Chapter 19 edited
Lucy was sitting in the library looking up medical ninjutsu, it seemed pretty straightforward except for the fact that you needed to know the body inside and out in order to heal it. Lucy grumbled in frustration as she went to look for books on anatomy and made a mental note to get Crux and Capricorn to help her once her spirits break was over. Crux already had enough on his plate with her practically demanding information out of him left and right, he of all spirits deserved time off. Lucy noticed that it was getting dark and hurried back to Kakashi's place before he noticed that she was late, however, luck was not on her side,
"And where do you think you're going?" Lucy heard Kakashi ask from the sitting room as she tried to sneak inside the house and into her room,
"Umm to my room," Lucy said unsure of what to do next,
"Do you realise how late it is?" Kakashi questioned,
"I didn't realise until it started to get dark, I got caught up reading," Lucy tried to explain, but Kakashi was having none of it,
"I told you not to overwork yourself and what do you do?" Kakashi started to lecture and Lucy suddenly got a bored look on her face,
"Look Kakashi I know you're trying to look out for me but my head is full of information and I'm frustrated at how much I'm going to have to do to learn medical ninjutsu. Do you think you can lecture me tomorrow?" Lucy asked not even trying to hide how tired she was, Kakashi was about to relent when he looked at the bags under her eyes but shook his head and continued to lecture her. By the end of it, Lucy was falling asleep where she stood and almost fell over when Kakashi caught her gently and placed the anatomy book that she had borrowed on the table.
He picked her up and took her to her room, feeling bad for being the one to keep her up. Looking at her he frowned slightly and sighed, knowing that she was going to be doing nothing but reading and training for a while. Kakashi also spoke to Inoichi today about Lucy's apparent dojutsu and he confirmed that Lucy's eyes turned a gold colour and seemed to glow for a period of time during the mission. Since Lucy had no knowledge of it he wondered if one of her parents came from a ninja bloodline but Inoichi dismissed his idea when he said that Lucy's last name is Heartfilia.
Kakashi was tempted to speak to the Hokage about it but didn't want to put any extra stress on Lucy not to mention he didn't want something to happen to her. She has been through too much in this past week so he decided to speak with Lucy personally about it later. The Hyuga clan may be able to help but he doubts that they would do so willingly, they were a very conservative clan and didn't even let their side branch members know too much about their abilities. So the likelihood of them allowing Lucy to know even their taijutsu techniques was laughable. However, they could look at her chakra network and see if there is anything that he needs to worry about, Kakashi had already looked over her with the Sharingan but there was nothing amiss but that cloak that she was wearing had a weird aura around it.
Like it was chakra but not, it seemed protective of Lucy, it was surrounding her like a security blanket. Kakashi sighed deeply again before making his way towards his own room dreading how the next few weeks are going to be.
The next day Lucy awoke in her bed and went down to the kitchen to make breakfast. Lucy made spinach and mushroom omelets with a berry protein shake mix, adding in extra strawberries of course. Lucy found that she was needing more food the more she used her body and asked Capricorn for those meal tips that he was always badgering her about on Earth land. Lucy heard Kakashi come downstairs and called up to him,
"Kakashi do you want breakfast?"
"Sure," he called back in his usual monotone voice and he sat down at the table not bothering to put his mask on. Since Lucy has seen his face many times he doesn't usually wear the mask around her unless he already has it on. Lucy placed an omelet in front of his and a glass of her berry protein shake on the side and continued to plate up to her portion.
