The Dragon's Gem
By: Sapphire Orchid
Chapter 11: Team Selections, First Summons, and History
Normal talking
Normal thoughts/ Emphasis/Writing
Demon/summoning/Full Dragon speech
Demon/summoning/Full Dragon thinking
Jutsus/Weapon abilities
(AN: Authors Notes.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the some of the oc's
(AN: Hey Guys, Sapphire Orchid here. I just wanted to explain something; that in the last chapter Minato called Naruto Musuko, which means son in Japanese. Now that's all I have to say so, on with the next chapter.
Story start Chapter 11: Team Selections, History, and First Summons
*** Konoha Namikaze House hold Naruto POV ***
"Ugh fucking morning, why do you have to be so early?" Naruto says, getting out of bed for the day.
"Hm was all that a dream last night?" he thought before looking down and seeing that his arm had a Phoenix tattoo on his right bicep, "wow I guess it wasn't, this is awesome! I finally have a summons."
After getting up and getting dressed, Naruto walked down stairs to the kitchen to get some breakfast. When he got there, he was met with a great surprise. There in the kitchen, were his parents making breakfast and actually waiting for him to show up for once. When they noticed him they smiled and Minato said.
"Hey Naruto me and your mother needed to talk with you. Here, sit by me," He said, patting a spot next to him that Mito usually sits in.
"Um, no thanks Minato. I'd rather sit where I usually do," Naruto says as he walks to the other end of the table and sits down and continues, "So what do you two want?"
"Well son we are so proud of for becoming the rookie of the year, we decided that it's time that we teach you! And I'm going to start with teaching you the Rasengan," Minato states, looking at his son with pride.
"Yes, and I want to teach you the Uzumaki sword style," Kushina says with pride in her eyes, but all of that stops at what Naruto says next.
"No," was his reply before standing up and leaving to go to the academy. He is stopped by his parents.
"Naruto stop, why are you saying no? I mean we don't have to now but when you get back home after the team selections then we can start training," Minato says, thinking that's the reason for saying no.
"Can't you take a hint? No means no Minato, now leave me alone about it. You too Kushina," the boy says before leaving and slamming the front door shut.
"Kushina-hime do you know what we did to make him react like that, I mean what was that?" Minato asked.
"I don't know, maybe we should have waited. I mean it's probably just too much pressure on him with the team selections and all," she says. Minato, who is about to reply, is stopped by laughing from behind them in the door way, when he turned to look Shizune was standing there.
"Shizune what are you doing here and why are you laughing?" the man asked.
"Oh it's just the way you're talking about Naruto-kun. You say that it's the pressure getting to him, it's really because he has grown up without you, so now he doesn't need you anymore," Shizune said, still laughing a little.
"What do you mean? He's our son! We've always been there for him," Kushina said, getting angry at the brunette.
"Oh yeah, what's his favorite color, what's his favorite food, and who are his best friends?" Shizune said, glaring at the two.
"Ha that's an easy one, his favorite color's red, his favorite food is Dango, and his best friends are, Mito, Ino, and Sakura," Kushina says, smirking at Shizune.
"Yeah that's right," Minato says, glaring at the younger woman.
"Oh yeah, well, it's actually orange, Ramen, and his best friends are, Sapphire Orchid, and Sasuke Uchiha," Shizune says and starts laughing even more at the parents faces.
"What? That can't be true," Kushina says, "you're lying."
"Oh I'm lying? Well I can assure you that I'm not. You see Mito, Sakura and sometimes Ino, try to make your son's and his friend's lives a living hell," Shizune says.
"What do you mean?" Minato says.
"Hm well they constantly call Sapphire a demon, and he knows about the kyuubi being inside of him though he hasn't met it yet. Also, Ino has stopped doing as much in the past year or two but Sakura and Ino constantly try to force themselves onto Sasuke, and Mito tries to beat them up and bully them all the time," Shizune says, glaring at the two of them.
"What? I don't believe you," Kushina says.
"Oh really, well then you can ask Jiraya-san, or Tsunade-sama or even Iruka-san, the academy teacher. He doesn't think of Saff-kun as the demon and has actually helped him when he could, they all have seen what those girls have done," she stated.
