Vile here and updating.
The three challenges have been figured out.
The First one that is bahamut is actually Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7. Black clothes, spiky blond hair and glowing blue green eyes. I would have put hold a huge sword but that would be too obvious.
The Second one Huang Long and I just figured out it was actually a bit harder than I thought, but yet someone figured it out which suprised me. Huang Long is actually Jackie Chan. I tried to make him look older and I used his appearance in that movie the Forbidden Kingdom. It was difficult to discribe him, but I did give pointers about the movie, I mean like golden staff.
The Third one is Umi Ryuuzaki from Magic Knight Rayearth the dragon but more on the peaceful side. I gave the name away but that was the idea. I just needed the origin of the dragon.
(AN: I do not own nothing ANN: copy right reasons)
Well thank you for playing and submitting your sword and characters, which I asked them if they wanted one which is actually quite good since one is from my favourite anime.
Note: I changed this story to a major cross over with the dragon sword thing.
Well enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do note own Naruto or the dragons or anything at all.
Chapter 9
The Dragon Sword Hunt
It's been another year and both Naruto and Tenten are quite pleased with themselves.
Just five months ago Naruto came across another Lightning Dragon Sword that someone was using it to slaughter a small village.
"Man these guys don't know when to give up." Tenten said just before cutting a bandit in half.
Naruto and Tenten's mission is to get to a small town as quickly as possible and eliminate the threat. When they got there the bandits were inside the village so Naruto summoned a dragon outside of the town to kill off the bandits that lingers outside of the small town. Akantor who is two stories tall, its wings fully evolved into arms, dark orange brown like armour plates, huge spikes on its back, two large tusks on his lower jaw, thick tail full of spikes, sides full of spikes and green eyes. This Dragon is definitely meant for battle and is having a blast killing the bandits.
"Find the ring leader, if he falls the rest will follow." Naruto said as she did a three sixty spin with multiple slashes that caused the bandits around her to be sliced up to bits.
"Ryujin Jakka Kasaneuchi!" Tenten shouted as she made multiple slashed ahead of her and sheathed her sword as the bandits in front of her fell into bits of pieces.
But more bandits kept on coming as Tenten took in a huge breath of air and released her Dragon Breath to burn the oncoming bandits.
"Ryujin Jakka Nadegiri!" Tenten made sweep across the land parallel to the ground as the bandits that ran passed through the flames ended up getting cut in half waist down.
"You're getting bloody with those techniques." Naruto said as she walked towards Tenten when she finished with her bits of bandits and examined the damage. "Those two techniques take a lot of chakra to use and you're almost clean out." True, Tenten is sweating and breathing hard.
"It's all I got other than my dragon breath." Tenten said while sucking in as much air as possible.
Naruto nodded as she used her sword to make a light shield around her and Tenten when a blue lightning bolt strikes the two.
"Looks like there is one more left." Naruto looked where the bolt came from and saw the ring leader bandit with a sword in his hand. "Great, a bandit leader holding a dragon sword in his hand." Naruto sighed as she told Tenten to back up and got ready to fight with the sword.
The bandit leader seems to be out of it as the sword in his hands glowed. The sword in question is a double edge long sword, yellow cross guard, red hilt with a yellow pummel with a red thread tied to the end.
The bandit leader charged at Naruto as she blocked the sword attack and was pushed back by the force of the sword. Naruto knew she had to take this fight seriously if that sword is able to do something like that. The crazed bandit continued on with his assault as Naruto dodged a sweep cut that could have cut her face opened. She stood away from the bandit and felt something leaking from her face.
With a reach up to her left cheek she felt a small cut that is leaking some blood.
"Tch, not bad, it's been a while since someon… something is able to cut my skin." Naruto said as her left hand glowed green healing her cheek and swiping the blood off. "If that sword is able to cut open my skin than I will have to go all out." She began to channel chakra into her sword as Tenten watched the wind flowed around her sister.
"So we are fighting together I see." Naruto heard in her head as she felt the Okatana in her hand hold her hand.
"Slice through the Heavens! Excelion!" Naruto shouted as she unsheathed her sword to send a wave of light that hit the bandit making him fly into a building making it collapse on top of him.
Over by Tenten she had a look of admiration in her eyes to see her sensei using her sword like that.
The crumbled down building burst out with blue lightning as the bandit had many gash wounds that he shouldn't be able to move. He began to run towards Naruto who kept her sword sheathed waiting for the bandit to get closer. When he reached Naruto close enough she did the Quick Draw technique and Tenten only saw her unsheathe the sword showing an inch of the blade a bit and sheathe it back.
The effects of her attack showed with the bandits arm cut off with it still attached to the sword, head fell off, torso cut diagonally and lower waist cut it half. It is a truly gruesome sight to behold.
"So Cool!" Tenten squealed at the display of her sister's skill in a sword and tackled Naruto to the ground wanting to learn the Quick Draw Technique.
"Don't you already have two sword techniques?" Naruto asked Tenten who is begging her to teach her that technique she just did. "Alright, alright, I'll teach you the technique once we finish up here and head back to Konoha." Naruto caved in when she saw Tenten using the puppy dog eye technique on her then she perked up when she felt horrible aura. She turned to the sword and saw it glowing red.
"What's up with the sword?" Tenten asked as she reached for the sword but Naruto took her hand away.
"I wouldn't touch it if I were you." Naruto told Tenten as the girl nodded. Naruto began to examine the sword and noticed that the sword seemed angry at something or someone. "It sure is pissed at someone."
