Hidden Guild: Silent Leaf

Chapter 1: Enter the One-Man Army

Disclaimer: I own neither Fairy Tail nor Naruto they belong to Mashima Hiro and Kishimoto Masashi respectively

A/N: First story attempt. I wondered what would happen if the Naruto characters were actually mages in Fiore and my mind came up with this, so I ran with it. There are going to be errors in this fic, because I am NOT a professional this is for my entertainment and maybe yours if you like it.

*updated November 2014.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Demon Talking"

'Flashback'

Magic/Magic Item

Location/Time Change

Fairy Tail

"Hmm" A brown eyed and blond haired young women with a curvaceous body wearing a red top and pink skirt with a pink ribbon holding her hair in a small ponytail on the right side of her head stood in front of the request board pondering over which job to take. "Searching for a magical bracelet, removing a spell from a cursed stick, fortune telling using astrology, exterminating a devil on a volcano! There sure are a lot of different kinds of jobs."

"Excuse me" A young blonde man with tan skin and three whisker-like marks on each of his cheeks wearing an orange and black tracksuit with black sandals and a black bandanna apologized as he reached past her and took one of the jobs off of the board. While Lucy continued to search for a job the same man came back three times for three more jobs, when she turned to ask him how he planned to do so many jobs she let out a surprised shriek when she saw over ten identical copies of the man in various places around the guild.

"Oh, I see you met Naruto, Lucy." Stated Mirajane, the guild's favorite bartender, as she passed out drinks.

"How is that possible?" Lucy asked.

"Naruto uses Clone Magicto make identical copies of himself. They all have his personality and abilities, plus he gets all of their memories when the pop so he can take multiple jobs at once. But, the downside is that it uses a lot of magic and they dispel after one hit." Mira explained. "That reminds me. Naruto don't forget to show me your jobs while Master is gone."

"Okay Mira-chan." Several Naruto clones showed their jobs to Mira before leaving.

"Mira, where is the Master?" Lucy asked. Mira started to explain the way the guilds were organized and about the regular meetings to Lucy using Reedus's Light Pen,before Natsu interrupted her by scaring Lucy. "Natsu don't scare me like that!" She shouted at the pink haired Dragon Slayer as he laughed with his partner in crime Happy the blue talking cat.

"What's with all the screaming?" Naruto asked as he stopped examining the request board for another job.

"I was just explaining to Lucy about the guild system." Mira said, before pausing. "Naruto, you've never met Lucy have you?" Mira asked.

"Who?" Naruto had a confused look on his face as he squinted at Lucy, unnerving her. "Nope! Nice to meet you I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He said with a fox-like smile as he held out his fist.

Lucy hesitantly bumped his fist as she introduced herself. "I'm Lucy. It's nice to meet you Naruto… You are the real you right?"

"Huh? Oh, you must've ran into one of my clones. Yeah, I'm the real me." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Alright. You've met Naruto, now pick a job already, Lucy" Natsu said with a smile.

"We picked one last time so now it's your turn to choose." Happy exclaimed.

"Don't be ridiculous, our team is history." Lucy replied.

"Why?" Natsu asked.

"Last time you only picked me because I was blond!" Lucy yelled at him.

"That's not the only reason, I picked you because you're cool!" Natsu responded with a toothy grin. Lucy turned away with a pout.

"What? Why choose now? I heard that you did great on your last job. You're guaranteed to get a lot of different offers." Drawled a blue haired man in his boxers with his guild mark on the left side of his chest.

"Gray, your clothes." Cana, another guild member, informed Gray of his current state of dress while she drank alcohol straight from a barrel. Gray reacted with a start, seemingly unaware that he wasn't wearing anything other than his boxers.

"Shut up." Gray turned to glare at Natsu.

"Did you tell me to shut up?" He asked as he grabbed Natsu's scarf.

"Your talking is pissing me off, pervert." Was Natsu's response as they got into each other's face and started to trade insults before degrading into another one of their fights.

"Lucy, why don't the two of us form a team of love tonight?" Asked the residential playboy, Loke. "You truly are beautiful. If it weren't for my sunglasses I would go blind just by looking at you."

"You might want to take the sunglasses off lover-boy." Naruto muttered while eating a bowl of ramen.

"Oh, are we a little jealous Naruto?" Loke replied with a smug smirk. A clone appeared by Loke in a cloud of smoke.

"Nah, Boss just thought that you weren't able to see her keys with them on."

