Irene led them, a Platoon of the strongest men in the kingdom. She looked forward as she rode her majestic white mere, a stoic expression running across her face.
Behind her, her husband and King-consort, General Rung carried the kingdom's banner, also saddled up on a horse, his face settled somewhere in between a scowl and attempting to remain stoic.
The Platoon of 30 of the strongest warriors marched forward to where the sighting of dragons had been reported, as they rode on, they passed many lines of refugees all hoping to flee the catastrophe.
Third from rank was Naruto Uzumaki, being an Irregular under the direct control and command of Queen Irene. Though not one of the soldiers behind him, he shared their feelings. As the unit came to a halt, Naruto standing next to the queen of Dragnof, he commented with a sorrowful expression on his face, "Lord first once said no matter the era, there's always conflict, looks like he was right."
"Lord first?" The Queen asked with a quirked eyebrow.
"Hashirama Senju, he was the first… King of the Hidden Leaf, having united the clans of the land of fire after hundreds of years of civil war. He was a wise man, and the first person to use the Wood style since the times of the sage." Naruto said, smiling.
Irene and Rung looked at him "then why not just call him king?" The crowned general asked, "Some weird costumes from your land foreigner?"
Naruto didn't miss the look of the man's eye, and answered proudly, "Yes, he was the First, he laid the foundation for our nation. He was the first Will of fire, and he was the first Hokage. Likewise, his brother succeeded him so we refer to his brother as Lord second, then old man Sarutobi, my father, granny Tsunade and Kakashi-sensei after each succession takes the up a title along those lines, from Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Hokage."
Irene noticed something in that moment, the earlier tension was gone, the trepidation and hesitance from her warriors on the prospect of facing dragons was gone. Forgotten in favor of curiosity by the unknown outlander, though, she could still clearly see the clear look of discontent on some of her lord's faces as the prospect a stranger would by riding third from rank instead of the back of the line.
To distract herself from this fact and the uncomfortable feeling tying up in her stomach, Irene asked, "What do you mean by Hokage?"
"Oh, I guess that's not exactly a term known here is it?" Naruto asked sheepishly, bringing a hand to the back of his head as his cheeks took on an embarrassed red hue, "Well, Hokage means Fire Shadow, and the best way I can explain it, is that the Hokage is a warrior king. When a Hokage is crowned, they take up an oath to defend the hidden leaf and the land of fire no matter the cost."
"Even at the cost of family?" One of Irene's commanders asked. Naruto turned his head to look at the rugged man for a second and shook his head, "No, you see, it's our culture to see our home as the people, not the land we occupy. You could hate a leaf Shinobi, but if the situation called for it, you would be willing to sacrifice yourself for that person. Loyalty to our people comes first, everything else is second. It's what drives the will of fire."
"Sounds like a wonderful place." The Queen commented with the slightest of smiles, "I'd quite like to visit one day."
"Eyes forward." The king called out growing tired of hearing the stranger.
One of the scouts appeared from the tree line, everyone could clearly see how shaken he was. Suddenly, fear returned to the 30 men platoon, with some of the lesser warriors beginning to second guess themselves.
"Report." The king called out dismounting his horse, followed by Irene dismounting hers.
"Sir, the dragons… " the scout was interrupted by the roar echoing over the mountain valley.
Suddenly, the sky darkened as a small swarm of wyvern approached like a cloud. One of the men started chuckling, which led to others to follow in suit "My lady, is this the great threat? Wyvern?"
Suddenly, as Irene was about to reply, a much more terrifying roar echoed through the mountains, as two dragons, roughly the size of a small mountain appeared over the Horizon.
"You just had to jinx it!" A Lord yet unknown to Irene complained, hitting the man from before in his helm.
Of the two dragons, the one on the right had red scales with an orange underbelly which Naruto couldn't help but say, "That dragon's got style!"
The other was a mix of alternating navy and cyan blue in a camo pattern that was accented by white streaks and underbelly.
"Irene, those are Dragons." Rung commented to his wife "We must retreat, we can't hope to fight two dragons and a swarm wyvern at the same time."
"Something is coming." Naruto hissed, and no sooner he spoke, a Black dragon with yellow streaks all over his body appeared from clouds, if the blond had a guess, it would be about the size of the Gyuki.
"Three dragons." Irene whispered somewhat loudly, only to be roughly pulled by her husband. "Irene, we have to go, now!"
"No, if we let ourselves be defeated this easily we stand no hope!" The Queen yelled back.
Rung looked at her, scowling "And if we stay, we will die."