"At who?" Tenten asked wondering how a sword can still be angry.
"Don't know." Naruto said as the glowing sword began to spark wildly. "I might as well get this over with already."
Tenten was confused at first and saw her sister is engulfed by blue chakra and swirled around her as she grabbed the sword.
The sword's aura went up Naruto's arm as it tried to take over Naruto's body but Naruto kept it back until the sword pushed harder.
It sure is persistent. Naruto thought as she kept the sword's aura from taking over her.
"Indeed, do you need help?" Naruto nodded accepting Excelion's help as Naruto is now engulfed in white chakra.
Tenten watched as her sister's chakra swirled around her as it over take the swords aura and began to turn into a regular katana. The katana now has a black sheathe with a cross guard with an X shape looking window with a red hilt.
After the sword turned to a katana Naruto was now sweating and her breathing is ragged.
"Are you ok sis?" Tenten asked worried that the sword harmed her.
"If fine… just a bit… tired." Naruto said really fatigued but still has a load of chakra as she did hand seals. "Could you grab the sword for me."
Tenten nodded and went to pick the sword up carefully as Naruto summoned Orta and the dragon flew both of the girls back to Konoha.
That was one of the swords that Naruto has found.
Naruto found a couple of dormant dragon swords in shinobi shops around the elemental country when Naruto was sent to do treaty delegation in other villages and she paid for each one.
Tenten also found one of the Legendary Dragon Swords that were in the hands of a bandit and it seems to be incomplete.
Tia was able to recognize the sword as a piece of the Earth Dragon Kenkon. The sword looked like an end of a naginata and Tia had to explain that she will have to find the other piece to complete the sword. Tenten sighed knowing that she is going on a tag along with her sensei to find the other piece, but Naruto gave her a break and continued on with teaching her the Quick Draw Technique.
One other sword gave her trouble like the lightning sword, but this one is align with darkness, but it was not like last time. This time she had to fight a dragon inside the sword.
Tia explained to her that this dragon inside the sword is actually the Tyrant Dragon of the blade. Just like her tests she has to kill the Tyrant and bring back the Sword's Dragon back.
These swords are as dangerous as the one with lightning with the controlling of the body if you lose to the dragon, but it has a reward if you win and give it a master, but that is for later.
Right now she only saw two cases of this kind.
Naruto was able to defeat the Tyrant and took the sword back to the storage room.
Like the rest of the swords she found they are looking for a master to wield them.
Naruto could wield them if she wanted to but she doesn't want to bring someone's chance of having that sword.
She talked with the swords and understood that they want a master to hold their power, but they are patient and will wait until the world ends, so she has the swords in the hidden room.
"What's the mission?" Naruto asked Sarutobi who put a red book away that she recognized as the book that Jiraiya wrote of her test.
"Just wait for a minute the team will come in soon." The Sandaime told Naruto as she nodded her head and stood waiting. "How's your sisters training been going over the year?" The old man asked waiting for the team he requested.
"She's a fast learner with weapons. Just last week she finished mastering holding a naginata and a battleaxe, she's working on a dual sword staff right now. Her taijutsu is chunnin level because of the Dragon Claw, she knows a few fire techniques, genjutsu is nonexistent, chakra level is jonin, learned how to walk on water and she is jonin or higher with kenjutsu." Naruto tallied what Tenten knew in a year and she is starting to learn how to hold Ryujin Jakka's power but still isn't able to with stand the flames just yet.
Someone knocked on the door as the Hokage called for the team to enter.
The first person to enter is someone that Naruto worked with a few times.
Maito Gai the taijutsu master of Konoha and the Green Beast.
If Naruto would fight with him she would say that the man would be able to fight on equal grounds with her in Taijutsu, if not beat her. She could defeat Jiraiya in taijutsu but a taijutsu master like Gai, she has her doubts that she would lose to him. She may have her gravity seal at four and Gai probably has weights and not to mention he could open the gates, yup she would lose against him in taijutsu.
Then he is followed by his students or team which he called Team Gai.
The first student looked like a miniature version of Gai name Rock Lee. He wears clothes just like Gai with that green spandex suit and orange legwarmer and bandaged arms. The little beast has a problem with chakra that he can't use it properly so he relies on his taijutsu.
The second student is a Hyuga. Neji Hyuga and seemed so stoic and has been talking about how fate runs his life.
The last student caught her eye and recognized her from the time she rescued the kids from the root hideout.
Hikaru Inuzuka, she doesn't have the wildness of the Inuzuka family with her red long hair tied in a braid like Naruto's and red colour eyes, but still have the sharp fangs that look cute on her. Her clan markings look more like a downward flame on her cheeks to show that she is from the Inuzuka clan and has a very light brown pup by her side that Naruto recognized as a wolf hybrid. She is wearing a grey shirt with a sleeveless white jacket with light brown fur on the hoody, blue shorts and blue sandals.
The reason that Danzo took her is because she has characteristics that people don't see in an Inuzuka which is her red hair and eyes with a very high affinity with fire. It turns out she is very talented in her families clan techniques and she is able to channel fire manipulation into her partner Hikari, the female pup's name.
"Team Gai is ready for a mission Hokage-sama!" The green beast voice boomed as Hikaru and Neji had their ears plug with the puppy having its ears folded.