"K-k-keys?" Naurto's clone pointed to Lucy's belt where her Celestial Keys were stored. "Yeah, she's a Celestial Spirit Mage." Loke acted like he just learned that Lucy had the plague and jumped away from her.

"Fate you are so cruel!" He ran out of the guild in tears. "Sorry but this is the end of us!"

"We never started in the first place." Was Lucy's muttered response as she watched him flee in terror.

"Loke has issues with Celestial Mages." Mira kindly informed Lucy.

"I heard that he was rejected by one in the past." A Naruto clone said.

"Nah, I heard that one broke his heart." Another clone said while drinking with Cana.

"My favorite is the one where he was hounded by a Celestial Mage he didn't love, so he changed his name and guild, and avoids other Celestial Mages in case the spirits ever find out who he is and report back to her." A third clone gave his input as he ordered a bowl of ramen. This disturbed Lucy as they were all supposed to be the same person so Naruto was essentially talking to himself out loud.

"Is that normal?" Lucy questioned.

"Is what normal, Lucy?" Mira asked.

"For Naruto's clones to do that."

"Oh. Yes, his clones are capable of independent thought and are parts of Naruto's mind. So they aren't exact copies and can have different opinions and ideas." Mira cheerfully informed her.

"I meant talk to each other. I thought they shared memories." Lucy corrected Mira.

"That only works when they dispel. Which seems to mean that whenever anyone wants to talk to me they tell the nearest clone then punch it. Bastards." Naruto explained to Lucy. The trio were interrupted when Natsu crashed into Lucy.

"Would you guys give it a rest?" Lucy complained from her new spot on the floor.

"He started it! I'm just paying him back." Was Gray's response. Natsu got off of Lucy and back into Gray's face.

"You provoked me, you droopy eyed bastard."

"And when did I do that, you squinty eyes bastard?"

Before they could start fighting again Loke burst through the guild's doors. "WE'RE IN TROUBLE!" He announced. "...Erza is back." Most of the guild began to panic at Loke's announcement.

"Natsu mentioned Erza before, who is she?" Lucy asked Mira, one of the only guild members not petrified with fear. Before she could answer Naruto cut in.

"Erza-neechan is the strongest female mage in Fairy Tail. She's awesome!" Naruto seemed to be the only one excited to see Erza, confusing Lucy.

Booming footsteps were heard approaching the guild, confirming that Erza was indeed back. The guild looked on in fear as the footsteps got closer. The doors swung open giving Lucy her first glimpse of Erza. She saw a pretty young woman with scarlet hair, brown eyes, and a slender well-endowed figure wearing black boots, a blue skirt, and armor with the Heart Kreuz symbol over a red Fairy Tail guild mark carrying a massive horn decorated in jewels with one hand. She sets it down with a boom announcing her presence. "I'm back. Is Master here?" Were Erza's first words.

Mira happily greeted Erza and answered her question. "Welcome back. Master is at the regular meeting."

"Erza-neechan!" Erza was suddenly picked up and hugged from behind by Naruto, "Welcome back did you have a good mission? What is that?" Naruto bombarded her with questions as he continued to try and crush his "sister". Lucy was startled by his behavior and questioned Mira about his apparent lack of self-preservation.

"Naruto and Erza think of each other as family since Erza resembles Naruto's mother." She informed her.

"The mission went well and this is a horn from the monster I subdued. The villagers decorated it before giving it to me as a souvenir." Erza returned Naruto's hug, clanging his head off her breastplate in the process. "However" Erza's grip on Naruto tightened. "I heard a lot of rumors while I was gone about all of you, especially you Naruto." The entire guild broke out into a cold sweat at those words.

"Hehe, what do you mean Neechan?" Naruto nervously tried to play clueless while caught in his adoptive sibling's grip.

"Fairy Tail has apparently been causing a lot of problems and even if the Master forgives you I won't." Erza went on to list what various members had done wrong.

"Is she a disciplinary or something?" Lucy muttered.

"That's Erza." was Happy's response.

"Are Natsu and Gray here?" Erza moved on, seemingly unaware that she still had Naruto in a headlock and was dragging him with her.

"Aye!" Happy pointed them out to Erza.

Natsu and Gray had swung their one arm around the other's neck and were shaking hands with the other, obviously terrified. "Yo, Erza. The two of us are getting along as usual." Was Gray's shaky greeting as Natsu did his best Happy impression, greatly shocking Lucy at their personality change.

"I see. While even best friends fight at times I prefer it when the two of you get along." Erza said with a nod.

