Chapter Thirty-Six
Wyrmling
A NAruto Fanfiction
Chapter Thirty-Six
Disclaimer: DRAGONSSSSSSSSS
There was someone rubbing Yukio's shoulder. The wyrmling moaned as she rolled over in bed. She did not want to get up.
"Yukio," came a motherly voice, "You have to wake up."
"Five more minutes, mom," moaned the wyrmling.
"I'm not your mom."
What?
Yukio shot up. "What?" She blinked and saw Temari. Her voice dropped, "Oh, hey…Temari."
Temari chuckled, "It's time to get up, sleepyhead. You have an appointment."
Yukio furrowed her eyebrows.
What appoint—oh. Oh My God it's today! I'm going home today!
"What time is it?"
"It's nine, your appointment is in an hour."
"Right," Yukio pulled her blankets over her legs and stepped out of bed.
"You're excited to have that thing taken off you, huh?"
Yukio clutched the spot where the bracelet sat on her arm. "Yeah. Yeah I am."
Temari's lips parted into a gentle smile, "Well then, I hope it comes off."
Yukio closed her eyes. "Yeah."
Me too, Temari, me too.
"So I'll let you get ready then," Temari stood to leave.
"Thanks."
Temari nodded, "Sure," as she left the wyrmling's space.
I hope everything goes well.
The hybrid gathered fresh clothes and made her way to the bathroom. She bathed and changed quickly and quietly., She made her way back to her room.
"Here goes…everything," she murmured.
I think the worst part of not knowing is…knowing that you don't know something.
She found her shoes and slipped them on.
It's time to go.
Yukio made her way to the big office building where Gaara worked. She needed to follow her dread and she made it there. She knocked on the door.
"Come in," came the deep voice of Gaara.
Yukio hesitantly pushed the door open. Inside the room was a small team of maybe six masked men. They stood across from Gaara's desk where the man sat.
"Hello," she greeted.
They nodded and the two closest men to the wyrmling stepped aside to reveal a chair.
"Hello, Yukio," greeted Gaara.
The wyrmling moistened her lips, "So what's the plan?"
"The bracelet comes off today," he responded.
"Right," she took a step into the room. "So I sit…kin the chair and wait for the bracelet to come off?"
"They will remove the Dragon Seal."
So that's what it's called.
Yukio walked to the chair and sat down. The masked men stepped away from her and sat erect on the floor. The wyrmling closed her eyes. She heard chanting, a murmuring of various animals: ox, monkey, she couldn't make out the res. The words came in that state, and then when she became comfortable with their sounds, they stopped.
Why'd they stop?
The wyrmling cracked open an eye and looked down at her arm. The dragon the on the bracelet started slithering off the device and it crawled onto her shoulder. The device started unlocking itself and it loosened itself from her arm.
It's off.
The dragon figurine shook and leaped onto the place where the bracelet originally rested. It started clawing at the red spot.
No!
Yukio grabbed its tail, but it would not detach itself from her arm. The little dragon screeched and Yukio yanked at it one more time, successfully throwing it off her. She exhaled slowly and smiled.
"I'm—"the smile faded from her face. She was in the dark hallway with purple mist. "I'm not in Suna anymore."
Okay, come on Yukio, let's get it together. This place is real. Let's call it something…let's call it The Dragon Realm.
She inhaled and stared walking forward.
Okay Yukio, you're in the Dragon Realm and you need to get out…what did you do the last time…you found a dragon. Great!
She looked around and nothing was in sight other than darkness and a purple haze.
Great, you just need to find a dragon.
The wyrmling moaned, "If this is the Dragon Realm, then why aren't there any dragons?"
"Maybe because you need to find the dragon within yourself," came a voice like a far-off dream.
The wyrmling turned around and saw a blue-scaled man.
Dad?
"Kurayamiryu."
The figure smiled, exposing his yellow teeth, "Hello Yukio. You can call me dad, you know."
The wyrmling furrowed her eyebrows, "I don't know."
"Sure you can."
"Well…uh…I don't really know you."
He shrugged, "That's okay, I don't really know you either, but I'm willing to find out who my daughter is."
She closed her eyes, "I guess I'd like to know you too…dad."
The wyrmling opened her eyes and saw that her father was a few feet below her.
What?
She looked down at herself and saw a dragon form where her body should be.
"Your're ready to meet the council. Come." Kurayamiryu led the wyrmling though the darkness.
The started talking, first about nothing in particular, but then their conversation shifted.
"So how did you get here?"
"I was ordered here."
"By the council?"
Kurayamiryu sighed, "Yes, by the council."
"Why'd they do that?"
The dragon stopped and stared at the wyrmling, "There are not many dragons. There used to be more of us, but the humans started killing us off. You see, we, all of us creatures like the Neko and the Shukakku had a great influence on the humans. At first the humans worshipped us as their gods, we took whatever we wanted whenever we wanted and we even started impregnating humans. The humans turned a blind eye to our folly, but our seed became the seed of our destruction."
Oh boy, here it comes.
He continued, "We were able to dominate the humans by keeping them powerless, but when we started…mixing with the humans, they received some of our gifts. It did not take long for those people with gifts to realize what they were…and they began learning and creating skills to become weapons of war. They did not live with us, but with the humans. The humans were not stupid, they knew that our seed were…different and they treated the seed differently. The seed did whatever they could to be accepted the humans they lived with and these gifted and troubled children took arms against their own blood."
"Then what happened?"
"I'm getting to that!" He exhaled slowly, "The seed became known as ninja who possessed kekkei genkai and they started killing my brethren. Some were sealed into children…jinchuriki, they're called, and us dragons…we're the lucky ones. We found this realm and took refuge here. You see, although we are powerful; great power comes with great weakness. The strength of the humans is knowing exactly when and where to strike. We had been pampered and weakened. We could not do anything without the assistance of a human…we had grown that lazy so it makes sense that we retreated before we even fought. We will return to that world, but that is a question of when and the council decides that."
That's a lot to digest.
"I see."
Kurayamiryu grew into a great navy blue dragon. "We're here." The dragon slithered upwards.
I guess I should try to do the same.
The wyrmling tried to shake her body but she ended up flopping on the ground.
Let's try something else.
She jumped and sank to the ground.
How am I supposed to do this?
The wyrmling felt the great dragon nuzzle her neck. "You need to feel the air that supports you and ask it to take you where you want to go."
Okay then.
She jumped once more and felt the air; she stayed suspended there for a few moments before falling back down again.
"That was a very good start, wyrmling. Try again."
You got this, Yukio, you just need to know where you're going.
"We're going up?" she queried.
"We're going up."
Here goes.
She leaped once more and fell down. She did not even hover like she did before.
Concentrate.
She breathed slowly before leaping once more. She felt a tingling sensation and she knew the air was below her, holding her.
I need to move…up.
She tilted her head upwards and felt a push from her rear. It wasn't her father, it was the tingly feeling. It was pushing her up.
"Good," the dragon was next to the wyrmling, "follow me."
Ariel Ceylan: Hope you didn't mind the monologue. I'm just glad I got another chapter done. ~Ariel Ceylan