Chapter 1 Naruto and the Dragon
We come to the village of Konoha where a 16 year old Naruto Uzumaki was training in a forest to better prepare him for the trails ahead now that he was finally a ninja.
He's been in the forest for hours trying out the new jutsus he aquired from the Scroll of Sealing. Counting himself lucky that he had devoloped a knack for sealing arts so he could copy some of the jutsus into a seperate scroll.
"Whooo! I've worked up quite a sweat." Naruto grinned wiping sweat off his forehead. "Maybe it's time I head on home." He said turning around to go home.
Suddenly the scent of blood hit his nose making him stop.
"Something's bleeding." Naruto said before running and jumping off to investigate on where the smell of blood was coming from. Soon he saw what looked like a green mountain in some trees that had the blood coming out of it.
"Since when do mountains bleed?" Naruto said as he landed in front of said mountain.
"Who are you calling a mountain?" A voice said.
Suddenly said mountain turned showing a large reptilian face.
"Whoa, what are you?" Naruto asked curiously.
"I'm a dragon, that should be self explanatory." The dragon said.
"Those are real?! Awesome!" Naruto said with a bright smile as he looked at the green dragon with yellow eyes that had horns on its head and black wings.
"Whatever. Have you come to finish the job the gods tried?" The dragon asked.
"Huh? I only came because I smelled blood. Are you hurt?" Naruto asked.
The dragon looked at him blankly before gesturing with her head to the giant sword in her back
"Yikes! How'd I miss that?" Naruto muttered.
"You're not very bright, are you?" The dragon asked.
"Considering I have no parents and my education was sabotaged, pretty much." Naruto said not feeling insulted, since he knew himself he was pretty dumb. Since again he had no parents and his education was sabotaged, but he liked to think he came out ok.
"Hmm, well you might as well just stay there, I'm dying anyway, unless you can get this sword out of my back." The dragon said.
Not allowing someone to die Naruto jumped onto the dragons back surprising the dragon.
"Since when can humans jump so high?" The dragon wondered.
"So I just need to remove this? Ok hold on..." Naruto said as he grabbed the sword and started to pull.
"You're one of those chakra humans, aren't you?" The dragon asked.
"You know about chakra?" Naruto asked.
"Unfortunately, see a long time ago we left these lands after a band of humans tried making us their slaves with their eyes, they failed miserably by the way." The dragon said with a light chuckle.
"Cool. Alright, one, two and three!" Naruto yelled before putting everything he had in one pull and actually yanked the colossal blade out of the dragon's back.
"Ah~" The dragon said in relief.
"Ah yeah Naruto Uzumaki pulled out a colossal sword!" Naruto said grinning.
"Uzumaki?" The dragon asked surprised.
"Yeah, that's my name." Naruto nodded.
"My kind knew the Uzumaki a long time ago, they helped us hide ourselves away, we were friends with one before she died, her name was Mito." The dragon said.
"Could she have been a relative of mine?" Naruto wondered before shaking his head to dis those thoughts. "Well, you're safe now, so I guess I'll be seeing ya." Naruto said as he hopped off the dragon's back.
"That's it? Aren't you gonna ask me for anything?" The dragon asked.
"Now why would I do that? Saving you is payment enough for me." Naruto said.
The dragon looked at him with wide eyes as he didn't seem to act like the past humans that always tried to use them
"No, I must give you something to thank you. Is there anything you like?" The dragon asked wanting to thank the kind human.
"Hmmmmm I don't know, maybe a friend." Naruto said patting the dragon's snout.
"You want to be friends with a dragon?" The dragon asked sounding surprised.
"Why wouldn't I? If your voice is any indication, you seem nice." Naruto smiled.
"Well I do need a place to stay and staying with a friend is better than a stranger." The dragon said.
"You can stay with me then. Though you may scare the villagers." Naruto said now thinking about it.
"Oh that's no problem I can take a human form." The dragon said as a flash of light shined and the dragon shrunk down making Naruto blink before blushing as he covered his eyes.
"You're naked!" He exclaimed.
"Ah right. I heard you humans are prudes." The now dragon girl said giggling she had long blonde hair with flaming orange tips and red-orange eyes with dilated pupils, she also had what looked like horns sticking out of her hair.
