A/N: Remember folks this story is strictly AU. The Vegeta that Naruto meets here, as well as many other villains, are a great deal stronger than their cannon counterparts. With that being said, let us continue! I see some of you have noticed the TFS references I've placed in this story. Those are intended XD. Now, onto the chapter...
...the next chapter of Wish Upon a Dragon!
"You're a strange one, kid...I like it!"
~Anko.
Possessive
When all was said and done, Haruno Sakura was left reeling.
Saiyans...spaceships...full moons...oh my!
"So that's how you changed?" She asked, tentatively. "You looked at the full moon?"
"Aaaaand he had someone augment his genes to make him a pureblood." Kyuubi chimed inwardly.
Nu-uh! This is enough for her to absorb as it is! You're the last thing she needs to know about!
"Look, I know its a lot to take in-
-you bet your ass it is!" Sakura clutched at her head. "This...This is all too much to take in! Your father was the fourth? He was an alien? You're an alien?" Her gaze swept over Radtiz with a sheen of trepidation. "So she is an alien too?! Naruto, I'm not sure I can't acccept all this...
"Show some respect, girl!" Raditz barked. "You're speaking to the first super saiyan in over a millenia! You will address him as Naruto-sama?" Sakura wasn't listening. They'd lost her at super saiyan. What the heck was that? What even was that?
"Super-what?"
Naruto sighed. His shoulders slumped and a pained look stole over his features. Raditz visibly bristled.
"You...You ignorant little-
Naruto shook his head.
"No no, its alright."
"What're you're looking at now is my normal state." He explained, wincing at the Haruno's pained expression. "Heh, maybe not so normal anymore...
A stray spark skittered between them.
"Naruto, what're you-
"Perhaps it'd be best, if I showed you." Naruto aqueisced with a soft sigh, raising his arms at his sides, and clenching his fingers into fists. "But bgefore I do, I should probably warn you...I'm not very nice in this form!" Before Sakura could even begin to ask what he'd meant by that, saffron light erupted from beneath the saiyan's body. His skin paled and his eyes became as pristine blue as the sky on a clear day. His hair shot up and bled gold as his cries shattered the tranquility of the afternoon air around them, burgeoning the air alongside his muscles. Heaven and earth trembled amidst his screams; quivering in fear from this sudden and godlike transifguration, quaking as though a giant hand had seized the earth by the neck and summarily decided to throttle her.
"W-W-W-What's he doing?!" Sakura sputtered in surprise as golden sparks arched across the air between them. "Naruto! What's happening to you?!" She tried to reach from him, only to flinch as a stray spark skittered across her wrist and electrified her. The young saiyan cringed, stung by his immense power. Radtiz shot her younger counterpart a snide smile, delighting in the Haruno's discomfort as the sky darkened, and the breeze swept itself into a soul-splitting gale. And then it was done: he stood before them, transformed.
"As expected of Naruto-sama." She smiled to herself. He was a fast learner, already capable of channeling his emotions to perform the transform at will, if not not his ki. Now if only he could learn to suppress all of that overwhelming arrogance that came each transformation...aha! There it was again. Jade eyes bored into Sakura and Raditz, taking each in turn, threatening to devour them whole if either backed down. A cold, confident smile crawled across his lips, alarming Sakura-arousing her?!-with its eerie arrogance. How could one's persona change so drastically?!
"This, Sakura," Naruto growled, his voice offering a dangerous edge, "Is a super saiyan."
"The legendary warrior of our race." Raditz added proudly. "The pinnacle of saiyan power." Sakura managed a numb nod, not trusting herself to speech. This was Naruto? This great golden greek god glaring back at her with eyes brighter than the heavens themselves? She could scarcely hope to compare the two!
Oh dear kami!
I know...
HE'S FREAKING GORGEOUS!
Sakura nearly face-vaulted. Her inner fangirl was at it again!
Just look at those muscles! Inner Sakura practically drooled. You could grind meat on those! Speaking of grinding...
Thank you captain obvious! In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying not to look at them!
But he's a blond again! Her inner-self whined. You LOVE blondes! You said so yourself! Oooh, I could just-
-aaaand I am suppressing this converasation!
"Naruto-sama," Raditz practically purred, "Why don't you stay like that for a little while longer?"
The super saiyan arched a golden brow.
"Why?"
