Flames of the Heart – 09

The boy immediately channelled his magic and heat up the surrounding, thawing the ice quickly to prevent any frostbite to the guards.

Hans saw the boy's power and immediately walked toward him.

"Naruto, you must help me. You are probably the only person who can kill the Queen," Hans said as everyone nodded.

Naruto blinked at the request.

"I can't kill her," Naruto said.

He couldn't kill his heart. Now that he knew he could touch her without any consequences, he wanted to do it again and many times more.

"You must do it, or everyone will die in this winter," the duke called out.

All the Arendelle's nobles didn't voice their opinion.

They were all conflicted inside.

Elsa was the only bloodline left of their king, to end that by their hands was unspeakable.

"I won't kill her, but I will stop her," Naruto offered and left the hall to chase after Elsa.

"Where are you going?" the duke called out as Hans followed after Naruto.

"To do what must be done," Hans called back and the duke told his men to go and help the Prince, no, the King of Arendelle now.

Naruto ran through the frozen fjord, leaving a flaming foot prints behind as it melted the ice slowly.

He saw a white-haired girl in a distance and grabbed her shoulder in haste to spin her around.

Unfortunately, she wasn't Elsa.

His touch immediately warmed her up somewhat.

"Sorry, I thought you were the Queen," Naruto let go of his hand as her cloth was scorched a little.

Kurama immediately noticed a living snowman nearby and opened its hollowed eyes wide before floating toward it.

"Queen? Do you know my sister?" the girl asked Naruto.

She was feeling a lot better now, but still chilly.

"Sister? Are you ANNA?" Naruto questioned as the girl nodded.

The blond hair boy immediate connected all the dots in his mind and shouted in rage as fire erupted across his body, slowly burning away his clothes.

"HANS!"

The heat wave, emanating from the boy pushed Anna away as her eyes widen in shock.

The reddish tendrils emerged from Naruto, spiralling outward, pushing the blizzard away and revealing the Queen along with Hans and two other men.

The blizzard no longer shrouded the nearby view.

Elsa was on the icy floor and sobbing while Hans moving slowly behind her raising his sword in striking gesture.

The two guards were also raising their cross bow, aiming directly at the Queen.

Anna saw that while Naruto was still in rage.

He was not paying much attention to anything.

The Princess of Arendelle dashed toward them, wanting to save her sister's life.

Anna tried to stand between Hans and Anna as the hammer descended.

"NARUTO!" Kurama shouted to snap that blond out of his rage.

He turned toward where Anna had run off to. He saw what was about to happen and sent a torrent of fire from his hand.

It collided against the steel blade and melted the metal.

The resulting hot liquid impacted slightly against Anna's hands as she shrieked in pain, knocking Elsa out of her state.

The Queen finally saw her sister, who was still alive.

Naruto couldn't have believed what just happened.

He tried to stop the attack, but in doing so, he had inadvertently hurt the Princess.

The two guards let go of their arrow while Hans dashed forward, trying to impale both Anna and Elsa with the half melted and damaged sword.

Elsa managed to quickly frozen Hans' lower body while grabbing Anna, but they could not evade the two incoming arrows.

Naruto couldn't get to them fast enough and summon all his magic as he vanished in a cyclone of flames.

Between Elsa and the incoming Arrow, a torrent of fire appeared out of nowhere, forming a young man's figure rapidly as he put one of his hands up to the side.

Naruto sent a flaming stream at one projectile, burning it away, only for the other to pass through him while his body hasn't formed completely.

The arrow was set aflame and continued it trajectory still directly toward Elsa.

Anna immediately pushed Elsa out the way and blocked the flaming arrow with her body, only for that she became solid ice due to Elsa's curse.

The projectile bounced harmlessly off it.

"ANNA!" Elsa gasped.

"No, no, please," Elsa sobbed, hugging her frozen sister as the all the snowflakes suspended in mid-air revealing many spectators.

Hans tried to speak, but his mouth was frozen.

Naruto struggled to walk toward the pair, wanting to use his power to thaw her, but he didn't make it before Anna started to thaw on her own.

"OH! An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart!" The miniature snowman gasped while Kurama was floating around it.

Naruto smiled at the two sisters' reconciliation while holding his chest as his hands dyed in red as blood start dripping out from a wound.

The arrow that passed through him previously had displaced his body mass while he was still forming.

It had left a gaping wound by his heart.

Kurama saw his friend fell to his knee in pain.

"NARUTO!" it roared and dashed forward the blond.

Elsa and Anna saw that as well while a new comer with a reindeer finally arrived.

Elsa quickly grabbed Naruto, lifted him up in her arms as the bright blue eyes looked into her emerald eyes.

"Naruto, no… no, you can't die," Elsa said, holding her hand on top of his bloody one, trying to stop the bleeding.

Naruto coughed a bit and smiled while Elsa hands started to freeze over showing that Naruto's power slowly fading away.

It was no longer counteracting hers.

"It's okay. At least I did something good in the end. Saving a kingdom and bring back a smile on someone like you," Naruto said weakly, rubbing away the tear with his other free hand, caressing her cheek.

"For the first time since I was born. I can finally touch someone. Able to hold someone hand. I'm glad I met you, I think… I love you," Naruto said smiling a little. He removed his hand from her face to grab her hand, holding it tightly.

"Knowing that is enough for me," Naruto said, closing his eyes slowly.

"NO! NO! NO! I don't want that to be all, I want you to stay with me, forever," Elsa sobbed, tears continuing streaming down her face, mixing with his blood.

Kurama noticed the little blue and red sparkles entering the blond's wound as well wrapping itself around Elsa.

The Queen's green eyes changed into a fiery red.

Naruto was feeling a little better, realizing his power was returning, but kept up the façade as his eyes remained closed.

"Maybe a true love kiss might be just enough to bring me back to life," Naruto mumbled weakly.

Moment later, he felt something soft on his lips.

He opened his eyes and moved his head up to return it.

The summer and winter finally had their first kiss as fire and ice stream erupted outward from the two and into the sky.

The entire fjord began to thaw as a ship below them rose up, holding up the couple in the now free water body.

Sunlight started to pass through the dissipating cloud, brightening up Arendelle.

Unfortunate, Naruto's flaming power started to torch the wooden floor.

"Umm, we're on fire," Kristoff said but was elbowed by Anna, who wanted that moment to last longer. She was holding her burnt hand, but it was just a mild discomfort.

"No, we really are on FIRE!" Kristoff said as Anna looked around.

The ship's deck and sail burst into flames as the Sun's emotion was running wild during his happiest moment.

"WE ARE ON FIRE!" Anna shouted as Kristoff face palmed.

The two and reindeer tried to put out the fire in panic.

Naruto finally stood up, breaking out of the long kiss. Naruto felt that he shouldn't ruin this memory by setting fire to the ship they were on.

"Woops," Naruto said, trying to suppress the flames around him.

"What? Weren't you about to die?" Elsa called out, snapping out of her stupefied state and walking toward Naruto.

"Huh? No, your power somehow healed me. I couldn't help but wanting a kiss from a Queen. It was really…"

Naruto didn't even finish the sentence as his whole body was frozen solid and kicked off the ship by an extremely embarrassed monarch.

Kurama chased after the iceberg muttering: "Idiot."