"Hey I'm no perv!" Naruto said.
"My name is Tohru, glad to meet you." The girl said.
"I'm Naruto. Now put on some clothes, please!" Naruto yelled as he quickly covered his eyes again which made a pamphlet fall from his sleeve.
Tohru looked at the pamphlet and saw it was for a maid cafe. "You like maids?" She asked.
"Well, these maids at a cafe are actually nice to me and don't overcharge me for stuff." Naruto said.
"Would you like a maid?" Tohru asked.
"Well, it'd be nice as then I could have someone walk into my house that's not looking to hurt me and actually help me." Naruto said.
Tohru smiled and in a flash of light she was in a old style maid uniform two piece maid outfit consisting of a short sleeve dress shirt, and black over dress, white elbow length gloves and a maid's bonnet like headband.
"Wow, that's cute." Naruto thought as he looked at her.
"So why do humans not like you?" Tohru asked curiously.
"Uh it's... a little personal." Naruto said looking away not wanting her to dislike him.
Tohru looked at him before glancing at his stomach sensing a dark presence within him.
"You have one of those tailed beasts in you?" Tohru asked.
"Wait, you know about the nine tailed fox?" Naruto asked surprised.
"Yes, I know about Kurama." Tohru said as she poked at Naruto's stomach curiously.
"It has a name?" Naruto asked as he patted at Tohru's hand to make her stop feeling a little ticklish.
"Yes, all nine of them have names. Kurama always had a bit of an ego thing thinking he could take us dragons on." Tohru said as she stopped poking at Naruto.
"Did he beat you?" Naruto asked curiously as he wondered how a dragon would stack up against the nine tailed fox.
Tohru scoffed at this. "Of course not. Us dragons are the most powerful!" She said with a prideful smile.
"You lizards cheated!" A booming voice yelled in Naruto's head making him hold his head.
"What's wrong, Naruto-kun?" Tohru asked worried Naruto may be hurt.
"He said you lizards cheated. Wait Naruto-kun?" Naruto asked with a small blush.
"Yes, I like you for saving me." Tohru said smiling.
"Only person who's ever called me that is Hinata." Naruto said.
Tohru glared and her fangs showed and her eyes glowed hearing this.
"Well let's head home before it gets too late." Naruto said as he saw the sun was going down and turned around to begin the walk home.
Tohru smiled and followed Naruto with a little skip in her step making him blush as her clothed DD-cup breasts bounced with each step.
"I'm guessing you don't like bras?" Naruto asked as he tried not to leer at her.
"What's a bra?" Tohru asked with a tilt of her head.
Naruto sighed at this and shook his head as they headed into the village. As they walked down the road some villagers were whispering about them.
"What's up with them?" Tohru asked curiously.
"It's partially why I don't have any friends, all the adults see me as the nine tails in human form, it's why they hunt me down on my birthday and beat me up so much. Gramps punishes them but it doesn't help much." Naruto said.
"Hey demon brat, what's with the chick? You tricked an outsider to like you?" A man asked and laughed.
Tohru's eyebrow twitched before she swung around slapping the man with her tail, this sent the man through a building making everyone pause.
"Listen up!" Tohru yelled getting everyone's attention. "I am Naruto Uzumaki's maid and if anyone ever tries hurting him you will face a dragon's wrath" She yelled as she breathed a small flame for emphasis.
The people backed away in fear of being barbecued.
"That will be a trip to Gramps for later." Naruto mumbled.
"You have a grampa?" Tohru asked as they continued to walk.
"I don't have any family except I kinda see the third hokage as a grandpa, he tries helping but... it's not enough." Naruto said with a sigh.
"What's a hokage?" Tohru asked curiously.
"The hokage is the leader of the village, I want to become a hokage as everyone looks up to him." Naruto said.
"Oh, so the hokage is like my dad who leads the chaos faction?" Tohru asked.
"Chaos what now?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Dragons join different factions and we all have leaders." Tohru said.
"And you're from the chaos faction?" Naruto asked with a nervous sweatdrop.
"Don't worry I won't destroy anything without your permission, Naruto-kun." Tohru said with a smile.
Naruto smiled as he rubbed her head making her purr lightly. "Dragons can purr?" He said confused.
"You have a lot to learn about dragons." Tohru said.