"Ah Gai you made it. Now the mission you five will go investigate a village that has reported that a small group of bandits are getting ready to raid the town. The bandits are being led by a missing nin." The Hokage said telling the team about the mission they are going to go on. "Naruto I believe this missing nin has one of your swords you mentioned to me." Naruto nodded as Team Gai looked confused and wonder what he meant by this. "Alright Gai you are taking lead of this mission and Naruto is your support. This will help your team develop some experience for your team." Sarutobi handed Gai the mission scroll as he look over it.
"Yosh! Team Gai lets meet at the north gate in an hour to start the mission!" Gai's voice boomed to the three as Naruto just wind shunshin out of the room before Gai went on about the flames of youth.
1 Hour Later
Team Gai was waiting at the north gate as Naruto and Tenten as both reached team Gai with the Black Panther hiding in Tenten's shadow.
"Yosh! Naruto-kun you made it just in time and I see you brought your youthful student with you!" Gai shouted as he pumped his fist as Naruto just nodded while Tenten had a what the hell look on her face.
"Ah… Sis, he reminds me of that Killer Bee character." Tenten whispered to Naruto as she nodded.
"At least we can understand him." Naruto said as Gai began a speech about youth that Tenten wasn't able to understand much of it and gave Naruto a pleading look asking her sister to stay behind and train. Naruto told her that she will make it up to her later on.
On the way to the mission location Naruto felt like someone was watching her and noticed that Hikaru was looking up to her.
"Anything you want to ask Hikaru?" Naruto asked while traveling on a ninja pace which is jumping tree after tree.
"Uhm… I just want to thank you for… huh… saving me from root two years ago." Hikaru said while blushing as her partner yipped in agreement being carried in Hikaru's hood.
"No problem, is there anything you would like me to do?" Naruto asked the innocent girl who blushed.
"I was wondering if you have anything to teach me. Gai-sensei is a good teacher but he isn't able to teach me any fire techniques." Hikaru asked Naruto as she thought it through.
"That is true Naruto-kun, she is very good in taijutsu and it pains me that I can't teach her any fire techniques." Gai said as he had tears in his eyes.
"I guess I could give her some advice and training methods." Naruto said and she heard Hikaru squealed as she celebrated getting training from the Ryuu Sennin.
The group stop in an area to camp and would reach the town the next day.
"Wood Style: Four Pillar House Jutsu!" Naruto slammed her hands to the ground as a small house grown from the ground.
"I see you can use the Shodaime's techniques." Gai said quietly which everyone is grateful for.
"It's useful for this kind of thing. There are seals on the house that no one can sense it so anyone sleeping inside will sleep peacefully." Naruto told Gai and his team.
Naruto, Tenten and Hikaru took a room as Gai, Neji and Lee took another room.
"So, Hikaru, what do you know of fire manipulation?" Naruto asked as she took her coat off and laid down on her sleeping bag she seal up along with Tenten and Narga who spooked Hikaru and her pup when it came out of Tenten's shadow, but calmed down when it nuzzled against Naruto.
Hikaru was thinking it through on what she knew on fire manipulation as she pet her partner Hikari.
"Not much, I could do the fire ball technique and that is about it." Hikaru said not knowing much on fire manipulation.
Naruto nodded understanding that Hikaru just got out of the academy two months ago and probably just trained in chakra control and taijutsu from Gai.
"Yosh! If I don't fall asleep in ten seconds than I will…" Naruto did a silence jutsu so no noise can enter or go out of the room.
"Thank you!" Both Tenten and Hikaru said as both sighed in relief not wanting to hear Gai and Lee having a shouting match about who can fall asleep faster, poor Neji.
"You know tree climbing?" Naruto asked the girl as she nodded knowing how to run up trees. "I guess we could start with the basics for now."
Tenten did a snap of her fingers like she was lighting up a lighter as she had a small flame on her thumb.
"That is the basic of fire manipulation training." Naruto held her hands together like she is scooping up water. "No fire chakra has a burning feeling, so concentrate on your chakra and make your chakra burn. This is also a good way for practicing controlling chakra."
Hikaru followed Naruto's instructions. It took a while as she gathered chakra in her hands and stayed like that.
Naruto watched as Hikaru was getting frustrated that the chakra began to flutter, so Naruto had to stop her.
"If I were you Hikaru I'd stay calm when you practice this exercise. It takes time and patience to learn this type of training and you are still young, so take it easy before you injure yourself." Naruto lectured the girl who nodded taking every word to heart.
The girl practised the exercise until she passed out from chakra exhaustion and Hikari curled up on top of Hikaru.
"She lasted longer than I expected." Naruto said as Narga purred sleeping on Naruto's arm.
"Hikaru-san has a lot of chakra and looked very determined." Tenten said as she began to fall asleep.
"Get some sleep Tenten, you'll need it for tomorrow."
Morning
The group of six shinobi woke up, ate breakfast, backup, cancel the house and went straight for the town.
When they got there, Gai took charge as he told his students to do some recon along with Naruto and Tenten while he talked with the client.
Naruto went to the forest outside the town that was rumoured that the bandit was seen.
"Summoning Jutsu!" When the smoke cleared an earth dragon that is serpentine with brown scale like skin with arms, legs and two horns spike out at its cheek.
"Ah I am summoned at last." The little earth dragon looked around that sounded squeaky which is very odd. "Mimizu at your service mistress."
"I need you to search for bandits around this area." Naruto said as the little dragon nodded and took a sniff of the air.
"Yup bandits have been in this area." Mimizu said while she continued on sniffing the air. "Alcohol… probably saki… what's this..?" Mimizu began to sniff harder as it recognized something. "It's master Kenkon!" The little dragon squealed just before she dove into the ground and went somewhere.
