Chapter 2
/ 7 years later
October 10th
Village Hidden in the Leaves /
It had been seven long years since the nine tailed foxed demon known as Kyuubi had been defeated and killed by the great Forth Hokage. The village had celebrated every year on this day, for the kids there were many small games, and while for the older generation it was a day to talk and drink. And for those that had lost friends, family, or loved ones to the demon, it was a day to remembering them. But it was not all fun and games.
To one person in the Leaf Village it was a day of dread and fear. Naruto Uzumaki was currently making his way around the village avoiding the large groups of people. He had a very good reason for this, because though he did like being the center of attention at times with his many pranks. Today was a day that being seen could lead to his death. As the older generation of the village had started last year a new game called Fox Hunt. In which they would try and find and kill the fox, it did not help that Naruto was that fox.
If you were to look at him nothing seemed out of the normal for his world. He had messy blonde hair with bright blue eyes that seemed to sparkle with excitement. He looked to be only about 5 years old even if he was currently seven years of age. He was would normally be seen wearing a white shirt and blue shorts. Both of which had patching marks all over them, from age and wear. There was only a few things that stood out about him to most normal people. His ears with the slight point to them, silted eyes, claw like finger nails, and the fact he had whisker like marks on his cheeks.
As he moved across a back street he smiled lightly to himself. No one had yet noticed him so far that day, but as he carefully moved up the wall a shout caused him to lose his grip and fall back the ground rather hard. Shouts of "demon" and "monster" were heard at the alleys ends causing Naruto to curse as he heard them.
Jumping from his back to his feet he looked around and noticed that someone had indeed seen him and already a group of people was heading towards him. Casting an eye up the wall he knew he could not climb it fast enough to escape so he did the next best thing and took off down the alley.
"Why me," was all Naruto could ask himself as he ran around a corner and down the street not slowing down in the slightest. He dodged around people, up and over a cart and under the next one as to lose his pursuers. Smiling he noticed he was now completely out of sight of them as he moved along . It was the one of the few advantages he had to being so small. One he could move through place no one else could, and two he was a lot faster than most people realized.
"At least there are no ninjas right now," he said to himself as he skidded around a corner and kept moving along. If he glanced back though he would have realized this was not true at all. Three mid ranked ninja, Chuunin, and one high ranked ninja, Jonin, were closing in on him. And while they had not used any jutsu yet, that did not mean the danger was gone.
Naruto kept weaving through the alleys and down the main streets when he could, carefully but quickly making his way to the Hokage's tower. He knew he just had to make it to the upper floor and he would be safe from this hunt, but it was not meant to be. As he got close to the last corner before it was a straight away to the tower he felt a pain in his legs as something entered into them. Gasping he tripped and fell hard rolling to a stop on the gravel road.
"Hahaha, I finally caught you at last you demon," said a Jonin that had been following. He moved over with his Chuunin friends and tied Naruto up and began dragging him back down the road towards the mob of people that had been trying to follow Naruto. Looking back he smirked at Naruto's legs where two of his thrown Kunai were stuck. Finally safely out of sight the Chuunin left and brought the mob of people to were the Jonin stood waiting.
"Looking for this… thing?" he asked holding up Naruto as if he were some prized animal. The villagers nodded smirking and grinning with a drunk and evil look. The Jonin toss him over to the people as they moved forward to beat Naruto up.
As they started to beat on him the Anbu that was supposed to be watching him, were searching for him in every location they could think of, but they were not having any luck. Naruto had given them the slip earlier by accident mostly. And when they had finally noticed they had almost panic and started looking for him at once.
But as they as they felt a spike of chakra they realized where he was. Each of Naruto's guards had to memorize Naruto chakra signature so if it ever flared they could move straight to it. But this was weird, as while they could tell it was Naruto chakra that caused the main spike they felt three smaller spikes as well right near him. Fearing the worse they moved along quickly just in case something worse was happening.
As they got closer they saw flashes of light coming from an alley, landing in the street they were they were shocked at what they saw in front of them. Before then were 3 dragons that seemed to have taken out the entire group of people that had seemed to be chasing Naruto. Not one of mob had been left alive after the first assault, though the ninja that had caught Naruto had avoided it barely. At this time the four ninja jumped in that had helped caught Naruto before.
The Anbu noticing this moved in moved into to stop the three Chuunin and one Jonin. But before they could stop them the dragon moved to take out the four. Purple and Gold colored dragon seemed to speed up for a second as it crashed into the two Chuunin. The first one was killed with a strike to the heart from the dragon's claws, while the second seemed to be shocked his body spasming a little before he fell over.
The other Chuunin passed by a shadow only to be blasted sideways as a wall of shadow seemed to come off the shadow and hit him. A black dragon appeared from the same shadow and attacked the fallen Chuunin killing him in a second. The Jonin did not have a chance to notice this as he got close to Naruto to land a blow. But he was knocked to the side a large tail came in contact with his side sending him into a wall nearby. The final large and black dragon shot an angry look at the Jonin before a fireball came from its mouth and enveloped the Jonin frying him.
