How Naruto Train His Dragon

by AnimeLover and Dr. Tom ZX

Category: How to Train Your Dragon, NarutoGenre: Adventure, FriendshipLanguage: EnglishCharacters: Naruto U., ToothlessStatus: CompletedPublished: 2013-07-02 07:58:00Updated: 2013-09-08 05:09:48Packaged: 2016-04-26 15:27:33Rating: KChapters: 3Words: 19,844Publisher: www.fanfiction.netSummary: Naruto always be the weakest viking in Konohagakure. Until,he caught the rarest dragon, the Night Fury. Will Naruto kill thedragon? Or will he do something else? "Naruto" version of "How ToTrain Your Dragon" Maybe OOC, NaruSaku, a lots of misstypo and wrongnames

1. Chapter 1

_This is Konohagakure. Its twelve days north of hopeless and a fewdegrees south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on themeridian of misery. My village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here forseven generations, but every single building is new. We have fishing,hunting and a charming view of the sunsets. The only problems are thepests. You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. Wehave..._

"Dragon." whispered Naruto to himself as he slammed the door of hishouse; just in time before a dragon burn him alive.

_Most people would leave, but not us. We're Vikings, we havestubbornness issues._

The village is being attack again,by another raid of the viciousdragons that snatch up their food and sheep_._People charging at thedragons, yelling and shouting, as was the Viking way, there also aman pounding the head of a short, fat dragon even as it flewaway.

_My name's Naruto Namikaze. Great name, I know, but it's not theworst. They believe that a hideous name will frighten off gnomes andtrolls. Like our charming Viking demeanour wouldn't do that._

Naruto jumped out of his house and ran through the village, tryingnot to be hit by falling Vikings or animals or things. All of asudden a dragon shot a ball of fire near him, causing him to fell. A

Viking jumped on top of him as he yell, "RAAAUGH! ", and say,"Mornin'!" Naruto got up and kept running.

"What're ya doin' outside?"

"Git back inside!"

"Get outta here!"

"Get back inside!"

Wow, some nice, welcoming greetings he received from the townspeople.Ignoring their words, he charged ahead. He was about to turn, whensuddenly a strong arm pulled him by the back of his jacket back,right before another dragon blew fire toward him. Cool, it was hisdad.

"Naruto! What is he doin' outside agai-" the man changed tact,turning Naruto to face him as he bellowed, "What are you doin' out?Git back inside!" Naruto obeyed him, and he ran off.

_That is Minato Namikaze. The hokage of the village. They say thatwhen he was a baby, he popped a dragon's head clean off itsshoulders. Do I believe this? Yes I do._

Minato lifted a nearby wagon and threw it at a dragon passing overhead and it was a bull's eye.

"What have we got?_" _he asked another Viking.

"Gronkles, Nadders, Zipplebacks, and hordes of Monstrous Nightmares."Then an explosion came out of nowhere and pieces of woods fleweverywhere. The other Viking covered himself with his shield, whileMinato just stood there and asked, "Any Night Furies?"

"None so far." Minato swept a small piece of burning wood off of hisshoulder as if it was nothing.

"Good!" he said.

Naruto can saw some Vikings lit huge bowls with fire and lifted intothe sky to see the dragons more clearly. Naruto finally reached tohis destination, the smithy, and is greeted by a man who washammering.

"How nice of ya' to join the party. I thought you wouldn't be letout." said the man.

"Who, me? No, c'mon. I'm way too muscular for their taste." Narutosaid as he picked up a heavy hammer and set it on the wall behindher. "They wouldn't know what to do with all this."

"Well they need toothpicks don't they?" Naruto started taking thesmashed weapons from the Vikings who dropped them off to fix themup.

_That man is Jiraya. I've been his apprentice since I waslittle...well, littler._

Meanwhile, Minato ordered the other Vikings, "We'll move to the wall

for defences, we'll counter them with the catapults."He and a fewmore Vikings took some sheep to a safer place. The dragons set someof the houses next to them on fire.

_See? Old village, lots and lots of new houses._

Hiccup looked outside and saw the other teenagers setting putting outthe fires.

_That's Choji,Kiba, the twins: Lee and Ten-Ten, and... _

Then, there was a girl who throws some water, but there was anexplosion right behind her, which made her shine with courage andconfidence

_...Sakura._

Naruto really admire her. The other teenagers joined him as if shewas their leader, and they went to put the other fire.

_Oh, their job is so much cooler._

Naruto leaned out the window to get a closer look at them, but Jirayapulled him back in.

"Oh come on," Naruto pleaded. "Let me out I need to make my mark!" AsJiraya placed him on the ground.

"Oh you've made plenty of marks- all in the wrong places." Hesaid.

"Please, two minutes. I'll kill a dragon; my life will get infinitelybetter.I might even get a date,"

"You can't lift a hammer, you can't swing and axe, you can't eventhrow one of these," Jiraya held up a bolas. Just then a Vikingsnatches it and takes down a Gronkle mid-flight.

"Okay, fine. But this will throw it for me." Naruto answers walkingto an automatic weapon thrower he had been working on. He placed ahand on it and the piece suddenly sprung open, launching ropes andweight that knock out a Viking standing outside.

"See? Now this right here is what I'm talking about." Jiraya saidirritated.

"But it was mild calibration issue-"

"Naruto, if you ever want to get out there you need to stop all-this." The blacksmith said as he gestured to Naruto whole self.

"But you just pointed to all of me."

"Exactly. Stop being all of you!"

"Ohhhh."

"Ohhh yeah!"

"Oh, you, sir, are playing a dangerous game. Keeping this much raw

Vikingness contains? There will be consequences!"

"I'll take my chances. Sword! Sharpen! Now." The smithy said as hehanded Naruto a sword. He did what he was told with a scowl.

_One day, I'll get out there, because killing a dragon is everythingaround here._

_A Nadder head might get me at least some attention. Gronkles aretough. Taking down one of those would definitely get me a girlfriend.A Zippleback? Exotic. Two heads, twice the status._

"They've found the sheep!" said a Viking stationed at one of thecatapult towers.

"Focus fire over the whole bank" ordered Minato as he turned thecatapult over where the dragons were attacking the sheep.

_And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings goafter those. They have this nasty habit of setting themselves onfire._

A Monstrous Nightmare attacked the tower where Minato was. It was onfire, which didn't harm it, that was its habit to set itself onfire.

"Reload! I'll take care of this" Minato said as he started to hit thedragon in the head with his hammer. Then, there was a high pitchshrill in the air. Both Vikings and dragons both stopped fighting fora moment. The sound got louder.

_But the ultimate prize is the dragon no one's ever seen before. Wecall it the…_

"Night Fury!" someone shouted. Then another one said "Get Down!" Thefire from the mysterious beast was blue, but when it hit the tower,it turned red and the tower crumbled. The inexplicable creature justzoomed by.

"Jump!"ordered Minato as he and the others jumped just in the nick oftime. Naruto had stopped working to try to catch a glimpse of thisfurtive dragon.

_This thing never steals food, never reveals itself, and..._

Another shot hit the already flaming tower.

_...never misses. No one has ever killed a Night Fury, that's why I'mgoing to be the first._

Naruto turned when he heard some noise to see Jiraya picking up hisaxe.

"Man the fort, Naruto. They need me out there." He walked out thedoor but turned. "Stay. Put. Here. You know what I mean." He let outa battle cry and raced into battle.

Naruto took this moment and pushed his bolas launcher out of the shopas Vikings continued asking what he was doing. He just ignored themas he pushed it through all the chaos to a quiet spot in the

village.

Meanwhile, a bunch of dragons surrounded a flock of sheep ready totake them. However, Minato threw a net over them to restrain theirmovement.

"Mind yourselves, the beasts still have some juice in them" saidMinato as a Nadder breathe a stream of inferno into the air.Nevertheless, Minato clamped its snout closed to keep them from usingit.

Naruto finally found his perfect spot. He quickly set up his launcherand got ready, waiting for anything to fly by.

"C'mon. Gimme something to shoot at. Gimme something to shoot at."That was when she heard the faint roar of the Night Fury. Suddenly, adark shape fired a shot of blue fire at the nearby watch-tower.Naruto took aim and fired. He heard a loud screech as the Night Furyfell out of the sky towards the other end of the island.

"I hit it," he said. "Yes! I hit it! Did anybody see that?" He turnedto see a Monstrous Nightmare tower over her, his foot standing wherehis crushed machine now lay. "Except for you."

Minato was busy tying down a Nadder when he saw Naruto running from aNightmare. He groaned before heading toward them. "Do not let themescape!" He shouted back.

Naruto kept running and screaming along the way, trying to dodge theattack of the Nightmare. He ran through the village and ducked behinda pole just in time as the Nightmare breathed hot fire towards him.Naruto covered his face with his fists. He looked behind the pole tosee if it was still after him, but little did he know that its headwas right behind him ready to take a bite out of him. Lucky for him,his dad tackled the creature at its side. The dragon tried to breathefire on the chief, but it was out of fuel for its flames.

"You're all out." Minato said. He then punched it. The dragon's onlychoice was to retreat.

_Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know._

The post fell down, causing the lit torch to roll through thevillage. Naruto flinched with every sound the torch made when it hitsomething. He turned to find a disappointed look on Minato'sface.

"Sorry, Dad." He said sheepishly. Everyone saw the dragons gettingaway with more of their livestock. Naruto looked around beforesaying, "Okay, but I hit a Night Fury."

He was then yanked by his father. "It's not like the last few times,Dad! I mean, I really, actually hit it!" He kept protesting as hisfather dragged him away from the middle of the crowd.

"You guys were busy. I had a very clear shot. It went down just offRaven's Point. Let's get a search party-"

"Stop!" Minato interrupted. "Just… stop. Every time you stepoutside, disaster falls. Can't you see I have bigger problems? Winter

is almost here and I have an entire village to feed!"

"Well between you and me, the village could do with a little lessfeeding, don'tcha think?" Naruto asked.

"This isn't a joke, Naruto!" Minato then sighed. "Why can't youfollow the simplest orders?"

"I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just kill it, youknow. It's who I am, Dad." Naruto stated.

"You are many things, Naruto. But a dragon killer is not one of them.Get back to the house." He lets out a long sigh and turned to Jiraya."Make sure she gets there. I have his mess to clean up."

Jiraya gives him a shove and they walk past the other teenagers asthey laugh at him.

"Quite a performance." commented Lee.

"I never seen anyone messed up that badly. That helped." saidKiba.

"Thank you. Thank you, I was trying._"_ Naruto said as Gobbler pushhim towards his house and pushing down Kiba.

The two finally reach the house as the sun rises. Naruto and Jirayastarting a conversation. "I really did hit one."

"Sure, Naruto."

"He never listens."

"It runs in the family."

"And when he does, it's with this disappointed scowl like someoneskimped on the meat in his sandwich. 'Excuse me, barmaid. I'm afraidyou brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra-large boy withbeefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side. This here is a talkingfishbone." Naruto finishes, putting his head down.

"Now yer thinkin' about it all wrong," Jiraya explained trying tocomfort him. "It's not so much what you look like; it's what's insidethat he can't stand."

Naruto gave him a look, "Thank you for summing that up."

"Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you'renot."

"I just wanna be one of you guys," said Naruto as he closed the doorbehind him just to escape through the back door to go find the NightFury.

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><p>The Vikings stood gathered in the large main hall of theirvillage, surrounded by tapestries of vicious slayers and killers.From the ceiling dangled a golden dragon in agony as a sword ranthrough it. Minato Namikaze stood at a large table, map laid out in

front of him. He was leading a meeting, discussing to the others whatthey had to do about the dragons.<p>

"Either we finish them or they'll finish us!" he yelled. "It's theonly way we'll be rid of them. If we find the nest and destroy it thedragons will leave. They'll find another home. One more search beforethe ice sets in." He plunged his knife into the map right where thenest was thought to be.

"But those ships never come back," someone answered.

"We're Vikings, it's an occupational hazard. Now's who's with me?" Heobserved the room as everyone looked around nervously and utteredweak excuses.

"Those who stay will have to look after Naruto." Everyone quicklyraised their hands to join the search. "That's more like it."

The room began to empty and soon only Jiraya remained with him."Alright, I'll pack my undies," Jiraya said, standing up ready toexit as well.

"No, I need you to stay here and train some new recruits." Jiraya satdown again and Minato joined him.

"Oh, perfect. And while I'm busy, Naruto can cover the stall. Moltensteel, razor sharp blades, lots of time to himself...What couldpossibly go wrong?" Jiraya asked.

