Chapter 9: The Dragon Wakes

Naruto was walking back to his apartment with a pillow under his arm. At the end of the training session Nazu had used the substitution jutsu to replace himself with the pillow Nazu uses to sleep on the couch. Naruto guessed it was easier for him to fall asleep with a blanket more than a pillow.

Soon Naruto reached his apartment building and walked to his place. Naruto opened the door only to find Nazu had already fallen asleep on the couch. Naruto put the pillow on the floor next to the couch and climbed into his bed and soon fell asleep too.

*Time Shift*

Nazu woke up wishing he had substituted with the blanket because the arm of the couch was hard to sleep on. Nazu sat up and patiently waited for Naruto to wake up. After a half an hour of waiting for Naruto, someone knocked on the door. Nazu went to open it for he wanted to let his sensei to have his rest. Nazu opened the door to see Hinata. She looked very worried.

"Where's Naruto?" She asked. "Still sleeping, I've been waiting for him to wake up." Nazu replied. Hinata rushed to the bed and woke up Naruto. "Naruto, come on it's an emergency." Hinata told him. Naruto yawned and very sleepily said, "What *very long yawn* is the problem?" Nazu shuddered as Hinata said, "The Village Hidden in the Heavens."

*Scene Change*

Nazu, Naruto, and Hinata all stood in front of the gate to the leaf village, ready to confront the intruders. Nazu's eyes grew wide from shock when he saw who was attackin the village, "In-Inuza-sensei!" Inuza wasn't the same as before, his arms were replaced with mechanical monstrosities that had tubes weaving into his arms. "Well you didn't forget me, which is good because now you'll know who's killing you!" he said. Inuza's robotic arms represented a claw and cannon. The claw on his right arm and the cannon on his left. He turned to Hinata. "Well, you can all thank her for these upgrades. If it weren't for her closing all chakra flow to my arms this never would have happened." Inuza told them.

Naruto charged him for dissing his girlfriend like that. "TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID OR ELSE!" Inuza jumped back and slapped Naruto away with his claw. Inuza smiled and said, "That's not all this puppy can do either." The claw shot out of a holster and went toward Nazu. Hinata smacked the claw aside but it swerved back toward Nazu. The claw grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him back to Inuza.

"This is where you die, Nazu," Inuza said as he pointed the cannon at Nazu's face, "good-bye forever!" Nazu flew back into a building from a giant blast chakra. "I thought…you said…there was no chakra…flowing in your arms." Nazu said as he tried to stand up. "They were, until these mechanical dreams sucked chakra from other parts of my body." Inuza then laughed as he charged up another blast pointed at Nazu.

"NOOOOOOO!" Naruto jumped in front of the blast. When the dust cleared Naruto was still standing a few feet away from the blast. That was when it hit Nazu, clone jutsu. Naruto ran up and attacked him with help from Hinata. Naruto and Hinata were getting pummeled, Naruto more than Hinata because Inuza wasn't a fan of hurting women. How could I have let them down? Nazu thought. Hinata was flung aside. This wouldn't have happened if. Naruto slammed into a fence. I WAS STRONGER!

We can help you. A voice inside Nazu's head said.

"DIE NAZU!" Inuza shouted as his cannon discharged. Nazu dodge as a dark green energy shrouded him. His eyes grew as dark as the energy that shrouded him. "Doragon'ai*" Nazu shouted, his eyes then turned white. Hinata's eyes widened when she say he was using the Byakugan, she was certain he wasn't a Hyuga. Inuza shot yet another blast at Nazu but by spinning around and spreading chakra around him he blocked it.

"No, he must have awakened the Great Dragon of Fire, Faiāburasutā!" Inuza shouted as Nazu ran at him. Nazu smacked Inuza with an unbelievable amount of force he barely recovered from. "Dragon Prong Jutsu!" Nazu shouted as he smashed his hand into his stomach. His eyes became a dark shade of green in the center of them. Nazu closed his eyes and they became red with black incense around the pupil. "Tsukiyomi!"

Within a moment Inuza was in an area where everything was white and that was it. The next thing he knew a bunch of dragon tails were smacking him into the air.

Inuza was kneeling on all fours; the tubes that absorbed chakra from his arms were broken and cut open. I can't believe the dragon unlocked the ultimate power of the Doragon'ai, Inuza thought. Inuza fled the village only to be blasted by a massive wave of fire. Inuza collapsed on the ground. Two other ninja's picked him up and fled.

*Scene Change*

Why are you letting them live? KILL THEM NOW! Faiāburasutā order Nazu.

"No, they've learned their lesson; I'm letting them go with a warning." Nazu told him.

You realize we can take away the great power we gave you right?

"Not if I leave right now." Nazu said as he turned around and walked away.

*Scene Change*

The green energy faded from Nazu and he fell to the ground. Naruto ran to pick him up. "Naruto, don't worry. I'm fine." Nazu stopped him. He stood up and almost fell back down, luckily Naruto put Nazu's arm over his shoulder. "Naruto, I'm feeble right now. I just need some rest." Nazu told him.

Naruto helped Nazu to his apartment and laid him down on the couch. "Thanks, Naruto, you're a true friend." Nazu smiled and quickly fell asleep. Naruto turned to Hinata, who had walked with them, and said, "Thanks for helping me and keeping your promise to Nazu." Hinata blushed a little bit. It quickly stopped when she remembered they were boyfriend and girlfriend. "Naruto, want to go on another date?" Hinata asked him. Naruto smiled and said, "Of course!"

* Doragon'ai means Dragon Eye in Japanese. It was idea I had that allows the user to copy the Kekkei genkai of their opponent/comrade(s). The Dragon Prong Jutsu unlocks the full power of the Dragon Eye letting the user copy any kekkei genkai in any of its forms. (Only works with eye kekkei genkai). That's it for this chapter; expect more on what happens when Naruto and Hinata go out in Chapter 10: The Second Date! Also I'm thinking of writing a prequel to this story to explain what happened before Nazu went to the Village Hidden in the Heavens. Tell me what you think.

- supershook