Chapter 01

In the territory of the Kingdom of Fiore, there were several deep forests that housed beings that most humans might not even have heard of, some of those beings were so powerful that they could destroy a city with just one attack.

An example of this would be the Dragons, who are claimed to be extinct, but in one of the deep forests in the land of Fiore, we can see that this is not entirely true, because that forest is where a dragon made its abode.

The Dragon had deep blue scales, more than five meters high and eight meters long from head to tip of tail, had what you might say a gentle face for a Dragon and two horn-shaped bumps above the head, together with two wings with a length of 3 meters each.

This dragon was Wasser, the Water Dragon, she was sleeping with her tail curled around herself, her wings curled to her side, and under one of her wings was a small child who was apparently 6 to 7 years of old sleeping.

The boy had milky white skin and blood-red hair, had a soft face that matched the kind of magic he was learning, wore a long-sleeved black shirt, dark blue shorts and light blue sandals, he also had a necklace around him neck with a rectangular pendant filled with small written runes.

That boy was Naruto Uzumaki, the heir of the destroyed Clan Uzumaki and in charge of avenging his clan and finding the other Uzumaki around the world, not that he knew yet, but that would change today, on his seventh birthday.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes when he felt the sunlight on his face, he closed his eyes quickly and grimaced because a ray of sunlight was hitting his face right after waking up, he turned his face away and stood in a been between awake and asleep for a moment before his mind cleared enough to remember what day it was, he then opened his eyes and gave a wide smile that almost split his face, ran out of the dragon's wing and go to her head. .

"Wasser Kaa-chan, wake up!" He yelled as he pushed the giant creature's muzzle with an excited smile.

Wasser snorted softly as she opened her eyes to look at the human child in front of her. "Why did you wake me up baby?" She asked lazily.

"Guess what day it is Kaa-chan." He said with the excited smile still on his face and an expectant look.

Wasser decided to play a little with her adopted son and made an exaggerated thinking pose. "I don't know… what day is it?" She asked with a playful look.

Naruto pouted and pointed an accusing finger at Wasser. "Did you forget my birthday, Kaa-chan?" he asked and then gave her a betrayed look.

Wasser just laughed a little at the child's drama. "Of course not baby I'm just kidding, I already have a present ready for you."

With that, the boy's face lit up and he began to ask excitedly. "Oh really!? What is it? Any super cool dragon thing?"

Wasser gave Naruto an amused look at his excitement. "Calm down baby, let's hunt our breakfast and lunch first, and after lunch I'll give you your present."

Naruto deflated a bit with this, but soon got excited again about the hunt.

After hunting animals in the forest and cooking them for breakfast, Wasser spent the rest of the morning playing with his adopted son until lunchtime, where they roasted the rest of the hunted animals for food, now we find them in the middle of a clearing with Wasser in front of Naruto with a straight face, something a little unusual to her.

"Naruto, you need to pass one last test before receiving your gift as it can be very dangerous if you don't have enough strength to use it." She said with a serious look.

Naruto, seeing his mother's serious look, surprisingly changed his expression in an instant to a stoic face and his eyes from a sky blue full of gentleness and warmth were now cold eyes that showed no emotion, that's what Wasser and Naruto called the "Mission/Training Mode". Whenever they talked about something serious or were training, he got that look.

"Hai, Okaa-Sama, what is the test?" He asked in a calm, stoic voice, in the 'Mission Mode' he even changed the honorific title that he called his mother to.

"You must show me your roar, I will judge if you have power enough like that, as the representation of a dragon is the roar." Wasser said calmly and Naruto nodded.

He stood with his legs apart and with both hands in front of his mouth, a magic circle appeared in front of his hands, he exhaled so much air that his little lungs seemed to stretch too much, he leaned back a little and screamed at the top of his lungs on exhaling.

" Water Dragon Roar! " And with that from the magic circle came a tornado of water that was going to Wasser, when it hit her, she didn't even flinch from the attack, she just looked at Naruto with a calm look.

"Very well, I see you took my advice on control." She said praising the boy who looked a little exhausted from the attack. "And from what I felt with your attack, you're ready for your gift."

And with those words Naruto came out of 'Mission Mode' and got an excited expression on his face. "Oh really!? So what's my gift?" He asked excitedly as he ran to Wasser.

She laughed a little at her son's excitement and then used her claws to grab something on the back and put it in front of the boy, it was a small wooden chest with gold edges, it looked a little old and worn.

Naruto opened the chest enthusiastically and found an ocean blue sphere the size of an adult fist, it appeared to be full of water, he stared at the sphere confused for a moment before giving his mother a quizzical look.

"Hey Kaa-chan, what is this?" He asked curiously, it had to be something important since he had to prove his strength to get.

Wasser looked a little sad as she looked at the sphere and began to explain. "This is a Dragon Lacrima, baby."

Naruto looked at the sphere curiously and then looked at his mother again. "Okay, but what do I do with this?" he asked questioningly.

