Naruto's Room
With the door to his room closing, it felt as if he was finally in control of his body. Already the dragons in his arms and on his body, leapt off to explore his expansive room. He could tell that they were comfortable as they could smell his scent all over the place. Nine dragons. He hatched nine dragons. Something that had never been done before. Well at least in recorded history of the Kingdoms. It may have happened back in Valaria's golden days, but those records were long lost. But records did state that you would feel a connection to the dragon you were bonded to.
That is the problem. He felt a connection to all the dragons. He didn't understand it but maybe the library would have something on it. Too bad his mother restricted him to his room while she made plans on what to do about everything now. But he did have some books that he kept in here. Maybe he could figure it out with those.
Moving to the books in the nearby bookshelf, he grabbed one and moved to sit down on his bed to read as the dragons explored more of his room. Once in a while they moved next to him to look at what he was doing. One thing was for sure, he needed to figure out names for each of them. He won't be just calling them dragon.
With Kushina
Taking a seat in the conference room, she didn't have to wait long until the final members arrived in a rush. Looking left and right she recognized Jiraiya and Nagato from earlier. She was joined by Shikaku Nara her financial advisor, Mei Terumi her Naval Commander, and Konan Uzumaki her Master of Law.
With everyone seated Nagato started off the meeting. "Me and Nagato managed to halt the flow of information about the dragons, but it is only a matter of time. Word will spread and our first concern will be the Targaryen King."
"Something which will be complicated" added Jiraiya. "My contacts inform me that the 'mad' king is causing more dissent and hatred within the kingdoms. War is coming and he would look to show proof of his power".
"Dragons would show proof and put the other Kingdoms in their place."
"Something we won't be giving him" Kushina said firmly.
"Which means he would seek an alliance. A marriage alliance to put the dragons in his control some way" added Shikaku.
"How?" asked Mei. "He has no daughters, and he dislikes his current granddaughter and son's wife. He would see marrying Princess Rhaenys to Prince Naruto as giving the snakes too much power. Power that he should have."
"And even then, anyone Naruto marries, marries into his family. Not the other way around. He is the crown prince" Nagato brought up.
"He would have no choice. Rhaenys is his only current option. There is honestly nothing we would want from him but everything to gain from us. Other houses would look to do the same so we must prepare" stated Kushina. "I will not accept any marriage contract for Naruto until he is of proper age. Mei, increase our naval patrols as well as our fleet size in the invent of an invasion. Nagato, increase our security within the whole Kingdom and increase troop buildup slowly in order to not give more suspicion to others. Jiraiya, gather as much information on the Kingdoms and the current events of the world. The more informed we are the better. I predict that we have up to six months until the whole world hears about this. A few more until its confirmed. I would like to control that information to give us the advantage."
"I could put out fakes all around to keep people guessing" added Jiraiya with a smirk. "Make people guess what is real and not real until its too late. By then the dragons should have some weight on them and be a threat to some degree"
"Dragons grow until they die. And could be considered a threat to enemies after a year. House Uzulaeron dragon's grow faster than Targaryen due to the fact that we had raise them right and never caged them up. Free space and a full belly, they will be large by 3 years. Massive by 6 and then after that, their growth rate differs depending on each dragon."
"We can hide and fake things for a year. Maybe a year and a half if we are lucky. By then, they would be too big to hide or fake. We can use the area behind the castle for a safe place to raise them. For now, they should be fine with staying with Naruto" finished Jiraiya as everyone nodded.
"Alright, we are done here. You know your tasks" stated Kushina standing up signaling the end of the meeting and walking out to go back to her son.
Moving through the walls in a rush, she approached Naruto's room which ow had four guards as security. Upon noticing her, they gave her a salute and allowed her to enter. Upon entering the room, she was welcomed to a wild scene.
Two dragons were play fighting in the middle of the room, while one dragon was laying comfortably in the fire pit. Another two dragons were playing chase with each other while two were sleeping on the bed next to Naruto who was reading a book ignoring them. The last three were on Naruto's shoulder and head looking at the book he was looking through.
"Naruto" she spoke up gaining his attention just as the two dragons play fighting bumped into her leg lightly but continuing on.
"Shukaku, Matatabi knock it off!" he stated making the two dragons stop and face him. It seemed like they fully listened until one smacked the other on the back of its head with its tail and ran off as the other gave chase. "Sorry about that, mom. It's hard to control them all" he laughed.
"You named them?" she asked with a raised confused eyebrow.
"Yup! I named them after their Uzulaeron dragon ancestors. Those two were Shukaku and Matatabi. Shukaku is the one with four legs, two wings, brown and gold scales, and golden eyes. Matatabi is the blue and black scale dragon with her wings connected to her front arms, and two tails.
The one sleeping on the bed is Isobu. He looks similar to Shukaku but is sea green with a single large tail that forms a ball spike at the end. Goku is the one sleeping in the fire pit. He has the similar body structure of Shukaku but bigger and colored red.
