Chapter 02

The Maelstrom Dragon Slayer

Chapter 02

In a forest near a small town, it is possible to find a boy walking in the opposite direction of the town, going deeper into the forest.

This young man had milky white skin and blood red hair which made his sky blue eyes stand out even more, he was wearing a dark orange shirt with a black jacket, dark blue shorts and blue sandals.

This young man was Naruto Uzumaki, Heir to the destroyed Clan Uzumaki and one of the last Uzumaki alive, he was returning from the city where he obtained books, clothing and other human needs that his mother could not provide.

"Dude, Mira-chan was in a much worse temper than usual today." He spoke to himself as he walked through the forest.

Soon afterward he struck a deep-thinking pose. "Was she 'at that time of the month' that I read in that book a while ago?" He wondered aloud, but then shrugged. "Eh, who cares, but I'm sorry for Lisa-chan and Elf-kun for having to deal with her."

When thinking about Mirajane and her siblings, he ended up remembering how he met them, it was when he was 10 years old and asked his mother to get him some books to read, she took him near a small village and pointed the direction of the city for him, this city was where, with the help of a nice baa-chan, she got the things she needed to raise him, like diapers, clothes, baby food, etc.

But anyway, after arriving in town and asking a nice woman the way to the library, he ended up bumping into them, now that he thought about it, the meeting was really funny.

-(Flashback)-

Naruto Uzumaki, 10 years old, walked the streets of an isolated small town while admiring the many houses and people that walked the streets, enjoying the peace that existed in that city.

He was so distracted that he didn't notice 3 kids walking towards him, and they were distracted too, so he and the person in front of the group bumped and fell backwards, both rubbing the spot where their heads collided with each other.

"Hey, who was the idiot who bumped into me?" asked a female voice in an aggressive tone.

"Mira-nee, are you alright?" asked another childish voice with concern.

Naruto finally looked up and froze at what he saw, in front of him was a girl who looked his age sitting on the floor and rubbing her forehead, there was a little white haired girl beside her with a worried look and a boy with the same white hair right behind with a worried look too.

What paralyzed him was the appearance of the older girl, she had long white hair that was tied back in a ponytail and left two bangs beside her face, dark blue eyes, a very pretty face that made Naruto fascinated and she wore one simple black dress that reached to her knees.

Naruto didn't see many girls his age or close to that, the only exceptions being when he read a book that had pictures, but the girls in the pictures didn't even compare the beauty of the girl in front of him in his opinion, she is the most beautiful girl that he had seen in his short life, something about her simply attracted him.

Mirajane stood up and looked intently at the boy who bumped into her for a moment and had to admit he was very handsome, his red hair contrasted with his white skin and made a nice image, but what attracted her most were his sky blue eyes, she looked into his eyes and was almost mesmerized by them, eyes so beautiful... she felt her face heat up just looking at them.

But she quickly shook her head to refocus and pointed an accusing finger at him. "You! Why were you walking down the street distracted like an idiot? Apologize for bumping into me and stop looking at me with that goofy look." She said giving him an evil look that would frighten other kids.

Naruto came back to himself and upon hearing what she said and seeing the look she was giving him, he started to get a little irritated, a normal child would now be cringing and apologizing to her, but Naruto is an Uzumaki, and the Uzumaki were known for their tempers.

He stood up and pointed an accusing finger at her as well and gave her the infamous Uzumaki glare. "HA!? What do you mean apologizing to you? And who are you calling an idiot?"

Mirajane looked at him in surprise for a moment, surprised that a child her age wasn't terrified of his evil gaze, she smiled almost imperceptibly before answering. "Who else do you think I'm talking to? Tomato."

Naruto was angry at the nickname and gave her a scary look. "Who are you calling a tomato... Huh, Huh, Radish."

Mirajane looked at him with amused eyes. "Oh really? Radish? Is it the best you can think of, Tomato Head?" She gave him a sneer.

Naruto was even more furious about this. "That's it! You're screwed!" And with that he jumped on her and they started fighting in the middle of the street, rolling as they fought, what he didn't see was the small smile on her face Mirajane happy for she met someone with a temper as bad as hers.

