Disclaimer: I do not own the anime/manga "Naruto" or "Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)", and the only thing I own is this alternate/parallel story that I have written for fun.
Dragon Magnet
Chapter 3: The Unexpected Visit
"Speaking"
"Thinking"
"Rasengan!" Attacks / Abilities / Jutsu / Ki / Magic / Techniques
Reading / News / Intercoms
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The forest surrounding Naruto's cabin used to be a place of absolute peace, where the loudest sound was the wind through the leaves or the occasional wild animal (which now fled at the sight of the house). However, since the arrival of a certain tenant, peace had become an abstract concept.
"Naruto-san! Look at this!"
CRASH!
Naruto, who was sitting in the lotus position on a flat rock in the backyard trying to meditate and gather natural energy, didn't even open his eyes. A vein throbbed visibly on his temple.
"Ilulu..." His voice was a low, dangerous growl. "What did you break now?"
"Nothing important..." the dragon replied quickly, hiding the charred remains of what used to be a lawnmower behind her back. "Just... that noisy machine you push around. I decided it needed a fire upgrade. It didn't work."
The former shinobi sighed deeply, exhaling the air from his lungs along with his patience. He opened his eyes, revealing his black pupils that flashed for a moment with the gold of Sage Mode before fading.
"That was borrowed from the neighbor at the farm down the road," Naruto said, standing up and dusting off his pants. "Add it to your debt. It's now 150 bowls of ramen and a lawnmower."
Ilulu groaned dramatically, dropping to the ground. "This is slavery! I'm a Chaos dragon, not a gardener!"
Naruto ignored her and walked towards the perimeter of his property. Since the encounter with Tohru in the city, he had been reinforcing the barriers. He didn't trust that "Dragon Maid." His instincts told him she was the territorial and obsessive type.
He pulled a kunai from his pouch and began carving kanji characters into the trunk of a centuries-old oak tree.
"Fūin (Seal)."
The kanji glowed with a faint blue light and then faded into the bark.
"What are you doing?" Ilulu asked, approaching curiously, forgetting her debt for a moment.
"Reinforcing security," Naruto explained without stopping. "It's a detection and repulsion barrier. If anyone with hostile intentions or a massive energy signature tries to enter without permission..."
BZZZZT!
Suddenly, the air over the property vibrated violently. The blue sky rippled as if it were water disturbed by a stone.
Naruto reacted instantly. He vanished in a blur of speed and reappeared in front of Ilulu, kunai in hand, staring up at the sky.
"Speak of the devil..." Naruto muttered, narrowing his eyes.
A dimensional rift opened in the sky, and two figures descended from it. They didn't fall; they floated down with arrogant grace.
The first was unmistakable: Tohru, in her immaculate maid outfit and curved horns. But she didn't come alone. By her side, holding her hand, was a little girl... or what looked like a little girl. She had white hair with lavender tips, small horns, and wore a traditional Ainu/Gothic-style outfit in pink and white.
They landed softly in Naruto's garden, completely ignoring the barrier Naruto had just finished (or rather, tearing right through it with brute magical force).
"Wow!" Tohru exclaimed, looking around with disdain. "So this is where you live? It's... rustic. And it smells like wet dog."
The little white-haired girl stared at Naruto with big, expressionless blue eyes. "Ohhh."
Naruto put away the kunai, but didn't lower his guard. He crossed his arms over his chest, his muscles tensing beneath the black fabric of his clothes.
"You've got guts coming onto my property uninvited," Naruto said coldly. "What do you want? If you're here for a fight, I'm warning you, I just cleaned the yard and I don't want dragon blood on my petunias."
Tohru let out a haughty giggle. "Don't be silly, human. If I wanted to fight, you'd already be incinerated. I just came to... inspect."
"Inspect?" Ilulu repeated, peeking out from behind Naruto. "Inspect what?"
"You, dummy," Tohru replied, pointing at Ilulu. "And him." Her dragon eyes locked onto Naruto. "Kobayashi-san was worried. She said 'a guy living alone in the woods with an underage girl is suspicious.' So I came to make sure you aren't doing anything inappropriate with a dragon, even if she is from the Chaos faction."
Naruto blinked, baffled by human (and dragon) logic. "Inappropriate? She's the one who tries to climb into my bed because she's cold."
