I actually have a drink on me now if you want some?" He offered the beverage and the girl looked at him incredulously.

"Wait a minute this seems odd. I thought cutie didn't like booze?" Cana said suspiciously while FS Juvia pouted that a clone of her beloved was offering another girl a drink.

"...Is it booze?"

The doppelganger nodded happily and Cana grabbed the container without hesitation. "Well why didn't you say so? Lucky me~!" She chirped and took a long swig, only to spit it up the next second. "Ugh! This isn't booze! What is this stuff!?" She demanded angrily, her anger only growing when she saw the clone laughing his butt off. "What did I just drink!?"

"That seems like kinda a lame prank." Natsu pointed out as everyone besides Cana nodded.

"How is that lame? Anything that isn't booze might as well be poison! How can I get energy without booze?" Cana complained.

"For other people its usually the other way around." FS Lucy noted to Mavis who just gave a quick giggle in response.

After calming himself, Naruto pointed to the container on the floor. "What you drank, was coffee-" The Shadow clone didn't get to finish his sentence, Cana decked him in the face and caused it to explode.

"How evil! My poor other!" Cana said dramatically as everyone sweatdropped that it looked like Naruto only put a regular drink instead of ooze as a prank for other Cana.

"Damn..." She muttered, her fist shaking with anger before she crossed her arms and pouted. "He got me good." Coffee was the enemy to all alcoholics, because it made you sober. She'd have to get him back for that.

"Cana you should really try to cut down on booze. It is not healthy for you body." Erza lectured as Cana held her tongue. She was about to retort that there was nothing healthy about eating absurd amounts of strawberry cake either but she was still afraid of Erza.

"Naru-chan better not be a drinker! I expect better of him." Kushina said sternly only to relax when FS Lucy and FS Juvia told her explicitly that her son did not like alcohol at all. "Aright another line break!" Kushina said cheerfully now knowing her son was not like a lot of men who were drinkers.

"What happened here?" Lucy said as Levy and herself ran passed what looked like an aftermath of war.

"Naruto-sama having fun!" FS Juvia summarized cheerfully as everyone else grumbled.

FS Lucy tried to be sympathetic but honestly, she thought it was all in good fun especially since Naruto simply did quite minor damage in the big picture. Mavis just grinned happy Naruto could show off why pranks were so fun and Kushina could not be prouder of her son who inherited her personality more then Minato's although she would always love him regardless.

Mages were scattered everywhere. Some were covered in orange paint, others were tied up and had funny drawings on their faces. The two girls cringed when they saw Max on the ground, holding his rear.

"So not cool." Max whined as everyone surveyed the defeated members of Fairy Tail with pity.

"We better keep running, Lu-Chan." Levy said and Lucy nodded in agreement and they left the fallen mages behind.

"Help our others out!" Most of the guys yelled as Levy looked sympathetic while FS Lucy just shrugged her shoulders.

"Hey all is fair in this race right?" FS Lucy said rhetorically as Makarov nodded secretly having too much fun to care.

"Damn that Naruto..." One of the victims muttered under their breath.

"Come on guys! Let's go get that prankster!"

"Yeah!" They all said in agreement and got back to the race, a new fire burning in their eyes.

"Get him!" Natsu and all the guys cheered together.

"Naruto-sama will not lose to anyone!" FS Juvia defended as FS Lucy nervously started sweating remembering what happened at the end of the race.

"Line break." Kushina announced.

Naruto looked back and grinned. "Getting tired yet?"

"Not... *Huff!* Not at all!" Jet wheezed as he trailed behind the stamina freak. 'This guy... How is he able to run this fast for so long, and only just breaking a sweat!?' Never in his life had Jet pushed himself so much just to catch up with someone!

"It is actually rather simple. Wizards usually only train to a certain point till they get comfortable with their magic while ninjas have to constantly train their bodies along with minds to maximize their use of chakra." Mavis lectured as Erza looked at her with stars. "Plus, Naruto being both a jinchuuriki and an Uzumaki has more raw chakra then most Kage which in magic terms would make him have the capacity to hold more magic then most wizards." Mavis added as several members of Fairy Tail grumbled their disagreements.

FS Juvia and FS Lucy nodded their agreement knowing how strong Naruto was at this point and how strong he would become in the future.

They had just gotten their Wyvern scales at the peak of Mt. Ivor and were now running back down the mountain towards the forest.

"Hey, Jet?" Naruto asked after pulling up next to him, an idea forming in his head.

"*Huff!* What do you want?"

A mischievous grin sprawled on his face as the blonde took in the terrain for a second time. "What do you say we take a short break, catch a few Z's before having a final test of speed?"