- (End of Flashback) -

After that they were separated by Mirajane's siblings, Lisanna and Elfman, as an excuse for their sister's behavior they accompanied him to the library, but on the way they ended up making friendship, so they spent the rest of the day together, playing and talking with Lisanna and Elfman or arguing and fighting with Mirajane.

After befriending the Strauss brothers, the city of Portland became the one he frequented one day a month to stock up on his groceries with the money he earned from selling small treasures his mother accumulated over time, every month he spent a whole day with the Strauss siblings, Lisanna and Elfman ended up calling him Naru-nii and Mirajane gave him the unbearable nickname that his mother still calls him from time to time, the damn Naru-chan, or calls him of Tomato Head, a nickname that if anyone other than Mirajane uses, they'll get kicked in the ass.

'Now, I'm so close to reaching level 7 of the runes on my necklace, I can't wait to see if there's anything new at this level besides the books on the next level of runes and updates to the clan's magics.' He thought with excitement.

In the following years after his 7th birthday, he worked hard to learn Rune Magic, the first 2 levels were simple, he managed to learn everything in less than 1 year, but the following levels became more and more difficult, so much so that at 12 years old he's still at level 6, almost reaching level 7.

He calculated the other day and estimated that he would only make it to level 15 between his 20s and 25s, if he keeps learning at the same speed as he is now, of course.

One thing he's learned about runes in recent years is that the rune magic the Uzumaki use is much more complex and useful than normal Rune magic, which is why his father can craft a complicated rune like Hiraishin, a rune wizard normally couldn't create something like that, which is why the Uzumaki clan was revered for their rune magic in the past.

Another thing he learned that was in the first Rune Magic book that came out of his necklace was that Rune Magic requires a lot of training to be used in battle, rune magic is usually only used to set traps and install shields, to be used in battle, first you need to decide which field of runes you want to specialize in, there are several different fields like Barrier Rune Magic, Spacetime, Elemental, etc.

After deciding your specialization, you need to decide your first rune, for example, an Elemental Rune Mage can choose a Rune [Fire Whip] as their first rune, they will then repeat the process of the creation of that rune until it is etched into his soul and can be created without the mage moving a muscle, using only his Magic to create the rune, and this then becomes his main attack rune until he can do the same process with other runes.

Another skill a Rune Mage needs to learn is how to be ambidextrous and thought partition to draw two different runes at the same time, in a battle this will help a lot, as in the Elemental Mage case, he could use the [Fire Whip] to distract the enemy while with the other hand draw a rune or set of runes to create an attack that can end the battle, such as creating the rune [Sea of ​​Flame] or [Dragon of Fire], runes that can end a battle quickly.

An example of why both abilities are useful came from his father, Arashi Uzumaki, who needed to use both hands and thought partition to create the [Hiraishin Domain] which was a kind of space lock that prevented enemies from escaping while at the same time it spread the Hiraishin marks throughout the confined space, thus ensuring victory unless one of the enemies had the absolute power necessary to break a space lock or was a Mage with Space Magic, which is a type of lost magic.

The Field Naruto chose to specialize was Barrier Rune Magic, as he already has Dragon Slayer Magic to attack, so he thought, why not increase my defense then?

The first rune he decided to master was a simple kinetic barrier rune, which can only defend against physical attacks, there are several barriers that can protect against everything, even against ghosts, even the ghost barrier was the second rune dominated by Naruto , which greatly alleviated his fear of ghosts, as he now knows that if he can't hurt them, at least he can defend himself against them.

Naruto hummed a little melody as he walked calmly through the forest, he hoped that he would soon reach Level 7 of Rune Magic, and that the month would pass faster so he could see Mirajane, Elfman and Lisanna again.

Little did he know that this would be the last time he would see the Strauss siblings for a while.

- (TimeSkip- 2 weeks) -

Naruto was sitting in a clearing in the forest while drawing several runes in the air at an impressive speed, he had been doing this for 1 hour straight.