They ate in silence, Lucy was lost in thought, thinking about what she needed to get done today whilst Kakashi was wondering how he was going to bring up her possible dojutsu and whether she or not she would speak to the Hokage about it,
"Lucy," Kakashi said hesitantly, "I spoke with Inoichi yesterday about your eyes and what they did on your mission and he didn't really have a lot to say but he said that in your memory your eyes turned golden. That could have been when you started being able to see inside people's bodies, other than that there's nothing else I could find. Your last name isn't of a shinobi bloodline so I don't think that it's a kekkei Genkai, at least not one that's known," Kakashi said and Lucy tried to take in what he was saying,
'Of course, it's not a kekkei Genkai I'm not from this world but there's nothing else to explain it. I want to ask Crux about it when he gets off from his break but I doubt there will be much he can tell me. He only has limitless information on the spirit realm, anything else I have to give him the information.' Lucy frowned as she thought this and Kakashi sighed as he looked at her,
"We could ask the Hokage about it and see if he has any information or if he would let us look through some files for it but from the way you described your dojutsu, it's very similar to the byakugan, one of the strongest dojutsu's of the hidden leaf. They can only see the chakra system inside one's body though, not everything else as you can. I don't think that they would help you though, not without the Hokage ordering them to. They are very wary about telling others of their kekkei Genkai," Kakashi explained,
"I don't think that it's a kekkei Genkai, neither of my parents knew much about the ninja world let alone have a kekkei Genkai. My mother only knew how to summon celestial spirits, nothing about ninjutsu or anything like that. I'm the first of my family to actually perform a ninjutsu, the first that I've heard about anyway. Celestial Spirits are what my mother's ancestors focused on and that's hard enough as it is," Lucy explained to Kakashi and he frowned at her explanation,
'If your ancestors focused so intently on celestial spirits then why aren't they common knowledge like the Sharingan or byakugan? Why is it such a secret and why is Lucy so focused on keeping them that way?' Kakashi thought, 'what exactly aren't you telling me about your past Lucy, it's like you're intentionally keeping it secret. Should I worry?'
Lucy was staring at Kakashi as he frowned at her in thought, "Why are you looking at me like that?" Kakashi shook himself from his thoughts,
"I was just wondering what else it could be besides a kekkei Genkai but I've come up blank," Kakashi explained quickly and Lucy sighed,
"So have I, I'm just wondering if it was something that could have developed with Orochimaru?" Lucy questioned,
"There have been cases of changing DNA but I've never heard of this kekkei Genkai before, you can't really create a kekkei Genkai out of the blue," Kakashi had another thoughtful look on his face, "have you been able to activate it since the first time?" Lucy shook her head no,
"I don't know how I did it so," Kakashi stared down at her for a moment,
"From my understanding people with dojutsu abilities focus chakra into their eyes, this is only after they activate it though. Activation is usually obtained through excessive emotion, such as fear, distress, excitement. What was happening when you noticed the change?" Kakashi questioned as he finished his breakfast and took both his and Lucy's dishes and placed them in the sink,
"All I can remember thinking was that I needed to get you back to the village, everything else is kind of a blur," Lucy put her hand to her head and looked down for a second, "I remember the tigers and how I made a summoning contract with them, then Axal came and words were exchanged then we started fighting. After I pushed him back we started to make our way back here before you were cut with an arrow, once we found out it was poisoned that's where things start to get hazy," Lucy avoided Kakashi's gaze now and took a deep breath,
"I remember hearing Loke talk to me through his key he was telling me what to do because I was panicking. Then I remember Axal threatening to kill you instantly, I then substituted myself with a clone and stabbed him from behind and I was running back to the village," Lucy explained, "I'm not too sure when I started to see people's insides exactly but I know that it was before Axal threatened you. I think it was around the time that I got a hold of the poison arrows but after Loke started talking to me,"
Kakashi was looking at Lucy intently now, trying to figure out how to recreate a feeling that she couldn't even remember, "can you try moving your chakra into your eyes and see if that works?" Kakashi asked so that he doesn't waste time trying to figure out another way. Lucy nodded and closed her eyes, taking in deep breaths and slowly letting them go. Once Lucy thought that she had enough chakra pushes into her eyes she opened them only to be disappointed with seeing nothing but Kakashi's boring face.
"How disappointing," Lucy mumbled and Kakashi got a tick mark on his forehead,
"Just keep trying," he stresses, "If nothing happens today we can go to the Hokages office tomorrow and discuss it then," Kakashi was still hesitant on going to the Hokage in regards to Lucy but it was the only way he could think of getting results without causing unnecessary problems. Lucy nodded and moved into the sitting room and started to meditate.
Kakashi was watching her from the sitting room entrance with a frown on his face, 'where exactly did you come from Lucy? There are no records of the name Heartfilia in history, what are you keeping from me?' Kakashi silently slipped away and went to the memorial stone where he stood there silently repeating the same names in his head.
'Obito, Rin, Minato-Sensei, what should I do. This little girl has broken down most of my walls and yet I don't really know anything about her. She's keeping something from me, I don't know if it's dangerous or not but I can't help but worry. I worry that I won't be able to save her either,'
Time Skip
It has been two weeks since Lucy and Kakashi have had that conversation at breakfast and Lucy has yet to activate her dojutsu. After the first day of trying Kakashi took Lucy to the Hokages office and let's just say that it was a waste of time.