"What am I going to do with him, Jiraya?" Minato asked.

"Put 'er in training with the others."

"No, I'm serious."

"So am I."

"He'll be killed before you let the first dragon out of itscage."

"Oh, ya don't know that."

"I do know that."

"No ya don't."

"Yes, actually I do."

"No ya don't!"

"Listen, you know what he's like. By the time he can crawl, he hasbeen … different." Minato sighed in frustration. "He doesn't listenand has the attention span of a sparrow. I'd take him fishing and hewent hunting for trolls."

"Trolls exist! They steal yer socks. But only the left ones. What'swith that?" Jiraya interrupts.

"When I was a boy,"began Minato.

"Oh, here we go," muttered Jiraya to himself.

**"**My father told me to bang my head against a boulder and I didit. I thought he was crazy, but I didn't question him. And you knowwhat happened?"

"You got a headache?"Jiraya asked amusedly.

"That rock split in two."Minato corrected. "It taught me what aViking could do Jiraya; he could crush mountains, level forests, andtame seas." He sat down next to his friend. "Even as a boy, I knewwhat I was and what I have become…" he hanged his low. "Naruto isnot that boy."

"You can't stop him, Minato. You can only prepare him. I know itseems hopeless, but the truth is you wouldn't be around to protecthim; he's going to get out there again. He's probably out there now."Jiraya didn't know how right he was.

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><p>Naruto walked all the way to Raven Point and marked off everyspot he checked in his book. It was frustrating that he could findthe dragon. Finally, he scribbled the whole page with his charcoalwith a scowl.<p>

"Oh, the gods hate me!" he said to himself. "Some people lose theirknife or their mug. Not me, no. I manage to lose an entire dragon."Naruto then hit a switch branch out of his way only to cry out onpain when it swung right back and hit his face. He looked up at thetree and tilted his head puzzled. It was snapped right in half. Hethe realize that he was sitting on a deep trail cut into theground… As if something had crash landed there.

Naruto decided to follow it. Once at the end, he peeked over and sawthe Night Fury tangled in the bolas. Naruto gasped as he hid behindthe hill. Taking another peek to make sure he wasn't seeing thing,the boy took out his dagger for protection. Naruto slid down the hilland hid behind a boulder. When he felt safe, he steppedcloser.

"Oh-oh wow. I did it. Ohh I did it. This fixes everything!" He walkedup to the fallen Night Fury and placed his foot on him.

"I have brought down this mighty beast!" Suddenly, the dragon stirredand he immediately back-pedaled. He held out his dagger and wentcloser to the Night Fury to examine it further. He noticed it takingdeep breaths.

With the way its body moved Naruto would have thought it wasbeautiful if he wasn't there to kill it. As he looked further up itsbody, he came to the eyes. They were just staring at him. He heardthe dragon rumble in its chest, almost like moaning.

Naruto took a few deep breaths of his own before saying, "I'm gonnakill you, dragon. I'm gonna... I'm gonna cut out your heart and takeit to my father. I am a Viking. I am a Viking!" He held his daggerup, readying the plunge, and closed his eyes.

The dragon looked at her eyes full of fear. Naruto opened one eye and

looked at the black monster. It looked so frightened. As he forcedhis eyes shut again and raised the knife even higher, he heard thedragon loll its head back on the ground as it shut its eyes. Narutogroaned. He relaxed his arms and let them fall to his sides. Helooked at the ropes of his bolas tangled over the dragon's body.

"I did this." He sighed. He could only think of one thing to do tomake this right. The Night Fury's eyes shot open at the sound thatfollowed. Naruto was on his knees using his dagger to saw through theropes that contained it.

Once the ropes were no longer holding him back, the Night Furypounced onto Naruto and held him down with one of its claws. Narutogasped. He was so afraid of what would happen. As he looked into thegreen eyes of the Night Fury, his heart raced. As the dragon rearedback, Naruto expected to be torched. Instead, the Night Fury roaredright into his face. After that, it ran off. As it flew up, Narutostood to collect himself. He grabbed his dagger and watch the dragonfly off. But the way flew wasn't right. This dragon was known to fastand accurate. Now it was struggling to stay in the air. Narutostarted to walk back for the village. He had not made it three stepswhen his knees went wobbly and his legs gave out underneath him. Helet out a moan as he dropped his knife and fainted.

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><p>Hours later, once Naruto woke from his ordeal, he snuck up to thehouse. As he opened the door, he saw his father poking at the fire.He saw the face he wore. The serious face, which meant he wanted totalk to him. He didn't feel like listening to his father complainsabout his actions again, so he tried to sneak past him upstairs. Nosuch luck. Just as he was half way up, he heard his father callhim.<p>

"Naruto."

"Dad, um... I have to talk to you."

"I really to speak to you about something else, too." saidMinato.

"I don't want to fight dragons / It's time you learn to fightdragons." Naruto and Minato said at the same time. Both father andson turned to each other and asked, "What?"

"Um, you go first." Minato said.

"No, you go first." Naruto said.

"All right." The hokage sighed. "You get your wish. Dragontraining...you starts in the morning."

"Oh, man." Naruto said. "I should've gone first. Uh, 'cause I wasthinking, you know, we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Viking. ButI realized we don't have enough bread-making Vikings orsmall-home-repair Vikings."

"You'll need this." Minato interrupted as he put an axe in Naruto'shands.

"I don't want to fight dragons, Dad."

"Oh, c'mon. Yes, you do."

"Rephrase. Dad, I can't kill dragons."

"But you will kill dragons."

"No, I'm really very extra sure that I won't."

"It's time, Naruto."

"Can you not hear me?"

"This is serious, son. When you carry this axe, you carry all of us.Which means you walk like us, talk like us... You think like moreof... This." Minato did the same thing as Jiraya.

"You just gestured to all of me." Naruto stated.

"Deal?"

"This conversation is feeling very one-sided."

"Deal?" Minato pressed.

Sighing in defeat, Naruto looked up to father and said,"Deal."

"Good." Minato stated as he picked up his bag. "Train hard. I'll beback...probably."

"And I'll be here...maybe." Naruto watched as her father left.

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><p>"Welcome to Dragon Training!" Jiraya stated as he opened the gateto the training yard.<p>

"No turning back." Sakura said out loud. The teens all walked inexcitedly with their weapons. Kiba had his mace, Choji had hishammer, the twins carried their spears and Sakura held her axe.

"I hope I get some serious burns." Lee said.

"I'm hoping for some mauling, like on my shoulder or lower back."Ten-Ten added.

"Yeah," Sakura agreed. "It's only fun if you get a scar out ofit."

"Yeah, no kidding, right?" The teenagers turned to unfortunately findNaruto straggling along behind them carrying the axe his father gavehim. "Pain. Love it."

"Oh, great. Who let him in?" Lee asked.

"Let's get started!" Jiraya interrupted. "The recruit who does bestwill win the honour of killing his first dragon in front of theentire village."

"Naruto already killed a Night Fury, so does that disqualify himor..." Kiba teased as he walked further into the arena. The otheralso followed him, laughing.

"Don't worry," said Jiraya reassuringly, putting a hand on hisshoulder as they started forward. "You're small and you're weak. Thedragons will see your lack of experience and that'll make you less ofa target. They'll go after the more Viking-like teens instead." Witha gentle push Jiraya sent Naruto in line with the others. He put hisaxe on his shoulder and stood as confident as he couldmanage.

Jiraya stood in front of the trainees to continue his lesson. "Behindthese doors are just a few of the many species you will learn tofight. The Deadly Nadder!"

"Speed 8, armour16." Choji muttered.

"The Hideous Zippleback."

"11 stealth, times 2."

"The Monstrous Nightmare."

"Firepower 15."

"The terrible Terror."

"Attack 8, venom 12."

"Can you stop that?!" Jiraya yelled at the teenager. "And, theGronckle." He put his hand on the switch that opened the cage.

"Jaw strength 8." Choji whispered to Naruto.

"Whoa, whoa! Wait!" Kiba shouted. "Aren't you gonna teach usfirst?"

"I believe inlearning on the job." Said Jiraya as he pulls the leverand the Gronkle speeds out and the teens

"Today is all about survival! If you get blasted, you're dead."warned Jiraya as the Gronkle swallowed some rocks and began to flyaround angrily. "Quick! What's the first thing you're going toneed?"

"A doctor?" Naruto blurted out.

"Plus five speed?" Choji asked.

"A shield." Sakura stated.

"Shields. Go!" Jiraya said as he pointed out the shields. Sakura,Choji, and Kiba grabbed their own shields.

"The most important piece of equipment is your shield! If you mustmake a choice between a sword or a shield." Jiraya lectured as hehelped Naruto lift his shield off the ground, "Take theshield."

Meanwhile, the twins, Lee and Ten-Ten took the same shield and theyhad a little fight.

"Get your hands off my shield." Lee orders her.

"There's like a million shields." Ten-Ten said.

"Take that one, it has a flower on it, Girls like flowers."

Ten-Ten was able to pull the shield out of her brother's grip and hithim on the head with it. "Oops. Now this one has blood on it."

While the twins were fighting, the Gronckle blasted them, knockingthem down. "Lee! Ten-Ten! You're out!" Gobber said. "Those shieldsare good for another thing. Noise! Make lots of it to throw off adragon's aim!" The four remaining teenagers banged their weaponsagainst their shields. The Gronckle soon looked as though it weregetting dizzy and confused. "All dragons have a limited number ofshot. How many does a Gronckle have?"

"Five?" Kiba guessed.

"No, six!" Choji cried out.

"Correct, six! That's one for each of you." Gobber explained. At thatthe Gronkle destroyed Choji's shield from where he had been liftingit. He let out a scream and took off at a run. "Choji, out!"

Naruto managed to duck behind a pile of wood and let out a deepbreath.

"Naruto, get in there!" Jiraya shouted. He let out a sigh and steppedout only to dive back in as she was almost blasted by the Gronkle.The Gronckle turned to find Sakura and Kiba.

"So anyway I'm moving into my parent's basement," said Kiba casuallyas Sakura dived next to he, clearly not paying any attention.

"You should come by sometime to work out, you look like you workout." Kiba continued as Sakura rolled to the side just as the Gronkleshot in his direction. The Gronckle saw Kiba distracted and took theshot. Got him!

"Kiba! You're done!" Gobber cried out.

Sakura now came up next to Naruto, who ducked behind him on herknees. "So I guess it's just you and me, huh?" Naruto asked,smiling.

"Nope. Just you." She answered as she rolled out of the way as theGronkle's fire hit Naruto's shield as he hastily raised it and sentit rolling across the arena rather than destroying it.

"One shot left!" Gobber informed. The dragon chose to chase..."Naruto!"

The Gronckle cornered Naruto against the wall until it was merelyinches away from him. After taking a few sniffs, the Gronckle openedit's mouth wide to take the final shot. Naruto squeezed his eyes

shut. Suddenly, Jiraya snagged the dragon with a hook just in timefor the final blast to hit the wall next to the young boy.

"That six. Go back to bed you overgrown sausage! You'll get anotherchance don't you worry." Jiraya closed the door, locking it backwithin its cage.

He turned back to the teens, all of whom were out of breath and worsefor wear. "Remember a dragon will always," he turned to Naruto,"_always _go for the kill."

Naruto slowly rose and gazed at the smoldering hole in the stone thedragon had made in shock. That had almost been him. And he realizesomething. The Night Fury.

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><p>"So why didn't you?" Naruto asked himself as he examined what wasleft of the bolas. He remembered the way the Night Fury flew off anddecided to follow it. He scooted between two large rocks, and behindthem laid a small canyon complete with trees and a picturesque lake.The sun was shining down on it as birds fluttered about inside it.Naruto took a moment to look down into the canyon.<p>

"Well, this was stupid." He muttered. He turned and saw black scales.As he knelt down and picked one up to examine it more closely. Justthen, a large, black figure swept by in front of him sending himshuffling backwards.

It was the Night Fury, trying to climb out of the canyon it seemed,but the rocks were to smooth for its claws to grab on to. It glideddown and across the small lake in the center, landing by a tree thatwas opposite from Naruto.

Naruto worked up his nerve and slowly rose to his feet. He jumpeddown to a rock ledge and tried to get better look at the dragon as itattempted to fly out again. He pulled out his journal as the dragonfailed two more timed to escape. He quickly sketched the basic shapeof the dragon: large wings, small fins right behind its wings, andtwo tail fins.