"I've never seen Natsu act like this!" Lucy exclaimed in surprise.

Mira drew a chart while explaining the situation to Lucy, "Natsu and Gray are terrified of Erza."

"Why?"

"Natsu challenged Erza to a fight and was destroyed, Erza once caught Gray walking around naked and beat him to a pulp, and Loke tried to flirt with her and was nearly beaten to death."

"Natsu. Gray. I need to ask you two and Naruto for a favor. Where did he go?" Erza asked.

Naruto got Erza's attention in a strained voice "Neechan you never let go of me." Erza dropped Naruto with an apology.

"I heard something disturbing on my last job and would normally consult the Master, but it has to be done fast. I need the three of you to help me with this job." Erza's request stunned the guild as she had never teamed up with anyone before. "We're leaving tomorrow. Be prepared. I will tell you the details on the job." Were Erza's last instructions before leaving with Naruto in tow.

"Natsu, Naruto, Gray, and Erza. Together this could be the strongest team Fairy Tail's ever had." Mira murmured in shock at this new development.

Magnolia Station the next day

"Why am I stuck on a team with you?" Natsu demanded from a fully clothed Gray.

"That's my line. If Erza needs help then I'm more than enough." Gray and Natsu were causing a scene while waiting for Erza to buy the tickets. Leaving Happy, Naruto, and Lucy sitting on a bench.

"Just pretend we don't know them." Lucy advised in embarrassment.

"Why'd you come with us, Lucy?" Naruto asked while watching Gray and Natsu argue.

"Because Mira said that Natsu and Gray were going to spend the entire time fighting if Erza isn't watching and you wouldn't do anything to stop it."

"But you aren't doing your job." Happy noticed. Before Lucy could respond Erza arrived with an apology and a huge cart full of luggage. Natsu and Gray immediately started getting along with Natsu doing his Happy impression.

"It's best when you get along." Erza then noticed Lucy. "Who are you? I saw you at Fairy Tail yesterday but didn't get your name."

Before she could answer Naruto introduced her. "This is Lucy, our newest recruit. She uses Celestial Spirit Magic and is here at Mira's request." Behind Erza's back Natsu and Gray resumed their glaring contest.

"I'm Erza. It's nice to have you with us." Erza introduced herself.

"Yosh! Let's get this mission started!" Naruto made a clone to take Erza's luggage and started to push everyone towards the train. If he moved fast enough then maybe Natsu wouldn't notice the transportation.

"Wait! Erza, I have one condition for being on this mission." Natsu said with unusual seriousness.

"What is it?"

"When we get back fight me."

Natsu's request surprised the other mages. "Oi Natsu remember what happened last time. Are you suicidal?" Gray's attempts to talk him out of it were ignored.

"This time it will be different."

Erza regarded Natsu for a moment. "Neechan, he really has gotten better. This time he might have a chance." Naruto whispered into Erza's ear.

'In that case…' "I accept the challenge." Natsu became pumped by Erza's response and rushed onto the train.

"Well at least he got on the train voluntarily this time." Naruto commented before boarding himself.

Train Car

"Ugh" Natsu dejectedly slumped over in his seat, once again struck by motion sickness. Fairy Tail's strongest team were currently sitting with Gray, Happy, and Natsu on one side and Lucy, Naruto, and Erza on the other.

"Man, Natsu you're such a loser." Gray told the miserable Dragon Slayer.

"Even though I've seen it before it still looks painful." Lucy tried to sympathize with Natsu.

"Here Natsu swap seats with Naruto." After changing places at Erza's request, Natsu is sucker punched into sweet unconsciousness by Erza.

Lucy becomes curious about her partner's abilities, "I've only seen Natsu and Naruto's magic before. What kind of magic do you use Erza-san?"

"I have more than just my Clone Magic Lucy." Naruto informed the newest member.

"Really? What else can you do?"

"I can also use Wind Magic." Naruto then demonstrated by creating a miniature tornado in his hand.

"Erza's magic is really pretty. When she uses it her enemies' blood goes everywhere." Happy gave his "explanation" while munching on a fish.

"Not really. I think Gray's magic is much prettier." Erza surprised Gray with her compliment, getting him to demonstrate some of his magic. He put his right fist on his left palm conjuring a blue magical seal. When he moved his hands a Fairy Tail symbol made out of ice is revealed.

"Ice Molding Magic." was his brief explanation.

Gray's expression turns serious as he turned to Erza, "Isn't it about time you told us what we're supposed to be doing?"

