"Speech"
'Thought'
"Demon"
"Shinigami"
"Ryuujin/sounga"
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did it would be written like this.
Legend of the Dragon
Ch.1 Meet and Greet
Konohagakure, one of the five most powerful of the elemental nations, within all of the shinobi Continent. Home to the tightest family like military in the entire continent. If you were a traveler and you just entered the village, you would think that it was the greatest place in the world. That is, of course… until you heard the screaming.
"Please leave me alone! I haven't done anything wrong!"
This voice belonged to a child, no older than five years old. He had dirty spiky blond hair, deep blue eyes and three whisker like birthmarks on each cheek. Now you wouldn't have thought any of this child, that is until you saw the tattered clothes he was wearing, or lack there of, and bare scrapped bruised and bloody feet. His name was Naruto Uzumaki, and he was running for his life.
"Don't give us that shit!"
"You murdered our family members, and now we will murder you!"
"We will finish the job the fourth started!"
These were some of the rants and threats that a mob of villagers were throwing at the young boy as they chassed him through the streets and alleyways of the village, all the while wielding brooms, bats, swords, wooden and metal poles. They weren't going to let what they called a monster go.
As Naruto turned down an Alleyway, he ducked behind a dumpster. When the mob turned down they alleyway they kept running until they got to the other end where they didn't see the blond boy in sight. As soon as they got to the other end Naruto scrambled from behind the dumpster and ran out the way he came looking behind him so no one would follow. As soon as he rounded the corner he collided with something and fell on his butt. As he looked up he was frozen in terror tears freely streaming down his face. The person he collided with was one of the people who started the mob.
The man smirked evilly as he gazed down on the young boy. "Well demon. It looks like I get to finish what the Yondaime started."
"What did I do to make you hate me so much?" Naruto asked still crying.
The man sneered. "You know damn well what you did. You killed many of our people and villagers, you 'Beast'." The last word the man spat out lie it was venom.
Naruto instincts finally catching up to him, managed to get up and turn around to start running. Then he collided with something else and fell down again. When he looked up this time all the color left his face, in front of him was the mob that he just left behind at the other end of the Alleyway.
"Finally caught you Demon." said a woman.
"Not going to get away this time." said a man.
"You being alive is a dishonor to the name of the Yondaime." Said another.
'Am I really not worth the effort of being brought into this world?' thought Naruto.
"Good bye, Kyuubi." Said a man as he brought down his bat to the boys head.
As soon as his body hit the ground, the mob began to beat down on him. Naruto did the only thing he could do, he curled into a fetal position and took the beating without a single tear, scream or cry for help he knew that none of these options would help him.
As he started to slip into unconsciousness one last thought entered Narutos mind; 'But I'm not Kyuubi, am I?' then the darkness claimed him.
When Naruto woke up he realized that he wasn't in the alleyway getting beaten up, he wasn't even in Konoha. He was in a… sewer.
"Ewwww. I guess the old man was right, when you die the other world isn't exactly what you thi-. No, I'm dead." He began to cry with his knees up to his chest. "Ojji-san, Ayame-chan, old man Ichiriku. I'll never see them again." He continued to cry for a few more minutes until he heard the faint mumbling of an argument in the distance. It took a few more minutes for him to stop crying as he began to start walking towards the argument.
As he got closer the conversation began to get clearer to him. He came to the end of the large hallway like sewer where a bright light disrupted his vision for a second. When everything became clear to him he was frozen in fear. Before him was an extremely large cage with a piece of paper being the only thing keeping it closed was a piece of paper with the Kanji for 'seal' on it. Behind the cage was a fox easily as large as the cage with red eyes and an evil smile on its face while baring its colossal fangs. In front of the cage was a transparent man easily as tall as the fox wearing and all white robes and had long spiky white hair. Now Naruto wouldn't have thought anything of this man until he saw him bring his long purple skinned claw hand out of his robe and grab the fox by its collar and bring him to the front of the bars.
"Listen here Kyuubi," he voice was so full of coldness and death Naruto could have sworn that the man was the ruler of every pit in the darkness in hell. "I'm not going to repeat myself. You will protect the boy weather you like it or not."
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" roared the fox. "Now why would I go and do a stupid thing like that? Even if those mortals kill him, I will still live you know that, Shinigami."
The death god threw the fox into his cage glaring at him that is until, Naruto started to cry.
