Naruto: Dragon Sage
By: Darksider82
Beta: Winged Seer Wolf
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"Chat and jutsu"
Thoughts
Bijuu talking
Bijuu thoughts
Chapter I: Awakening
"YOU FAIL!" Shouted Iruka through his patented 'Big head jutsu' and Naruto collapsed looking thoroughly dejected and distraught. This was the second time he had tried and failed to do the blasted 'bunshin' and 'henge' jutsu's and yet time and time again he failed to perform them much to the classes' amusement.
"That's it from me now you have the test on Kekkei genkai's next." Naruto groaned and packed up his stuff and headed out the classroom, the moment he was out the door he sprinted for the academy doors and was hurtling along the rooftops and heading for his apartment.
Naruto let himself him and he slung his backpack into the corner of his room and he went into the kitchen where he sat at the table, buried his face into his hands and wept. "Why? Why does this always happen to me? Why do I keep failing at these stupid jutsu's. How can I become hokage if I can't pass the academy? I need to learn this stuff but the academy sensei's purposefully neglect my training."
However deep inside him a primal entity began to stir, the entity sat in the darkness and looked at the sewer it was stuck in and opened a yellow slitted eye. Slowly Progenitus the dragon primarch, boss of the dragon contract and Naruto's bonded spirit guide and partner stirred. It had been eons since he had found a Namikaze worthy of being the true dragon sage and not a sage of one of thirteen dragon clans.
"Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto, I shall guide and train you." He said in a deep booming growl that ricocheted around the boy's mind shaking him free of his weeping.
"Whose their?" He called in his mind and out loud. All he heard inside of his mind was a deep growling laughter and an eerie silence in his apartment.
"Go and see the old man in the tower and tell him 'I hear voices in my head and they talk to me.'" The voice instructed and Naruto grinned weakly and placed his 'No-one can get me down' Megawatt grin mask in place and he jumped out of his window and scuttled along the rooftops to the hokage tower.
The sandaime hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen the 'Professor', 'God of Shinobi' and 'Teacher of the Legendary Sannin' sat behind his desk glowering at the paperwork and occasionally at the three other Hokage in their portraits above him.
'Damn you lazy fuckers and curse Minato Namikaze for dying on me before telling me the secret of defeating the paper work.' He thought dryly as he stamped 'DENIED' across some bill or another the civilian council tried to push through.
'Nidaime-sensei, what were you on when you issued this bill? It certainly looks good on paper but in action it is a waste of time, resources and energy.' He thought as he scribbled 'APPROVED' on a medical bill and a jutsu project.
Suddenly the door burst open and Naruto stuck his head in. "JIJI! I need to talk to you about something." He shouted excitedly causing the old man to sigh and place the document he was reading over down and lit his pipe. 'This should be interesting' He thought to himself as he gestured for the young boy who he thought had been through so much it was unreal and he thought of as his grandson to take a seat. He was not prepared for what he heard.
"Something in my head told me to tell you 'I hear voices in my head and they talk to me.' What does that mean jiji?" Asked Naruto for once not acting like an overactive ball of sunshine and acted more like a young Namikaze Minato who gave him a letter and instructions should his Kekkei Genkai resurfaced.
The hokage nodded "Naruto-kun, your father had the same Kekkei Genkai as you and he called it the Dragon Line. He didn't tell me what this line contained and what it could do but he left instructions and a letter. He also left me further instructions to not give you the letter until you were either chunin or eighteen years old. The reason for that was because he made many enemies and these enemies wouldn't hesitate in trying to eliminate you because of your heritage."
Naruto nodded and looked at the ground he was so close to learning about his father. "What about my kaa-san?" He asked thickly his eyes glassing over.
The old man sighed and pulled out a letter "This is one of two letters from your kaa-san. This one will tell you about hers and your heritage. The other you will get when you make genin, she also made some powerful enemies but not so dangerous with that the old man passed Naruto the two letters.
Naruto opened the first one from his father.
Ohayo sochi,
Listen I don't have enough time to say hi and introduce myself. I'm really sorry a thousand times as a massive nine tailed fox is heading our way. If you're reading this than a thousand more regrets that I can't help you with our Kekkei Genkai.
Now about it, it's our draconian heritage. What that basically entails is a much more durable body meaning it takes bigger jutsu to injure and kill us. It grants us resistance from disease with an increased healing factor and a massive chakra reserve.
That is all the immediate effects, the secondary effects are a growth in height meaning all of our family regardless of what they have to eat will reach around 2 metres in height or 6foot. It will grant us an immediate skill or skills specialisation for me it was Fuuinjutsu and ninjutsu.
Expect an unparallel control over a particular element or elements when you summon your dragon guide and dragons from the dragon contract when it arrives. Don't ask me how but it knows that the family lives on. Oh and by the way the growth is a painful experience.
Lots of love sochi, don't let those bastards of villagers get you down besides what do they know about Fuuinjutsu? Please don't hate me for what I'm about to do as its already hard enough because I wouldn't want anyone to do anything I wouldn't.
Tou-san.
Fox prepare for an ass whipping.