"Yeah… come back and… report later…" Naruto said to herself as she went back to town.
When Naruto got back to the group she saw Tenten and Neji arguing.
"The Ryuu clan don't steal our power from Dragons! We fight together and live together like family!" Tenten exclaimed completely fuming as Neji had an arrogant smirk.
"That's the point. Your clan can't rely on your own skill and rely on dragons, while we Hyuga work on our skill." Neji had that smirk on his face than fell off his face when Naruto released all of her Dragon Presence ability that made him kneel down trying to take in as much breath.
"Says the servant who relies on the main branch." Tenten turn to see her sister glaring at Neji. "You say that the Ryuu clan rely on dragons, than I say the branch family of the Hyuga rely on the main branch. If I put it that way you're not really a Hyuga, you're just a nobody that holds the Hyuga name, I'm sure that the Hyuga understands this but doesn't want to let the village know about it of how inhumane it is."
Neji tried to move but Naruto made sure he stayed kneeling down.
"You're just a servant of the main branch Neji." Naruto said as she walked towards the kneeling boy. "The way you put it is that the Ryuu clan dragons are superior to me and Tenten, well it is true. Compare to them, we are just children, so yeah our clan is alike to the Hyuga, but the difference between us is that we are not slaves, but more like a family." Naruto said as she held her Dragon Presence to allow the boy to stand up but he kept down breathing deeply. "Tenten just ignore him, he doesn't know humility so he doesn't understand anything."
Tenten nodded before giving Neji a pitiful look before catching up to Naruto.
"I'd take her words to heart Neji." Neji looked up to the voice to see Gai on top of a house. Neji just shrug it off not following his advice. "She has the power of dragons in her grasp but she doesn't proclaim it to the world, you on the other hand Neji. You let your name get the better of you and you have this attitude that is only harming your youth!" Gai said sounding so wise which scared Neji because it is hard to see him like that. Neji just nodded and went to the meeting area that they all agreed upon which is a restaurant.
"So what do we know?" Naruto asked the kids.
"Well me and Hikari smelt a nasty stench outside of town." Hikaru said as her pup yipped.
"The town's people are ready to leave any second now!" Lee said with that voice of his.
Tenten was just eating lunch still fuming after that argument and with Ryujin Jakka in her head has been demanding to have Neji punished for insulting the Ryuu clan and since Naruto did what she did then he saw fit that was punishment enough.
The group continued on with their meeting until someone burst in the restaurant.
Thump!
"OWWWW!" The group looked over to where the noise came from until they heard something. "What the hell did I hit?" The group heard something shuffling and a few taps against wood that they heard underneath the wooden floor. "Mistress!... Mistress!"
"Ah… you're under the wooden floor Mimizu." Naruto said as everyone heard more shuffling until the floor open like a trap door and Team Gai got a shock of their life when a dragon exit.
"I got something for you." Mimizu said and went back underneath the floor and Team Gai looked over to Naruto wondering what that was.
"That is one of the many summon dragons I have and that is a recon dragon." Naruto said getting nods from the team.
Mimizu got out of the hole with a sword wrapped in her tail.
"I found mistress Kenkon." Mimizu present to Naruto the other half of Kenkon.
The one she has is a one and a half black pole with a gold pummel that looked like a locking mechanism, a gold guard with two horns pointing to the curved one foot blade.
This one has the same black pole but with a yellow gold dragon coiled around from pummel to the circular guard and has the same curved blade.
"Please tell me you got the other half of the mistress?" The little dragon pleaded as Naruto held up a scroll as the dragon beamed and dragged Naruto out of the restaurant and into the forest with the rest of the group. "Hurry we have to revive her and find her an heiress."
"Ok, ok, just keep calm. Anyways, how did you get the other half?" Naruto asked as she took out the other half of Kenkon.
"Well there were many bandits that are numbered to a hundred and thirty six armed with swords and spears and some looked like rogue samurai." Mimizu reported of what she saw from the bandits while pacing back and forth. "The leader of the group looked like a shinobi with that weird pattern headband that looked like a stone or hill with a line across it. He was the one who had the mistress."
"A runaway nin." Gai said as Naruto began forging the two blades. Both locked together at the pummel as it began to glow before it shrank to two ninjatos in a brown wooden sheath.
"There." Naruto tied the two together and tossed them to Tenten who happily looked them over before she strapped them to her back. "Any idea until they attack?"
"They were getting ready when I got there and were forming a plan, but I was on my way back to town with the sword, but I heard everything underground." Mimizu told them that they are just doing the traditional raid the village tactic.
"So a basic raid?" Gai asked as the little dragon nodded before running to Tenten, climbed up and coiled around the two Ninjatos and looked over her shoulders.
"I'm staying. I have to find an heiress for the mistress." Mimizu said on top of Tenten's shoulder and back.
"Could you please get off of me." Tenten asked the earth dragon who just tighten up around the blades and held on for dear life.
"Not until I find an heiress for the mistress." Tenten just sighed as Naruto asked what the dragon is looking for in an heiress. "The mistress requires an exotic woman who is feared by men, doesn't take crap from anyone, sadistic, loves sweets, kind to friends, excellent negotiator, and aligned to earth." The little dragon counted off her hands that Naruto and Gai thought of who would be the perfect heiress.
