Kitsune and Dragon

I don't own Naruto but Denko is mine.

Chapter 4:Trials

"Hyuuga Hiashi, do you know why we called you here?" an old Hyuuga asks. Hiashi was standing before the elders of the clan. He didn't exactly like them except the one that had trained him when he and his twin brother were young and that man knew him better than the others and nearly always sided with him.

"I admit that I am curious to know" Hiashi says with a serious expression.

"You have been called here this evening concerning your heir."

"What concerns would you have about my daughter?"

"It has come to our attention that the Kyuubi has tainted her soul and body since the day she was born."

"The Kyuubi is gone thanks to the Yondaime and Naruto. I was there and saw the demon disappear from the world with the Byakugan when it gave its power to Naruto when he was barely an hour old."

"So you are saying that the boy is the Kyuubi?"

"No I'm not. He is Uzumaki Naruto, son and heir of Uzumaki Arashi and Michiko. Inazuke of Hyuuga Hinata and the hero of Konoha for the defeat of the Kyuubi."

"You engaged that youkai to your own daughter?"

"Naruto is not a youkai. If anything he is a hanyou and so is my daughter because of their bond. If you remember correctly, it was Naruto who nearly died trying to save Hinata from the Cloud nin. As of yet I haven't heard any of you have complain about Neji and Denko at all."

"Did you know that when they were eight years old they performed a Blood Bond?"

"Blood Bond? I see, well if that is all then goodbye." Hiashi says before leaving. What the Elders didn't notice was that Hiashi had dropped a Hanabi Death Bomb where he was standing. Ten seconds later the bomb went off causing most of the Elders to faint from the smell as Hiashi's old sensei slipped away with a handkerchief over his smile at his old students' actions. Hiashi walked outside to the courtyard where he found the young genin asking questions at a rapid fire pace while Tenten was blushing.

"I don't hear them complaining who their sensei was after the test." Hiashi says standing behind Denko and Neji and scaring all of the genin before joining his brother by the wall as Lee was yelling how great their sensei is while Denko argued back. At least until Tenten made a small comment that sent Neji and Denko screaming about burning eyes and bad memories as they ran blindly causing the older men to laugh at the boys, Naruto and Hinata gagging, Tenten turning green at the memories she dredged up, and Lee's useless protests.

After a month of D rank missions that had team ten pulling weeds, finding lost pets, getting groceries, finding Tora the Daimyo's wives cat, gardening, finding Tora, delivering mail, finding Tora again, walking dogs, just to name a few. Today team ten are currently returning from another mission that involved Tora where Naruto got more scratched up than normal by the crazy neko, but every time they brought the neko back to the lady they couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor thing as it was nearly crushed into the woman by her 'hug'….again.

"Damn it!" Naruto yells as the three genin and their jounin sensei walked back to the Hokage tower to report the success of the mission.

"Naruto! Don't curse." Hinata says sharply effectively shutting him up and making Shino silently laugh at the shorter boy.

"Hey! Don't laugh at me."

"Well it is funny that you keep saying that you're going to be Hokage and got beaten by a neko." Kurenai giggled.

"Yea well I just want to at least have a C rank mission next. I'm tired of all of these crappy D ranks."

"We all are." Shino says.

"Then we'll just ask for a C rank mission when we get there, it's only nine o'clock in the morning." Kurenai says with a smile.

"Yatta!" Naruto and Hinata yell together.

"Good job on completing your mission so quickly, if you like I can give you another mission now." Sarutobi says putting the mission report off to side and grabbing the scroll containing other D rank missions that have yet to be completed.

"Excuse me Hokage-sama, but my team requests a C rank mission. They have already shown almost perfect teamwork since they became a team." Kurenai says. "I believe they are ready for that type of mission."

"Well alright, I'll send you on a higher rank mission." The Sandaime says to the joy of the genin. "Kakashi has sent a message back saying that his team has encountered some ninja who seem to be working for someone during their escort mission to Wave Country. I want you to meet them and assist them with the rest of their assigned mission. Kurenai, here are the details of the mission. You're dismissed."

"Arigoto Hokage-sama." Kurenai says taking the scroll and bowing to the old man known as The Professor.

"Okay everyone go home and get your gear, we leave in an hour. Meet at the East Gate." Kurenai tells her students before she poofs away.

"Alright we finally have a good mission! See ya in an hour Shino." Naruto says as he wraps Hinata in his tails as she wraps her tails around him as they start for home.

An hour later Naruto and Hinata are standing by the gate waiting for the rest of the team still wrapped in each others' tails. Shino came a few minutes later followed by their sensei.

