Rune Soldier Naruto

Disclaimer: I don't own either Rune Soldier Louie or Naruto.

Prologue

Fox out of the woods…

( ): Thoughts/Conversation with the Kyuubi

(( )): Kyuubi's words

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In another world…

"Are you sure we should be doing this?"

A young man spoke to an elderly man wearing the robes of a mage and they were before a massive device that resembled a giant solarium with several crystal globes in several rings around them. The elderly mage was still intent on studying the device in the ruined tower. This had been the site of some sort of experiment made by a mage many centuries before but was eventually abandoned due to certain circumstances.

"Why complain, we're here to see if this magical artifact can be worth something to the Guild, the study of this device could prove to be the key to many things here for our world."

"But sir, wasn't that device outlawed when it was discovered to be highly unstable?"

"That was long ago, besides, magic has improved since then and this device could go a very long way in making transportation of many things even more effective when time is of the essence and not to be wasted!"

The device was a dimensional portal, designed to take objects and move them through a tunnel of magic and send them to another place entirely without the need of traveling for days, weeks, months or even years. But the portal was not used for a long time as many fought to control it and the mage decided to shut it down.

"How can we even get it to work?"

"With this. This crystal would prove to be the key for it all, it has more than enough energy to do it's work."

The mage revealed a massive crystal and it glowed with great power, the mage then without warning placed it into a bowl and the device activated and the mage spoke, startling the man.

"Wait Master Rolf!!! We haven't even tested the device yet!!!"

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained my young apprentice, we need to see if it can still open a portal!"

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In the Naruto world...

"Man....what a life..."

Naruto woke up in his new room and shook the cobwebs from his mind and got up to look out the window of his new apartment. And the sounds of the morning were very good to his ears. It had been nearly two years since the fall of Uchiha Madara and Akatsuki, as well as the defeat of Danzo's faction when the old goat tried to take power from Tsunade.

He had just managed to finally complete the jutsu his father, the Fourth Hokage known also as Minato Namikaze had planed for him to use, and that granted him full control over the power of the Kyuubi without being overwhelmed by it all. That proved the key when he fought with Pain and he decimated the leader of Akatsuki and then fought with Madara....fulfilling the prophecy of him being the child of destiny.

He had turned from the destroyer to the savior and had saved many lives, including Hinata and Shizune's lives as well as those who had been killed by pain when he attacked. The leader of Akatsuki had been destroyed by him and the Kyuubi and he was able to do the same to Madara and then used the gift Itachi had given him to defeat Sasuke when his former friend came back to fight and destroy Konoha. That had been a bitter fight but in the end he won and Sasuke had been restrained.

Team Hawk came back but he had been ready and he defeated them with the help of the others and he had managed to stop Sasuke and he had worked hard to bring peace back to Konoha ever since. The last of the Uchiha had been given a chance to get his justice on the three who were the ones who had his clan destroyed but Naruto defeated him when he turned on Konoha, after he was beaten, he was banished as his Sharingan finally was sealed away by the curse on it. That had been hard for him and Sakura but it had to be done after all and it was the path that Sasuke walked when he turned on Konoha.

The former Konoha ninja and his team were banished and were never seen again for th past year...

Naruto placed those thoughts aside for now and got dressed in his usual garb and wore the red and black long coat he had gotten and then looked at the picture he had of his team and the picture of Kakashi, and Jiraiya. That was the hardest for him, losing two good sensei but at least their names and their deeds were never going to leave his memory.

And he finally saw the picture of his father and mother together with Jiraiya, and then there was another set of pictures on his table, the first was with him, Sakura, Sai and Yamato as Sai chose to side with them and aided in defeating Danzo as well as became a good friend, the second was with Gamabunta and both Ma and Pa Toad after they had recovered, and the other one was very important, it was him with Sakura and Hinata with all smiles.

He smiled and took the pictures with him to remember always. he had been able to take the Chuunin exams and finally graduated to being Chuunin though many said he was already a Jonin ninja and a Sannin as well. he was one step closer to being a Hokage and it made him happy that he had finally helped bring peace to the land.

