Control 3

"I'm an amazing singer who makes your hearts flutter-" continued the voice when Natsu's fork hit him in the face. It stopped abruptly, looking around frantically.

"Who threw this!" He asked looking around and Natsu slowly stood up. "My first fan. Thank you. Thank you for loving my voice," said the man as he was upon Natsu in an instant.

Naruto sensed something familiar from the figure and looked up to see the person up close. He is a tall and muscular young man with long, spiky slicked back black hair revealing his forehead.

He has red eyes with slitted dark pupils, which reminded Naruto of the eyes of the Kyuubi. He has no visible eyebrows.

Most of his exposed body is covered in sets of simple, round studs. The most visible studs are on his face, with three of them above each of his eyes, two on each side of his nose and two on his chin, just below his mouth. His ears are adorned with two sets of five earrings each.

He also sports four studs on each of his forearms. He bore a purple mark in a u-shape with a dot and a tail at the top of his right shoulder.

He knew that Mark. It is Phantom Lord's guild mark and there is only one person that suits his description. Gajeel Redfox. Iron Dragon Slayer.

His outfit consists of a shabby, black, sleeveless tunic with studded edges, a studded belt around his waist, loose, beige pants tucked inside studded black boots, and a pair of studded brown gloves paired with similarly studded wristbands.

He also sports a distinctive wing-like ornament, seemingly made of feathers, jutting upwards, over his right shoulder, attached to his tunic by a large stud.

Naruto observed another figure in the distance with a similar mark and waited for Gajeel to leave Natsu.

"You bastard. How did you think I'm your fan? Your voice is horrible and what is that dead song you are singing?" Asked Natsu, furiously.

"What did you say about my voice and singing!" Gajeel yelled, his eyes burning in fury and his hand slowly changing colour.

"Guys, guys. We are in a restaurant and we need to eat Natsu," intervened Naruto. Gajeel took notice of Naruto now and took a step back.

"If it isn't the infamous Destroyer. What are you bunch of weaklings doing here?" He asked in a cocky tone all his rage over his singing gone.

"We are on a job, Gajeel," replied Naruto calmly.

"Job you say? What job? Cleaning this restaurant? Or washing buildings? What is it?" Asked Gajeel, in the same cocky tone. Naruto noticed Natsu's fists blazing with fire and decided to let him loose.

"Fire Dragon's: Iron Fist," said Natsu as he charged towards Gajeel in the middle of the restaurant. Gajeel saw this and smiled widely.

"Iron Dragon's Club," said Gajeel, transforming his arm into a large steel club. Natsu first collided with it and didn't even dent it.

"Heh, it didn't even dent. What are you punching me with, Pinky, a rubber ball?" Asked Gajeel in a mocking tone. Seeing that this is going to escalate, another person intervened.

"Howling," came another attack towards Natsu, who was shielded by a small barrier in it. As the musical notes stopped outside the barrier.

"Oh, dear. Isn't that a sneak attack?" Asked Naruto turning towards a bald man to the side.

He is a dark-skinned bald man wearing a reddish-violet V-neck shirt under a pale-green jacket, with a furry blue trim around the collar. He also sports black-framed glasses.

"Why waste your magic, Boze. I can deal with him," said Gajeel as his partner stood beside him.

"No, Gajeel. He won't sit quietly while you do your thing. We must leave, Master called us." Said Boze and Gajeel gave him a condescending look.

"You escaped this time. I won't leave you next time for insulting my music, pinky," said Gajeel as he walked with Boze giving Naruto a mocking smile while following his partner.

"Why did you leave them? You can beat them, right?" Gray asked, talking for the first time.

"Yes. I can. But that's not the purpose we are here for. Natsu gave him enough trouble already," said Naruto. Gray didn't understand.

"Natsu's punch almost broke the club, he just reinforced it and acted as if nothing was wrong," elaborated Naruto and Gray smiled at that.

"Well, it seems we have a lot of work to do," he said, gesturing to the broken cups and tables.

Though the cups broke because of Gajeel, Natsu also broke several tables in his charges and Boze's sound waves almost destroyed the restaurant.

"We have I guess," shrugged Naruto and they jumped into work, helping in cleaning and repairing tables. Even though most of the group was exhausted.

After a tired cleaning and paying for their meals, all of them went into a hotel and took rest. Natsu was too tired to complain and the night went by quickly.