The various jonin, chunin, and special jonin all looked at the little red Chinese dragon standing on the table.
"This is one of the easiest ways to make sure that the correct information gets out amongst the clans and cuts down on the misinformation," said the Hokage. "Can you tell us about the dragon summoning contract with Naruto?"
"Okay," said Mushu, folding his forelimbs in front of him and nodding in imitation of human mannerisms. "Listen up, y'all. This here's the thing. Naruto Uzumaki, last heir of the once-mighty Uzumaki clan, has the summoning contract for dragons. He has the ability to bring forth mighty dragons to fight or bring other useful skills to y'all's village."
"'Mighty'?" asked one of the chunin, eyebrow twitching and indicating Mushu's apparent desktop-fitting size.
"I am the dragon who gets the 'expository dialogue' job description," said Mushu. "Mainly because I is so very erudite and stuff, you digging me? Course, Naruto is also gonna be responsible for bringing dragons more permanently to this location - and don't think that won't be a game-changer."
"How are having tiny dragons, no offense, going to change much of anything?" asked the same chunin. "I mean, Tsunade summons giant slugs and Jiraiya has giant frogs, and there are other summons already."
"Would you pay attention? I just done said I am the 'explaining stuff' dragon," said Mushu, clearly irritated. "Most dragons are more prone to action than witty dialoguing and speechifying. Kinda like Kenshiro here."
Everyone glanced at Kenshiro, the Might Guy of Konohagakure, and had to admit that he wasn't much for long drawn out speeches. Mostly he was the sort who gave short to-the-point speeches while giving short to-the-point beatdowns.
"Now one thing to remember is that you shouldn't meddle in the affairs of dragons, cause y'all are crunchy and good with ketchup," said Mushu, brandishing a bottle of Huntsman's Brand Spicy Ketchup that he pulled out of nowhere. "Some dragons don't do the speechifying too well cause they're liable to take a bite out of whatever's annoying them. Those are the ones Naruto would likely summon up for a fight and then they'll just dismiss themselves to go back to what they was doing afterwards. There are others to summon for expertise on one thing or another, such as transportation or digging a hole. That's the summons though. There's more cause he's a dragon contractor, not just a dragon summoner."
"What's the difference?" asked Iruka Umino.
"Naruto can only summon dragons for a limited time," said Mushu, with a nod towards the teacher. "Bigger the dragon, the more the chakra cost, the shorter the time we stay summoned. That's kinda different from the toad contract and such. Also he needs to know the name of the specific dragon to be summoned. With his memory, that's a limitation all by itself."
"I can attest to that," said Iruka drily, well knowing the limitations of Naruto's attention and memory.
"So he's gonna be raising some dragons when he's got the space," said Mushu. "As soon as he gets space for a hatchery, he's gonna have the opportunity to raise some dragons from eggs. That's the real changing thing."
"How does that change anything?" asked the chunin from earlier.
"They is born and raised to this world, they become natives of this world," said Mushu. "That means no chakra required to maintain 'em here. So how will it be when Naruto can provide flying high-speed transportation to a large group of people? Not to mention the special abilities thing."
"What special abilities?" asked Inoichi.
"Depends on what goes on with his clan," admitted Mushu. "Also fits into the whole bonding thing with the just-hatched dragons. For example, if he ends up with you Yamanaka types - he could raise dragons who do that talk-with-the-mind thing. If he ends up with one of you Hyuga sorts - that link-with-minds things so y'all could see from your bonded dragon-friend. It's kind of like with the Inuzuka clan and their big doggies, except the Uzumaki animal friends have wings and armored scales and elementally charged breath weapons and stuff like that there. You're actual mileage may vary though, cause there's always the little fiddly bits when plans meet real life."
"Hmmm," hmmmed Hana Inuzuka, considering the information she'd bring back to her own clan. Possibly a competitor, possibly an ally with some overlap.
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