Erza nodded. "You're right, let me explain. We are going against the dark guild, Eisenwald. They are planning to cause havoc with a magic called Lullaby."

'Lullaby? Eisenwald? I thought that Sai said that they had them under control at the last meeting. What's going on?' Naruto wondered as Lucy and Gray told Erza about the ex-members they had run into.

"Let me start from the beginning. On my way back from the last job I stopped at a mage bar in Onibus. A group of mages were there complaining about something that they couldn't get to because of a seal. Initially I thought it wasn't anything suspicious until I overheard the rest of the conversation. One of the mages said that he would get Lullaby back in three days and to tell Erigor. I didn't recognized the name at the time, but later I realized where I had heard of it before. Erigor, the ace of Eisenwald who gained the nickname 'Shinigami' because he only took assassination missions."

"Neechan, can you tell me what the man who went to break the seal looks like?" Naruto asked.

"Of course, he was wearing a gray jacket over a black long sleeved shirt, black pants, black boots, and his black hair is in a spiky ponytail. Why do you ask?"

'What's the plan? If I remember whose supposed to be handling this then something's up. He can't break magical seals.' Naruto hid his thoughts and explained his question. "If he has to bring it back we might run into him on our way."

Erza slammed her fist onto Natsu's head in anger. "I made a mistake. If I had recognized the name Erigor earlier I could have beaten their plans out of them."

"I see. You want to stop Eisenwald from doing something evil with Lullaby, but you can't handle the entire guild by yourself. So you asked us for help." Gray summarized.

"Yes, the plan is to head straight to Eisenwald."

"Sounds interesting"

"Aye"

"Yosh! We're gonna kick their asses! Dattebayo!"

"I knew I should've stayed in the guild."

Onibus Station

Lucy, Naruto, Gray, Erza, and Happy walked through the station, trailed by a pair of Naruto clones with Erza's luggage as Lucy questioned Erza. "Where is Eisenwald's guild at?"

"I don't know. We are here to look for clues."

Happy looked up from his fish to ask Erza a question of his own. "Where's Natsu?" All of the team members freeze in shock and slowly swivel their heads towards the recently departed train as Happy summed up what they just realized. "And he's gone again."

"This is all my fault. I was too busy telling the story and forgot about him. Someone hit me." Erza hung her head in shame at her thoughtless actions.

"Don't be too hard on yourself about this, Neechan. We've all done this before." Naruto tried to comfort Erza as she beat herself up over forgetting about Natsu.

Train Car

Natsu is still slumped in misery and pain as his motion sickness continued to wreak havoc to his stomach. He wasn't even aware of the approaching man with his hands in the pockets of his black pants. The man stopped walking as he noticed Natsu's guild mark. 'Fairy Tail? That's where Naruto is stationed isn't it. Troublesome, I hope he's nearby or else this will be a waste of time.' The man approached Natsu, smiling, revealing himself to be Kageyama, the man from Erza's story that went to retrieve Lullaby. "You're part of a legal guild aren't you?" Suddenly, he stomps his boot into Natsu's face as he looked down with a sneer. "They ain't all they're cracked up to be are they, Fairy! We've got a name for you guys where I'm from, it's flies."

Natsu ignited his hands while he jumped to his feet scowling at the mage. "Bastard." Natsu was interrupted when the train gave a jerk, bringing back his motion sickness and extinguishing his flames.

"What's with that magic? It's pathetic." A dark purple magical seal appeared at Kageyama's feet, "This is how you use magic! Shadow Punch!" Three arms made out of shadows extend from Kageyama's shadow to deliver a triple uppercut to Natsu. The train suddenly screeched to a halt, causing Natsu and Kageyama to fall and for a demonic looking flute crowned with a three-eyed skull to fall out of Kageyama's jacket.

Onibus Train Station a few minutes earlier

Erza is argued with a station worker to convince him to stop the train. "Don't be ridiculous we can't just stop the train because one person didn't get off." The station manager told the armored mage.

Erza lost her patience with the man. "We don't have time for this. Happy pull the lever."

"Aye sir!" Happy flew to the lever and pulled it, stopping the train.

"Yosh! Let's go after Natsu." Naruto created another pair of clones. "Take all of our luggage to the hotel and don't screw around on the way!"

Lucy hung her head in defeat, "This got completely out of hand."

"Indeed." Gray agreed with Lucy, unaware that he had once again stripped. Lucy however, noticed.

"What happened to your clothes?!"

