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Speech

Thought

Kyuubi.

Just so you know, this chapter is just experimental/prologue, mainly to see how well this crossover idea goes over

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"Just when things were starting to look up," Naruto thought to himself," It really sucked when he failed the exam for the third time, but when Mizuki told him about the scroll he though his luck was finally turning around.

Fat lot of help that was. By the time he had gotten the hang of the first jutsu, Iruka showed up freaking out about taking the thing. Now, Naruto would admit he was far from perfect, though the majority of the flaws he carried could be attributed to those hell-bent on ensuring he remained as low on the totem pole as possible, but when he saw the look of confusion crossing over the chunin's face the 'test' didn't feel quite as legit as he was led to believe. When he took the fuma shuriken Mizuki intended for him, well, you get the picture.

Anyway, after blurting out why people disliked him so much and the resulting scatter, Mizuki managed to catch up with who he thought was Naruto. Though he was rewarded with tasting the henged Iruka's knee. In return he made a last attempt to get his fellow chunin on his side, reminding Iruka about his parent's death at the hands (paws?) of the Kyuubi, though neither knew he was close enough to hear him. However that failed when Iruka stated that, even though he did hold some animosity for the blonde at first, he realized that the boy and fox were two completely different beings.

That brings us to where our story really begins;

"You really think that, huh?" Mizuki snorted, taking out his second shuriken, "Well, I had planned to deal with you anyway after I took care of the brat. But, I figure, what the hell.." With that, Mizuki's face took on a slightly maniacal grin as he lunged towards him, shuriken spinning like a buzzsaw.

The blonde's eyes widened in a mix of terror and shock at the action; terror that one of the few people in the village that didn't treat him like the plague was about to die, and shock as everything suddenly ground to a halt. The two chunin, the whir of the blade, even the cloud of dust Mizuki had kicked up, everything hung motionless, frozen in time. It was at that moment his world went black.

"Itai!" He yelped as his head collided with what looked like a big iron gate, "What the..? Where'd this come from? Wait wherpe'd Iruka-sensei and that bastard Mizuki go!?"

"Not so loud...please.." A deep voice rumbled from the other side of the gate. However, it sounded like whoever spoke was pretty miserable at the moment, "This hangover is killing me.."

"Hangover?" Naruto took a few steps back to see what he was looking at. Behind the gate lay a huge red fox, both of its front paws were covering its head. His eyes nearly bounced off the bars themselves when it registered, "Y-you're the..the K-K..the Kyu.."

The fox lifted a paw to look at him with bleary eyes, "Kyuubi..? Yeah, that's me. As for hangover..that's what I get for letting myself get talked into a drinking contest with Rokubi." For a moment, Kyuubi looked cheerful before adding, "I won, at least. Last thing I remember was stumbling around looking for a place to sleep it off, then walking into the toad boss, Gamabunta..literally. Darn amphibian could've given me a heads up." The fox covered its eyes back up, "Next thing I know, I'm in this cell with a headache that I doubt even Kami would want."

"W-what..you telling me the whole attack on Konoha was just you being blind drunk!?" Naruto halfway yelled, sorely tempted to make the furball's headache worse.

"What attack..? Kid, I'm a lover, not a fighter. Violence isn't really my cup of tea, unless you count rough sex." The fox chuckled before letting out a yelp and grabbing its head again.

"If you don't know what's going on, why the hell did you bring me here!?"

Before Kyuubi could respond, another deep voice spoke up. This time, from right behind the blonde, "Because fox not bring you here."

"What....the...hell...?" Kyuubi quickly rubbed its eyes to make sure it wasn't seeing things. Meanwhile, Naruto spotted the massive shadow looming over him and looked up..

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"Say goodbye, Umino!" Mizuki cackled as he brought the shuriken around to finish the job.

Or he would have, if he wasn't distracted from the sudden sound of cloth being violently ripped, followed by an inhuman bellow that came out of the woods

"What the...?" Both shinobi quickly forgot about each other when they saw what emerged from the foliage.

"Mizuki-teme hurt Iruka Sensei." It growled, lifting up fists the size of their heads.

The poor bastard's scream of terror echoed through the woods as the newcome quickly descended upon him with a warcry:

"NARUTO SMASH!"

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This is an idea I tossed around with Pseudocode Samurai (I did spell that right, didn't i?) Have yet to see this kinda crossover. So, figured it can't hurt.

Oh, and for the record, I'll be using the old school, Hulk as the basis. Naruto won't be Bruce Banner by any means, but he's not going to be a drool-monkey either.