Return of the Dragon Chapter 1
Hello everybody, I hope you are enjoying yourselves on this fine –cold- day! This is my Return of the Dragon story that was on my page until recently, I decided to put it here since I can't seem to get past the first chapter.
While you may have reviewed on it in the past, I would still appreciate it if you would tell me what you thought of it.
In this story, I based it semi-off of the story Taicho written by Bonesboy15 where Naruto is Capt. America of the Leaf. Only in this story I have it mixed with the Dragon's Blood Fanfiction where when Orochimaru made him into a super soldier, he mixed the DNA of a dead dragon he found with Naruto to make a draconic being like in Dragon's Blood. He'll have the powers and attacks of Fairy Tail Dragon Slayers where he can devour the three elements of Earth, Fire and Wind that he has.
The pairing will be slight crossover with Soifon that was his student before going under in Ice and Rin.
As written in the first posting, Bonesboy15 has given permission to use his old story as reference material.
I don't own Naruto
One year before the Kyuubi Attack; Land of Snow
Naruto Namikaze, the famed Dragon-Blood Knight of Konoha, sighed as he looked at his older brother Minato, "So… a B-rank?"
Minato nodded to his brother as he took his eyes away from the report in front of him detailing Danzo's ROOT shinobi that his spy had given him, "Don't start complaining Otouto. You get to pick the team."
The blond Kage had known that a wave of complaining was going to happen when he first summoned his younger brother to his office since his brother rarely did anything other than A or S-ranks nowadays like his wife, Kushina.
"Well at least it won't be boring," Naruto said as he smirked at his brother, thinking about adding his best friend Tsume and his student, Shaolin, who had just become Chunin. "Why a B-rank though?"
Minato's eye started to twitch…
"Just read the damn mission profile you baka! Then you'll see why I am giving you this one and not an S-rank!" The Yondaime snapped in annoyance as he tried not to lose his temper against one of the Unkillable Brothers that he was a part of. The both of them being named that since none of their enemies could hit Minato due to his Hiraishin speed and the other for Naruto's insane earth affinity coupled with the scales grown from his body due to the extinct bloodline implanted in his body by Orochimaru giving the younger of the two brothers an almost impenetrable armor… add in his monstrous strength and he was a virtual juggernaut that could go toe to toe with Tsunade of the Sannin while not using chakra to augment his strength.
Naruto sighed dramatically just to see the twitch in his brother's eye increase before he shrugged and opened the scroll that Minato had handed him and began reading it.
As he went further along into the scroll, Minato's face became grim and Kushina started to frown from where she stood behind Minato as her brother-in-law's rage became more palpable with each second he read the scroll.
When the draconic shinobi reached the end, his eyes snapped up to his older brother's own, the sky blue of the younger Namikaze's orbs flashing yellow with a slit pupil for a second. "I accept Hokage-sama."
He surprised his brother due to calling him by his title instead of the affectionate one he and Kushina had given the young Kage. "How long ago was this sent?"
"Yesterday. Asuma Sarutobi and a new chunin named Kurenai Yuhi found them while on their own mission to secure the head priest of the temple in the Land of Snow for the peace summit between Yuki and Kusa," the Hokage grimly answered as he knew what type of rage his younger brother was feeling. "They are about three days travel from here."
Naruto's blue orbs were cold as ice as his red haired sister-in-law tried to figure out what was going on. "He won't escape me again, Nii-sama."
"Good, make sure he dies a painful death for the crimes he has committed," Minato said as he locked eyes with his brother before the young man turned and walked out of his office to locate the members of his team.
Minato just sighed at his brother's disappearance and his new wife turned to him, "What the hell kind of mission did you give him?"
The Yondaime's face turned grim once again as he grabbed the scroll from where Naruto had left it on the desk before he turned to the Uzumaki clan matriarch and spoke, "Iwa's Slaughter Golem, Daisuke Utomoni was sighted by the two shinobi that I mentioned."
At the mention of one of Iwa's most notorious outlaws, Kushina's beautiful sea green eyes were immediately locked onto her golden haired lover, memories of the man that had brutally attacked and raped Hinamori, her best friend and the wife of Hiashi Hyuuga floating to the forefront of her mind.
