A Hidden Connection

Five Weeks Later

The two Dragonslayers continued to walk, Kurama resting atop Naruto's head. However as they were walking along a mountain trail. The sky was a bright blue above them.

"Come on, Wendy...hit the rock!" Naruto said as he pelted another stone at the blue haired girl. Wendy sighed as she sent another rock away with a palm strike. It had been five weeks since the day that Oracion Seis had attacked. The five that Naruto and Kurama took down had never even made so much as a peep in response to the beat down the two had given them.

Naruto had decided that he would move as slowly as he could without raising too much suspicion from Wendy, while also moving fast enough that they would have to change campsites every single day.

"Alright, now Wendy let's try out the wings again." Naruto said. Wendy nodded as she stepped off to the side of the stone path on the mountain's smooth incline. She then began to spin on the tips of her toes like a ballerina. Wind began to swirl around her arms at a fast pace. She stopped spinning and her arms were now coated with wind in the shape of feathery wings.

"TENRYU NO RANYOKU/SKY DRAGON'S TEMPEST WING!"Wendy yelled as she slashed her newly formed wings downwards. The wings flapped with the movement of her arms and she crashed them down on the ground causing a giant shockwave of wind to form at the point of contact. The ground was broken up in many places from the strike.

"You can keep it stable now, good." Naruto said, "Manipulate the wind to spin faster though when you use this attack. Your wings require speed in order to be effective enough in a battle."

Wendy nodded and the three continued moving forward as Naruto continuously dodge small fireballs from Kurama along the way while she had to counter with her physical moves and try to hit Naruto at the same time. However, along the way, the three spotted a figure up ahead.

"Naruto nii, look there's somebody over there!" She informed him, pointing at the person up ahead. Naruto narrowed his eyes before looking at Kurama. The fox costume wearing cat sprouted his wings with a cry of Aera and took off. He floated above the person and managed to get a good look at the person, committing his appearance to memory. Once that was done, he flew back to Naruto and Wendy.

"Is it a person from Oracion Seis?" Wendy asked with fear in her voice.

"Don't show any fear, Sky Dragon. I've taught you better than that." Naruto said before turning to Kurama, "Who is it?"

"No one we know. And he's too young to appear to be from Oracion Seis since all of those people were a bit older if not the same age as you, Naruto. He's got blue hair, black eyes. Has some kind of weird tattoo by his right eye. But the thing is...he has absolutely no magical power at all, in fact...all of it is hidden within the staves he carries on his back." The Exceed said.

"Well let's go catch up to him, maybe we can help him find what he's looking for." Wendy smiled before skipping ahead. Naruto was about to reach out to her and tell her to stop, but her skipping and the fact that her agility was now much better, prevented him from doing so. Naruto slapped his face and dragged the hand down his face as it pulled his skin.

"I wonder if this is what it's like when Tou-san watched over a younger me?." He mumbled as he saw the five year old near the blue haired boy.

"Hiya!" Wendy greeted. The boy turned with a serious gaze, but it softened when he saw Wendy.

"Hello, little girl. Are you lost?" Wendy shook her head.

"Nope, I'm walking with nii-sensei. Are YOU lost?" The Sky Dragonslayer asked. The boy shook his head.

"No, I'm just...looking for something." He spoke mysteriously.

"What is it? Maybe we can help." Wendy said as she saw Naruto and Kurama finally catch up to her since they were walking rather slowly.

"Wendy, I told you to stop running off on your own!" Naruto scolded, "And you run off to go and talk to some brat we don't even know."

The blue haired boy frowned at being called a brat, but seeing as how the boy was just doing it out of the safety for the little girl, he let it slide.

"I'm sorry if I caused you any trouble, sir...Exceed?" He whispered when he spotted Kurama floating next to Naruto, wings spread. The three's eyes widened in shock.

"How do you know what I am?" Kurama growled as he grabbed the boy by the collar. Wendy and Naruto knew what Kurama was as he had informed them of the name of his species, but he had never told them about the other world, Edolas. The world parallel to Earthland. The boy continued to stare in shock at Kurama.

"I-I-I-Impossible...Anima...where?" The boy looked around as if he were now looking for something he had lost. Kurama's eyes widened at the mention of the inter-dimensional portal. He quickly grabbed the boy and flew him out of earshot of Naruto and Wendy in the sky, gripping him with the supernatural strength all Exceed seemed to have.

"Anima? You're telling that you're from..."

"Yes I am, but I am sorry, Exceed-sama, but I must be on my way. I sense Anima is near and I need to stop it before it's too late."

"You look...familiar." Kurama mused as he watched the boy's face. He observed his blue hair and the tattoo. He then sniffed the boy before his eyes widened, "Of course...you're his son. They said you died though?"

"I haven't, Exceed-sama. I was taken in by Anima and sent here to Earthland. The king plans to absorb the magic from this world and use it to power Edolas using Anima. I am here to make sure that does not happen." The boy informed the fox costumed cat. Kurama nodded before flying down and dropping the boy from a suitable height. Kurama floated in front of the boy's face.

"I cannot stay here for long, it is coming." Kurama's eyes widened as the boy quickly waved his hand in front of Kurama's face and suddenly Kurama felt drowsy before falling asleep. The boy caught Kurama and handed him to Naruto.

"What did you do? Sleep Magic?" The boy didn't respond.

"I'm sorry, but I must go. I need to take care of something."

"Wait, what?" Wendy exclaimed before she saw the boy suddenly vanish into the air as mist. Wendy frowned. "Aww, I wanted to make a new friend."

"Maybe next time you run into a stranger you will but until then, Sky Dragon. Let's go, we have a lot of ground to cover." He said. Wendy nodded and they continued to walk, but they were unaware that the blue haired boy was watching them from atop a tree.

'I can't believe it...one of the nine...they're here then?' The boy shook his head as he felt a large pulse of energy in the air, 'No time to focus on that, have to stop Anima.' He then vanished into the air as mist.

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