"S-So I real-ly a-am dead." Naruto cried out. "And th-the fox, i-is here to torture m-me."
"Wrong!" stated the death god.
Naruto stopped crying long enough to look up at the Shinigami. "Huh?"
"I said wrong. You are wrong on two accounts kid." He said with a sad smile.
"What do you mean Shinigami-sama? If you're here I should be dead."
"Normally that would be true, but this is a different matter entirely."
"Why what's going on?"
"You lost consciousness Naruto. You entered your mindscape."
"B-But if that's true, how can you be here? I mean did I just imagine you two before I passed out?" questioned the young blond trying to make sense out of what happened.
The death god sighed; this would take a lot of explaining, and even more understanding for him to get it right. "Naruto, do you know the story of the Kyuubi?"
"Yea. The fourth Hokage killed him, right?"
Kyuubi snorted. "That's only half right. There is no way a mere 'Mortal' could ever hope to defeat me, let alone Kill me."
"Instead the fourth Hokage sealed him within a child in the hopes that that child would hold back his power and keep his home safe. He also wanted that child treated as a hero for being the bearer of such a burden." Shinigami said sadly.
"W-Who was t-t-the child?" Naruto asked fearfully, already knowing what the answer was.
Kyuubi grinned evilly from behind the bars. "Why do you think I'm in your mind Kit?"
That was all it took for Naruto to get what happened to him. "I'm the child that is the prison guard for Kyuubi. I am a demon." Naruto broke down crying.
Kyuubi snorted again this time in anger and annoyance. "Like there is any way a weakling like you could ever be considered a demon. You run and cry, you have no sense of pride only fear you disgust me. Why did he have to seal me in a pitiful kid, I could have done better in that Uchiha."
Naruto stopped crying the moment Kyuubi snorted and kept his head down throughout Kyuubi's little rant and was seething by the end. The moment he finished his rant Naruto looked the great beast dead in the eye without fear only anger and determination. "Why don't you come down here and say that to my face, YOU STUPID FUR BALL!!" Naruto screamed the last part as he walked up to the bars of Kyuubi's cage.
The moment Naruto finished his insult of the great demon he stopped a few feet away from Kyuubi's cage and the great demon launched at him roaring in attempt to intimidate him. When Naruto didn't flinch or blink it further angered the demon.
"Let me out of this cage so I can devour you soul!" the great beast roared.
"Blah, blah, blah, just a bunch of empty threats. Hey Shinigami-sama?" asked Naruto taking his attention off the 'Fur ball' to give his attention to the death god. "Do you know a way that we can shut him up?" pointing to Kyuubi.
"I think there is a way to shut him up and make him leave you alone." Said the Shinigami with a smile.
"Really? How!?" asked Naruto excitedly.
"I could switch his place with another one of the tailed beast that hasn't been sealed away."
"Like which one in their right mind would do something so stupid and humiliating?" asked the red fur ball.
The death god gave a bone-chilling smile that unnerved the Kitsune and the blond. "Juubi, the ten winged Dragon and lord of Hell."
The great Kitsune soon lost all color to his body as if he became petrified. He was downright terrified of that guy. Juubi was the strongest and wisest of all the Bijuu and was the current ruler of Hell. The only odd thing about him was, and he loved working with humans.
"NOOOOOOOO! NOT HIM!! Please anyone but him!" Kyuubi screamed after he regained his senses. "What about Sanbi, Gobi, or even-" he was cut off right there as the death god started to perform hand seals while chanting.
"Honor (dog), Courage (boar), Hope (ram), Faith (horse), Strength (tiger), Peace (dragon), (clapped his hands together) through the power of nature and the purity of the soul we summon you."
"NOOOOOOOOO!! HE'LL KILL ME IF HE SEES ME HERE! PLEASE NOOOOOOOO!"
"Demon Art Summoning: Dragon Lord Sounga!" yelled the death god as he slammed his hand on the ground. There was a large puff of smoke, twice as large as it would be for a boss summoning.
When the smoke cleared Naruto actually thought Armageddon was upon him and the rest of the world. Before him was what looked like a Hybrid with the upper body of a diesel human being with the head of a dragon, his lower body was the body of a snake with a tail that had four spikes going down the tail all around it with a spike on the tip. He had white spines running the length of his back to the tip of his tail on his black-scaled body. Behind him was a floating gold ring the size of his back with ten black wings on it. It had spikes on its elbows as its arms were crossed. His eyes were red with green irises with slit pupils. This beast radiated the essence of death itself and when he spoke it was as if the hens bowed down to him.