"He is in the Land of Snow," Minato said as he kept eye contact with the S-rank kunoichi, disgust clear in his voice about the current topic. "And I know that by sending Naruto after him, he won't escape for a second time, especially since Hinamori-chan was Naruto's first friend in the Academy."
In the entire history of their official capacity as the Unkillable Brothers, Daisuke had been the only person to ever escape both him and his brother and now since he was one of the major voices against the treaty to end the Third Shinobi War, all of the villages, even Iwa, needed him gone if the war was to truly end.
There had already been too much bloodshed in the past twelve years…
The Uzushio survivor nodded in return to her husband's words, all of the members of their group of friends wanted to rip the psychotic rapist apart for what he did to their friend; she knew that when Naruto found him this time, the man wouldn't survive for a second time.
"You're dismissed," Minato said. "I will be having you join Kakashi and Rin on their mission shortly, so get some rest."
Two Days Later
The rage in the great roar that Naruto was releasing as he raced after the escaping group of rogue Iwa Shinobi was enough to make nearly everyone in their group utterly terrified.
The blond juggernaut was currently completely covered in the red scales of his draconic bloodline and he was slowly gaining on the group's leader, a murderous Nuke-Nin named Daisuke Utomoni, the famed Slaughter Golem of Iwa… the man he utterly wanted to rip limb from limb.
Just three hours earlier, Iwa's former Golem had snuck into the Leaf ninja squad's camp and attempted to rape Naruto's newly minted chunin student, Shaolin Fon, a petite twelve year old girl with neck-length black hair, stormy grey eyes and a traditional black shinobi uniform that covered her from foot to neck; the girl who apparently had a formerly secret crush on her sensei that he had just learned about the day before due to his best friend and former genin teammate Tsume teasing the young girl about it.
As he quickly got closer to the fleeing coward, the enraged Namikaze roared as he threw his greatsword, Balmung, forged from chakra metal into the stone covered back of the brute, beyond enraged at the man for trying to force himself onto his student after raping Hinamori.
Daisuke immediately screamed in pain as the blade broke through his Kekkei Genkai armor ability as if it were paper and threw him down as it cut through to his front.
When he stood back up with blood pouring from his wound and mouth, the Slaughter Golem turned his murderous brown gaze towards the blond draconic Namikaze brother that had been classified as one of the 'Unkillable Brothers', the other being his older brother by a year, Minato Namikaze, the glorified Yellow Flash of Konoha. Currently Daisuke's face was still bloody and burnt, the rapist missing his nose from when Naruto's best friend, Tsume Inuzuka, the Inuzuka clan's new head, had pushed him into the campfire and slashed his face with the clawed gloves Naruto had given her to get him off of the young chunin.
Coming to a stop several feet from the bleeding rapist, Naruto snarled ferally at the man as he yanked his sword from where it landed on the ground when the Golem removed it from his bleeding torso and moved forward to confront his most hated enemy in this long war.
Tsume quickly joined him and pulled out her dual claw gloves that the large man beside her had made as an engagement gift for her marriage to Tonfa Inuzuka four years ago. She smirked at the massive man next to her as they moved forward towards the serial rapist.
"Give up, Golem-funuke, you have nowhere else to run and your foolish followers have been captured or killed," Naruto growled as he clenched his large blood covered hands and his eyes turned yellow as he glared at the man he so desperately wanted to kill.
Looking to his left and right to see that it was true, Konoha and Yuki shinobi alike had just finished taking down the remainder of his platoon, Daisuke's anger rose and he ripped open his jounin vest and shirt to reveal his torso and arms covered in an uncountable number of explosive tags. "Fine then! If I die, then at least I'll take Konoha's Crimson Dragon and the Wild Fang of the Inuzuka with me!"
His eyes widening, the youngest Namikaze brother quickly threw a startled Tsume away from the blast knowing he would be able to survive the fire that came with it.
Unfortunately he had forgotten about the ice below and before him as it was destroyed by the explosion and the draconic S-rank shinobi fell through the ice with the charred remains of the Iwa Golem much to the horror of his comrades.
The last thing he heard before the darkness of unconsciousness and the ice cold water consumed him was Tsume and Soifon's panicked voices screaming for him.
