Allrighty then ladies and gents, thats right, the dragon boy is back again for another thrilling chapter of naruto legacy. The first thing you will notice is the size of this chapter, ITS FRAKIN HUGE! there was a lot of sttuff that needed to happen in this chapter in order for me to keep on sheduale with what i want to happen. I got allmost the whole story, its sequal, its sequale's sequale and a spin-off all planed out, just not writen.

"mouth speak"

'head speak'

"non-humen mouth speak"

'non-humen head speak'

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Mission 5: the god's plea

-atop the hokage monument, 30 minutes after Eathen flew towards it

jiraiya had spent the last half an hour looking for Eathen at and around the hokage monument's general area and where else did he finally find where Eathen had gone the right above his uncle's head on the cliff face, sitting, shirtless, starring off into the village

"you really aren't as stealthy as you used to be. ya know that gramps?" Eathen said without even turning around to look at the sage but stood and walked over to him as he responded

"or maybe you just got way to good" jiraiya said looking Eathen square in the eye as they stood but a foot apart from each other with serious looks on their faces that quickly cracked and they both laughed and gave each other a welcoming hug.

"it's been way to long Eathen. I do wish you would have told me you where coming to konoha, I would have met you, as opposed to the very 'eventful' entrance you went with." he said in a slightly lecturing tone.

Eathen and jiraiya sat down looking out on the village and continued their conversation "well I would have but you know me, always one to one-up himself on the drama of his entrance's. It's just too damn fun. ah, hell look who I'm talking to, mister dramatic entrance himself, I saw you in that hallway last month..." laughing and shaking his head "you crazy bastard. any who, so this is the great leaf village you, old man sarutobi and uncle M. used to talk up so much? I must say after all the hype I thought it would suck..."

jiraiya looked over at Eathen with his annoyed face as Eathen went on "but it's actually really cool. Hell, I might actually see myself living here in the near future. think naruto would mind a roommate?" Eathen said looking over to jiraiya with the face many had seen on naruto so many times before. the family resemblance is uncanny in the two of them, but when jiraiya's face turned to one of worry Eathen knew something was up.

"Eathen, about naruto, how much do you know about what's happened to him?"

Eathen looked down thoughtfully "well to be honest not much...OH except uncle Minato sealed the fox biju in him and the he gets a lot of shit for it for some reason." finishing his sentence Eathen looked up to jiraiya who's worried look hadn't faded. Eathen quickly figured out what the problem was.

"Oh un clench. I sure as hell ain't about to start hacking away at my family tree for no job. Shit to even think that I should shove my foot up your ass!"jiraiya's worried face faded as Eathen's irked one took shape.

"well that's great to hear, but if you know that then why did you say you were looking for the kyuubi to the whole group?"

"I needed to know who knew and who didn't. From what I gathered everyone above 20 save naruto are the only ones to know the truth."

jiraiya probed deeper into the subject as it was still needed "why are you looking for the tailed demo..."Eathen gave him the stink eye as he set the record straight on the demon/devil thing

"sorry, why are you looking for the tailed devil's, that's a bit ambitious don't you think?"

Eathen's put on his serious face now "Because I'm not looking to kill them, just to find them. first and foremost it is the most important that I find the 9 tailed one first..."

"why is the 9-tails the most important, because it's the strongest? why go after the fox?" jiraiya noticed the intensifying of Eathen's look and knew something bad was about to be said.

Eathen looked jiraiya right in the eye and spoke "odo."

now the list of words, solitary, lone words that could make a seasoned ninja freeze like a puddle in a blizzard is VERY short but pretty close to the top of that list was one name, a name know well in the hidden leaf village, actually most of fire country: Odofear Dragonis, or odo for short.

Odo is the name of the fearsome god of all fire and flames, feared and prayed to in times of need. but the truth about odo, or more accurately, his location is a closely guarded secret, odo was dead!

the great god of fire had died, 18 human years ago. but on his death bed his father, a mighty deity, came to a human couple with the most sincere and heartfelt plea, the plea to save odo, to save his son. now odo's body was going to die, that was unavoidable, but his soul, his power, could be inherited by a worthy vessel in a sacred and ancient ritual known only by the most powerful deities in heaven and the most powerful devil's in hell: the art of soul genesis. literally fusing the soul of a mighty being with the soul of a potentially mighty being that is yet to be born. the human couple that was approached was auron namikaze and naomi heroshy, the parents of none other than Eathen Heroshy. the couple were at the time 4 months pregnant and felt the need and sorrow of the great deity, and as such, agreed to undergo the rite, thus merging the soul's of the unborn Eathen Heroshy and the dying Odofear Dragonis, giving birth, literally, to the new being. Physically Eathen in almost every sense save the red colored birth marks that would one day let Eathen fly faster than any bird.

when the shock of Eathen's statement had passed a whole new set of questions where needed "how? I thought he was sealed?"