"We will die regardless," Naruto interrupted, his voice having taken a growl-like tone "Will you die like a coward on your knees?"
The king took a step back, "Shut up you damn commoner, not even your so called godly powers can hope to take on three dragons!"
"If you are so afraid, go home Rung. But we WILL stay here and fight." Irene stated with conviction as the wind picked up and the dragons got closer.
"Fine, die then. Men, retreat." The king ordered, some eagerly followed him as he mounted his horse, quickly following in step behind him. A few remained, too few of them.
"My queen, we are ready to die if necessary to stop these overgrown lizards from ravaging our lands." One of her subjects started with a short bow.
"There's no need, Viscount Heartfree, retreat, if I die here. Rung will NOT take the throne," Irene ordered, stunning her subjects.
Naruto on the other hand waited as the few remaining knights made some distance, "You know they aren't going to obey that order. They are loyal to you."
Irene scowled and stated frankly, "I know, but my worthless husband does not deserve to take the kingdom in my stead should we fail. He's an ignorant coward and I've no idea why my parents insisted on me marrying that worthless slime."
"You have a weird culture y'know? Arranged marriages are near unheard of in the elemental nations." The blond said in an attempt to cheer her up.
"Now is not the time blondie." The red haired woman's scowl lessened despite her words.
She bore witness as Naruto's body was engulfed in gold flames, somewhat similar to the same mode he had used a day prior to destroy that field.
"What is your plan blondie?" Irene asked, having an uneasy feeling.
"You and your men can take on these wyvern, but that black dragon is still a problem." The blond admitted, "I got a technique that will deal with him. But I will only be able to use it once and it will take some time to prepare. Meanwhile, could you be a doll and help me distract the two other lizards?"
Irene rolled her eyes at his playfulness, but Naruto's face shifted into seriousness not soon after, and made a familiar hand sign "Shadow clone technique!"
Four clones of the blond appeared next to him in puffs, all in sage mode. The original turned to the queen and requested "Make sure this Clone is undisturbed."
No sooner he said the word, one of the clones sat down, the aura of a fox appeared around him, causing Irene to look at him questioningly, to which he replied "I'll explain later."
As two clones plus one original took to the skies all clad in sage mode. Naruto raised his right hand, from the back kurama's chakra appeared to form extra arms as he formed a Rasenshuriken.
"Alright, number two, you distract blue, orange dragon is mine. Number three, keep the big black off of us until it's time!"
With his orders given, the original let loose a Rasenshuriken towards the black dragon, the howling screech of the technique catching the eye of the beast who tried to dodge it, but being too big and too slow, hitting the top right leg.
"Okay, Rasenshuriken, not that effective, looks like I was right." Naruto told himself with a smirk, relishing in the feel of an opponent who he could go all out with.
He flew towards the orange dragon, having to swiftly evade the Black dragon who had come barreling at him when his Bijuu-sage mode clone had sent his way.
The red-orange Dragon was about to fire a stream of red flames when its mouth was clamped shut by the fist of the golden avatar of a nine tailed fox who seemed to hover suspended in the air as the uppercut sent the creature onto it's back.
Though it did manage to fire one powerful fireball which Naruto was sure had it been a clone it would have been popped due to the concussive power of the explosion when it got near him.
"Alright you ugly bastard. That's how you want to play huh?" The Jinchuuriki told himself, as a golden avatar encircled him, "YOU'RE UP KURAMA!"
The nine tailed fox grinned viciously at the thought of fighting a creature of a similar power to his siblings, he responded to his partner "My pleasure."
As the avatar of the nine tailed fox chased after the falling dragon, blue and purple chakra began to form a purple ball in the beasts mouth. As they got closer, Kurama compressed the ball, and aimed it at where the neck of the dragon would be, before pulling up hard awaiting the explosion that would come.
And sure enough, the explosion rose in a white dome, which forced the blond teen to cover his eyes.
Upon opening them again, he was hit with a powerful yellow lightning, which caused his body to seize and lock, sending him plummeting towards the ground.
'SHIT, KURAMA!' Naruto yelled inside his mind.
"Shut up brat!" The beast yelled back as the body hit the ground with a loud thud.
Standing up from the ground, wiping away the dirt and blood grime from his face, the blond Jinchuuriki looked a the crater around him and groaned, "Fuck that hurt."
Entering his prized sage mode again, Naruto sensed that one of the dragons was down for the count. "Well, at least that's one bastard down. But we need to get in position, it's almost time."
