It was nighttime in the great village of konohagakure, and three figures could be seen standing on top of the outer wall of the village. They all wore the same black cloaks with red cloud patterns, shinobi sandals and a ring around their finger. One had the symbol of zero, one the symbol of green, and one of the symbol of north. (zero, sei and hoku). The first of the three figures had shoulder-length red hair with a single bang hanging over one eye, a sickly pale complexion and strange rippled eyes. The second was slightly shorter with blonde hair in a long ponytail, blue eyes and a near-psychotic smirk plastered across his face. While the last one was the tallest of the three, with a whopping 6.7 feet, strange pupilless eyes with green irises, and red sclera formed in a permanent scowl, a dark skin tone and long shaggy brown hair. His mouth was covered in a black cloth.
"leader-sama, remind me why we're here again, hmm?" the blonde questioned the redhead. The leader looked up, and his mouth formed a thin line.
"Because my spy network has spotted the nine-tailed jinchuuriki in this damnable village. He's still young, so he should be an easy capture, isn't that right, kakuzu?" the redhead answered. Still looking down at the village with a harsh glare. The tan giant grinned under his facemask.
"Indeed, Nagato. He SHOULD be an easy capture, plus if we take him down first, the other bijuu should be easy as well." He replied in his low-raspy voice. The blond boy looked up, and grinned at the leader.
"Can I-"
"No, Deidara, you cannot blow anything up." Nagato interrupted the now pouting fifteen-year old.
They jumped down, and ran through the alleyways as music could be heard from the center of the village. It was october tenth, meaning that the festival of the fourth was going on. It had been one year since the fourth hokage sacrificed himself to 'kill' the kyuubi no yoko, and save the village from It's demise. In the distance, shouts, laughter and singing could be heard, but the three members of akatsuki paid no heed to it as they made their way to their desitination: the old orphanage where their prize was waiting to be claimed.
Nagato stopped in the alleyway across the orphanage, and gave the others the signal to wait. The two shot him questionable glances. Nagato did not turn around as he started to speak.
"Ya know, I used to have a twin sister. Her name was Kushina."
Deidara raised an eyebrow.
"So what? What does your sister have to do with this, hmm? She's already dead isn't she?"
Nagato nodded.
"Yes she is, but her son isn't. he's in there. He is the nine tailed jinchuuriki… uzumaki naruto is my cousin." He suddenly turned around, his rinnegan flaring at full force.
"I will protect him against ourselves… please don't hold this against me."
Before they could move, nagato activated his human and naraka paths, ripping out their chackra, and memories about how to use jutsus. He sealed them into a scroll, and used his preta path to summon the king of hell. He threw the two stunned men into it's mouth. As it retracted into the ground, he could hear the bloodcurling screams of the two unfortunate hellbound men. He deactivated his three paths, and undid his black robe. the redhead then used a small katon jutsu to turn the coat into ashes. When he was done, he crossed the street, and entered the small house. For about twenty minutes, he searched the place for his nephew's whereabouts, until he found the toddler sleeping in the closet. He was underfed, and had multiple scars running across his body. Nagato grimaced at the pitiful sight of his kid nephew.
"Hey there squirt… I'm normally not much of a talker, so I won't give you a speech while you're sleeping. You will face impossible hardships if you stay here. All I want to say is… sorry for not being there for you kid… goodbye."
He then did the impossible thing. He ripped his own chackra from his body, and let it run into the sleeping boy. When he was nearly out of chakra, he made a ram seal, and once again the king of hell appeared. Nagato picked the boy up, walked into the king of hell and ordered it to open up in a different dimention. As the jaws of the beast opened up, he looked around. To his right was a cave, and to his left a magma field. Taking his chances, he wobbled over to the cave.
'I won't survive for very long here. I need to hurry, and find him a parent before-'
His thoughts were interrupted by a deep rumble. Nagato looked up, to see an immense creature. It looked like a gigantic lizard, with brown, rocky skin with red glowing veins running across its body, yellow eyes, and humongous wings. Its teeth were yellow-ish, sharp, and looked like they could hurt like a bitch. The strangest thing about the creature was, though that with intervals, steam shot out of its back, like a geyser. The creature looked nagato dead in the eyes, before lowering its gaze to the sleeping naruto. It pointed its sharp black claw to the child.
"human… why did you bring this hatchling here?"
It spoke in a surprisingly gentle feminine tone. The beast sounded honestly surprised, for no-one dared to enter her ancient territory. Nagato quirked an eyebrow at the still unidentified beast.
"let me counter that question with another question, noble beast. Who are you?"
The beast rumbled again, however this time it sounded like a chuckle.
"you have guts, human… I like that, very well. My name is Fiamma, the great magma dragon. My power is only outmatched by acnologia and I am only matched by the bastard igneel. Now answer my question." The dragon responded.
