Naruto sighed as recalled their third or fourth training session, remembering how it was found that humans would never be able to use their minds like the foxes could. The only theory that they could come up with was since humans used their chakra which was the combination of spiritual and physical power, or yin and yang, they couldn't separate their yin chakra from their yang. The foxes had yang chakra of course, but their yin chakra for some reason was more potent, which was what enabled them to use their minds in such a way. When they use their power, they have to use their yin chakra to essentially create a 'pathway' for their minds to reach beyond their physical bodies. Humans bodies will always attempt to close that pathway since it's recognized as an imbalance of chakra. Since their body wants yin and yang to be equal, it stops humans from ever being bale to separate their yin chakra from yang chakra. Naruto however, was an anomaly.
When the Kyuubi was sealed within Naruto its (A/N For now I'm going to refer to Kurama as it. I feel that it makes sense since Naruto doesn't know Kurama's gender yet) yin chakra was taken by the Shinigami while Naruto received its yang chakra. This forced his yin chakra to grow to try to create a balance between Naruto's yin chakra, and the Kyuubi's yang chakra. Now because of this, Naruto could 'see' things that others couldn't. When he was young, around 3 or 4, all it was a shadow here and a shadow there.
But now at age 6 he could see them clearly. If he was to look up at the sky he would sometimes see a dragon or some other type of flying creature.
When he had first started seeing them as shadows he had cried and screamed when they came close to him. This caused other children to avoid him more than they already had, and in some cases, bully him more. The adults used this as an excuse to beat him, saying that they had to 'Teach the demon not to lie'. However, there was one adult, not counting the Sandaime, who didn't treat him like a demon or someone insane. She was his civilian school teacher Akiko. (A/N You may notice some similarities between my story and another story of which I can't recall the name of at this moment. Just know that I'm borrowing some of his/her ideas. The reason for this is because he/she discontinued their story and I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. So, in honor of them, I'm using some of their ideas.)
She wouldn't exactly go out of her way to help him, but she did treat him fairly and on more than one occasion she had kept him after school before to teach him the material that they would learn the next day. She only did that when there was going to be a substitute, but he was grateful for her taking time out of her schedule for him. She did ask him to please stop pointing out thing during class that others couldn't see, as it was disrupting the class.
When she had asked him that question he got angry and a little hurt, thinking that she didn't believe him. He had gotten to the orphanage and thankfully no one bothered him as he went to his 'room' and cried till the tears stopped flowing. After calming down he thought back to what she had said. He went over what she said and froze when he saw what she had been trying to get at. She never said that she didn't believe him, only that he should stop pointing it out during class.
He felt so stupid for not seeing something so obvious, and stayed after school the next day to apologize for-
Naruto snapped out of his thoughts when he crashed into a solid object and fell.
"I could've sworn there wasn't a wall here." He muttered as he rubbed his nose.
"I'm no wall boy, I'm a dragon." Naruto looked up in confusion, "There is a large difference so-," He said, stopping mid-sentence. "You know what, never mind. You can't see or even hear me so there's no point in trying to correct you."
The dragon had white scales, green eyes. and was about the size of one of those carts that are used to transport goods between villages. The dragons voice defined him as a male.
Naruto was at first surprised at seeing a dragon up close, but was now cursing himself for being so careless. Ever since he had begun training under Fang he had taught himself to always pay attention to his surroundings; He taught himself how to sneak into some of the most secure places in the village without anyone finding out, and if he used his sensory ability he could sneak into ANBU HQ's undetected.
Naruto normally would have gotten up and acted like he was anyone else and couldn't see anything, but the dragon was bleeding. From what Naruto could see the dragon had a large puncture wound dangerously close to his neck, and seemed unable to walk due to the deep cuts on his legs. He was lying on his side his smooth underside facing Naruto.
"There you are you damned dragon. Thought you could get away from me, eh? Now there's nowhere to run." Naruto almost spun around to see who or what was talking, but refrained from doing so since if whatever was behind him was after the dragon he would need the element of surprise to help the dragon.
To convince whoever or whatever was behind him that he couldn't see or hear anything that was happening he stood up and stuck his arm out slowly, as if he couldn't see anything, and moved forward. When his hand contacted the dragon's chest he put his acting skills to use.
"Wha- what is this?" He muttered as he moved his hand along the dragon's body, "Is it-" Naruto saw the blade going towards the dragon's neck when he turned his head to left as if in wonder. Acting quickly, he slid a kunai into both hands and moved.
The stranger obviously was expecting the human child to block his sword. Naruto took advantage of his surprise and with his other kunai he stabbed the man's wrist, forcing him to drop his sword. Not missing a beat, he caught the man's sword in his left hand while he stabbed him in the stomach with his kunai in his right hand.
"AARG! You little shit! I'll fucking kill you!" The man snarled has he bent over in pain. Naruto knew that if he didn't kill him now while he had the chance he wouldn't be able to. That one thought alone wasn't enough to make himself go through with it, but then it occurred to him that if he didn't kill this man now, he would end up killing the dragon after he killed him. It was that thought that allowed him to move.
The man had started moving, a hunting knife in one hand while he held his stomach with the other. Naruto calmed his nerves and hardened his heart.
'Yeah, if I don't kill him here and now, then he's going to kill the dragon, and who knows what his next target is going to be.'
Naruto moved forward as the man charged at him. The man lunged forward and thrust his knife out towards his head. At the last second, Naruto parried, throwing the man off balance and causing him to expose his throat. Naruto moved without hesitation and thrust his sword through his neck.