Now it was Raditz's turn to alarm. The saiyaness clenched both arms at her sides and uttered a fierce scream of defiance. The skies didn't darken but the earth did tremble, shivering as the last pureblood female saiyan pushed her power to its utmost limits. Stone splintered beneath her feet, trees creaked as her energy exploded outward, seizing the training ground into an eplileptic shockwave. Abruptly her power abated and dropped away, leaving the saiyaness standing in a stance all her own; both arms raised, slim fingers crooked into claws.
"Because; I believe you owe me a spar, sire." she edged forward with a ferocious grin.
Naruto laughed at that; it was a short, scornful sound. Utterly unlike the brash boy he'd been only a few days before. Sakura felt her heart drop into her stomach. Any semblance of her childhood friend vanished in that instant replaced by someone she no longer recognized. Saffron streamed around him as he stepped towards her, all reluctance trickling away as his power flared
"Alright...
Scarce had he spoken so than Raditz surged forward.
"Have at you!"
Both saiyans vanished, leaving Sakura reeling. They reappeared mere millimeters to the east, exchanging a flurry of blinding blows, sundering the earth in their wake. Raditz-though clearly weaker than Naruto-attacked the blond with such ferocity he was momentarily taken aback. He'd never once fought someone with such...well, ferocity! Sakura saw a splinter of shock shoot across the super saiyan's visage, one immediately replaced by anger as he she continued to press the advantage; to push him back. Abruptly the blond lashed out from within this haphazard defense, his fist barreling towards her nose.
Raditz yelped in surprise and ducked the blow, her entire body falling flat to the earth; leaving the blond with a fistful of empty air and a few strands of hair. Even as she fell she was still attacking, her hand striking that smug smile from his face alongside her own; his heel found her hip even as her boot bore down upon his chest. While she lacked the overwhelming power to defeat him, her experience prevented a loss. While he lacked a strategy to defeat her, he more than made up for it in sheer strength. Power-swollen fists and armored boots crashed against one another in swift succession, neither willing to give way to the other.
'This is insane.' Sakura thought to herself as the two saiyans flitted across the training ground; ghostly apparitions there one moment, gone the next. 'How can anyone move like that?' Her thoughts were laid bare mere moments later as Radtiz flung her palm forward, fingers splayed, a stream of violet already gaterhing between them. 'And how can someone hurl beams of light from their hands?!' Naruto didn't seem the least bit afraid or even concerned; he merely caught the ki in his hand, curled his fingers into a fist, and extinguished it. They collided once more, gripping one another hand in hand. They glared heatedly at one another but even their gaze was without rancour. They're enjoying themselves, Sakura realized. They were tearing the training ground to pieces, and they were actually enjoying themselves! Her tail twitched at the thought. Would she be like this once her blood stirred? She certainly hoped not!
"So this is what a super saiyan is like." Raditz grinned at him, apparently besotted by his power. "I think I'm falling for you even more, Naruto-sama." Before he could hope to stop her, the saiyaness's lips alighted upon his lingering there for the briefest instant before pressing deeply into his mouth. Raditz flung her arms around his neck. Sakura gasped; not because the act was so brazen, nor because the girl was trying to incinte hers and his, but because Naruto blushed. Cheeks burnished, with a soft red flush, he gave himself to the kiss for a brief instant and in that instant Sakura felt her heart shatter a thousandfold.
No...
Naruto jerked back as if he'd been burned. His hair fell flat, golden locks fading to black, jade irises returning to besotted onyx. He was not pleased.
"Aaaargh!" He roared, affronted by her abrupt affections. "What did I tell you about doing that, Raditz?!"
The saiyaness cocked her head, a small-cruel!-smiled lifting her lips.
"But Naruto-sama...isn't this the sort of things mated newlyweds do?"
"We're not married yet!" He paused, and added, almost as an afterthought, "And we certainly aren't mated yet, either!"
"Yet?"
Naruto's head whipped back and forth like a puppet cut from its strings. Sakura stared back at him with wide eyes, her own jade orbs slowly welling with unshed tears. Impossibly, Radtiz's smile, grew. That's right, you low-level piece of trash. she thought smugly. He belongs to me. And why shouldn't he?They'd been promised to one another before either knew how to crawl, let alone walk. Like hell she'd let this half-breed claim what was rightfully hers! She had no business butting into the affairs of an elite! Naruto-sama truly was a kind person, to try and assauge her so.
"Sakura...I...