"Just like you have a lot to learn about living with us." Naruto said.
"We can teach each other!" Tohru said excitedly.
Naruto nodded as he led the way to his apartment.
At Naruto's apartment
Tohru sweatdropped with a look of disbelief as she saw the state of Naruto's apartment.
"Yeah, I am not the best housekeeper." Naruto said with a sheepish smile rubbing the back of his head.
"So Naruto I have to ask, that fourth head on the mountain kinda resembles you, is that your dad?" Tohru asked
Naruto smiled at this. "You think he's my dad?"
"Look for yourself, can't you see a resemblance?" Tohru wondered.
"I look at him all the time Tohru, but your sweet to think that." Naruto said.
"Ok then... Let's get started cleaning!" Tohru said as she opened her mouth and charged a ball of fire.
"Oh jeez!" Naruto said running out of the way.
There was a blast of fire and when the smoke cleared Naruto saw that everything was trashed.
"That's not how you clean Tohru." Naruto chuckled nervously.
"Oops... hold on I can fix it!" Tohru said as a magic circle appeared between her hands and the room went back to how it was.
"Sometime you gotta teach me that. That would go great with my ninja skills." Naruto said finding it useful.
"You wanna learn dragon magic?" Tohru asked curiously.
"Why not? You make it look awesome." Naruto said with a chuckle.
Tohru rubbed the back of her head as she laughed sheepishly.
Suddenly they both heard someone knocking on Naruto's door.
"Should I answer it?" Tohru asked.
"If they aren't people I know you can blast them." Naruto said.
"Hey brat! you better not be destroying my apartment!" A voice yelled out.
"Great this asshole." Naruto muttered.
"Who is it? Tohru asked.
"It's my landlord he's always giving me problems and he won't fix anything." Naruto sighed heavily.
Suddenly the door opened and the landlord was met by Tohru's dragon face.
"Get lost!" Tohru roared at the man making the entire building shake.
"Ahh dinosaur!" The man screamed running out of the building like a bat out of hell.
Tohru changed back to normal and ran to the open door. "Yea keep running, you jerk!" She yelled and then slammed the door closed. "I am not a dinosaur." Tohru grumbled.
"I'm surprised the anbu haven't come to get me to take me to Gramps, usually when stuff like this happens, he wants to see me to get my side of the story." Naruto said.
"Well let's get back to cleaning." Tohru said before picking up a pair of underwear with little dragons on them and giggles.
"Give me those!" Naruto said blushing taking his underwear from her.
"So you like dragons, huh?" Tohru smiled.
"Well, I got rid of that loser toad wallet and got a dragon one as dragons are cooler than frogs." Naruto said holding up his red dragon like wallet.
"Toad wallet?" Tohru asked.
"Some nobody left it, I thought it sucked." Naruto said throwing empty ramen cups in the trash.
"Seems like someone has a ramen obsession." Tohru said as she gestured to all the ramen cups in his kitchen.
"The Ichiraku ramen people were the only other people that were nice to me, so I love ramen as it was the first friendly meal I ever had." Naruto said
"I can understand that, but you need a better diet." Tohru said as she could smell that ramen wasn't healthy.
"Well you can go shopping with me and... convince them to not give me rotten or expired stuff." Naruto said with a chuckle as he had to admit it would be fun to scare the grocers.
"How can one village hate one person so much, just what did that mangy fox do?" Tohru asked.
"It... he killed a lot of people including the fourth hokage." Naruto said.
"And your hokage just lets this abuse happen?!" Tohru asked stupefied.
"Well, he made a law where nobody was allowed to speak about the nine tails to me otherwise they'll be executed but... they found other ways to be cruel." Naruto said
"Well, those days are over now!" Tohru said with a glare.
"Thanks." Naruto said rubbing her hair making her smile and her tail wag.
The window then opened and a man in a dog mask came through the window. Tohru's arm turned into a green scaled claw and she grabbed the man and slammed him into the wall holding him there.
"Whoa, hold on! He works for the old man!" Naruto said recognizing this anbu.
The man coughed as Tohru let him go. "What the hell?" He said getting back up.
"I'm Naruto-kun's maid. Now state your business!" Tohru demanded.
"This girl is not normal." The anbu thought. "I'm here for him." He said pointing at Naruto.
