Alright, some of you might be wondering where this story is headed and all that jazz so I thought that I might give you guys a quick rundown on it. The book is pretty much Dragonball in written form. Naruto is going to use it for training and maybe create a few techniques. Eventually he's going to travel to the Dragonball world and progress through the DBZ storyline with the rest of the Z Gang. At least for a while.
There's a whole bundle of things that I'm looking to do in this story that I want to tell you all about but I've already given you more than I was planning to.
I tried going into more detail in this chapter. I have a problem where I get so impatient to get to where I'm going that I just speed through everything to get there. You know what I mean?
Anywho, tell me if it's better, worse, or just about the same as the first chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
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'Dragonball! Yosh, even the name sounds cool!' He quickly sat down and opened the book to the first page.
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Naruto jerked awake from the loud blaring sound of his alarm clock. He quickly jumped up, knocking over the chair he was sitting in, and ran/stumbled towards the noise. He slammed his hand down on the off button before dropping onto his bed.
'What's going on? Why wasn't I in bed?' Naruto glanced over to the table he had been sitting at. Sitting on the table still open was the book he'd found the day before. Memories of the previous night came rushing back and a grin spread across his face. He had stayed up reading all night until he fell asleep in the chair. The book was apparently a biography on a man called Son Goku. Oddly enough, Goku had a tail. Naruto just shrugged that off though. He had seen and heard of weirder things.
It started off with how Goku was found as a baby by an old man named Son Gohan. Gohan was a kind martial arts master who raised Goku and trained him to fight. They lived happily until Gohan was killed by a giant ape monster, leaving Goku to live alone. All that remained from his grampa was a small golden ball with four stars and the power poll, a weapon Gohan had given to Goku.
Not long after Goku ran into a girl named Bulma. She explained to him that his golden ball was called a dragonball and when it was reunited with the six others they would grant one wish. She eventually convinced him to join her in her search for the dragonballs.
After travelling for a bit and fighting a giant flying monster, they met a large talking turtle. The turtle was lost and had been searching for a way back to the sea for a long time. Goku agreed to help and carried the turtle 100 miles to the sea. When they got there the turtle introduced them to his master Roshi, the Turtle Hermit. Master Roshi was an old martial artist who also happened to be a huge pervert. He gave Goku a flying golden cloud for helping Turtle. After realizing that he had a dragonball, Bulma managed to convince the old pervert to give it to her through some very... questionable means.
It was what happened next that really got Naruto interested. After tracking down the next dragonball they arrived at a small village. All the villagers were terrified of a monstrous being called Oolong that had been harassing there village and stealing the daughters. They agreed that if Goku and Bulma could defeat the monster and save their daughters then they would give the pair their dragonball.
As it turns out, Oolong turned out to just be a cowardly little man that resembled a pig and had the power to transform into anything. What caught Naruto's attention was that it wasn't a normal transformation like he was taught in the academy. Oolong physically changed into whatever he wanted whether it be a giant red demon or a small fish. At one point he even turned into a bat and flew away to escape Goku.
Naruto was shocked. He didn't even know that was possible! If he could learn how to do that he wouldn't even need the summoning jutsu! He could just have a shadow clone transform into a giant animal! He had eagerly started reading again to see if there was any hint as to how it was done. Unfortunately, all he found was that Oolong and a catlike creature named Puar had gone to some sort of school to learn how. At least that ment that it wasn't some sort of bloodline limit or anything. He also found that when they transform they don't get any stronger. That meant that giant clone beasts were out. What's the point if it would still only take a single punch to take them out. Still, it was still an incredible ability and Naruto definitely wanted to learn it.
Naruto guessed he had fallen asleep soon after that because he couldn't remember anything after the desert bandit Yamcha and Puar running away after seeing Bulma. Seriously, what kind of pansy is scared of girls?
Naruto shook his head to clear it and glanced at the clock. 'I gotta meet Ero-Sennin soon. I'd better get ready.'
He took a quick shower and made a cup of ramen for breakfast before heading out.
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He arrived to find Jiraiya giggling perversely to himself as he peeked through some bushes at some young women that were splashing around in the river not far away. A big grin spread across Naruto's face before he sucked in a deep breath and shouted as loudly as he could "Hey there Ero-Sennin! Whatcha lookin' at?"
Jiraiya spun around and slapped his hand over Naruto's mouth.
"Quiet! You'll scare them away!" He whispered urgently.
The women turned towards the bushes confused. "Ero-Sennin? Eh!? Some creep must be watching us!" They all ran from the water screaming.
"Damn it gaki! Now look what you did!" Jiraiya yelled. He looked like he was about to murder Naruto where he stood but before he could do anything else a small boulder smashed into the side of his head knocking him to the ground. Naruto sweatdropped as he looked back to where the boulder came from to see one of the women panting angrily. "Serves you right pervert!" One of them yelled before they all stomped off.