Once he finished the picture, Naruto muttered, "Why don't you justfly away?" He got his answer when the Night Fury blasted the groundand spread its wings and tail fin. The left tail fin was missing.Naruto corrected his drawing by rubbing off the part of the tail thatwas missing, leaving only a smudge of coal.

He watched him try to fly once more, only to crash by the lake. Afish leapt out of the water and the dragon curiously walked to theedge and peered in, looking for a meal. Diving in to catch one, thedragon's head came out of the water empty and aggravated.

Naruto felt the guilt creep in. It was his fault the dragon was stuckdown here. He had to have been the reason the tail fin was lost. Hismind in an endless jumble he set his charcoal pencil down on hisjournal but it rolled off the rock, landing in the canyon.

The soft sound caught the Night Fury's attention and made him look upand find the same human that did this to him. Naruto could only stareinto the green eyes as they seemed to glare back at him. But this

thought vanished when the dragon leaned its head to the side, almostin a curious manner. This made Naruto dragons as evil as Vikingsthought they were?

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><p>By the time Naruto got back to her village, it had startedpouring, but he already in front of the great pushed them open andentered as the other trainees were discussing their lesson fromearlier.<p>

"All right, where did Sakura go wrong in the ring today?" Jirayaasked.

"I mistimed my somersault dive. It was sloppy. It threw off myreverse tumble." Sakura admitted.

"Yeah, we noticed." Ten-Ten commented.

"No, no. you were great. That was so... 'Sakura'." Kibacommented.

"He's have to be tough on yourselves." said Jiraya as Naruto walkedup to the table. Naruto grabbed his plate of food and walked to thenext table to sit alone. "Where did Naruto go wrong?"

"Uh, he showed up." Ten-Ten said.

"He didn't get eaten." Lee added.

"He's never where he should be." Sakura finished.

"Thank you, Sakura." Gobber said. "You need to live and breathe thisstuff." He then brought out a book**_._** "The dragon manual.everything we know about every dragon we know of." That was when hefinally heard the thunder outside. "No attacks tonight. Studyup."

"Wait, you mean read?" Lee asked.

"While we're still alive?" Ten-Ten added.

"Why read words when you can just kill stuff the words tell you stuffabout?" Kiba asked.

"Oh!I've read it like seven times. There's this water dragon thesprays boiling water at your face. And-and there's this other onethat buries itself for like a-" Said Choji, excited. But he was cutoff by Lee.

"Yeah, that sounds great. Now, there was a chance I was gonna readthat…"

"… But now?" Ten-Ten added.

"You guys read, I'll go kill stuff." Snotlout the Vikings got up toleave, except for Sakura and Naruto.

"So, I guess we'll share?" asked Narutp

"Read it!" said Sakura as she stood up and walked toward thedoor.

"Oh, oh, fine then, wow. So o-okay, I guess I'll see you-" Narutosaid until he notice the Sakura already out of the building.

The great hall finally empty, and Naruto is the only one there. Heput a candle on the table, next to the dragon manual. He sat down,opened the book, and read it out loud.

**Dragon Classifications. Strike Class. Fear Class. MysteryClass**

Naruto opened the first page.

**Thunderdrum. This reclusive dragon inhabits sea caves and dark tidepools. When startled, the Thunderdrum produces a concussive soundthat can kill a man at close range. Extremely dangerous. Kill onsight.**

He skipped some page.

**Timberjack. This gigantic creature has razor sharp wings that canslice through full grown trees. Extremely dangerous. Kill onsight.**

He opened the next page.

**Scauldron. Sprays scalding water at its victims. Extremelydangerous.**

Suddenly there was a strike of lightning and followed by a thunder.Naruto jumped and turned the page.

**Changewing. Even newly hatched dragons can spray acid. Kill onsight.**

He turned the page faster since he longger not interested in thatbook.

**Gronckle.** **Zippleback.** **The Skrill.** **Bone Knapper.****Whispering Death.**

**Burns its victims.** **Buries its victims.** **Chokes itsvictims.** **Turns its victims inside out.**

**Extremely dangerous.** **Extremely dangerous.** **Kill on sight.****Kill on sight.** **Kill on sight.**

He finally reached the last page. Almost half of the page isempty.

**Night Fury. Speed unknown. Size unknown. The unholy offspring oflightning and death itself. Never engage this dragon. Your onlychance: Hide and pray it does not find you.**

Naruto took out his journal and opened it to the page she drew thepicture of the Night Fury on. He had to asked Jiraya about it, andthat's the reason he came the next morning.

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><p>The next day in the Dragon Training...<p>

"Hey, you know, I just happened to notice to book had nothing onNight Furies. Is there, like, another book, or a sequel? Maybe alittle Night Fury pamphlet?" Naruto asked as she looked up at the topof the wall of the arena where Jiraya was standing. Suddenly, a blastshot next to had unleashed Nadder that melted his axe right off itshandle.

"Focus Naruto! Yer not even tryin'!" yelled Jiraya.

"Whoa!" Naruto yelled in surprise and took off to hide in the maze.The Nadder then charged at him.

"Today it's all about attack! Nadders are quick and light on theirfeet. Your job is to be quicker and lighter!" Jiraya said.

The Nadder lifted its spiked tail and launched a battery of quillsinto Choji's shield.

"I'm really beginning to question your teaching methods!" he yelledas he ran through the maze.

"Look for its blind spot! Every dragon has one." Jiraya explained ashe picked his teeth. "Find it, hide in it and strike."

Ten-Ten and Lee ducked around a corner just to find themselvesstanding face to face with Nadder. They tried to move past it withoutallowing it to see them, but were stuck at every turn.

"Yuch! Do you ever bathe?" asked Ten-Ten when she smelt somethingfrom his twin brother.

"If you don't like it, then just get your own blind spot." Lee said,rather loudly as he pushed his sister.

"How about I give you one!" Ten-Ten countered as she pushed herbrother back. It was right then the Nadder expelled a great deal ofpiping hot fire. They managed to duck out of the way just intime.

"Blind spot: yes. Deaf spot… not so much," Jirayacommented.

Naruto crept up to the spot in front of Jiraya. "Hey! So how wouldone sneak up on a Night Fury?" he asked.

"No one's ever met one and lived to tell the tale. Now GET IN THERE!"Jiraya replied, annoyed at his behavior.

"I know. I know. But… hypothetically-" he continued as he backedup. He saw Sakura and Kiba hiding next to him. Sakura gave him a getdown gesture

She peeked around the corner and saw the Nadder sniffing the ground.She quickly and skillfully rolled past the dragon to another wall andKiba silently followed.

Naruto, tried to copy them but failed. He failed to rool and stopright in front the Nadder. The Nadder charged and he quickly duckedaway, getting lost in the maze.

The dragon jumped up on the walls again and located Kiba and Sakuraand leaped down right in front of them.

Sakura was about to throw her axe, but Kiba pushed her aside. "Watchout, babe. I'll take care of this." He then threw his his mace... Andmissed completely. The Nadder seemed to laugh at him. When the girlglared at him, Kiba came up with some stupid excuse. "The sun was inmy eyes, Sakura."

The Nadder took another shot, but the teens were able to dodge it. Asthey ran through the maze. "What do you want me to do, block out thesun? I could do that but I don't have time!" Kiba continued.

The Nadder tore after Sakura; its angry roars filed the arena. Itknocked over anything in its way.

"Has anyone seen one napping?" Naruto asked, once again in front ofJiraya. He suddenly swiveled at the dragon's roar and saw Sakura hadclimbed up onto one of the falling walls. The Nadder was rightbehind, having knocked the rest down.

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted angrily as she took a flying leap andmanaged to land right on Naruto, sending him to the ground.

"Ooo, love on the battlefield," Lee teased.

"He could do better," acknowledged his sister.

"Let me- why don't you?" Naruto shouted as Sakura tried to dig heraxe out of Naruto's shield which was attached to his arm. Narutostruggled to get up, but Sakura put her foot on him and yanked theshield off his arm. Sakura saw the Nadder charging and took off toget a better position.

Sakura decided to swing her axe, with the shield, at the dragon. Shehit the Nadder square in the jaw, shattering the shield intosplinters. The Nadder then walked away like a wounded puppy.

"Well done, Sakura!" Gobber called out.

Sakura turned to Naruto. "Is this some kind of joke to you? Ourparents' war is about to become ours. Figure out which side your on."With that everybody left Naruto there.

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><p>Naruto walked back to the canyon, fish in one hand and shieldready at the other. He hid between two rocks and tossed the fish in.Nothing happened. He meant to walk inside when the shield was trappedbetween the two rocks. Unable to move it he ducked under and grabbedthe fish again.<p>

After walking in, he heard something behind him. Naruto turned tofind the Night Fury crouched on a small lower ledge. It crept down asit watched him. Once in front of him, Naruto held the fish out forthe dragon. He crept forward with its pupils becoming more round and

its mouth wide open. But when it noticed his dagger, it hissed andpulled back while his pupils became slits again. Naruto took hisdagger and dropped it on the ground. Taking his right foot, he kickedit away.

As soon as the dragon heard the splash it sat down on its haunchesand looked at him with big eyes as its ear twitched. He held out thefish again and the dragon inched closer. He walked out to meet it,slowly and carefully. It opened its gums and Naruto now noticed therewasn't a tooth in sight.

"Huh. Toothless. I could've sworn you had-" The teeth suddenlyunsheathed and the dragon snatched the fish. While gobbling the smallmorsel, Naruto finished his sentence with a squeak. "...teeth"

He looked at Narutoand started towards him, making low rumblingnoises in his throat. He backed up into a large rock and shrunk tothe ground in front of it as the dragon proceeded to get up close inhis face.

"No. No. No. I don't have anymore." He said. The Night Fury startedto convulse. _Hik-hik-hik _and out came half of the fish it had justswallowed into his lap. The dragon then sat down and stared at him.He stared at him a long moment before he gestured to him then thefish. Naruto groaned as the realization hit him. It wanted him to eatit.

Naruto slowly lifted the fish to his mouth and took a small,reluctant bite. He had to hold whatever food he still had in hisstomach down. The taste was horrible! And the fact tat was formerlyin the stomach of a dragon certainly didn't help at all. As he lookedup, Naruto saw the dragon nod toward him. He wanted him to swallowit.

Naruto made a face. Doing everything he could do to not vomit, Narutoswallowed the fish in his mouth. He cringed and gagged, but the NightFury was pleased. Naruto can't help but let out a laugh and smile avery goofy smile. The dragon looked at him and squinted his eyes. Thesides of his mouth came up in a weird sort of a toothless smile.Naruto reached forward in an attempt to touch the dragon. But itgrowled and hurried off to the other side of the glade.

It lit the ground on fire and lay down on the warm flames. He liftedhis head to the sound of chirping and saw a bird taking off from hisnest on a branch and fly away. When his gaze followed the bird hiseyes fell on Naruto, who had moved to the other end of the canyon andwas now sitting next to him. He smiled and gave a small wave beforethe Night Fury laid his head down and moved his body. Once lying doncompletely, he moved his tail next to his head and used his only tailfin to cover his face. Naruto scooted closer, wanting to touch thescaly skin. When his fingers were just inches away, the dragon pulledback his tail fin to see what he was doing. Naruto jumped back insurprise and walked away with an embarrassed stride. The Night Furygrumbled a little bit before walking away as well.

The dragon was hanging by its tail on a tree root for hours, justtrying to sleep. When it finally decided to open its eyes. He sawNaruto sitting on a small rock not facing him. His curiosity broughthim to investigate. Naruto, bored, had been mindlessly drawing in thedirt with a stick when he noticed the large black beast watching him

from behind. With a few motions the lines took the form of thedragon. He finished with the eyes when the Night Fury decided to walkaway. He turned to find it break off a branch from a tree and startto trace lines into the ground. He just seemed to go in uncoordinatedlines around him.

Once he finished, he seemed to admire his work. Naruto, in the middleof the drawing, stood up to get a better view of the swirls in thedirt. As he was glancing around, his foot hit one of the lines. Thedragon let out a furious growl and he quickly removed his foot, itthen purred and its pupils rounded again. Curiously, Naruto hit theline again, the dragon became furious. When, he removed his foot, itsexpression soften. He did it again and the result was thesame.