"Fine then, we'll just ask them," Minato says, glaring at Shizune.
"Fine go ahead, they'll just tell you the same thing," Shizune says before turning and leaving the room.
"Hm who does she think she is, trying to tell us that we have neglected out son, how dare she!" Kushina growls out.
"Kushina-hime, what if she's right, what if we have neglected our son?" Minato says.
"Don't you even start Minato, she is wrong! What kind of mother would neglect their child? Not me of course," she says before turning and leaving the room.
"Ugh, Kushina what if we're wrong, what if she's right and that we have neglected our son?" Minato says before standing and leaving to go to the hokage's office.
*** Sapphire's apartment Sapphire POV ***
"Ugh, that was a weird night," Sapphire says, getting up from his bed and getting dressed in his usual clothes. Once he was done, he walked into the living room and saw Leviathan.
"Hey sensei how's it going?" Sapphire said.
"Well I thought that once you're done with the team selections, I would teach you about our history, like who were the previous rulers and how our clan was created. Then I would teach you how to summon," Leviathan said, looking at Sapphire and waiting for a response.
"Hmm, fine I guess. I think that it'll be fun," the boy said, smiling.
"Good, I'll see you later then," Leviathan said before leaving.
"Hm, today is gonna be fun," Sapphire said before leaving for the academy.
*** Konoha academy Sapphire POV ***
After getting to the academy, Sapphire met up with Naruto and Sasuke.
"So guys how's it going?" Sapphire said.
"Oh i'm doing good," Sasuke said, smiling at his friends.
"Well I guess I'm doing ok, but the thing is, my parents decided that I'm actually worth caring for now," Naruto said, looking down at the ground.
"Huh, what do you mean?" Saff asked.
"Well when I went down stairs to get some breakfast, they were down there. When they saw me they started saying how proud they were of me. They even went and said that they wanted to start training me, of course I told them no," the blonde said.
"Hmm, well they deserve to be told no, especially after the way that they've treated you," Sapphire said, trying to cheer his friend up.
"Yeah they deserve it dude," Sasuke said.
"Yeah I guess you guys are right," Naruto said, "Now let's go get our teams."
"Yeah let's go," the blue haired boy says before grabbing his two friends and draging them into the academy.
When they got inside they saw some of the other students already sitting down. They also saw their friends and the terror trio.
"Shit, look who's here," Sasuke says, pointing at the three girls.
"Damn, well let's try and ignore them, hopefully they'll leave us alone. Come on, Hinata's waving us over," Naruto said.
As the three boys walk towards their friends, hoping that the three girls don't notice them, they have their hopes shattered as Mito turned towards them and says, "Hey losers why are you here?"
"Shut it Mito, why don't you just leave us alone for once?" Naruto said, glaring at his sister.
"Yeah can't you just shut up for once?" Sapphire said.
Before Mito could retort, Iruka walked in and said, "well students, today is the day that all of you head out into the world to become ninja and protect the village!"
"Sensei where's Mizuki-sensei?" Sakura called out before Iruka could continue.
"Well yesterday Mizuki was found to be a traitor, and thanks to Sapphire, Naruto, and Sasuke, he was stopped and arrested before he could get away with the forbidden scroll," the teacher said.
"Now to day I will tell you who's team you will be on, ok team 1...,"
At this, everyone stopped paying attention until, "Now team 7 will be special, the group will consist of, Sapphire Orchid, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno. Your sensei is Kakashi Hatake."
There were many different reactions from this. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sapphire were thrilled at being on the same team but were also sad the Sakura was on their team. Sakura was extremely happy at being on her Sasuke-kun teams and was rubbing it in Ino's face, but was also sad that the two idiots, as she called them, were on her team.
"Now team eight will be Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame, your sensei is Kurenai," the three of them were happy about that.
"Team nine is in circulation, so team ten will be Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi, your sensei is Asuma Sarutobi," he said. The only one who was mad at this was Ino who kept yelling about how unfair it was.
"Wait, what about me?" Mito called out since she was the only one without a team.