He slowly slowed down as he drew the last and most complex rune, when he finished he said some incomprehensible words and the thousands of runes started to accumulate and soon joined together to form a single rune, which Naruto took in the palm of his hand and looked at her with an exhausted but proud look.

He took the necklace from around his neck and put the rune on it, then the necklace started to glow red, the light continued to increase in intensity until he had to close his eyes, when he opened them again right in front of him there were 3 books, a letter and a small yellow ball with a blue star in the middle.

Naruto first took the letter that came with it, this was the first letter since the first level, he opened it and started to read it, but was disappointed to see that it wasn't a letter from his parents.

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Hi, Heir Uzumaki,

I'm Kawa Uzumaki, the fifth leader of the Uzumaki clan, I wrote this letter to explain one of the strongest and equally dangerous spells in our clan, you may have heard of the so-called Take Over Magic, but if you've never heard of it I'll explain one little about what it is about.

Take Over Magic is a magic that allows the user to absorb the souls of certain creatures into their own body and assume some characteristics of these creatures along with their strength, some examples of Take Over Magic would be Take Over: Animal Soul and Take Over: Beast Soul, these are the most common and easily learned if the person has enough talent, but there are also those that are more dangerous like Take Over: Satan Soul that is necessary to kill and absorb the soul of a demon, in addition to an innate talent for that magic, which can cause a personality change or drive the user crazy if he doesn't have enough willpower.

That's another thing a Take Over mage needs to have, willpower, when they take over another creature's soul, they have a 'battle of wills' so to speak, and if the mage has less willpower than the creature , the reverse of what they are trying to do will happen, the creature will take over your body and get stronger with it.

Anyway, back to the beginning, our clan has a type of Take Over Magic that only the clan boss and heir can learn, it's much stronger even than the Demon Soul, but it's an equally high price to use, the magic is called Take Over:Tailed Beast Soul.

This letter came with a strange little ball, this little ball is the Tailed Beast's soul: Shukaku, when you take Shukaku's soul you gain power over any and all sand, there are 9 Tailed Beasts, from the One Tailed Tanuki to the Nine Tailed Fox, the power you gain with each Take Over is insane, but it should only be used in the most desperate situations, as the price to pay for this power is one year of user life for each tail, that is, when someone assume the power of Kurama the Nine-Tailed Fox he will lose 9 years of life, this is not so much of a problem for the Uzumaki clan leader because the clan heirs are usually the ones with more life force than the rest of the clan, and usually a clan leader has a lifespan of 300 years, but even that is no reason to use this spell recklessly, so use it only in emergencies.

You might be wondering where the Tailed Beasts' souls came from, right? Well, that was a long time ago, back when the 2nd clan leader was still young, at that time, Dragons still roamed the land freely, 9 giant beasts, the same size or even bigger than a dragon appeared in random places across the land. world, they seemed to be just irrational animals, as they destroyed everything that was in their path, so the 2nd leader of the Uzumaki clan tried to kill them, he managed to kill Shukaku, the name he gave to the one-tailed Tanuki, but only 1 year after Shukaku's death, he started to reform in the same place where he was killed, after that, the 2nd leader discovered that these creatures were made entirely of Etheraro, that is, they are practically immortal, as they can recreate their body with Etheran in the air.

After that, he decided that the only way to defeat these Beasts was to seal them, so using his Rune Magic, which was one of the strongest in Clan history, he sealed all the Beasts into small balls like the one that came with the letter.

Later, the second leader found out about the newly invented Take Over Magic by someone from a distant empire and tried to use the sealed-tail beasts as souls, he succeeded and gained incredible power, but found that the price of this temporary power would be a reduction of his life force.

Well, Young Heir Uzumaki, that was all I had to explain to you about the strongest Magic of the Clan , from now on, every level you open in the necklace, you'll have another Tailed Beast Soul until you finish all the 15 levels.

Soul Balls, as they are called, have a seal that transports the Soul back to them automatically once the former user dies, so remember to seal them back to the necklace seal after absorbing the soul, so that the future heir of the clan can use it after his death.