As he got out of his new apartment fully dressed and carrying the Toad Summoning contract on his back, he was smiling as he spotted Sai, Sakura, Hinata, Yamato, along with Konohamaru and Iruka and knew that there was a lot to do at the moment. However, he was suddenly alerted by the Kyuubi.

((Watch it kit....something doesn't feel right!!!))

(What are you saying Kyuubi?)

He heard a massive tearing sound behind him and he turned to see some sort of glowing gate in the shape of a star behind him, he didn't know what it was but then felt something dragging him towards it and he panicked and tried to get away but the force was too much and he was completely caught off guard by this.

Sakura and the others were shocked when the gate opened and began to suck Naruto in and they quickly rushed to try and help him, Hinata was very much terrified and shouted out.

"NARUTO-KUN!!!!!!"

It was too late as Naruto was sucked through the glowing symbol and it vanished....leaving the group stunned as Hinata and Sakura were shaken by what happened. Yamato turned and decided to hurry and report to Tsunade on what had just happened, he knew she was not going to like this

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In another place...

Naruto shook his head as he felt like throwing up, he forced himself to relax and found himself in a forest and he felt a tingling in his body and the Kyuubi spoke.

((This place....it feels alive somehow, there's so much chakra here...where the heck are we?))

Naruto had no idea and moved up to the forest and climbed up a tree and as soon as he did so....he found himself in a totally alien world as there was no sign o the Hokage Monument anywhere and there was no sign of Konoha at all. It was then that he spotted a massive city and decided to move there.

(There's a city, maybe we can find some answers there.)

((I hope so....something about this place makes me feel different and I don't mean in a nice way.))

It had taken some time but Naruto arrived near the outskirts and saw the possible name of the city.

"Ohfun? What kind of a name is that?"

((Don't know either, but I am sensing a lot o chakra in that direction, we might as well head off there and see just what we can find.))

Naruto knew that he didn't have much in terms of options at the moment and decided to go down there and see just what was it he could find that could at least give him a clue as to how he got there in the first place.

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Later…

Naruto was getting all the more irritated by all this, this place known as Ohfun had literally nothing that he could associate with Konoha, there were no electrical posts, no Hokage Monument, No Konoha Academy, and worse yet....NO RAMEN!!!!! He had entered the city through the front gate as he replied that he was looking for someone to the guards which was not far from the truth and then they spotted the scroll on his back and apparently that was enough to let him come into the city.

(Where the hell am I?!)

Naruto tried to find anyone remotely familiar in Ohfun but had no such luck, it was weird being here, there seemed to be nothing that resembled anything he was familiar with back home, he had explored the city for the past two hours and still nothing. However, the blonde Chuunin felt something and turned to see a stall that had some artifacts in them and he felt great energy coming from some of them.

He moved closer and looked at them and the stall owner spoke.

"Hey there friend! care to buy some magical wares for your studies?"

"Huh? Magical studies?"

The store own were surprised at this and wondered just who he was, he was not dressed as a swordsman and that massive scroll on his back must mean he was a mage of some sort. Maybe he was suffering from some side effect of a spell, it was not unusual for some spells to cause some slight memory loss, or so he heard.

"Yeah, are you a student of the Magic Guild?"

(Magic?)

((I should have known....that thing that dragged us here is a magical portal!!!!!))

(Magical Portal? What are you saying Kyuubi?)

((It'll take a while to explain, but magical portals are ancient gateways from other worlds, I encountered a few when I was younger, whoever opened that portal must have dragged us here.))

(Do you think magic can bring us back to Konoha?)

((Possible, but we're going to have to find a great source of power as well as a powerful enough magic user to get us there, Magic is a bit like chakra manipulation and control, though it usually needs a medium of some sort to channel the power better. That Magic Guild might have the answers we need.))

Naruto thought about it and knew that now was the time to lie somewhat.

"No, I just arrived here..."

"Oh? So you're a new arrival hoping to study here?"

"You might say that. Do you know where I can find the Magic Guild?"

"Yeah, it's in the Academic Quarter of the City and you can't miss it, it's got the highest Tower here in the city. Oh yeah, there was a young mage who passed by here and was on her way to the Academy, she's got red hair with a long tail on the back and wears glasses."

