AN:

1. Sorry for not uploading in a while between watching anime, reading other fanfics, school and working on the two I currently have made plus many others I have in development I really had all that much time for uploading but SCHOOLS OUT (for two weeks :( ) so I will try and get a few chapters done in this time

2. I am looking for someone to make a intro for my other fanfic, Sage of Fairy tail, I would do it myself but my laptop is as about as reliable as the original Sakura (not very). So because a combination of crappy computer and inadequate software I can't really make it myself. So if your willing to can you please PM me.

3. Before you guys ask no I'm not going to post any other fanfics I making yet. I want to get the current two developed decently far before posting anymore

WARNING: cursing and cussing in this chapter. just so you guys know

Chapter 2: Ghosts of the past

Last time:

Upon finally getting to the door Natsu went to grab the handle for the door, "I'm fine," was the response that Natsu gave only for his breath to hitch and his pupils to shrink in fear as he saw the very people he'd was trying to escape at this very point was looking right at him.

"Hello there," said a masked man as he eye smiled.

'Shit!' was the one thought that passed through Natsu's head as he looked at the three people in front of him.

Now:

"Hey there," Natsu greeted the man with a large grin on his face. Although outwardly he looked happy his team and Gajeel could see he was nervous if not scared about the encounter with these people.

"Have me met before?" The pink haired girl to the right of the masked man asked Natsu.

"Not that I know of," Natsu replied trying to keep his cool as much as possible.

"Hmm," The masked man began getting everyone's attention back to him, "Anyway we were looking for an old comrade of ours, he's about the same age as you. He also has three whisker marks and has spiky hair like yours only blonde."

"We'll be sure to keep an eye out for him," Markov said from behind Natsu as he walked up.

Natsu narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why exactly are you looking for him umm…?"

The pink haired girl spoke up again, "Oh where are manners? I'm Sakura, the masked man is my sensei Kakashi, and the other guy is Sauske. Anyway we were going to make him the leader of the place we are from."

The raven haired teen to the other side just snorted and responded, "Hn, I don't know why that Dobe gets to be Hokage, I should after all I'm an Uchiha, an elite!"

"Never change do you teme." Natsu muttered under his breath.

"What was that you pink haired freak!" Sauske snapped back at Natsu.

The pinkette clenched his fists and looked the Uchiha dead in the eyes saying, "I said, you change, do you, teme!?" Upon the dragon slayer saying that the shinobis widened their eyes out of recognition and that's when all hell broke loose.

Sauske's hand sparked to life as he rushed at Natsu with incredible speed yelling, "DIE NARUTO!" As the raven haired teen was about to pierce the pinkette, Natsu jumped to the side before delivering a punishing blow to the side of the Uchiha which sent him skidding to away. Sauske enraged by the fact that 'Naruto' had dodged his attack and started to weave hand signs that Natsu was very familiar with.

"No Sasuke, don't kill Naruto," Sakura screamed as she went forward to try and stop him but it was too late.

"Fire style: Fireball jutsu," Sauske called out as he shot a fireball out of his mouth at Natsu. The other shinobi protested and told 'Naruto' to move, something which confused the guild greatly. However despite the protests of the shinobi all Natsu did was stay put as the fireball engulfed him. Sauske had a satisfied smirk on his face as he had thought he'd had beaten the dobe. He couldn't have been more wrong.

"The Sauske kid is in for it now," Marcao commented from the sidelines.

"Kid just lit a dynamite fuse that will blow up in his face," Wakaba added as he knew the raven haired teen's defeat was nigh.

"Natsu may be an idiot at times, but with how fired up he's getting he'll be unstoppable," Gray commented. All these comments seem to just cause confusion as they didn't understand what the wizards were talking about. Then Sauske's smirk disappeared and was replaced with a shocked one along with the other leaf nin as the fire disperses. In amongst the fire was Natsu unharmed and he was consuming it? UNHEARD OF!

The ninja snapped out of there stupor when Natsu decided to speak up, "You guys shouldn't have come here as I am never going back, I'm not being used like a tool again only to be discarded. SO YOU'RE NEVER TAKING ME BACK, NOT WHEN I GOT A FIRE IN BELLY WAITING TO GET LOOSE!" As Natsu said this flames engulfed his form and grew bigger by the second. Natsu then yelled out, "SO FORGET ABOUT TAKING ME BACK TO THAT HELL HOLE. CAUSE I'M NEVER GOING BACK, YOU HEAR ME! FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!" He then slammed his flame covered fist into the raven's chest causing him to go flying into a wall and fall down unconscious. The shinobi were surprised Natsu could use seal less jutsu and the guild was in shock them using him like a tool. Natsu then turned to the shinobi and said, "I'm not going back, Now tell me what's the real reason they want me as Hokage."