"the soul genesis is nothing like the reaper death seal or even the blood sacrifice seal of the sand village, odo was never a prisoner and never will be. he is more akin to an alternate personality now, I'm even starting to awaken and control his former powers, "Eathen leaned over to whisper into jiraiya ear "hence the lack of fire damage from emo boy, I rule over flame now, odo even says I have become strong enough to inherit his former title."

"Eathen, you don't mean..."

"Damn Skippy, you can call me Eathen: lord of the flame, or no Eathen, fire maker, nah, still to lame. oh how about..."

"how about Eathen. the last thing you need is to draw more attention to yourself then you already have."

jiraiya's point was under stood on the new 'fire god', even if it was understood with degradation "dude, way to be a buzz kill. but I guess your right"

then out of thin air appeared a long blue dragon about 7 feet from tip of snout to tip of tail. It possessed only arms and wings, no legs. the creature seemed to phase into existence right in front of Eathen. it caught jiraiya off guard, nearly scarring him to death, when the dragon spoke.

"Lord Eathen, I have finished culminating all the information you requested of me. it seems this village was in the middle of their military promotion examination when one orochimaru orchestrated a betrayal with the ninja sand village in the east and attacked this place."

"good work Jeb. did you find what part my cousin played in this?"

"ay, milord, the naruto uzumaki was instrumental in the defeat of the one tailed devil shukaku's host and prevented the tanuki from rampaging, thus saving countless lives."

the look on Eathen's face was one of pride as he heard this news "jeb, am I to assume the power he used to trump the one-tailed is that of..."he stopped talking to let jeb explain further

"correct sir, it was that of the fox devil sealed away by lord auron's brother, it would appear that the boy has been continuously gaining more of the beasts power through the natural progression of the seal that holds it, he is nigh equal to the one tailed state of its power. his growth rate has however been hampered by the insufficient training of the ninja arts. by their standards he is no more than a very strong fighter. by the grading system of their 'chunin exam', of all that took part, only one was deemed worthy of promotion though from what I could tell many were capable of far greater results if only they too had received the appropriate training."

Eathen sat taking in all the knowledge "very good jeb, would you please gather all the information on those candidate's and all relevant information on related matters."Eathen leaned in towards jeb signaling him to come closer "and find out about those other problems I heard about." returning to the normal speech" when you have everything just deposit it all, no need for a direct briefing. dismissed"

and with a nod the blue dragon vanished once again and Eathen turned to jiraiya "so that's why the village is a mess and everyone is up in arms, your old team mate. I saw him in sand village a few months back, but the slippery bastard took off before I could find out what he was up to. Shit!"in anger Eathen punched the tree behind him effectively splitting it in two.

"and to think I could have prevented all of this."

"you didn't know anything about what was up you couldn't have done anything if you tried." jiraiya said

with a sighed Eathen continued " guess you're right, I should probably just be glad he was stopped"

jiraiya noticed the lack of clothing on Eathen's person and questioned "why are you shirtless?" and not a second after he stopped talking did a vortex open ten feet back from where the two were sitting and out of it walked a surprisingly normal group of girls, all holding an article of clothing they looked like an upgraded version of Eathen's original outfit. the last person to exit the portal was a tall red haired man, hair slicked back into a ponytail.

"Mr. Heroshy, your order is ready and if you want we can take care of your hair to at this time while my assistants put the finishing touches on you garb."

Eathen stood and approached the man and in a wisp of smoke a chair appeared next to the man that Eathen sat in. "fast service, that's why I like you guys Phineous(AN: Fin-E-Us)" Eathen said giving the blond assistant checking his shoe size a wink, making the girl blush.

Phineous then went to fixing Eathen's hair after the damage done by sasuke's chidori, essentially shortening it and styling it to make it look more even. when it was done Eathen's hair had gone from back length shiny to shoulder length spike-n-shine, sort of spiky on top going off to the right but still shiny. upon finishing Phineous held a mirror up for Eathen to see.

"very nice Phin. I like it." Eathen said running his hands through his hair

Phineous gave Eathen a small bow "I'm pleased your pleased. now if I may, we can fit your outfit and we are done here"

-1 hour later in the council meeting room

the whole of the council had been assembled as well as the four jonin leaders of the rookie squads and had taken their seats. only about three fourths of the table was full and a whole side of it was empty. the gathered group where all so busy wondering what was going on they didn't notice the extra chair with its back to everyone on the empty side of the table. then the hokage walked in followed by jiraiya and shizune.