"Oh, well Mito you are going to be under the apprenticeship, of Kushina Namikaze, your mother," Iruka said.
"Ha this'll be great, now I don't have anyone to hold me back," Mito said.
"Hm figures she's gonna get special treatment," Sasuke said.
"Yeah, well I guess it's not a surprise, she always gets everything she wants," Naruto said.
"Hm, hey isn't our sensei famous or something?" Sapphire asked.
"Huh, oh yeah, he's actually the student of the 4th, and is always 2-3 hours late to everything, he also reads that smut Jiraya-sensei writes," Naruto said.
"Well as long as he actually tries to teach us then he's ok in my book," Sasuke said but directs the sentence towards Sapphire.
"Hm, I guess, wait, isn't he that old guy with the white hair?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah he is, though he's not that old," Naruto stated.
After waiting for an hour and seeing as they were the only four left in the room, Sapphire finally started getting pissed.
"Hm, oh my god, this is fucking annoying, why did we have to get the guy who's always late? I think that they purposely did this so that I wouldn't be able to train, and so that Naruto will be watched, and Sasuke will be trained by the best," Sapphire said, pissed, before pulling a deck of cards out of his pocket and asking, "So does anyone want to play blackjack?"
"Yeah why not," Sasuke said.
"Let's do this, I'm gonna win, believe it!" Naruto said.
After playing for a while with Sapphire and Naruto constantly tying, and Sasuke constantly losing, also with having Sasuke suggest playing a prank on Kakashi when he got to the room, the classroom door opened up and in walked Kakashi, only to have 3 buckets of red, blue, and orange paint fall on him.
"Hm hello sensei, just give us a minute I'm finally gonna beat Naruto," Sapphire said, completely ignoring their spluttering teacher, "Hit me."
"Ha beat that! Two kings," Naruto said, throwing his cards down.
"Hm, well it looks like I lose… just joking, an ace and a king, BLACKJACK!" Sapphire said, jumping up and slamming the cards down onto the table before doing a victory dance.
"Damn it, I didn't even win once, why do you two have such good luck?" Sasuke said who was crouched in a corner crying anime style.
"Aww, don't worry Sasuke we can get you some ice cream later. Will that make you happy?" Naruto said.
"Damn it, shut it blondie before I kick your ass," Sasuke said before Sapphire jumped in.
"Guys calm down, we can settle this outside, not in the class," Sapphire said, completely forgetting about Kakashi, who was still trying to get the paint out of his mouth, and was failing.
"You idiots leave Sasuke-kun alone, he could kick your asses in a heartbeat! And how dare you two do that to our sensei!" Sakura screeched, completely missing the fact that Sasuke helped, and was the one that suggested playing the prank.
"Is, she serious? You were the one that suggested playing the prank, yet she blames us," Naruto said, glaring at the pink haired howler monk- I mean Kunoichi.
"Tch, just ignore it, so sensei do you need any help with that paint?" Sapphire said, smirking at his soon to be teacher, who was finally able to get the paint off of his face.
"Ugh my first impression of you four is, I hate you three, and am not sure about the pinkette. Now, meet up on the roof," Kakashi said before disappearing in a Shushin.
"Ha, did you see the look on his face? How long do you think it will take him to learn not to be so late," Sasuke said, laughing.
"Hm, I think that he'll give up as a sensei before that happens," Sapphire said, "Now let's go, I don't want to be late and let him have an excuse to kick me from the ninja program."
"You know Saff, he might not do that. You need to learn to trust people a little more," Naruto said.
"Hm, oh yeah well there are only 14 people I can trust in this village. Besides, usually when I try to trust someone I get stabbed in the back before having the blade twisted 360 degrees," Sapphire said before walking out the door to go to the roof.
"Ha that Baka, does he honestly expect us to believe him?" Sakura said, "Sasuke, you shouldn't hang out with people like that, why don't you come with me? If you do then you won't have to pretend to like those two anymore."
"Sakura, they are my friends, unlike you. Now why don't you just leave me alone for once instead of antagonizing me and my friends?" Sasuke said before leaving to get to the roof.
