The Reptilian Legend_
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Demon/summoning/Inner Sakura/ enraged Jinkurichi talking"
'Demon/summoning/ Inner Sakura/ enraged Jinkurichi thinking'
/Dragons talking/
/Dragons thinking/
"Talking in demon language"
/Talking in Dragon language/
Justus
~~~~~~~Dreams~~~~~~~
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(Flashback)
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Chapter 1: The Pretty Gem
Naruto sighed from his place at the fire. He was currently sitting in a small underground cave with a smokeless fire blazing. It was October tenth, the day the Kyuubi attacked causing many people to die including the Yondaime, and it was also his seventh birthday. Every day since he was able to walk, the villagers and some of the shinobi would attack him and beat him up. These beatings usually got much worst a couple of days from his birthday. So starting around the time of his fifth birthday Naruto decided to hide out deep in the forest. It was by pure chance that he found this under ground cave, was just walking around searching for a shelter when he fell through the floor.
"Well now what?" Naruto mumbled to himself. "It's always so boring here. I should have brought something for me to do, like Iruka-sensei's homework or something… nah!"
"Then why don't you go exploring down here? You never did that in the two years you've been coming here." A deep voice said from the back of Naruto's mind.
"You again, who the hell are you? And why am I the only one that who can hear you?" Naruto exclaimed not expecting an answer from the mysterious voice. He had been able to hear that voice since he was three, though it usually only talks to him when he's in trouble or about to get a beating, on full moons and on his birthday.
Sighing Naruto got up, 'well since there's nothing else to do…' Naruto turned to his left spotting two tunnels and going down the one to the right. The tunnel he took felt as if it was sloping down going deeper into the earth.
An hour later
Naruto quickened his pace as he saw a light up a head. As Naruto reached the light, he found that he was in a large cavern with glowing white crystals in clusters on the floor and ceiling. He noticed that the walls had weird writings and drawings on them. He also noticed that there were five different tunnels off of this room; each had a different glow to it.
The one to the far left of Naruto was a golden color. The one after that was a forest green color. The one directly in the middle was a blood red color. The one after that was a glowing bluish black color. And finally the tunnel to the far right was a purple color.
Turning away from those tunnels Naruto looked to the nearest wall.
"Man I wish I knew what these writings said." He said as his shoulders slumped lightly.
Shrugging he focused more one the pictures. The first picture he saw was of a mighty looking reptilian beast, it had a long neck and bat like wings. It was scaly all over its body and had a long muzzle. It also had two large horns on the top of its head with smaller ones going down its neck and back.
The next picture was of a serpent like beast with two tentacle things coming from its snout. It also had two large horns on its head, only instead of having spikes going down its head and back, it had a mane of hair that ended at the tip of its tail.
As Naruto continued around the room he saw many different beasts all slightly resembling the first two and all of many different colors. He also saw pictures of people with the strange creatures, only these humans had pointed ears. Some of the pictures were of fierce battles, both with the humans and without. Finally he saw a picture of what looked like the very cave he was standing in.
The picture was of the cave, one of the strange beast, and one of the pointy eared humans. The human was holding a medium sized glowing rock, and looked like he was making a decision of which tunnel to put it in.
Looking at the picture next to it he saw the man standing in a golden lit room with the rock on a pedestal.
"I wonder if that person put that pretty shiny rock in one of these tunnels." Naruto mumbled to himself as he stood in front of the tunnels looking between each of them.
"Well since he was in a golden lit room let's go down this one!" he said as he walks over to the golden lit tunnel.
Right before he stepped in the tunnel, he had a strange feeling in his guts. 'Maybe I shouldn't choose lightly. That rock looked important so that guy might have placed traps.'
Backing a way from the tunnel, Naruto once again studied each one of them. Pasted by cave after cave getting bad feeling after bad feeling, until he reached the glowing bluish-black tunnel. Naruto shivered, 'maybe not this one either.' He thought a he walked past that one towards the purple cave, as he was about to step in that tunnel the bad feeling came back ten times worst then the other tunnels.
"Okay not that one, I get it!" Naruto exclaimed as he moved back over to the creepy bluish-black tunnel, and went down that one.
Two hours later
Naruto sighed in frustration as he continued down the winding and poorly lit tunnel. 'I knew I should have went down the gold one. Stupid instinct, I usually can rely on you.'
As Naruto rounded one more bend he saw a soft golden glow a little ways away.
"Finally!" he said as he ran the rest of the way into the cavern, ecstatic to see the pedestal and the pretty rock sitting on it.
'Or is that a really huge gem?' Naruto thought as he got a closer look at it. It was a shiny black color with skinny white vain like lines all over it.
Looking around Naruto noticed three statues of those strange beasts, one on each side of the pedestal, and one near the wall behind the pedestal. The one to the left stood on two legs, it had an iguana like head with a mane, it also had short arms and clawed hands. Its tail was wrapped around its clawed feet coming a little bit off of the ground to show the two deadly points on either side.
The one to the right stood regally on four legs, with deadly claws tipping massive paws (huh that rhymed). It had huge bat like wings that seemed to frame its muscular body. It had two large horns facing backwards, and smaller horns starting from it's head all the way down it's back to its tail.
And the last one that was behind the pedestal had a serpentine like body, with two long cord-like whiskers, one on either side of its muzzle. It two horns and a long line of what looked like fur going down the length of its body.
Naruto felt a sudden compulsion to pick up the rock. Reaching to grab it, Naruto was surprised at how heavy the medium sized rock was. It was only about 12 inches but it felt like it weighed a ton.
'Why is this so heavy?'
"Because your weak." the deep voice returned, but before Naruto could reply there were loud cracking noises.
Naruto stared in horror as the three statues seem to turn there heads to him.
"Yeah, I think you should probably run now, and fast to!"
Naruto nodded to the voice as he turned around and scrambled away, all the while hearing the sounds of breaking rocks as they cracked and fall to the floor.
Finally making it out of that cave Naruto blinked as the sunlight nearly blinded him.
'How long was I in that place?' Naruto that as he finally realized he still had the rock held tightly in his arms.
'It really is very pretty!' Naruto thought with childish glee.
Naruto let out a delighted giggle as he stroked the smooth surface.
He heard the strange voice chuckle lightly but ignored it in favor of getting his precious stone home without catching the villagers' attention. They would surely take his new found treasure if they found it. With that in mind Naruto crept through the forest towards his apartment building not daring to go through the village.
Once getting as close as he could to his home, Naruto looked around finding the streets deserted at this part of the two. Darting out from the protection of the trees, Naruto was able to successfully make it into his house without problem.
Finding a small old blanket Naruto wrapped his new treasure and put it under a loose floor board with the rest of his precious things.
Once that was taking care of, Naruto headed out to go get some ramen from Ichiraku.
TBC
A/N okay I really shouldn't be making another story but this was really bugging me! Hoped you liked it please R&R
Ja Ne