Flashback two weeks ago.
"Lord Hokage, we are here to discuss a new development with you," Kakashi said as he bowed in front of the Hokage and Lucy gave a slight bow when they came in,
"What is this development?" asked the Hokage politely,
"Lucy has appeared to have unlocked a type of dojutsu in the midst of her last mission, she hasn't been able to activate it since and we were wondering if there was anything in the village that could help with her training," Kakashi explains,
"Yes, Inoichi expressed his interest in the matter once you left the interrogation room a couple days ago. I'm afraid that there's nothing I can do about it right now. You should speak with the Hyuga clan, they have a dojutsu as well," the Hokage said,
"Lord Hokage, you know that the Hyuga clan won't acknowledge an outsider of the clan,"
"Then I'm afraid there is nothing more I can do," Lord Hokage said and dismissed both Kakashi and Lucy.
Flashback end
Lucy grumbled under breath, trying to activate the dojutsu again is taking more time than she anticipated and taking time away from her medical ninjutsu studies. Kakashi is insistent that she get it done though, for whatever reason Lucy doesn't know. All she knows is that she hasn't been able to yet and it was frustrating, everything else has come so easy to her and with a little hard work she can master a technique with nothing but practice but for whatever reason, it's just not happening.
"Maybe we should recreate the emotions that you felt when you activated it," Kakashi said that night as him and Lucy sat down for dinner,
"I can't remember what I was feeling, everything went by so fast it felt more like a dream," Lucy grumbled as she started picking at her food, "I don't know why you're so insistent on this though, I could be studying medical ninjutsu instead of wasting my time with what appears to be a one-off," Lucy tried to persuade Kakashi yet again to leave it alone, Kakashi sighed as he tried to explain himself,
"This is a big deal Lucy, even those born of clans that prioritises a dojutsu not many of them actually activate it. Since you've activated one that no one has any knowledge about its a new opportunity to discover something about your family that you may not have known, or that has been lost for centuries. I don't know why you aren't more excited," Kakashi said sounding exhausted,
"I'm not excited because I've done pretty well so far without it, I don't need a dojutsu to be a strong shinobi that's just a bonus. I want to study medical ninjutsu, it's a lot more useful than trying to activate something that clearly wants to stay hidden," Lucy stated bluntly before sticking her nose up in the air slightly, trying to end the discussion,
"If you're doing fine without it then why are you so anxious to learn something new?" Kakashi questioned,
"Because medical ninjutsu is useful and something that I can actually do, even if I can't perform it yet I can still gain knowledge on the subject. Rather than trying to learn about something that has never been seen before," Lucy said with sass, and this time made it obvious that she was sticking her nose in the air.
Kakashi groaned and ran a hand down his tired face, "Honestly Lucy I don't know why you're being so difficult all of a sudden, you've had trouble with ninjutsu's before,"
"But even then I was making some progress because I either knew what I was doing wrong or I figured out another way to try it. I'm getting nowhere with this, why are you trying so hard to make it happen?" Lucy questioned, these thoughts have been plaguing her mind for a while and Kakashi always seems to evade them somehow.
"Because this could be a step closer to finding out who you are," Kakashi said trying to be nonchalant about it,
"I know who I am, I am Lucy Heartfilia," a fairytail wizard, she thought the last part to herself, "and no dojutsu is going to change that," Kakashi stayed silent after this and tried to avoid her gaze, "but you don't really believe that do you?" Lucy questioned him quietly, "You think that I knew about the dojutsu and that I'm keeping it from you on purpose," Lucy stated dryly and Kakashi looked up at her but she looked away.
Lucy picked up her plate, put it in the sink and started making her way out of the room, "wait, Lucy where are you going?" She heard Kakashi yell out to her as she slammed the front door closed since Lucy didn't know the teleportation jutsu yet she started running. Lucy ran until she ended up in front of the ramen stand and asked Teuchi for a drink,
"Strawberry milk coming up," Lucy sighed as she waited for her drink,
'What am I going to do now? Kakashi seems to think that knowing what that stupid dojutsu can do will tell him more about my past, but it's not possible for it to be a kekkei Genkai I'm not even from this world how can I have a bloodline limit? Maybe it's just inherited magic from mum or maybe it was a combination of magic power and chakra that created a brand new dojutsu.' Lucy sighed again as she thought of the possibilities all she knows is that it's not a kekkei Genkai, it just can't be.