"lady hokage what the hell is going on here why did you insist we drop everything to come here?" tsume inuzuka, head of the inuzuka clan stated

as tsunade and jiraiya took their seats to a voice from the other side of the turned chair at the empty side of the table "she didn't, I did" as the chair turned the gathered ninja saw the owner of the voice was none other than Eathen Heroshy.

it took everyone, save jiraiya, a few moments to take in the teens new look: his hair now short, spiky and sporadic. his new jacket was the same base color but that's all that was the same. the sleeves of the jacket were rolled up to right above the elbow showing off the slightly longer skin tight black under shirt that ended about 5 inches from his gloves, the same 9 holed gloves he wore earlier. the length of his jacket had increased a few inches and the orange flame were replaced with black ones. now sporting a split in the mid-back bottom of his jacket going up to his waist. A blood red strap going across his pecks over his under shirt from one side of the inside of his jacket to the other. his under shirt's neck went higher than his old one following his neck half way up with the front unzipped down to his collar bone, black metal framed sunglass' hanging from the split. His pants had changed as well, now at the bottom of each leg was a zipper in the middle, currently halfway unzipped.

After kicking back and throwing his feet up on the table Eathen continued "some information has come to my attention that bothers me. The training program used in this village is horribly insufficient with many of the gennin's that took part in the last chunin examination suffering from it."

tsunade taking this as an insult to her village offered her rebuttal "what the hell are you talking about, you have no right and no way of knowing such things."

"actually I do. Jeb?"and on cue the blue dragon jiraiya saw before appeared next to Eathen "yes lord Heroshy?" Eathen looked over at the creature "tell them what you told me."

jeb looked around the room at the assembled ninja "well it would seem the training curriculum of this, and most ninja villages is the same as it has been for years while that may be good for tradition it is out dated and many young ninja seem to have suffered for it with their lives"

the senior ninja present looked at the dragon with confusion and fear at this implication "what are you talking about?"

"hand signs, the sage of six paths, the founder of the ninja art, created them as a tool for bastardizing and simplifying the control of the body's natural energies. While this may render the process easier to learn it also takes valuable time and more energy than needed to perform even the most basic of techniques. The late lord auron learned this and promptly informed his brother, the late minato namikaze and with this new information, minato namikaze began working on methods to attain true control and mastery of the power of the bodies energies through mental and physical tempering. Forging the mind and body into the state it was once in to wield and control the true form of said power as it was meant to be. The natural energies of the body have always been accessible to their wielders but the current training of ninja is following the easy route, thus rendering the true, pure form of this power completely inaccessible to those whose bodies are fully adapted to the, I believe the human expression is 'shit route'."

the words of the dragon have all but destroyed the way the assembled group thinks of their profession, tsunade however reacted as she should "how can we know what you say is true?"

jeb looked at her with the same blank look, belaying no emotion one way or another "it is what I was born to do, know anything, everything and what I don't know I find out."

Eathen sat up and leaned on the table "jeb is the immortal chronicler, he was born to learn, know and retain everything. His mind is one of a kind. On the down side he is completely and totally unable to lie. he holds no allegiance to any one being and tells the answer to what is asked no matter what it is or who asks it. you want proof, ask him anything. ANYTHING."

everyone at the table instantly began thinking on what to ask, what would be concrete evidence of the creatures knowledge. That's when tsume came up with the best question any of them could ask, one of the villages greatest mysteries "when did Anko Mitarashi lose her virginity?" no one ever asks Anko directly, it practically a law. The last person who asked ended up in the hospital for lacerations head to toe and severe genital trauma.

"Anko Mitarashi, konohagakure jonin, still a virgin."

"bullshit, kakashi, you hit that right? Come on tell him."

kakashi would have blushed harder than any before him if it weren't for his ever trusty mask. "well actually we never did, you know, it. I mean I tried but she said she wasn't that kind of girl. Frickin blue balls."

the whole group was surprised at this odd and frankly superfluous fact. Eathen didn't know who this Anko was but evidently she had a reputation that was not the truth. "well, everyone satisfied now? I think there are much more important thing to talk about other than some chick's sex life. Jeb continue, tell them why this is so important."

jeb nodded "certainly milord, well on top of hindering progress of one's power growth it also prevents the maximum power of a techniques from being obtained, base attacks would be devastators, healing jutsu could literally bring even the most hopeless and fatally injured patients from the Verge of death."