Jet got embarrassed when Happy started laughing.

"Huh what's up Happy?" Natsu asked his best friend who grinned.

"Jet was sleeping because he thought he was so far ahead and he would've gotten last place himself if I didn't wake him up in our time." Happy revealed as the guild laughed at the fuming Jet.

"Well the cocky ones are usually the ones to lose." Mira mused while sporting a smirk.

Jet frowned, was Naruto making fun of him? Like he'd really fall for a trick like that. Although he didn't like to admit it, he was getting kind of tired. But after seeing the ninja begin to slow down, Jet sighed and did the same.

"Naruto honestly wouldn't get tired from just a little running but using shadow clones divides his power so it would be a bit tiring at this point for him to continue to run." FS Lucy informed the guild.

'He considers the 24 hours race a 'little running'? What kind of stamina freak is he?' The Fairy Tail Guild thought.

After catching his breath, Jet looked up at the ninja with a suspicious look on his face. He was about to speak but Naruto spoke up first.

"Before you ask, I just want to beat you at your best." He said with a shrug and Jet scratched his cheek awkwardly.

"Well... I guess I don't mind taking a little break." He said and Naruto gave him a short nod.

That was only half of the truth. To be completely honest, there was a few pranks Naruto wanted to set up in the forest that he could only do in person. A prank that he had been planning for quite some time now.

"That jerk! Haven't our others suffered enough?" Natsu yelled angrily as FS Lucy and FS Juvia just smiled.

"I guess not." Mira mused with amusement clearly shown on her face. She wasn't part of the race in either world but she had a feeling Naruto would not prank her even if she was.

Doing a little stretch, Naruto looked at Jet who was propping himself against a tree to rest on. 'Okay, while he's distracted...' While Jet wasn't looking, Naruto replaced himself with a shadow clone, the original now in the trees. 'Escape complete, now for some fun...'

"Wait a minute he is sending himself to do a prank?" Gray asked nervously as everyone looked afraid for what pranks lay ahead. The only ones who looked calm were FS Lucy and FS Juvia who everyone assumed were not pranked at all.

"Line break." Kushina said before a grin appeared as she skimmed ahead before reading.

Erza, Juvia, and Gajeel were running through the forest, Mt. Ivor poking right above the trees.

"Oh? I am rather impressed Juvia-chan and Gajeel are capable of keeping up with my other in running." Erza noted as Gajeel just grumbled and FS Juvia kept thinking Erza was a rival in love.

"Ah, Juvia wishes she was as fast as Naruto-Sama..." Juvia sighed as she ran alongside Erza, who chuckled.

FS Juvia just pouted although relented that her beloved would have liked to be alone to plan his pranks more effectively.

"You really like Naruto, don't you Juvia?" She asked and the blue haired girl covered her cheeks bashfully.

"Yeah I think anyone who ahs met that Juvia can see that instantly." Gray said drily as Juvia swooned.

"It is not a crime to fight for someone you love!" FS Juvia insisted as she exchanged glares with FS Lucy.

"Very much so! Naruto-Sama is-" She stopped mid-sentence and began to stare at the red head suspiciously.

"Huh?" Erza looked confused like her other self as FS Juvia looked suspiciously at Erza as well.

Noticing the stare, Erza began to feel a little uncomfortable under the girl's gaze. "W-what is it?"

Juvia narrowed her eyes. "Don't tell me Erza-San is also... Juvia's rival in love!?"

"WHAT?!" the entire Fairy Tail guild said at the same time while Erza looked shocked with her mouth hanging down.

"Other Lucy and Juvia Naruto and I just friends right?" Erza asked urgently as FS Juvia and Lucy looked uncertain.

"I am pretty sure?" FS Lucy admitted as Erza looked gobstopped at that answer. Truthfully FS Lucy had no idea what the exact feelings between Erza and Naruto were as it seemed neither of them knew either.

"I am sure we are just friends." Erza decided after a moment of thought as she was not interested in romance and was certain her other was not either. Mira eyes shone as she thought her alternate rival seemed like a good match for Naruto but she would be ok if alternate Lucy or Juvia ended up with him instead.

Natsu and Gray were the most shocked at the idea of their childhood friend ever having romantic feelings for a guy as they knew she only used her charm merely as a battle tactic and nothing more.

The knight almost faltered in her steps. "That is not true! Naruto is a person who deeply cares for his comrades, and I respect him! That is all." Erza closed her eyes and smiled, an odd thing to do while running. "He's a reckless fool, but a fool that would go to impossible lengths to help a friend." Erza opened her eyes to see Juvia pouting at her.