Nagato nodded, and raised the still sleeping bundle. "this is my nephew. I will not beat around the bush and be honest. I am dying because of my disease, and little Naruto here has nobody left but me. In his village he was hated for something he had no control over, so I took him with me to find the kid some suitable parents before I kick the bucket. Which is somewhere between one hour, and one day from now. I can feel myself grow weaker by the minute." The dragon nodded, and lowered her head towards the toddler. She took a deep whiff, before grumbling and nodding to herself.
"human. This child has some seriously powerful and dense magic potential. Close to that of a wizard saint."
'no idea what she's talking about, but I take it that's a good thing.'
Fiamma nodded again as if confirming something in her head. She showed the man a disarming toothy grin.
"very well. As it is right now, cultists will notice his potential if he's let into the human parts of the world, and kidnap him to turn him into a mindless slave for their sick plans." Nagato lowered his gaze, feeling guilty for exposing naruto yet again to danger.
"However… I cannot simply stand by to see a child so young be broken, tortured and orphaned. Besides, he will need some serious training if he doesn't want to literally explode in a magic burst. Therefore I shall take him under my wing to raise and train him in my own magics: the lost arts of magma dragon slayer magic, iron-make magic, and stone-make magic."
Nagato raised his gaze again in shock. 'a dragon, raising a human? How's that even possible?'
As if reading his mind, Fiamma grinned again. "though uncommon, it is not unheard of that a child is being raised by dragons. We have strong parental instincts, and often see human children as our own hatchlings. Plus dragon slayer, while exhausting, is considered as one of the five most powerful magic types in this world. Only topped by god slayer magic and death magic. However death magic is forbidden, and god slayers are often quite demented people with a twisted view on the world."
Nagato smiled at the rock-scaled giant.
"If you are sure that you want to raise naruto. Then I do not have any choice then to trust you… Fiamma… thank you. I have one final thi-" was all he could say before he lurched forward, and gripped his heart and coughing up a lot of blood.
"Shit (huff) I see that (huff) my time is (huff) up." he wheezed. He reached in his shirt, and pulled out a scroll.
"this contains the powers (huff) of two powerful men that tried to (huff) kill naruto. One power contains the power of (huff) explosions, while the other holds (huff) elemental control over fire, water, earth, wind (huff) and lightning… give it to naruto when you deem him (huff) smart enough to not blow his own head off (huff) with a piece of rock. I gave him my powers to (huff) control gravity, and turn himself into (huff) a living machine at will." He placed both the sleeping child, and the scroll in the massive hand of Fiamma, before coughing another storm of blood.
He summoned the king of hell again, and stepped in.
"Whatever you will do with your life, naruto is your choice… live well. Love well. And be the most powerful mage you can be… naruto. Farewell."
With that nagato let out his last breath, and fell forward into the jaws of the king of hell. The head closed its mouth, and dispelled itself to sleep until the next bearer of the rinnegan would summon him.
Fiamma looked down at the young child, that woke up during nagato's coughing fit. Naruto looked up with big blue eyes full of curiosity and innocence at the big thing that stared at him. He gurgled a bit, and put his arms up, gripping one of her claws. He giggled a bit and Fiamma chuckled for a bit.
"Not afraid of me, eh? I can see that you will be a real powerful mage when I'm done with you."
Seven years later Fiore, X770
"WAAAAAH!" BOOM!
Fiamma facepalmed as she watched he adopted son blow up, yet another stone golem with a magma-infused punch, but it blew up in his face and he was, yet again hurled into one of the many magma pools. After about two seconds, he shot out of it again, his pants on fire, and magma dripping off of his skin.
"SHIT THAT HURTS!" he roared angrily
"okay.. now it's enough" the blonde roared at the still moving golems, who turned to him. Naruto bent down, and began to inhale the magma under his feet, healing his wounds, and refilling his strength.
"YORYUU NO… HOUKO!" he roared as a small blob of molten rock flew towards his opponents. The blob hit one of the golems in the chest, and started to melt through it. The golem grumbled, before succumbing to gravity, falling down and not getting up again. Soon the golem sank back into the ground, in order to become a lifeless chunk of rock once again.
Fiamma nodded approvingly. True. The golem was only one thousandth of her own power, but even some adult mages had trouble defeating only one. Naruto defeated two of them in under five minutes.
"hey, Fiamma-kaachan! Did you see that? I finally did a roar!" naruto jumped up and down in excitement. His slitted blue eyes glimmering in pride and his sharp toothy grin showing.
"very good sochi. However you still lack the necessary firepower behind it. For now, I want you to use your iron-make to make some targets, and repeatedly fire your roar at them. If you can melt fourty targets in one shot, I'll give you something awesome. Got it?"
The eight year old was incredibly estatic at the prospect of a gift, so he went to work.
"iron-make: steel pillars" immediately fifty pillars shot out of the ground and walls, and the kid went back to work.
Fiamma watched in great pride how the child's attack grew larger and stronger with every shot. By the end of the day, naruto could destroy four pillars in one shot. Disappointed that he hadn't reached his goal yet, he went to bed. Dead set on getting his goal the next day.
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