Naruto finally stepped over the line, hearing more purrs come fromthe dragon. He kept avoiding the line, making him like he wasdancing. He twirled and swirled until he felt a breath behind him. Hequickly turned to find the Nigh Fury standing there, gazing him, purecalm and happiness in his eyes. Naruto reached his hand out to tryand touch him, but he pulled back and growled slightly. Narutodecided to closed her eyes and extended her hand. The Night Fury'seyes opened wide and looked at the boy's hand for a long momentbefore slowly, very slowly, closing his eyes and moving his headforward so that it bumped into his hand. Naruto lifted his head andlooked at him. The Night Fury then pulled back and opened its eyes,it then ran off. Naruto stood there a minute to get a grip on whathad just happened.

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><p><strong>To Be Continue...<strong>

2. Chapter 2

Naruto sat around a campfire roasting a small fish with the otherteens and Jiraya on the top one of the watch-towers. The teens allstared at Jiraya in amazement as he continued his story, all feastingon much larger chickens and drumsticks.

"Did you know that my family have the most juicy meatof all vikings?Once there's a Monstous Nightmare ate my mom and swallowed her whole.And I saw the look on his face... She was delicious. He must havepassed the word, because it wasn't a month before another one of themate my dad." Everyone gasped at the story, well, exceptNaruto.

"Wow, isn't it weird to think that your arm was inside a dragon? Likeif your mind was still controlling it you could have crushed hisheart or something," said Choji.

"Ugh!" Kiba grumbled. "I swear, I'm so angry right now! I'll avengeyour beautiful mom and your beautiful dad. I'll chop off the legs ofevery dragon I fight...With my face."

"It's the wings and the tail you want. If it can't fly, it can't getaway," Jiraya explained. "A downed dragon is a deaddragon."

Naruto's breath stopped. The Night Fury is a dead dragon because itcan't fly? No, he won't let that happen. He had to do something, now!For Toothless, the poor Night Fury.

"All right, I'm off to bed. And you all should be too," Jirayacontinued, rising. "Tomorrow we get to the big boys, slowly butsurely working our way up to the Monstrous Nightmare. But who willwin the honor of killing it?" The teens all glanced aroundexcited.

"It's gonna' be me. It's my destiny," Lee said, leaning back.."See."

Gasps echoed. "You mom let you get a tattoo?" Choji whispered indisbelief.

"It's not a tattoo. It's a birthmark."

"Ok, I've been stuck with you since birth and that was neverthere."

"Yes it was. You just haven't seen me from the left side until now."Sakura noticed a fish on a stick sitting in Naruto's seat with himnowhere in sight. Sakura looked every way but Naruto was long gone.She finally shrugged, wondering why she cared, and went back to jointhe others.

Naruto opened his book to the page that he drew Toothless. Taking hischarcoal, he drew in the missing tail fin. And just like that, herushed to the smith shop and immediately got to work. Once it wasfinish, he examined it, quite pleased with himself, and compared itto the blue-print. This might just work. He folded it into place andknew where he was going first thing in the morning.

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><p>The next morning when Naruto arrived at the canyon,he spottedToothless resting on a rock. "Hey, Toothless?" He called. The dragonturned to find the boy had returnedwith a huge sack.<p>

"I brought breakfast. I hope you're hungry." When he set it down, hekicked it over, revealing a lot of different fish just forhim.

"Okay, that's disgusting." Naruto commented as fish fell in front ofhim. "Uh, we've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod and a wholesmoked eel."

Suddenly, Toothless growled, backing away from the pile. Confused,Naruto held up an eel as the dragon let out a cry of fear.

"No, no! No, it's okay!" he cried, tossing the eel into the water."Yeah, I don't really like eel much, either." Toothless immediatelyrelaxed and moved in on the started sniffing around the pile until hewas satisfied. He quickly started to eat his breakfast while Narutowent to his tail.

"That's it." He kept muttering. He's almost to his tail... "And don'tyou mind me. I'll just be back here, minding my own business." Helaid the fake fin next his tail to get it ready, but the dragon moved

his tail away.

Naruto checked to see if he was looking, but he wasn't. He triedagain but Toothless moved his tail again. With a growl, Narutograbbed Toothless' tail and sat on it. He looked behind him to see ifToothless wasn't looking. Luckily for him, Toothless had stuck hishead in the sack to get the rest of his fish.

Toothless sensed the change and swished his tail a movement beforehis jaw dropped. Naruto was able to wrap the leather belt around histail and strap it down."That'll work- WHOAAA!" He launched his bodyupwards and flapped his wings to gain speed. Naruto screamed as heclung to his tail.

"No, no, no, no!" He screamed. As they kept going, he saw that thefin wasn't spread. As they began to fall, Naruto grabbed the edge ofthe fin and opened it. At the last second, just before they wouldhave hit the ground, Toothless was able to elevate his body and soarupwards.

"Oh my- It's working!" Naruto cheered. He then steered the fin to hisleft, causing the dragon to turn in that direction. They soon doveback into the canyon. Naruto was still cheering for this smallvictory. "Yes! Yes, I did it!"

Upon hearing this, Toothless glanced at the human on his tail andmade a sharp right turn, flinging Naruto off and skipping across thepond like a flat stone. The dragon soon realized tha this was amistake. The moment Naruto fell off, Toothless started to fall. Helanded in the pond with the human. "Yeah!" Naruto cheered, throwinghis fists in the air.

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><p>"Today is about teamwork." Jiraya said as he was opening one ofthe cages. Green fog emerged from the cage, making it very difficultto see.<p>

"Now, a wet dragon head can't light its fire. The hideous Zipplebackis extra tricky. One head breathes gas, the other head lights it."The teens then split into three teams. Kiba and Lee, Sakura andTen-Ten, Naruto and Choji. "Your job is to know which iswhich."

"Razor sharp serrated teeth that inject venom for pre-digestion."Choji muttered. "Prefers ambush attack, crushing itsvictims-"

"Would you please stop that?" Hiccup loudly whispered.

Sakura and Ten-Ten were looking in every direction, but could seenothing.

"If that dragon shows either of his faces, I'm gonna...There!" Kibaexclaimed when he saw a boys throw their buckets of water only forTen-Ten and Sakura to emrge, both very annoyed.

"Hey! It's us, idiots!" Ten-Ten growled.

"Your butts are getting bigger." Lee teased. "We thought you were a

dragon."

"Not that there's anything wrong with a dragonesque figure." saidKiba. Sakura ran up and punched Kiba in the face while Ten-Ten threwher water bucket at her twin, knocking him onto the ground. Everyonefroze when Lee was dragged into the fog by some unseen force. Theteens could hear his screams of terror. Ten-Ten was about to run outto get him, but Sakura stopped her.

"Wait." Not two seconds later did the dragon's tail sweep their legsout from under them. Soon, Lee emerged from the fog in terror as heran to the far side of the arena.

"Oh, I'm hurt! I am very much hurt!" Lee yelled as he runs pastNaruto and Choji as they realize they are the only twostanding.

"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits right now."Choji told Naruto nervously. One of the Zippleback heads slitheredout of the fog and sniffed Choji. He threw his water on it, only towatch in horror as it opened its mouth to release the green gas."Ops. Wrong head." Fishlegs chuckled nervously.

"Choji!" Gobber shouted as Choji running off other head comes intoview and starts sparking.

"Now,Naruto!" Gobber shouts. He threw his water at the lighter... Itwas no where close to hitting the dragon.

"Aww, come on." He exclaimed in his sarcastic tone. The dragon roaredin his face and tried to light the gas again.

"Naruto!" Jiraya cried out. Just as he was about to come to hisrescue, he, along with the other teens, even the village mostpowerful female viking and healer, Tsunade, who was watching thewhole time, stopped and stared at the unfolding scene.

The dragon started creeping back as Naruto stood up, holds his handsout and makes pushing motions.

"Back! Get back! Back!" The dragons back s away as he continues tostep towards it until it is finally backed in its cage.

"Now, don't make me tell you again! Yes, back into your cage! Nowthink about what you've done." Naruto lectures as he secretly pullsan eel and tossed it in front of the beast. It schooched against thewall, trying to get as far away as possible. He shut the doors andturned back to see the others all staring at her in shock as Chojidropped his bucket.

"Okay, so are we done? 'Cause I've got some things I have to takecare of so… uh... yeah. See you tomorrow!" And with that, he tookoff.

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><p>Naruto was in the shop and just finished a saddle he made. Thenext morning, he showed Toothless. He playfully crouched down and ranoff. Naruto laughed as he chased him down. "Hey!" The young boy hadthe brilliant idea of using a rope to hold the tail fin. When he

pulled a little too hard to steer, both he and the dragon crashedinto the pond.<p>

Naruto was able to attach a hitch to the saddle and made a belt forhimelf to wear and hook himself to it. He and Toothless had anothertry at flying and had a little more success. The only difference nowwas Naruto tied the rope to his foot. It was a little easier becausehe could now hold on to Toothless, but it was hard to steer him byusing his foot and a rope. They gained some air and were higher thanthey were yesterday. But because the tail fin would not open, theycrashed onto some soft long grass. Naruto gained his footing. But heturned around to find Toothless rolling in the grass. He was purringand enjoying this. Naruto picked some of the grass and got anidea.

The next day in training, Jiraya used the Gronckle again. It took outall the other teens until only Naruto was left. It charged straighttoward him with cruel intentions. He held out the grass he got fromnear the glade and the Gronckle fell down in front of him. It seemedto be under the same spell the grass cast on Toothless. The Gronckleloved the smell so much it laid over sideways and kicked its leg.Tsunade saw the whole thing and nobody in the ring notice her.

The teens leave the arena later. "Wow, what's that?" Lee askedamazed.

"I've never seen a Gronkle do that before." Added Kiba.

"Oh, I left my axe back in the ring. You all go ahead, I'll catch upwith you." Naruto said as he slipped free of the group and turn back.He almost crashed into Sakura but continue back toward he arena asshe watched him suspiciously.

Toothless was purring as Naruto was scratching him. He got a realsurprize when he scratched a spot under his jaw. He passed out inpure delight. He was asleep with a smile on his face. Naruot slowlygrinned when he realized how useful this discovery would be.

Sakura threw her axe at the dragon deflected the weapon and chargedtoward her. Astrid rolled out of the way to leave Naruto by himself.The boy dropped his mace. Naruto heard Sakura's battle cry and knewthat he had to act fast. He began scratching the dragon's neck and itstarted purring. And when she scratched that spot under its jaw, theNadder passed out with a slight smile. Sakura froze just before shewould have striked the beast.

That night Naruto took his seat as the whole group gathered aroundhim, asking question and giving praise. Sakura knock her cup down infrustation.

Toothless was trying to catch a little beam of light across thecanyon. Naruto who was reflecting the light with a hammer that hebrought, silently laughed at Toothless behavior.

"Meet the Terrible Terror." Jiraya said. Instead of a fearsomebeast... A small lizardcame out.

Lee pointed, "It's like the size of my-" He never got the chance tofinish since the Terror jumped on him and got a good bite of hisnose.

"OH! Get it off!" But something caught its eye... A light. A smalllight on the ground. It looked fun to play with. The Terror let go ofLee.

"Oh, I'm hurt! I am very much hurt!" The Terror followed the lightthat was reflecting off of Naruto shield. He led the small dragonback to its cage.

"Wow, he's better that you ever were." Commented Lee to Sakura as shegave him a death glare.

Sakura was practicing in the forest with her axe, hitting the samemark on the tree every time. As she turned around, she saw Naruto.The boy saw Sakura looking at him and quickeded him pace. Sakurafollowed Naruto, but when she climbed a big rock, Naruto was nowherein her sight.

Naruto was adding a pedal to the saddle so he could steer Toothlessmore easily. Once the pedal was set up, Naruto led his dragon to acliff wit a stump at the top. Toothless spread his wings, letting thewind lift them off the ground. Naruto set his foot in the pedal andstarted to move it in different positions. As he continued topractice, he noticed that different positions meant differentdirections. He pulled a piece of scrap parchment and his charcoal anddrew the different pedal positions. He discovered how there were six,and each had its own purpose. He drew the position the tail fin wouldgo.

He patted Toothless' shouder to let him know he wanted him in the airagain. This time, the rope snapped and sent them back into the trees.Naruto screamed while Toothless roared. Once they landed on theground, the dragon sat up...dragging Naruto with him. He saw the hookto hold him to the saddle had bent and locked the belt. "Oh, great."He groaned.

That night, Naruto was able to sneak Toothless into the villagewithout being seen. He quickly rushed him to Jiraya's shop and triedto find the pincers. While she searched, Toothless pulled her awaywhen he found a bucket and flipped it, causing a loud sound, alertinga nearby Sakura.

