The One Chosen To Be a Dragon
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"Hi there" normal Speech
'Hi there' Internal thought
"Listen well boy." Bijuu/Summon speech
Insert Jutsu Here. Jutsus
'Listen well boy.' Bijuu/Summon Internal Thought
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Chapter 1 Life Interrupted
It was midday, the sun was blocked behind the clouds. The wind was steady the breeze had the scent of the sea on it. It was a beautiful day indeed. For one boy, sorry man, it was another day he was happy to be alive. His black hair that spiked up blew in the breeze, he had a cup of coffee in his hand as he looked over the sea from his porch. This man was shirtless the only thing he was wearing was a pair of grey sweatpants. From his porch, he saw the bridge that held his name in honor from his youth. His house was situated in Nami no Kuni, a place that took him in because he was their hero. The cottage that was built for him by the village's great builder.
The man was sipping from his mug enjoying his quiet morning for however long it lasted till his wives and children woke. Yes, he had more than one wife. He actually had four, and some of them blessed him with children. Each of his wives held a piece of his heart, and his wives loved him with all their hearts. He always wanted a big family, and he got his wish. One of his wives were had blessed him with his oldest and was pregnant again expecting their second. While one had yet to give him a child. It was that time when he was scared for his life, from the constant mood swings and the strange cravings it was a tough time. That is not saying he is not going to stop trying to add to his family and his wives were more than willing to help. It was at this moment when he sensed something. He focused. Correction more like people. He quickly ran inside. Five minutes later he came out dressed and ready for action. He told his wives what was going on and told them to protect the children. He placed a barrier on the house and in a burst of speed disappeared.
Path to Cottage
The path was a road of dirt that was kept clean. On the west side which was surrounding woods, but to the east were the cliffs that overlooked the sea. On the road were eighteen people walking up this path. Upon on the heads of several of them were Hitai-ate's with the symbol for the Konohagakure no Sato. Along with them having on green sleeveless jackets that identified them as Chuunin some were Jounin. Three members wore different clothing than the others: The first was an older man with attire consisted of a green short shirt kimono and matching pants, under which he wore mesh armor that is visible at his wrists and ankles. He also wears hand guards, a black belt, geta sandals, and a red haori with two yellow circles on each side. He had a wart on the left side of his nose and waist-length, spiky white hair that was tied back into a ponytail, with two shoulder-length bangs framing his face and he wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for oil. This man was Jiraiya, the Toad Gama Sannin and self-proclaimed "Super Pervert."
Next to him was the man who was his former apprentice and now his leader and leader of Konoha. This man has bright, blue eyes and spiky, blond hair. The hair gave him jaw-length bangs framing either side of his face. He wore a green flak jacket, blue hitai-ate, and blue sandals. He is also wearing a short-sleeved long white haori over his clothing. The haori was decorated by red flame-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Yondaime" written vertically down the back. This was Minato Namikaze the Kiiroi Senkō, the man who singlehandedly brought an end to the Third Great Shinobi War. Minato came here today on a mission both personal and professional. To get "The Dragon" to join his village and try to bring his family back together 'Almost there, I hope I can fix this.' Minato had a secret he had a feeling that he knew who Dragon was, but he neglected to tell the group following him.
The last was a woman who looked no older than thirty-five she has brown eyes and straight, shoulder-length blonde hair that she usually keeps tied in two loose ponytails. She had a diamond shape seal on her head. She is wearing a grass-green haori with the kanji for gamble written on the back, inside a red circle. Underneath she wears a grey, kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants. This caused her very impressive and massive bust to show more cleavage to everyone around. The one stealing glances was Jiraiya even though he knew she would beat him within an inch of his life if she caught him. She is wearing open-toed, strappy black sandals with high heels. This was Tsunade another of the Sannin and Jiraiya's former teammate. She had a sour look on her face "This is a big mistake." she thought she knew they were here to negotiate with this man who described him in the Bingo Book as "The Dragon." Although she knew who this man was, the question was whether he would even hear them out.
The reason she thought it was a mistake was the fact that they brought ten extra people with them. The appearance of all these people looked more like they came looking for a fight and brought the additional people as a show of force. She was excited and scared at the same time to see what kind of man "He" had become. She smiled and remembered times she had with that little boy that squirmed into her heart. Those blue eyes and beautiful blond hair, the boy who was just like her deceased brother. He had a will of refined steel, an attitude that made enemy's wet themselves in fear. To a few he showed a personality that was loving, caring and all around enjoyable person to be around.
Tsunade's musing was cut short when someone spoke out from the back group called out "Sensei! How much longer?" Tsunade along with Jiraiya and Minato turned to see the whining coming from a long hair blond woman wearing a purple top and a purple skirt with mesh armor on her knees and elbow. A bang from her long blonde hair covered her right eye and reached down her back to her waist. She is the Yamanaka heir, Ino Yamanaka. She is a chuunin level ninja along with the rest of her former genin squad. Next to her was a big-boned fellow from the Akimichi clan. He was clan heir to the clan, Choji Akimichi. He is wearing a red suit with plated armor on his torso, arms, and upper legs, having the same kanji for "food" on the front. He is wearing a standard red forehead protector on his head. The last member is a stereotypical Nara. Shikamaru Nara is his name, and he had black hair up to the point it looks like a pineapple. He was wearing the standard black pants and black shirt with his chuunin vest over his shirt. He had a bored expression on his, and under his breath, he muttered a quick "Troublesome" which didn't go unheard by Ino, and she pulled on his ear making him cry in pain.