"Can we go now?" Naruto wined.

"Yes we're leaving now and we will be following the same path as team seven. The Hokage sent a message to them so they know we're coming. Apparently one of them got poisoned and they are resting about a days run from here." Kurenai explains as the take to the trees by the roadside and moving much faster than the team before them had.

"Did they say who was poisoned?" Hinata asks worried for her fellow Konoha shinobi.

"Not exactly, but he says he has the others training while he guards the man they are escorting and the victim." Kurenai says.

"Well them let's go faster!" Naruto says as he moved even faster through the trees and the others matched his speed.

With team seven Kakashi is currently looking in many directions at once, with one eye. He is watching Kiba who is laying on the ground because he was poisoned by the Demon Brothers when he jumped in front of Tazuna to defend the bridge builder, Akamaru is watching his friend closely and wining every now and then, Tazuna is trying to help take care of the boy who had saved his life, and Sasuke and Sakura are currently working on a tree climbing exercise using chakra, and reading Icha Icha Paradise at the same time. He is waiting for the team that the Hokage had sent to help with the poisoned boy.

Suddenly they heard a creak of a branch followed by others suggesting that they weren't alone in the forest. Soon their beliefs were confirmed as team ten dropped out of the trees and Kurenai and Hinata made a beeline to where Kiba is lying with their medical supplies already out. Sasuke and Sakura came over to join Naruto and Shino as they watched the women work on the injured boy. Hinata moved Akamaru by picking him up with her tails and handing the puppy off to Naruto who let him watch.

Several hours later Hinata and Kurenai are resting after their ordeal with Kiba. Kurenai is leaning against a tree reading a book, Naruto and Hinata are curled up as a ball of furry tails, Shino spent the night leaning against a tree letting his bugs out to explore the nearby area while he slept lightly, Kakashi is reading his porn and giggling softly, Kiba is still sleeping due to the effects of the poison while Akamaru slept on his chest, and Sasuke and Sakura had guard duty.

Back in Konoha the Sandaime is currently having a meeting with probably the Hidden Villages most annoying man, Maito Gai. "Gai, there have been some recent reports of nuke-nin and ronin swordsmen gathering in mass in Wave Country and I want you to take your team there and locate Kakashi's and Kurenai's teams and help them with their current mission. With the number of nuke-nin that have been confirmed so far and the teams lack of experience they may overwhelm the teams that are already there. Leave as soon as possible, this has a possibility of moving from a C rank mission to B or even A rank." The old man says wearing earplugs that he kept in his desk for whenever Gai was in the room.

"HAI HOKAGE-SAMA! WE SHALL SHOW THE WAVE COUNTRY THE POWER OF YOUTH!" Gai shouts before running from the tower to gather his team for their newest mission and trying to find a way to get Denko to wear the green bodysuit like him and Lee since he knew the boy preferred to wear green shorts and t-shirts whenever possible since he was five.

Not surprised to find his students at Ichiraku Ramen, he quickly joined them as the Uzumaki boy slurped up his twelfth bowl while Neji was on his third and Tenten was eating her third as well. Amazingly Lee had finished his first and only bowl when their sensei showed up yelling to them to get their gear ready because they have a mission and Lee joined him in yelling about the power of youth as the owner of the ramen stand activated a barrier that blocked all noise and any view outside of the shop as soon as the youth speech started, sparing three of favorite his favorite customers from giving the ramen back to him.

Half an hour later the five of them are outside of the village gates heading for Wave Country. "Gai-sensei, how long will it take to get to Wave Country?" Denko asks.

"It will take us at least a week to get there no matter how fast we run! But it is good endurance training for all of you!" Gai replies a bit too enthusiastically.

"How about we get there a little faster? You did say that we should get there as fast as we can." Denko smirks and only Neji, Tenten, Naruto, and Hinata know what he is implying.

"What do you mean Denko? If Gai-sensei says that we can't get there in less than a week then we can't get there in less than a week." Lee says for both spandex wearing shinobi.

"We can fly. Stand back or you'll get zapped." Denko smirks before bright blue chakra became visible and blue electric sparks surrounded him as he transformed into a green dragon with blonde hair running from his head to the tip of his tail, only two arms on his now serpentine body that was easily forty feet long and wings that are clearly designed for speed unfurled from his back spanning about fifty feet across. At the same time Neji sprouted sky blue wings that are designed for speed like Denko's, his canines grew longer and his nails grew into claws as blue chakra swirled around him for a few moments.