"Sakura I would suggest that if you want to stay on this team and not be kicked off of it, then don't make fun of me or Sapphire ever again," Naruto said before going up also, leaving Sakura to think about what happened before going to join them on the roof.
Once all four of them were there, Kakashi got up and sat in front of them, before saying, "Now why don't you four tell me more about yourselves?"
"Um sensei what do you mean?" Sakura asked, causing the boys to groan in annoyance.
"Well I meant what are your names, likes, dislikes, and dreams," Kakashi answered while reading his book.
"Oh well can you show us how to do it?" Sakura said, causing the others to groan in annoyance again.
"Fine. I'm Kakashi Hatake; I like a lot of things, I dislike some things, and I don't really have a dream, you next pinkette," the silver haired man said.
"Wow, all we learned was his name," they all thought, sweat dropping.
"Well, I'm Sakura Haruno, I like," at this she looked at Sasuke, "and my dreams are to," at this she looked at Sasuke again and started giggling madly, making Sasuke try and hide behind Sapphire, which the latter wouldn't let happen.
"Hm interesting and what are your dislikes?"
"I HATE INO-PIG, NARUTO-BAKA, AND THE DEMON BOY!" Sakura exclaimed, glaring at the two boys.
"YOU BITCH!" Naruto and Sapphire exclaimed as they jumped to their feet and glared at the girl, with Sasuke not far behind.
"Sit down now before I send you back to the academy," Kakashi said, lazily looking at the two.
"What, but you heard what she called Saff! Oh wait, I get it, you think Saff's a demon don't you? Well you're an asshole Hatake," Sasuke said, glaring at the man.
"Now, now, I never said anything like that. Now sit down, duck hair, it's your turn," the man said.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha; I like playing pranks, hanging with my friends, and training with them, I dislike anyone, and I mean anyone, who mistreats them. I also hate perverts, rapists, fangirls, Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka, and Mito Namikaze. My dream is to one day bring the Uchiha clan back to its former glory and bring in Fugaku Uchiha for what he did," Sasuke said while switching between glaring at Kakashi and Sakura.
"Well that was interesting. Now why do you hate your team mate, Ino, and Mito-Chan?" Kakashi said.
"Well that's an easy one, it was my first dislike," Sasuke said, "you know, when I said I disliked anyone, who mistreated my friends."
"Ok then, blondie, your turn."
"Fine then. My name is Naruto; I like hanging out and training with my friends, I love pranks, and ramen. My dislikes are exactly the same as Sasuke's, and I do mean exactly," when he said this, he glared at Sakura who was too busy staring at Sasuke with hearts in her eyes to notice, "My dream is to help Saff complete his dream, and then become the Hokage."
"Well that's an interesting dream, now why didn't you put your last name, Naruto-kun?" Kakashi asked.
"Well I have my reasons," was the reply.
"Fine then I guess that's all for today-," he says but is cut off as Naruto interrupts him.
"Sensei you forgot Saff," the bond says.
"Oh right sorry I'm use to only three kids. Saff, tell us about you," the man said and actually looked sheepishly after that.
"Hm well first of all, don't call me Saff, Hatake. Only the people I trust can call me that, and you are defiantly not someone I can trust right now. You can call me Sapphire Orchid. My likes are the same as Naruto's, but I also like finding out about my heritage and learning new Jutsu. My dislikes are the same as Naruto's and Sasuke's, but I also dislike most of the Konoha population. I don't dislike the village but I do dislike the people. My dream is to one day become the strongest in the world, help Naruto become the hokage, and then find my father and pass judgment onto him for the crimes he has committed on not just me, but others as well," Sapphire finished with a smirk.
"Well then, that was… interesting, I guess," Kakashi said with a grimace before thinking, "Hm, I have a fangirl, an Uchiha who acts just like Obito, the son of the hokage who will not even acknowledge them as his family it seems, and then Sapphire Orchid, the supposed demon brat. He is definitely a wild card, I will have to watch him."
He was knocked out of his thoughts when Sakura started talking, "So sensei what are we going to do now?"
