Flames of the Heart – 08

"Do not say that, my son! Everything wants to be alive and wants to be love. Don't live your life in hatred and self-loathing. I, for one, glad you were born. Because of that, I have a son!"

The elderly man said, smiling at the younger Naruto, who nodded while the fire in his hand and around him faded away, leaving a torched earth behind.

Remembering his father words as dozens of small fire balls start appearing and twirling playfully around Elsa.

"Even these flames want to stay in existence, struggling to survive in this cold winter," Naruto said, as Kurama moved closer to him.

"If you were to die, I'm sure there are those will mourn your passing... like your subjects, your citizens and your sister," Naruto pointed out as the floating balls of fire increased their intensity, lightning the abyss and pushing away the encroaching darkness.

"Anna… Arendelle, oh no," Elsa said, remembering that her town was still in an endless winter.

It was the kingdom that she had inherited from her father.

The ice queen quickly formed a stair case along the rocky wall and ran up it in haste. She only got up several dozen steps before the staircase foundation became unstable due to the floating flames around her and broke apart.

Naruto immediately jumped in the air, propelling flames behind him and grabbed the falling Queen, and totally forgotten about what would happen if he should ever come in contact with her.

Naruto held Elsa in his arms, floating in mid-air as his flame continuing to provide uplift force.

Elsa's ice magic had managed to protect her from Naruto's fire. She held firmly onto him; there was warmness in those hands.

Kurama floated around the couple as dozens of fireballs joined in as well.

They locked their eyes at each other, forgetting everything and lost in the moment.

"Ahem, shouldn't we head to back to town, frozen and all that?"

Kurama said, breaking the mood.

Naruto let Elsa go on reflex, and she screamed as she started her descend.

Naruto panicked and grabbed her hand.

A red, fiery snake like rope wrapped around his hand coming toward their contact.

It started intermingling with a blue, chilly snake coming from Elsa arm.

They were not destroying each other at all.

Elsa giggled a bit as Naruto's face went red as he pulled her up back into a hug.

"Hold on tight, my Queen, I will get you there through Naruto's express service," Naruto announced as Elsa held on tight.

'My Queen' Elsa thought with a small smile while the couple rose rapidly out of the ravine and toward the frozen town.

(Arendelle)

"Princess Anna is… dead," Hans said, opening the door slowly.

His face was full of sorrow.

Anna had returned back to the castle, wanting a kiss of true love to thaw her frozen heart.

Hans had played the perfect actor and decided to let her die, so he could take over the kingdom legally through marriage.

"At least that monster is dead, but her curse still remains," The duke of weaseltown eh… wesselton snarled, looking at the blizzard outside as everyone in the room was feeling down.

It was a sad day for them; the bloodline of their beloved king had ended.

"The queen has returned!" one of the guards burst into the room as everyone was startled.

"That monster is still alive? Kill her!" the duke of wesselton shouted the command.

Everyone else look toward Hans for guidance as the Prince of Southern Isle, thirteenth in line to the throne turned his eye toward the guard.

"The queen had killed her sister, arrest her for treason!" Hans said as the guard blink, unsure what to make of that order, but everyone in the room told him to carry it out.

"Let me go, where is Anna?" Elsa demanded as several guard tried to arrest her, but her power was keeping them at bay.

Naruto was more decent now since he had found some spare guard clothes in a nearby room, but the flame incarnated stay close to Elsa, using her magic to counteract his own.

"Your sister?" Hans said, appearing on top of the staircase and began his descend slowly.

Behind him were the duke of Wesselton and other loyal nobles of Arendelle.

"She returned from the mountain weak and cold. She said that you froze her heart," Hans continued, looking at Elsa, accusingly.

"I tried to save her, but it was too late. Her skin was ice, her hair turned white. Your sister is dead, all because of you!"

Hans said as his face turned grim.

"As king, I charge you with treason and sentence you to death," Hans ordered.

The guard closed their distance.

Elsa was shaking her head in denial.

"No… it can't be, Anna can't be dead… she just can't!"

Elsa shouted.

Her ice magic exploded outward, sending everyone flying into the surrounding wall before she ran out of the door, letting the cold air in.

"Not again," Naruto said as half of his body was encased in ice as he impacted against the wall and was pinned there.