"Stop staring and get on so we can get going already." Denko-ryu says rolling his eyes at the startled spandex wearing, bowl cut, fuzzy browed shinobi. A minute later, the power of youth preaching duo and Tenten are safely riding on Denko-ryu at sixty miles per hour with Neji right behind them wishing that he was carrying Tenten, just the thought of that brought a blush to his face.

By the end of the day Naruto and Hinata were a little tired since they were training all day experimenting with Hinata's Jyuuken strikes combined with kitsune bi. So far they have found it to be very effective, especially Naruto since he was the test subject. The Jyuuken was designed to cause internal damage and disrupt the chakra system, but when combined with kitsune bi the strikes caused burns where they hit. Not only that, Hinata also likes to blend medical jutsu into her attacks so she could cut tendons, muscles, and arteries as well making her very dangerous to come close to in a fight. Naruto came up with new ways to use his kitsune bi with Hinata's help. Shino is wandering the island talking to and collecting new bugs to add to his swarm.

Kiba was back on his feet the next day and was able to make it to Tazuna's house where he got the next day off to recover. Kakashi took Sasuke and Sakura out to complete the tree climbing exercise, Sasuke had yet to reach the top of a tree after three days, Sakura reached the top on her third attempt and was doing the tree climbing to build her chakra reserves. Kurenai went to the bridge with Tazuna as a bodyguard as he and the other workers prepared to finish the bridge by the next week.

Gai's team took an extra two days because Gai didn't know where he going and they ran into some storm clouds. When they finally found Wave Country Denko recognized the blue flashes through the trees as kitsune bi and smirked to himself as he dived steeply at Naruto and Hinata who were training again effectively scaring the two shinobi on his back. Neji noticed this and pointed it out to Tenten who he had strapped in front of him so her back was against his chest. The only reason that Neji found their position was trying to control what tends to think for itself, their position had Tenten's rear against his waist and each beat of his wings made his body move before the straps pulled her along too. Tenten was enjoying her alone time with the boy she liked, even if she was being carried like luggage and there was something poking her that was annoying until she figured what it was causing her to blush.

Naruto looked up to the sky after they called for a break and was a little surprised to see a dragon diving at him with two people clinging for their lives to the hair on its back followed by someone with wings diving after it carrying someone else. Hinata looked up where Naruto was looking when she heard the dragon roar that hurt the sensitive ears of the kitsune pair on the ground. Denko-ryu lands in a nearby clearing much to the joy of the riders who promptly jump off and kiss the ground muttering how they will never leave it again. Neji and Tenten landed a few seconds after Denko returned to his human form as did Neji.

"It's about time you two got together." Naruto says noting that Neji's arms are around Tenten's waist and leaning against each other. The second he said that the pair blushed bright red and tried to jump away from the other only to find that they're still tied together and fall to the ground.

"Ano, not that we mind but why are you here?" Hinata asks after giggling a bit.

"We'll explain when we can talk to the sensei's. So where are they?" Denko asks.

"Oh they're around somewhere Follow us and we'll show you where we're staying while we're here." Naruto says starting to walk away only to see Gai and Lee still worshiping the ground. "Ano, what's with them?"

"I don't know why they don't like flying, its fun." Tenten answers.

"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? EVEN GAI-SENSEI GETS AIR SICK!" Lee shouts in defense of his role model.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You got air sick? That's pathetic!" Naruto laughs. Hinata didn't thinks it was polite to laugh at another persons misfortune but now she couldn't help but laugh openly at the two who thought they who had the 'power of youth' could defeat any thing. The others quickly joined in and made the airsick duo's faces turn as red as their spandex is green in embarrassment.

"Co-come on. Let's get to Tazuna's house." Hinata gets out between giggles as they leave for the bridge builders house.

Later that night the teams shared their mission duties with each other and with Tazuna since it concerns him and the bridge eventually coming up with a plan. Kurenai's team would go and investigate the potential enemies while Gai's and Kakashi's teams would help with the bridge building and protect the other builders. With that done they went to the rooms they are sharing except Naruto and Hinata curled up into a fur ball together in the kitchen, and Denko slept n the roof because he said it was too noisy inside with Gai, Lee, and Kakashi snoring loudly and because it's more comfortable outside.

Too be continued….

Thank you to all of those who have reviewed so far and I hope to see more. Please tell me what you think of the story or if you have any problems with it. Just in case anybody has any questions on pairings, so far there is only Naruto and Hinata, Neji and Tenten, and Gai and well…. himself, just like Lee. If ya want to see any others you'll have to wait for later chapters.

Ja ne!

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