"We will get there soon Ino. The old man said to follow this path till we come across a cottage up here." The man who said this let out a sigh as he saw two former students acting like small children. This was a current head of the Sarutobi clan, Asuma Sarutobi jounin to Ino, Choji, and Shikamaru. Asuma was a tall man, with brown eyes, olive skin, short black spiky hair, and a beard. His clothing consisted of the standard Konoha ninja uniform with the sleeves rolled up half way, flak jacket, regular shinobi sandals, and forehead protector. He also wore a sash that had the kanji for "Fire" marked on it around his waist, a pair of black bangles, and bandages wrapped around the arms of his sleeves.
"You two knock it off! We are here on an important mission!." A woman with red eyes yelled at the two younger adults. This woman was Kurenai Yūhi or secretly Kurenai Sarutobi as known to a select few mostly the important higher-ups and friends. Kurenai is a fair-skinned woman of slender build. She has long black untamed hair reaching her upper back. Her outfit consists of a red mesh armor blouse with only the right sleeve visible. The material which resembles bandages with a pattern on it similar to those of rose thorns. Her hands and upper thighs are also wrapped in bandages, and she wears the Konoha forehead protector and regular shinobi sandals.
"Haha! You got chewed out!" pointed a young man that red triangles on his cheeks. The dog next to him, which was as tall as his waist, barked in agreement with his partner. These two Kiba Inuzuka and his canine partner Akumaru. Kiba was second in line to be the head to the Inuzuka clan behind his sister. Kiba is wearing leather form fitting black jacket, with zips over the chest and sleeves, along with black pants and sandals. Kiba's brown spiked and was contained by his headband. Kiba was from Kurenai's former genin squad so he knew the tongue lashing she could give.
Kurenai was about to reprimand Kiba when a monotone voice beat her to it. "Kiba you need to stop. Why? Because we have traveled and all our nerves are shot, we don't need you to make things worse." That was Shino Aburame, the heir to the Aburame clan. He wears a jacket hanging down to his knees and the addition of a hood that obstructs his face even more and a satchel on his back. What made his outfit weird was the fact that he wears a flak jacket under his jacket.
With the groups of team Asuma and Kurenai at each other's throat, a new voice spoke up "Yosh! This place is so youthful! Look my eternal rival. This place is a beauty! It is one with nature. no wonder this man lives in this youthful place." The man with the booming voice has a shiny bowl style haircut and remarkably thick eyebrows. He is wearing a green jumpsuit, orange striped leg warmers, and the standard Konoha flak jacket, which he usually leaves unzipped. His red forehead protector is around his waist like a belt. He was Konoha no Kedakaki Aoi Mōjū, Might Gai, giving his friend/rival his famous nice guy pose.
"Huh you say something Gai?" said a man with gravity-defying silver hair who had his face buried into a little orange book. This was the famous Copy Ninja Kakashi Hatake. He wears a flak jacket, dark blue pants, and a long-sleeve shirt along with fingerless gloves with metal plates on the backhand. He also wears a mask that covers the lower part of his face, and his hitai-ate is crooked, so his left eye is covered.
"Damn you Kakashi, with your hip attitude." Gai dramatically fell to ground cursing his rival with anime tears in his eyes.
"Do not worry GAI-sensei we will get this man to join us. If we cannot, I will run around the village on my hands ten times, if I can't do that I will do two-thousand push up on my thumb, if I can't do that…" the rant continued to come from this mini version of Gai. This was the proud pupil of Might Gai, Rock Lee. Lee was a miniature version of Gai down to the attitude, mannerisms, appearance and shiny teeth.
Lee was interrupted from his rant when a rolled up scroll hit his head. "Lee! Knock it off! I would be surprised if the target didn't hear you from his house." The female member of Gai's team was Tenten. Her hair was done up into two large buns making her look like a panda. She sports a long-sleeved, high-collared white blouse with maroon edges, black fingerless gloves, low-heeled sandals, and a black forehead protector. For pants, she wears maroon, puffy hakama-styled pants with the exposed parts covered in bandages and the shuriken holster removed. She is carrying a large scroll behind her back as well that holds all her tools and weapons.
Their other teammate gave a heavy sigh to his teammate and sensei but nevertheless kept his mouth shut not having the energy to deal with both of them. This was Neji Hyuga. He had eyes that were white as the moon and no pupils. He wore a white kimono-shirt with long, loose sleeves, matching pants, a navy-grey apron tied around his waist, and black shinobi sandals. Neji had long his long brown hair frame his face.
"How do you put up with them?" asked a proud voice. Neji looked over to the one asked the question. He was Sasuke Uchiha, the last loyal Uchiha. He wore dark blue pants, over which hangs a blue cloth that covers him from his stomach to his knees, which he secures with a purple rope belt and a zippered, high-collared, short-sleeved shirt and blue wrist warmers. His black hair is blown back and is shaped to that of a duck's ass. On his back in his belt was a chokutō secured but can be ready to us at a moment's notice.
"I can ask you the same thing," Neji replied back looking at his two teammates. One was a girl with flowing red hair that was in a high ponytail that long enough to reach between her shoulder blades, wearing a white kimono top with a black mesh underneath the kimono top and on the back was a red swirl with a red obi. She also wore black shinobi style pants that stopped a little bit above the ankles which were taped down the rest of the way to her ankles and heels. She had purple eyes and three whisker marks on each cheek. At her side strapped in her red obi was a katana with a red handle. The sword was an o-katana, and it was so long that it nearly was touching the ground. The blade has a purple hue on the sharp side of the blade. This was her mother's old sword Shinku no Shio the sword that gave her mother her nickname. She is Narumi Uzumaki-Namikaze daughter of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze the Akai Chishio no Habanero. She was a confident girl with a happy go lucky attitude, and her dream was to be just like her father. She didn't hear what Sasuke and Neji talking she was too busy glared at the newest member of her team's cell.