FS Juvia looked at Erza for a moment before nodding her head accepting this answer while Erza just nodded her head agreeing with her alternate self.

Gajeel, having witnessed the entire conversation, face palmed. 'Why the hell do I have to listen to this?'

"I know right?" Gajeel said as he took a step back when FS Juvia glared at him. Levy just shook her head at Gajeel insensitive personality.

"Muuuu~!" Juvia pouted and Erza started sweating.

"Well... Um, you see-Kyah!" Erza stuttered before she suddenly fell through the ground.

Erza's eye twitched as everyone else just stayed quiet hoping Erza would not turn her wrath on anyone here. It was well known especially to her team she hated being seen as weak.

However, Kushina grinned and said happily "Erza-chan your other seem pretty cute just now." The others held their breathe waiting to gauge Erza's response before to their surprise Erza just pouted and shrugged her shoulders.

Juvia and Gajeel, having been far enough from the trap, both stopped and peered down the hole and saw Erza laying in a heap.

The girl picked herself up and noticed a small note in front of her. After reading it, she crumpled the piece of paper in her hand and started trembling. "Naruto..."

"That little…" Erza mumbled as her eye twitched seeing her other being pranked in such a way. She was not amused to being taunted by Naruto about her other prank.

Gajeel grunted in amusement before running off, not wanting to be near the now enraged woman. 'At least I'm not the only one that guy pranks.'

"Haha very funny Gajeel." Natsu said sourly as Gajeel just grinned happy to see other people share in his other's misery.

Even Juvia had to fight back some laughter. Naruto had told her about the pitfall trap incident that happened at Garuna Island, but seeing Erza fall for it in person was quite amusing.

FS Juvia just smiled smugly at the irate Erza happy for her beloved.

Erza punched the wall of the pit. How could she have fallen for such an embarrassing trap not once, but twice now? That blonde prankster was going to be punished. Erza looked up towards the sky and screamed at the top of her lungs. "NARUTO!"

Nobody wanted to point out compared to the other pranks shown this was rather tame while Erza's eye kept twitching.

"Oh another line break! It seems like Naru-chan is constantly on the move." Kushina said happily.

Naruto's ear twitched as he had just finished up his next trap. "Hehe, sounds like Erza had a nice fall."

"Why that little. I swear my other will pay him back some day." Erza promised as Kushina looked amused at the challenge to her son.

Why was he doing all of this you ask? Because it was fun, plain and simple. It had been while since Naruto had gone on a pranking spree like this, and having everyone in the guild going in a specific route, he just couldn't resist.

"What kind of reason is that?!" All the guys in Fairy Tail said in outrage while the FS girls seemed amused.

"Come on Carla, don't stop now. Who knows what the punishment will be if we get in last place."

"*Huff!* I hate this no flying rule!"

"I hope my other won't get pranked." Wendy said nervously as Wen looked at FS Lucy who shook her head much to Wen relief. She didn't know Naruto as well as the others but she thought Naruto would be gallant to prank on her younger self and was glad to be proven right.

"That ninja is going to prank my other." Carla said sourly scowling when nobody even attempted to deny it.

'It's show time.' Naruto thought and hid himself, just as Wendy and Carla came into view. Just as he'd predicted, Wendy was the first to pass over his trap. But nothing happened, since she wasn't his target.

Wendy sighed in relief as Wen pat Wendy head with a laugh as Carla all the sudden grow nervous at Kushina's smirk.

Freed looked impressed and said "It seems Naruto-san is a rather good student. It is usually difficult for beginners to make runes exclude certain people and not activate on a first come first served basis."

Kushina beamed with pride while Carla felt sorry for her other self.

It wasn't until Carla stepped on a certain leaf when an orange four-wall barrier appeared out of nowhere, trapping the cat inside.

"We all suspected it would come to this." Mira noted as Carla scowled especially when nbobody particular bothered for her other's sake.

"What is the meaning of this!?" Carla yelled, and Wendy looked back to find her friend stuck in the rune box.

"Carla, what is that?"

"Don't worry Carla! I'll save you!" The two were surprised to see Happy plow into one of the orange walls. But his attempt was proven to be unsuccessful as he bounced right off the wall harmlessly and onto the ground. "Ouchie... That didn't work..."

"Great job Happy." Lucy said sarcastically as Happy looked expectantly at Carla who looked more annoyed then anything else.

"I hope Naruto-san doesn't put too difficult task for Carla." Wendy said with worry. She understood runes usually deactivated after a certain task was fulfilled or by the user's will.