Fourteen Years Later; Yuki no Kuni
"Sasuke-kun, look out!" Came the loud voice of a pink haired girl with shoulder length pink hair wearing an expensive red coat and a plain winter cloak over a pair of kunoichi issued biker shorts with thermal enhanced sandals on her feet, she also wore a Chinese-styled qipao under her coat. On the top of her head was her custom red hitai-ite with the leaf symbol of Konohagakure carved into the metal plate. She was currently standing in front of a finely dressed woman that many a man would call beautiful with a kunai held in the standard reverse defensive stance that she had learned from the Academy.
This young girl was Sakura Haruno, a thirteen year old genin kunoichi that could shatter a man's eardrums with just her voice when confronted with the object of her obsession.
Close by, a black haired thirteen year old boy with a duck-ass hair and a blue coat with the his clan's sigil, the Uchiha Fan, back flipped up and away as an eastern-style dragon forged from the top of the iceberg lying beneath his feet slammed into yet more of the ice beneath him. He was wearing a long sleeved blue shirt that had a raised collar with a dark cloak protecting him from the harsh cold with yet another Uchiha fan imprinted on the back, as well as thermal sandals similar to his pink haired teammate.
Around his forehead, keeping the bangs he inherited from his mother from his eyes was a black hitai-ite, signifying him to be the rookie of the year for his age group in the Academy, gleaming in the barely visible sunlight. This was Uchiha Sasuke; the 'last' loyal Uchiha of the Village Hidden in Leaves.
'Last' Uchiha despite the fact that his mother stilled lived alongside his older brother…
Sasuke of course groaned as he landed back first on the ice and a bright beam of light reflected off the surface where the dragon had made contact.
"Oi! Teme!" A brash boy with golden blond hair with small streaks of red shouted as he raced towards his teammate to push the raven haired boy to the ground, narrowly avoiding another ice style attack while a petite black haired woman ran towards the caster of the attacks, a large man with beady eyes and a singlet outfit with chakra armor on his arms, with a calm expression on her face as she nimbly dodged each and every attack sent at her.
She was a twenty-four year old that had black hair that was bound in twin bandaged braids behind her back with golden rings tied at the ends. She was wearing a black, backless and sleeveless shihakushō that revealed her lightly tanned shoulders and a ninjato that rested on the back of her hips, along with shoulder-length arm warmers and hakama pants that ended in tabi sandals. Her thermal haori that usually completed this outfit was lying back on the deck of the ship where she had thrown it off when the ambush began.
This woman was the tokubetsu jounin Shaolin Fon, the only student of Konoha's deceased Crimson Dragon, Naruto Namikaze, and while she was on this mission, she was only there to protect the thirteen year old son of the Yondaime, Menma Namikaze.
"Get off of me, Namikaze-baka!" Sasuke snarled, shoving his teammate off of him as they dodged a pink haired female wearing a thermal spandex suit similar to the large man with chakra armor forming wings for her to speed around as she created a sinister spear of ice, that by the look on her face, she wanted to impale the Uchiha boy on for making the simple mistake of believing she was a man when the fight first started.
Of course, said Uchiha ran away from her until he slid suddenly and fell on his back once again, not used to fighting on the artic terrain, sorely missing the warm forests of the Land of Fire. He shut his onyx colored eyes tightly due to the pain of landing on a sharp piece of ice that pierced through the skin of his back and the woman took advantage.
"Time to die, you fucking brat!" She exclaimed, completely forgoing her usual sarcastic snips in favor of ending him, and she chucked the ice spear at the seemingly helpless boy. The Uchiha teen however just grinned, confusing the woman before opening his eyes to show that they were now a blood red as opposed to the coal black they had been before, with three solid black tomoe in each eye circling the pupils, and ran through several hand seals in the hopes of catching her off guard with one of his clan's fire jutsu.
"Fire Style: Grand Fireball Technique!" His voice rang out as he suddenly shot an enormous ball of fire from his mouth. Unfortunately, due to not remembering what happens when ice is introduced to extreme heat like say fire, he lost his new foothold as the heat resonating off the attack melted the ice he was standing on and he fell down onto… a body?