"Oh well I'm going to leave now so, meet up at training ground 3 tomorrow at 7 am for your test. Also, make sure not to eat or else you get sick," Kakashi said and was about to leave before.
"What test? Aren't we all done with those now?" Sakura asked and, when Kakashi was about to respond, he was beat by Naruto.
"Sakura, of course we're not done with tests. We still have to pass Hatake's Genin test, then there's also the Chunin and Jonin test later on," the blonde stated.
"Hm, well then we'll see you tomorrow sensei," Sapphire spat out the last part before turning and leaving with Sasuke and Naruto not far behind.
"So Saff what are you going to do during the test tomorrow, you gonna show us a few of your secrets?" Naruto asked.
"Hm only if you show me some of yours," he replied
"Ha I hope we at least see some awesome moves and actually learn some Jutsu from him," Sasuke said.
"Hm yeah, though from the way he was looking at me, I'd say that he wasn't really a fan of me," Saff said.
"Yeah well if he tries anything then we'll kick his ass, right guys?" Naruto said.
"YEAH!" was their reply.
"Oh damn it, I gotta go," Sapphire said.
"Hm oh shit I do too, see ya later guys," Naruto said.
"Yeah see ya," Sasuke said.
*** 20 minutes later secluded training grounds Naruto POV ***
As Naruto entered the hidden training ground that he and Jiraya use, he immediately started looking around to make sure no one was watching him. When he was satisfied he walked to the middle of the field and started the hand signs.
"Summoning Jutsu!" he called out, slamming his hands into the ground. At first, nothing happened, but then the wind picked up and in a swirl of fire, there was a boy that looked around his age, probably a little older, with bright orange unruly hair. He stood at 5'9", dark gray/silver eyes, and was wearing a regular red shirt and black jeans. When the mysterious boy turned to look at him, Naruto immediately feared that he would attack, but then the unexpected happened.
"Huh, oh hi you must be Naruto. The boss told me about you, I'm Sinder, Sinder Ashefallen, and it's nice to meet you," the now named Sinder says, holding out his hand for Naruto to shake.
"Oh well, as you already know I'm Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki, It's nice to meet you too," the blonde said shaking the others hand.
"Ok then, the boss couldn't come at the moment, so he asked me to come to meet you. So, what do you want to know?" Sinder asked, sitting down after shaking Naruto's hand.
"Huh, what do you mean?" the blonde asked.
"Oh, sorry about that, I probably should have been more clear. I'm kinda new to this," the orange haired boy said, "I meant what do you want to know about us, the Phoenix clan. I mean, you must want to know about us, we are the strongest or at least tied with the dragon summons."
"Ah ok, well I wasn't really expecting this, well why don't we start with you?" Naruto asked.
"Ok, as I said I'm Sinder, I'm 15 in human years. I like my friends, and being with my family, I dislike anyone who looks down on them, I do not like those that are murders, rapists, and perverts, my dream is to one day rise up and claim the High Phoenix throne, and defeat The Fallen Phoenix, known as Faullen," Sinder said, looking at the sky with a faraway look in his eyes as he said the last part.
"Wow, but wait, who is Faullen?" Naruto asked curious, since he heard the name from Phyre and Fawkes last night.
"Huh, oh right you're human. Sorry, I forgot that you weren't a Phoenix, anyways, Faullen is the first dark phoenix in the last 40,000 - 50,000 years. He is a monster and only our leader, Phyre, and his second, Fawkes, has ever fought him and came back," the older boy said.
"Wow he must be really strong, where is he now?" Naruto asked.
"Yes he is very strong, and nobody knows where he is, he disappeared a long time ago, but he will probably show up again, and when he does, I will be the one to take him down," Sinder said.
"Wait I have a question, why do you hate him so much?" the blonde asked.