Naruto nodded and left, hoping to find the person described to him by the stall owner, he then decided to hit the walls and climb the roofs and quickly did so with ease, much to the surprise of some of the people nearby, he quickly leaped over the roofs of several buildings and searched as best he could.

He then heard a cry.

"Leave me alone!"

The voice was female and Naruto could tell that the person was indeed in trouble and he headed in that direction and when he arrived there were a couple of unwashed thugs cornering a young woman, who had deep red hair and glasses. Naruto realized that this person must be the one that the stall owner mentioned, but damn, she was attractive...Naruto managed to get his head out of that train of thought for a moment and could tell that the thugs were up to something and he had to help.

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Ila was not happy with this as she tried to ready a spell, the thugs were following her when she left the eyes of the City Watch after shopping in the Magical artifacts Quarter of Ohfun, she tried to lose them in the alleys, but since she had not ventured out as often from the Guild like the other students, she had no idea about the city as much as they did and now here she was.

"Stay away from me!!!"

The men laughed, they were very much not going to listen as they were aware she had the look of a merchant's daughter and would be worth a lot of money to her folks, plus it had been a while.

"Don't worry little lday, we're just going to have some fun with you..."

"Yeah....it's been a while now."

The lustful looks they had on their faces were not lost to Ila and she felt even greater panic as she tried to focus her spell and then unleashed a powerful flare. that was enough to surprise the thugs and she tried to escape, but one of them tripped her and she lost her glasses. She felt a hand grab her arm wickedly and the voice of the thug.

"So a magic user eh? This will be great!!!"

Ila was about to cry and wish for rescue...

She got her wish when the thug gave out a cry of pain and released her, she scrambled away and managed to find her glasses as she heard several more shouts of pain and when she got on her glasses, she realized that she and her tormentors were not alone as another was there.

"Leave the lady alone you rats."

Ila looked at her rescuer and found herself staring at a young man with spiky blonde hair and wore some sort of long sleeved shirt in black and pants along with sandals and a red long coat with black flames, and a massive scroll on his back as well as a pouch of some sort on his left leg. She then looked at the face and gasped as she saw that his rescuer was handsome. he had deep blue eyes and a well featured face and there were three marks on his cheeks that didn't detract his features at all. The headband on his head had s strange spiral symbol that resembled a leaf.

(Hey, Minato was considered very handsome and since Jiraiya stated that Naruto looks so much like his father, then no doubt Naruto at the age of 17 is going to look like his old man.)

The thugs got up and Ila saw that some of them were wounded by strange star shaped metallic weapons and they got those out and threw them away and their took out their weapons such as knives and short swords.

"You punk!!!"

"We're going to cut you up!"

Naruto glared at that and replied.

"I don't think so....KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!!!!"

Ila and the thugs were dumbfounded as there were explosions of smoke then instead of one man there were a dozen near him who looked just like him! Before the thugs could react, the group charged at them and began to unleash hell as Naruto and his Kage Bushin used his Taijutsu to fight with and since Gai had taught him a good number of moves to honor Kakashi, the blonde Chuunin had a level of skill equaling his old friend Lee when he was still a Genin.

The thugs were sent packing to the ground by the blows as they couldn't seem to defend themselves properly and they fell back to the ground with bruises and injuries in areas they had no idea they had.

The unknown arrival then offered his hand to one of the other copies and the other one began to move his hands and then there was a glowing sphere on the hand of the new arrival and then without any other words, the arrival slammed the sphere into a nearby wall.

The thugs and Ila were shocked by the massive explosion that followed, dust and stone fragments filled the air and when it cleared, the thugs gasped and felt like pissing in their pants as there was a massive hole in the wall and the man spoke them as he was joined by another copy and then the same sphere of glowing light came back into his hand.

"Unless you all want that to tear you all open I suggest you run."

The thugs took the advice and ran, taking on a man who could make copies of himself and hit like a sledge hammer was painful enough, but facing a mage who could rip them apart like they were tissue paper with that spell of his was something they were planning to stick around for.

Ila was impressed, she had never heard of that move before and it was impressive indeed that her rescuer could do that without a wand. She looked at her rescuer as he offered his hand to help her get up from the ground she was sitting on. She blushed a bit and accepted his hand and as soon as she got up, she remembered her manners and spoke.