"Happy-San! Are you okay?" Wendy asked and started healing the fallen feline.

Carla sighed when she noticed something in the corner of her eye, letters started forming words above her. They were sloppy, but she was still able to read them. "You can't leave until you eat this... fish?" As she finished reading, a fish on a platter appeared behind her. "Why do I have to...?"

Carla eye twitched at how stupid the rune condition was while everyone else thought the task was rather tame compared to what it could've been. In particular Evergreen, Bisca and Max gave a glare to Freed for making them study inside the rune.

"This is rune magic." Happy said while struggling to get up. "Freed uses this magic, but the writing seems to be too sloppy to be his. Naruto probably did this, Freed is teaching him that magic."

Freed held a small smile happy to see his other student progress rather well in his branch of magic while FS Juvia growled at the minor insult to her beloved.

Naruto's eye twitched in annoyance. He couldn't help having sloppy handwriting, he was still a beginner! But the orange walls were his touch, and Naruto was proud of that fact.

"I suppose to each their own." Freed said awkwardly as he never considered colour a particular important for rune magic. Kushina smiled at the colour noting it was a mix of her and Minato's hair colours.

Wendy frowned and watched as Carla glowered at the fish. 'Poor Carla... She hates eating fish.'

"Is that true Carla?" Lucy asked skeptically as the white cat refused to answer it although her scowl seemed to confirm the suspicions.

"Why did that beast have to put this trap here!? He's probably almost at the finish line, there's no point!" Carla demanded and stomped her foot on the ground.

"Wow talk about a grouch. Its not like he is just picking on you. Almost everyone is pranked." Kushina remarked as Carla scoffed. The rest of the guild was less amused at the reminder.

"Actually, Naruto's been pranking everyone in the race." Happy said and the two looked at him with somewhat surprised looks on their faces. "He already got Natsu and Gray, and some others too."

"looks like other Lucy, Juvia-chan, Wendy and Levy seem to be the only ones not pranked." Erza noted while FS Juvia and FS Lucy shrugged.

"Lucky." Natsu grumbled still not happy his other was so easily defeated by wire.

"Just go, Wendy." Carla said all of a sudden, taking the little girl by surprise.

"It's okay Carla, I can wait-" Wendy started but the female cat cut her off.

"No really, it's fine. Don't worry I'll catch up. You too male-cat." It's not like eating the fish was going to take all that long, she just didn't want them to see the face she was about to make eating the fish.

Happy was about to protest when Wendy picked him up, understanding her friend completely. "Okay Carla, be sure to catch up!" With that, Wendy ran off with Happy in her arms.

After making sure they were far enough, Carla looked down at the plate and shivered. "Well, here goes nothing..." She said aloud and picked the scaly thing up.

Naruto reached into his jacket and pulled out a camera, he had bought one at a store for special occasions such as this. 'Say cheese...'

Just as Carla bit into her fishy meal, she gained a look of disgust that already made Naruto want to burst out laughing. But he resisted the urge and took the picture, the camera making a silent *click* before the image was saved onto the built-in lacrima. Not that he knew how any of that worked.

Not being able to contain his laughter any longer, Naruto fell on his back and started laughing.

Hearing the bursts of laughter and the shaking branch, Carla swallowed the rest of the fish and bristled with anger. "Why you... You beast!"

Carla growled in annoyance as everyone except Wendy laughed at her other's expression eating a simple fish before the Rune barrier deactivated itself. She knew it was not just the taste but the act that the ninja did it on purpose that pissed them both off.

"Good one Naru-chan. Line break." Kushina praised.

A Couple Hours Later...

"Hey, Jet. Let's go." Naruto said and lightly kicked the teen, who had fallen asleep while they were resting.

Jets eyes looked determined knowing for sure his other was going to win the race know after getting a recharge while Erza was not so sure based on the embarrassed look from FS Lucy.

"H-huh? Oh, yeah." Jet stood up and stretched. He was already feeling a bit sore from how hard he had been pushing himself earlier. But now that he was rested up, and knew what he was up against, there was no way he was going to lose. "Alright, let's do this!"

The two silently stood next to a tree, in their own respective starting positions and waiting for a sign to start.

A fruit attached to a nearby tree snapped off its branch and started falling to the earth. Just as it hit the ground, the two boys took off. Both with the intent to finish the race.

"Perhaps you are taking this too seriously? I mean as long as you don't lose it is ok right?" Lissanna asked confused on why first place seemed like such a big deal.

"Its more a pride thing than anything else." Mira assured her little sister who nodded.

"Go Naru-chan! Oh yeah another line break." Kushina cheered as everyone was eager to see who would come out on top in this race.

