A/N Hey every one really sorry it took so long to update but I had some writers block and school and such. And also I didn't feel very encouraged to write due to lack of reviews... So the more reviews I get the sooner the chapter comes out. Anyway here is chapter 7: A Giant
A Giant
"Seigyokua" Eragon said still on the floor staring at the newborn dragon. He felt a tingling in his right palm and looked down at it. He saw what looked like a fresh scar, in the shape of a jagged lowercase E. He looked back at the dragon.
'What did you do to me?' He thought
"Awesome you finally get a pet dragon!" Naruto shouted.
"We are going to have to tell old man Hokage about this now you know?" Harry said. Eragon nodded absentmindedly. "We should probably bring him here. It would be to risky to carry Seigyokua through the streets people would see her and everything." Harry finished. The other two just nodded.
"I'll get him, you two stay here." Harry said leaving. When he left Naruto went over to Eragon and lifted him off the floor.
"So how was your team meeting?" Naruto asked, Eragon didn't respond, he just stared at Seigyokua. "Hey Eragon." Naruto said waving his head in front of Eragon's face.
"Huh?" He said breaking his gaze from the dragon.
"I said how was your team meeting?" Naruto repeated.
"Oh, it was okay, really boring though. My sensei just had us follow him all day."
"Man that sucks I actually got to fight my sensei. Shikamaru came up with an awesome plan to."
"So we all our Genin now huh?" Eragon said
"Yup! And soon enough we will be Chunin, and eventually we will be the top three shinobi of the village!" Eragon smiled. Naruto always was very optimistic, sometimes he wondered how he was always so happy, especially with the villagers treatment.
Then his thoughts went back to the dragon on his bed. What was going to happen now? He remembered Brom saying he would train him and form a stronger bond with her. What exactly did he mean by bond? Would he have to keep Seigyokua a secret, or would he be able to take her everywhere with him? When was his training suppose to start? His head filled to the brim with questions, none of which he had answers to yet.
"What do you think she will be able to do?" Naruto asked.
"Huh?" Eragon said breaking out of his thoughts.
"What do you think Seigyokua will be able to do?"
"I don't know, fly I suppose." Eragon said looking at the wings.
"Cool, you'll be able to get to Suna in a day!" Naruto said with a hint of envy. That was Naruto all right always the looking to the bright side. Didn't even consider the face that he could fall off, or that people would be able to probably shoot her down with some jutsu or something.
Not to mention that him and this dragon were supposedly are the saviors of an entire nation. He has no idea what kind of pressure that is, being the hope of millions upon millions, its not a simple walk in the park.
He looked back at the blue beast on his bed and saw her looking at him with curiosity. He wondered how big she would get and when would she fly. Why was he even thinking about these things? He would just have to wait until that Brom guy came back, he would have the answers to these questions. He looked around. Naruto was gone.
Eragon looked at the open door, and back at the dragon, then back at the door. He sighed, went over to the dragon picked her up and walked out of the room to find Naruto.
It didn't take long for him to notice the staircase coming out of the ceiling just a few feet down the hall.
"So this place has an attic to huh?" Eragon said aloud. Seigyokua make a cooing type sound. Eragon looked down at the face looking up at him. The main emotion he saw in her eyes was curiosity. But he couldn't help be see a hint of 'no duh.' in there to.
Seigyokua then started to squirm in his hands, wanting to be let down. Eragon complied and set her on the ground, not wanting to get scratched by one of her claws.
He watched as she went over to the stairs and sniffed it. He continued to watch as she started to climb up. When she was out of site was when he started to follow after her.
When he got to the bottom of the stairs he saw her standing in front of a door without a knob. She was clawing at the door wanting to go in. He walked up next to her trying to find someway to open the door. He looked for some sort of switch or something of the like that could open it. But his search was in vain.
Eragon looked at the middle of the door and saw the engraved seal in the wood. He studied in for a second before remember some of the lessons he actually listened to.
"No way we are getting in there." Eragon said aloud again. Seigyokua looked up at him again. Wondering what he meant.
Eragon sighed again. He couldn't believe he was going to explain this to a creature with an IQ possibly smaller than that of a dog.
