A God Amongst Men

Chapter 11

As mysterious as this world was, granted everything he has soaked up into his head, it was becoming boring to Naruto. There were a lot of things that crawled around this world, so many things that he didn't know and couldn't hope to understand fully, but nothing he has met since coming across or joining Fairy Tail has been pushing him towards that line of excitement, or just throw him into the path of a glaring trouble that would put his blood atop of a heating stove.

The short story that bothered his hands and all the power welling inside of him was that he has yet to be challenged in a way that was threatening. Yeah he did enjoy working up on new spells and jutsus, testing them, but it wasn't fun when you didn't have anyone to match you in every way. The power inside of him was gained for hardcore battles that would wound him, and leave him gasping for air with an aching body. But who was going to do it here?

Zeref wasn't going to fight him at anytime soon. While he got the sweet chills at the thought of fighting that man, he restrained himself from throwing his fist unprovoked. There would be a day and time when he would fight that man. It would be the ultimate battle, one that he would relish and savour. Just thinking about it at this time was enough to twist his lips into a joyous grin, and light up the lights inside his eyes.

The Magic Council may have the power; he wasn't going to be fighting it, not yet at least. Still, the council does have a lot of enemies. Sticking with Ultear would get him something to do. The woman was in no doubt engaged in hidden activities that wouldn't be good for her if she is discovered by the Magic Council. The woman was smart though, he was sure she knew how to play the hidden games quite well enough to hide from the old fools who ran the council with wrinkled old bodies that possessed little or no power to challenge the greatest wizards.

For the first time in his life, Naruto was willing to go to that woman, beg for her to show him something cool, or even be recruited into her palms, just so he could have some fun. Naturally, he wasn't going to allow himself to be manipulated beyond going back, and he still felt he had to do something about the kind of hatred he has seen from that woman - it was frightening to say the least. But no one was beyond repair.

At least he believed so.

Naruto sighed, looking up at the partly cloudy sky - he was waiting for his fellow guild mates just away from the train station in Magnolia. On his right hand was a thin long black sword, with a red hilt, a small black chain wrapped around the hilt. Naruto was playing with the sword, spinning it for a few seconds, and then swinging it around absentmindedly as he thought, while killing the time.

A mission was something that he needed to release some pent up stress gained from the lack of a proper or a real right. This mission seemed a bit serious as Erza of all people wasn't willing to spare her favoured muscles in trying to get this done. If Erza was involved, then it had to be fun, and Naruto hoped it would be. He didn't know the full details, but he was nonetheless excited about doing something to kill of his building stress.

Those people were coming in late though. What could be keeping them? Perhaps he was just growing impatient because he felt a little excited like a little girl at the idea that he may finally get the chance to do something 'bad'. If not, so help him kami, he was going to cause havoc around the country by tempting dark Guilds to attack him in all orders, just so he could feel threatened.

Lucy, Gray, Natsu and his beloved blue cat, Happy arrived, all holding their bags. When he did meet up with Erza, she did tell him to pack a few things because they would be gone from Magnolia for a few days - depending on how long they would take to complete the mission and how far they would have to go to complete it.

''Naruto, I didn't know you were coming with us,'' Natsu said, in his greeting. He sounded a bit happy at seeing the blond join up with them on the mission, called upon by the delightfully frightening Erza Scarlet.