Tohru growled and she turned her arms into claws again.
"Tohru, he means the old man wants to see me. Choose your words better, Inu." Naruto sighed.
"Noted." The anbu said as he left.
"Wow he at least escorts me to the old man, you must have really scared him." Naruto said with a chuckle.
Tohru smiled thinking she did her job then.
Few minutes later
"Hey old man, what do you need?" Naruto asked as him and Tohru entered the office after getting Tohru away from the receptionist who glared at Naruto causing Tohru to jump at her.
"So this is your new friend." Hiruzen Sarutobi said from behind his desk.
"Yup, this is Tohru." Naruto said with a smile.
"You have done a bad job protecting Naruto-kun." Tohru said bluntly making Sarutobi sighed at this.
"I know, but at least he has you now." He said trying to be friendly.
"Is that his dad on that mountain, the head next to yours?" Tohru asked.
Hiruzen paused at this. "This girl is way too smart?" He thought.
"Notice how he paused when I said that?" Tohru muttered to Naruto.
"Well old man?" Naruto asked with a glare.
"Naruto, it has come to my attention that you are now 16 years old." Hiruzen said.
"Yea along with the rest of my graduating class, what's your point?" Naruto asked.
"Your... parents left you things behind... I believed it would've been better to give you them when you turned 16 when you would be mature enough to understand." Hiruzen said.
"And let me guess one of them is the fourth?" Tohru asked
"Yes... the very man who sealed the nine tailed fox within Naruto." Hiruzen said.
"If he was here right now, I would gut him like a fish!" Tohru growled.
"...My dad was the very same person who put this monster in me?" Naruto said.
"Only a Uzumaki has the chakra coils needed to hold something like the fox, and he couldn't ask any other family to sacrifice their children to hold this burden... the very same burden your mother went through when she was the holder." Hiruzen said.
"My mom?" Naruto asked surprised.
"Kushina Uzumaki." Sarutobi said.
"You said my parents were nobodies!" Naruto said slamming his hands on the desk.
"I... I know I lied." Hiruzen sighed.
"Damn right you lied!" Naruto yelled
"I did it to protect you!" Hiruzen said
"I had every right to know, for years I cried wondering if my parents even cared about me, damn it you should've told me!" Naruto said digging his nails into the wood of Hiruzen's desk.
"Your parents had lots of enemies I had to keep your lineage a secret." Hiruzen said.
"So that made everything okay for the village to use me like a scapegoat for their pain?!" Naruto shouted.
"No... no it doesn't." Hiruzen sighed in defeat.
"I want what they left me. Now." Naruto said seriously.
Hiruzen nodded and handed Naruto a folder. "That's the deed and keys to your father's home, you'll also find things they left for you." He said.
"It's going to be a long time before I forgive you for lying to me." Naruto said as he left the room.
Tohru glared at Hiruzen with slitted eyes before she turned to follow Naruto.
"I know Naruto... I know." Hiruzen said as he slumped in his chair.
"That girl is crazy strong." Inu said as he dropped down from the ceiling.
"Yes, I heard she put a man through a building." Hiruzen said.
"No, she had me at her mercy." Inu said seriously.
Hiruzen paused at this surprised. "What is that girl?" He said.
"I hope this won't make me being his team sensei hard." Inu said as he took off his mask.
"We shall see, Kakashi." Hiruzen said.
With Naruto
Naruto and Tohru stood outside a rather impressive building
"All my life I lived in that shitty ass apartment when I could've lived here." Naruto frowned.
"Well, you can forget that place now, let's go inside" Tohru said with a smile as she pushed Naruto towards through the front doors with him laughing.
They found the house had its own training area, a hot tub, a pool a fully equipped kitchen and a lot of rooms.
"I don't get it, isn't sitting in hot water like making soup out of yourself?" Tohru asked making Naruto chuckled at this.
"Let's just make dinner and find us both rooms to sleep." He said.
"It's like 9, don't you want to stay up longer?" Tohru asked.
"No, I have to meet my ninja team and sensei tomorrow." Naruto asked as they headed for the kitchen.
"So are these new friends?" Tohru asked tilting her head curiously.
"I hope so." Naruto said with a smile.
And so the two enjoyed ramen and some tv before heading off to bed.