"It's a blood seal on the door. Only those with the same blood as the person who created the seal can open that door." Seigyokua looked like she somehow understood what he was saying.
Eragon shook his head. No she can't understand what he was saying, she was just a stupid animal… right?
Just then Seigyokua reached out with her head and touched the door with her nose. The next thing that happened nearly made Eragon hit headfirst to the ceiling.
Some sort of white-blue energy scattered over the door before it all ended in the middle of the door taking the shape of the seal on the door. It glowed for a second before it disappeared. After the energy disappeared the door opened a fraction.
Eragon was now debating whether he should head for the hills or be slightly impressed.
"What the hell did you just do?" He asked looking down at her. She just pushed the door open and walked in.
Eragon's eyes followed for a second before look around the attic room.
He saw boxes upon boxes neatly stacked from floor to ceiling. The boxes created a path from the door to the back of the attic.
He saw Naruto hunched over in the small opening on the opposite side of the room. All he could see was his back.
"Naruto!" He shouted. When Naruto heard Eragon's voice he jumped at least five feet in the air.
"Jeez Eragon don't do that!" He said with a hand over his heart. "How the heck did you get in here any way?"
"Well to be serious I don't know in the slightest." Gesturing to Seigyokua, he explained what she did.
"Wow," Naruto said looking at the blue creature sniffing at the boxes. "How do you think she did that?"
"I have no idea." Eragon replied. Letting his curiosity take over he decided to ask one of many questions that was lingering in his mind.
"How the heck did you get in here Naruto? The door had a blood seal on it." Naruto hesitated a little before chuckling nervously.
"You aren't going to believe this." With this Naruto went into explaining about his father and mother. How he just found out yesterday, and about his bloodline limit and family jutsu.
When Naruto finished Eragon didn't know whether to be happy for his brotherly friend that he found out who he was descendent of. Or to be mad because now both Naruto and Harry knew who their parents were and he didn't, of course both of them knew their parents were dead. And Eragon didn't even know who his parents were, so there may be a slight chance that they were alive. Hey he could hope.
"Well Naruto," Eragon began. "I'm happy for you, its good that you know who your parents are. And better yet your dad was even a Hokage! Now that's saying something right?" Naruto nodded with a big smile on his face.
"The only downside is I can't spread the word yet, because you know the entire Iwa village would be after my head." He let out another nervous chuckle.
"Yeah I could see that happening." Eragon said imagining Naruto running from hordes of Iwa-nin. "So when are you going to learn the Hiraishin?"
"Oh well I was reading from the scroll before you and Seigyokua snuck up on me." Eragon almost forgot about the dragon, he looked around to see where she was to find she was gone.
"Ugh where did she go?" Eragon groaned. Naruto left with Eragon to look for Seigyokua.
They searched in all the bedrooms, bathrooms, storerooms, and dojos but couldn't find scale nor tail of the blue dragon.
After an hour of searching the Hokage and Harry showed up along with Brom.
"Where is she?" Brom demanded.
"Umm…" Naruto started. "Well, haha, she slipped away from us." Naruto chuckled nervously while scratching the back of his head. Brom just sighed.
"Eragon," Brom said looking at the eleven year old "This is your first lesson as a rider." Said boy listened more intently. "I assumed you already touched her yes?" Eragon nodded. "Good, now when you touched her something happened to you correct?" Eragon nodded his head.
"Yeah, it was like something coursed through my blood turning it ice cold for a second. She also gave me this." Eragon said showing his right palm.
"That is the Dragon Rider insignia, you should bear it with pride." Brom said.
"Yeah well wont do me any good if I don't have a dragon." Eragon retorted.
"Which brings us to your first lesson, opening your mind." Brom said. Eragon looked a little confused, Brom saw this and decided to elaborate. "It is something like mind reading, you open your mind to those around you and let in their emotions and thoughts. You don't become them in any way or take over their minds, but you can tell what they are going to do. Which is very useful in interrogations or battles." Brom went into a thoughtful state for a second.
"I believe Dumbledore has mentioned something very similar to this, that advanced wizards are able to cast. Although this is version of it is quite simple and requires a fraction, if any magic at all. All three of you probably could learn this actually." The trio immediately looked excited in their own way. Naruto's being the most noticeable.