The young man has short, straight black hair, and dark eyes which contrast with his pale skin. He is carrying a small backpack with his brush, scrolls, and ninja ink in it. He wears a short black-and-grey jacket with red straps. (1) He gave the Uzumaki-Namikaze a wave and a smile that was empty of emotion. His name was Sai, and he was here for one reason to get this extraordinary man as an asset for his lord, Danzo Shimura by any means necessary. "Would you please stop glaring at me with that ugly face of your."
This caused Narumi anger to rise and caused her to reach for him ready to strangle him to death. That was then wrist was grabbed to stop her from doing any damage to her new teammate "Narumi, please don't go killing the new member of the team." Kakashi said not looking up from his book. Even though his voice didn't give any indication of it, he was disappointed in his student's action, and Narumi knew it.
"Yes Kakashi-sensei, sorry Kakashi-sensei," Narumi said in a more calm voice feeling sad that she caused her sensei/onii-chan.
"Sai, please refrain from insulting your teammates. I won't be able to stop her from killing you every time." Kakashi gave a sideways glance with his nose still in his book refusing to not finish this masterpiece that was this book. Sai gave a creepy smile, and a stiff head nod then pulled out his little book and pen to draw this scene before him.
"Alright everyone we are almost there so everyone best behavior. We need to …" Minato started but was cut off when he sensed something coming at them and fast. The ones to notice were the jounin senseis and the two Sannin. That was when a blur impacted the middle of the group causing bits of earth and dirt to fly into the air. Everyone from the Konoha group covered their eyes from the fallout of the impact. When the dust settled, all eyes looked at what impacted them. What impacted them was a man who stood at impressive six feet tall. On his head was a black hood that traveled down around the neck and draped around his shoulders. From the back of the hood was a small cape that draped down to the small of his back. On the hood is the image of a dragon made out of white outlines that traveled from the hood to the shoulders having claws on the part by his shoulder and the wings in the small cape. His outfit consists of a sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waistcoat, open-collared, one-sleeved long overcoat, which is tucked in and zipped, his entire right arm is exposed. On the lower part of his body is gold trimmed, black cloth around his waist that reaches his knees, held by a brown leather belt with an oval-shaped silver buckle, white knee-length trousers with black ribbon ties, a thick black wristband on his left wrist and black open-toed sandals. (2)
"You are on my land. Leave now." The hooded man said in a level voice. He knew who these people were and he wanted them gone he didn't care why they were here.
"Hello, I am the Yondaime of Konoha, and I would like to…" Minato was about to continue his introduction and ask who this man was when he interrupted by the man before them.
"I don't care who you and what you would like. I will tell you again leave," The man said in the same cold voice. His voice was giving off no emotion, but he was in a rage on the inside and was losing patience. He needed to keep a level head. With four high jounin around, two sannin and a kage level shinobi here and he knew that he, if he had to fight it, would be far from easy.
This time it was Jiraiya who spoke up "Listen, kid, we want to know if you are "The Dragon" from the Bingo Book." He asked with a down to business tone. Jiraiya could sense the hostility coming off the man in front of them, and it already wasn't looking going their way. They needed this man, they did not need this man to be an enemy.
"If I tell, you will you leave?" The level voiced man asked. Turning his head to face the Gama Sannin.
"That answers that question," Jiraiya muttered out. "You know with someone with such a high bounty on your head, I thought you be older." He looked at the young man with a calculated gaze, and he saw that this man while facing him, Minato and Tsunade he was keeping tabs on the rest of the Konoha group to his back.
"I thought someone of your stature would be more intimidating." Dragon retorted back "Guess a frog in kabuki makeup is not so scary up close." This caused Jiraiya to gain a tick mark on his head. Dragon displayed a smirk from within his hood knowing he got under the Gama Sannin's skin.
"Listen, runt, it isn't frog its toad. Insult them again, and we will see if toads can kill a so-called dragon." Jiraiya steps forward to intimidate him, but the action didn't give the desired response. His action instead of backing down was to bring his uncovered arm up and gives the motion to tell him to bring it on.
"Enough! Jiraiya back off!" yelled Tsunade trying to defuse the situation that was started to build. Jiraiya looked towards her about to retort, when he saw the promise of a beating if he didn't stop. "Now, Dragon as our leader was trying to say we would like for you to join our village. To help us win this war." She looked to the cloaked man who took a couple seconds to respond.
Hope was rising from the group when Dragon began to speak "No." Their hopes were dashed away with that single word.
"Why not!?" yelled both Jiraiya, Minato in front of him and Ino behind him.
"I don't have to nor do I answer to you Konoha." Dragon said.
"Please! We need you, we are offering you a place in our village. We could benefit from each other." Asuma pleaded. As if that was gift or reward.
"I don't want or need anything from you or your village." Dragon retorted back at them.
"We can pay you." Tsunade blurted out.
"We will give you clan status." Called out Minato
"We will give you some our woman to help with making that clan," Jiraiya yelled out while having a perverted look on his face. He got glares from all the females in his group.
"No, I do not want any of that." Dragons responded to that.
"Men then!" Jiraiya yelled back. Hell if he didn't want women, maybe he wanted the more masculine sex.
"What the hell is wrong with you? Damn perverted toad." Dragon fired back.
"We will allow you to be on the council." Fired off Asuma.
All the while the group were offering him anything they could think of it was starting to annoy him. These people couldn't take the hint.