"Hm well he is a dark Phoenix; the only way to become one is to kill one of your comrades. It is one of the worst crimes that a Phoenix can do. Back during the battle of Claws Peak, he fought the Dragon's second, while our leader, Phyre, fought their leader Bahamut. Their fight lasted hours on end, and finally ended in a draw, but Faullen's failed to defeat their second. Everyone that knew that he fought him and lost and tried to tell him that it wasn't his fault for losing since the dragon leader and second are rivals and are usually at the same strength. With Phyre being the same strength as Bahamut, Faullen never could defeat him. He would not listen and started trying to get stronger, but he then started to delve deeper into the darker abilities that our clan has, and then he came across the Dark Phoenix'. When he found out what to do, he immediately set out to do it, and then one day he succeeded by killing… my mother," Sinder said, pausing to look at Naruto to see his reaction.
"Oh my god, I'm sorry, but what about your father is he still alive?" Naruto said.
"Of course my father's still alive."
"Really what's his name?"
"His name, well I think you can figure that one out yourself, especially since we've been talking about him," Sinder said, and then saw the look of realization dawn on Naruto's face.
"What! Wow I didn't know that, well at least I can see why you want to kill him now, but I have another question, what are you going to do when you meet him again?" Naruto asked.
"Huh, what do you think I'm gonna do, I'm going to kill him, that's what," Sinder said.
"Really, so you are stronger then your clan's leader already? That's cool," Naruto stated.
"Huh, I'm not stronger then Phyre, I'm not even close. I still need to train to get that strong," Sinder stated with a look of confusion on his face from what the blonde boy said.
"What, but you just said that when you met Faullen again then you would kill him. If you are going to kill him, then you will need to be stronger then Phyre, and Fawkes, since they both lost in a fight to him, right?" Naruto said.
Sinder just sat there, trying to figure out what to say and coming up with nothing. "Ugh fine, I see what you mean, you're right. I will need to train to get stronger than Phyre-sama, and Fawkes-san, but the only way that I can do that is to bond with a human. Phyre was once bound to one and that made him immensely stronger and he grew in leaps and bounds until his partner died. The same happened with Fawkes. You see, the only way that a Phoenix can bond is with a human that has a pure heart. But I can't find a human that can do it. All the humans that I meet have never been pure of heart. Well, except you, but no one else."
"Well, I could help you get stronger and then we can both beat Faullen together! All I ask is that you help me become hokage, and I will help you defeat your father," Naruto said, standing with his hand out towards Sinder.
"What, you would help me though you only just met me?!" Sinder stated, amazed at Naruto.
"Yeah I did the same with someone a few years ago. Now we're brothers in all but blood. I'm pretty sure that I have room for another one," Naruto finished jokingly.
"Hm, well then, Naruto Uzumaki, I, Sinder Ashefallen, accept your help and I will bond with you, so mote it be," Sinder says before jumping up and grabbing Naruto's hand. Then, in a swirl of fire, a tattoo of an orange Phoenix with the name Sinder under it appeared on his right arm.
"Wow, this is so cool, so when do I get to learn some cool Jutsus, or how about learning some way to fight a giant monster, or wait, I know, how about we go and fight a dragon, that will be so cool, I could get some dragon hide armor right, when do we leave?!" Naruto said, jumping around.
"Whoa, calm down. We won't be fighting any dragons anytime soon. I think we could take on one, he is a little kid about your age I think, but he is being protected by the former second in command. We would be eliminated in a second," Sinder said trying to calm Naruto down.
"What? But I want to go fight someone strong! The Phoenixes are the strongest right, with the Dragons being the second right?" Naruto said.
"No actually, the Dragons are the strongest and have proved it over and over again, with the Phoenixes being the second, and the Felines being the third, ok? If we fought a dragon then we would be annihilated. The dragons are very protective of their kin with a few exceptions. One being the leader Bahamut, he used to be looked up to by anyone with scales, but now, he is a traitor to all since he sealed up all other dragons except two, and that was only because they weren't there at the time," Sinder said, "But enough about them, why don't we talk about the Phoenixes?"
"Ok then, how about you start from the beginning," Naruto said.