Not taking the time needed to be distracted by whatever he fell on, Sasuke growled as his attack managed to melt the woman's attack, but failed to do much damage to her due to her armor absorbing the chakra inside said fireball like it was designed to do. Making the potent ball of flames dissipate harmlessly.
Before he could jump forward to attack her with his custom made chokuto his mother had given him for graduating from the Academy, an arm lifted up beside him, covered he noted in reddish scales that looked like what one would see on a lizard, and violently yanked the Uchiha off of the body he had fallen on almost as if he was weightless much to his surprise.
Sasuke landed on his hands and knees, and looked up in time for his jaw to drop in astonishment as he saw a massive man he had only seen in the photos of the history books back in Konoha while at the Academy, with the exception of long hair reaching down to the back of his shoulders, climbing out of the melted hole he was once in.
The young Uchiha was slack jawed as the man rolled his neck with a pop and stretched his massive arms out as if working out some kinks. On his forehead rested a black hitai-ite that looked like it was sewn to fire-proof cloth. Around his waist was a large orange belt with several pouches and a large sword attached to it.
His body was encased in radiant silver woven plate armor that many would only see in the old novels that depicted the ancient knights and on his back was a massive sword. His exposed skin looked like it was dyed red from the scales that currently covered his form. The giant of a man simply looked down at the stunned Uchiha once he was done stretching and offered him his hand, allowing Sasuke to see his face that would appear to be a carbon copy of a younger Minato Namikaze from before he had become Hokage, only with the exception of a long mane of golden hair that spilled down to his back with some of it coming down the sides of his face and several scales formed around his chin and cheeks.
On his cheeks was something else that set his image apart from the Yondaime, they were three whisker-like marks, parallel to either side. His slitted oceanic blue eyes bore into Sasuke's own Sharingan eyes, causing the boy to instantly memorize them.
"What's your name, genin?" The man asked with his deep voice coming out slightly graveled. Sasuke however remained silent in awe for a moment before the man suddenly pushed him away while exclaiming, "Watch out!"
"Ooh, a new friend to play… with…" The pink haired Yuki kunoichi said, her voice coming to a grinding halt as she flew over the man that had been inside the iceberg and her former prey… That was currently flying through the air due to the unintentional strength behind the man's push. She hovered in midair as the red scaled man narrowed his slitted eyes at her and pulled his massive blade from his back.
"Shit… this can't be happening… it can't be possible… I thought you were a fucking myth…!" She whispered in terrified awe with widening eyes showing the terror she was suddenly feeling as she took in the sight of the red scales and unique armor covering his massive body as she remembered the tales she was told by the older shinobi that had participated in the last war.
The man didn't reply to her words as he cocked an eyebrow at the myth part, all he did was leap high off the ground with a great roar to the woman's height that made a couple people nearby shiver at the familiar sound of it and smash his fist into her side, making her slam into the ground, while he unsheathed and threw his sword at the large man that was fighting a familiar figure with uncanny accuracy. The razor sharp blade sheared through the man's metal arm, causing him to scream in pain and alert the petite woman he had been about to sneak up on and bisect with his claw.
That of course earned him a spinning back kick that broke his nose and sent him reeling back from the pain and force put behind the blow.
Soifon's grey eyes however, instead of focusing on her downed and crippled enemy as she landed, widened greatly when she recognized the massive sword that was embedded in the iceberg several feet away from her.
The pink haired woman quickly moved away from the hulking giant and flew towards her two teammates. "Doto-sama is going to want to know about this!" She exclaimed as she pointed to the titan that had swatted her away like she was an overgrown fly. "He could ruin everything!"
Her leader nodded and she grabbed hold of her still screaming one armed teammate before they all leapt away.
"Hey stop! Dammit!" Menma shouted as he tried to stop the three of them from getting away. "They got away! Come on Sasuke-yaro, Sakura-chan! We can catch them!"
The two other genin of squad seven nodded and were about to follow, but the large man spoke up in a deep voice, "Don't bother. They're long gone."
That got the Uzumaki clan heir to stop running as he suddenly remembered the man that had appeared beneath Sasuke and went into the hummingbird stance taught to him by his father, Sakura following suit into her own modified version of the Academy's tora style.