"Naruto? Are you in there?" Sakura asked.

Naruto eyes widened. He lept through the window and closed itquickly. "Sakura! Hei! Hi, Sakura! Hi, Sakura! Hi!"

"Normally, I don't care what people do, but you're acting wierd"Sakura said. At this moment, Toothless had seen a sheep and tried tocreep over to get it. This in turn, made noise and pulled Naruto,causing heim to jerk back slightly. "Well, wierd-er."

The son of the hokage nervously chuckled before he was pulled throughthe window. Naruto tried to catch him, but he was gone. She openedthe window to try and see the boy, but he was gone. What Sakuradidn't know that Naruto and Toothless already ran out the village.

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><p>Jiraya hobbled to the dock when he heard the Vikings had

returned. Once he was at the end, he found Minato glowering tohimself. "I trust you found the nest, at least?"<p>

"Not even close." Minato grumbled as he walked past his friend. "Ihope you had a little more success than me."

Jiraya shrugged and said, "Well, if by success, you mean that yourparenting troubles are over with, then yes."

Just as he was about to ask what his friend meant, some of theVikings that remained on the island up to Minato inexcitement.

"Congratulations, Minato! Everyone is so relieved!"

"Out with the old and in with the new, right?"

"No one will miss that old nuisance!"

"The village is throwing a party to celebrate!"

Minato turned to his friend and thought the worst. "He's gone?"

"Um, yes. Most afternoons, but who could blame him? I mean, the lifeof a celebrity's very rough. He can hardly walk through the villagewithout being swarmed by his new fans." Jiraya explained with asmile.

"Naruto?" Minato asked.

Jiraya nodded as he continued. "Who would've thought it, eh? He hasthis way with the beasts."Minato stood for a moment before a hugesmile appeared on his face. He had been wrong. His son was truly aViking.

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><p>Naruto and Toothless were in the air. The wind was amazing andthe sky was clear. A very rare kind of day for Berk. He looked at hischeat sheet to figure out which position the pedal should bein.<p>

"Okay there, bud. We need to take this nice and slow." He said."Okay, here we go." He then looked at the sheet and tried to find theright position "Position... Three. No! Four!" He then pushed thepedal and made the fin open completely. Toothless seemed to beenjoying himself as they made the wide turn, smiling to himself. Oncethey steadied, Naruto turned around to check the fin. It was still inone piece.

"Okay, it's go time," He muttered with an exasperated sigh. "It's gotime." They dived towards the water.

"Come on, buddy. Come on!" Naruto said. As the glided over the ocean,they went under a fischer. When Naruto saw the fin was still in tacthe sighed in relief.

"Yes! It worked." He said and he then tried to steer Toothless, butthey wound up hitting a small cliff.

"Sorry!" They then hit another one. "That was my fault!" Toothlessthen swatted Naruto with his right ear.

Naruto groaned and said, "Yeah. Yeah. I'm on it." He then checked hercheat sheet again.

"Taking position four. Eh, three!" He pulled the Night Fury up,causing them to fly up.

"Yeah! Go, baby!" Toothless let his tongue hang out the side of hismouth as he flapped his wings.

"YES!" Naruto yelled. "Oh, this is amazing! The wind in my-" That waswhen he saw his cheat sheet come out of the clip that held it to thesaddle. "CHEAT SHEET! STOOOOOOP!"

Out of reflex, Toothless did as he was told. He stopped flapping. Butthe momentum from his flapping caused Naruto to fly over him and thehoop used to hold his to the saddle unhooked. When Toothless saw himover his head, he was panicking, so Naruto had to step up and be thestrong one.

"Oh Gods! Oh no! Okay, you've gotta... You've gotta angle yourself.No, no, no! Come back down fort! Come back down- gah!" He received atail to his face that sent him reeling.

Enabling himself to reach out after putting his cheat sheet in hismouth, Naruto was able to grab the saddle and hook his belt to it. Asthey straightened up and fell past the clouds, Naruto's eyes widenedas he noticed how close they were to the ground. He pulled back onthe saddle and got Toothless to open his wings like a parachute. Theymanaged to not hit the trees and roughly glide over them.

Toothless roared in terror as Naruto tried to check the cheat sheet.They were going so fast that he couldn't read it. When looked ahead,he saw more fishers ahead and they approaching fast. Letting go ofthe sheet, he gripped the saddle with both hands and shifted thepedals to steer them. Toothless and Naruto swished through the rocksand avoided crashing.

Once they cleared the fishers, Naruto stood up with his hands in theair and screamed, "YEAH!"

Toothless, in his own glee, shot a fire bolt ahead of them, forming aring of fire... And they were flying right to it. "Oh, come on!"Naruto complained.

Naruto was sitting against Toothless while recalling how he wound upwith charred marks on his skin and clothes. His thoughts wereinterrupted when he heard Toothless gag. Looking over, he saw himdrop a fish head in front of him. He turned to look at him, only tohear his friend say, "Umm, no thanks. I'm good." Naruto then showedhim the fish he was roasting on a stick over a fire. They suddenlyturned when they heard soft screeching. Four Terrors were flyingtoward them. Naruto was a little nervous as he heard Toothless growland pull his fish closer to himself.

They landed and crawled toward them, but instead attacking, they wentstraight for the fish head that Toothless had regurgitated. Twostarted fighting over it.

Toothless noticed one of his fish moving. Soon, a Terror revealeditself as it dragged the fish away. It would have gotten away if itwas a little quicker. But Toothless caught the fish and jerked backhard enough for only the tail to break off, giving him the whole fishto swallow. The Night Fury seemed to find it funny as it sounded likehe was laughing.

This didn't sit too well with the Terror. The pint-sized dragon spatthe tail out and started to claw the ground and growled, showing thatit was about to attack. It stood up and took in a breath. As itreleased the gas to make the fire, Toothless shot a very small firebolt into the Terror's mouth, causing it to back fire, literally. Thegas lit up on the inside of the dragon, causing the poor thing toswell up like a balloon and deflate to the ground. Thankfully, itdidn't kill it, but the little guy was unbalanced anddisoriented.

Naruto laughed, but couldn't help but feel bad for the little guy."Not so fire-proof on the inside, are you? Here you go." He saidkindly, handing it his small fish. The Terror scooped it up and thensnuggled cozily under his arm, quite content as he stroked it.

It as there that Naruto realized it. "Everything we know about youguys... Is wrong."

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><p>Naruto sat in the blacksmith shop at his desk in the back,flicking his charcoal against the desk. He sat up when he heardsomething next to him, only to jump when he found hisfather.<p>

"Dad! You're back!" Naruto stood up in front of his desk, trying tohide his drawing. "Uh, Gobber's not here right now, so-"

"I know." Minato answered. "I came looking for you."

"You did?"

"You've been keeping secrets."

"Um, I-I-I have-I have?"

"Just how long did you think you could hide something like this fromme?"

"I-I don't know what you..."

"Nothing happens on this island without me hearing aboutit."

"Who?"

"So, let's talk about that dragon."

"Oh Gods. Dad, I'm so sorry. I just going to tell you but I don'tknow how to-" She trailed when he heard his father started to joinhis laugh nervously before asking, "You're not upset?"

"What?" Minato questioned with a smile. "I was hoping forthis!"

"You… were?" Naruto asked.

Minato laughed happily. "And believe me, it only gets better! Justwait until you spill a Nadder's guts for the first time! And mountyour first Gronkle head a spear! What a feeling! You really had megoing me there son!" He clapped Naruto on the back, sent him tumblinginto a basket behind him.

"All those years were the worst viking Berk can ever seen. Odin! Itwas rough! I had almost given up on you. Turn out all the time you'vebeen holding out on me. Oh, Thor almighty!"Minato took a seat infront of Naruto, and continued, "With you doing so well in the ring,we finally had a chance to talk about it."

Naruto was speachless. He didn't know what he want to say. Naruto letout a sigh. Minato moved closer to Naruto, wanting some awesomestories. But he got nothing.

There was an awkward silent before Minato say, "Oh, I've brought yousomething." He pulled out a helmet handed it to Naruto. "To keep yousafe. It was your mother's. It was half of her breast plate." Narutolooked at the helmet and smiled.

Minato then tapped at is own helmet. "Matching set. Keeps herclose."

Naruto jawdroped. What have he done? He put his new helmet down andfake yawned, saying "Yeah, I should really go to bed."

Minato then stood up, muttering something and awkwardly walked outthe door. While Naruto also muttering a different things. Minato thenwhispered a "good-night" to Naruto and walked out Naruto let out asigh. Meanwhile, Minato outside the blacksmith shop also sigh inrelieve, but accidentally know some weapon down. He just stay inpride.

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><p>The Gronkle was released and Naruto ducked behind one of theshort wooden walls scattered around the ring. Sakura also hid behindthe same wall. And when she noticed that Naruto was beside her, sheshot him a dangerous look.<p>

"Stay out of my way," She said, "I'm winning this thing." She thenwent to hide behind another wall.

Naruto rose and looked to see his dad behind him, watching. He knewit was time as the Gronkle started towards him. Meanwhile, Sakura wasstill rolling from wall to wall to get into a good position.

"This time," She whispered angrily to herself, "this time for sure!"She leapt up from the wall and charged towards the Gronkle, wavingher axe around in the air and letting out a war cry. It died on hislips when she saw the Gronkle. It collapsed in front of Naruto's feetand everyone was cheering.

"NO!" Sakura screamed. She began whirling her axe around in the air,

cursing, No, "SON OF A HALF-troll, rat-eating, munge-bucket"

"So, later-" said Naruto starting to ran off. But he was held byJiraya

"Oh no, not so fast."

"You know, I kinda late for-"

"What?" Sakura said, shoving the axe blade up in his face. She lookedcompletely mad. "Late for what, exactly?"

"Wait! Wait!" Minato boomed over the noise of the crowd. "Okay, quitedown! The powerful-one has chosen!" Tsunade looked at the two teensas Jiraya lifted his hand and held it above Sakura's head.

Tsunade sadly shook her head. Jiraya's eyes widened and moved hishand above Naruto's. The crowd began whispering. Naruto squeezed hiseyes shut and Tsunade nodded. And then the cheering erupted.

"Oh, you've done it! You've done it, Naruto! You get to kill thedragon!" Naruto opened his eyes slowly and looked at Sakura. She casthim a I-will-kill-you look.

"That's my boy!" Minato yelled happily.

The rest of the training class rushed into the ring, staring at himadmiringly and cheering. Choji lift him to his shoulder, Kiba and thetwins, Lee and Ten-Ten gave him a high-five.

"Yeah," he said, waving his fist in the air sadly. "Great. I'mso-"

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><p>"-leaving." Naruto entered the canyon with an enormous pack onhis back. He looked around for Toothless.<p>

"We're leaving. Lets pack up. It looks like you and I are taking alittle vacation. Forever," He sighed. But, there was no dragon insight.

He sat down in the shade of a giant rock and started to sort throughthe pack, making sure he had everything he needed. He stood up andsaw Sakura sitting above the rock.

He lept back, and trying to be as usual. "What are you doinghere?"

Sakura was sharpening her axe with a small rock. She looked andNaruto as she throw the rock. "I wanna know what's going on." Narutostarted to backpedal as Sakura jumped in front of him. "Nobody justgets as good as you. Especially you."

"Start talking. Are you training with someone?" Shecontinue.

"Training, well I-"

"Better not involve this!" She grabbed the front of his clothes and

almost lift him off the ground.

"I know. This look really bad. But this is a-" Naruto didn't managedto finish his sentences 'cause Sakura pulled him and dropped him tothe ground.

"Okay. You're right, you're right, I'm through with the lies!" Narutosaid as he walked in front of the girl. "I've been making outfits! Soyou got me, it's time everyone knew." He grabbed hre hand and placedit on his shoulder. "Drag me back, here we go." Sakura then grabbedhis hand and twisted it backwards. "Why would you do that?" He criedin pain, falling over.

She kicked his feet out from under as he started to rise, sending himto the ground. "That's for the lies," Sakura said coldly, shethendropped her axe hilt on his stomach, hilt first. He cried out inpain... "And this is for everything else."

They suddenly heard a growling. Sakura saw a black dragon looking atthem. Naruto muttered, "Oh man."

"Get down!" She shouted, grabbing Naruto and forcing him down.Toothless charged at the person who was hurting his friend. Shepicked up her axe and prepared to swing at Toothless. Just before theaxe could make contact, Naruto dove at Sakura and knocked her to theground.