Eathen sat strait and looked the group over "unknown to all of you, you have been training your combatants wrong."

this hit tsunade the worst, if this superior method had been available, maybe those she loved could have been saved. "so what good is this information, if this method is as you say, lost."

"who said it was lost, this method is what makes knight training so difficult. I personally can perform most high level jutsu sans hand signs, for example..." Eathen waved his arm and in an instant a poof of smoke a an exact duplicate of Eathen was standing there smiling at everyone.

"that's a simple clone jutsu any one can do that!"

and as proof the Eathen double walked over to the inuzuka clan leader, grabbed her chin and kissed her deeply. "that feel fake to you?"tsume sat there stunned with a goofy grin "wow...that sure as hell felt real, he he."

and in a poof the Eathen clone dissipated "I have an offer for all of you. I will personally oversee the training of the select gennin that jeb sees as worthy candidate's. 3 for sure are naruto uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Hinata Hyuuga."

Hiashi at this point was astounded at the 4th hokage's nephew offering to train his daughter.

"lord Heroshy, I graciously accept your offer to train my daughter, but why her?"

Eathen stood and looked at Hiashi "first off, do not refer to me as lord anything unless you know why they call me it. Second the offer is not yours to accept and last I chose those three because I have reviewed the recorded footage from the chunin exams and they showed the potential to use the training to its fullest. As for the rest I issue this challenge: I will come to the residence of the other 9 gennin and personally test their skill via combat. If any clan head does not want their representative to fight, they may offer a substation but keep in mind this will be held against them and of course if you wish you may withdraw their name from the offer and I will bypass them entirely. Any questions?"

kakashi and guy stood simultaneously and even said at the same time "what gives you the right!"they then looked at each other "kakashi, what reason do you have to bitch, he's taking two of your students!" kakashi looked at guy annoyed "it's not his place to train our students that's what we are here for!"

Eathen raised his hand "how about this, kakashi, before I even talk to any of the kids I will personally fight all four teachers and let you be the judge if I am qualified to train them, you test me. What do you say broom head?"

"this is absurd..."asuma started but kakashi interrupted him "let's do this, guy, kurenai, asuma. I don't know about you guys but I plan on kicking this kids ass!" he then stood "training ground 9, 30 minutes!" and left the room in a surprising rush. Eathen turned towards the window stuck his leg out and turned to the group "hope to see all four of you there." and with that he jumped out the window and took flight. Jeb took this time to give the remaining group a respectful bow and phased out.

As everyone started leaving to relay the news to their clans the remaining three teachers looked at the hokage and jiraiya "lady tsunade, you can't let this be happening?" tsunade looked at kurenai "yes kurenai I am. If this boy can lead to less bloodshed, I sure as hell am going to let him do this.

Jiraiya looked at the three standing before him "help kakashi, he's going to need it"

-30 minutes later at training ground 9

Eathen had been waiting at the agreed meeting place for the last 27 minutes, he needed to ask where the place was or he would have been there sooner.

killing time was never something Eathen was good at his over developed mental prowess left him with an unsatisfying puzzle solving completion rate, long story short he figured shit out way to fast. the best time killer Eathen found was repetitive activity and strangely enough reading. Eathen has gotten in the habit of reading really slowly so as to make it last longer.

Reading preference: sci-fi and fantasy, despite the irony in it he just can't get enough of a good outer space action story, especially if it's about a cyborg super soldier that kicks more ass than any human should.

just as Eathen was nearing the end of the chapter in a book titled: Ghosts of Onyx, he sensed the approach of three, no four people placing his ace of diamonds playing card book mark in the pages to save the spot in his book.

as Kakashi and the other three squad leading ninja entered the clearing they all looked around carefully for any signs of a possible sneak attack or trap and they where beginning to think he just wasn't there at all. that is until they heard the bored voice of Eathen directly above them "wow, for ninja's you guys suck at being stealthy. at least your punctual. " they looked up expecting an attack only to see him hanging upside down 25 feet above them by that freaky tail of his wrapped around a branch much akin to a possum, frankly it's a little creepy.

Eathen released the tree branch and fell right in the middle of the four ninja present he did so in a non threatening manner and stood looking at them. "It's good to see that all four of you have come, I was afraid this would be too short." Eathen stuck his Ghosts of onyx book in the same black pouch he had taken the money out of earlier that day which was odd because the book was larger than the pouch was. "ok, so let's go into the clearing, more room to maneuver and such." Eathen started to walk into the clearing and the others followed cautiously behind him.

"your pretty confident in yourself aren't you. what makes you so damn sure you will win?"