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Once Jiraiya had recovered and finished yelling at Naruto, he told his student to do the summoning jutsu. A serious expression spread across Naruto's face as he began focusing his chakra. His hands flew through the seal before he slammed his hand down on the ground.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
A small puff of smoke blew away to reveal a small toad. It was about the size of an apple and it's tail was nearly gone. Naruto gave a disappointed sigh as Jiraiya went to sit down against a tree close by.
Naruto continued over the next 2 hours without any improvement. After producing another fist-sized toad for the umpteeth time he glanced at Jiraiya to see him snoring underneath his tree.
"Damn it old man! How about actually doing something to help? You've gotta..." Naruto didn't get to finish as he began to fall backwards. Jiraiya looked up just as Naruto hit the ground unconsious.
'Looks like he fainted again. I'm not surprised. He's been training on guts alone for three weeks now.' Jiraiya thought. He got up to get some water to wake Naruto with.
"Come on, wake up gaki." Jiraiya said loudly as he threw the water on Naruto's face. Naruto shot up quickly and shook his dripping head.
"What the..." Naruto said as he looked around to see what woke him.
"How do I say this... you suck."
Naruto whipped around to find Jiraiya standing right behind him. "Huh!? Damn it Ero-Sennin!"
"You've been working on this for 3 weeks and you've barely progressed at all. If you continue like this it will be pointless." Jiraiya said crouching down to Naruto's level.
"What do you mean!? I've been training with everything I've got!" Naruto said angrily.
"I know that, but if you want to master the Summoning Jutsu you have to do it like you're life depends on it otherwise it's no good at all." Jiraiya said.
"That's what I've been doing!" Naruto shouted, leaping to his feat. "I've been using my chakra everyday until I'm about to die! If you have the time to complain about it, why not teach me a trick or something!?"
"A trick?" Jiraiya scratched his head for a bit. "Hmm... a trick."
"What? You're actually gonna teach me something?" Naruto asked surprised.
"You need to risk you life on it." Jiraiya said, his face suddenly dead serious.
"Huh?" Naruto said.
"This is no joke. Are you willing to do it?" Jiraiya asked still deadly serious.
"O-Of course! I'm always risking my life!" Naruto replied, a little put off by Jiraiya's seriousness but gaining confidence as he spoke.
"I see... Well then, follow me." Jiraiya turned and began to walk back towards town.
'Well that was creepy.' Naruto thought before he ran after the Toad Sage.
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Naruto was confused. After they had left the training area Jiraiya had lead him to the hot springs. Surprisingly, it wasn't so that the old pervert could peep. Instead they just soaked for a while before leaving.
Naruto was curious how soaking in the hot spring would help him with summoning but didn't think on it long because their next stop had been ramen! He had really begun to like Jiraiya and this new training until he realized that the old hermit had left him to deal with the bill. Just thinking back on it made Naruto mad. That had emptied out Gama-sama!
Before he could kick the old bastard's ass he was told to go hug Sakura! He was finally starting to like this training again. Needless to say that didn't end well.
Now Naruto was once again walking behind Jiraiya. He was starting to have some serious doubts about this training.
"Hey Ero-Sennin, are you sure I'll be able to summon after this?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, it's a sure thing." Jiraiya replied.
"Really?" Naruto raised a eyebrow, still not convinced.
"Is there anything you've left undone?" Jiraiya suddenly changed the subject.
"Huh?" Naruto asked, confused.
"Nothing then?" Jiraiya said as he turned to look at Naruto.
"What are you talking-" Naruto was cut off as Jiraiya's fist met his gut and he blacked out.
The next thing Naruto knew he was being tossed to the ground. He slowly pushed himself to his hands and knees.
"Huh? Where... is this?" Naruto asked as he glanced around.
"Get up!" Jiraiya said loudly as he stepped in front of Naruto.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked as he pulled himself to his feet.
"Your training ends here." Jiraiya said in a serious voice.
"Huh? But I haven't done anything yet!" Naruto shouted.
"Naruto!" Jiraiya cut him off before he could start ranting. "Go die and come back."
"Die?" Naruto asked, once again confused.
"From within the dreadfulness of death, sqeeze out enormous chakra!" Jiraiya spoke, still completely serious. "Experience the feel of it and learn to use it consciously! If you don't want to die do something about it yourself... got it?"
Once Jiraiya finished speaking he shot his hand forward pushing Naruto's forehead protector with his index finger. Apparently he had put some chakra behind it because Naruto was sent flying through the bushes he was standing in front of. Once Naruto broke through the last of the bushes he opened his eyes only for his stomach to jump to his throat.
He had just been pushed of a cliff.
Alrighty! There's Chapter 2! I tried to make it a bit longer. Sure not many people would call 2000 words long but I'm new at this so you have to cut me some slack.
Anywho, tell me what you think and be sure to point out all my flaws.