"NO!" Naruto grabbed the axe, sent it skidding across the ground andrushed between Sakura and Toothless.

"It's okay," he said as Toothless hunched down and glared at Anstred."She's a friend."

Naruto turned to Sakura and felt Toothless nudge him in the back,still growling. "You scared him."

"I scared him?!" Sakura screeched. "Who is him?"

Naruto took a step, "Sakura, Toothless. Toothless, Sakura." Toothlessbarred his teeth and growled. Sakura merely shook her head. Then sheturned and started running.

"Da da da, we're death." Naruto said. Toothless shook himself andthen turned to walk away in a huff. "Whoa, where do you think you'regoing?" He shouted.

Sakura was running toward the village, when she suddenly being liftof the ground. Sakura in Toothless' grasp. "Oh great Odin's ghost!"she shouted as they snatched her off the ground and went the oppositeway of the village. "No! This is not it!"

They landed at the very top of the tallest tree in the area,Toothless gladly dropping her on one of the higher branches andsettling comfortably at the very top. The tree bent significantly,but the group was still very high in the air.

"Naruto!" Sakura yelled at him, "Get me down from here!"

"You have to give me time to explain." He said.

"I'm not listening to ANYTHING you have to say!" She yelled.

"Then I wont speak. Just let me show you." He said. Sakura lookedaway from Naruto. "Please."Naruto extending a hand out to her.

She finally grunted and heaved herself offered her hand again, but hetook one look and knocked it away. Toothless looked at her andgrowled. She then sat behind Naruto

"Now get me down," She said.

"Toothless, down. Gently." He said. Toothless extended his wings tothe side.

"See?" He said cheerfully, "Nothing to be affraid of."

And Toothless rocketed into the sky. Naruto had no clue he could gothis fast. Sakura was shouting behind him, and he was going to fallif they didn't slow down.

"Toothless!" she cried. "Toothless! What are you doing? Bad dragon!"Sakura scrambled upright and braced her arms on his shoulders

"He's not usually like this," He said. He then felt Toothless rollover underneath him. "Oh no…"

Toothless rolled, spun, twirled, dove under the waves of the oceanwhen he could get low enough, and never slowed down.

"Toothless, what are you doing?" Naruto screamed. "We need her tolike us!" He completely ignored him and began to spin rapidly throughthe air.

"And now he's spinning," He said helplessly. Sakura's arms tightenedas Toothless suddenly let himself drop straight through the air."Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile!"

Sakura had her head down. "Okay," She gasped. "I'm sorry." Toothless'head perked up. "I'm sorry," She repeated. " Just get me down fromhere."

Toothless spread his enormous wings and gently brought them higher inthe sky, gliding on air currents, hardly moving his wings at all.Slowly, Sakura opened his eyes again. Naruto couldn't help but feelhappy. The three of them flew through the pink clouds, and saw theNorthern light (they flew all afternoon until night). Also they flewthrough Konohagakure, at night time it was beautiful. Toothlesslooked at Sakura, and he smiled. She's his friend to now.

"Okay, I admit it." Sakura said "This is pretty cool. It's amazing."Sakura patted Toothless' side, "He's amazing." The group flew insilence for a few moments.

"So, what now?" Sakura asked, shattering the peaceful silence."Naruto," She continued, "You're final exam is tomorrow. You know youhave to kill... A dragon?" Sakura whispered the last part soToothless couldn't hear.

"Don't remind me." He answered. Toothless eyes suddenly widden. Heturned his head from side to side and then abruptly dove into a large

group of clouds.

"Toothless, what's happening?" Naruto asked. They were now surroundedby mist so he couldn't see ahead of him. "Whoa, what is it, bud?" Heasked again. Suddenly, a group of dragons plunged out of the cloudsand swerved in front of Toothless.

"Get down," Naruto whispered as another turned in theirdirection.

"What's going on?" Sakura aked.

"I don't know." Narut said, "Toothless you gotta get us out of here,bud." But, Tothless didn't listen. The dragons became more and moreevery second.

"It looks like they're hauling their kill," Naruto whispered.

"Uh, what does that make us?" Sakura asked.

The dragons all dove beneath the clouds. Toothless followed suit. Thetwo teens tried to not to screem. Then suddenly the air cleared. Infront of them was an enormous volcano. The dragons swooped into theside of the volcano and Toothless did the same. Sakura held on Narutotighter and Naruto looked at the volcano with widden eyes.

A red glow came from the end of the tunnel, which got brighter andbrighter as the dragons all got tighter and closer together. Theyemerged into a huge cavern. Above and around them were rocky browncliffs with tiny caves for dragon nests. Below them were red, demonicclouds.

"What my dad wouldn't give to find this," He whispered. Even knowthat it was possible, they were in the dragons' nest.

As Toothless swooped over the pit, all the dragons released theircatch and dropped their items into the pit, the morsels disappearinginto the clouds. The rumbling noise dimmed with every speck of foodthat disappeared. Toothless landed on a ledge and ducked behind astalagmite. The group all peeked around the corner.

"Well, it's satiffied to know that all of our foods is being dumpeddown a hole," He muttered sarcastically.

"They're not eating any of it," Sakura whispered, confused.

A lone Gronkle buzzed over the pit. It quickly glanced around beforespitting in a tiny fish. It started away when the rumble grew loudand angry. Everything froze, even the Gronkle.

And the biggest, ugliest, evilest thing Naruto had ever witnessederupted from the depths of the pit and closed its jaws around thepoor Gronkle. Naruto and Sakura held their breath.

"What… it… that?" Sakura whispered, her voice shaking. Naruto wasnumb as he scanned the "thing". He couldn't take it, he want to getout that place, NOW!

Naruto patted Toothless. "Alright buddy, we've gotta' get out ofhere," He said, panic filling his voice. The dragon's eyes swiveled

to their hiding place. It knew they were there. "Now!"

Toothless launched into the air just in time to miss a lunge from thedragon. Naruto and Sakura grabbed on for dear life as the otherdragons joined the flight, all swarming the mouth of the volcano. Themonster lunged up again, dragging down a struggling green dragonright behind the group. Naruto let out a deep breath of relief asthey finally emerged and zipped off back towards Konohagakure.

"Its all make sence. It's like a giant beehive," Sakura explained asthe group landed safely in the canyon "They're the worker and that'stheir queen. It controls them."

"Let's find your dad!" Sakura started at a run back towards thevillage but Naruto merely had to look at his best friend beforerushing to stop him.

"No, no!" He cried, grabbing Her shoulders. "No, not yet. They'llkill Toothless. Sakura, we need to think this through, carefully." Helet go and walked back to Toothless, Sakura merely staring athim.

"Naruto, we just discovered the Dragon's Nest!" She saidincredulously. "The thing we've been after since Vikings first sailedhere! And you want to keep it a secret? To protect your pet dragon?Are you serious?"

Naruto turned around to Sakura. His face filled with confiddent as hesaid, "Yes."

Sakura's anger dropped and her face filled with empathetic look asNaruto turned around not facing her. "Okay. Then what do we do?" Sheasked sofly.

"Just give me time until tomorrow. I'll figure something out." Hesaid

"Okay," Sakura agreed. She then punch him on the shoulder. "That'sfor kidnapping me."

Naruto looked at Toothless who was drinking from the lake. Narutoshook his head and Toothless gave him an I-told-you-so look. Narutoturned back, about to argue, when Sakura kissed him.

"And that was for… everything else," She muttered, obviouslyembarrassed. She took off as Naruto stared at her.

Toothless came up beside him and he finally noticed him. "What areyou looking at?"

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><p><strong>To Be Continue...<strong>

3. Chapter 3

"Well I can finally show my face in public again!" Minato jokedhappily, and the entire village of Viking in front of him cheeredenthusiastically. He held up his hands for silence.

"If someone had told me that in these short few weeks, Narutowould gofrom… well, like that, to placing first in dragon training, well, Iwould have tied him to a mast and shipped him out to sea for fearhe'd gone mad!" The crowd cheered again.

"And you know it! But here we are, and no one's more surprised, ormore proud, than I am. " he said solemnly, his voice echoing. Narutowas standing in the entrance to the arena, while holding his helmet,listening to his father every word.

"Today my boy becomes a Viking. Today, he becomes one of us!" Thecrowd exploded at the last words.

Sakura came to the entrance, standing behind Naruto. "Be careful withthat dragon," she said.

"It's not the dragon I'm worried about," he admitted. Both their eyesfell to Minato as he took a seat in the throne in front of thering.

"What are you going to do?" Sakura asked.

"Put an end to all this," he replied. "I have to. I have to endthis." He turned to face her. "Sakura, if something… goes wrong,just make sure they don't find Toothless."

"I will," she said softly. "Just… promise me it won't gowrong."

He opened his mouth to tell her he couldn't when Jiraya appeared."C'mon Naruto," he said happily, opening the gate and shoving theteen into the arena. "Knock 'em dead!"

He took a deep breath and put on his helmet. The crowd pressedagainst the ring and began to chant his name. He walked over to theselection of weapons the Viking had laid and chose a shield and thesmallest dagger they had.

"Hmm," Minato said. "I would've gone with the hammer," he said toJiraya, who shrugged.

Naruto faced the door, and exhaled. "I'm ready," he said.

A hush fell over the arena as Vikings slowly pulled the bars acrossthe largest door in the arena away. The doors stayed closed for asecond before they burst open in a wave of fire and the Nightmareappeared. It scuttled around the edge of the ring, shot a burst offlame at the Viking watching, and then climbed the metal bars thatmade up the roof of the arena and hung there, hissing atNaruto.

Eventually, the Nightmare dropped off the ceiling and slowly walkedtowards him. Naruto slowly backed away from it as the Vikings aroundher watched in excitement. However, with another deep breath,Narutodropped his shield and dagger and held his hands toward theNightmare

"What's he doing?" Minato asked Jiraya.

"Hey, it's okay," he whispered to the dragon. "It's okay…" But thedragon wouldn't stop growling. Naruto looked to his helmet and tookit of. "I'm not one of them," he said, throwing it to the side.

The entire crowd gasped. Minato suddenly rose from his seat. "Stopthe fight," he said.

"No!" Naruto cried. He moved the hand closer yet softly to theNightmare's nose, "I need you all to see this. They're not what wethink they are. We don't have to kill them."

Everyone stared at him in shock, and then quickly turned to theirleader. Minato grabbed a hammer and swung it above his head. "I SAIDSTOP THE FIGHT!" he roared, slamming the hammer onto the metal barsof the arena roof.

Because the noise the dragon's eyes narrowed into thin, fearfulslits. Naruto ran away, letting out a long scream as the dragon shota blast of fire oward him.

Deep in the canyon, Toothless heard the scream and woke with astart.

Naruto kept running. Minato pushed through the crowd. "Out of theway!" he roared.

"Naruto!" yelled Sakura. She grabbed an axe, wedged it under the doorof the arena, and squeezed through the thin space.

Toothless desperately scrambled up the high, rocky Cliffside of thecanyon. He dug his claws into the rock.

Naruto kept running from the dragon as he grapped a shield to protecthimself from the dragon claw.

Toothless ran faster than he ever had in his life through theforest.

While Minato threw open the first gate gate with his bare hands.Sakura from the field yelled Naruto's name. She look at the weapons,and picked up a hammer and threw it to the dragon cheek. As theresult, the dragon began to chase her.

Minato finally open the enterance gate.

"This way!" he yelled at the teens. They ran as fast as they can.Sakura made it through the gate, but the dragon shot another fire,making Naruto to ran inside the arena again. Naruto fell down and thedragon caged him with his claw.

Suddenly, there was a high pitch shrill in the air, growing louderand louder. The top of the cage burst open and a dark shape flungitself inside. A cloud of dust and smoke rose around it, shieldingthe two creatures from the Vikings' eyes. The Nightmare's clawsrelease Naruto and Toothless wrestled the Nightmare clear of thesmoke.

"Night Fury!" Jiraya gasped.

Toothless pounced the Nightmare across the face and protected to his

friend, crouching protectively in front of Naruto. The Nightmaregrowled and snapped, and Toothless did the same much more ferociouslyuntil the other finally gave up and skittered away.

Naruto rose up, and push Toothless "Okay, Toothless, Go! Get out ofhere!" The Vikings jumped into the arena and Naruto knew that theirtarget is his best friend the Night Fury. Still pushing Toothless, hesaid panicking, "Go! Go!" Minato suddenly came running towards them,swinging an enormous axe over his head.