"Who has summoned me here?" asked the Dragon King in an annoyed tone.
"That would be me Sounga."
"Ah, Shinigami it is always a pleasure to be in your presence." Said the dragon lord with a bow.
"No the pleasures mine. I have summoned you here for a purpose Sounga, and it concerns this boy." He said with a returning bow and pointing to Naruto who flinched at being spotted but stayed quiet to prevent from doing something stupid in the presence of the Demon King.
"Hmm. How dose it have to do wi-" he stopped mid sentence as he took a look at Kyuubi's cage and found the fox king trying to did his way out as if trying to get out of Alcatraz. "Hehehehehehehe. Why hello, Kyuubi." He said grinning.
The fox immediately stopped what he was doing and paled. He could feel the eyes of the devil staring holes into the back of his head. He began to turn around slowly. "H-H-Hello Ryu-j-j-jin-s-s-sama." He said nervously.
"I'm guessing he got sealed away and the boy is his container?" Shinigami nodded. "He is being treated like shit by his people and the fox plans on taking over his body?" again Shinigami nodded. "And now you want me to switch places with him to prevent a catastrophe and possibly the destruction of the world?" finally Shinigami nodded again. Sounga sighed. "Why are you coming to me with this now instead of the day he was sealed away?" in an exasperated annoyance.
"Because the jutsu that was used to seal him away required well over half of my power to perform, and even I need rest after such an altercation." Said the death god in a matter-a fact tone.
"Fine I'll do it, on one condition."
"And what is that"
"I get to drag Kyuubi through all nine levels of hell torturing him forever." Juubi said with an evil smile.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! GET ME OUTTA HERE!! I 'LL DO ANYTHING JUST DON'T MAKE ME DO THAT!! Kit you didn't really think I would take over you body did you? After-all even I live by a code of honor." Kyuubi half asked half begged for his life.
Naruto wasn't even listening to what Kyuubi said, he had stars in his eyes at the idea of telling the third Hokage that Kyuubi was gone forever. "YATTA! I'm free!" Naruto cheered while jumping in the air, but stopped mid air and fell to the ground. "My life sucks." Naruto said distraught.
"What's wrong Naruto?"
"If I tell them that Kyuubi got replaced with an even greater demon that is just going to make my life worse, and not only that but they might actually succeed in having me killed or kicked out the village." Naruto said with a depressed cloud over his body as he looked down in defeat.
"Don't worry kid." Said Sounga smiling. "Even if the manage to kick you out, with the training I'm going to put you through, every village in the world will be begging for you to be their Kage."
"Really!?" Sounga nodded. "Yatta! He's all yours!" yelled the excited blond.
"Great! Now Naruto all you have to do is remove the seal and I will switch Kyuubi with Sounga."
Naruto seemed to use 'Body Flicker' his way over to the seal scarring the living hell out of all three great beings. 'Holy shit!' was the only thought that all three beings had in common.
"Ready Shinigami-sama?"
"Y-Yea."
"Here goes!" and he tore the seal completely off and began to fall when the doors slammed open and the fox lunged at the descending blond.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" But before he could reach him, Sounga slammed his tail into Kyuubi into the direction of the death god. Who caught him and held him in place as Sounga caught Naruto and placed him down on the ground.
"As for you." He said staring at Kyuubi and making a long list of foreign hand seals. "Demonic Jutsu: Hells Suffering Redemption!" Shinigami jumped off Kyuubi as his body was caught aflame and incinerated before their eyes.
Naruto then turned his attention to Sounga. "When I die," he said catching the demon kings attention. "Do you think I could visit you in hell if I don't go there and watch as you make the fur-ball suffer?"
Sounga was taken back by the question. Normally anyone who made it to heaven would never want to go to hell. And those who went to hell always wanted to leave or just die for the last time or suck up to the devil to get out of hell. And here was a hid asking if he could visit him. A boy of the utmost purity was asking him if he could go to hell, making him question how pure this kid actually was.
"Maybe." He said which got a huge grin out of Naruto, which in turn caused him to grin.
Shinigami coughed to catch their attention. "Now that that's been taken care of, maybe we can get on to further business." Both Naruto and Sounga nodded. Sounga proceeded to the inside of the cage. "Naruto can I see the seal." Naruto handed it to him. After a few moments the seal proceeded to glow blue before it glowed Yellow and handed it back to Naruto. "Naruto when Sounga is inside the cage he will slam the doors closed behind him. When that happens place the seal back where it was before understand?" Naruto nodded and waited for the doors to close.
