naruto: the shogun unchained

chapter 4: introductions

"did she scare you or was it simply the flight itself" tatsuya said chuckling his own partner had died during the conflict after begging him to escape so as to continue the clans legacy and to make sure the dragons didn't go extinct as only the recognized uzumaki clan heir or head can name dragon riders and if riders are named dragons don't hatch it's just that simply

naruto for his part was yet again on guard ready to draw antenora should trouble arise

"you don't need to worry i'm gonna hurt you what kind of uncle would i be if i did" tatsuya said smiling warmly

"your my uncle" i said

"indeed and i am sorry it took me so long to come i didn't even know of your existance until you were two then i had to search for something for you so you could get the proper training to accept the position as clan head of course you don't have to worry that's not for several years yet but you need to be properly trained in our ways that includes riding her" tatsuya said and i groaned

"was i not enjoyable to ride at all" she asked a little hurt

"the glide was amazing i felt truly at home but the take off and landing was terrible" i said the words cheered her up significantly there were those riders who hated flying for one reason or another she didn't want one of those kinds of riders hearing that once they were leveled in the air her rider had enjoyed himself was enough for her what she didn't like was how was just kinda there as a passenger he hadn't actually ridden her like she wanted but he is inexperience that could be fixed

"anyway i'm here because as clan heir you need to be trained to take on the roll as head of the uzumaki clan" tatsuya said

"i see" i said not really sure what else to say it's not like i would say no to training he nodded and gestured for me to follow him misaki returned to her humanoid form and followed us he introduced me to tsukiko fugasaki a girl who could literally turn into a sword'another one cool' i thought to here a chuckle in my mind but it wasn't from my tenants i turned to see misaki smiling mischievously i shrugged not really caring much about it

i was also introduced to miyako nishihara a girl two years older then me who would be helping in my training which began immediately after we traded pleasantries i was told to use tsukiko in her weapon form to get used to her which annoyed antenora who grumbled about in my mind much to the amusement of my other tenants the training itself was physically brutal as my physical strength was apparently not up to uzumaki standards

and so he trained me so hard that i would pass out he would let me sleep for only an hour before i was up at it again and he was smart about it as gave misaki, miyako, and himself traded places to make sure they always had the energy to continue there were some days where naruto wished he was back in the mercy of the villagers with how brutal training was but by the time he entered the academy he was chunin level in terms of taijutsu and at least jonin level in kenjutsu