"Cool, cool, cool AWESOME!!" He shouted while jumping up and down.
"Hmm… This could be very helpful on missions." Harry said thoughtfully.
"So how do we do this technique?" Eragon asked.
"Quite simple really. For you it should be easy." He said gesturing to Eragon. He went on explaining to the three how to open their minds and feel emotions and read thoughts. "Now I want you three to reach out and try to find the dragon."
"Seigyokua." Eragon said.
"Bless you." Brom said.
"I wasn't sneezing, that's her name Seigyokua." Eragon said again.
"Hmm… so you already took the liberty to name her huh?" Eragon nodded.
"I must say that is a quite unexpected name for something so majestic." Brom said with a little disappointment in his eyes.
"What would you have called her?" Harry asked. Brom was caught off guard by this question, and at first seemed to not want to answer. How ever he did mutter something that the Hokage (A/N: Yes he is still there) Harry, Naruto, and Eragon had to strain to hear
"Saphira."
"Back on to the lesson." Brom said after a lengthy silence. "Now do what I told you." The three nodded as they reached out with their minds to find the dazzling blue wonder, also known as Seigyokua.
It didn't take to sense her curious playful mood in a room on the other side of the massive house. Going with their findings the five headed over to the other side of the house.
They searched the many rooms on this side of the house. It appeared that this part was more for accommodating the family, than regular houseguest. It had huge two hot springs, three nurseries, and a few more bedrooms. In one of the bedrooms they found a huge kings size bed. This is where they found Seigyokua, bouncing on the bed.
"About time," Brom said, when he spoke Seigyokua lifter her head and looked at the five people there. She recognized Eragon and immediately went to him.
"Good," Brom said, when Eragon picked her up. "now the first part of opening your mind is done it's time for the second part of it. Closing your mind." Brom didn't wait for a response and continued. "Those who can use magic in Alagaësia, need to invade the persons mind to attack them. So in order to counter this you need to close your mind. It's not really closing your mind as it is blocking the persons mind from invading yours." Eragon paid extra attention, after all this was supposed to be his special training. Brom went on to explain about ways to close your mind. It was rather simple, all you had to do is concentrate on something or maybe recite something in your mind.
After Brom finished teaching them about opening/closing your mind he left back to his world. Before he left he told Eragon he would be back when Seigyokua was bigger and their bond stronger. This statement confused Eragon and when he asked Brom he just said.
"You will understand when the time comes."
After Brom left the trio went to the kitchen for some well deserved ramen. They invited the Hokage but he had to refuse seeing as he had piles of paperwork still to go through.
In the kitchen they talked about their team meeting, what their tests were, and how they passed them. After they finished their ramen and exploits, they went to bed.
The next few months went pretty much the same way. They trained with their teams, went on D-rank missions (which Eragon and Naruto were getting annoyed with). They spent all their time together in the house. Sparring one of the mini-castles dojos, exploring the house, but mainly eating and talking in the kitchen.
Occasionally Brom would pop in to check on Seigyokua's growth. She grew very rapidly throughout the summer months. By the time it was the beginning of August she was about as tall as Eragon.
Her size proved it difficult to hide her without using Genjutsu, which Eragon mastered thankfully. During this time Seigyokua also learned how to talk in their language, well at least through her mental link with Eragon. The only people she would ever talk to though were the only people that she ever saw. Which were Eragon, Harry, Naruto, Brom, and Sarutobi. She rarely, if ever, left the estate. Brom said she was to valuable to risk going outside and letting strangers see her in her young stage. The Hokage backed this up saying the villagers, and Shinobi would both be frightened of her and it would be probable that they might try to kill her. So until she was ready to be revealed she would remain hidden. Seigyokua was not very happy about this, but listened and obeyed none the less.
As time passed Harry counted down to the day he would leave for Hogwarts. It was only a week away until he actually had to be there. But Dumbledore sent a message saying that they should leave a day or two early so they could get their school supplies and wands. The trio wondered a lot about what their teams were going to do with only two people. Sarutobi though figured that out when he first organized the teams.