"Guh... How could I have fallen for such a stupid trick?" Gajeel grumbled to himself.

He had been running back down the mountain with his Wyvern scale when he caught sight of the same orange-red cat that Naruto disguised as to prank him. Obviously, it was a trick, Gajeel knew this and was just going to keep moving. That was until the transformed ninja pulled out a photo, a photo of Gajeel in the stupid cat costume.

That was something Gajeel couldn't let others see no matter what, so he gave chase and ended up stepping on a tripwire.

Now here he was, tied up and hung upside down on a tree branch. "I can't even reach the stupid wires and eat them. Damn you Uzumaki..."

"That damn ninja is out to get other me I swear!" Gajeel growled as Levy just pat him on the back.

"Ahahaha! You got caught, what a loser!"

Gajeel saw Natsu pointing up at him and laughing. "Put a sock in it Salamander, and get me down!" He demanded, only for his fellow dragon slayer to snort and wave him off.

"Hah! Yeah right! I'm outta here!" Natsu said and started to leave. "Have fun getting laAAAAAST!"

The iron-eating teen watched as Natsu's ankle was caught and was tied up in a similar fashion as himself. He would have palmed his face if he could, for they were now both tied up and hanging upside down.

"..."

"...Shut up."

Despite his other falling for the same trap Natsu could not help but bellow out with laughter especially since Gajeel boasted so big before.

"Line break. It looks like we are closed to the end!" Kushina announced skimming the number of pages left in the chapter.

At The Finish Line...

Jason was about ready to explode, he was beyond excited. After finding out that Naruto was prankster, and a good one at that, he just couldn't get enough. "Who knew Fairy Tail's one man army was such a prankster! I for one did not expect it!" He moved the microphone to Mirajane. "Did you already know of this, about Naruto Uzumaki being a prankster?"

"Wow great for Jason." Lucy said flatly since she knew her former boss was rather eccentric.

The barmaid nodded her head and smiled. "Yes, he's pulled a few pranks here and there before." She noticed a cloud of smoke out in the distance and Jason began to go crazy again about Naruto and Jet being neck-in-neck. 'He's never pranked so much in a single day though... Is it because of the event? Or maybe he's just in a good mood?' Mira thought as she watched the ninja in question. Naruto really was an interesting person.

Mira smiled happily agreeing with her other while jet was on the edge of his seat hoping his other could prove once and for all he was the fastest member of Fairy Tail.

"Who's going to come in first place? Jet, the undefeated champion? Or Naruto, the powerhouse ninja who came out of nowhere?"

Everyone was silent wanting to see who would come out on top as it looked like it down to these two for the first place.

Naruto had to admit, he was actually starting to get pretty tired. Unlike Jet, the blonde hadn't rested. He had been too busy pranking everyone using shadow clones and runes. While the clones didn't really take all that much of his energy, he had to go into sage mode every time he wrote the runes. That's what had drained him.

Everyone blinked at this new information but were still waiting eagerly for the first place to be claimed.

Jet on the other hand, looked like he was running on fumes. The poor guy seemed to be ready to collapse any moment now. But he was still keeping up with the shinobi, and Naruto had to give him props.

"Go other me! Just one final push!" Jet cheered along with Droy while FS Lucy tried to control her blush remembering what was about to happen.

'Fairy Tail sure is full of tough people.' Naruto thought as the finish line came into view.

Hearing the loud and excited screams of the announcer enter his ears, Naruto rolled his eyes. 'I wonder if my pranks will be in the next sorcerer magazine. I just hope Lucy doesn't rip pages out for the quizzes again...'

Despite the tension everyone head dropped at the ninja once again ignored any signs of Lucy liking him as more than a friend. FS Juvia and FS Lucy were actually glad for this as it allowed them to admit their feelings on their own terms and not have him pick it up randomly.

Every time he bought one of the magazines, Lucy would always take it and rip a couple of the pages out before he got to read them. He didn't really mind, as she really seemed to like the quizzes, he just wondered what he missed on those pages.

"That Lucy loves you or that Juvia-chan and Lucy both love you." Cana decided to answer as FS Lucy and Juvia just had an intense starring contest until Kushina continued to rad.

It would be an understatement to say that Jet was pushing himself, he was beyond tired. But he wouldn't give up, not while Naruto was still going. That guy really had a crazy amount of stamina, but what pissed him off the most was that he was always just a little ahead of him. "I'm not gonna lose!" He yelled and poured the last of his magic into his High Speed, and he actually began to pass the ninja, much to his surprise.

"Yes I am going to do it!" Jet cheered as he would not let his sour defeat damper his mood his other was going to get first place.