"Sweet, ok then! Now, in the beginning there were separate clans of Phoenixes, each one had a different ability. It is basically our version of your bloodlines, anyways, these Phoenixes were constantly at war with each other to try and prove their supremacy. After a few thousand years of this, three clans came out on top and battled each other. In this battle there were the WhiteFlame clan, the BlueFlame clan, and then the GoldenFlame clan. The thing is though, nobody really paid attention to the WhiteFlame since they were one of the weakest clans. The only reason they were there, that everyone thought, was because they were just over looked, but that wasn't the case. Now, the GoldenFlame and the BlueFlame were the strongest clans out of all the other clans. They had the strongest and hottest fire abilities, nobody could match them, but one day they met at the valley known as The White Basin, because the rock and water in the valley are white. When the two clans met at the bottom of the valley, they noticed that their abilities wouldn't work right, their fire attacks, which was their main arsenal, would either miss or would just dissipate. After hours of fighting and trying to hit one another, they finally tired out and when this happened, they spotted the WhiteFlame clan at the top of the valley. That was when they finally figured out what their abilities were; they could control flames, no matter what kind, they could control it, except one but we'll get to that later. Anyways, the clan then descended upon the other two and dispatched them with ease. Their leader, Molten WhiteFlame, then rounded up the other clans and gave them a choice, 'join with our clan, or we will end you.' With that, the great Phoenix clan of today came together, so what do you think?" Sinder said, looking down at Naruto, waiting for his reaction.
"Wow the Phoenixes are awesome, what happened next?" the blonde said excited.
"Ha, I knew you would think we were awesome, ok then, the next thing that happened was the First Great Summoning War. This war was basically between the Dragons and Phoenixes, with the Felines in the middle, trying to defend their territory and with the lesser clans siding with either hoping to gain spoils of the war. Now the reason that thought was because of a few things, the two main things were that the Dragons said that they were the strongest and started to call themselves the Fire Children, which was a title that the Phoenixes originally held. After the long war which lasted around 10,000 years, finally, at the final battle called The Battle of the Scorched plains, which was actually in the human world, The two titans of the clans Molten, for the Phoenixes, and Draken, for the Dragons, fought and lasted for 3 days. They burned and scorched the ground, making it unable to be used for anything else. Draken finally came out on top, making the Dragons the victors. Now, after this the Phoenixes, Dragons, and Felines came together to discuss an agreement for who gets power over the lesser clans. They ultimately came to an agreement that they should rule it together, which made what is known today as the 3 Kami o shōkan (AN: 3 Kami o shōkan means 3 summoning gods.) They formed so that they could watch over the lesser clans and make sure that another great war wouldn't break out, though that failed with the second, third, and fourth war, and a fifth might start soon over the dragon territory, but yes that is the history of the Phoenixes up until the end of the First great summoning war. Now, any questions?" Sinder asked.
"Nope, well I have one, why are the Felines part of the 3 Kami o shōkan, didn't they lose the war or something?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Oh that's actually a good question, well the answer is because they didn't lose the war, their territory was just the battle grounds of the first war. They repelled many attacks from all of the other clans, including the Dragons and Phoenixes, they are actually the 3rd strongest summoning clan, mainly because of their many different abilities and large numbers."
"Oh that's cool! Oh shit, it's almost 8 I gotta go! I don't want to be locked out of my house again, well see ya later Sinder it was nice meeting you, and I'll make sure that you get strong enough to take out Faullen, bye!" Naruto said before running off the field, waving back to his new friend.
"Wow, it looks like leader-sama was right, Naruto is a good human. I can't wait to start training with him," Sinder said before disappearing in a swirl of fire.
After running for a while, Naruto finally made it home, "Damn it, I gotta start training harder, that run tired me out," he said, pushing his front door open and walking past the kitchen only to be stopped by a voice talking about him and his friends.
"Minato-kun Naruto is drifting away from us. We're his parents yet he doesn't want to spend his time with us, what are we gonna do? I mean Shizune couldn't have been right, right?" the voice of Kushina said, making Naruto snort and move closer to the slightly opened door.
"Really they still don't believe me or Shizune-nee-Chan, they need to get it through their thick heads that I will not forgive them right off the bat," Naruto thought.
"Yes you're right, I think that it's Sapphire and Sasuke. They're both corrupting our son and need to be stopped," Minato said.
"What, but they're Naruto's friends and from what I've heard they have helped each other out a lot, why should we make them stop?"