"Lucy, how are you?" Naruto asked from behind her, Lucy turned to him and smiles before turning back around,
"I've seen better days," she said as her drink got placed down in front of her,
"You always seem to have trouble follow you, Lucy," Naruto stated as he ordered his large number of ramen bowls, "Once I become Hokage I can protect you from it all," he declared with a smile on his face and a light blush coating his cheeks, Lucy smiled at him,
"I'm looking forward to it," Lucy said and turned towards her drink again. Naruto smiled wide at her words knowing that she meant them, "Hey Naruto, do you want to go camping with me tonight?" Lucy suddenly asked she didn't feel like going back to Kakashi's place at the moment.
Naruto, however, looked shocked at Lucy's suggestion, she didn't look like a girl that would like camping all that much. In truth, Lucy doesn't like camping but she's had to do it so many times for missions it doesn't bother her anymore. Naruto shrugged, "sure, it's not like anyone's waiting for me," Lucy frowned a little at what he said but put a smile on her face,
"Alright let's go and pack your stuff, I already have everything I'll need," Lucy said before grabbing Naruto's hand and started dragging him through the town after placing enough money on the counter to pay for the both of them.
"I didn't get to finish," Naruto yelled out but Lucy decided to ignore him. Once they got to Naruto's apartment he unlocked the door and let Lucy in and it took everything in Lucy not to cringe at the smell.
"Naruto I don't mean to sound rude or anything but this place needs to be cleaned," Lucy stated bluntly and Naruto sweatdropped,
"I don't like cleaning," was all he said,
'really I never would have guessed,' Lucy thought to herself,
"Go pack a change of clothes and pajamas as well as a toothbrush okay," Lucy stated and started looking around the room to see where she should start,
"All right, I'll be right back, you know," Naruto yelled out excited before running further into his apartment and Lucy decided to start cleaning the kitchen,
"Shadow clone jutsu," Lucy whispered out and did the correct hand signs, "all right everyone let's clean this place up," Lucy said to her five looks alike, they all nodded and started cleaning different parts of the apartment. One clone would pick up rubbish and put it into bags, another would be washing dishes and putting them away, one would be organising items and so on before eventually, all that was left to do was vacuum and mop the floors. Lucy and one of her clones started to do that just as Naruto came back and was amazed at what he saw.
Before he could say anything though Lucy grabbed him and dragged him out of his door once again, dragging him all the way through town she stopped right before they could get to one of the surrounding forests by one of the training grounds. Naruto looked towards Lucy confused, he didn't know why she was doing all of this, taking him camping and cleaning his apartment but he noticed that she had a lonely look in her eyes. One that he saw every time he looked into the mirror, Lucy may know what it was like to have a family but she also knew what it was like to be alone. Lucy understood him and he was determined to make her smile like she always should.
Lucy started dragging him again this time through the forest until they came into a small clearing and he could see a stream about 100 metres away, "Hey Naruto can you keep a secret?" Lucy asked and turned to look at him,
"S-Sure," Lucy smiled and nodded before turning around and taking a deep breath,
"Open, the gate of the Maiden, Virgo," Lucy called out as Virgo's key appeared in her hand, Naruto was amazed at what he saw next, he saw a pink haired girl in a maid's uniform standing in front of Lucy, she looked to be in her teen years.
"Is it punishment time Princess?" Asked Virgo in her usual monotone voice,
"What no!" Lucy yelled out, "I was just wondering if you could help us set up a camp?"
"Certainly Princess, will that be all?" Asked Virgo as she brought out a tent and supplies to build a small campfire,
"I might need some things to cook with later on," Lucy said as she looked at the supplies that Virgo placed me in front of her. Virgo started setting up the tent while Lucy started setting up a place to start a fire once it got dark and Naruto was still staring shocked at Virgo.