The leader of the group of the ANBU stopped and stared at the power the 3 dragons in slight shock. No one was alive of the group that had tried to hurt Naruto. This was something until itself as a Jonin was not a ninja that was easily beaten. Sighing they landed in the alley and moved towards the dragon. They tensed when the dragon's all turned their attention on themselves.
"What do you want Human?" The Captain and his Anbu squad looked around for the person who said that, until they realized with a little shock that the voice had come from one of the dragons.
Thinking fast he replied, "We are here to help that boy you are guarding."
This time he noticed it was the purple Dragon that spoke, "Really and how do we know that for sure? After all you could just be back up to help harm Naruto. Also if you are trying to help him why did you not help him before he was attacked?"
"I am not sure how I can prove it to you but it was our job to guard Naruto and as for why we were not guarding him…" he seemed a little mad and happy at the same time, "he slipped out of sight when we were not looking."
The dragon nodded his head at the statement since he knew that that was their job, even if Naruto made it hard for them at times even if by accident. He spoke again, "You may look at his wounds but you make one move to harm him you will all be killed."
Now while the Captain did believe they would no doubt try to carry it out this threat he was not too worried about it. While he was sure that the Dragons would attack if they did make a wrong move, if only by accident, then they should have a good chance to reach a safe distance. So with a nod at the masked Anbu, Cat, the rest of his team went to work to check all the damage that had been done.
While Cat checked Naruto's wounds, the larger of the two black dragons moved around to see what Cat was doing. The first thing Cat noticed was that Naruto was out cold but with a quick scanning jutsu Cat saw it was just a faint, simple faint, probably from lack of chakra. The jutsu also showed that Naruto's only current wounds were those on his legs. She checked the wound marks and notice they had already healed a good deal though there was the slightest glow coming from the edge of the closing wound. Signaling that Naruto was just fine Cat got up and help finishing the clean up.
"Check the Jonin, if he is still alive take him to Ibiki," said the Captain as the bodies were taken away to be identified. The dragons had moved closer to Naruto while this had been going on, then as before with another flash of light two of them left leaving only the purple one still watching them.
"Where did the others dragons go?" asked Goat seeing this.
"Back into the seal," stated the dragon. The group was a little shocked at this after all that seal was the only thing hold back Kyuubi and, if these dragon could get through then what was to say Kyuubi could not get through. But almost the moment this though crossed their minds the dragon spoke again, "And before you worry too much the seal is just fine and Kyuubi cannot get out of it unless Naruto says he will allow it."
The Anbu leader nodded at this a little surprised but happy. First at the fact Naruto knew about his burden and was more than willing to carry it. Though he did wonder how or when did Naruto find out about Kyuubi. "I see, if I may ask you a few things, first what is your names, and those of your friends."
"My name is Spyro, the smaller black dragon you saw was Cynder, and the large one was Toothless," when Spyro said with a small smile, "And yes you may ask me some more things."
"I would like you to come with me to the Hokage's tower. I am sure Hokage would like to talk with you about this." The question was more of an order than anything else.
"Ohh what happened," Naruto groaned out as she slowly came to rubbing his head, "last thing I remember was falling over and a big flash of light."
"You fainted when we used most of your chakra to burst free without your permission," Spyro answered.
He slowly sat up and looked around and spotted Spyro, "and what are you doing out the seal Spyro I thought you did not want to risk leaving yet? And if you are out where why is sis not out of the seal as well?"
At hearing this made the Anbu leader realize they needed to move now. But before he could say anything about moving out the Rat masked Anbu spoke up, "who is this sis of yours?"
"Are you sure you want to know?" Naruto asked looking at the Rat Anbu with a knowing grin. The grin made the Anbu take a step back as it made him remember who he was speaking to. The village prankster, a person who would prank anyone that was not careful, including ninja, all the way up to Anbu in rank. Rat's shock his no figuring he would probably guess who it was.
Glad at the small talk was over they started moving towards the Hokage's office and tower. The leader of the Anbu group was slight more than a little worried about who was probably Naruto's sister. As they kept moving along the Captain of the squad noticed that Naruto and Spyro seemed to be talking a mile a minute he could not help but wonder what they were talking about.
As they got up to the door to the Hokage's office he walked over to the desk to check in with the Chuunin. The Chuunin looked over at Naruto then noticed the dragon right next to him asking the Anbu with a look if he even wanted to know. Getting a negative from the Anbu he nodded and told them the Hokage was indeed in currently and in a late night meeting and would be open in a few minutes.