When Sounga was inside the cage he grabbed each door with his human like claws and slammed them closed. The moment those doors closed Naruto seemed to body flicker to where the seal was before and placed the seal there. Again the two sentient beings were scared.
The seal glowed blue then a blinding white then fading into black.
Once they all realized the seal was a success the death god got Naruto's attention. "Now Naruto, since Kyuubi was your former 'Tenant' you received some of his power thus allowing you to harness Sounga's power easier. As such you will receive a new bloodline that has never before been seen in Humans. It is the power of the darkness flame. But since you had Kyuubi inside you longer than Sounga, the bloodline will be accessible through a Doujutsu." He stopped to let Naruto absorb all the information.
Naruto was barely containing his excitement he had a blood line that no one else in the world will have other than him and his new family. "What will my Doujutsu consist of?"
"It will be a combination of the Jagan (I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho) a demonic eye that is required to manipulate and control the darkness flame, and the Sharingan the Doujutsu of the Uchiha clan that has a lot to do with accuracy."
"Dose this mean that I'll be related to 'Sasuke'?" he asked fearfully.
Shinigami chuckled. "No. Not in such close terms. You'll be related to Sasuke as he is related to Hinata." Naruto put on a confused expression. Shinigami sighed. "The Uchiha Sharingan is an evolved or devolved form of the Byakugan the Hyuga Clan's Doujutsu. They're more like distant cousins, like you are now."
"Okay I think I get it. Now what about my bloodline?"
"It will be called the 'Ijingan' (Devil's eye). It gives you phenomenal charka control. The eye slows down time according to reaction speed of the user. Their accuracy is unmatched and allows them to see farther distances than the Byakugan. It also allows them to create a weapon out of their charka. The eye also gives them the ability to see the weak point in any opponent or any jutsu making them nearly invincible. The eye takes on two forms, one is not better than the other, just useful for a different purposes. The first form is when the eye turns coal black and a, silver four-pointed shuriken appears in it. The second form is when the white in the eye turns black and the eye turns silver and a black four-pointed Shuriken appears with a silver pupil. In either form you can call upon the power of the Darkness Flame and mold it to your liking, that I will train you how to do. Try and look for a Jounin to teach you about weapons."
Naruto was drooling with stars in his eyes at how powerful he would be. "I'll be the greatest Ninja in the world. No one can stop me!" he said as his eyes burned with determination.
The two sentient beings beamed down on this boy he would definitely be a great Ninja and man. "Just remember Naruto. You aren't getting this power just yet, your going to have to earn it!"
"I wouldn't have it any other way Shinigami-sama." Naruto said happily. "I appreciate everything I earn so they mean more to me that way. Besides, there is no way I'm going to turn out like some emo and think I'm better than others. I would never want to be as spoiled as Sasuke-teme."
The two great beings beamed down brighter on the boy. He would surpass all their expectations without fail and maintain his carefree mentality. He would defiantly become something great.
"Okay now that that's taken care of, its time for me to leave and for you to wake up."
Before Naruto could even answer he faded out of his mind.
"You think he'll be okay?" asked the death god as he too began to fade away.
"I'm here aren't I? I'll make sure of it." Said Sounga with a devilish grin.
In the Real World.
A woman wearing an all black body suit and white armor on her arms legs and torso and a Katana strapped to her back with long purple hair and a cat mask was standing over the body of a bloody, broken and bruised Naruto, this person was Yugao Uzuki.
She kneeled down to look at his body. She took off her mask for some kind of confermation that it was him. The moment she realized that it was him, she cried. Since the Kyuubi attack, the third Hokage had issued that the Anbu protect Naruto from mistreatment by the villagers. The only problem was, even some of the shinobi treated him as bad as the villagers, sometimes worse. And the currupt ones even wet as far up as the Anbu. The only problem was that her squad was to pick them out of the rest so the boy would never end up like this. It tore her up iinside that she couldn't protect the legacy of the fourth Hokage.
Naruto woke up in a pool of his own blood and in a lot of pain. 'Guess those villageres really did a number on me this time.' He thought.
