Legend of the Draconian Ninja

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"Hey" – normal speech

'baka' – normal thought

"Dobe" – demon/ P.O human speech

'what' – demon thought

Rasengan - jutsu

Many years before the Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked Konohagakure no sato, the village hidden in the leaves, an attempt was made by the villagers of Ryugakure no sato, the village hidden among dragons, to protect themselves from any and all bijuu, including the destroyed Juubi. In order to do this they attempted to create a being of unparalleled power, a jubbi no ryu, or ten tailed dragon. In this they were successful. With the guardian dragon in place even the Ichibi no tanuki and Kyuubi no Kitsune learned quickly to avoid the citizens of ryugakure and its surrounding land, the land of legends. However because of the lack of fighting the guardian eventually got bored.

When this happened the dragon began to make strikes against the village he was supposed to protect. At first it was only the occasional headache, mostly resulting in more of the one enemy every Kage fears – the dreaded paperwork. However soon the mighty dragon, which at this point was known as the oni ryu, went too far and began to attack some of the village civilians. When this happened the council began to demand for the beast to be destroyed.

Many of the younger ninja of the village attempted to do just that, however they quickly learned that a being composed of pure chakra and the darkest thoughts of the human heart cannot be defeated by strength of deed. No this beast had to be defeated by the strongest thing in the elemental nations – the strength of a parent's heart.

The yondaime ryukage – the fourth dragon shadow, hailed by many as the greatest ninja of his time was faced with an impossible choice: to sacrifice his own flesh and blood to be a container for the mighty dragon and more than likely endure suffering that no man, or for that matter human should have to bear, or let the village he swore to protect with his life be destroyed.

Soon however he decided that he would entrust his predecessor with the charge of looking out for the village, and more importantly, his son. 'Besides', he thought with a smug look on his face, 'at least this way I get out of having to do anymore of that blasted paperwork'.

He thus decided that in order to save the many innocent lives of the villagers he would do the one thing that he was afraid he would have to do since he found out his wife, she who was known far and wide as the "fury of the dragon", was expecting a son. As soon as the beast was in range he would use a technique that the Nidaime had created specifically for this purpose. It was used to seal any being, no matter how powerful, into one of the purest things in the world – a new born child.

Summoning his most trusted battle mount , the mighty ryukage had tears in his eyes as he began to execute the hand seals necessary to complete this most power fuuinjutsu.

As he reached the end he looked at his son and said " I am truly sorry, my son that you had to be the one to hold the beast at bay for as long as you live. I only pray that when you find out about the dragon and your relationship to be you find it in your heart to forgive me for what I must do to protect the village. I'm sorry son, but maybe you will be able to prove to be a better shinobi than even me." With that said the seal took hold of the mighty dragon and he was sealed, all of his power and knowledge inside an infant too young to even know what a terrible burden he bore.

His name was Drago, the Jinchuriki of the Juubi no Ryu. This is his story.

AN: Gomen that the chapter is so short. I hope to make my subsequent chapters longer. This is my first fanfiction so don't flame me too much. I will update as often as I can but I do have a life that takes up more time. Plus I suffer from a fairly rare version of writers block. That is to say that instead of having absolutely no ideas for this story, I have too many ideas to put down. So until next time, this is HRK signing off.