"Didn't you know?" Radtiz interjected, shouldering her way past him before he could continue. "We were promised to each other." She took his arm in her own, smug in her satisfaction. "What's more, I actually care for him." At the latter's growl, she pressed on, knowing she had little time to make her case. "I have strength. Cunning! What do you have? Your power level, isn't even a tenth of mine. You'd never be able to bear him any children!" When Sakura flushed, her derision deepened. "You loathsome little frip! Did you truly think you What do you have to say to that you silly half-breed?"
...I say...I'll fight you for him!"
The silence was deafening. Naruto, who'd been on the verge of rebuking the both of them, found himself frozen. Sakura was cursing herself even as the words left her lips. She knew she stood no chance against Raditz, but she wasn't about to have her friend snatched up by someone like this! Certainly not by this arrogant woman!
"Nice one, girl." Her inner self commended. "Go for your man!"
Thanks...
"Too bad you don't stand an icecube's chance in hell."
I retract my previous statement!
"You think you can defeat me?" Raditz asked archly, blissfully unaware of the Haruno's inner arguement. "You're even more of a fool than I thought."
"Well...at least I'm don't have bitchitis!"
Raditz chortled softly.
"Cheeky one, aren't you?" Raditz raised her hand. "But cheeky or not, I can't let you get in my way."
Naruto thrust himself between them, arms splayed.
"As your prince, I command you! No killing!"
"But Naruto-sama! That's-
"None!"
Too late. In her frustration, in her fury, Raditz released all the ki she'd been holding into the palm of her hand. The blast had been meant for Naruto; but the blond slipped to the right and aside, leaving the magenta ki to swerve harmlessly past...
...and into Sakura's gut.
Sakura didn't so much see the attack as she did feel it. A sudden numbness entered her stomach, and then she was propelled backwards at incredible speed. In the same instant Naruto struck Raditz; his fist carreened into her jaw with all the force of a sledgehammer. Both saiyans struck the ground at the same time, but it was to the former that he rushed. His heart hammered as he reached for her prone form. Would the wish work as Shenron had said? His feelings for Sakura were still hopelessly muddled, and if they were...
Sakura toppled backwards. Sat up. Groaned.
"Owwww...
Naruto heaved a heavy sigh of relief.
Too close...
Raditz gawped at her.
"What...you little brat" She hissed at Sakura! How did you do that?"
"Do what, you crazy porcupine?!" Naruto shouted back. "I mean, look what you did! You blew a hole in her stomach!"
"How are you still alive?!"
Nartuo couldn't help but grin, despite the hole in his classmat'es stomach. It was already starting to close.
"You...You wished for what?!"
A/N: And now shit hits the fan as Radtiz (and by definition Sakura) realizes she can't kill anyone who threatens her position as Naruto's special people. This can't possibly end well...
I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading this ficlet as much as I did writing it! Now, lets establish some things. A friend of mine, Kyuubi16, was going on about how Naruto's personality differs in this story from his canonical self with relatively little explanation. Allow me to explain if only for his benefit. In the last chapter Naruto went batshit crazy at Sarutobi for keeping his heritage quiet for so long. He does NOT hate the village. He's quite content to know the truth of who/what he is, but he'll be holding a grudge against the old man for quite some time yet. His saiyan blood is still stirring, so he might be a tad more aggressive at times thanks in part to that. I'll try not to make him too OOC but he won't be a weak pushover in this story by any means.
Can anyone give him a hard time? Certain characters, yets. Remember, Naruto is immortal, but he can still be trapped or kami forbid, sealed. He can be inconvenienced after all. In his super saiyan form he's far more aggressive, as he has yet to learn how to control the rage and brutality that comes with the transformation.
Raditz's comments on a super saiyan being the pinnacle of saiyan power make sense; because at this point, they have no knowledge of the forms beyond it. Will Naruto become a super saiyan 4 in this story? Eh..not likely my friends. I'm not a fan of GT and I don't plan to include many-if any-of its elements in this story. If he does...not too sure.
We'll get to see just who created this particular set of dragonballs in the coming chapters! Yes, it is a namek. And I am going to stick to Toriyama-sensei's way of naming this particular namekian, according to musical instruments...I promise you'll be pleased!
Anywho, I'm off to work as always, and as always, I'm looking forward to your reviews when I get back! So...in the immortal, eternal words of Atlas...
...REVIEW, Would you kindly? WE GET TO SEE ANKO as Naruto's *cough* sensei *cough* NEXT CHAPTER. I promise nothing!
Enjoy!
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