"I'll have to explain how the Dragon Slayers are divided before I tell you how to use them." She said in a serious voice, causing Naruto to enter 'Mission Mode' again.

"Hai Okaa-Sama." He responded stoically as he sat cross-legged and the trunk in between them and then looked intently at his mother.

"Dragon Slayers are divided into three types, and these are 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation." She started to explain. "First Generation are Dragon Slayers who have been taught from childhood by Dragons, so for now you fall into that category."

"The Second Generation are people who implant a Dragon Lacrima in themselves, this is a very painful process for them, as their bodies were not made to use Dragon powers, and so will they need to create their own spells to use in conjunction with magic unless they have another Dragon Slayer to copy the moves." She continued.

"Those of the Third Generation are basically a combination of the first two and the strongest of the Three, they are also what you will become today. A Third Generation is when a First Generation Dragon Slayer deploys a Dragon Lacrima itself, the only requirement is that the Dragon Slayer has enough power to resist Lacrima." She finished the explanation.

Naruto, still stoic, asked a question. "How do you get a Dragon Lacrima?"

At that question, Wasser wore a sad expression. "The only way to get a Dragon Lacrima is to kill one, when a Dragon dies, the Magic Power in its body takes on a Crystallized form, depending on how much power they had, there could be more than one Lacrima."

"So whose is this Lacrima?" Naruto asked calmly, still looking stoic.

"The identity of the Dragon who died and gave this tear is exactly the reason why you will be stronger than other Third Generation Dragon Slayers when you are older." She said and then got a sad look on her face. "This is one of my husband's Lacrimas, the Dragon King of Water, Oceanus."

At that Naruto's eyes widened in surprise and then he looked at the Lacrima in awe, knowing it belonged to a Dragon King. "So this guy Oceanus is my Tou-chan?" he asked hopefully.

She laughed a little at her son's expression before nodding. "Yes, you can say that, he's your Tou-chan."

After looking at his Tou-chan's lacrima in surprise for a moment, he turned his gaze to Wasser with a slightly sad look. "How did he die?" He asked.

Wasser looked at his son with a sad look and replied. "He was killed by the Dragon King, Acnologia." She said the name Acnologia with disgust and anger in her tone.

Naruto looked at his mother's sad expression and then at his father's Lacrima and thought for a moment before telling his mother. "Kaa-chan, don't worry, someday when I'm older I will avenge Oceanus Tou-chan for you."

Wasser looked at his son in surprise before shaking her head. "No you won't do that, Acnologia is too strong, you'll just kill yourself, I won't allow you to do that."

Naruto looked at her for a moment before nodding in confirmation. "Okay then, Okaa-sama, how are we going to implant the lacrima in me?"

"Don't worry baby, I'll do the entire procedure, you just need to stay put." She said in a gentle voice to her son, trying not to make him afraid. "Don't worry, it won't hurt at all."

She then took the lacrima from her son's hands and asked him to sit cross-legged, and she soon placed her hands above his head with one of them holding the lacrima.

Once she started using her magic to start the process and the lacrima began to glow an ocean blue color, she began to sing in a language that seemed impossible to speak to a human's vocal chords.

Naruto started to feel his body getting weird, it was like he was turning to water, then he heard Wasser talking behind him. "Be quiet baby, the process will take a while."

-(30 minutes later)-

After half an hour of sitting and feeling that his body was made of water, the process was finally over and the lacrima was implanted in his body.

"Hey Kaa-chan, I don't feel any different, why?" Naruto asked his mother, having left 'Mission Mode' shortly after the process was over.

"Don't worry baby, it will take a while for the lacrima to start taking effect on your body, I think by tomorrow morning you'll already be feeling the effects." Wasser reassured her son.

"Naru-chan, why don't you go play in the river? Your Kaa-chan is a little tired." Wasser asked in a slightly tired/playful voice.

Naruto pouted and puffed out his cheeks at it. "Kaa-chan~, I already told you not to call me that, Naru-chan is a girl's name." He said and ran off to play.

Wasser just looked at her running son with an amused look before lying down and closing her eyes.

-(3 hours later)-

Naruto came running to his mother with a confused and slightly worried look on his face. "Kaa-chan, Kaa-chan, wake up!" He said with a little concern in his voice as he pushing his mother.

Wasser opened her eyes and looked at her son with concern. "What happened, Naru-chan? Why are you so worried?" She asked, but soon found out what her son's source of concern was, he was holding the necklace he'd been wearing since she found it, and it was glowing red.

"Kaa-chan, my necklace is glowing, what's up with it?" He asked in a slightly worried voice, afraid of losing the necklace he had worn since he was a baby.

Before Wasser could respond, the necklace began to glow more intensely and for a second it glowed so much that they both had to close their eyes, and when they opened them again the necklace was back to normal, but on the ground just below Naruto's hand now there was a very thick book with two letters above it.