"Ok, that will be difficult to find in a woman." Naruto said out loud as she saw Gai's worried look until she remembered about a certain viper. "Oh no. she doesn't mean…" Naruto didn't finish until he saw Gai nodding his head. "Oh the council isn't going to like this… but I sure am going to have fun with getting straight with them."
Gai just smiled knowing that the certain heiress just got her life turned around.
Over in Konoha
The said heiress is enjoying her break until she sneezed causing her to choke on the food she is suppose to be enjoying.
"Ah Anko! I told you to eat slowly!" Kurenai said as she smacked the back of the choking woman's back.
"Thanks Kure-chan." Anko said as she went back to eating her sweeties.
Back to Team Gai
"She's basically everything you mentioned, but the negotiating… I'm not really sure about that." Naruto said as she began to think of her encounters with the viper and remembered the first time she met her. That is when she sighed just figuring out she got the raw end of the deal. "Ok maybe she is the heiress… wait a minute. Mimizu, what is with these heirs?" Naruto asked about this heir thing.
"Well since you started the revival of the Dragon Blood the Legendary Dragon Blades need an heir to help rebuild the clan. Haku-kun and Tenten-chan are to help rebuild your clan." The little earth dragon said as she pointed to Tenten and back to Naruto. "You need to find Raijin an heir and just to let you that isn't his real name. It is a title like Hyorinmaru's the Ice Dragon King. Anyways you need to find Sounga the Wind Dragon Sword and Yamato the Dark Dragon Sword and find them an heir. Each dragon has specifics that they want in an heir. Hyōrinmaru wants a kind soul in his heir as Ryujin Jakka wants a fiery soul with swordsmanship in his heir. Kenkon on the other hand wants a kickass heiress." The little dragon said as she spoke with a hint of passion in her voice.
"It would seem that Tenten's flames of Youth burns bright to be the Flame heiress!" Gai said as he had tears coming out of his eyes. Everyone minus Lee sighed hearing about his youth speech that everyone ignored.
"Alright back with the bandits." Naruto said gaining the youthful duels attention. "We should get back on the topic of the bandits that are going to attack the town."
"Oh yes, the unyouthful bandits!" Gai said as he began instructing his team to protect the town. "Naruto-kun can I rely on you to take on the missing nin while we handle the bandits, can you leave your youthful student Tenten to help my youthful students?" Gai asked the Naruto.
"Mistress Tenten can handle those weaklings without using her sword." Mimizu said for Tenten who glared at the dragon on her left shoulder for making her go with the weird man.
"How long are you going to stay on me?" Tenten asked as she shifted her shoulders a bit to get the uncomfortable feeling of extra weight.
"Until I find the heiress." The earth dragon said.
"Yeah Tenten can help you out." Naruto said to Gai who nodded.
"Yosh! Team let's go protect this youthful town!" Gai shouted to his students and Tenten let out a groan hearing the youth speech as he and Lee started hugging with a sunset, waves and ocean view behind them that caused Tenten to glare at her sister.
"You owe me big for this." Naruto sheepishly rubbed her neck and took off to find the missing nin leading the bandits.
With Team Gai
Team Gai and Tenten were waiting at the east side of town that Mimizu told them which direction they were coming from.
"The bandits are just your average civilian with a weapon, so it shouldn't be a problem with your team Gai-san." Mimizu told the green beast.
"I thank you for the info Mimi-san. Alright team be prepared to protect this town!" Gai said to his team.
Lee started doing stretches to prepare himself, Neji activated his Byakugan, Hikaru shook herself getting ready to fight, Gai just stood there with his arms cross smiling that blinding smile and Tenten took out a scroll and released a Naginata from it and swirled it around to get in a groove.
"So you are a weapon mistress?" The dragon on Tenten's shoulder asked seeing the Naginata.
"I already have a huge amount of weapons with me and yes I am the clan's weapon master." Tenten said to the dragon as the group saw the first wave of bandits.
"Alright team protect the youthful town from these bandits!" Gai said as he ran towards the bandits. "Dynamic Entry!" Gai said as he kicked a few of the bandits.
"Yes Gai-sensei!" Lee shouted and started using his fighting style called the Strong Fist as he punched a bandit in the face.
Neji started using the Hyuga stance and disabled a few of the bandits.
"Ready Hikari!" Hikaru said as she got on all fours turning a bit feral as her partner jumped on her back turning into an exact replica of Hikaru. Both ran to the bandits and used the dual piercing fang on the bandits and continued on knocking out the bandits in their path.
"So… how are you going to show off?" The dragon asked as Tenten swirled the Naginata hitting bandit after bandit with the back end of the blade when she noticed that Gai's team didn't kill any of the bandits. "They're going to have to see the hard truth of being a shinobi soon but they are not ready for it yet."
Tenten nodded as she continued knocking out the bandits that were in her sights.
After the battle
Naruto came back to the battlefield with a scroll in hand as she saw team Gai tying up the bandits leaving them for the Anbu that takes them back for interrogation.
"How'd it go?" Naruto asked Tenten as she finished tying up a group of bandits.
"They were not much of a challenge. Lee has a few scrapes but is fine after applying ointment, Hikaru and her pup are dead tired from using her clan's techniques over and over again, Neji is also tired of using the Gentle fist and Gai is tying up the rest of the bandits." Tenten pointed out to team Gai who were resting up against a tree as Gai was tying up the bandits. "The Anbu will be here in an hour to pick them up later."
"This ends the mission than." Naruto said as Team Gai stood up and walked back to the town.