From within his mind the Kyuubi looked at the big black dragon, commenting "Naruto… if this doesn't get him, you won't be able to move because of the strain."
"No, i have one more option…" Naruto said stubbornly.
"Brat, spending so much chakra at once will strain your body." Kyuubi growled.
Naruto brushed away the beast's concerns by saying, "Well, I hope to fall in the lap of a beautiful queen then."
"Brat, if you get killed because of your infatuation with a married queen I'm not gonna be at your funeral" Kurama commented teasingly with a snort.
"Yeah yeah, you'll be too busy missing me." Naruto waved off, taking flight once more and positioning himself between the dragon and Irene, who was preparing to launch off another attack at his clone.
The clone and the avatar popped, at the two other clones he had summoned earlier and hadn't popped yet returned to his side as all three summoned their Kyuubi avatar, as a mass of chakra rushed to join back with its user as the air saturated itself with this life giving energy. And the three avatars glowed.
From the ground, Irene witnessed the weird fox Avatar that surrounded her warriors merged to become a three headed monstrosity with six arms.
Two ones, a gold and purple one originated from the arms of the beast as they became encased in highly compressed and fast spinning blades of wind that let off a horrid screeching. And Naruto launched the two missiles at the black dragon, as the techniques exploded the ground shook violently, she fell on her butt.
Yet she could see the black creature be torn to shreds by the powerful technique. Not before it released it's last act of defiance, which hit the disintegrating body of the 3 headed beast and squared on Naruto, who was sent back rocketing towards the dirt below but not before the last remaining dragon tail whipped him into Irene's direction.
Irene tried to catch him, but the body of the blond hit the dirt digging up a trail of dirt behind him. She, despite what she told herself, ran towards him, who still was surprisingly conscious, if disoriented, and cradled his head in her lap.
His eyes seemed to gain some momentary focus as he asked her "Are you an angel?"
Despite what Irene told herself, she blushed lightly, but she hushed him "That was a nasty fall. Rest now."
Despite what Irene told herself, she indeed enjoyed having this stranger's head snuggle up in her lap. Even if she would deny it to anyone else.
It was a sign of trust between the two of them. One that could not become publicly known due to his being a foreigner and her the Queen. This gesture held no romantic subtext and was born purely out of simple affection of someone who would treat her like a person and had nothing to gain by kissing up to her, yet they could never tell anyone about the blossoming friendship. Irene was married, even if not by her own choice, and the sovereign of Dragnof therefore it would be unbecoming of her to be seen in the company of male not of her family or husband unattended.
He was a foreigner, an unknown stranger to these lands, yet he was the best of her army, the strongest she could field in these times of peril, who was looking to become her most trusted warrior.
Naruto had been passed out for fifteen minutes when Zeref saw the position him and the queen had been in, he'd been passing by to meet with the king about the construction of the Eclipse Gate him and Annah had been building, the meeting was to ask about the possibility of allocating resources to the project. Worried about what might befall the kingdom should the queen commit adultery he told the king. "lord Rung, I have come to speak with you regarding the Eclipse Gate and receiving some resources."
Rung replied, "of course the Kingdom will give as much aid as possible to deal with the dragon scourge."
"Yes the weapon will be a massive boon to the war. On another note I feel I should mention that I saw the queen with a strange blond in her lap." he relayed the information to the man who as far as he knew was a good and loyal husband.
"Of course, thank you for telling me this, I'll have them discreetly tailed to make sure nothing untoward happens." The king responded to the mage who would help him win the war and usurp whatever power his wife had left with those in high positions of the government. 'This is perfect, with this I can finally take over the kingdom and not be labeled a tyrant who overthrew the beloved 'Queen'.' he thought to himself.
While all this was happening Naruto woke up but didn't move, the spot where his head laid was extremely plush, so he laid there until he heard "I know you are awake, you may remove your head now." she scolded him.
Naruto replied cheekily, "but your luscious thighs made such a nice resting place, but if you insist on it your prettiness." These comments made the redhead flush a similar colour as her hair.
"You can't say things like that to a married woman." She said to her newest asset and guilty crush.
Grinning cockily, Naruto responded. "After the stunt he pulled on the battlefield you're free game to tease"
Irene sighed disappointed, 'I wish he meant free to pursue.' But instead of saying that she decided to ask a question. "Why did that technique you used knock you out? I sensed that you had plenty of magic left?" asked Irene.
