A New Friend 2

Meanwhile with Leo

It's been 10 days since he had decided to teach a strong lesson to his master. Leo can be seen sitting in the ruins outside the town, waiting for Karen to come.

He expected 2 possibilities. One, Karen cancelling her contract with him and Aries and returning their keys.

The other is Karen refusing to give up and come to him to ask or even demand him to be her spirit again. Leo was correct in his assumptions as he can see Karen walk towards him, stumbling, visibly drunk.

"Loke, loke. My dear Lion. Have you reached your limit yet? I promise I'll change for you alreadyyy," said Karen with a slur.

"Good. Then release me and Aries from our contracts," replied Leo calmly.

"What! Didn't I tell you I changed? Now go back and be like a good slave that you are!" yelled Karen in outrage. Leo didn't back down.

"As I said, I'll leave if you release me and Aries from our contracts," said Leo stubbornly.

"Do as you wish. I'll see how much longer you can hold without my magic," said Karen and walked off. Leo sat there thinking what he could do to change her mind but understood what he was doing was the best way.

Scene Break, With Naruto

It's been 2 weeks since Sirius started his training to improve his control of water. As he has a mix of magic and chakra, he managed to complete the exercise in 5 days with the help of his 4 shadow clones.

Naruto also taught him a few new jutsu on water style and then some advanced once in wind style to increase Sirius's repertoire of Jutsu.

They started their Taijutsu training after that and Sirius was learning his Grandfather's, Minato's Thunder God style as he felt more suitable to it while Naruto learnt his mother's style.

His katas and stance are perfect and he has been practising it for a week with his clones and making good progress. Naruto decided to take a few jobs as he is free and took some with his other guildmates while a clone watched Sirius.

He was going on small jobs with other members for a week and decided to test Sirius and came to the training area.

"Ok, Siri. Now for the test, I'll make a waterfall and you will stop the flow at the top." Said Naruto and with a nod, Naruto made a large waterfall.

Sirius flew up with his wings and applied all his mastery on Water Style on the waterfall. It was raging with a lot of pressure, but with effort, he managed to reverse the flow of the waterfall.

"Well done, my boy. You did it. You have finally mastered second level water manipulation." Said Naruto with a proud smile. Sirius felt accomplished and flew down and hugged his father in joy.

"Tou-chan, why don't you use your Earth and Water Dragon Slayer magic? Always using that flashy light magic?" Asked Sirius.

"Curious, aren't you? Father told me to not use them unless necessary." Said Naruto. Sirius was confused by this and Naruto continued.

"You know about Acnologia, right?" Sirius nodded at that.

"Tou-chan doesn't want his focus to shift on me as he fought the Black Dragon head-on. He told me to not reveal my Dragon heritage unless necessary and getting into Acnologia's visitors' list is bad.

I know the old man doesn't want to tell me. But I saw in him, he has a scar, remember? That's from a Dragon claw. I can sense the residue magic of Dragon Slayer magic in it.

I understood that he fought Acnologia just before he stopped me from killing that Gajeel? Guy in Alakitasia. Do you know how strong the old man is, right, Siri? He might be the only one to escape from Acnologia with life, Siri.

He is bad news and I thought of listening to Tou-chan's advice on this." Finished Naruto.

"How much time will you keep them a secret?"

"Hmm, I don't know. Maybe until I feel I'm ready to reveal to all or any situation comes." Said Naruto in uncertainty.

"Don't you think it is cheating? I mean, cheating the whole Guild?"

"Cheating, huh. Yes, it might be. But if I reveal them, they will be in greater danger than they already are, Siri. Sometimes we must keep some secrets to protect others. That doesn't mean we are cheating them. It's the intention that matters." Said Naruto with a smile, ruffling Sirius's golden fur.

"Like the one about your homeworld?" Asked a curious Sirius.

"That's my past, Siri. I can't go back and change it. Even with all this power, I can't change a bit. I chose to accept the reality and move on. Maybe someday I'll share it." Said Naruto with a fond smile.

Sirius seems talkative today. Maybe his achievement is making him talk and learn more. He is a curious kid after all.

"Enough questions for today. Get ready, I had a few jobs for us. You are going to do them while I watch." Said Naruto and with an excited 'Hai' he flew into the air.