Howling Dragon- a Naruto fanfic
Chapter 6- The Pact and The Departure
Ryu went back to the village after taking Gamakichi home, knowing that the upcoming argue was a father and son argue. He had never known that the Chief Toad was a widower father, and less that he cared for his children. Of course he cared for his children, all fathers do… Ryu sighed before trying to remember the way to Naruto's house, this village was large. After a while, the Wolf Dragon managed to use his smell sense to find Naruto's house and went in. Naruto was in bed looking through the window; he looked at Ryu and gave him a slight smile.
"How did it go?" he asked
"Not as bad." Ryu answered "Gamabunta didn't agree at first, but finally he budged with one condition."
"What condition?"
"He will only allow them to come with us if he goes too…"
"WHAT?!"
"That's the only way he agreed!"
"Oh, great! It's already bad for having to go with Pervy Sage and now you tell me that the Chief Toad is coming too."
"Try to understand him; he loved his children very much."
"It's not that, but… he can get grumpy sometimes."
"Sometimes?"
"When I met him, I had to remain on his back for the whole day! It felt like I was in a rodeo or something like that!"
"Compared to the initiation test for our summoners, that's nothing."
"Why? What's your test?"
"That's something I can't tell you unless you have a pact with us."
"But I already have a contract with the toads!"
"Oh, no. you're not understanding me. We do not use a contract, only a pact. See, you swear loyalty to out clan and you automatically become our subordinate."
"Really?"
"And when you do that, you get abilities other summoning clans don't offer."
"Like what?"
"I can't tell you-"
"Unless I have a pact with Wolf Dragons"
"You're understanding"
"So, how do I swear loyalty to Wolf Dragons?"
"…see, you must give a few drops of blood and swear. After that, you might get some effects for the abilities."
"I got it."
Naruto got a kunai out of his pocket and cut his hand slightly. When some drops of blood fell to the floor, he said these words:
"I, Naruto Uzumaki of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, swear loyalty to the powerful Wolf Dragon Clan."
Then, all of sudden, a silver light surrounded Naruto and swirled around him, then it dissipated into the air.
"That's all?" Naruto asked confused
"Yes, and… wow, I didn't expect the effects would come out so soon." Ryu pointed out
"What do you mean?"
"Touch your ears."
"Why?"
"Just do it"
Though confused, Naruto touched his ears and felt something… fur. Confused, Naruto went into the bathroom and screamed. He had now pointy wolf ears, and to enworse things, he discovered he had also grown a long bushy tail.
"RYU?! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!" he asked the Wind Wolf Dragon yelling. "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THIS THINGS WOULD COME OUT IN MY BODY?!"
"Don't worry, you can camouflage them wherever you want." Ryu answered calmed
"HOW?!"
"Just think of it."
Naruto closed his eyes shut.
"Ears and tail go away. Ears and tail go away. Ears and tail go away!"He thought
When he opened his eyes, Naruto was relieved to see that the wolf ears and tail had vanished.
"Now, as for the test I was talking about…" Ryu then said
"Oh, finally!" Naruto said
"…you have to fight me."
Naruto's eyes went wide open in shock,
"WHAT?!" he asked
"Yep, the initial test consists on the new summoner having to fight the first Wolf Dragon he or she summons, from any tribe."
"Why didn't you mention it in the first place?"
"I couldn't, you hadn't a pact with us."
Naruto gave a sigh of frustration before allowing his body to fall onto his bed. Ryu smirked and curled up next to Naruto's bed and falling asleep soundly.
--Myobokuzan—
Gamakichi was even angrier than before. He considered himself old enough to take care of himself, why his father didn't…? What was his problem? He couldn't stand it, he felt about going outside and start to rampage through the woods. In fact, he was willing to fight a member of the Snake summoning clan face to face, even Manda himself, if that could prove his father he wasn't a child anymore. But his father's glare was so strong, so dominant, it would intimidate a fully grown Snake… finally, Gamakichi couldn't stand it anymore and decided to tell his father what he thought. He went out of his room and went directly to his father's, entering without taking the bother to knock the door. The Chief Toad looked at his son calmly before heading his look towards the night sky of his window.
"Pops, it's not fair!" was the first thing that came out of Gamakichi's mouth.
"What's not fair?" Gamabunta asked his son, pretending to not know anything
"I can take care of myself! I don't need you to be watching over me all the time!"
"Gamakichi, listen…"
"No, you listen! I'm not a child ANYMORE!"
"But you have no experience in battle!"
"I would if you had EVER let me fight!"
"And do you know how to fight? How to defend yourself in an enemy attack?"
Gamakichi frowned; he knew his father was right. Despite being the son of the Chief Toad, he knew nothing about battling, and less about jutsu or hand seals.
"… No" he finally answered
"See? Gamakichi, in terms of age you are not a child, but in terms of battling you are barely old enough to stand. You say you can take care of yourself, but you don't even know how to fight the weakest of opponents. If I let you go alone, I don't even want to think what would happen to you if an enemy attacks you."
"…mom would have let me go alone..."
"Excuse me?"
"mom would have let me go alone! She DID have trust on me!"
"don't mess your mother into this conversation!"
"she always respected my decisions, why you don't?!"
"ENOUGH!"
Gamakichi gasped surprised, he had never seen his father like this… Gamabunta tried to be more patient, but he wouldn't allow ANYONE to mention his late wife in argues like this. He sighed as he closed his eyes.
"Gamakichi, I'm going, end of discussion." He said firmly
Gamakichi felt angrier than before, but preferred to leave the matter how it was and left for his room, his heart sore.
--next day, 5:00 A.M., gates of Konoha—
Naruto, Sakura, Jiraiya and Tsunade were standing in the gates, looking towards the road and the forest. They had rested the best they could for the hard journey they would have. Ryu came, as fresh as his human companions. Naruto had explained the others about pacts with Wolf Dragons.
"You really grew wolf ears and tail?" Sakura asked him surprised
"Yeah…" Naruto answered
"I would have loved to see them!" Jiraiya exclaimed
"I can show them if you want."
Naruto made some hand seals taught by Ryu and his ears and tail appeared again.
"HOLY SHIT!" Jiraiya exclaimed, not believing it.
"Wow! I've never seen something like this before!" Tsunade exclaimed
"Anyway, let's call the Chief Toad so we can go" Sakura reminded them, not wanting to wait any longer to meet the other Wolf Dragons.
Jiraiya bit his thumb, so did Naruto and they made the correspondent hand seals.
"Summoning Jutsu!" They both said as the smoke appeared. When it cleared, they were surprised to see that the Chief toad now was only as tall as Ryu, while his children were still on their same stature.
"Bunta?! Is that you?!" Jiraiya asked shocked
"If you're wondering why I'm way more smaller than before, I used the shrinking technique" Gamabunta answered
"Wow, I've never seen you in this size, Chief Toad."
"I've never used this technique neither…"
"Well, can we go now?" Sakura asked eager
"Let's go already!" Gamakichi said eager also, though he was still angry at his father
Then, the group ran into the road and started their journey as a wolf howled in the distance and the sun began to come out of its nocturnal slumber to give its heat to the creatures that inhabited this world. However, little they knew they would learn new things about each other that they wouldn't have found out in any other way, nor that they would learn more about the legendary clan of the Wolf Dragons.