How to Train Your Demon

I came up with the idea for this after watching some clips of 'How to Train Your Dragon'. How you like it. I don't own Naruto.

Naruto sat in his room, staring at the roof. Soon, a red-haired boy entered his room. "Hello," Naruto said to the red-haired boy, "you must be Gaara of the desert, here for your father to help solidify the treaty between our two lands." "Yes," Gaara said, "I've never been here before, so I'd also like to hear a bit about your village." "Ooookaaayy," said Naruto, knowing where this would go."

Naruto pointed outside a window at Konoha. "This is our home," he said, "Konoha. It's located in the Land of Fire. My village is, in a word, sturdy. It's been here for several generations, but most of the buildings are new. It has many fun activities, plenty of food, and is a great spot to enjoy nature and the sunset. The only problems here are the pests."

"Please," Gaara said, "pests are easy to take care of." "You'd think so, wouldn't you," Naruto told him, "but we're different than most towns. You see, most towns have mice or locusts. We have…'"

Suddenly, Naruto heard the gong of an alarm. He ran over to his window and opened it. Then he closed it before the demon cat's fire ball on the other side hit him. "Demons," he said, unintentionally finishing his thought from earlier.

Naruto then came out of his house, running through the village, with Gaara following in tow. "Why don't you leave," Gaara asked when he caught up. "Most people would," Naruto told him, "but not us. We're ninja. We can be overly loyal to our land."

Naruto and Gaara ran past many people (most of whom told Naruto to get back inside). Suddenly, someone grabbed the back of Naruto's collar. "Naruto," said the man who grabbed him, "what are you doing ou… what is he doing out." The man was looked a lot like Naruto, except he had no whisker marks. "Get inside," the man said, putting Naruto down, "now!"

"Who was that," Gaara asked as he and Naruto started to run again. "That," Naruto said, "was Minato, 'The Yellow Flash'. He's our leader. They say that when he was a kid, he popped the head of a demon clean off." "You don't actually believe that," Gaara asked, "do you?" "Yes," Naruto said, "Yes I do."

Finally, Naruto and Gaara reached a weapons depo. "Well," said a white haired man, "glad you could join the party. I thought you might have been carried off." "Who, me," Naruto told him, flexing his arms, "no way. After all, they wouldn't know what to do with all this." "Well," the white haired man said, "the need snacks, don't they?"

"Who's that guy," Gaara asked as Naruto got ready to hand out weapons. "The pervert with white hair is Jiraiya. He trained my father once, and I've been trainee since I was young." Gaara looked at Naruto skeptically. "Ok," Naruto said, "younger."

Suddenly, a building just outside burst into flames. "See," Naruto said, pointing at the building, "Old village, lots of new houses." Then, as Naruto gave out a hand full of weapons to some of the ninjas, a group of kids his age past by to put out some of the fires. "Oh," Naruto said, point them out, "and that's Choji, Sasuke, Ino, Shikamaru, Hinata, Neji, Tenten, Lee, Kiba, Shino, and that's… Sakura." He said that last one with longing, which Gaara noticed.

"Oh, their job is so much cooler," Naruto said, trying to get a better look. "Oh no you don't," Jiraiya said, pulling him back in. "Oh come on," Naruto told him, "I need to make my mark." "Trust me," Jiraiya said, "you've already made your mark… are in the wrong places."

"Please," Naruto said, "two minutes. I'll kill a demon; my life will get insanely better. I might even get a date." "Naruto," Jiraiya told him, "you can't throw a ninja star straight, you can barely use a kunai knife…" he picked up what looked like a bolas, except it had curved blades instead of rocks, "you can't even throw one of these. And you're the one who made it."

Just then, a ninja grabbed the bladed bolas (A/N: let's call it that) and threw it at a demon. "Although, I do have to admit," Jiraiya said to himself, "it is very popular." "Ok, true," Naruto said, putting his hand on a mobile chest, "but this will throw it for me."

Suddenly, the chest opened and out popped a gun that fired a bladed bolas, which nearly hit a ninja at the window. "You see," Jiraiya said, "this is exactly what I'm talking about." "Ok, the thing's a bit trigger happy," Naruto said, "I just need to…" "No," Jiraiya told him, "If you ever want get out there to fight demons, you need to stop all… this." "But you just pointed at all of me," Naruto said.

"Yes, exactly," Jiraiya said, "stop being all of you." "Hey," Naruto said, "…well, you are making a mistake. Keeping all this raw… ninja-ness, contained. There will be consciences." "I'll take my chances," Jiraiya said sarcastically, handing him a piece of large roll up paper, "now, make another defense scroll."