Naruto looked at the Book and the letters for a moment and then put the necklace back around his neck and went to see what it was, with Wasser looking curiously in the side.

Each of the letters had a name written on them, the first one was Kushina Uzumaki and the second one was Arashi Uzumaki, Naruto found it strange that these people had the same last name as him, he looked at Wasser with a questioning look and she nodded.

He opened the first letter and began to read.

Hello sochi,

If you're reading this, it means you just turned 7 years old, it also means I'm dead, so let me introduce myself, my name is Kushina Uzumaki, aka Uzumaki No Akai Shi (Red Death of the Uzumaki), and I I'm your mother, I won't explain why I died, I'll leave it to your father to explain in your letter, in this letter I'll just say goodbye to you, as I'm most likely dead now, I just wanted to say I'm sorry I had to leave you , but our situation leaves us no other choice, I hope you forgive me and your father for this.

I would like to give you some advice, first, always shower, clean yourself well and brush your teeth every day, second, don't just take Ramen with every meal, I know you will get addicted to it, as this is one of the vices of the Uzumaki clan , the third piece of advice has to do with girls, try to find a good Uzumaki girl for you when you are older, the easiest way to differentiate one Uzumaki from others is the red hair like blood, just like yours, another way to differentiate them is the odd temper, they tend to get angry very easily, and the third is to see if she has any addiction to any kind of food, it doesn't really matter what it is, ramen is just the most common.

The last thing I wanted to say to you Sochi, live your life for yourself, don't end up becoming an avenger of the Clan or other people, I've met many people who have lived life just for revenge, and let me say, everyone they have the same answer to the question of how they felt after revenge: "I felt empty.", so please don't live on the path of revenge, because in the end all you have is emptiness.

That's all I wanted to say, so live your life well, sochi, goodbye.

With love,

Your kaa-chan,

Kushina Uzumaki.

Naruto had small tears in the corners of his eyes when he finished reading his birth mother's letter, he looked up at the sky right after. "I promise I will live my life to the fullest Kushina Kaa-chan." He told himself, with determined eyes, that he would follow the advice his birth mother had left him.

Wasser looked at him with a happy look as he heard him say that, happy that he finally knew who his birth mother was.

"Okay, time to read Tou-san's letter." He told himself as he opened the second letter.

Hello son,

Here's your Tou-san, you probably don't know who I am so I'll introduce myself, my name is Arashi Uzumaki or as I'm known in the place where I was born, Uzumaki No Akai Senko (Red Flash by Uzumaki), you're probably asking , who are these Uzumaki, isn't it? See son, we are part of a Clan of Mages called Clan Uzumaki, a clan known for its monstrous vitality and huge reserves of Etheran, we were also known for our aptitude for Rune Magic and the many different types of magic that only the clan knows, like Chain Magic from his mother or even Whirlpool Magic, one of the main spells of the clan and where our last name came from.

The Uzumaki Clan got its name not only because of Whirlpool Magic, but also because of where we lived, the clan was located on an island that was surrounded by whirlpools, it was a natural defense that only an Uzumaki could cross, the island was located in the middle of the oceans between Fiore and the Alvarez Empire.

Unfortunately the clan has been destroyed, I won't say who destroyed our clan now, the only way for you to know this is to be able to unlock all the runes on your necklace, only when you can do that is when you will be ready to face 'those people', now let me explain how your necklace works.

The necklace has 15 levels of runes, now the first level has already been opened, it was programmed to unlock when you turned 7 years old, the book that came with the cards is a Basic Runes Magic book, when you finish learning this you will have a level high enough to unlock the second level, which contains a basic book of various clan spells, like your mother's Chain Magic.

Now, if you look like your mother, you probably won't like runes very much and will find them too boring to be your primary magic, but let me say that my primary magic was Rune Magic and the things I can do can be really cool also, for example, I used to mark a rune on a Kunai that would allow me to teleport to them, all my enemies saw was a red flash before they were defeated, hence my nickname.

The last thing I want to say is our clan motto: Family Above Fame, Family Above Glory, Family Above All. Or to put it simply: Family above all.

You are the heir of the Uzumaki clan, so live your life to the fullest and later try to restore the clan, was all I had to say, so goodbye my son.

With love,

Your Tou-chan,

Arashi Uzumaki.

Naruto was crying to learn that his entire family was dead, but after a while he got a determined look. "I promise you live by the motto, Arashi Tou-chan." He spoke to himself, determined to live like his other clan members.

Wasser looked sad when she learned that her adopted son's family had been annihilated, then she looked up at the sky and realized it was already late. "Come Naru-chan, bedtime, starting tomorrow we will include Magic Runes in your training."

Naruto nodded to his mother and snuggled under her wings taking the book and letters with him. "Good night Kaa-chan."

"Good night Naru-chan."

"Kaa-chan~, I already told you not to call me that."

"Ok ok I'll stop, goodnight baby."

That night, Naruto slept hugging the book and letters from his birth parents.