Young Uzumaki, Remember: Family above Honor, Family above Glory, Family above all.

From the 5th leader of the Uzumaki clan,

Kawa Uzumaki.

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Naruto looked impressed at the small ball in his hand. 'Who knew something so small could hold so much power.' He thought to himself and then looked at the books still on the floor.

Take Over Magic: Tailed Beast Soul

Uzumaki Clan Spells: Level 7

Uzumaki Rune Magic: Level 7

It was the titles of the books, he decided he would test the strongest magic of his clan, so he picked up the book and began to read.

-(30 minutes later) -

After 30 minutes of learning how to use the Take Over Magic, he finally managed to absorb Shukaku's soul and sealed the Soul Ball along with Kawa Uzumaki's letter inside the necklace again.

Now we find Naruto in the middle of a clearing getting ready to test his new magic, but still with a little doubt in his mind.

"Come on, I have a lifespan of 300 years, it will only cost 1 year, it's not much...right?" He wondered aloud, a little unsure whether or not to do this.

"AHH! Because I'm having so many doubts about it, no big deal, my ancestors did it too, why I wouldn't?" He talked to himself and finally made a decision.

Standing up firmly, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself, after a few seconds he finally said;

"Yosh! Let's go!"

"Take Over: Tailed Beast Soul: Shukaku"

He screamed and soon his body was covered by a sand colored light, when the light went out, Naruto was still in the same clothes, the only differences were his eyes, hair and arms, besides the tail he had on his back.

His eyes were completely sand yellow with his pupils turning into a black 4-pointed star, his arms apparently turned to sand and his hands took the shape of claws, on top of his head he had two yellow Tanuki ears and behind them was possible to see a tail that appeared to be sand with several lines of dark blue color.

Naruto looked down at his own hands and then at the tail behind him with an admiring look, just after he went to the lake where his mother was resting and looked at his reflection in the water, he looked into his new eyes in full wonder.

Meanwhile, Wasser looked at her adopted son with an interested look when she saw his new form, which somehow reminded her of the Dragon Force of Dragon Slayers.

After finishing admiring himself, Naruto turned to his mother and spoke with a fierce smile that looked frightening because of his new eyes. "Hey Kaa-chan, help me test this new magic, I want to see how strong the strongest magic of the Uzumaki clan is."

Wasser just shook her head and stood up, preparing to see how strong her son is in this new form.

- (1 week later) -

Naruto was in the same small town he goes every month, he was going to the Strauss brothers' house, one thing he found a little weird is the looks people are giving him.

Some people gave him regretful looks, and other icy looks that contained a small sliver of killing intent and hostility, which he learned to feel during the hunts he and his mother did, he didn't understand the why the looks, but that's made him to have a very bad feeling, so he quickened his step towards the homes of the people he considers his family.

The closer he got to the place, the more the foreboding grew, and as soon as he rounded the corner that led to the house, he froze to see that all that was left was a completely charred house that had already collapsed.

He walked to the front of the house and looked at the charred remains with an empty eye, going into 'Mission Mode' so as not to panic, but as he looked coldly at the remains, he heard footsteps approaching him from behind. he turned and watched as several adult men and teenagers approached him with various weapons, from sticks to knives, when they got close enough, the apparent leader of the group was the first to open his mouth, but before he could speak, Naruto asked coldly ;

"Who made this?"

The leader blinked for a moment and then responded with a smirk on his face. "It was us, of course."

"Why?" Naruto asked, his voice still stoic and cold.

"Because she was possessed by a demon, so we killed her and her brothers, burning her house down." He said with a bigger smile when he saw Naruto's eyes narrow with every word he said.

"We were just waiting for you to show up, demon lover, you are the only one left to be killed and cleanse this city." He said and then waved the men behind him to attack.

Naruto just stared at them coldly before releasing the killing intent he formed by hunting animals along with his mother.

"You are dead." Naruto stated monotonously and then made the first move.

"Water Dragon's Roar!"

And so began the Portland city massacre, which later became a horror story parents tell their children.