The blond rubbed the back of his nervously. "The technique I used is quite draining and it also stresses body, the more this technique is used the easier it becomes, but because I have only used it once before leaving it alone for two years the backlash was quite substantial, however because this is my strongest transformation not much calls for its use but I wanted to prove myself valuable and willing to help for your husband so I can continue to help you."
Her cheeks pinked and she coughed, "cough, well I suppose I owe you thanks."
Naruto waved it off easily, "nonsense, what are friends for?"
She blushed one final time before rushing out the room.
"Why'd she leave like that? Women are so weird."
Another month passed, and with it a string of battles both victories and losses.
Currently, in a dark and stony room, Irene and Rung stood over a map. A scowl deep on both of the monarchs faces.
"You're putting too much faith on an outlander!" Rung yelled, "What guarantee do you have that he won't take over the kingdom and kill us all."
Irene replied fiercely "And you won't! I know my warrior better than you."
"Ha! Your warrior Irene? Sounds to me like your admitting to having committed adultery!" The king said with a predatory smirk.
"Yes of course you would know all about Adultery, consort." Irene replied coldly, The various warriors, lords and mages around the room shifted uncomfortably.
"My lady, my lord, it's clear you both are having trouble, perhaps it's best that we adjourned come back to this another time." Lord O'bald stated, making quick time for the exit of the room.
Soon, everyone else left the room. Rung walked up to Irene two inches from her face, and was about to grab her, when Naruto intercepted him, crushing his wrist in a tight grip. The man was horrified as he met blood red feral eyes as the blond growled, "Hurt her, and I'll kill you, king or not."
Rung began to break under the pressure he felt coming off of the blond.
Letting the king of Dragnof go, Naruto watched him as he scampered away from the room, before he turned to the sole occupant remaining. Irene stood there with empty eyes, and his heart stung when he watched tears begin to fall from her eyes.
"I can't believe that my own kingdom is falling apart." Irene said as she broke down into sobs.
Naruto embraced her in a hug, "They don't deserve you. I've watched you fight for them, and in return they give you nothing but scorn. But you'll always have me by your side, my loyalties lie solely with you, and nowhere else, nor with anyone else."
To Irene's distraught ears, this was all but a declaration of love, and she did the one thing she had been accused of earlier by her own husband. With a tender hand she pulled the blind Jinchuuriki down to meet her lips.
Naruto was surprised, but dealing with a moody Irene was always unpredictable. So he wisely chose to shut up and kiss her back, after all, it only meant more lap naps, and despite what he would tell everyone else, he did indeed have romantic feelings for the red haired woman in his arms.
"Naruto." Irene called out to get his attention. Said blond turned to look at his Queen, "yeah?"
Taking a deep breath, Irene took his hand in hers and clasped it between her palms, bringing it to rest just between her neck and bosom as she confessed, "I have been pondering something and have decided... Through this whole nightmare with my husband and kingdom, you've been the biggest supporter I have, the strongest man of my army. The sole reason we've done as well as we have in this war. You've helped me when everyone else turned their backs on me, and above all, you've given me your love."
Naruto felt a portion of his chakra slowly draining, curious about this, he questioned her, "What are you doing, Irene?"
"I must reward you… My love." The word came difficult to Irene, who had never truly experienced these emotions in life, "It's a surprise, but one that will bring joy to our world."
Irene then leaned in and whispered in his ear "My king."
With a loving kiss, she stood up and left. Leaving a dumbfounded Naruto, who asked, "Do you know what just happened?"
Kurama deceptively nodded as he said "Not a damn clue."
One month had passed since Irene had taken some of Naruto's chakra and the two were in a clearing, the blond had made a few shadow clones for The Queen to practice the new magic she and Belserion had been working on. His new friend(?) had called it 'dragon slaying magic' it was supposed to allow more people to match or overcome the dragons when on the field, the redhead had brought in one of the kingdoms foremost healers named Acnologia who would ensure there weren't any overtly negative side effects as a result of learning the magic, in returned to being allowed to become a Dragonslayer himself.
"How are things going so far." Naruto questioned, he had just woken up from a nap and saw Irene still practicing.
Irene smiled lightly seeing the man she was coming to love. "It seems to be progressing well, only another week or two before it will be ready to be taught by the dragons we have supporting us." Naruto smiled brightly at that as Irene had been working extremely hard, so he ran up to her from his spot under a tree and hugged her.
"I'm so glad, why don't we give it a real test?" The blond asked her while grinning, he definitely felt something for but couldn't place, it was somewhat similar to what he had felt for Sakura once upon a time, but these feelings were much more intense than what he had felt for his former teammate.