Kokuo is the white dragon who looks like Matatabi with one tail that is being chased by Chomei. Chomei is the green and yellow dragon who looks similar to the legendary dragon Caraxes just like the white and blue one on my head named Saiken.
And finally on my shoulders are Gyuki and Kurama who are purple and black; and red and black respectively. They just look like a bigger version of Shukaku" he finished to which Kushina nodded.
"You named them. So which ones are boys and girls?"
"The boys are Shukaku, Isobu, Goku, Gyuki, and Kurama. The girls are Matatabi, Kokuo, Saiken, and Chomei" (Yes, I'm making those the genders. Deal with it).
"I see. Good choices. Those names are from really powerful dragons. I'm sure they will do right by them. But there are some things we should talk about" she stated sitting down next to him as Gyuki and Kurama looked at her briefly before looking away upon recognizing her. Smart dragons.
"As you know its been years since dragons have been born in this world. You bringing them back and nine in total changes things. The whole world. People all around would want them for their own purpose so we all must be careful. To do this we will be trying to keep this information from not reaching he outside world as long as possible and throw rumors to confuse people.
It will be up to us to train these baby dragons and keep them within the castle until they become too big. When they reach that size, they will be moved to the land behind the castle and the cliff above" she explained.
"Wait us? You're going to help me raise them?"
"Of course. We are family and this would be a learning experience for all of us" she smiled hugging him close to her chest. "It would be just like raising you" she added.
"But there are nine of them. And they will grow very large. And breathe fire and fly eventually" he added to her with a frown as she laughed it off.
"How bad can it be?"
Very
That was the answer to Kushina's question six months later as Naruto sat by his friends in the throne room. The group consisted of Shikamaru, Naruto, Kiba, Chouji, and Sasuke. The five were a very tight group for as long as they could remember. All of them were of Valarian descent except for one who was from the North.
Shikamaru being the son of Shikaku was shaping up to be as intelligent as the man but sadly just as lazy. Chouji like his father was becoming taller as time passes but also had a soft heart like the man. His father Chouza one of the Royal guard's was considered one of the tallest and strongest man alive. Powerful with a longsword and deadly with a warhammer.
Sasuke, who is the son of the city's Captain Guard Fugaku had a relaxed upbringing since most of the pressure was on his older brother Itachi. He was starting to train to become a knight but then he ran into Jiraiya. He loved the man's stories and tendencies which made him slowly want to become like him. Something that worried his parents to death as Jiraiya was a known super pervert with only three females able to control him. Queen Kushina, the house maid and healer Tsunade, and his wife who was able to lock him down Tokiwa. A woman who is considered a master swordswoman and could be considered the one in charge in the relationship.
Finally, there was Kiba, who was considered a person more loyal then some blood brothers. He is from the North and in the eyes of the world a bastard. A Snow. His mother is no other than Tsume Inuzuka and his father Brandon Stark. Shocking it was but Brandon had a secret relationship with his mother which his father Rickard didn't approve of as he was setting up a marriage arrangement for him. Tsume knowing how Lord's of the Kingdoms treat bastards and would consider her a mistress or worse fled here. Now he lived here with his mother and older sister Hana. But while separated his father did care about them and would visit them secretly. He even gave the two special gifts.
For Hana Brandon said "Being the oldest Stark so far away you will need to be strong and protect the pack" and gave her three wolf pups much to the surprise of everyone. As Kiba got older when Brandon visited again, he gave him a gift saying "He will protect you as you will protect him when I'm not around. Protect the pack and never leave a lone wolf. Stronger together" and he gave him a dire wolf cub. It officially settled that Brandon was the craziest Stark alive, but he loved his family with all his heart.
So, the five were sitting down on the floor with a few dragons and the white and brown dire wolf next to them as Kushina was standing in front of the smirking Shukaku as she tried to give it orders.
"Sit!" she commanded as Naruto rubbed his face in embarrassment as his friends snickered at him. "Come Shukaku. Sit for mommy" she pleaded.
"She does remember that they are dragons and not dogs right? So, they won't listen to any commands that aren't Valarian?" questioned Shikamaru to which Kushina and the surrounding chuckling guards heard.
"I-I knew that! I was just testing!" she came up with.
'She didn't know that' was passed through everyone's mind to which she picked up on. "Are you doubting your Queen?" she glared looking at the surrounding beings in the room making all humans, dragons, and dire wolves tense.
"Of course, not mom! He was just….aaaaa…asking in order to learn more from your wisdom like all of us do" laughed Naruto as everyone nodded agreeing.
"It's as the Prince said your Majesty. We all have so much to learn from you still" added a guard making the lie more believable. Something she smiled at and did believe it.
"Good to hear" she smiled before crouching low and glaring and poking at Shukaku on the stomach saying "You are going to learn to sit one way or another". A glare she received back in defiance.
"She had to challenge the most defiant of them all" muttered Naruto frowning.
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