"I say we force him!" yelled out Sasuke. His hand traveled to his sword and flicked it open, so only a glint of the blade was showing. His eyes are now red with three slow spinning tomoe.
"You think you can take me little Uchiha." Dragon now turned to face the other people of the Konoha group with his hand flexing. He knew he could take the team behind him with some work, just because of the sheer number of them. The jounin would be the hardest, but the rest would go down with ease if he hit hard and fast.
Before the situation could be defused again, a monotone voice from the Konoha group spoke "I have a question," Dragon turned to look at the pale boy with the fake smile on his face. "If you knew that we were coming why not just let us come to you? You know that area up there better than down here. You had an advantage up there along with surprise and had time to set up an ambush. My question is when you have all that advantage, why come here?" Dragon's eyes narrowed at the pale boy. "I will answer that for you, it's because you have something up there that you don't want us to see," Sai answered finally opening his eyes slightly to show emotionless eyes.
Dragon in a burst of speed was now in front of the group with his back to the path that leads to his cottage. He gave out a growl that sounded like a cornered beast. It was a warning to the people in front of them. Now every one of the jounin and their teams armed themselves in response to his quick movement. "You so much as think about and I will be sending you all back to Konoha in pieces!"
Minato put his hand towards his group to halt them from attacking. "I am also curious about what is up there, but…" Minato took a step forward that was when a fireball was launched at his feet.
"Take another step, and I will burn you alive." Dragon said with an edge to his voice.
"Hey! Don't threaten my tou-san!" yelled Narumi as she came up to stand by her father ready to protect him and kick this man's ass.
"You people came on my land and threatened me now. Who is the wounded party?" Dragon retorted back. He didn't want these two by his family especially he wouldn't allow it. That was when he felt chakra being used, and from the group, a bird of ink flew in the air and went to make its way towards the cottage. Sai was smirking until he saw that dragon was now right in front of his bird with a lightning enhanced fist and struck the bird with his fist. With the ink being water based the shock from the bird transferred to Sai causing him to be stunned and then fall from the sky at a fast pace.
Reacting fast Kakashi raced to the trees, climbing up branches then jumping from the tip of the tree and grabbed the falling boy. When the two landed, Tsunade immediately went to heal the boy.
"Anyone so much as thinks about taking another step, you will get worse than him," Dragon glared at them, he was in a fighting stance with his sleeved armed forwards with his palm up and lightning dancing his fingers.
"That's it! You asked for it!" Yelled Narumi as she made a cross shape with her pointer and middle finger on both hands "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" five more Narumi appeared in puffs of smoke and charged at Dragon with kunai drawn. Clone 1 went for a quick swipe at his head. Dragon countered by grabbing her wrist and throwing her at another clone causing both to puff away in a cloud of smoke. Clones 3 and 4 went for a crossing pattern to attack each side. Dragon fell to ground performing a handstand and twisted like top kicking both clones in the face causing them to pop. That was when the final clone came up from the ground with a ball of blue energy "Rasengan!" she thrust it forward trying to hit him. Dragon leaned back into a back-handspring kicking the clone in the face and causing the blue ball of chakra to disappear.
Dragon looked around for the real version of the girl when he heard a battle cry come from above. There was Narumi with her sword overhead ready to bring it down hard on her opponent. Dragon brought his uncovered arm up to block her sword. Narumi brought the sword down hard. There was a clang that now brought the attention to the from the Konoha group.
Some of the group were about to jump in if it wasn't for Minato putting giving them a silent command to stop. 'This isn't how I wanted this to go. I need to stop this before we lose all chances of getting him back.' Minato was about to use flash to his daughter with his "Hiraishin no Jutsu" when he saw his daughter look to be struggling.
Back to the fight, Narumi brought the sword down on the man that blew her teammate out of the sky. When he brought his arm up, she thought it was just to lessen the damage to his body. What she wasn't expecting was for him to go and grab the blade with his hand. Narumi infused wind chakra in the sword making the edge capable a cutting through flesh like wet paper. So when the blade was caught in hand it caused her to be confused. That was when she no saw the hand was no covered in metal and had reptilian features. The hand had nails that now looked like claws, and the back of the hand had a scale pattern, and the hand looked like a smooth underbelly. When she tried to retract the blade from her opponent's hand, she found it stuck in a vice grip that was his hand.
Dragon followed up quickly with a roundhouse to Narumi's stomach causing her to get blown towards her group while skipping across the ground. Her father caught her and did a quick exam to see how the man was doing. Dragon took the sword by the handle now and threw it at a tree at the edge of the path and embedded it deep into the tree. The rest of the Konoha group drew weapons and were ready to charge. Dragon now conjured fire into his fist and gave out a bestial growl at the group. Minato was about to call a cease-fire, but that was when a green blur rushed past him and launched a kick at Dragon.
Dragon blocked the kick, but his bones rattled like a bell. It was the mini green one. "How unyouthful! Attacking the Hime like that. I will show you the ways of youth!" Lee shouted as he continued to throw jabs and twisted with kicks. Dragon backpedaled while blocking the onslaught. He looked for an opening and found one. When Lee swung his leg looking to land a powerful roundhouse, Dragon leaned back feeling the wind being cut above him. That was when he charged his fist with fire and struck. Lee was blasted back into his group. He was caught by his sensei who looked over the wound and saw part of his uniform was burned away and the flesh underneath the hole was burned and bruised. Gai now glared at the man who attacked his precious student. He put Lee in the care of Ino. Gai got into a Gōken stance ready to charge. Now the rest of the group was no longer idle: Kakashi moved his headband revealing a red eye, Asuma took out his trusty trench knives, and Kurenai started to do hand signs for one of her more complex genjutsu.