She smirked in response, "if you think you can take it then let us begin the testing."
Naruto jumped back immediately, clasping his hands together as he called out the technique, "Wood Style: wood expulsion technique!" A giant dragon's face made of wood that was split down the middle swallowed him and closed. Muffled by the technique he called out, "this technique was the ultimate defense of lord first, nothing you do should be able to break this."
Hearing what she interpreted to be a taunt she decided to use on or her stronger dragon slaying spells, "Sage Dragons Roar." as the massive beam of ethernano struck the wooden construct with all the force of an Abyss Break spell, it completely destroyed the face on the technique but it couldn't break through it.
As the box opened up the blond teen was sweating lightly and had a nervous smile on his face as he rubbed the back of his head. "That was really close Irene. I'm so proud of you, that attack was stronger than most of the attacks kurama could make save his tailed beast ball." Naruto then went and helped the exhausted Irene to her feet where she pecked him on the lips and whispered, "there's more of this later"
While this was going on the spy the king assigned who had no magic so Naruto couldn't sense him was looking on and knew this was the kind of thing the king needed to depose Irene from the throne.
"My lord, I've come bearing news." The spy stated, kneeling before the monarch and bowing his head low.
Rung, emboldened by Irene's ever extending absence, sat on the Queen's throne, and looked down upon his favored spy, asking "What have you found out about Irene's… outings?"
"It's as you thought my lord," the soy confessed, "I have witnessed her majesty commit an act of Adultery with the outlander… it seems they have been in a relationship for quite some time."
Anyone else would've forgiven the lowly spy for thinking the king-consort of Dragnof would have been angry, devastated, or heartbroken at hearing the news that his wife had indeed cheated on him. But instead, Rung smiled, there was satisfaction in his eyes.
The King inclined his head to ask another question, "What exactly did you catch her doing?"
"They kissed, often. Doesn't seem to go beyond kissing. I would say their relationship is young, perhaps a few weeks to a month at most." The spy replied with the information he had been gathering ever since coming into service of the king.
Almost jolly, the former General stood up and stuck his hand out to the spy offering him aid to stand up, "It seems our friend, the mage Zeref was right to come to me with his concerns, go to my steward and he will reward you well. I have other matters to attend to."
Watching the door to the hall close behind the spy, Rung said to himself, "Finally, Dragnof will be mine, and I can depose Irene… no, I'll make her suffer, suffer through the humiliation she's caused me. I'll hurt her like she hurt me… but the blond menace must go. I'll show him, I'll make Irene regret betraying me for an outlander, and he will forever regret attempting to steal what's rightfully mine! … hmm, perhaps, Someone! Get that black mage Zeref, I got an offer for him."
A currier bowed before the man and scurried away from the throne room, leaving the former General, now king to sit once more on a throne that didn't belong to him yet…
As he told himself, "Soon, the kingdom will be mine, as it was rightfully meant to be from the start. Damned woman."
"My lord?" A sultry voice called from the door leading to the stairwell, "I hope you aren't planning to keep me waiting and lonely all day."
There stood a brown haired woman with her hair tied back into a long braid, fair skin, and a freckled face.
"No, my dear, let me show you what a real man is like." The king said with a lecherous smile on his face.
A week had passed since Naruto had let Irene use his ultimate defense as a test dummy and the two were out 'training' which was in reality an excuse to go on a date. The date consisted of a picnic under a big willow tree in which they could hide from prying eyes, Irene had her laid against Naruto's chest as he fed some pieces of fruit to her he kissed her on the cheek, "you know I don't think I've ever been this happy." The blond told her.
Irene turned to him and asked, "this is definitely in my top 3 favorite moments of my life." She responded. Curious she decided to ask him a question, "can you tell me about your past?"
Naruto pondered for a second before answering, "Well I come from a place called the village hidden in the leaves but it wasn't really a village more of a metropolis and it was one of two major powers in our country, we were technically the military sect. Of the country and most children were raised to be warriors, and funnily enough despite my strength I'm still technically the lowest rank you can be… anyway when you first graduate between the age of 5 and 12 the missions you go on are quite dull, the ones my team and i got the most frequently was the one to retrieve a missing cat was stupidly fast and nimble and walking the dogs that belong to a clan that specialize in using them for combats o these dogs are ridiculously strong and one time the dog I had to walk dragged me into a minefield and boy… that was unpleasant but the worst mission we had was for sure the one where we had to capture the villages combat ostrich, that thing kicked our ass for a whole week. Anyway that's all I can really say, the rest of the time there wasn't extremely pleasant for me, but by the end everything had become amazing but I was too strong so I decided to leave so that they didn't become dependent on me to fix everything."