"No, Dad! No!" she cried. "He won't hurt you!' Toothless charged him,knocking two Viking back with his tail as sprang at him, pinning himto the floor. Naruto tried to stop them by words but it didn't work.Suddenly he heard a hiss of gas and he knew that Toothless going tofire.

"No! NOOOOOO!" Naruto screamed. The fireball never came. Toothlesslooked at him with big eyes. But then the Vikings pounced Toothlesson the face. They pulled him off Minatoand wrestled him to the groundand held him down.

"No. Please don't hurt him… please don't hurt him…" He cried asshe reached his hand out.

A viking offered Minato an axe, but Minato push him back. "Put ITwith the others." He comanded

Naruto was dragged by his collar into the hall by his father momentslater. "I should have known," Minato whispered, with emotion thatheld much more than anger. "I should have seen thesigns."

"Dad-"

"We had a deal!"

"I know we did, but that was before-" Naruto put his hand on his headand messing up his hair. "Aww, its all mess up."

"So everithing in the ring A TRICK?! But why-"

"I screwed up. I should've told you before but now... I-You- Just,take this out on me. Be mad at me. But please, just don't hurtToothless."

"The dragon? That's what you're worried about? Not the people youalmost killed?"

"He was just protecting me! His not dangerous!"

"They've killed hundreds of us!"

"And we've killed thousands of them! They defend themselves, that'sall! They raid us because they have to! If they don't bring enoughfood back, they'll be eaten themselves! There's something else intheir island, Dad. Something big-"

Minato's eyes widened. "Their island? So you've been to thenest?"

"Did I say "nest"?"

"How did you find it?"

"I didn't. Toothless did. Only a dragon can find the island."

Minato smiled and started for the door. "Oh, no. Dad- don't-!" Narutocried.

Minato just kept walking, and Naruto just keptyelling, "Dad, no, youdon't know what you're up against. It's like nothing you've everseen-!"

Minato kept walking, completely ignoring Naruto again. "Dad, please,I promise you. You can't win this one!" Naruto cried. "_FOR ONCE INYOUR LIFE WILL YOU PLEASE LISTEN__?_" He ran to his dad and hold hisarm. Minato suddenly turned and flung out his arm, throwing Narutoonto the ground.

"You've thrown your lot in with them," He said coldly. "You're not aViking." He shook his head and exited. "You're not my son." Narutolet out a choking sob as Minato slammed the door behind him.

"Ready the ships!" Minato yelled.

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><p>The Viking were preparing to sail and battle. Some of them chainToothless to the boat. Minato climbed up the boat, as he yelled, "Setsail! We head for Helheim's gate," He looked at Konohagakure oncemore when he spotted Naruto standing on a long bridged. But he turnedaway fast.<p>

"Lead us home, Devil," he hissed at the Night Fury on his ship. Andthen they were off. Within a half an hour, all the ships had longdisappeared into the mist. Naruto remained rooted in place, having noidea what to do or where to go next.

Sakura who was watching Naruto since the boats sail, walked up to him"It's a mess. You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Yourfather, your pride, you best friend…"

"Thank you for summing that up." He said."Why couldn't I have killedthat dragon when I found him in the woods? It would have been betterfor all of us."

"Yup, the rest of us would have." Sakura turned to him. "So whydidn't you?"

"I don't know. I couldn't,"

"That's not an answer,"

"Why does this matter to you all of a sudden?"

"Because I want to remember what you say… right now."

"Oh for the love of- I was a coward! I was weak! I wouldn't kill adragon!"

"You said 'wouldn't' that time,"

"Wh-whatever! I Wouldn't! 300 years and I'm the first Viking whowouldn't kill a dragon!" He looked at the ground.

"First to ride on, though," Sakura said quietly. Naruto looked up at." So…"

"I wouldn't kill him because he looked as frighten as I was," He saidsoftly. "I looked at him… and I saw myself."

"I bet he is frighten now. What are you going to do aboutit?"

"Eh… probably something stupid,"

"Good, but you've already done that,"

"Then something crazy," Naruto ran down the brigde. And before Sakurafollow him she said, she said, "That's more like it,"

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><p>Minato stared out at sea; an obsessed and chilling murderous lookon his face. The other Vikings behind him glanced around at theirsurroundings uncertainly. Their fearless leader was oblivious to itall however. He only saw the Night Fury and the mist ahead ofthem.<p>

"Listen, Minato," Jiraya's voice derailed everything, "I wasoverhearing some of the men just now, and- and well, you know, someof them are wondering what it is we are up to here. Not-not me, ofcourse," he added hastily, "I-I know you're always the man with theplan, but some- not me- are- are wondering if, in fact, there is aplan at all, and what it might be?"

"Find the nest and take it," he said simply.

"Oh," Said Jiraya, obviously no more reassured than he was a momentago. "Okay. Send them running. The old Viking fallback."

"Shh," Minato and Jiraya looked at Toothless who was purring.Toothless had raised his head and was now looking around the mistyscene, his head tilting in one direction.

"Step aside," Minato commanded, walking over to the back of the shipand steering it in the direction the beast was facing.

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><p>Naruto arrived in the empty arena, looking at the cages."Ifyou're planning on getting eaten," came a voice from behind him, "I'dgo with the Gronkle."<p>

He looked at his classmate, Choji, Lee, Ten-Ten, Sakura andKiba.

Lee stepped forward. "You were wise to seek help from the world'sdeadliest weapon." Naruto couldn't help but just stare at him. "It'sme."

Kiba shoved him away. "I LOVE this plan!"

Ten-Ten pushed Kiba aside. "You're crazy," she said, annoyed. Then heleaned in closer and whispered, "I like that."

Sakura pulled her out of the way by her buns. "So, what is the plan?"Sakura asked. He looked at her and his classmate and gave his firstactual confident, leader smile.

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><p>After a few more minutes, a dark shape appeared in front of them.The Vikings waited fearfully for their ship to sail closer. The shapewas a long ship, caught up on one of the rock formations jutting outof the mist. The mast was torn, and there were huge holes in thesides of the boat. The Vikings looked terrified, exceptMinato.<p>

"Oh," Jiraya tried to put some humor into the situation, "I waswondering where that went."

"Stay low and ready your weapons." Minato commanded. Toothless beganto jerk his head back violently, as if trying to get as far away fromwhat was ahead as was possible.

There was a sudden crunch as the boat hit land. Everyone glancedaround the island. A loud humming noise was echoing around theisland.

"We're here," he said quietly. Minato leaped out onto the pebblybeach. As soon as he touched, the humming stopped, and a very uneasysilence fell. Minato's eyes widened, and he straightened up.

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><p>Naruto had his hand out, hovering over the scaly skin as heemerged from the dark cage. The Monstrous Nightmare purred lazily asthey emerged into the sunlight of the arena.<p>

Fishlegs and the twins looked at her amased. Kiba was lookingextremely reached out for a long dagger, but Sakura slaphim.

"Nuh-uh," She scolded. He quickly dropped it.

Naruto led the Nightmare to Kiba as he grabbed Kiba's hand. Kibatried to pull it away as Naruto gently but forcefully placed it onthe dragon's nose. The dragon blinked slowly and purred.

After a few seconds, Kiba began to laugh in shock that he wastouching a dragon. Naruto began to walk away, and immediately thelaughing stopped. "Where are you going?" Kiba cried, not taking hiseyes off the dragon.

He strolled over to the supply bin and pulled out a long rope. "We'regoing to need something to help you to hang on." The other understandas they looked at the other dragon. A Deadly Nadder, a Gronkle, and aZippleback.

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><p>Viking began hopping off the boats, bearing weapons. Others setup trebuchets along the beach.<p>

"When we crack this mountain open, all hell is going to break loose,"Minato said the others gathered around him staring at the diagram hehad made in the sand.

"And my undies. Good thing I brought extra!" Jiraya intercutted withanother joke. Stoic again chose to ignore it.

"No matters how this ends, it ends today!" Minato shouted firmly.

He nodded at the trebuchets. One by one they all went off and shothuge boulders at the mountain.

Minato made his way across the beach as they made contact andshattered away part of the mountain, revealing a huge black tunnel.Minato stared fearlessly into the blackness. Behind him, a group ofVikings set another boulder on fire and fired it towards the mouth.The boulder soared over Minato's head and through the tunnel, itslight revealing hundreds- thousands of dragons inside.

He let out a battle cry and charged into the cave.

Dragons flew in all directions. Minato waved his hammer, while theother Vikings waved their weapons at the dragons from the beach. Thedragons didn't even try to fight. They merely dodged and flew away,out to sea. It was over in a matter of seconds.

"Is that is?" Jirayaasked. He shrugged and then yelled triumphantly,"WE DID IT!" The Vikings burst into wild cheers.

In the boat, however, Toothless was trying desperately to freehimself from his bonds. He whimpered again and watched his fellowdragons fly saw that.

"This isn't over!" He shouted. "Form your ranks! Holdtogether!"

Suddenly, the mountain began to rumble. Stoic looked back at tunnel,which began to shake. He ran down to join the others. As the rumblinggrew, uneasiness fell over the group. Slowly, a gigantic headappeared from the darkness. The mountainside exploded and themonstrous dragon head, snapping its jaws furiously, appeared, sendingeven the bravest of Vikings running for their lives.

"Beard of Thor, what it that?" Jiraya gasped.

"Odin help us," Minato whispered. The monster shook the rock off itshide and lifted its head to the sky, letting out a bone-chillingroar.

"CATAPAULTS!" roared Minato. A few Vikings ran back to the catapultsand began firing boulder after boulder at the beast. They merelyshattered against its thick hide. This only made the monsterangrier.

"Get to the ships!" a voice cried.

"NO!" Minato cried, but already most of the Vikings were running forthe fleet. The dragon lowered it mighty head and torched every boat,cutting off any means of escape by sea.

"Smart, that one," commented Jiraya.

"I was a fool," spat Minato, he turned to a random viking. "Lead themen to the far side of the island!"

"Right," The Viking answered formally, running off to doso.

"Jiraya, go with the men."

"I think I'll stay, just in case you're thinking of doing somethingcrazy."

Minato stopped in his tracks and faced his friend. "I can buy them afew minutes it I give that thing something to hunt."

Instead of protesting, Jiraya grabbed Minato's hand. "Then I candouble that time," he said. Minato smiled.

"Here!" he yelled, running to the dragon's right side.

"Oh no, here!" Jiraya shouted, running to the left. The dragon turnedback and forth between the two.

"Oy!" Jiraya yelled. "Fight me!"

"No! Me!"Minato turn to yelled. The dragon shook its head and roared.Then it opened it mouth and prepared to end the lives of bothVikings-

-when something smacked it in the side of the head and caused it toturn.

Naruto and his friends flew past the Queen dragon. He and Sakura werein the lead on the Nadder, Kiba on the Nightmare, Ten-Ten and Lee onthe Zippleback, and Choji on the Gronkle.

"Lee, Ten-Ten, watch your back!" Naruto shouted. "Move it,Choji!"

"Look at us!" Lee yelled at the shocked Vikings below. "We're ondragons! We're on dragons! All of us!"

"They must be twelve times the stubborn Viking you ever were," Jirayacommented to Minato who could only nod.

"Choji," Naruto called to him. "Break it down!"

"Heavily armored skull and tail made for bashing and crushing! Stayclear of both! Small eyes, flared nostrils; relies heavily on hearingand smell!" Choji shouted

"Okay." Naruto said. "Choji, Kiba, find its blind spot! Make somenoise with whatever you can use! Ten-Ten, Lee, find out if it has ashot limit! Make it mad!"

"That's my specialty," Ten-Ten grinned.

"Since when?" Lee scoffed. "Everybody knows I'm more irritating. " Heflipped the poor dragon's neck so he was hanging upside down in hissister's face and stuck his tongue out.

"Just listen to me, okay?" Naruto yelled as he turn the Nadder towardthe boats. "I'll be back as soon as I can!"

"Don't worry. We got it cover." Yelled Kiba as he, Choji, and thetwins fly toward the Queen.

Kiba went to the lef eye, Kiba went to the right. While Lee andTen-Ten mocking the dragon,

"Troll"

"Butt elf!"

"Bride of Grendel!" The Queen let out her fire, but the Zipplebackdoge it.

Meanwhile, Choji and Kiba still searching for the blind spot, butguess what? "Uh, this thing doesn't have a blind spot!" ShoutedChoji.