Dragon moved fast taking all the jounin by surprise. First hitting Kakashi in the face with an elbow that caused a nasty crunching sound. Next was Gai who blocked a kick but was taken surprise by an impressive leg lock around the neck. Gai was then thrown off the cliff while his head was still in the leg lock. Dragon then rushed at Asuma but had to dodge a few slashes that were coated with wind chakra. Dragon then caught a wrist and with a quick twist snapped a wrist. The blade that was held in the now broken hand fell from Asuma's grip and was caught by Dragon. Dragon then stabbed Asuma in the shoulder then pulled his head into a knee strike causing him to fall back knocked out in the dirt. Dragon then dashed to the last jounin who had stopped doing signs and watched in fear as this man tossed around some of the best fighters of the village like they were wet behind the ear genin. Dragon raised his fist, which was coated in a black flame, and was prepared to bring it down. Kurenai closed her eyes expecting pain. When not feeling any pain she opened her eyes to see a fist just barely touching her nose. The fire that was once present was gone. She looked up to the hooded face to see him looking down at her that was when she heard the sound of him taking sharp inhale from his nose. He let out a low growl and then he blew out a breath. Kurenai saw as the breath that looked like he was breathing in a cold environment wash over her. She felt her eyes begin to get heavy and she collapsed forward sleeping.
"He just took on all four of our senseis and didn't get a scratch on him." Kiba gave in a slight whisper.
"Everyone get ready for a fight!" Sasuke yelled drawing his chokutō from its sheath. His eyes now a deep red with three tomoes spinning. Everyone got in a taijutsu stance and was ready to charge.
"Everyone stop! That's an order!" shouted Minato as he set his daughter down, so she was sitting on the ground. He now stood in front of his group and now was face to the hood with Dragon. "I apologize for my subordinate. He acted on his own. I would like to…" He would have continued if he wasn't stopped from a short animalistic growl coming from Dragon.
"I am done here leave, or your village will be looking for a new Hokage." Dragon was done with these people. He wanted to these to leave so he could get back to his life. That was when he did a head count, one person was missing. "I see what you did. Sending your spymaster to go find a weakness huh? So much for the honor of Konoha."
That was when Minato noticed that Jiraiya was gone. There was one place he could go, and that was where Dragon lived. Panic set in his eyes this wasn't how he wanted this day to go. He watched at Dragon turned and was about to leave. Minato went to reach out for Dragon "Na…" that was all he could get out before the man disappeared.
Cottage
Jiraiya was a curious man by nature, and it came in handy with his job being a spymaster for his village. He had to admit the Sai kid was right what was right, something did not add up. He stood in front of the little wooden gate and fence that blocked the walking path to the house. It was a decent size cottage it was at least two stories from what the windows showed. Jiraiya could not see into the windows from this far, but he could tell that there were at least a couple rooms up top. He went to reach for the gate to push it open when he quickly pulled his hand back in pain. That was he looked down and saw burn marks all over his hand 'A barrier, this guy has thought that far ahead. A decent one at that, nearly burnt all the skin off my hand.' Jiraiya quickly started trying to dissect the seal formula that appeared under the property then disappeared just as quickly and came up with a solution. 'Not that complicated barrier a quick counter-seal and it will be down' Jiraiya took out a seal tag and drew a seal on it and then went to throw it on the was at this moment when Jiraiya's battle senses went off, and he quickly ducked under a kick aimed for his head.
"You sneaky toad bastard. I told you to piss off," Dragon state as he put himself between the cottage and Jiraiya determined to not let him get into his home.
"Attacking a person from behind where is the honor?" Jiraiya was trying to get a rise out of him and saw that his efforts were not working.
"Honor? Really? Coming from a guy who peeps on women you have no reason to talk about honor." Dragon got into a fighting low fighting stance and was ready to pounce on him if he so much as moved a little bit of dirt forward.
Jiraiya looked at the boy with a raised eyebrow "You do know who I am right? I am one of the Sanin. You are just some punk who got a cool name." He just stood there with his arms crossed staring at the little punk. Dragon gave a small growl and rushed forward fast, actually faster than Jiraiya had expected.
Jiraiya leaped back to get distance and saw Dragon keep coming for him all that prevented him from showing a panicked face was years of battle. Dragon took the chance a swung a fire encased fist Jiraiya aim for his head. Jiraiya kept dodging the assault of multiple attacks. Using his speed Dragon got in close a released a fire incased punch to the face. Jiraiya was getting tired of all the dodging and finally stood his ground thinking he could take the blow. Jiraiya took the opportunity to send some chakra to his muscles to block. It worked, Jiraiya only felt the heat from the flame. Jiraiya smirked, he then did a quick singlehanded hand sign and blew "Fūton: Daitoppa!" the blast of air caused Dragon to skid back a little. Dragon dug his feet into the ground and then shot a punch toward the ground. The punch ricocheted from the ground to under guard that Jiraiya was putting up. The punch caused him to groan as he felt a rib or two crack. That was then Dragon followed up with two more powerful blows to the face stunning Jiraiya.
Dragon smirked and then shot a powerful uppercut, shooting a jet of fire from his elbow to give it more power. This punch caused Jiraiya to be stunned, all he felt was a pain. Dragon then unleashed a volley of punches over his stunned opponent. That was when Dragon drew back his fist and charged it with his energy it was a mixture of fire with lightning dancing around the flame that encased his fist. The power grew to the size of a beach ball "Raienryū no Gekitetsu!" That was when Jiraiya found some form of sense, he quickly reached out and placed a Chakra Draining seal on Dragon's exposed arm. This caused the power of the Raienryū no Gekitetsuto weaken, but it wasn't enough. It connected to Jiraiya's chest. Jiraiya felt his ribs crack and his lungs are pierced from the pieces. The blow caused Jiraiya to go into the woods where he broke through a tree and then stopped abruptly in another.