Back to Konoha
"Finally we are back!" Tenten looked happy seeing Konoha… ok she is happy to finally get away from the green beast.
"You don't have to shout Tenten, I know your patience is getting thin but I'll make it up to you." Naruto put a hand on her shoulder as she walked towards the hokage tower.
When they got to the tower, both Tenten and Naruto felt a pulse.
"The heiress is near!" The little dragon on Tenten's back said as the Ninjatos strongly pulled to a direction pulling Tenten with them.
"Heeeeeeellllllllpppppppp!" Tenten called out from the ground being pulled by the swords on her back. She was kicking and screaming as Mimizu sat on her chest looking for the Heiress.
"There they go." Naruto looked over to Gai and hand him the scroll. "You mind reporting for me?"
"Sure, Naruto-kun. Give Anko my regards." Gai took the scroll as Naruto followed the screams of Tenten.
Naruto had to explain to the shinobi that were following Tenten not to worry as she followed Tenten to the Forest of Death.
Tenten stopped screaming as she had her arms crossed looking grumpy being dragged by a dragon sword.
With Anko
She just finished tort… uh interrogating some prisoners and she thought she deserved a break, so she bought a box of dango and took a break in her paradise.
"Dango what would I do without you." Anko said just before she took a bite out of a dango from a stick. She heard a growl from the ground to see her charge eating her hunt for the day. "Hello to you to." Anko said to the Black Panther like Dragon Narga and continued on eating her snack.
Then she heard something being dragged and getting louder. She looked over to the source and saw an odd sight of Tenten being dragged by an invisible force with a dragon that is looking up to her in the tree. When Tenten was below her she saw the look on her face that would scare any man.
"What happened to you?" Anko asked before she jumped down from her branch.
Tenten stood up before removing the two ninjatos on her back and handed to her before walking away grumbling about demanding earth dragons.
Speaking of earth dragons the earth dragon that was sitting on Tenten was examining Anko.
The dragon examined her from every angle, checked her hair, look into the coat and saw her clothing.
"You're perfect!" The Earth Dragon squealed and Anko had an odd look.
"Perfect for what?" Anko asked as the weapons in her hand glowed yellow and engulfed her completely. Once it died down she felt a bit at ease. "What the hell was that!"
"Kenkon chose you." Anko looked into the trees to see Naruto land in front of her. "You remember how Tenten entered the Ryuu Clan?" Naruto asked Anko as she nod remembering how much of a fuss the civilian council caused that day and then she took a bite of a dango. "Well this is your initiation of joining."
Anko choked on the dango she had in her mouth as Naruto swat her back to clear her throat.
"That's that second one this week… what do you mean this is my initiation?" Anko said as she took another dango stick from the box not minding she choked on a dango a few seconds ago.
Naruto began explaining to Anko about finding Heirs for the Dragon Swords and that she is the perfect heiress for the Earth Dragon Sword.
"Wow… the council sure is going to hate this." Anko repeated what Naruto said when Mimizu told her the perfect heiress.
"So are you going to take the seat?" Mimizu asked standing before Anko.
"I don't know about this. I still have this problem with the curse seal." Anko told the earth dragon as Mimizu climbed up Anko and looked over the seal she has on as if examining it.
"This… is nothing… I can see that there is a soul within this seal and some weird enzyme." Mimizu looked over the seal before jumping off the woman. "Did you ever use it?" The Dragon asked and Anko shook her head no. "Then you shouldn't worry about it, Kenkon-sama will destroy the soul in the seal and fight off the enzyme giving you a new body and powers."
"You sure know a lot about seals for a recon earth dragon." Naruto stated looking down at the said earth dragon.
"I know, but I am also the Earth Dragon's advisor. All elemental dragons in the seven elements have an advisor, one is the Lightning Boss Dragon and one is teaching hatchlings to fly." Mimizu said telling Naruto her position.
"So if I join your clan than I become just like you?" Anko asked looking over the two ninjatos in her hands.
"Yes… not to mention you can cause a major blow to the civilian council." That was all Naruto needed to say to make Anko agree to be the Heiress of the Earth Dragons.
The Next Day
True to what Naruto has said.
The civilian council demanded that the Ryuu clan to pay the village of their treasures for the crimes that Anko has committed. This only made her laughed at the futile attempts for them to get a hold of the dragon swords she has. The Hokage had no choice to disband the civilian council and since he thought a head, he has the backing of the Daimyo to back up his decision and this is one of them. With this the civilian council is no more, but the Sandaime has to pick out a new council and he has already thought of the people.
Naruto began to explain that she is looking for members for her clans and Anko Mitarashi fit the bill.
"That snake woman doesn't deserve to be in a clan!" Koharu said not wanting the apprentice of the snake sannin to get a seat in a clan.
"Snake woman she maybe, but she just evolved arms, legs and wings leaving the snake skin she left behind and learned to fly." Naruto said to the council in her clan seat.
"Nice speech there girl." Tsume said to Naruto right beside her in the clan side of the council.
"I know, I just thought of it just now." The civilian council were fuming that Naruto is taking someone as traitorous as the apprentice of the Snake.
"But she is an apprentice of the Snake Sannin." Koharu continued gaining nods from what is left of the civilian council.
"So, she proved herself many times that she is loyal to Konoha. It's not my fault that people still hold grudges." Naruto said not even looking at the advisor as she was filing her nails. "So how is little Hikaru doing Tsume?" Tsume snickered knowing she is pushing the buttons to piss of the advisor.
