(A/N) HII! Alright, so an edit has been made. I have attempted, and I have no skill with Jurassic Park itself. As such, Taroko's egg is now part of a payment for a team of Shinobi having gone to help with the Jurassic Park situation. While they were there, they treated the dinos more like ninken or summoning animals, and the scientists there were extremely curious about the limits of the intelligence of raptors. So, Taroko's egg was sent with them, and the research division sends reports on Taroko's intelligence levels. More dinos will follow.

When the egg hatched, Hiruzen had not been actually expecting a dinosaur, long thought to be myths, and were definitely extinct. He debated calling Anko in, to see if she could sex the animal, but decided against it. That would probably be a bad idea, considering the amount of teeth the creature had. Not a problem of worrying about Anko, more worrying that Anko would take a shine to the small creature and hence, to Naruto. As much as he trusted the special Jounin, she was a bit… eccentric. He checked himself and tentatively suggested it may be female, but they should probably ask a vet before he took that as ironclad fact.

As such, they were on their way to visit the Inuzukas. Hana Inuzuka, specifically. She was young but showing a good head for veterinary medicine. Also, she was most likely not going to deny Naruto and his velociraptor a checkup. In addition, she was an Inuzuka, and not even remotely afraid of things with sharp teeth. She also probably had some more meat for the velociraptor, who was hungry again and had already eaten what Naruto had. On the plus side, they knew what it ate now.

Hana checked it over and agreed that it was probably female, so the velociraptor was officially named Taroko.

Naruto continued bringing Taroko to school with him, she was happy enough to sit quietly, for the most part anyway, and had mostly figured out that lunchtime meant she could pester Naruto for food all she wanted. Iruka was deemed okay, but Taroko didn't seem to like it when he threw chalk at Naruto for sleeping, so a few days into him bringing her, she started nipping his ears whenever he was close to dozing off. Iruka was fine with this arrangement and even started keeping mice from whenever they appeared in the school, which was often, in his desk to give to her when she'd done a good job keeping Naruto awake. She was certainly more intelligent than most other animals, and about a month after she hatched, Iruka brought up the subject of communicating with her.

"Naruto." Iruka stopped him after class while feeding one of the mice to Taroko.

"Yeah, Iruka-sensei?"

"Have you ever thought about teaching Taroko morse code?"

Naruto looked confused. "Morse code?"

"It's a sound and occasionally touch-based communication method," Iruka slipped into his lecture mode immediately. "It relies on a series of dots and dashes, or long and short. Morse code can be used over radio, by tapping on someone, and even flashing with a jutsu."

"So, the point is," Naruto said, leaving it hanging.

"She could tap her claw to speak in it, and you could reply by clicking your tongue, or maybe even replying verbally if she can understand Japanese."

Taroko, at that moment, decided to chitter and nod her head. Iruka smiled and patted her head. "I think she agrees with me."

"Maybe, I'll take a look at it," Naruto agreed.

And take a look at it he did. He had to learn it first, then as he learned, he taught it to Taroko. It was an interesting way to learn, and he found he remembered it better when he taught it to her, and then they used it. He'd started with mostly simple commands, doing bite, don't bite, and disappear. The last one was used mainly when civilian mobs found him. She wasn't big enough yet, only about the size of a small ninken, and he feared they would attack her, maybe even kill her.

Iruka used it to get her to nip Shikamaru whenever he was sleeping too, and Naruto started wondering if she liked his teacher more than she liked him. Shino had picked up on the morse code thing and had started learning it as well, attempting to have conversations with the small reptile. She was learning new words daily from him and then would teach them to Naruto. It was with some difficulty they figured out how to do the information transfer, but they found that she could dip her claws in ink and draw like that. So, Shino and Naruto started teaching her to write and read.

With some strong encouragement from Taroko, Iruka started giving her assignments too, letting her complete them in her only slightly better than chicken scratch hand, er, claw writing.

Taroko made her opinion on certain people very clear. She did insist that she liked the Uchiha, mostly because he 'smelled of blood' or something like that, she wasn't very clear. She didn't like the fangirls of the class, usually growling at them, especially when she'd caught something on her own for lunch, and her fangs were all very bloody. They were usually screaming and running away at that, despite the fact that she only came up to about their knees by the end of the fourth year, and was not big enough to eat them. Yet.

She liked Shino, Shikamaru was a toss-up, they weren't sure if she just liked biting him and getting the treats from Iruka, or she actually cared that he was paying attention. She hadn't said anything on the subject, so they were mostly left in the dark.

She definitely liked Choji, who was fine with bringing some meat leftovers from whatever food he'd eaten recently, and giving them to her. So far, she was especially fond of the turkey Choji's mother made.