"It's true!" Ilulu yelled, completely oblivious to the implication.
Tohru's mouth dropped open, scandalized. "What?!"
"Not like that!" Naruto gave Ilulu a gentle (but firm) chop on the head. "Explain yourself properly! She just sleeps like a cat looking for warmth."
While the adults bickered, the little white dragon, Kanna Kamui, let go of Tohru's hand and walked quietly towards Naruto. She stopped right in front of him, looking up due to the massive height difference (Naruto was almost two meters tall, she barely reached his waist).
Naruto felt the presence at his feet and looked down.
Kanna stared right at him. Then, she raised her little hands towards him.
"What?" Naruto asked, confused.
Kanna didn't answer. She just kept staring at him with those big, bright eyes, loaded with the deadliest weapon known to man: absolute cuteness.
Naruto felt a critical hit to his heart. An image of his daughter, Himawari, when she was little, overlapped with the dragon in front of him. The same innocent look, the same height...
The former shinobi's killing aura evaporated instantly.
"Dammit..." Naruto muttered, defeated.
He crouched down to Kanna's eye level. "Are you hungry, little one?"
Kanna nodded slowly. "Very."
Naruto sighed, a small smile appearing on his war-weathered face. He reached into his ninja tool pouch, where he normally kept shurikens and explosive tags, and pulled out something no one would expect: a discount coupon for an ice cream parlor and a piece of fudge he had bought for emergencies (low blood sugar).
"Here," he offered her the candy.
Kanna took it, sniffed it, and then ate it in one bite, wrapper and all.
"Crunchy," Kanna said, her cheeks glowing. "I like you. You smell like the sun."
Tohru, who had been yelling at Ilulu about dragon morality, stopped dead in her tracks upon seeing the scene. Kanna, the dragon who was normally indifferent to strangers, was letting the "dangerous human" pat her on the head.
"Kanna!" Tohru shrieked, horrified. "Don't go near him! He might have fleas!"
Kanna looked at Tohru and then back at Naruto. Without warning, she jumped and hung from Naruto's neck like a sloth, hugging him tightly.
"He's warm," Kanna declared. "I'm keeping him."
Naruto stood up with the dragon child hanging from his neck like an unusual backpack. He looked at Tohru with a 'Now what?' expression.
"Looks like I have another tenant," Naruto said sarcastically. "I hope she eats less than the other one."
Ilulu crossed her arms, jealous. "Hey! I'm your favorite!"
"No one is my favorite," Naruto grumbled, though he unconsciously supported Kanna so she wouldn't fall. "I'm just a magnet for trouble."
Tohru watched the scene suspiciously, but her instinct told her that Kanna had good judgment. If Kanna felt safe, then this human... maybe wasn't an immediate threat.
"Fine," Tohru said, crossing her arms and looking away with classic tsundere flair. "If Kanna wants to stay for a bit, I'll allow it. But I'll be watching you, human. One false move and I'll turn you to ash."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say," Naruto replied, walking towards the house with Kanna still hanging off him. "Listen, I'm going to make some tea. And I might have cookies. Are you coming in or staying outside freezing?"
Tohru and Ilulu looked at each other for a second, sharing a strange camaraderie for the first time.
"Cookies..." they both muttered in unison.
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The atmosphere in the cabin's small living room was... peculiar, to say the least.
If someone from the outside had looked through the window, they would have seen an almost domestic scene: a tall man serving tea, a teenager in an oversized orange hoodie devouring cookies, a Victorian maid sitting with rigidly perfect posture, and a little girl with horns clinging to the host's arm like a very adorable tick.
For Naruto, however, it felt like sitting at a table with three miniature Tailed Beasts.
"Here you go," Naruto said, placing a wooden tray on the small coffee table. There were four mugs of steaming green tea and a plate piled high with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
Kanna, who still refused to let go of Naruto's left arm, reached out her free little hand, took a cookie, and shoved the whole thing in her mouth. She chewed slowly, her big blue eyes sparkling with delight.
"Yummy," the little white dragon mumbled, resting her cheek against Naruto's bicep. "I want to live here."
"Kanna!" Tohru choked on her own saliva, losing her perfect maid composure for a second. "You can't say that! Your home is with Kobayashi-san and me! Not with this... this savage human who lives in a wooden box!"