"She's like a daughter to me and Hana. She learns the family techniques quick and gets along with the pups." Tsume said remembering how the little girl gets along with the pups in the compound.
"We are having a meeting here!" Koharu glared at the Dragon Sage.
"I thought that ended a few minutes ago." Naruto said looking over to the Hokage. "Is she always like judging people like this?"
"I'm afraid so, she did the same thing with Sakumo Hatake and I think she is the cause for making the civilians and shinobi think he did the wrong decision, resulting to his Seppuku, thus resulting to weakening our forces during the war." The Sandaime said not eyeing the woman suspiciously. "Now that I think about you have caused more harm than good Koharu."
"She has been agreeing with the suggestions that Danzo made during these meetings." Homura said to the council as he received a glare from the said old woman.
"Everything I did is to help Konoha be strong!" Koharu tried to defend herself. "And having that snake woman in her clan, not to mention that curse seal connects her to that Snake." Naruto smirked trapping that old hag to make a bad decision.
"I'm afraid not. The curse seal of heaven is no longer on her and has been removed. That seal has been causing trouble with her from the moment it was on her." Naruto said seeing the shock look on the woman's face. "I learned that the seal has caused major damage to her. If she didn't have it from the start she would have been one of the Hokage's finest." The Sandaime nodded knowing that the curse seal has made it difficult for Anko to control her chakra.
"Where is she right now?" The Sandaime asked as Naruto began telling him how she is resting up from the removal of the curse seal at her home.
"There is one problem with removing that curse seal. She was lucky that she didn't use it or else the removal of the seal will result to a bed ridden life. Since she didn't use it then she only had a small amount of weakness but with a merge of one of my swords she will be back to normal in a day or two, if not better than ever." Naruto said as the old man nodded knowing he gained a powerful kunoichi under his ranks.
"Anko Mitarashi should be contained and be prepared for the breeding program!" Koharu said not liking the turn of events which earned a smirk from the clan council members and the Hokage.
"Hokage-sama, I believe advisor Koharu is not fit for her position." Naruto said inwardly smiling.
"I agree with Naruto that Koharu is just causing harm." Tsume joining in on getting rid of a nuisance.
"I agree with Naruto-kun that advisor Koharu has made illogical decisions that caused harm." Shibi Aburame said putting logic into the decision.
Hiashi Hyuga nodded in agreement not bothering to voice his opinion.
"It's troublesome to have her on the council." Shikaku said with his teammates agreeing with him.
All of the clan council members agreed with having Koharu removed and since there are no civilian members, she is voted out of her position.
The old man smiled as the council can finally do good than put money in their pockets. He didn't mind his other advisor Homura because he has been looking out for Konoha's interest and he is more level headed than Koharu, but because of her he could only do so little for the village and all those decisions seemed right at the time.
After the meeting was over Naruto was called in to the Hokage's office along with Hiashi.
"What is this about?" Naruto asked eyeing the Hyuga in the room.
"This is what you said about Neji." Hiashi said as Naruto sighed forgetting her little moment with that stick in the ass Hyuga. "Before you speak, I agree with what you said about the clan. The bird cage seal was meant to protect the Hyuga clan, but over time the seal turned into a form to hold power over the branch members. The elders want to keep tradition, but they will cause the fall of my clan if this continues. You saw how Neji turned out because of the seal."
"…Yeah." Naruto said not understanding where he is going with this.
"You are aware about the bird cage seal right?" Hiashi asked the woman.
"Yeah the seal that was used for prisoners of war." Naruto said remembering her lessons on seals. "The bird cage seal is just a cover up for the prisoner seal." Naruto said taking out a scroll and unravelling it and showing a picture of the same seal on a prisoner that looked like the one the Hyuga uses. "The seal originated from the first shinobi war when they were not able to control the prisoners. A seal master created the seal to keep the prisoners in charge, but after the war was over. The person who created the seal died along with how to make the seal, so there have been no prisoners with seals in the second war."
The old man nodded wondering how the woman got her hands on that scroll.
"I'm guessing a Hyuga found a scroll and created the bird cage seal." Naruto asked as Hiashi nodded.
"By the way Naruto what is that your holding?" the aged man asked about the scroll.
"Oh this, I found it during my travels with Jiraiya. It turned out that this is the scroll to remove the prisoner seal." Hiashi widen his eyes and had the thought of finally getting rid of the bird cage seal.
"Naruto-san, by any chance can you remove the bird cage seal?" Hiashi asked as the woman in front of him thought it through.
"Yeah, I could remove it if I have time and if you hand the scrolls for applying the bird cage seal to me. Over time the Hyuga must have changed a few things with the seal." The old man nodded before activating the privacy seals on the walls he got Naruto to install. "Let me guess, there is more to this."
The old man nodded and let Hiashi continue.
"I need help with eliminating the elders." Hiashi blatantly pointed out and Naruto understood the message.
"That so." Naruto said as she thought it through. "Secrecy is a must I assume." The old man nodded. "Then I can't help you. You're Elders maybe old but with their numbers and years of experience, I won't be able to kill them and not to mention I might destroy your compound."
"I see, are you sure there isn't anything you can do?" Hiashi asked hoping that the woman can help him with the clan.
"How desperate are your elders for getting a hold of one of my Dragon Swords?" Naruto asked remembering how the civilian council demanding that she would hand over her swords.
"Very, ever since Tenten became one of your members and they have been planning to have a branch member get involve with her." Hiashi said despising that the Hyuga had to stoop so low to get a member into their clan. "Why?"