'I'm gonna win! I'm gonna-' Was Jet's last thoughts before his magic stopped, indicating he was out of magic power. "Oomph!"

"No! Why?!" Jet shouted as his head dropped.

Naruto flinched as the mage made contact with the ground, rolling a couple times and sliding to a stop. "Oh, that had to hurt..."

"Our thoughts exactly." Lucy said before she saw out the corner of her eye her other start blushing up a storm again.

Jason's eyes bulged out of their sockets. "What a surprising turn of events! Just as Jet seemed to be gaining the lead, he suddenly falls and doesn't look like he can stand again! Oh, what's this!?"

Mirajane gasped. "Oh my! I hope Jet is alright!"

Mira did feel sorry for Jet but for some reason she was happy it looked like Naruto was going to win.

Jet groaned and flipped himself onto his back. "Damn it... I was so close!" He was completely out of magic and could barely move. It was all over, now he was going to get in last place. 'There goes my title of being the fastest...'

"Hey, you're not just gonna to give up now are you? After all that?"

"Wait what?" Jet said in surprise as everyone was shocked to see Naruto actually stop instead of crossing the finish line.

"Is he really going to give up first place?" Lucy said in surprise as it seemed like Naruto really wanted to win.

The speedy mage was pulled out of his thoughts by Naruto, who was looking down at him and grinning slightly.

Jet looked away and frowned. "If you're here to rub in your victory, save it."

Instead of replying, Naruto put out a hand, his grin still present.

Jet's eyes widened. "...Why?"

Naruto chuckled, his grin growing wider. "Fairy Tail mages never quit, don't they?"

Everyone was speechless at the touching scene from two fairy tail members who did not seem like much of friends before Makarov chuckled.

"I can start to see why the First master is so interested int his young lad. He embodies the very essence of our guild." Makarov said with a fond grandfatherly smile. Mavis just smiled and nodded her head.

"That is rather sweet of Naruto." Mira said with a warm smile as Erza and Lucy nodded as well. Wendy felt her respect for Naruto go up while Wen just chuckled thinking it was simply the kind of guy Naruto was.

Jet grinned and grabbed onto the offered hand. Naruto pulled him up and put the mage's arm around his shoulder to support him.

Jet was speechless but silently was rather amazed at how gallant Naruto was as he was willing to admit he would probe not do the same if the roles were reversed.

"Naruto is a real man!" Elfman announced as Natsu and Gray just chuckled.

"What is this!? Naruto is now helping Jet up and they are now walking towards the finish line! What good sportsmanship! COOL~!" Jason screamed as Mirajane smiled fondly.

"Aww~! What a sweetheart!"

"Indeed he is." Mira said simply as her warm smile grew seeing Naruto set aside a personal victory for one of the members of their guild.

Erza also nodded in approval while several members could not help but respect the blonde despite their own personal feelings for him.

The crowd cheered as the two neared the finish line.

"Thanks, Naruto..." Jet said and Naruto chuckled.

"Don't mention it, Jet."

"Well I guess tying for first is not bad." Jet said trying o play it off but it was obvious he felt true gratitude for Naruto.

Some ways behind them, a screaming girl was heard, and it was steadily getting louder. When the two boys turned to see what it was, mere inches away from the finish line, they were surprised to see Lucy flying right towards them through the air.

"Lucy!?"

"Other Lucy?!" Everyone shouted as the girl in question looked down with a massive blush on her face.

"Oh, it looks like we get to see Lucy's perspective with a lien break." Kushina noted in excitement.

Earlier With Lucy...

"Come on Lu-Chan, we're almost to the town." Levy beckoned her friend to step it up, but the celestial spirit mage was deadbeat tired. "I'm sorry Levy-Chan, I'm too tired."

"Hey where the rest of us?" Gajeel demanded as FS Lucy shrugged her shoulders.

"Behind us recovering from Naruto's pranks." FS Lucy suggested while several growls could be heard at the mention of Naruto's harmless but embarrassing pranks.

The script magic user sighed, before an idea popped in her head. "Um, Lu-Chan? Should you hurry though? Naruto is probably going to win the race, and Jason is there..." She hinted, knowing how much Lucy didn't want the shinobi to find out about the rumors within the sorcerer's weekly magazine.

Cana grinned and said "Talk about motivation!" as FS Lucy blushed but didn't deny it. Levy eyes shined at the ingenuity of her counterpart.

'Good Luck other Lu-chan.' Levy thought to herself cheering her alternate best friend on.