The man stared at him in shock, his mouth opening in surprise; Naruto couldn't look away from his eyes, even as the man fell to the ground. Naruto looked at the man, before realizing that there was something odd about him. Naruto leaned closer and saw that he had horns on his forehead, and his teeth were sharper than a human's. Naruto stared at him in confusion, his adrenaline keeping him from completely acknowledging the fact that he had killed someone, even if that someone wasn't human.
"The dragon!" Naruto suddenly gasped, remembering why he had killed the man.
Naruto spun around to face the dragon, who was looking at him in fear. "Now that you've killed the competition, you're going to kill me."
"What? N- no!" Naruto yelled, "I just saved you, why would I turn around and kill you? There would be no point of me saving you if I just killed you."
The dragon looked at him in for a second before he sighed, "It would be more merciful to kill me now. Even if you don't kill me now, I'm going to die from my wounds."
Naruto paused for a moment, looking at the dragon's wounds, taking a second to calculate how much blood he had lost. He muttered to himself before observing the dragon's size.
'If I want to move him to a place where I can heal him I'm going to need some help. Thankfully we're right by the forest so I won't have to take him far. I wonder if Fang is going to be upset for what I'm about to do... Probably, but she'll have to deal with it for now, I'll apologize later.'
Naruto jumped over the dragon and quickly ran to the end of the alley. Once there, he sat down and closed his eyes to help him concentrate on his chakra. He began to use a variation of his sensory ability that he had created by accident. He reached out, figuratively, to gently brushed against the chakras of the creatures in the forest of death, asking them for help with moving the dragon he had found to the (relatively) safe place he had begun to call his home . Within a minute two bears, a tiger, and a giant spider came out of the forest and moved towards him.
They moved with a speed that defied their size, reaching Naruto in seconds. The dragon, obviously uncomfortable with the situation that he found himself in, shifted ever so slightly.
Thankfully they seemed to already have a plan in mind. The spider created a net out of its web to help carry the dragon, while the bears grabbed some dirt and leaves to coat the net with to decrease the natural adhesiveness. Naruto watched in surprise, not having expected them to work together so easily.
While this was happening the tiger chewed some herbs into a paste to apply onto the wounds to numb the pain and prevent an infection. After applying it to the dragon, Naruto grabbed some leaves and carefully placed it over the herbs.
"Okay, he's stable enough to move. I need you two to grab one ends of the net and follow me." Naruto instructed the bears
Turning towards the tiger and spider Naruto paused, trying to think of a way that they could help in moving the dragon.
"I need you to to make sure that nothing can attack us. We're going to need to move quickly if he is going to survive and I won't be much help in moving him."
The two agreed without hesitation, knowing first hand just how unforgiving the Forest of Death was. The bears stood and waited for Naruto to give the signal to go. It wouldn't do if they were to be seen by someone. Naruto waited for the drunk who had stumbled past the alley he was in to disappear from his sight before moving forward. Darting across the street with the others following, he hoped that they wouldn't be to late.
Fang had been monitoring him to make sure he was okay when she felt the change in his heartbeat, along with the change of his mindset; at first she thought nothing of it, believing that he just had a close call with someone or was pulling a prank. However, when he reached out with his chakra asking for help, she new that something was wrong.
The foxes around her, who she had yet to introduce to Naruto, were startled when without warning she darted out of the clearing, making her way towards where she last felt him.
It took Fang all of 3 seconds to register and process what she was seeing. It would have been longer if that damn tree hadn't jumped in her way. After all, there's no way that it was her fault that she hit a tree. Or so she believes.
*CRASH*
Naruto just starred at his sensei, before making a comment he knew he would regret.
"Hey look, it really does rain dogs." He paused, "Though it seems we're missing the cats."
Naruto knew he fucked up when he said that. Hell, he knew he should've just kept his mouth shut but well, even if he's serious and doesn't joke around most of the time (Not counting pranks!), he's still known to make the odd comment here and there.
So it didn't come as a surprise to Naruto when he found himself flat on his back with Fangs... Well, fangs dangerously close to his throat.
'Did you just compare me to those muts?' Fang growled softly, allowing the smooth side of one of her (A/N I regret making her name Fang now) fangs to lightly press against Naruto's throat.
"N-no?" Naruto sputtered, trying to get out of what was most likely going to be a painful experience, "It was your imagination, right?"
'Oh, but I could've sworn(Italicize) that you called me a,' Fang slid her tongue up Naruto's throat, 'dog(italicize).'
Naruto gulped, feeling Fangs tongue move up his throat, before she moved down to his collarbone (A/N This is an oddly sexual scene... Now to sure why I'm putting it in here but hey, whatever comes to mind is what I write, so screw being normal).
"F-fang, t-the dragon." Naruto tried, "He need help."
Fang snapped out of her somewhat of a daze, blinking as she realized what she was doing. 'Ah yes, the dragon.' She paused, acting like that never happened, 'okay, bring him to the clearing, Ill see what I can do for him.'
Naruto sighed in relief, believing that she was done with him.
'Oh and Naruto?' Fang looked over her shoulder, 'We're going to have to finish our... Conversation later.' She grinned at this, enjoying the way Naruto inched back towards the tree.
'I spoke to soon.' Naruto complained to himself, dreading what was to come.
That's a wrap! Thankfully, I'm learning how to balance my time in a manageable way, allowing me to type this up. I do apologize for the long delay, but with everything going on, I'm finding it hard to set aside the time to do this. And then there's the fact that it's going to be labor day weekend, and I'm going to be working all week, so yeah. But enough of that, do you guys want me to make Naruto bisexual? If so, then I will allow a poll to be set up determining the species that he will get with. Know this, there wont be many, as this is not going to be a harem. He will, at max, have 5 mates, none of them human. PM me, I'm always open to suggestions. And also, Kurama is going to be Naruto's mate no matter what so... Yeah... See ya next time!