"Isn't it obvious, Sasuke is trying to follow in his clans steps by making him lust for power, and Sapphire is obviously being controlled by the Kyuubi! I mean how else is he learning all of these abilities along with being able to swap with me and outrunning ANBU. He is being controlled, end of story," Minato said sternly.
"Excuse me, they are trying to control me, which is total bull shit! Why the fuck would they think that, I'm able to outrun ANBU and so is Sasuke. I want to become Hokage to protect his village and everyone else… wait, those bastards! It's because I'm better then Mito, isn't it? That's why Minato is saying those things, he can't bring himself to admit his failures, the fucker, at least Kushina is finally standing up for me, though she will still have to work for my forgiveness," Naruto thought.
"Minato this is not right. I think that we should be more focused on Mito right now, do you know that I talked with that teacher Iruka today? He told me a lot about what she does, she bullies other students, mainly Naruto-kun, Sasuke, and Sapphire. She verbally assaults them, calls Sapphire a demon, and has lied about all the times that Naruto 'bullied her in class.' This is an outrage Minato-kun, do you know that she yelled at me a few hours ago for when I said that I couldn't get her a dress she wanted since I was 'too lazy to get off my fat ass'? Can you believe it, we need to rein her in and stop her before she becomes like Orochimaru or something like that," Kushina said, angry.
"Kushina, you're over exaggerating, I doubt that she did any of those things. Iruka must be lying, now enough of this, I'm going to bed," Minato said before standing and going over to the door, opening it only to see Naruto standing there glaring at him in pure anger, "what, Naruto when did you get here?"
"I've been here the whole time, listening to your conversation; I can't believe it, at least Kushina-Okaa-Chan believes me, why is it that you won't? Is it because I'm the 'problem child' huh, why, is it because you hate me, or is it because I'm better than your precious Mito? You're dead to me Minato, I will choose who my friends are not you, you bastard," Naruto said before running up to his room in anger to pack his stuff. Once he was done he leapt out his window to the ground below and took off to Sapphire's apartment. When he got there, he saw a limping Sapphire heading towards his door grumbling about evil 'dark haired people' he decided to call out to him, "Yo Saff, wait up."
"Hm, oh hey Naruto what's up?" Sapphire said, opening his door.
"Oh well I was wondering if I could stay at your place for a few days," Naruto stated sheepishly.
"Hm, oh yeah sure, but why? Did your parents do something again?" Sapphire asked, concerned for his friend.
"Um well…" Naruto started before telling Sapphire what transpired at his home.
"What that is just bullshit, why the hell would he think something like that was happening? I want to go kick his ass right now, that bastard," Sapphire said, seething in anger at Minato messing with his little brother in all but blood.
"Yeah well I just needed to get out of there. I was also thinking of emancipating myself from the clan," Naruto said, looking at the round in sadness.
"Hm, well you can stay here as long as you want to, for as long as you need," Sapphire said.
"Wait really?" Naruto asked, getting a nod as a reply, making the boy smile at this friend, "thanks Saff you're awesome dude."
"Hm well what are friends for, huh? Now I'm going to bed, it's late and we need to get to the training ground tomorrow, so see ya," Saff said before heading to his room.
"See ya Saff, good night," Naruto said before heading to the guest room, thinking about what transpired that day, "Well it seems that I've made friends with a strong summoning clan, chewed out Minato, and then ran away… Wow, what a day."
(AN: well guys sorry for the delay, I tried to work on this story on my new kindle fire, but when I transferred it onto my laptop, the file corrupted and got deleted, so yeah I won't be doing that anytime soon. Now this chapter was mainly Naruto with very little Sapphire, I tried to explain the Phoenix history a little and why they hate the dragons, and sorry that it isn't detailed that much, but I will try to make future things like this better later. Now I'm going to try and update earlier, especially since it's coming up on summer so I will have a little more free time on hand, and finally I think that I'm going to start making shorter chapter 2,000-3,000, but every other day, instead of 6,000-8,000 once a week, so tell me what you guys think of that, now that's about it so, yeah.)
I'm Sapphire Orchid signing out, Bye.