He told them that Team Nine would split up temporarily while they were gone. Sakura would go to Harry's team, Kiba to Eragon's team, and Choji to Naruto's team. What he forgot to mention is that their respected teams did not know of this yet.
But Eragon's main concern was what would happen to Seigyokua. When he asked the Hokage this he responded.
"She will meet you there. Dumbledore said that there is a forest right by Hogwarts that no one goes in and that she can fit right in there." He wouldn't say much more than that.
Finally the day has arrived for the trio to depart to England. Harry was nervous, Naruto excited, and Eragon curious. None of them have even left the village, much less Fire country. But this was entirely different from just leaving Fire country, this was entirely different continent, a new world that they didn't even know about until a few months ago. Seigyokua left a few days ago.
They waited in the Hokages office for the person that was going to escort them through the limited regions of England that they would visit. He was supposed to arrive and three in the afternoon and the trio arrive ten minutes early.
They talked while they waited.
"So who do you think this guy is that's coming to get us?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know, I don't think it would be Dumbledore because he would have said that he would have been coming to take us." Eragon said.
"Yes it is probably going to be an extremely trustworthy follower of his no doubt." Harry said.
The two debated about who or what the man could possibly be. The Hokage was just sitting behind his desk looking at the boys and thought back a few days ago when the boys were packing for their trip, which he witnessed from afar.
Flashback"Naruto you don't have to pack that much ramen!" Harry yelled, Naruto was trying to fit at least fifty boxes of instant ramen into his small suitcase.
"But what if they don't have any there?" He whined.
"Come Naruto no place in the world can be without ramen." Eragon said. He shuddered at the thought of a ramenless country. "I mean it's just no possible. Right?" Concern now filled his voice. Naruto and Eragon looked at each other.
"I'll get the back ups." Eragon said.
"Good plan." Naruto replied. Harry just sighed, those two were impossible sometimes. Not that he doesn't love ramen, far from it. It's just he wasn't as picky as the other two in expanding his food horizons. And plus the ramen was just taking up to much packing space that they needed. They didn't know what to expect when going to Hogwarts, this was after all a D to S rank mission. But Dumbledore was going to be there and the Hokage did seem to trust him.
Although that look of his did make Harry uncomfortable, it made him feel as if he was being X-rayed. But he didn't have time to worry about that now, he had to pack.
"Hey Eragon," Harry said as Eragon walked back onto the room carrying four huge crates of ramen.
"Yeah?" He said looking around the crates to look at Harry.
"Where did you put the extra kunai?" He asked.
End flashbackAnd so here they were, each with twelve scrolls with their luggage sealed in them (courteous of Sarutobi) waiting for the escort that Dumbledore said would come. It was now only a minute until he was suppose to be here, he really hoped he wasn't like Kakashi. He looked over at the boys again, who were still discussing amongst themselves thinking about how their lives are to change drastically in the next few years.
BOOM!The four shinobi were interrupted from their actions to look to see what caused the massive noise which also caused the room to shake. They were instantly on alert, they looked around the room, it didn't take them long to see a huge man with hands the size of trashcan lids, in the middle of the room.
"'Ello." It said, "'ope I'm no' to late, Dumbledore sent me to pick up a Harry Potter, Naruto Uzumooki or summit like that, and a Eragon Doragon?" He said while reading a piece of paper in his massive hands.
Sarutobi dropped his guard, but the other three were still a little wary. Who, or what exactly was this guy?
"I see," Sarutobi said looking up at the man. "I assume you are the boys escort to Hogwarts?" He asked.
"Yup tha's me Dumbledore said he wouldn' trust anyone else for this." He said puffing his chest out.
"Hmm, do you mind telling me your name?" The Hokage asked.
"Hagrid."
A/N: I can pratically fell your anticipation for the next chapter. Harry, Eragon, and Naruto's first glimpse of the strange world of the Wizarding world, what could happen next? What will happen when they go to Diagon alley? What about when they are on the train to Hogwarts? What about when they meet Ron and Hermione for the first time. What will these wizards think of these strange wizards that use the muggle way of fighting? Well to bad you have to wait. Anyway stay tuned for Chapter 8: A different world