She looked at the man she knew she loved and laughed at him, "I can't believe you, the strongest person I've ever met is still the lowest ranking member of your country's military, you have to be kidding right?"
Embarrassed Naruto rubbed the back of his head while nervously laughing, "sadly not, although I took the exam to be promoted twice i never was, the first time had the the village sacked and the second time I wasn't promoted because I used too much force against the other contestants. Anyway by the end of a long trying series of events I came out as one of the three strongest people alive so it doesn't really matter, that's why I came here. I was looking for a challenge and the aforementioned desire for them to grow without me."
"Well, that sounds stupid!" Irene commented on the excessive force bit, causing Naruto to laugh and kiss her, "I know. I thought so too, This was the same pipsqueak that tried to fight a Sand Jonin once to boot! He was fair game!"
The introduction of the Dragon Slaying Arts had been a turning point for the Kingdom of Dragnof in the Dragon Festival, thanks to figures like Irene and Acgnologia. However, conflict, as Naruto had experienced in his own world, only needs more conflict.
Aside from the borderline warlike tension between the King and Queen leading to skirmishes within the borders of the Kingdom, one of the best Dragonslayers, Acgnologia, driven and fueled by his hatred of all dragon-kind started killing even friendly dragons and dragon slayers alike, using his supernatural ability to consume the soul of his foes. Leading him to have gained power unlike that anyone in Dragnof had seen before, and causing Irene to have to make a decision which even hurt her.
Acnologia had to go.
Sitting far into the continent of Ishgar, far away from any human settlement. Naruto prepared himself for a fight to match Madara and Sasuke. He gathered as much chakra as he could, flaring it up for any magical being to feel, from the nearest settlement to those in the continent of Alvarez, a direct challenge to the rogue dragon slayer.
Soon, his sensitive ears could pick up the flapping of giant wings in the sky, and he felt the son become obscured.
"So, you've come." Naruto stated, standing in an unassuming position.
Acnologia transformed himself back into his human form, standing face to face with the blond, "You and I both knew it was going to happen. You love your Dragon too much."
"Irene is no dragon my friend. You, maybe. You've become the very thing you hated, you said you hated dragons because they cause pain. But what you're doing now… what you plan to do, is no different." Naruto answered calmly.
Crossing his arms, The dragonslayer sneered, "Spare me the lectures, Naruto. You know nothing."
"On the contrary, I understand what happens next, way more than you could possibly understand." The Jinchuuriki responds, making the seal of confrontation, explaining, "Now, this is customary where I'm from when two friends fight, as a sign of respect. And now…. We fight!"
Clones sprouted from the ground, some melted into wood attempting to bind the monster before the blond and the others blew up causing dust and smoke to kick up.
"Tschk. He got away." Naruto told himself, "Ready up Kurama, this isn't your regular fight."
"Way ahead of you brat." The nine tails said as he sat in a meditative position gathering chakra for his host.
"Well, at least he hasn't transformed into a dragon yet." Naruto said out loud.
"You aren't worthy," the Doctor called out arrogantly, "I'll crush you!"
"Don't be so certain," the blond stated in turn, performing the hand seals Tiger → Ram → and snake before clasping his hands into a prayer-like motion. Under the two of them a forest of trees grew from the rocky mountain terrain they currently stood on, both jumped away, Naruto to stand on a branch, and Acnologia trying to escape what would happen next.
Naruto made the bird seal and the part of the recently made forest Acnologia was trying to escape exploded, launching the dragonslayer into the sky.
The man quickly transformed into his huge black and blue dragon. Naruto shrouded himself in the Kyuubi's chakra cloak, preparing himself for a long fight.
"The power of Kurama and I combined Will never be defeated," Naruto said to no one in particular, "But throw the wood style in the mix…"
Ox → Horse → Boar → Snake, after performing these seals Naruto found himself standing on top of a giant wood golem staring straight into the eyes of the dragon in front of him.
The creature opened it's maw to fire a dragon roar, but Naruto was intimately familiar with that spell. And before Acnologia could fire the beam of energy at him a clone appeared from Nowhere from the clouds with the Kyuubi's avatar surrounding him, and bit into the neck of the surprised dragon sending both crashing back into the ground.
Performing the dragon seal, multiple wood dragons emerged from the ground, one biting into the neck of the downed animal, and other restraining it.