"Thank you, my name is Ila."

Naruto smiled at that and replied back.

"My name's Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki."

It was then that the City Watch arrived and so did a certain head master of the Magic Guild. Head Master Carwess had been on a routine trip to the market to check the latest supply of goods and magical components to add to the Academy selection when he detected a massive spike in the spiritual energies and when he arrived it was to see several unwashed men running away as if they had seen a Dragon chasing them. It was then when Ila arrived with a new arrival, someone he didn't recognize and when he saw the wall, he could see the devastation there and couldn't help but sense the energies released by the elemental spirits. And as he looked at the young man who walked with Ila towards him he could see a great deal of power coming from him. This young man would prove an interesting person.

Later…

Both Ila, her classmate Gene, and Carwess watched as Naruto downed the food before at a very rapid pace. They were not used to seeing someone pack away so much food before in their lives, Naruto had eaten a whole roasted chicken, some bread, three beef steaks and a lot of hot soup made from fish, squid, and crabs. Where was he putting it all?!

Naruto had no idea he was this hungry and as much as he wanted to have ramen, he had to make due, he already knew that using ryo was out of the question as paper money was no doubt worthless as he had seen the people pay with solid coins of gold, thus he would have to find other means to get funding, but at least he was getting a free meal.

As soon as he was done, he gave a sigh and replied.

"Now I am full, thanks a great deal for the food, uh Mister Carwess."

Carwess smiled at that, he had always been called Master Carwess before and being called Mister was something of a change.

"You are quite welcome Naruto, I have to thank you for saving one of my Academy's students."

"Yes! That was amazing the way you were able to make those copies of yourself and then summoning that massive energy sphere to send those men running! And without a wand too"

"What do you mean by that Ila?"

Ila smiled as she looked at her new friend with a great deal of hero worship in her eyes as she began to explain what she had seen Naruto do to save her life to Carwess.

"It was amazing Master Carwess! He threw those star like weapons at the thugs to wound them and then created copies of himself without a wand! He and the copies attacked so fast! BAM, WHAP! And defeated the thugs like they were mere children and he then used one of the copies to create a sphere of pure light and then he slammed it into the wall and it exploded!!! BOOM!!! When the dust cleared, there was a massive hole in the wall and when Naruto and his copy made another one, the thugs just left!!!!"

Carwess was intrigued, as head of the Magic Guild he was familiar with spells that could create copies of the caster, but he had never heard of it being done without a wand before, if this young man was able to do that without a wand, then he would make a powerful mage indeed with the right training.

Naruto scratched his head and wondered just what he was going to do on how to explain his abilities, apparently the people here were not all that familiar with chakra and he would have to explain it again. It was confusing already to be somewhere where no one knew who or what he was, not to mention that the things he normally knew existed, like TV, electricity, refrigeration and more were not around and that was beginning to annoy him to no end but these were nice people and he needed help and since Ila and Carwess as well as Gene were magic users, they could help him.

"Actually, that wasn't magic."

"Oh? You're not a magic user? I rather doubt that, anyone who could create copies of himself and then create powerful sphere of energy must be a magic user".

Naruto shook his head and replied.

"Those things I did required me to use chakra actually, they don't use magic."

Ila, Gene and Carwess were surprised by this as they had never heard of chakra before and the head of the Magic Guild in Ohfun decided to ask the question.

"What is chakra Naruto?'

Naruto scratched his head and wished that he had more time to explain things but decided to do what he could in order to educate his companions. He thought back of the lectures he had in the Academy as well as Iruka's words on the matter concerning chakra.

"Chakra is an energy source in living things such as plants, animals and people, they come from two sources, the physical energy inherent in the body and the cells and the second source is from the spiritual and mental one gets from exercise and experience. We use chakra where I come from to create jutsus."

"J-Justus?"

Naruto nodded and replied.

"Jutsus are techniques that rely on chakra exclusively to be used, Jutsus like the Kage Bushin No Jutsu require a great deal of chakra, so low level jutsus require very little. The size and complex nature of the jutsu means you use up more chakra to do the jutsu successfully so you might call it magic where I come from. Charka even has an elemental affinity which can make it useful for certain jutsus that require elemental affinity.."