Dragon smirked at the sight of the old toad. The bastard got what was coming to him. It was then Dragon found himself very weak and tired. Dragon went down on one knee to try and catch his breath. It was at this time when Minato and the rest of his party arrived on the scene in a yellow flash next to Jiraiya. Minato gasped as he looked at his sensei who seemed to be nearly dead. That was when Tsunade went started to heal her perverted teammate. She did a quick diagnostic jutsu. She saw that he suffered from minor burns which were nothing to worry about, but his lungs were starting to fill with blood, and she saw that his nervous system was damaged. "What the hell did he do to you?" she said low under her voice when she looked at the man who was now panting heavily looking exhausted with slight fear.
It was at this time when the rest of the Konoha group took this opportunity to subdue their target. That was when Gai and Lee grabbed his arms and Sasuke placed his sword around the man's neck. After Minato was done surveying his sensei, he walked over to the downed man. "Now, was it necessary to do that?" Minato asked as he kneeled down so he was now at eye level with Dragon or he would be if the hood didn't cover his face. Dragon was trying to move, but he felt all his strength still drained from him. He still couldn't figure out why though. That was when he spit in Minato's face. Sasuke grabbed the back of the head and slammed it into the ground.
Dragon tasted a bit of blood in his mouth and moved his head to the side in the dirt he looked at his exposed right arm and saw a seal on his arm. He couldn't identify the seal, one of his wives knew seals like it was nothing, but he was clueless when it came to this. He was smart enough to put two and two together. He started to concentrate his inner fire on the part with the ink trying to burn away the seal.
Minato reached for the hood and pulled it off. As Minato pulled, Dragon made his move the ink was glowing, trying to suppress the energy in Dragon's body. The seal dissolved and Dragon moved he threw both Lee and Gai off him and into Minato. Then Dragon disappeared in a burst of speed before reappearing in front of the gate to his cottage. His face no longer being covered by the hood. His skin was lightly tan, his black hair was spiked with two bangs that framed his face, and his eyes were blue as the sky with a vertical black slit for the iris. Another odd part of his face were the scales that were around his eyes.
He looked at the Konoha group with a look of contempt. He looked at them like they were nothing like the dirt he walked on. He scanned over the Konoha group one by one until three, in particular, Jiraiya, Minato, and Kakashi. He gave a glare and a growl that sounded like a beast giving a warning to hunters that corner it.
"Hello, Naruto. It is good to see you again musuko" Minato said as he eyed his son for the first time in years. He looked just like him except for the black hair he had. Minato looked at his son with pride and sadness. Pride for what kind of man he had become and sorrow for the path that led to them being here like this.
"You do not get to call me that Yondaime-teme," His slitted eyes narrowed at Minato, his anger rising fast as these people invaded his home. His "father," using the term loosely, had come here looking for his alter ego, so he was looking for something from him. Whatever Minato wanted he was not getting.
"Listen Naruto, can we talk?" Minato sighed out when he was met with a cold façade from his son. He took a step forward and was met with a fireball landing just in front of his foot. This caused him to quickly look to his son whose ice-cold eyes pierced through him.
"You take one more step, and I will kill you." The coldness in his words sent a shiver down Minato's spine and a pang of sadness and guilt in his heart. He went to speak again when another voice interrupted him.
"Hey brat, long time no see," said Jiraiya who was still sore from the thrashing he took from him before in his fight. He was giving him a bloody smile as Tsunade stopped healing and looked on with wide eyes.
"As for you Toad, the next time you come sniffing here will be the last!" Naruto snapped at the Toad Sannin. The damn pervert needs to keep his nose out of his business.
"Naruto, please be reasonable, there is no need to threaten us." This came from Kakashi who was shocked and full of turmoil, but years of training kept him from showing it on his. This was one of the students he failed, and here he was looking at him like he always preacher trashed.
"Kakashi, still the loyal dog of the Yondaime I see? Already looking for praise," Naruto looked at Kakashi with distaste. The man was his former sensei, a man he thought he could confide in. "Get out of my sight trash," Naruto told the man. He wanted these people gone from his place and his home. These people came and interrupted his life, and he wanted to get back to it. Kakashi this time did show emotion, he looked away in regret and sadness. He knew what Naruto meant, and he just couldn't bring himself to even look at Naruto in eyes because he knew he had broken his former student trust.
All the other of the Konoha group looked on wide-eyed as they looked at their former friend, brother godson, and ally. There was a small sniffle that caught the attention of the group. They all parted ways as Narumi came into view with tears in her eyes and a hand over her mouth. She was holding in her sorrow as she started to walk toward her brother and then she went into a full sprint towards her brother. She was about to pass Minato when she was It was Minato who caught her around the waist to stop her from going towards her brother "Tou-san let me go!" she struggled to get out of her father's grasp.
"If you get any closer he will attack," Minato said having some trouble keeping his daughter restrained. He was not using his full strength mind you, he didn't want to harm his daughter.
Narumi looked up at her brother seeing a small ball of wind in his hand a lightning bolt dancing around the ball of wind. She looked at her brother with a heartbroken expression on her face "Onīchan, please," she was reaching for him trying to just put a hand on her brother to see he was actually there.