Train Car

Natsu and Kageyama proceed to pick themselves off of the floor when Natsu noticed the flute. "What's that?"

"You saw it, troublesome." Kageyama said.

Natsu pounded his fists together, igniting them in the process. "Shut up! You got me good back there. Time to return the favor." Natsu charged Kageyama, fist ablaze, to deliver a crushing right hook to his face. Kageyama went flying down the aisle, bouncing off of the seats and destroying them in the process.

'Shit, that bastard got me good.' Kageyama struggled to his feet with a bloody nose as Natsu approached him.

"Fly Punch." Natsu raised a clenched fist in satisfaction until he heard an announcement over the speakers.

"That emergency stop was a false alarm. The train will start moving again in a few minutes."

"Shit, I'm outta here." Natsu turned to grab his stuff and started to leave.

"Wait, you troublesome bastard. You picked a fight with Eisenwald, don't think that you can get away with it." Kageyama threatened Natsu as he climbed to his feet.

"Same to you, bastard. You insulted Fairy Tail. I won't let you get away with that. Next time I'll fight you outside and I'l-" Natsu was interrupted by his motion sickness and was forced to jump out the window while he could still move.

Outside the Train

Erza was driving a magical four-wheeler with Lucy, Naruto, and Happy in the cabin and Gray, once again fully clothed, on the roof. As they tried to chase down the train Natsu came crashing out of one of the widows, surprising them. "Natsu, why did you jump out of the window?" Before Gray could get an answer Natsu's head crashed into his, knocking them both off of the four-wheeler and forcing Erza to stop.

She immediately voiced her concern for the "missing" member of the team. "Natsu are you okay?"

Natsu responded from his place on the ground, still disoriented. "Aye."

Gray groaned as he stood up while rubbing his forehead. "That hurt, jerk."

Natsu leapt to his feet in anger. "Shut up! You left me behind. What the hell!?"

"At least you're unhurt." Erza placed an arm around Natsu before clanging his head off of her breastplate to give him her version of a hug.

"Ow, that hurt. And what do you mean, unhurt? I got into a fight with a weird guy on the train. He said he was from Eisenwald or something, whatever that means." Natsu complained.

Erza proceeded to slap Natsu."YOU IDIOT! Eisenwald is the people we're after."

"This is the first I've heard of it" Natsu muttered while rubbing his stinging cheek.

"I just explained it. Listen when other people are talking."

"Uh, Neechan, he was unconscious during your explanation. You knocked him out to stop his motion sickness, remember?" Erza stopped her rant after Naruto spoke up in Natsu's defense and immediately became ashamed.

"I'm sorry. Please hit me."

"Neechan, we don't have time for that." Naruto jumped into the driver's seat and strapped himself in. "Let's go. If he was on the train we should be able to catch up in no time."

"Oi, Natsu, what did the guy look like?" Gray questioned.

"Nothing special, but he did have this weird flute with a three-eyed skull on it." Lucy froze in fear at Natsu's words.

"Lucy what's the matter?" He asked.

"I've heard of that flute. Lullaby, the curse song. Death Magic."

"Curse song? Like a magical song?" Gray asked, confused by her explanation.

"I've only read about them in books, but one of the forbidden magics is Death Curses, right?" Lucy checked.

Erza expanded on Lucy's words. "Yes, magic that sucks the life out of the person it is cast upon."

"Lullaby is even worse. Anyone who hears its song will be killed." This new information stuns the Fairy Tail mages. Naruto is the first to recover.

"Those sick fuckers. Everyone hop and brace yourselves. I'm gonna give it all it can take and then some." As Naruto sped down the tracks at top speed he couldn't help but to wonder, 'What the hell are they planning?'

New Train Car

Kageyama picked up Lullaby and walked over to another car looking for a new seat. The only open seat had someone with a newspaper covering their face. "Is this seat taken?" He asked.

"No, go ahead."

The man doesn't move his paper as Kageyama sat down. "The fox basks in the sun." He said in passing. Kageyama raised an eyebrow, but gave the proper response.

"The shadow hides in the dark." The newspaper was put down, revealing a familiar whiskered face. "It's been a while, so tell me what the hell is going on here, Shikamaru?" Naruto's clone asked. Shikamaru could only describe his current situation in one word.

"Troublesome"

A/N: Well that's the first chapter to my first story. I'm not a professional so don't complain about any mistakes you see just send me a PM and I will fix it. Please remember that this is for entertainment. Thanks for reading.