"Elemental affinity?"

"Yep, there are at least five elemental chakra types where I came from, Fire, Wind, Water, Earth, and Lightning. Back home, we use a special paper grown from trees fed with chakra that reacts when chakra is passed through it, fire burns it to ash, lightning crumples it, earth makes it fall apart, wind rips it into two, and water soaks it. For me I'm a Wind chakra type so I'm more attuned to using Wind based Jutsu. Sometimes two chakra types can fuse to create a totally different element and that can be very powerful. We mostly use hand seals to use chakra properly for a jutsu and there are many combinations."

"Interesting…so where is it that you come from Naruto? I have never heard of things like this before in my many years before I settled to found the Magic Academy here in Ohfun. Are there others like you?"

Naruto looked about and was very worried about what he was going to have to say, as much as he needed help from Carwess and Ila, if they could help at all. The blonde Chuunin knew that he had to be in a much safer place to get things done and he spoke to them.

"I don't think being in a restaurant is the right place to discuss these matters, is there anywhere else a lot more…private?"

Carwess could tell that this was serious indeed and knew of two places they could go, and since that one was a bit closer, then all the better, plus he had an old friend that could be willing to hear this.

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In the Temple of Mylee…

"Wow….what a place…."

Naruto had seen a lot of places for the past many years, yet this one was amazing, this was the first time he had ever walked into a temple as Carwess called it and there were a huge number of people there in the temple and all dressed in some sort of white long dress and had embroidery on them plus a short of short cape in green or light blue colors and some sort of cap….to his amazement, a vast majority of them were women…and many of them were attractive. Ila had wanted to come with them but she had to head back as she was still needing to study for her lessons.

He still hoped to see Sakura and Hinata again so he managed to get his thoughts back on track but had to admit that seeing a beautiful woman or more than one beautiful woman could grab him easily. He was older now and maybe his Pervy Sage of a teacher had finally rubbed off on him. Naruto gave a sad thought of the Pervy sage who was his Godfather and his father's sensei as well. He placed those thoughts aside as they entered a large room and then there was a table and some chairs and there was a woman with long auburn hair there wearing robes that were the same but different from Carwess, almost more holy in nature, reminding him of Shion's own robes as a Priestess, she had a motherly smile and that made him feel more at ease.

"Hello there Carwess, it's always a pleasure to see you here."

Carwess smiled and responded.

"It's good to see you too Jenny, I would like you to meet Naruto Uzumaki, a lad with an exceptional gift and as far as I can see, a great deal of potential as a sorcerer. But he has much to tell us and some of it is too private to be anywhere else.."

"I see…welcome then Naruto Uzumaki, My name is Jenny and I am Head Priestess of Mylee the War God, Carwess and I were partners and good friends for many years and I am happy to welcome you here."

Naruto smiled as he could tell that Jenny meant her greetings and he felt a bit more at ease. As the three of them sat down, a acolyte brought some refreshments to the room and left, and as soon as he was ready, he spoke to the two friends.

He told them of the history of his world and how it came to be and what ninjas were and who he was, Jenny was somewhat surprised to learn that ninjas were assassins and explained that assassins were reviled by many in this world and by it's people but Naruto explained that only on very desperate situations was assassination called for. He told them about chakra and all that he knew about it as well as what he had learned from Iruka, Kakashi, and Jiraiya as well as Tsunade and Shizune. He even told them that he could sense that the two of them had considerable chakra and with the right training, both mental, spiritual, and physical, both of them could make very good level ninjas.

He told them also of the village he came from without getting into too much detail, as well as the lands and customs of the places he had seen in his many years and his own adventures with his team and then he moved to a topic that he knew would be hard for him.

The bijuu or the tailed beasts...

Carwess and Jenny were shocked at hearing about the existence of such powerful and malevolent entities and the fact that he harbored one inside of him made them uneasy, let alone the most powerful of their kind, he couldn't blame them he was committing a mistake telling them this, but he had grown up and he had changed, thanks to so many people. He told them about Iruka who stood by him even when the truth came out, about Gaara who was like him and how he had changed the former Jinchuuriki of Shukaku, as well as Iruka, Chiyo, Jiraiya, Shizune, Tsunade who trusted him with the future, and of course his parents and his father Minato who taught him the jutsu to finally be able to become the child of destiny he was destined to be. He also told them of his friends who were very important to him and no doubt who were waiting for him to return home.