When Naruto and Sakura flew over the boats, they heard a sound of adragon roar. They saw a black movement in one of the ship onfire.

"There!" He shouted as he turn the Nadder to the ship. Naruto letSakura control the Nadder as he jump off it.

"Go help the other." He shouted. Sakura nodded and flew back to theQueen. Naruto tugged the leather strap around Toothless' mouth offwhile saying, "All right, bud. Hold on!"

Meanwhile, Choji and Kiba managed to make the Queen a little bitdizzy. Both of them yelled "It's working!". But unfortunately, theGronkle and Nightmare also getting dizzy. The Nightmare throw Kiba tothe Queen face, while the Grokle flew around-and-around.

"I lost power on the Gronkle!" Choji cried. "Snotlout, do something!"He threw his hammer to Kiba who caught it. The Gronkle (and Choji)fell to a rocky ground.

"I'm okay." He cried. But then the Gronkle's tail fell on him. "Lessokay." He muttered.

Kiba slamming the hammer on to the Queen's eyes. "I can't miss." Hesaid. "What's a matter buddy? Got something in your eyes?"

Sakura, on her Nadder, flew above Kiba, as she shouted, "Yeah, you'rethe Viking!" Kiba smiled, but the Queen shook and almost made Kibafall.

The Queen's tail slammed the boats where Naruto still trying to saveToothless. The foot stompped on the boat and made Toothless (still inchain) sink down. Naruto swam down and tried to yank the chain off,

but he couldn't. Only a few second later, Toothless saw Narutostarted to faint. Suddenly, something or someone grab him and pulledhim upward. Naruto's head broke the surface of the water and hecoughed up salty ocean water as his savior dumped his on dry land. Hesaw his savior jumped in to the sea again. Surprisingly, itwas...

"Dad?" Naruto whispered.

Minato dove until he saw the Night Fury. The dragon's eyes caught hisown. Minato broke the chain. Toothless lose up the chain, hold Minatoin his claw and brust to the surface. Toothless dropped him and shookhis body a little, then he looked at Naruto, gesturing him to hopon.

"You got it bud," He answered. Naruto grabbed the saddle and jumpedonto his dragon's back. As he hooked herself in and prepared to takeoff, Minato grabbed his arm.

"Naruto," he said quietly. " I'm sorry. For everything."

"Yeah. Me too."

"You don't have to go out there,"

"We're Viking. It's an occupational hazard."

"I'm very proud to call you my son."

"Thanks Dad." Toothless, with Naruto on his back, launched into thesky to join the battle.

"He's Up!" Sakura cried happily as Naruto appeared in the sky. "GetKiba out of there!"

"I'm on it!" Ten-Ten shouted.

"I'm on it first!" Lee shot back. Kiba scrambled to the top of itshead, and leaped into the open air. Luckily, the twins swooped in andmanaged to snatch him.

"I can't believe that actually worked!" Kiba shouted.

The Queen opened its mouth and sucking Sakura and her Nadder in. ButToothless was fast, he shot a plasma blast to the Queen, and it stopsucking. Sakura fell from her Nadder, but lucky for her Toothlesscaught her.

"Did you get her?" Naruto asked. Toothless ducked his head and lookedupside down at Sakura, dangling by his leg, who smiled. Toothlessopened his mouth and gave him a wide, toothless smile.

He gently turned him over and placed her on the ground as they headedback towards the beast. "Go," She whispered. Naruto glanced back asthe two climbed higher into the sky.

"That thing has wings," He informed Toothless. "Let's see if it canuse them." Toothless halted, and dive-bombed it again, hitting itsquare on the back. It toppled over with a roar and an enormouscrash. And then, very slowly, scarred wings extended from the

monster's back.

"Think that did it?" He asked Toothless, glancing behind him. A roarshook both of them to their core and he gripped Toothless tighter ashe spotted the dragon appear behind them.

"Well, it can fly," He commented to Toothless as they sped throughthe air with the giant dragon behind their tail. The other Vikingswatched in amazement from the beach as the two streaked by, lettingout cheers as they successfully kept their distance. Toothless slowlyrose higher towards the gray sky that loomed above them.

"Okay, Toothless, time to disappear!" He told his friend and the twolaunched into the darkness. Naruto then turned at a roar and saw firebeing launched towards them. Naruto watched as the dragon followedthem only to lose them in the darkness.

The dragon hovered in the sky, looking around its. Suddenly, a bluelight hit its head. And another. And another. Naruto and Toothlesskept firing at the big dragon. The giant dragon unleashed a longstream of fire. Toothless managed to dodge most of it, with his usualgrace, but then Naruto looked back. The tail fin was on fire!

"Okay, time's up," He said. "Let's see if this works." They wove infront of the dragon.

"C'mon, is that the best you can do?" The dragon attempted to capturethem in its teeth, but they easily sped ahead again. They werespeeding back toward the ground much too quickly.

"Don't worry buddy, we're good. Just hold a little bit longer." shesaid, teeth clenched and fingers digging into the scales of herfriend. The dragon opened its mouth, sucking them in.

"Hold it Toothless," Naruto took a deep breath and cried as loud ashe can, "NOW!"

Toothless flipped around in midair so they were flying backwards,facing the dragon's open mouth. Toothless fired right at the ball ofgreen gas that was forming.

The dragon's throat started to flame as it lost control and was nowplummeting straight towards a clear part of the beach. Toothlesscontinued to zoom even faster towards a safe spot.

Behind them, the giant dragon spread its wings and tried to slow itsfall, but its wings were tearing from the blasts they had fired.Holes began to form and grew larger and larger. The followingexplosion as it collided into the rock.

Fire was surrounding them. Toothless tried to find a clear place forthem to land as they zoomed along the back of the Death. The fin wasjust down to metal now, Naruto can't steer it. They were directly onpath with the dragon's hard tail.

"NO—!"

Naruto and Toothless slammed into the tail and the boy fell from thesaddle. Toothless flew toward his rider who was falling into theflame.

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><p>Grey dust swirled around the island as bits of ash floated downfrom the sky. There was a heavy cough from somewhere within it, andthen Minato appeared, scanning the area for traces of hisson.<p>

"Naruto!" he rasped, inhaling a lot of dust. He coughed. "Naruto!" heshouted louder. "Son!"

A large, dark motionless shape lay before him on the ground."Naruto," he rasped, running forward.

Toothless was lying on the ground, his wings folded tightly aroundhim. His head was tucked into his wings, and he didn't appear to bebreathing. The remains of his fin, a few mangled, twisted metalpieces, were still attached to his tail. And then he saw the saddlewas empty.

"Oh…," Minato sighed. "Oh, my son..." He knelt down in front of thedragon and bowed his head. "I-I did this," he whispered tohimself.

The rest of the Vikings began to appear behind him. As they caughtsight of Minato kneeling in front of the Night Fury, they gasped andbowed their heads in grief. The training dragons raised their headsabove the crowd to gaze at the sight.

Sakura and Jiraya elbowed their way to the front of the crowd and ranto Minato, but both quickly stopped halfway and gasped in horror asthey saw Toothless. Sakura felt her face fall.

Toothless suddenly stirred, raised his head weakly and slowly blinkedup at Minato. Minato looked back at the Night Fury.

"Oh my son…," he whispered. "I'm so sorry."

The dragon's expression suddenly shifted at the words. He slowlyunfurled his wings. There the boy was, unconcious, protected by himin his arms.

"Naruto!" Minato gasped, reaching forward and grabbing the boyunconscious form. He gently tucked his son's hair behind his ear, andthen yanked off his helmet and pressed his head to the boy's chest. Asmile stretched across his face.

"He's alive!" he breathed, as he cradled his son. "You brought himback alive!"

The crowd of Viking behind them erupted with wild cheering andclapping. Sakura's hands flew to her mouth in surprise, and shelaughed happily. The dragons lowered their heads and croonedhappily.

Minato laid his hand on Toothless's head. "Thank you," he saidsincerely, "for saving my son."

Toothless nodded his head and then closed his eyes and lay on theashy beach.

"Well, you know," commented Jiraya, coming up behind Minato, "most ofhim." Minato shot him the dirtiest look he could muster.

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><p>Naruto still unconcious as Toothless nudged his cheek with hisscaly nose. Not a few second later, Naruto blinked slowly and openedhis eyes to see Toothless blinking down at him with concern.<p>

"Hey Toothless," he said weakly, smiling and reaching out to pet him.He started to nudge the boy's face anxiously, lifting his front legsonto the bed. He laughed. "I'm happy to see you too, buddy-AGH!"

Toothless had stepped on his stomach by accident, and Naruto boltedupright, hugging his stomach in pain. Then he noticed hissurroundings.

"Ah… I'm in my house," he realized. He looked at Toothless, who wasshaking and licking his lips nervously. "You're in my house," sheadded in shock. "Does my dad know you're here?"

Toothless began tearing through the room like crazy, knocking overfurniture and climbing up on the rafters.

"Toothless! No, no, Toothless!" He paused and looked at Naruto."Toothless, come on-" He had started to get out of bed but hadstopped as she lifted the orange wool and his eyes fell on his rightleg.

Toothless silently dropped to the ground and watched himnervously.

He let out the smallest of sighs. He slowly swung his left leg overthe bed to rest on the ground. And then he let his casted right legrest beside it.

He breathed hard and looked at Toothless in disbelief.

He took another deep breath, in through his nose and out through hismouth. He slowly stood up but fell, but of course Toothless hadcaught him and now the two had locked eyes. He gave a low purr andlifted Naruto up.

"Okay…" Naruto whispered. "Thanks buddy," he said softly, usingToothless as a crutch as he shuffled to the door.

He let go for a second to pull it open.

A Monstrous Nightmare was hovering right outside. He slammed the doorshut.

"Uh, Toothless?" he said, once she regained her nerve. "Stay here."He opened the door again and stared.

"C'mon guys, get ready, one more time, here we go!" cried Kiba fromatop the Nightmare. They took off, followed by the rest of thetraining dragons, their riders cheering.

He stepped outside and stared. "What the…" Viking and dragon,working together, without a fight.

"I knew it," he said, "I'm dead." He heard heartily laughter and herdad approached him.

"No, but you gave it your best shot." He gestured to the changedworld. "What do you think?" Naruto couldn't help but smile.

Somebody below noticed them, and then there were cries of "It'sNaruto! He's finally!" echoing around Konohagakure as a crowd ofViking raced up the hill towards him.

"It turns out that what we needed was more of… this," said Minato,sweeping his hands down in front of his son.

"But… you just gestured to all of me," he questioned,smiling.

"Well, most of you," said Gobber, stepping in front of Naruto andgesturing to the artificial leg. "Took me ages to cast your leg.It'll take maybe one or two months to recover."

"Well, it could get worst." Naruto joked and the Vikings alllaughed.

Sakura walked behind Naruto, then puched him. "That was for scaringme," she said with a smile on her face.

"Wh- what?! What, is it always gonna be this way? 'Cause-" Narutodidn't manage to finish his sentence when she pulled him in andkissed him.

"I could get used to it." he said. Sakura smiled as Gobber steppedforward and placed something made of metal and red material inNaruto's arms .

"Welcome home," he said, smiling. Naruto looked down at the new finand smiled.

"Night Fury!" one of the Vikings suddenly cried. "Get down!" anothershrieked. He whirled around and saw Toothless bounding over the headsof several Vikings to stand in front of her, looking at her with bigpuppy-dog eyes.

"I'd never forget about you, buddy," He laughed.

Naruto put his casted right foot on the pedal and tied it with a longsilk

Naruto put his carsted right foot on the pedal and tied it with asilk just in case. The he put his left leg on the other pedal, andtried the new tail. Sakura on her Nadder, standing proud besideToothless.

"You ready, Bud?" Naruto asked. Toothless answered with a smile.Naruto and Sakura took off. The rest of the teens soon joined the twoon their dragons. They looped under bridges and in between houses,flying through the village.

This is Konohagakure. It snows nine months out of the year and hailsthe other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. Thepeople that grow here… even more so. The only upsides are the pets.While some places have ponies, or parrots…

We have… DRAGONS!

**A/N This is the final chapter of How Naruto Trains Jis Dragon. Younotice that instead losing his left leg like Hiccup, I wrote thatNaruto right foot broke and casted. The reason is, 1) I don't wantNaruto to lose his leg (2) Why the right one? Cause like Hiccup,Naruto controls Toothless tail with his left foot.**

**I hope you readers understand. And thank you all whofavorited/followed this FanFic. See you later.**

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