Teuchi and Ayame were deemed okay, after they got over the teeth, anyway. They happily fed Taroko all the extra scraps that would've gone into the trash whenever Naruto brought her along. Which was most of the time. They were remarkably well adjusted to shinobi life, despite being civilians. It was probably the fact that their stand had been a place of fond memories for many shinobi, including the Yellow Flash and his wife, plus his students. The two had proven time and again that they kept their mouths shut, vital for people who ran establishments that shinobi frequented.

Taroko seemed to like Hinata, if just because she wasn't a squealing fangirl. Akamaru was terrified of the larger velociraptor, and Kiba remained wary, keeping his distance. Mizuki was not on her good side, she'd mentioned something about not liking snakes, and him smelling bad. Mizuki was confused by that, so everyone just brushed it off.

By the end of the fifth year Sakura was so firmly on Taroko's bad side, Naruto didn't think Sakura'd ever switch sides. Ino was edging towards neutral, and Tarako was roughly up to Naruto's ribs. At her shoulders, anyway.

Sixth year was certainly the most interesting since she'd hatched since they discovered she could use chakra.

Taroko watched them attempting the leaf sticking exercise curiously, and tapped out a question. 'Chakra, can I use?'

Naruto blinked. "Uh, I'll ask. Hey, Iruka-sensei!"

"What is it Naruto," Iruka asked, coming over.

"Can animals use chakra?"

"Taroko asked?" Iruka asked, amused.

"Yeah, so can she?"

Iruka thought about it. "Well, I don't see why not, but I just don't know. Why don't you try, Taroko?"

Taroko tilted her head, crouching down to place her head on the leaves carpeting where they were working. There was a reason they taught this exercise in the fall. She stood back up, and most of the leaves, except for one, fluttered to the ground.

"Did you get it stuck?" Iruka asked.

Taroko tapped out a response, 'Leaf stuck with chakra. Manipulation easy.'

Iruka blinked. "Okay, may I place leaves on other parts of your body to see if you can hold them there?"

Taroko nodded, the leaf under her chin not moving, signaling it was certainly stuck firmly with chakra. Iruka took care, placing leaves on her sides, and a few on her tail, which swished a few times after they were placed, making sure they were firmly stuck.

The other students gaped at the dinosaur that was doing better then they were. Admittedly, it was less surprise and more, 'aw c'mon, we thought the dinosaur couldn't do this'. Iruka had informed the class, in an attempt to get them to work harder, that if she was an actual student, Taroko would be top of the class. Even above Sasuke, who was top human student. It had sort of worked, in that, a lot of the students tried harder, especially Sakura, who was livid that she was being beaten in her academic scores by a freaking dinosaur. She was still being beaten. Iruka had decided to set up three scoreboards, one that had academic scores, one with physical scores, and the third with overall scores. Taroko was topping all three consistently, although the scores with individual things that lay to the side admitted that Naruto had better stamina than her, really, it was not by a lot. She wasn't beating Sasuke at kunai and shuriken throwing, mostly because she couldn't actually throw anything, but she had the claws to make up for it in taijutsu. As she was a dinosaur, taijutsu styles didn't really work with her, so she made do. She still beat everyone in the class in spars. Sharp nippy teeth and a penchant for thick skin meant she could make almost anyone forfeit. Not to mention her tail, which had thrown most of them out of the ring at some point. There was something disconcerting about being able to see four limbs, then a fifth comes out of nowhere and hits you in the side, and throws you a good five meters if she's being gentle.

Sasuke actually growled at Taroko, and she happily growled back. Sasuke stuck the leaf on his forehead again, growling at it when it flew off because he'd applied too much chakra.

Taroko helpfully tapped out the problem. 'When angry, chakra is unstable, calm.'

Sasuke looked to Iruka for a translation.

"She suggested you calm down because when you're angry, your chakra is unstable."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her, and she looked innocently back. Well, as innocent as a raptor can look.

They had a Hyuuga take a look at her, and sure enough, she had fully formed chakra coils, almost like a summoning creature. As such, Taroko insisted upon asking about things being thrown with chakra, which led to an entire discussion on medical ninjutsu, the control needed for that, and chakra strings, which could theoretically be used to throw kunai.

By the end of the sixth year, she was up to his shoulder, could now throw kunai, and was working on learning the henge. Privately, Iruka thought that anyone they came across was doomed. He was also debating taking up registering Taroko as an actual shinobi. After all, Taroko, Shino, and Naruto would make a wonderful tracking team. Unlikely to happen though, as Iruka knew that Naruto was perfect for a frontlines team, just a bit more so then a tracking team.

(A/N) As awesome as that team would be, it can't happen. Oh well. Taroko has small chakra stores, and lots of control, hence her getting the leaf sticking exercise pretty much right away. She is not a summoning animal, nor will she ever be. Just to be clear.