"Who are you!? Identify yourself!" The Namikaze demanded, narrowing his sea green eyes on the armor clad man who turned his gaze towards him, faltering slightly in his confidant stance.
"… Minato-Oniichan?" He asked before another thump in the snow earned his attention and he turned to face it, his arms up to shield himself from an attack. His slitted eyes however widened as he took in the sight of a man with gravity defying silver hair with a mask covering his lower face and his hitai-ite branded with the Konohagakure leaf was angled over his ruby red left eye.
"Naruto-sensei?" The man whispered in shock as he stared at the titan of a man that he had heard died thirteen years ago, "Naruto-sensei is that you?"
"Kakashi-chan…" Naruto said with widened eyes while both Sakura and Menma became startled that their sensei knew the intruder; while Soifon just stood a few yards away with wide eyes and speechless at the sight she hadn't seen in many years.
"Naruto-sensei… Y-you're alive… YOU'RE ALIVE!" Kakashi exclaimed after a few moments of shocked silence before rushing to the large man and embracing him in a tight hug, earning a rib crushing hug in return, the silver haired man having forgotten the monster-like strength his sensei's brother possessed over the years that everybody believed said man to be dead.
Of course as soon as the genin watching that were beginning to relive their experiences of Gai and Lee's man hugs of Youth and their Sunset Genjutsu gave disgruntled coughs, the two happy men released each other.
"Kakashi… look at you!" Naruto said in awe as he held the silver haired boy-turned-man at arm's length, remembering when he had last seen the man when he was a thirteen year old that had just applied to join the Anbu black ops after the death of his teammate Obito. "You've gotten old! How long have I been gone? Six years? Seven?"
"Twelve years Naruto-sensei," the cyclopean confirmed before worriedly looking at the man with his one eye. "Where have you been?"
The draconic Namikaze furrowed his brows before lifting a hand to his head as he tried to remember, unconsciously pulling his scales back into his body to show tanned unblemished skin that made Menma jump at how much the stranger resembled his father, "I… I don't remember anything after…"
He suddenly fell forward as his vision went dark, the silver haired jounin barely managing to catch the once believed dead war hero. Carefully, he lowered him to the ground and began checking him over with the medical jutsu Rin had taught him before her death in the Land of Water.
"Kakashi-sensei…" Sasuke finally said, stepping forward with his teammates while Soifon just continued to stare in shock at the man she had long thought dead. "Is that… Is that who I think it is?"
"Hai, Sasuke-kun," Kakashi said looking at his student as his genin slightly crowded around the massive form while still giving him room to work, before he looked back at the unconscious giant of a man. "This is the Dragon-Blood Knight of Konohagakure… the younger brother of the Yondaime Hokage."
Hey guys, I hope you all liked it, though it used to be on my page. I made a few changes by fixing grammar mistakes and all that, as well as some subtle changes to Naruto's character. I took the liberty to design him after Saber of Black from the Fate/Apocrypha from the Type-Moon franchise, though he won't have Siegfried's utter invulnerability. Also in case you are wondering about Naruto's Dragon Blood Kekkei Genkai, it is basically like Dragon Slayer magic from Fairy Tail where he can absorb the elements that his main affinities are aligned to.
Also if this story continues, the main pairing has been changed to just Naruto and Soifon. For the timeline in the Naruto universe for when he went under the ice, Naruto was sent after Daisuke a year before Menma was born and four months after Obito was 'killed' at the bridge incident. Rin and Kakashi's mission to the Land of Water was happening at the same time as Naruto's mission and Rin was killed three weeks later after being captured during their spy mission and turned into an impromptu jinchuuriki for the Sanbi.
The mission with Koyuki for team seven is currently happening a month and a half after the Chunin Exams invasion and Mikoto, Sasuke's mother is still alive and Itachi wasn't the one to massacre the Uchiha clan, it was Obito aka 'Madara' who got tired of waiting for his genjutsu on the elders to work.
Other changes for the timeline is that instead of Kurenai being the sensei of team eight, Itachi is, mostly due to the fact that while she is a competent kunoichi, her skills and teachings don't really work with a team that consists of mostly taijutsu using students.
I hope you enjoyed reading this, please review on what you thought of my story.
Until next time, Iskander Mandoraekon signing off. Ja Ne.
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