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A Sweet Reunion – The final chapter (ooh how dramatic!)
Iruka the dragon's eyes welled up and tears fell like buckets of water down onto his parents and great friend Kakashi.
"Oi, Oi Iruka!" Kakashi laughed, "Your making us all wet and everything."
Iruka sniffled and wiped his eyes, slowly he began to shrink and was just Iruka the cute man once more…but naked without his clothes obviously.
"Oh my!" His mother gasped.
Kakashi eyed Iruka with a thoughtful grin that was hidden by a white mask to match his white gown.
Iruka blushed and covered himself as much as he could, "Ah…I'm…uh…"
"Mummy, will fetch you a gown dear." His mother said kindly dashing off to beyond the heavenly clouds.
"Son." His father began quietly, "You know…becoming the Dragon of Konoha is a big responsibility…you think you'll be able to handle it?"
Iruka nodded, "Yeah pops…I hope so."
Kakashi smiled, "You know what's really cool?"
"What?"
"Well…you know 'cause I was the last great dragon, I can go with you for the next hundred years as a kind of…guardian type thing…that is if I wanted to…" Kakashi said nonchalantly, "I could give you advice and teach you dragon jutsus."
Iruka grinned, "Yeah Kakashi! That would be great!"
Everyone was happy and Iruka's mother was about to hand her son some clothes when a vicious burning sensation shot through Iruka's chest, making him fall forwards onto his knees.
"Arrgh!"
"Iruka!" His mother cried.
"Son!" His father panicked.
"Shit!" Kakashi gasped.
"W-What's happening?" Iruka panted as he felt like his heart was turning, its strings snapping and his blood leaking away into his lungs making him choke.
"That's a sign," Kakashi explained, "When you get pains like that, it's a sign that something's wrong and that you gotta go fix it."
Iruka twitched in distress, "W-Well? What should I do?"
Kakashi took one of Iruka's hands and helped him stand, "You gotta transform and we gotta go back to Konoha and see what's wrong."
Iruka nodded, barely able to speak now that the pain was so intense, worse than the time Naruto had accidentally spilt boiling hot ramen on his groin.
"Gaaaah…" Iruka gasped, concentrating hard, feeling energy spread from his dragon scale and all over him, calming the horrid pains that he was feeling. He began to transform, tail growing out, scales planting themselves over his skin like sparkling body jewels.
"Lets go." Kakashi whispered, stepping through heavens gate and nodding a brief goodbye to Iruka's anxious parents.
Iruka spread himself and dived out of the sky, Kakashi the hot, hot, angel soaring beside him. The chuunin opened his pearly eyes and he gasped, for Konoha was on fire. The Hokage's statue mountain, drowning amidst crazed red and yellow flames and people gagging at the thick smoke suffocating the once beautiful village.
"Kakashi…what do I do?" Iruka asked worriedly, "I can only blow flames! And Konoha is already on fire, what do I do!"
Kakashi looked Iruka in the eye, "Your body is now like a chameleon, as well as fire, when you feel like it, your body can adjust to releasing other things. Just concentrate."
People below were screaming, running as their houses burned down around them, running as bits of their clothes caught fire and their skin charred.
"Teme!" Naruto from below was yelling angrily at the flames, before calling on his kagebunshins to throw buckets of water on the Ichikaru ramen stall.
"My business!" The owner cried pitifully, whilst his daughter Ayame stood watching, close to passing out from all the smoke.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Sasuke mumbled angrily, as he helped Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru and numerous other ninja throw water on people's crumbling houses.
Kakashi the angel even caught sight of Gai sensei attempting to put out some of the fire, all the while grumbling, "Ah! Kakashi my rival! Where are you now!"
Iruka closed his eyes and concentrated, he took in a deep breath and exhaled. He gasped when he only sent a ferocious jet of fire shooting out of his nostrils and worsened the fire.
"No!" Iruka croaked as now people looked up and pointed at him and freaked out even more.
"Bakaemono! Bakaemono!" They yelled, fleeing for their lives, abandoning their buckets of water. Some ninja, such as Naruto and gang even started aiming deadly jutsus towards the bewildered dragon in the sky instead of extinguishing the fire.
"No! Please, no!" Iruka cried, his great dragon paws covering his face, in shame and sorrow, "No…"
"Iruka!" Kakashi said from beside him, "Focus about what you need to do!"
Iruka began to sob humungous sparkling tears, "I c-can't, Kakashi…I'm just making it worse!"
Kakashi smiled, "Idiot. Look, your tears are extinguishing the flames!"
Iruka looked, and sure enough his tears were helping. The chuunin took in and deep breath and this time he focused hard. He ignored the great heat rising rapidly from the flames and he thought of cool, calm flowing water. His body temperature lowered and when he blew through his nose, a stream of water shot into the sky and then fell like a monsoon of rain over Konoha. He did it again, over different areas of Konoha and people began to rejoice as they were saved, the rain chilling their aching bodies and heated homes.
"Yeah!" Naruto cheered, jumping up and down, "Thanks dragon thingy!"
"Hn." Sasuke grinned, as water soaked his clothes and hair.
Kakashi patted Iruka on the head, "Well you did it Iruka-kun. You did it."
Iruka smiled, "I can't believe I'm so strong! This is so cool, I-I'm like…like a hero!"
Kakashi touched the scale that let Iruka transform and slowly he began to change back into a man.
"Hey! Hey!" Iruka gasped, as he was still up in the sky, "W-What are you doing!"
Kakashi grinned, "The dangers over…so, you can turn back into a man again, but don't worry, when ever you transform, I'll be back by your side!"
And with that, Kakashi poofed into thin air and Iruka fell fast towards the ground.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghh!" Iruka cried frantically, as gravity thrust him downwards.
Iruka landed in a bush and though it broke his fall, he yelped and cursed Kakashi because little thorns had cut his naked butt.
Gai sensei looked up, he could've sworn he'd just seen his eternal rival floating around in the sky. He rubbed his eyes and went to join everyone in fixing the aftermath of the fire.
And so…that is the end of this tale. The Dragon of Konoha would breathe safety back into the village and Iruka would have a big responsibility for the next hundred years!
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A/N: Right, basically I took a long break from fan fic writing. Almost half a year or even a whole year! But now I'm back to writing and since this chapter is written about a year later I would like to know if my writing style etc has improved. Please review and let me know! Oh yeah, and if you like the fic let me know too lolz.
TC, ja ne!
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