"The wooden box has heating," Naruto retorted dryly, picking up his own mug of tea with his right hand. "And no one is forcing you to stay. But if you break my table by yelling, I'm charging you for the damages."
Ilulu, who was already on her fifth cookie, nodded vigorously with her mouth full. "Ib true. The has uh huge dehd." She swallowed hard. "I have to wash a hundred plates, don't let him fool you, Kanna!"
Tohru looked at Ilulu with a mix of pity and horror. "A hundred plates? He has you working like a slave? I knew humans were cruel, but subjecting a Chaos dragon to basic domestic labor is... is...! That's my job!"
Naruto raised an eyebrow, taking a sip of his tea. "Are you jealous that she's washing dishes?"
"Of course not!" Tohru crossed her arms and looked away, her cheeks slightly red. "I'm just saying I would do it much faster and without breaking the china. It's not that I want to wash your dishes. Only Kobayashi-san's."
To emphasize her disdain, Tohru took a cookie from the plate. She sniffed it suspiciously, expecting to detect poison, dark magic, or maybe some kind of sedative. Finding nothing but sugar and butter, she took a small bite, ready to criticize the former shinobi's lack of culinary skill.
Tohru's world stopped.
The cookie was crispy on the outside, soft and melty on the inside. The balance of sweetness was perfect, and there was a subtle hint of... cinnamon? It was repulsively delicious. Her pride as Kobayashi's ultimate maid took a critical hit.
"It's not... bad," Tohru lied through her teeth, swallowing the bite while trying to hide the fact that she wanted to eat five more. "Did you buy these in town?"
"I made them," Naruto replied simply. "I learned to cook out of necessity. And out of boredom."
Tohru clenched her fists in her lap. "This human... he knows how to fight, he's not afraid of dragons, and on top of that, he knows how to bake! He's a threat to my position!" she thought, her orange eyes gleaming with a one-sided rivalry.
While Tohru fought an internal battle, Kanna had finished her third cookie and began to inspect Naruto more closely. Her small fingers traced the three whisker marks on the blond's (now black-haired) left cheek.
"Are you a cat?" Kanna asked suddenly.
Naruto tensed imperceptibly. Those marks were the last physical vestige of Kurama. A familiar lump formed in his throat, but he swallowed it down with the practice of years of emotional repression.
"No," Naruto answered, his voice a little softer than usual. "They're... birthmarks. Let's just say I had a very big, very grumpy fox living with me for a long time."
Kanna blinked. "Did you eat him?"
Naruto let out a small laugh, a rare, raspy sound that surprised both Ilulu and Tohru.
"No, he wasn't the edible type," Naruto said, instinctively patting the little white dragon's head. "But he was family."
Tohru watched the interaction in silence. This human's hostility seemed to flip on and off like a switch. When he was on guard, his aura was terrifying, like a bottomless abyss ready to swallow the world. But now, patting Kanna on the head and talking about his "grumpy fox," his energy was strangely warm and melancholic.
"You smell like loneliness," Kanna said without a filter, burying her face in Naruto's shirt. "Like Tohru before Kobayashi."
The atmosphere in the room shifted drastically. Tohru froze, Ilulu stopped chewing, and Naruto simply stared into his empty teacup.
For a long minute, the only sound was the wind hitting the cabin's windows.
"Kids always tell the truth, huh?" Naruto murmured with a lopsided, joyless smile. He looked up and stared directly at Tohru. "You've inspected my house. You've seen that your Chaos comrade is alive and being annoying. Is there anything else you need, Tohru?"
Tohru cleared her throat, standing up and smoothing her maid skirt.
"I suppose... I suppose you aren't an immediate threat," Tohru conceded, though she kept her chin high. "But if I find out you're planning to use Ilulu for an attack on the city, or worse, against Kobayashi-san, I will destroy you."
"Get in line," Naruto replied, standing up as well. Kanna finally let go of him, floating gently to Tohru's side. "And tell your glasses-wearing master not to worry. I just want to live in peace."
"Let's go, Kanna," Tohru ordered, opening a small magical portal in the middle of the living room that showed Kobayashi's apartment on the other side. "It's almost time for Kobayashi-san to get home from work."
Kanna nodded, but before stepping through the portal, she turned to Naruto and held out her open hand.