"What did I say Minato! Any of them so much as take another step I will kill them! Final warning!" the small tornado in his hand grew to about the size of a basketball and was sparking more ferociously, almost daring for them to take another step. "I don't trust any of you. We are not friends or family." Naruto was done with these people, he had left these people now they came here looking for "Dragon" trying to get him to join their village.
"Naruto stop. Let's just talk." Minato pleaded
"There is nothing to talk about. Take your greeting party, leave and don't ever come back." Naruto replied back as he stared down the Konoha group not letting come any closer to his home. He wanted them gone before the kids were up and if they were already up his wives could only keep them quiet for so long.
"We need your help, the Konohagakure no Sato need your help." Minato was begging at this point. The threat that was coming demanded that he get help from anyone and everyone.
"So you only wanted Dragon's power to help your village?" Naruto snorted at Minato's groveling. "So I guess if I wasn't Dragon you would have let me be huh?"
"No, I knew you were Dragon when I first read about you in the Bingo Book. I knew you were my son and I knew you wouldn't want to see me or any of us," Minato waved his over his group, "Please let me tell you my plea and if you don't like what we say then you tell us to leave and we will." Minato was pulling out all the stops now, he was even willing to get on all fours and beg at his feet if Naruto kept declining his offers, he was ready to offer Naruto anything.
"I am going to tell you more than to leave Minato," Naruto retorted back. "You have thirty seconds starting now." Naruto started the clock in his head.
"The Akatsuki are staring their attack. Iwa and Kumo are at the borders waiting for the perfect time to strike. Their combined attack will wipe us out. We need you "Dragon" to join us so we can survive this ordeal. Please from one man to another help me protect my family and people," Minato started.
"Twenty seconds," Naruto replied back coldly.
"We do not have the manpower, I know you think we came here just looking for a powerful shinobi to join us, but me and your mother knew who you were and we want you back, your sister wants you back, please come home." Minato pleaded he felt his heart as he tried to bring his family back together even if all the pieces were not going to be there.
"Ten seconds," Naruto stated, Minato looked up at his son with a fear-stricken look in his eye, this was not going as planned.
"What else do you want me to say, everything we offered before is still on the table, all of it we will bring you back into the family, you will apart of the village again. We can bury the issues of the past together. Please, we have changed!" Minato had tears in his eyes at this point letting out all the raw emotion that he had buried in him finally coming to the surface.
"Onīchan, please, please come home, to us please!" Narumi broke down at this point tears fell in rapid pace causing the dirt below to dampen slightly.
"Times up, and the answer is still no. Now leave and don't ever come back." Naruto was finally finished with his former village, and he didn't have to worry about going back to them. He gave one final glare to Minato and Jiraiya, who was still being patched up by Tsunade, the look of on their faces was shock.
"Naruto stop we need you to put an end to this conflict," Jiraiya groaned as he got. Tsunade forcibly put him back down to continue to heal him "Come on gaki, this isn't about you or any of us this is about the world!" Jiraiya was losing his patience now. First, the gaki beat him with an inch of his life and was going for the kill shot. Second, he couldn't fathom why he didn't want to save people from his own home 'He has a grudge I get that, but to not want to save the world, what is wrong with him?' Jiraiya was trying to understand Naruto's thoughts and Naruto was giving so little emotion that he was unable to get a read on him.
"I find it funny that you people keep saying need you," Naruto started "If I was just a regular person living a normal life and didn't get my name out there would you have come for me?" He gauged and waited for any of them to answer. They did not say anything, but Minato looked away along with his former sensei. Jiraiya at least stared down Naruto when he saw the reaction of his student and his student's student "Thought so," Naruto sucked in air through his teeth and continued "So much for being a changed. Fuck off and don't come back." Naruto told them as he dismissed the Konoha group.
Jiraiya was finally had enough, he was going to pull one final card he thought he could play "What about Nami no Kuni? What if the fighting comes to your home? I don't think you will be able to defend this place all by yourself!" Jiraiya was trying to pull at Naruto's heartstrings to make him think that he needed Konoha to back up this village he called home 'This will get the kid to see he needs us.'
Naruto took in Jiraiya's words it is a big place for him cover all by himself, and even with his wives who were great fighters in their own respects, six people guarding a village of this size was spreading them thin. However, Naruto was not going to baited by these people "You know I was told the same thing by Itachi when he and Kisame came here looking for Dragon,"
This instantly got the attention of Sasuke whose eyes were spinning at Naruto as he finally spoke up "Where is he?" Sasuke's hand was on his blade ready to draw if Naruto refused to tell him the information he wanted about his brother.
"Hell if I know," Naruto shrugged as he didn't even bother to look at Sasuke "They came, offered me a spot on the Akatsuki, told them to take their offer and shove it. They didn't like my answer gave the same threat you did, and finally, we fought," Naruto this time looked at Sasuke has he felt the heated glare of the Uchiha as Sasuke slid his blade out "Relax, I didn't kill him if that's what you are wondering. Bruised yeah, dead no. Kisame learned that day that a shark can't kill a dragon." Naruto looked at the face of all the people that stood in front of him. Many were shocked that someone as young as Naruto went toe to toe with Kisame the Kirigakure no Kaijin and Itachi and was the one to come out on top. Sasuke was internally relieved as his mission in life was still able to be accomplished, but now looking at Naruto he felt a ping of jealousy that he was unable to so much as a make his brother look at him last time, but Naruto fought him to a standstill.
"Alright enough of the mushy crap, I told you my answer. Now fuck off and don't let the door hit you on the way out." Naruto kept his posture in front of the gate to his home waiting for one of them to make a move. Keeping a close eye on the one guy with the creepy smile on his face.