"Let's just say 'be careful what you wish for'."
Hyuga Elder Meeting Two Days Later
"Hiashi is late."
"Its ten minutes till the meeting starts, calm down."
The Elder Hyuga gathered and waited for the Hiashi to enter the meeting room.
"What's inside the box?"
"Don't know, it's been there since I got here."
The elder's attention is now pointed at the box.
"What's inside?"
"Don't know."
"Open it."
"You open it."
"Would you just OPEN it already!"
"It's just a sword."
One Hyuga had his Byakugan activated to look into the box. Once he said that all the members then had the thought of the swords that the Ryuu Sennin has been searching.
So every Elder in the room sprang to open the box and saw the sword. It is a long nodachi curved at the end and a thin blade.
One elder grabbed the sword and started screaming as a black looking chakra engulfed him and soon more screams followed.
1 Hour Later
"So it worked." Naruto asked following Hiashi to the clan meeting room.
Then she smelt the scent of blood and is very strong. When she entered the room she was greeted to the sight of mutilated bodies all over the room with blood stained walls with blood and guts lying on the floor all over the place.
"You could have cleaned the room before you brought me here." Naruto said in disgust of the smell as she covered her nose.
"Sorry, no one didn't want to enter the room when they saw that." Hiashi pointed to the middle of the room to see an elder holding on to the sword stabbed into the floor holding him up… well what is left of him. His entire body looked like he got skinned alive as his hand is now completely bone.
"The Masamune is one of the deadliest swords I have found." Naruto said as she walked to it, avoiding the blood as best she can.
"Is that why you have to find these swords?" Hiashi asked still at the doorway not stepping in.
"Yes, there are swords that could just take over the body that holds it and if the person is weak it will destroy the mind and take control of the body. What you see here…" Naruto pointed to the decaying Elder. "… is what happens if the body is not strong enough." Naruto reached down to the corpse and removed its hand. "There are a few double edge Dragon Swords out there that could give you power but eat away at your life if you're not strong enough and this is one of them." She grabbed the hilt of the sword changing it into a regular katana. "There we go."
"I assume that no one will be able to use it." Hiashi asked as Naruto shook her head.
"Not just anyone. There are three classes of Dragon Blades out there. The First class is the sleeping blade. These ones sleep and wakes up until a suitable wielder comes by and goes back to sleep if that wielder doesn't pick it up and not to mention that they could be passed on to a next wielder that they see fit." Naruto explained to Hiashi.
"The Second Class is the one that would just take over the wielder's body if it is weak and start killing all in its path. Very few can tame this class and there are very few of this class." Naruto remembered that lightning sword. Hiashi figured that the Masamune is a second class.
"The Third Class are ones that you will have to fight the dragon inside the sword to wield it. If you lose than it is second class all over again." Naruto said not telling Hiashi that the Masamune is actually a third class and can give the wielder Dragon Blood which she is never going to tell anyone, not even the Hokage. She already defeated the Tyrant Dragon a few months back and revived the original dragon that lived within the sword. Naruto just asked the Dragon to take control of the human she presented to him and slaughter everyone in the room and just kill the wielder ones he's done which he did perfectly.
Naruto told Hiashi the classes not telling him the Fourth Class which is the Legendary Dragon Swords. There are two left she needs to find and she already knows who has them.
"So I have to contact you before anyone can hold any of these swords." Hiashi summarized what Naruto said.
"Yes, if I think that the sword is just too dangerous like the second and third type, than I will have to seal them up. If anyone finds a first type and is chosen than lucky them." Naruto said as she walked away from the room not liking the smell of rotten blood. "I'll find a way to remove the bird seal in a month or two."
Back at the Ryuu Clan House
Naruto got back to her home and smelt something that she recognized and sighed.
She entered a living room and saw many, oh so many boxes with empty sticks and Anko on the couch eating dango and drinking saki.
"I see you made yourself at home." Naruto said just before she sat the Masamune down and took a bottle of saki and took a gulp of it.
"Yupp, thanks for the room by the way and you don't mind me taking the Ryuu name as well?" Anko asked before she took another bite of her favourite snack.
"Go ahead, you are an heiress of the Earth Dragon." Naruto told her before sitting down on the couch.
"How'd it go?" Anko asked about the Hyuga thing.
"It went well. Masamune here killed the elders and the Hyuga Clan will start to prosper." Naruto told her how bloody the room was which made her laugh. "Where is Tenten by the way?"
"Oh the brat… she's outside training." Anko pointed outside towards Tenten who is again practicing another weapon that is a scythe. "By the way, I hear that you are taking in students next year." Anko asked the Ryuu Clan Head. "From what I remember, you promised to take in those girls from root."
To be continued
Well there you have it.
New Character:
Hikaru Inuzuka - Original name Hikaru Shidou from Magic Knight Rayearth. I was originally going to go with a ninjutsu specialist and remembered her liking to dogs and not to mention her familiar is actually a flaming canine so I put her in the Inuzuka Clan with a dog with the dogs name from the anime. Not to mention I put her in Team Gai which I found is a good fit. Also I gave her a bit of a feral look which if you picture it will actually look cute.
Some translation I used and checked.
Kasaneuchi – Overstrike
Mimizu – Earthworm
New Challege.
The Lightning Sword I discribed. Figure out the name and you get a sword or character in the story or both just like the first three challenges, but the characters were a bonus.
Well till the next chapter.