Eathen stopped in the exact middle of the field and kakashi, asuma, kurenai and guy stood across from him about ten feet away. "well its very simple actually, the comparison in power is a bit of a deal breaker, it took all of you to beat Itachi and Kisame and I can do it by myself."

they all looked at him with massive non-belief.

(scene music- Korn- Another brick in the wall )

Asuma looked at Eathen in disbelief "ya know what kid, I call bullshit on that claim and I bet we kick your ass no problem!"

unknown to asuma he just made himself a target that Eathen was going to smash. "you know what smoky..."Eathen's serious look was followed by the all to familiar fiery trail and burst that produced the big fucking sword on his back he then grabbed the sword "you just made my shit list and that means, YOUR FIRST!"

he then threw the sword and as the eyes of the four jonin followed the blade thinking it an attack until it flew past them missing them by miles and imbedding hilt deep into a tree behind them "what the hell was th-ALG" was all asuma could get out before Eathen disappeared and reappeared right next to him only to round house kick him in the head effectively sending him soaring into a tree hundreds of feet away knocking him out cold.

"If any of you hope to stand a chance against me, come at me with the will to kill."

kakashi sagged his head "oh man do I sound that assholeish when I say that?" kurenai responded "well actually he pulls it off quite a bit better then you do." and before the two notice, guy had taken off full force at Eathen and swung as hard as he could and to Eathen's surprise it hurt, a lot.

in fact if Eathen hadn't blocked it would have surly have sent him flying into the nearby woods and it undoubtedly did some form of damage to guys hand as Eathen's bones are notably harder than most metals, but guy just kept wailing on Eathen hoping to get a hit in.

after about the 30th punch Eathen had finally picked up on guys fighting style and started swinging back as hard as he could and that was the turning point in the fist fight. with a gleeful howl Eathen threw a twisting back hand followed by a leg sweep then a flip kick and as guy dodged the last kick he forgot the most important part about fighting someone more then human.

THWAK!

mind the follow up tail swing. with the hit of the scaly strike guy was in suit with asuma, out like a light.

kurenai was working overtime on the most powerful genjutsu she knew and used everything she had to make sure it hit target and it did.

-in kurenai and Eathen's point of view

Eathen stood there as a mass of vines and ropes and chains wrapped around him till he was covered totally from head to toe. kurenai looked upon her handy work believing it successful. at least until a loud roar echoed throughout her mind. she turned and the last conscious thought before she screamed uncontrollably and passed out was: "OH MY GOD!" it's sad how right she was. too bad she won't know that for a long time.

-in reality

Eathen looked around at the unconscious bodies of three of the four jonin's. "wait where's..."

BZZZT!

and before Eathen knew it kakashi was but a few feet behind him, lightning blade in hand aiming for the back of his skull. Eathen on the other hand had no intention of getting another hair cut any time soon and frankly these lightning attacks where getting on his nerves and did the one thing that kept him, kakashi and his new look and outfit unharmed: wing slap.

in a burst of fire and the accompanying red eyes a massive wing hit kakashi's whole body and sent him flying with a force he has never known. and followed the hit by clutching kakashi's arms and threw him into the now semi conscious and standing guy and upgraded both men's mental status to knocked the fuck out.

(song end)

-later

kakashi awoke to see Eathen sitting next to him and was about to say something when guy stopped him and explained " he has won this match and as a show of good sportsmanship even healed us. we are all ok."

"well it seems your boasts about your strength were completely true but why didn't you kill us?

Eathen looked at kakashi and laughed "I never once said I would kill or even fatally wound you, only wanted to show you that my skill is as good as I claimed it was. I trust you believe me now?"

"yes, you are truly a strong fighter. you have our blessing in training our students."

"keep it, I would have trained them anyway. if no one else my cousin and the Hyuuga girl. they possess a unique spark that demands I train them, almost begging me to look further into them."

the jonin looked at him like he was truly crazy "you aren't going to hold any orgies or something sick like that are you"

"NO, GOD NO, OF COURSE NOT, THATS SICK, YOU PEOPLE DISGUST ME! THERE'S A SPECIAL LEVEL OF HELL RESERVED FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU!...although videotaping the two of them, that's another story, he he he" he finished with a twisted grin

"EATHEN!!!" the four said at once.

"he he, just kidding." and with dead pan look from the others the training plan was set.

there you go people, chapter 5 now before I my chapter sign off let me correct a statment I made last chapter. What I ment to say was itachi, not Eathen, is the older of the 2 by 3 and a half months. my bad.

I hope you enjoyed the new chapter and just a heads up, if any one wants to you can find me on X-Box Live under the Gamertag: Amaster Caboose.