"Naruto…" Sakura started to say only for Natsu to cut her off.

"I don't go by that name anymore, my name is Natsu Dragoneel."

"Nar – Natsu," Kakashi said getting Natsu's attention, "The council wanted you to become Hokage because Konaha is having financial and political troubles and they want the Namikaze bloodline as well." This statement shocked the guild at what they were using him for.

"If that's all they want me for then I'm not going back. Those power hungry bastards can fend for themselves," Natsu said as his eyes morphed going from normal to red with a slit.

"You don't understand," Kakashi pressed further, "Everybody wants you back and we are weak without you Nar-Natsu." Upon Kakashi saying this a red aurora exploded out and took on a fox like shape with two tales causing everybody to become in edge.

"So…" Natsu said in a disturbingly normal and casual voice, but this didn't last long as he soon exploded with anger. "ALL THEY IS THERE WEAPON BACK!" Natsu tightened his now shaking fists out of anger, "THEY DON'T EVEN CARE THAT I'M HUMAN BEING. EVERYONE IN THE NATIONS IS THE SAME, JINCHURIKIS ARE NOT WEAPONS OR TOOLS, WE ARE PEOPLE!" Natsu said as fire was now engulfing him and the fox energy making a rather menacing display of power.

"NAR-NATSU," Sakura yelled this time trying to get her 'friend' to listen to reason, "YOU DON'T REALISE THAT WITHOUT YOU WE CAN'T GET BACK TO KONAHA EVEN IF WE WANTED TO NOW!"

Natsu didn't reply immediately as he was trying to keep his temper under control he then spoke in such a cold tone it made everyone flinch, "does it look like I care." Natsu then proceeded to walk out the door, "I'm heading home I'm too emotionally drained to anything else today but sleep. Gajeel?" Natsu said turning back to the Master.

"Yeah?" The iron dragon slayer replied.

"Can you explain to the guild EVERYTHING I have told you about my past," Natsu said before walking out the door to go home and sleep.

"Master, what does he mean by that?" Lucy asked, "And how do you know about Natsu's connection to these people?"

"There were only two people who knew about Natsu's connection to these people besides him," Gajeel replied.

This time the demon of Fairy Tail spoke fearing the answer, "Who were they Gajeel?"

"One is me," the raven replied, "The other Mira, was your sister Lisanna."

After receiving a collective gasp from the guild, Lucy spoke up, "Is his past really that bad that he would only tell two people about it?"

Play: Never meant to belong: Bleach

This time Happy spoke up in a depressed tone, "Aye, the night before Fantasia festival Natsu woke and he said he'd had a nightmare worse than Lisanna's death."

Erza also had some input, "He also said to me that he wanted to forget his past. During the battle of Fairy Tail."

"Yes Natsu does not like his past in Konaha," Gajeel said trying to get the conversation back on track and causing the shinobi to look visibly saddened by this. "In fact from what Natsu told me about the time in his village, it's a lot like your story Mirajane, at least from what Natsu told me about your past." This caused said girl to flinch while her and her brother's eye's widened at the declaration and caused the shinobi to look sympathetic at the two.

"W-W-W-What do you m-mean G-G-Gajeel?" Mira stammered out.

"Um… if I may elaborate on Natsu's life in the village." Kakashi interjected receiving a nod from Gajeel. "You see Natsu was born on the 10th October the same day a demon attacked our village, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the nine tailed fox." Mira's eyes widened even further as she could already see where this was going. "The official story for the younger generation is, to stop the demon the Fourth Hokage along with his wife gave their lives to defeat it. However this isn't true as the fox is a construct made of pure energy and therefore can't be killed so the Fourth and his wife gave their lives to seal it inside a baby. That baby was their son Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, or as you know him Natsu Dragoneel." This caused a gasp from everyone in the guild.

Kakashi then continued, "because of this he was shunned by many villagers denied basic services by them, he was even hunted down and attacked by many of the people between the age of 5 – 8."

"Why didn't you do anything for him?" Mira asked anger lacing her voice as she did so.