The Anbu nodded and looked over at Naruto as he sat down talking quietly with Spyro still a smile firmly on his face. To him it was hard to believe that Naruto had gone through stuff that would make most normal kids cave in under the pressure, or for that matter go into a berserker rage. Being kicked out of the orphanage at age four, living on his own since then, having enough attacks against him to warrant an Anbu guard around the clock, and that was just the beginning of the list.
But there was also something else Naruto had been hiding from everyone including the Hokage. During the times that Naruto had slipped his Anbu guards he had gaining a set of skills that were better than that of most Anbu. He could sneak around with the best of them. And once he had been caught training in a fighting style that the Anbu had not recognized. When asked about it he would not tell them anything.
And now this had shown it, somehow he knew that what was going on with Naruto would soon be coming out. Or at least much of it would be out on the table for the Hokage to see. Soon the Chuunin looked up and nodded signaling they could enter into the office. As they, Naruto, Spyro, and the Anbu Captain, while the rest of the group remained outside. They were met with the sight of their current leader, a near eighty year old man, with the skills and power to take on those still fully in their prime, the Third Hokage. Or if one were to go by the name he had earned in battle, The Professor. He was wearing the Hokage's cloak and Hat under which he was rumored to always wear his battle armor. He looked up and smiled at Naruto before noticing the dragon and Anbu around Naruto, at which time his smile turned to a frown.
"Naruto if I may ask why is there a dragon behind you, and why is your shirt cover with some blood? Again," asked the Hokage looking from the Captain to Naruto then to the dragon then back again.
The Captain sighed wishing he had a little sake as he slowly started to explain what he had heard and seen. "And that is all I saw sir."
The Hokage nodded before turning to Naruto which he saw was slowly drifting off to sleep from the slightly long talk, or at least long for Naruto. The Hokage noticing this smiled and gestured to one of the couch like seats in the room where Naruto soon curled up to sleep. He then asked Spyro, "Would you mind explaining all this to me, on how you and 2 other dragon are in the seal, and who Naruto's sister is."
Spyro did not answer right away and seemed to be thinking before he spoke, "first I would like for you to make sure that no one will speak of this outside this group as what I have to say could be very dangerous if others found out to soon. Also if possible I would like this room to be checked in case someone is listening in. Once those are done I will tell you anything you want to know."
The Hokage nodded seeing this was a good idea as he did not want Naruto hurt, at least if he could prevent it. Thinking for a few moments he nodded and went through the correct hand signs and with a blast of chakra from him the room glowed for a second. With the barrier up and a quick mental kick in the head for forgetting it in the first place, the Hokage nodded at Spyro to begin. "You may begin now."
"First I would like you two to not ask anything until we are done. Even after all this time I do have some problems keeping events in order," with a quick nod from the Hokage and from Bear he began.
"First off I would like you to meet my fellow dragons Cynder," there was a flash of light as a black dragon about Spyros' size came out, the membrane to her wings was a blood red, she also had horns on the top of her head, the side and one hook shaped horn on her tail and wings.
"And Toothless," there was another flash of light as another dragon appear, he was bigger than both of his friend about two times their size easily and he was pure black the only difference was his eyes which were green with a yellowish ring around the inside of them. They all seemed to smile which also showed Toothless was well toothless.
Spyro spoke again, "My friends and I come from a different world entirely, me and Cynder from a place called The Dragon Realms it is full of many things that you have never seen before. As for where Toothless came from, to be honest we are not currently sure, all we know it was near a village called Berk. Now don't try and find these places as I doubt we could ever find them let alone you, at least currently. We were all collected together by a person named Captain Yamamoto. We are guessing based on what we have learned since then, what you call a Death God."
Both the Hokage and the Anbu Captain stiffen visibly at this, though they did not speak as Spyro continued, "He had been given order to find each of us and during the sealing for which he was summoned, seal us into Naruto as well. His only reasoning was that we were to help Naruto save this world. We were out cold for a few hours after first part of the sealing but when we awoke we did not know where we were and set out at once to find just that. Well…"
/ Flash back 3 years ago /
They had been walking around for a few years now since they had woke up from the sealing into Naruto. Though none of them really knew how long for sure it had been, all they knew for sure it had been a long time. And none of them liked the place they had woken up in. It was a sewer seemingly without a visible end. Even after traveling all this time no matter which turn they took, it remained the same. The only real way they could tell travel was by the four pipes that were over head, sometimes they were small while at other times they seemed bigger. Each had a different color as well one was a dark red, one a sky blue, another a purple and the last one was a green.
"See anything yet?" asked Toothless. He had been trying to find a place to fly around more and more recently, as they were stuck walking most of the time. Which all three agreed was not fun at all. But even when they found places to fly it was not big enough for Toothless to really stretch his wings.
"No," replied Cynder who was slowly losing her patience with Toothless. Though considering how long it had been it was not very surprising.