As he was finished with that part, he explained how he landed here in their world and then asked them the question that was very important to him.

"I know what I told you is hard to believe and believe me, even I can't believe it, but I am from another world and I need help getting back there, a lot of my friends are very worried about me and I want to make sure that I can see them again, since both of you are magic users, maybe you can help me get home?"

Carwess and Jenny had to admit that Naruto's story was very incredible, but they knew that their powers were not enough; the description of what Naruto saw convinced them that it was a magical portal that brought him to their world from his own. The problem was that the magic needed for it was not easy for one to have in the body and would require a powerful source of magical energy, not to mention that it required a powerful device to focus such energy to create and stabilize the portal. However there was a chance for Naruto to return home, but he still needed to learn as much as he could about magic to learn as much as he needed in order to get home to his own world. He had the potential and the ability after all and he could very well learn magic.

Carwess was the first to work on the idea.

"Naruto, from what you've told Jenny and I, you were taken into this world from a dimensional magic portal and no doubt it was powered by something that required a considerable amount of power, neither Jenny or I have that power….however, we have a solution."

Naruto was disappointed at first at hearing that the two couldn't help him, but hearing that they had a solution, he was already all ears.

"Go on."

"The records we have in the Magic Guild in Ohfun can be able to help you in finding the materials, artifacts and also the possible locations of power where you can make a portal, however it will not be an easy thing. Access to such information is normally restricted to outsiders unless you become a student in the Magic Guild. Not only that, you have to be familiar with magic and magical artifacts as well, which requires years of study and hard dedication. That is why I would like to offer you a personal invitation to be a student in the Magic Guild here in Ohfun. It can help you uncover the information that you seek, as well as learn the magical skill and ability needed in making a portal, portals are hard to make in themselves, but without the skill needed to maintain and direct them, you could wind up in another place entirely. Is it all right for you Naruto?"

Jenny then replied.

"There are many ruins and artifacts that can help you find a way to return home young Naruto, but only if you know just where to look and how to use them. I believe learning magic will go a long way in helping you while you are here so I have to agree with Master Carwess' suggestion that you study in the Academy Naruto."

Naruto thought it over and then the Kyuubi spoke to him.

((I suggest you take their advice kit, they know magic and they are right, unless you know what you're doing, how you control magic and you know what you need in order to make the portal, you're going to be sent to who knows where.))

Naruto mulled it over and decided that if this was the best way for him to find his way back home to Konoha and keep it from harm, then he might as well learn as much as he could about magic, and what else could prove useful for him. After all, he could use the things here to help better himself in the long run, his quest to be a Hokage was not over yet and also his desire to make peace and happiness in the world he lived in like his sensei Jiraiya did was not gone just yet, plus his desire to use his own way to bring peace as his father wanted him to do was there. He might be here by accident, but he could always do his best no matter the odds. With that in mind he nodded to both Carwess and Jenny and replied.

"Thank you for letting me do this, I will do my best to learn magic, and I will do my best not to be a burden to you both."

Carwess and Jenny smiled at this, they both knew that while this was highly unusual by most if not all standards but they both could tell that Naruto would be a very interesting person. And they could see that despite his past he was a strong person and had overcome many things to become the young man before them, and that made him all the more an interesting young man.

Carwess then spoke for both Jenny and himself.

"Then I, Carwess of the Magic Guild of Ohfun, welcome you Naruto Uzumaki to the Magic Guild."

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In another part of Naruto's new world…

Rolf coughed as the dust cleared and saw that the tower had collapsed, the strain of the magical energies had weakened and destroyed the device as well as the tower, but he had the blue prints with him and that would help him a great deal in perfecting the device when the time came for him to try again, he would have to rebuild his funds, to buy the materials he needed and the time to work in peace.

But with these plans, this new device could usher in a new era for all of the land.

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To be continued…

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Author's notes:

Well, that should do it, it's a bit rough drawn but so was Naruto Dragon Champion when it first started out.

I hope this fic will do well in the long run and it will not be as long as the other stories I've made so far.