"I did all I could the Hokage to the time assigned me and a few others to protect Natsu, but we couldn't always save him. One time he was taken by the villagers had forcefully had fox tails sewed to him and then released for them to hunt." All of the guild started to either turn a shade of green, become angrier or saddened by what the villages did to Natsu. "Another time that I was unable to protect him was that he had been recently kicked out of the orphanage at the age of 5 and was taken by some of the villagers took him and bound him to a wooden cross with barbwire securing him in place while they burned him alive, some of the shinobi in the group were throwing kunai at him for target pract-," Kakashi was cut off by multiple things. As the guild were either breaking down in tears like Mira and Elfman, vomiting like Lucy or Levy, Balling their fist like Erza and Macao, or broken a table or two like Gray or Markov.

Kakashi turned to Gajeel and asked, "I'm rather curious Mr Gajeel, Why did he tell you this."

Gajeel then replied, "He told me this because we're both true dragon slayers, and he said we got watch out for each other. To be honest I agree with the punk, while I may not like him, we dragon slayers got look out for our own." Most people nodded their heads in understanding people were curious as to how Natsu knew about Mira's past but chalked up to Lisanna telling him.

"Anyway..." Gajeel said trying to get the story on track, "No matter what the idiot did the village scorned him. He eventually began his career with his supposed team." Gajeel started glaring at the shinobi causing them to flinch. "He began to do missions with them, saving villages beating paedophile snake bastard, I really don't wanna meet the creep from the way was described, saving a princess, defeating a demon using a giant toad, mastering his father's technique." A lot of the guild had mixed reactions at this. "Then came the fateful mission," Gajeel said as he walked over to the Uchiha's still prone body giving it a sharp kick, "This fucker tried to escape the village to get more power and the ninja villages don't like people abandoning them. Anyway, Natsu was sent out with a team and they managed to get this ass wipe back. Only when he got back the council of the village which by the sounds of it is full of fags, banished the shrimp. He then made a deal with that fox in his gut and that nine tailed thing changed his appearance and teleported him to this world where shortly after he met Igneel."

People were in shock at what Gajeel had confirmed about Natsu's past and what he had been through. Of course it was at this point that Sauske decided to wake up and open his big mouth, "Where is that dobe? I'm going to kill him to prove I'm the strongest."

Happy then decided to speak up and answer his question, "He went back to his house." Sauske then got up and started to strangle happy for information of where the house's location was. This was met with a very negative reaction by everyone in the guild. The surprising thing however for the guild members is that Loke knocked Sauske out again.

"Loke, what are you doing here. I didn't summon you." Lucy questioned.

"I listened in the on the talk about Natsu's past and I got say not only has this guy ruined a lot his life," Loke answered gesturing at Sauske, "But he reminds me of Karen and is a bigger pain in the ass then she was. So excuse me wanting to send for wanting to beat him into oblivion." Nobody could really blame him after all the guy was an arrogant and annoying prick.

"Well…" Markov said gaining everybody's attention, "You three will need to sort out living arrangements, as it appears Natsu won't be taking you back anytime soon, and we will not let you force him either!" Kakashi agreed to this as there was no way he was going up against over thirty people with various abilities.

With Natsu:

Upon reaching the door to his home Natsu was ready to collapse onto his hammock and call it a day. That is until a certain demon decided to wake up, '*yawn* what did I miss kit?'

'Figures you'd wake up right now. Kurama' Natsu thought as to respond to the Kyuubi.

'What are you talking about?' Kurama asked.

'Well you see my OLD team decided to pay a visit on behalf of the council of fags'

'*Humph*, we always knew this day would come'

'Yeah doesn't mean I like it, also thanks for letting me use your power whenever.'

'We're partners kit, of course I'd led you the strength of the great Kyuubi no Kitsune.'

'Big headed much? Anyway can we spar while I'm catching some Z's, I wanna see how far I've come'

'You got it… Natsu.' With that all said Natsu climbed into his hammock and fell asleep.

DONE

So what do you guys think, ohh and buy the way this is my biggest chapter to date YAY

do you guys think that I got Gajeel right or do you think he was a little too soft.

By the way the story will go to Nirvana then Edolas and then a special ark don't wanna spoil it. (Shit gets real)

tell me what you think and don't forget to PM me about the Sage of Fairy Tail intro

Anyway, see ya next time