Lucy's eyes widened in realization, how could she have forgotten!? "Oh no, you're right! There's no telling what that loud-mouthed reporter will ask!"

Scrambling to get her keys, Lucy looked for a spirit that could help her in this kind of situation. Grabbing Virgo's key, she chanted the spell and the maid appeared in golden flash of light.

"Is it punishment time, Hime?"

Both Lucys sighed at their spirit weird attitude for punishment while Kushina seemed amused.

"Virgo! I need you to carry me back to town, and as fast as you can! Please!" Lucy pleaded urgently and the spirit complied. Virgo picked her master up and carried her bridal style. "Yes! Thanks Virgo! Now, onward!"

"Isn't that cheating gramps? Having someone else run the course for you?" Natsu demanded at Makarov who shook his head.

"it is called using your strength to your advantage." Makarov claimed as Natsu mumbled in disagreement.

"As you wish, Hime." Virgo said and took off in a blur of speed, her cargo screaming the whole time.

"Good luck Lu-Chan!" Levy called after her friend with a sweat-drop. 'That poor girl...'

"I'm gonna fall! I'm gonna fall!" Lucy screamed as she held onto Virgo as hard as she could, though the spirit didn't seem to mind the bone crushing hug she was receiving from her master. In fact, if one looked closely, they would notice a tad bit of red in her cheeks.

"I think anyone would be happy at that bone wrecking hug." Makarov said perversely as both Lucy glared at the old maser with annoyance.

"Hime." The spirit said in her ever neutral tone, getting the screaming girl to silence herself. "You are running out of magic, so my time is almost out." She explained as the finish line came into view and Naruto could be seen helping Jet to the finish line. "I'm going to throw you, brace yourself."

"Eh?! No, wait!" Lucy cried out, but her pleas fell onto deaf ears and Virgo threw the girl like a spear.

"Well I guess that is one way to finish a race." Gray said with a sweatdrop watching Lucy on screen zone through the air by the force of the throw.

"Last line break and the end the race!" Kushina declared.

"WAHHHH~!" Lucy squealed as she flew straight into Naruto, and the two tumbled right over the finish line to tie for first.

"Wait other me tied for first?!" Lucy said in excitement but recoiled when FS Juvia gave the most evil eye she had even seen.

"Oh, she did more then tie for first." FS Juvia declared with pure anger coming from her voice much to everyone except FS Lucy confusion.

Jet rolled over the finish line shortly after, coming in for second place.

Jet seemed ok with that as Gajeel and Natsu seemed sour their others seemed to far behind.

"Oh my..." Mirajane, and the rest of the crowd gasped at the scene in front of them. Jason took out his camera and took a picture, without so much as a word coming out of his mouth.

"Oh my… What happened?" Mira asked with pure excitement in her voice as the screen only showed her other reaction which seemed rather extreme. Cana grin threatened to break her face as she suspected based on FS Lucy expression what happened in that fall. Everyone else held their breathe waiting for the chapter to end.

Lucy groaned and opened her eyes, only for them to widen exponentially. Naruto stared up at her with equally wide eyes. She was on top of him, and their lips were touching.

"The end." Kushina declared as she closed the book as it took the guild several moments to process the ending especially as the screen froze on that exact moment when Lucy and Naruto's lips were touching.

Natsu summed up the entire guild reaction in one word "WHAT?!".

Lucy face started steaming seeing the intimate shot of her alternate self having her first kiss shared with a guy she suspected her other was in love with. It was especially shocking for Lucy as she was technically older than the Lucy on screen and she still had never had anyone touch her lips yet. Cana gave a huge grin as her suspicions on what happened between Naruto and other Lucy was confirmed. She was so proud of her alternate friend as she thought it was about time at least one of the Lucy to have at least a kiss.

The guys were insanely jealous that such a cute girl like Lucy was kissing even by accident a much too popular guy like Naruto. Natsu and Gray were simply shocked at their alternate teammate was actually kissing someone even by accident. Makarov had a huge grin at the scene while most of the other guys just blinked slowly not knowing how to react.

Wendy face turned scarlet as she saw the intimate scene with her young mind unable to process it correctly while Wen looked shocked and surprised. She honestly thought she was Naruto's first kiss but she was proven here but she was abit disappointed since she gave him hers.

Romeo had a massive blush while Kinanna tried to look away but she still thought it looked nice despite having a boyfriend herself.

Erza had her mouth wide as she just looked at FS Lucy with shock and the scene showed on the screen. She did not know how to feel: proud, embarrassed, jealous or even a combination of all three.

Levy blinked several times before looking at the crimson face FS Lucy with awe and shock on her face. She felt happy for her alternate best friend and shocked this kiss was by accident.