"To bad I was hoping to fly soon." Toothless said, though Cynder could tell he was not any more annoyed then before.
"Why don't you fly right now you tail wing has been healed for a while now?" Cynder asked slightly annoyed.
"Because unlike you, there is barely enough room for me to fly in here. I would have to follow these tunnels perfectly and yes while I could I would rather not." Toothless said though there was a look of sadness in his eyes.
Cynder shook her head seeing the look, before then turning to Spyro who had been looking at the pipes, "So any ideas to get us out of here?"
Spyro looked at the pipes a little bit more before turning to her and speaking, "Yes maybe. Remember when we tried following the pipe before and it did not seem to lead anywhere and the one time we split up and got lost.
"Yes I do, took us an age just to find each other again." Cynder said with a light grow.
"Well since then I have paid closer attention to the pipes and noticed some things. First off when we get to an intersection one of the four pipes is normally bigger than the other three. And these pipes split off and get smaller. So if we were to follow the pipes till we reached the largest we meet find the source to the pipes and a way out. Or at least that is the idea," Spyro said as Cynder smiled slightly at the idea.
Cynder and Toothless agreed to it at once, it was after all the only plan they had currently. So following the pipes they made their way towards the center of the maze. They only had to backtrack twice when they realized they were realized the pipes spilt to smaller pipes. As they moved along Toothless noticed the corridors were getting bigger as well. Then they came to a large corridor bigger than anything else they had yet to see. The pipes had to run up the walls a little ways before they connected to huge pipes near the ceiling.
Toothless at once ran into the area noticing the floor was covered in a couple inches in water. He stretched out his wings fully and happily as the room was more than big enough for him to almost fly in. Taking a few flaps of his wings and a small jump he was airborne moving down the corridor before landing. Turning around he returned to the group and smiled, "Oh flying I forgot how much fun that was, even if only for a few hundred feet."
"Yes I would agree but don't fly off like that, finding each other was quite a pain last time we got lost and separated," Cynder said with an annoyed glare at her fellow black scaled dragon.
"Anyway, I think we found the main tunnel now. Or close to it if the size is any guess," Spyro said as to keep Cynder and Toothless from fighting.
"So which way now?" Toothless asked since this was a T-intersection and the pipe seemed to be the same size both ways.
"Well either way works so I guess right for now," Spyro said leading the way. As they moved they noticed other T intersection but each time the way they were moving the pipe was still the biggest one. Soon they came to a left hand turn and continued following the pipe. But after a good while and quite a few more turns they realized they were going in a circle.
"Okay this is not getting us anywhere," Cynder said as they made was possibly the fifth time around the large shape box set of corridors.
"Agreed," Toothless said as they moved along.
"Well the only option we have left would be that side passage that does not seem to have a pipe," Spyro said remembering it. There had been an opening partway down the currently corridor they were in. They had only noticed it recently on the last pass because it was rather small.
Coming over they stopped by the entrance and looked carefully at it. Above them one of the pipes, the red one, went straight through the wall at this point, while the other pipes disappeared right up into the roof. The wall on the other hand looked like it was not part of the corridor around it, but rather built to cover something. Blinking Toothless moved towards the entrance checking it out and the wall around it. It seemed to be safe enough, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
"Hay Spyro there is a light over there," said Toothless looking back at the purple dragon from not far inside the door.
"Is it sunlight," Cynder ask as she and Spyro hurried over.
"No but it is still a light, so I am going to check it out," Toothless said heading down the small tunnel. Cynder shrugged at Spyro and followed Toothless down as where there was light there were most likely people. Toothless would have been lost in the dark and semi narrow passages if it was not for the light outlining him in red. Spyro wondered slightly at the light as they moved, he could not remember what gave off a red colored like this did.
Toothless took off down the hallway disappearing around a corner, before a second later he called back, "Hurry up you to, you have to see this!"
Spyro and Cynder blinked for hurrying down the passage and around the corner only to stop at the sight before them. It was a cage of huge size, fully able to hold either the Destroyer from Spyro's world or the huge queen dragon from Toothless's. But this was not causing the glow but rather the bars of the cage door which Cynder and Spyro noticed were connected to the red pipe. They also noticed along the wall were four torches with red flames giving the place a surprising amount of light.
Then they saw what was in the cage and the reason for Toothless calling them in. For inside the cage was a creature they had only seen once before, a giant fox that dwarfed both the Destroyer and the queen dragon in size. It was a huge fox with nine tails each curled around it as it faced way from them a little bit. They had only heard the name once from the captain but they had not forgotten it, Kyuubi, the Nine Tailed Demon Fox.
The fox though unlike the night before when they had seen it many years ago thrashing about was calm and to the untrained eye looked to be sleeping. But as they moved back enough for the bars to shift out over their view they realized Kyuubi was not calm but rather crying as it looked at a large crystal ball on the floor in-between its front paws.