"Why?!" Narumi cried out as he finally let her go and she was now sitting in the dirt.
"You know why. I am done with your village, keep your problems out of my home, and I'll forget you existed. Fairtrade? Good," Naruto finally opened a small segment of the barrier to go back inside not even seeing out his unwanted guess. If he looked, he would see his father and sister looking like their spirit had been broken. Kakashi wasn't fairing any better as he felt shame, another person he had failed not once, but twice. Tsunade looked as if she wanted to say something to the black haired boy that at one point always had a smile on his face. Kurenai and Asuma looked sadly at their leader and his daughter. The Konoha twelve all had different expression Sasuke, Shino and Neji held a look of no emotion. Tenten, Ino were by Narumi side trying to comfort her. Kiba, Akamaru, Choji, and Shikamaru gave the most extended look at the house before moving watching a friend leave them behind. Lee wanted to go over to Narumi, but with girls around her, he didn't know how to approach her. Gai put his hand on his prized pupil's shoulder and shook his head telling his student to let them be for now. All of them started the long walk down the road, all except Jiraiya.
When Naruto closed the small breach, he walked to his porch not even giving them a second thought. Jiraiya was furious he couldn't take being looked down on by some 'gaki' that was not even half his age. He was just going to show Naruto that he may be old, but he still could teach the kid a thing or two. So Jiraiya took the seal formula he was working on to break the barrier before Naruto nearly killed him. So he took the tag with the formula on it and pressed it on the wooden face that was the conduit for the barrier and watched it shattered. With a smirk, Jiraiya watched as the barrier fell. It was then Jiraiya saw someone dash past him towards the house. Jiraiya's heart sank as he saw it was Sai "What the hell did you do Jiraiya!?" it was Jiraiya's former teammate that yelled the question at him in a grave voice.
Naruto made a mistake because as soon as his back was turned, he felt the barrier burst. Naruto quickly turned and saw the ghostly white kid rushing at him, correction he was heading for the door to the house.
Naruto quickly intercepted him and grabbed him by the face with a metallic arm and claws digging into the kid's face. He followed up with slamming Sai's head into the ground knocking the sense out of the boy. Naruto wasn't finished yet he then started to drag him across the ground leaving a trail behind them. He then jumped high in the air did a spin to gain momentum and then threw Sai. The boy was like a missile in the air as he made contact with Jiraiya, blasting both of them back into the not so far away party.
When Naruto landed, the killing intent flooded the area, his face was a contortion of rage and wrath. He looked at Jiraiya, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front the old Gama Sannin with his whole body now coated in metal. He slammed a fist into the older man's face. He heard a sickening crunch as his fist made contact with Jiraiya's face. He then grabbed the stunned Gama Sannin and began to pummel him. Hearing the commotion behind them, the Konoha group suddenly realized that they were missing three people. Minato quickly putting two and two together and flashed away
Minato flashed to the mark he left on Jiraiya. He arrived to Jiraiya spitting up blood and his face heavily bruised. He saw Sai his face as bloody as or bloodier than Jiraiya, and he was being looked at by Tsunade who was trying her hardest to not just leave the two fools to their fates. Naruto looked at Minato and got into a fighting stance as steam rose out of his mouth "Minato its bad, Jiraiya will live but Sai may be too far gone!" Tsunade was trying to keep the weak pulse from stopping completely.
"Naruto what the hell is going on? What did you do?" Minato questioned his son. As Naruto was now in front of him as he used the metal claws he still had to slash at Minato. Minato braced himself as Naruto went into a frenzy at him slashing and kicking all over. Minato got a cut above his eye that bleeding right into his vision. Minato had enough as he pushed a power downed version of the Rasengan into Naruto's chest. The power down jutsu still sent Naruto back a couple of feet as his metal feet dug into the dirt below him. The metal scales receded back into Naruto's skin, the wrathful look on his face didn't waver.
"Of course! You think it was me who started it huh? Your senile teacher broke my barrier and then pale boy over there went rushing at my home! My home!" Naruto pointed at the critically injured ninja that was part of Minato's group "You know," he gave a sigh at the end as his shoulders slumped in sadness"I thought for once you would be honest and leave me alone," Minato could see the hurt-filled looked that was now spread on his son's face "Guess I was wrong though," Naruto brought his fists up to his waist and he gave a mighty roar as he called upon the power in him. Black flames now danced around his body as the scales around his eyes seemed to branch out more and more around his face, mainly in the cheek and nose areas. "You wanted came here looking for help in a war. Well, guess what Minato? You just started another war!" Naruto yelled charging at his father with the black fire now focused in his right hand. He jumped towards his father and giving a battle cry we swung the black fired fist downward as Minato flicked a kunai in the air.
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Arthur's Notes
(1). They are all wearing what they wore in Shippuden. With Narumi, I was thinking of a clone of Kushina with her hair in the high ponytail and her outfit is like Tsunade's top but white with the red swirl and sleeves. The mesh underneath is like Anko's. The bottom of her outfit is like the standard jounin like Kakashi has in the series.
(2). Naruto's outfit is like what Natsu had in the Grand Magic Games arc. The hood he had on was like the Hylian Hood from Zelda: BOTW except black with a white dragon on it that runs from the hood to the cape part of it. The dragon I was thinking like how the Mayans and Aztecs had drawn dragons with just lines and with little detail.
By all means guys if I messed something up please point it out in the comments. I had found an English to Japanese translator so if any the words I use are out of context or just outright wrong, please tell me I will fix them. Also, first fanfic so don't rip me too bad.