"Is there something troubling you?" Virgo asked Naruto as she noticed him staring at her, Naruto shook himself as he tried to think of something to say,
"Wow so you're like a summons of some kind and you can bring Lucy anything she wants?" Naruto yelled out excitedly,
"That's right, her wish is my command. Would you like anything else, my Princess?" Virgo said as she kneeled down in front of Lucy, bowing her head and placing her left hand on her chest. Naruto suddenly got an excited look on his face and Lucy sighed,
"No thanks Virgo and stop messing with Naruto," Virgo got stars in her eyes,
"Does this mean I can get punished?"
"Just go home," Lucy said as she waved Virgo's key and sent her back to the spirit realm. Naruto sweatdropped at Virgo's question but then started asking Lucy questions at a mile a minute.
"How did you do that? Can you teach me? Why does she call you princess? Are you royalty? Why is her name Virgo? Does she really like punishment? What kind of punishment is she talking about?" And the questions kept coming until Lucy stopped him,
"I'll tell you as much as I can once we get set up," Lucy said laughing slightly. Lucy brought out another key and called out, "Open, the gate of the Ram, Aries," and Naruto was once again in awe at the sight of a fluffy pink girl with horns, shyly standing in front of Lucy,
"It's been awhile Miss Lucy, I'm sorry," Aries squeaked out,
"No worries, do you think you could make enough wool to cover the floor of the tent so Naruto and I can sleep on it?" Lucy asked pointing towards the tent,
"Certainly Miss Lucy," Once Aries finished her job she poofed away, "I'm sorry, call me out soon,"
"You have weird summons, Lucy," Naruto said once Aries left and Lucy laughed slightly knowing that it was true,
"Yeah they are but I love each and every one of them just the way they are," Naruto smiled at Lucy's answer and they continued to set up their camp. Once they were done Lucy summoned one of her tigers and asked them if they could watch over their camp and guard them during the night. Lucy lead Naruto towards the stream and told him that they were going to catch fish for dinner,
"We don't have any fishing rods though Lucy," Lucy giggled slightly,
"Watch this," Lucy said an equipped into her Sagittarius star dress and shot an arrow into the water. Lucy picked up the arrow and showed Naruto that it had gone straight through a fish.
"Wow," Naruto awed at Lucy and she blushed before continuing to shoot arrows at fish.
Time skip because I'm lazy :p
Lucy and Naruto were currently eating fish around the fire that they had started and Lucy was telling him about her spirits.
"They are a special summons that only me and a select few can summon, there are twelve golden gate keys in total and a lot of the silver ones. I can summon them from a different world to help me,"
"Wow Lucy that's so cool, I don't really get it but it sounds amazing," Naruto said and Lucy sweatdropped at his words,
'How could he not understand what I just said? What is Iruka teaching him?' Lucy thought to herself slightly frustrated,
"Hey, Lucy can you tell me another story?" Naruto asked as they both sat down in front of the fire to stay warm,
"Sure, what kind?"
"The one with magic, about the people in Fairytail," he exclaimed excitedly. Since Lucy told Naruto about Mira he wanted more stories like that so Lucy decided to tell him about the Fairytail guild in the form of a story.
"Okay, so what have I told you so far?" Lucy asked him although she already knows who she's going to tell him about next,
"You've told me about she-demon and her siblings, Titania, Master Makarov and how guilds work," Naruto said scrunching up his nose in thought trying to remember everything that she's said,
"Do you want me to explain it again?" Naruto nodded his head and Lucy started to tell him about Fiore, "in a land far, far away lies the kingdom of Fiore," Lucy started and immediately Naruto listened to what she was saying, he did remember what Lucy told him but he just liked hearing about how the guilds work and this place that has magic.
"So I think it's about time I tell you about a boy, a boy that goes by the name of Salamander," Lucy said after she finished telling him about Fiore for the millionth time and started talking about how Natsu grew up and found himself at the guild. While also explaining dragon slaying magic and how dragons were thought to be a myth. Naruto was completely entrapped the entire time, he loved it when Lucy told him about the FairyTail guild. A place for orphans to go and be able to call it home, a place where everybody is accepted and nobody is insignificant.
Growing up with no one, Naruto wanted something like that more than anybody and even though he knows that they're not real he likes to dream about a place like that. A place for people like him.
What Lucy didn't know though, was that someone had been listening in to the story, a person that Lucy's summoning tiger new well enough for them not to be considered a threat and this person couldn't stop listening to the story either. Watching at how passionate Lucy was about it and they couldn't help but think that it wasn't just a story but shook the ridiculous thought off once the story ended and left the little campsite.