Looking at the person he considered to have been a friend with pity, Naruto spoke using words he detested. "I'm sorry, but you are too powerful to let you roam. I must kill you."
"Sync with me Kurama!" Naruto shouts, as he could feel a renewed stream of his precious life energy rushing through his pathways, and intoned "Wood Style Secret technique: True Several Thousand hands."
A titanic wooden statue that dwarfed the size of the Dragon by at least two times appeared under Naruto, lifting him hundreds or maybe even more than a thousand feet over his downed foe.
"I'm sorry." Naruto whispered one last time as his gaze hardened. He could See Acnologia beginning to truly strain his binding, but it was too late for the Dragon. As thousands of fists descended upon the downed beast as Naruto threw the full might of the arcane statue with a yell of strain.
The ground of the continent shook, explosions rose thousands of feet in the air. Irene could see the plume of smoke rise from her balcony.
Naruto's eyes widened once the smoke cleared, as the Statue fell into the fly trap he had summoned, he spotted the human body of his adversary still yet living, in a crater that would probably rival the Valley of the End, but still living nevertheless.
"You survived." The blond commented as the heavily injured doctor looked at Naruto with true fear in his eyes.
"That was impressive, I didn't know a person existed who could summon so much destructive power and remain standing on his feet." Another voice called from the top of the crater.
Naruto turned to look at a figure who wore black and white robes, look at him with black eyes, "You're the black mage Zeref. I've heard of you, in service of the King-Consort."
"And You are Naruto, the right hand of the Queen." The teen said in a flat tone.
'Naruto, somethings wrong with this one.' Kurama pointed out from within the blinds mind. Naruto gave him a nod of acknowledgement, replying through their link 'This is gonna be a fight… damn it, just after I used such a taxing number of techniques. Let's hope he is as weak as he looks.'
"What do you want?" Naruto asked in a demanding tone, only to notice a shift of the teens demeanor.
"Shit!" The blond cursed as he picked up Acnologia from the crater and jumped out of the way to avoid a beam of black magic.
"Damn, Shadow clone technique! You two, keep that bastard distracted."
"What… what are you doing?" The blue haired teen asked.
"Listen, I don't know what this Zeref guy wants, but it's obvious that there's gonna be a fight between him and I, and despite our earlier fight, if I'm going to die today, I rather you live to stop this person. I can sense something horribly off about them." Naruto admitted as he set down the dragonslayer a safe distance away.
Just as Naruto was about to set off to stop this new opponent, but Acnologia stopped him, there was a sneer in his face, "Don't fail to kill him like you failed to kill me."
"Heh! I knew I liked ya for a reason. Don't worry, I'm perfectly aware some people need a killing, and he's one of them." Naruto said with a confident smirk, and disappeared.
"Wood style: Tree bind flourishing burial!" Naruto called out in hopes that jutsu would be able to hold the dangerous mage known as Zeref.
But much to his disappointment, the coffin exploded in shards of wood. But it served its purpose when a Rasenshuriken found its target. Yet much to his disappointment the most dangerous technique he had invented was dissolved by a black cloud.
"Damn, you fucking bastard! Why won't you die!" Naruto yelled in frustration only ever felt when he fought Kaguya. No matter what he threw at the black mage, a black cloud would emerge from the teen to dissolve it.
"I'm sorry, but for the good of humanity you must go." The mage spoke in a sorrowful tone.
"Oh fuck off you self righteous bastard." The blond yelled, only to have to dodge at the last second as a cow of all things wielding a warhammer attempted to kill him.
"Zeref, he's near it!" A female voice called.
Naruto's red eyes quickly identified a blond girl, about his own age. "So you have a partner, well. I'm not going down without a fight."
Truth be told he had been fighting for a whole day now, and the thousand hands technique had used up about half his chakra. He couldn't afford to spam more woodstyle jutsu, but he knew of a technique that would potentially end this.
"Wood Style: Advent of a world of flowering Trees!" As soon as he performed the technique, hundreds of branches grew from the ground, and when they reached a certain height flowers bloomed, releasing a toxic polen.
As expected the black mist came from the black haired teen to protect him, but that allowed Naruto to take the blond girl as a hostage.
"Surrender or she dies!" Naruto yelled, holding one of his few original kunais left to her neck, poised to end her life.
The ballsy girl however shouted at the surprised Zeref, "Do it, don't hesitate."
Surprised at the sudden turn, Naruto spartan kicked the blond, jumping away from another black beam of death as he had come to call it, only to land, and trigger the trap. Somehow, even the curse of the fight, and the intensity of the Jutsu he had been using, they had sequestered themselves into a newly made island.