Mavis just smiled pleasantly enjoying all the reactions while Kushina face was blank. However, FS Juvia was looking outraged.

"How dare you steal Naruto-sama first kiss?!" She shouted at FS Lucy who regained her control over her face and glared right back with a small smug smile.

This shook everyone out of their stupor as the two girls glared at each other heavily. "You are just mad I gave my first kiss to Naruto before you could!" FS Lucy declared as FS Juvia growled at her.

"Well I bet Naruto-sama didn't even count that as a kiss!" FS Juvia countered.

"Yes he did and I am sure it is way more memorable then yours!" FS Lucy shouted right back as invisible sparks ere between the two rivals.

However, Kushina stood up making everyone back away in fear of the blank expression on her face.

"Lucy." Kushina asked quietly as FS Lucy looked at the mother with fear.

"Yes?" FS Lucy squeaked afraid of what Kushina would do knowing she took her sons first kiss by accident.

"Did you enjoy it?" Kushina asked plainly as everyone looked at her in confusion.

"Um excuse me?" FS Lucy said in confusion.

"I need to know if you enjoyed it. It was Naru-chan first kiss so I need to know if you enjoyed that moment or regret it." Kushina asked seriously as FS Lucy blinked but gave a determined look in response.

"It may have been an accident and quick but I will never regret giving up my first kiss to Naruto no matter what the circumstances are." FS Lucy declared with pride as everyone held their breathe waiting for Kushina's response.

After a few tense moment Kushina laughed and beamed with pride. "I am glad! I wanted to make sure Naru-chan first kiss was not wasted on someone who didn't want it." Kushina explained as FS Lucy looked nervous but happy. FS Juvia still looked annoyed but agreed if Naruto had to lose his first kiss to someone else Lucy would not the worst person he could lose it to.

Lucy despite her blush and to ask "Um other me…. How did it feel?" Lucy was embarrassed as she had to ask an alternate version of herself how kissing felt like as she never did it herself.

FS Lucy looked nervous as she answered "it was quick and back than I didn't even think about it but I guess if I had to describe it was nice." Lucy still blushed but was pleased with the answer.

Makarov decided to save other Lucy more embarrassment by asking "Uh what happened to the race? Who lost?" FS Juvia and FS Lucy blinked and thought for a moment before looking blank.

"Honestly I don't know who lost." FS Lucy admitted as everyone blinked in surprise. "After well that everyone kinda forgot about the race and the punishment altogether." FS Lucy described.

Nobody knew quite how to feel about that with Makarov seeing the latest news more than enough to justify no punishment for any Fairy Tail member. He suspected that Naruto would have his hands full trying to deal with this newest news anyways.

Erza decided to speak up "Well that was probably one of the hugest differences between our worlds as nothing remotely comes close to that happening in our 24 hour race." Erza remarked as Gajeel, Gray, Natsu and Jet instantly grew sour remembering their collective loss.

'I knew it was an accident but the simple fact it happened makes other Lucy so bold especially since she seems to have enjoyed it a lot.' Lissanna thought to herself doubting her other would be interested in Naruto but more likely interested in who was interested in Naruto.

Mavis decided to chuckle and sum up "Its never a dull moment with Naruto Uzumaki." Everyone agreed with that sentiment especially based on the results of the end of the race.

AN: ok here another chapter! Ok I know long enough but I just don't find writing this story that interesting anymore! This might be my first story but it is no longer my only story (I am still pissed I actually got reviews when I did TWO CHAPTERS PER WEEK "can you update more?" or "So are you using the spare time to write future chapters") (talk about ungrateful! You can see why I stopped writing this story right?)

Sorry for the rant… Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter! (please if you are going to REVIEW don't put "great update.", "thanks for the update" or "cant wait for more"… it is honestly flattering but pointless as I can't tell anything from reviews like that). That goes for ALL my stories. I mean I can't stop people for reviewing what they want (even flames) I can only out my thoughts on it.

Also sorry if NOT everyone you wanted more talking gets reactions. I can only think of reactions as I write not spend time picking through AFTERWARDS (which is what all readers do) to nitpick things. I didn't have to post anything remember. (like most of my fave stories don't even get updated anymore and the authors don't even try to give reasons). Don't like don't read easy as that.

ALSO I explained WHY Minato will NOT appear in this chapter (or any dead persons or things like the Dragons etc). Still going to put it out there: NO CANON NARUTO characters (I have to keep reminding people. Like seriously why would canon Boruto even want to appear: it would be cruel and he would hate his dad for "cheating" on his mom even if it isn't his dad).