"More sweets?" the little girl demanded in her monotone voice.
Naruto sighed, pulled a handful of candies out of his pocket (which he had bought exactly for this reason in case Kanna threw a tantrum) and handed them to her.
"Thank you, cat-human," Kanna said, stepping through the portal.
Tohru shot one last warning glare at Naruto, and then a stern look at Ilulu. "Don't cause trouble, Ilulu. We dragons already draw too much attention."
With that, Tohru vanished and the portal closed with a soft pop, leaving the living room in silence once more.
Ilulu looked at the empty space and then at Naruto.
"Tohru hates you," Ilulu observed with brilliant insight.
"Tohru hates anyone who isn't Kobayashi," Naruto corrected, gathering the empty mugs from the table. "At least now they know you're here. That means they'll come to visit. Often."
Ilulu tilted her head. "Is that bad?"
Naruto looked out the window, watching the sun begin to set behind the mountains, painting the sky orange and red. He remembered the days in Konoha, when his apartment was always full of noise, complaints, and friends climbing through the window without permission.
"No," Naruto answered softly, heading towards the kitchen. "It's not bad. But it means I'm going to have to buy more tea."
Ilulu grinned, showing her fangs, and trotted after him. "And more meat! And don't forget it's my turn to sleep in the bed tonight!"
"Keep dreaming, lizard! You're on the couch!"
The cabin in the woods was no longer a silent refuge, and maybe, just maybe, Naruto was okay with that.
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End of Chapter 3
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Uploaded: 03/19/26
Updated (Corrected): ?/?/?
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Omake 3
It was a quiet morning in the forest. The birds were singing, the wind whispered through the trees, and a massive 300-kilo grizzly bear, known by local rangers as "The Terror of the Mountain," stalked the edges of Naruto's property.
The bear had smelled the meat they cooked the night before. It was hungry, angry, and used to being the strongest creature for miles around.
Naruto was sitting on the porch of his cabin, enjoying a mug of black coffee. He wore his tight t-shirt and sweatpants, looking completely relaxed.
Ilulu was sitting on the bottom step, watching an ant with intense fascination.
ROAAAAAAR!
The bear burst from the bushes with a roar that would have sent any hiker running for their life. It stood on its hind legs, baring its massive claws and teeth, casting an imposing shadow over the porch.
Ilulu looked up, blinking. "Oh. A bear. He's big for this world's standards." She turned to Naruto, waiting to see how the strong human would react to a wild beast. "Are you going to fight him, Naruto-san?"
Naruto didn't even look up from his coffee. He took a calm sip.
"It's too early for this..." he muttered.
The bear, insulted by its prey's lack of fear, charged forward, ready to tear the sitting man apart.
Just as the bear was a meter away, Naruto sighed.
His dark eyes flicked towards the beast for a fraction of a second. He didn't use any jutsu. He didn't move. He simply released a microscopic amount of "Killing Intent" (Sakki), infused with just a pinch of the residual chakra from a certain Tailed Beast that used to live inside him.
To Ilulu, it was just a momentary cold breeze.
To the bear, it was like looking directly into the eyes of Death, the Apocalypse, and the universe's Apex Predator, all at the same time. It saw its life flash before its eyes, and the lives of its ancestors, too.
The bear froze dead in its tracks mid-charge, skidding comically in the dirt. Its brown fur turned almost white out of sheer terror.
With a high-pitched whimper that sounded more like a frightened puppy than an alpha predator, the massive bear dropped to its knees. Trembling violently, it bowed its head until it touched the ground in a perfect bow of total submission (Dogeza).
Naruto took another sip of his coffee. "Stop making so much noise. You'll wake the squirrels."
The bear nodded frantically, its face still pressed against the dirt.
"Now, get lost. And tell your friends this area is off-limits."
The bear stood up, turned around, and to Ilulu's amazement, began to run on its two hind legs like a terrified human, disappearing into the forest at record speed, swearing never to go near that cursed cabin ever again.
Ilulu stared at the spot where the bear had been, then looked at Naruto, who calmly finished his coffee.
"Naruto-san..." Ilulu said, her eyes wide.
"What?"
"I think you just traumatized the local wildlife."
"Better them than me before my first coffee."
End of Omake 3