Naruto had to bite back a tearful grin. His father cared about him and it appeared he was a selfless man. Eager to find out about his mother he ripped open the letter.
My little sochi
I'm sorry that you're reading this because myself and your father have died sealing the nine tailed fox inside you.
Anyhow as you have Uzumaki heritage I'll tell you about what you are about to inherit. We are known for our longevity we can live to around our hundreds and still look young.
We also have pure chakra manipulation meaning we can create proper formed weapons out of our chakra such as chains and swords. We are also blessed with disease resistance, healing and minor regeneration though I do really recommend that you do not experiment with this.
Good luck sochi I wish we are both with you.
Love Kaa-san.
Naruto sniffled and tucked the letters inside his tracksuit just as his body contracted and he collapsed to the floor. "Don't worry, just the changes kicking in." He grunted as he slowly made his way to his feet.
Naruto staggered through the door just as his leg muscles convulsed and he fell down the entire six hundred and sixty six stairs to the floor where everyone outside heard a multitude of cracks, snaps and crunches.
Naruto grunted as he felt the bones in the left hand side of his body break and slowly also through his chakra felt them physically reform and mend soon enough it happened again on the other side.
Naruto staggered out into the open only to be grabbed by the ANBU and whisked away to his apartment via a mass shunshin. "So none of those jerks try to kill you...Besides you look like a monster." The Bear masked ANBU commented with a grin.
Naruto looked in the pristine mirror in the hallway from the kitchen and he his jaw hit the floor. His entire body looked like it was from Frankenstein minus the bad stitching and scar tissue. His arms were at odd lengths and there were oddly protruding bones emerging from various parts of his body. Suddenly the muscles in his throat seized up as did the muscles in his chest.
Naruto blacked out, crumpled and landed spread eagled on the wooden floor from the pain. Had he managed to remain awake he would have found his spine disconnecting and stretched itself out making it long and slowly reconnecting it. Followed by the destruction and relocation of his internal organs and ribcage as they moved and moulded together again like a grotesque version of tetris.
Then the boys legs broke, extended and reattached themselves. The clothes that smothered the young draconian were now in tatters. The last but not least thing to change was the boys facial structure. All of the baby fat that gathered around his face making the whiskers look like birth marks slowly receded revealing a strong facial structure and a slender jaw line. It wouldn't take a genius to recognise Naruto's heritage but hey they were in a village that most people couldn't tell a sealing scroll to its contents.
Finally Naruto's skin colour finally tanned a bit and if you looked closely on his arms you could make out fine lines making a scale like pattern on the skin. This meant with the right amount of chakra the soft fleshy human skin could immediately erupt into scales making a walking armour that was tougher and more resistant to any jutsu than the best ANBU issued armour.
It wasn't until two days later as the changes took all night and the majority of the next day which was finished off by Naruto sleeping in his hallway did Umino Iruka come looking. Iruka was possibly the only chunin at the academy that gave a damn about Naruto and helped the boy read, write and all of the essentials of education to turn him into something of a passable ninja.
"Naruto, you all right?" Iruka asked frantically as he practically ripped the door off its hinges and saw the unconscious blond on the hallway floor. 'What has happened Naruto? You must have grown at least half a foot to ten inches. You were definitely a small kid but now you must be one of the tallest in the class. Just who ARE...'
Then Iruka looked out the kitchen window at the hokage mountain his eyes fixed specifically on the Yondaime. 'Now, if we gave that head messy blonde hair and Naruto's skin colour and blue eyes...KAMI! NARUTO's FATHER IS THE YONDAIME! Okay calm down Iruka, calm down just inform the hokage and see what he says. Mention the changes in Naruto.'
Iruka looked around at the faint groaning and saw Naruto slowly get up. "Hey Iruka-sensei...IRUKA-SENSEI! I'M REALLY REALLY SORRY ABOUT SKIPPING CLASSES JUST MY KEKKEI GENKAI AWOKE AND THE TRANSFORMATION WAS REALLY PAINFUL! SO MUCH I BLACKED OUT..." Then Naruto realised he was standing just his underwear which was too tight and the remains of his jumpsuit.
"NOOOOOO! MY CLOTHES! THAT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT I COULD WEAR WITHOUT BEING RIPPED OFF! MY LETTERS!" Naruto screamed out tears streaming down his face as he rummaged through the scraps of his clothing until he found the letters that his parents had written before going to fight the Kyuubi.
'Yes, I have you. I thought I had lost you.' Naruto thought as he held the letters close to him.
Iruka stared at the conundrum that was his favorite student and also his surrogate little brother. The boy in the academy seemed to be a complete knucklehead, unable to study, constantly pranking people but now in his apartment he seemed vulnerable and confused. "Naruto-kun, I need to go and see the hokage about your absence and your physical changes and then I'll bring you some of my old clothes. They should fit you." Naruto nodded in thanks and hugged the man.
"Thanks Iruka-sensei...It means a lot." He murmured softly and Iruka vanished in a puff of smoke.
Iruka left and a small smile left Naruto's lips "Time for training, let's see what Kaa-chan's heritage can allow me to do." He murmured to himself subconsciously licking his lips.