He had walked right into a trap, and he felt incredibly foolish for that.
With less than a quarter of his reserves and physically exhausted. He was almost willing to accept defeat.
The two mages came up to him, the black haired one claimed "It's for the good of Dragnof, your presence would have only brought more destruction and pain."
"I've seen more destruction and pain that you could possibly imagine…" Naruto sneered, "But I didn't cower and try to hire other's to do my dirty work, I faced gods and came out on top. One day or another, your dues will be served to you on a silver platter. And tell Rung, he won't get away with this!"
The barrier lit up in a gold light, and Annah and Zeref breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's over. It's finally over." Annah said allowing herself to breathe a sigh of relief, however, Zeref, he was for one reason shaken, he could feel that the blond hadn't lied. To face a god and win, as soon as the thought sunk in, the mage regretted messing with a matter he didn't truly understand.
"Annah, we are screwed."
It was two years after Naruto had been sealed and the kingdom of Dragnof had "won" the war. But with the way acnologia slaughtered those in both sides it was closer to draw, an unforeseen consequence of dragon slayer magic was that it turned the users into dragons, and this process was happening to Irene. The king and Irene stood across the room from each other with a plethora of guards standing by the king, all of whom were shaking in fear of the sight of the queen before them who had half of her face covered in dragon scales that deathly pale.
Rung shouted out, " Arrest the monster, throw her into a cell, not only is she an adulterer but she's become one of the foul creatures she swore to kill."
As the guards hesitantly approached her she spoke, "you don't want to do this, i am still the Queen here, you obey me, do not forget who the stronger person here is."
"We're sorry but you have been found guilty of committing adultery and treason, please come quietly." The guards responded to her.
"Please, don't do this Rung, I'm pregnant!" The queen begged, holding onto her belly.
The man yelled, "Liar, there's no way you could be pregnant!"
The soldiers shifted around uncomfortably, it was one thing to betray the rightful queen, but it was another to attempt to hurt a pregnant monarch, add to the fact the only other man beside rung the queen had ever been seen had disappeared well over years ago.
The King had either gone mad, or Irene was lying. Either way, the Queen was the most dangerous opponent in the room. Some soldiers even lost heart and began to slowly move backwards, abandoning the king then and there, this type of conflict wasn't worth it to them.
The king, seeing as he was losing his leverage, drew his sword and tried to slash at Irene's stomach. Hoping to show that she was indeed not pregnant, and it was just a desperate woman's gamble at trying to escape a life in the dungeons. "I'll show you are a liar, as you join your beloved foreigner in the afterlife!"
Keyword was 'tried.' as soon as Irene saw what was going to happen. Something broke within her. As her skin cracked and her body began its transformation.
Irene screamed in rage, and agony upon hearing his words. She didn't think Rung would've had the gall to talk about the dead man who she loved and respected more than any other living being. It opened a jagged wound which had refused to heal, and expanded upon at the thought of losing her child.
When her screams subsided, instead of a human, there stood a most magnificent dragon, with red scales covering its body along a white underbelly and face, which was decorated with tattoos that covered her eyes like make up, clearly denoting it a female.
The king of Dragnof stood in shock at what his most hated enemy had become, and stood there helplessly as a dragon claw descended on him. Crushing him like the worm he was.
Pink energy gathered around the dragon's maw, and it released it at a group of fleeing guards, who exploded into a pink mist and energy.
Turning her head to the skies, the Dragonified Irene let out a deafening roar, as she took to the skies. The majestic creature went after every building and hurdle of humans in sight as the kingdom of Dragnof was destroyed by the might of the beast in one consuming ball of fire.
When Dawn came around, there were no dragon's, but there also wasn't a kingdom left standing.
Hundreds of miles away, a newly settled Colony, on this day, would begin to build a grand temple, that would worship what lay inside until it was forgotten.
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FAQS
Naruto using true several thousand hands, to start it wasn't a sage art because he used Kurama's chakra, so instead, it's a Hidden technique.
Irene refers to Naruto's chakra as magic Naruto hasn't told her hes from a different dimension
Don't ask why Irene took his chakra, that's a tool that will serve us later.
The timeline for the war. We were never really given a straight timeline for it so we did our best, and remember Erza was carried for 400 years so her being pregnant while imprisoned is canon.
That's all i can think of for FAQS so if you have any others leave a comment or PM me or DarthPel. Thanks again for reading
Word count post AN: 7774
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