He heard the sobs of a person nearby, but because of that first hit he received he was a little dillousional. He tried to move only for it to be more painfull than his current position. He tried to speak only to cough up blood. This brought Yagao out of her thoughts and found him breathing easier. She immediately put her Anbu mask back on and proceeded to put his body up carefully.
Naruto was about to say something, only to be cut off by Yagao. "Don't worry. Uzumaki-sama, I'm here to help." And she took off towards the hospital.
'Nobody has spoken to me with such praise before.' Thought Naruto.
'That's because she's someone who actually gives a damn.'
Naruto realized who he was talking to. 'Sou-' but he was cut off.
'Kid only one rule. Address me as RyuuJin-sensei. Got it?' asked the Dragon King.
'Hai, Ryuujin-sensei!' Naruto said in a saluted tone. 'Ryuujin-sensei how can I speak to you now?'
'I opened a mental link so I can assist you in times of need.' He explained.
'Okay. Do you really think she is alright to be around?' Naruto questioned. 'I mean, I've been dooped by them before.'
'She is definitly alright. before you fully regained conciousnous, I herd her crying for you. You fully waking up means she will be taking you to the hospital instead of the mourg.'
Naruto turned his head to look at the woman who was coverd in his blood carrying him to the hospital for help, a greatful smile crossed his lips. 'Thank you' he mouthed before passing out again.
In Naruto's Mindscape
Naruto woke up in front of Sounga's cage. He made a mental note to redecorate this place, because it didn't seem fitting for such a well-endowed figure.
"Welcome back Kid." Said Sounga with a smile.
"Hello again Sou… Ryuujin-sensei." Naruto said with a bow.
Ryuujin beamed down on the blond. "Now kid I'm going to do something interesting to your seal."
"Like what Ryuujin-sensei?"
"I'm going to make your seal appear all over your body, in the form of Tattoos."
Naruto had a look of serious confusion on his face. "What do you mean?"
Ryuujin sighed. "I mean that when ever you unlock an ability of the 'Jagan' it will appear wherever that ability is used. Say, that you obtain wings of the darkness flame, a tattoo in the form of wings will appear on your back."
"Awesome." Naruto said in a dream like tone as he drooled at the thought of what he looks like in Tattoos.
"Okay kid it's time for your first." Naruto nodded and listened intently. "In order to receive your powers you must get the instructions from me, or your body will be damaged for life." Naruto nodded but gulped at the last part. "Now in order to activate your first power you must make your fists clenched, then slam your knuckles together." He then performed the said action so Naruto could see.
"Here goes nothing. Fists of the mortal flame: Release!" he yelled as he slammed his fists together. Almost instantly, his fists were covered in a black and blue flame that lasted for a few moments before dieing down. There on the back of both of his hands, was a blue square with a black flame design. 'Cool!' was the only thought that could enter Naruto's mind as he inspected his hands.
'To think the Jagan would react so well to a human. It even told him the command to awaken his powers.' He then saw Naruto Activate the flames again and then punch the ground making a huge creator with scorch marks all over it. Ryuujin smirked at the amount of damage Naruto just made. 'Then again, he isn't any normal human.' "Alright kid listen up." He said getting Naruto's attention. "I want you to come up with at least 6 techniques before I activate your Ijingan, or if you are protecting someone important that calls for that kind of power, in which case I'll activate another flame."
"Hai, Ryuujin-sensei."
"Now get out of here kid. You need your rest and I'm going to sleep until you need me." He coiled up like a snake would and fell asleep right then and there. His wings fading out of existence and the ring shrinking until it became the size of his fist and melded onto his back like a tattoo.
Naruto was about to leave when he remembered something. 'Almost forgot.' He closed his eyes then the entire room turned black as if a living shadow crept over the place. When the shadow finally cleared away Naruto was in the center of a large battle arena with red columns holding up a ceiling surrounding it in a circular pattern with white dragons spiraling down from them with the heads looking at the center of the arena, the entire structure was over looking large mountains. On the opposite end of where Naruto was facing two dragon statues were on the opposite end of a large Emperor like throne where Ryuujin was currently resting.
Pleased with what his results, Naruto decided it was time for rest and faded out of existence.
When Naruto was gone Ryuujin opened up one eye and took a good look at his surroundings before closing it. 'Not bad kid.'
(AN): That's it for the first chapter. Please review I could use plenty of ideas for the darkness flame. And who his Teammates should be, I hate Sakura, and Sasuke is as Gay as Orochimaru.