Chapter Six – Through The Air
Kakashi made sure Iruka had a firm grip on the silver hair that that traced his long dragon spine, before rearing backwards a pace and diving towards the sky.
"Whoa! Kakashi!" Iruka shrieked as he watched the dragon leave the earth and soar gracefully through the clouds.
"You okay back there?" Kakashi said cheerily as Iruka hung on for dear life, eyes watering at the speed that they were going at.
"I'm…okay…" Iruka managed to squeak as Kakashi did a pirouette through some fluffy white clouds and then ascend higher into the sky.
"Well…let me continue my story then…" Kakashi said softly, as the wind roared around Iruka's ears, "As the dragon died…I went over to it and he handed me one of it's scales…he told me that it had the ability to change any man into a dragon at will…and you know…dragons are pretty powerful creatures…so I accepted the scale…and that's why it's attached to my cheek…"
Iruka's stomach lurched violently as Kakashi did another spiral through the clouds. His eyes watered immensely as the wind licked at his eyeballs.
"K-Kakashi!" Iruka whimpered, trying desperately not to wet his neat chuunin trousers.
Kakashi continued speaking, "…the dragon was actually a man…he'd reached the age of one hundred and he was gonna die…he told me that the scale keeps any man alive for a hundred years…and when he turns a hundred he passes the scale on…"
Iruka squinted against the wind, his body shaking slightly, "So you'll get to live to the age of a hundred?"
Kakashi chuckled, "Yeah, I guess so."
"Um…wouldn't a h-hundred year old guy, b-be really wrinkly? A-And saggy and stuff?" Iruka asked, leaning his body as close to the sleek dragon as possible as he caught sight of the world two thousand feet below.
Kakashi blew little flames from his nostrils, apparently not having heard Iruka at all.
"K-Kakashi?" Iruka shouted, over the roaring of wind, as Kakashi sped up.
Seriously, he must have been going at least a hundred miles an hour. Iruka pondered over Kakashi's speed and wondered if there was some magical being that would give him a ticket for speeding.
Iruka coughed as aloop of smoke shot into his lungs.
"Oops! Um…the flames kind of produce a lot of smoke and stuff." Kakashi apologised and stopped blow torching the clouds, "But it's cool isn't it?"
Iruka nodded and clung on for dear life, against the ripples of Kakashi's reptilian body.
Meanwhile the poor clueless people of Konoha looked up fearfully into the sky, noticing the flames and a woman screamed, "Argh! The sun is falling!"
Another dim citizen said, "No! It's some birds with a gas problem!"
And then there was Gai sensei, who stared up and smiled his toothpaste advert smile and whispered, "That's my rival!"
Next Chapter: Heaven's Gate
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