How to Train Your Demon

Another short chapter. I am so sorry. I'll try and make the next one longer. I don't own Naruto or How to Train your Dragon.

After Naruto woke up (and saw that the nine tails hadn't come back to finish him off while he was out cold) he headed straight home. It was already dark by this time though, so it was a few hours from dawn by the time he got home.

When he came in the house, he saw his father at the table. Not wanting to tell him what he had decided until tomorrow, Naruto tried to sneak up the stairs. "Naruto," Minato said. Naruto wasn't really the best at sneaking.

"Dad," Naruto said. Naruto knew that he had to tell his father sooner or later. So he sighed and said, "There's something I need to say to you." "I need to tell you something, as well," Minato told Naruto, turning to look up at him. Then they both sighed and Naruto said, "I just decided I don't want to kill demons," at the same time that Minato said, "I think it's time you learn to kill demons." Then they looked each other, and both said, "What?"

"Uh," Minato said, "you go first." "Uh, no," Naruto told him, coming down a few steps, "you go first; I insist." "All right," Minato said, sighing again, "You get your wish. You start demon training tomorrow; nine o' clock sharp."

"Oh man," Naruto said, slightly panicking, "I should have gone first. You know, because, I was thinking, we have way too many ninja for killing demons; but do we have enough…ramen-making ninja, or 'home-repair' ninja…" "You'll need this," Minato said, handing a stick-arm sized scroll to him. Naruto went down another step from the weight of the scroll. He was not listening.

Naruto sighed, then came out and said, "I don't want to kill demons." "Oh, come on," Minato said, thinking he was joking, "of course you do." "Ok, let me rephrase that, dad," Naruto said, "I can't kill a demon." "But you will learn how to kill demons," Minato told him as he walked over to the table and gathered up some weapons.

"No," Naruto said, walking up behind him, "I'm really, extra-sure, that I won't…" "It's time, Naruto," Minato said, walking up to him. "Can you not hear me," Naruto said, slightly upset. "This is serious, son," Minato told him, sternly, before picking up the scroll in Naruto's hands, "When you carry these tools, their jutsu, you carry your family's pride as well."

He put the scroll back in Naruto's hands, and straightened him up. "Which means," Minato said, "you walk like a ninja, you stay silent like a ninja, and you think like a ninja. So no more of… this!" "You just pointed to all of me," Naruto told him in irritation. "Deal," Minato asked. "I think this conversation is completely one sided," Naruto tried to tell him. "Deal," Minato asked again, more sternly. Naruto sighed and said, "Deal."

"Aright," Minato said. Just then, the door opened, and Jiraiya stepped inside. "Minato," he said, "it's almost time." Minato sighed and looked at Naruto. "Train hard," he said, "I'll be back - probably." "And I'll be here," Naruto said, "maybe."

They both looked like they wanted to say something else, but didn't know how. Jiraiya sighed and stepped between them. Then he sighed, ran his hand down his face, and turned to Minato. "Naruto would like to say," Jiraiya told him, "that he'll miss you. And he wishes that you'll find that god-forsaken nest of demon; so that you'll stop taking out your frustrations on everyone; and ignoring the other things in your life, like him."

Jiraiya looked over to see Naruto nod; indicating that he had, for the most part, said everything on his mind. Jiraiya then took one look at Minato, before looking back and saying, "and Minato wants to tell you, he'll be thinking of you the whole time, so train hard, don't throw a house party, and he'll do his best not to be eaten and/or fried by a demon. But if he does, well, then that's that."

"We're ninja," Minato said, "It's an occupational hazard." "We're ninja," Jiraiya repeated, "It's an occupational hazard." "I said that part," Minato said irritably, walking to the door. He opened the door, then turned and pointed at Jiraiya. "I want him back, in as few, undamaged, pieces as possible." Then he turned, and closed the door behind him.

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