"One day I'll get out there," Naruto told Gaara, as he started to write, "Because killing a demon is everything to us." "There seems to be quite a few different kinds," Gaara said looking out the window, "Which one will you get?" "That's a good question," Naruto said, "Let me think…"

"A Catterhead (A/N: cat-er-head)," Naruto said, pointing to a group of giant white cats, "is sure to get me noticed." Then he pointed at a group of, what appeared to be, giant pigs with smoke coming out of their noses. "Snothog's are tough," he said, "Killing one of those would definitely make me popular." Then he pointed to, what seemed like, a large black deer. "A Shadowdeer," Naruto said, "Exotic. Living, shape-shifting shadows with attitude." Finally, Naruto pointed at a tower near the water. On it was a demon that almost looked like a dragon, except that the wings looked like webbed-hands, had long, black hair on its head, and it's body took on a human shape. "And then," he said, "there is the Cursed Sharingan. Only the best ninja go after them. They have a nasty habit of lighting themselves on fire with their own chakra."

"Cool," Gaara said. "Yes, cool," Naruto said, not hearing the steadily growing sound of what sounded like a cross between an animal's growl, and a hum, "but the ultimate prize, is the demon only one person has ever seen, and only once. From the first Hokage's description, we decided to call it the…" "NINE TAILS," a man shouted, before the tower by the edge of the town exploded in fox fire.

(A/N: One can always tell the difference between a fox fire and ordinary fire. Fox fire always burns a bright orange, and never makes any smoke, no matter what it lights on fire. It also burns slightly hotter.)

"Was that…" Gaara asked. "Yea," Naruto said, looking out the window, "this thing never steals anything, never shows itself, and…" BOOM "…never misses." "Naruto," Jiraiya said, putting on ninja armor, "Man the fort. They need me out there."

As an afterthought, Jiraiya turned around and said to Naruto, "Stay… put… there. Oh, you know what I mean." After Jiraiya was gone, Naruto looked at Gaara. "Hey Gaara," he said. "What," Gaara asked. "Man the fort for me, will you," Naruto told him. "Ok. Wait, WHAT," Gaara said as Naruto ran out with his gun-chest-thing.

As soon as Naruto was out of sight of most of the people (just in case he messed up), he set up the gun, ready to hit whatever demon he saw. "Come on," Naruto said, still waiting, "just… give me something to shoot at."

Then he heard something flying nearby. He looked, and barely saw the outline of something. Something that looked like an orange bird… with nine tails. Naruto took aim. But before he could fire, the nine tails hit another tower, bringing a sudden bright light from the dark. Naruto closed his eyes, and fired by accident.

When he opened them a second later, Naruto just saw the figure of the nine tails falling somewhere in the woods. "I hit it," Naruto said in surprise, "I actually hit it. YES, I REALLY HIT IT." Naruto turned around. "Did anyone see that," he asked. Then he heard a crunching noise behind him. He turned around to see a Cursed Sharingan looking at him with great anger in its red eyes. "Besides you, I mean," Naruto said to it.

Meanwhile…

Minato was just tying down the last of the Catterheads when he heard a loud scream. He turned around to see Naruto being chased by a Cursed Sharingan. Sighing, Minato turned to a few ninja next to him, told them "Do not let them escape", then ran after him.

Naruto ran down the way he came, hoping someone was still there. "Hey, Naruto," Gaara said, holding a handful of weapons and walking towards him, "I've got a bone to pick with you." "Gaara," Naruto said, "run." "Why," Gaara asked. Then the Cursed Sharingan came into sight. "Oh," Gaara said, dropping the weapons, "that's why."

With both of them running, Naruto and Gaara hid behind a large poll. Seconds later, the poll started to burn from a black flame that the Cursed Sharingan had spewed. After a few seconds of quite, Naruto looked around one corner and Gaara the other. "Uh, Naruto," Gaara said as he stared down the face of the Cursed Sharingan.

Suddenly, Minato appeared out of nowhere, literally, and punched the Cursed Sharingan in the face. After the Cursed Sharingan got back on its feet, it tried to spew more black fire at Minato. But all that came out was grayish-black smoke puff. "You're all out," Minato said to it, as it looked back at him nervously.

As Minato started to beat the Cursed Sharingan off, Gaara turned to Naruto and said, "Wow, personally saved by the leader of your village. You must fell amazed right now." "I would," Naruto told him, "but there's just one thing I think I should mention."

Then the poll behind them burned threw. Naruto and Gaara turned around to see the poll fall over, and the giant torch on top of it roll off into the village. Minato come over and looked at Naruto like this was all his fault (which, technically, it was).

"Sorry, dad," Naruto said to Minato. Gaara just stopped and stared at Naruto, then Minato. 'Guess this is a common thing,' Gaara thought.

It has final started. By the way, this is a Naru/Saku fic. I'm more of a Naru/Hina lover, but I couldn't picture the hero/hero's lover as anyone else, mostly because of the main female lead in the 'How to Train your Dragon' moive. Also, I can't decide on what age to give them (Naruto age or Naruto Shippuden age), so I think I'll let you decide on that.

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