This is my first fanfic, so constructive criticism would be nice. Please don't flame it to hell, my grammer is crap and I know it! .

DISCLAIMER: I don't as in 'do not' own Naruto or Magic The Gathering.

Artificer Naruto Chapter One 'Deus Ex Machina'

Naruto cried as he ran through the dark streets, a crowd of villagers chasing after him with all matter of things to inflict harm on the young boy. Now what might make a angry mob of this size chase after a small boy you must be thinking. Well this boy is jailor of the nine tailed fox demon that wrecked havoc eight years ago, these villagers see the boy himself as the demon however...

Naruto ran into a alleyway of an old building in the slums where he lived and went into the a small entrence to the sewer. Allowing himself a breather and a small smile as the villagers couldnt reach him in such a small place he began to crawl further into the sewer, only to fall down through a rusted out part that couldnt hold his weight. He hit something hard and his vision blurred as he fell unconsous due to the hit.

Waking up damp and cold little Naruto got up and tried to looked around only to seek darkness. After a few minutes of feeling around he felt something sticking out of what he surmised as a metal wall grabbed the protruding object. The object warmed up and suddenly a burst of light from all directions temporerally blinded the poor boy. After adjusting to the light he found he was in some sort of library and had pulled a chunk of rock that had got stuck in some sort of machine.

After looking around Naruto realized that tall the doors had been collapsed in and there was no obvious way out decided to check out the library's contents. Almost all of the books had been worn down and unreadable except one. It was a large black leather book that sat alone on a pedistal protected by some sort of glass sphere around it. Naruto being young and having nothing else to do smashed the glass and grabbed the book. When he grabbed it suddenly what sounded like frevored chanting and jibberish filled his ears for a few seconds before fading away.

After being thurougly freaked out by the sounds Naruto opened the book up to its first page. The page was blank at first but soon writing appeared:

Greetings Chosen One and new Master, I am known as Deus Ex Machina.

I am a magically enchanted compendium of many artifical constructs, both living an nonliving. How may I assist you?

Naruto stared at the book in disbelief and awe for a few moments as the book patiently waited for him to respond. "Er, i'm kinda lost and dont know how to get back home...can you help me?"A few seconds later more writing appeared as the old writing faded away.

Certainly Master, there is a teleportation rune circle approximatly fifteen feet east from my resting place. Simply walk into it with your home in mind and it shall teleport you there so long as its in the circle's kilometer wide range...

If there is anything else, do not hessitate to ask me Master.

Naruto smiled walking into the circle that was carved into the floor and with flash of blue dissapeared from the ruined library and appearing in his bed.

Four years later...

In the last four years the village of konoha hadn't seen much of Naruto, much to the joy of the villagers and worry of the elderly day while the elderly kage had been doing paperwork in his office he had been disturbed by a small odd flying creature that looked like a red metal bee with a letter. After taking the letter away from the odd creation the thing flew away and left the bewildered old man with the letter. Opening it the elderly man gave a great big smile, glade that naruto was at least safe and burned the letter before going back to work. The letter simply said : I'm safe and coming back in four years for Chunin exam. Don't worry about my tenant. Destroy this note after reading. -Naruto

Four more years later...

The elderly hokage stood at village gates early in the moring waiting when the guards noticed someone coming near. The person was young, a blonde teenage boy. The boy wore a black bandanna that covered most of his hair although the back was shown with his long hair along with his bangs that stuck out. The boy had bright blue eyes and if one looked very closely would notice very faint whisker like scars on his cheeks. He wore a dark grey form fitting tanktop and cargo pants, along with black sleeveless gloves. He wore a dark belt littered with scrolls and a dark cloth and black boots with a steel toe shown.

The Hokage watched the boy come over and waved down at the gate guard. "This boy has my permission to be here Kotetsu, let him in and take a half an hour break." The chunin thanked the old man with a appreciative smile and let the blond arrival enter the village. The Hokage smiled at the blonde arrival and spoke. "Hello Naruto, its been a long time." The blonde smiled at bit and scratched at his cheek. "Yeah yeah, enough with the mushy stuff old man." The hokage got a serious look on his face as he looked more closely at naruto and turned, beginning to walk. "Come Naruto theres much to discuss before I allow you to become a chunin, such as your tenant? I can barely see your marks now, and you mentioned it in your letter?" The blonde shook his head.

"I...well like all other great discoveries in the world, it was an accident. I was looking at the seal while leaning against my generator's controls, and at the time it had barely any power you see, so I wasnt worried. Well I accidentally got the generator to drain the kyuubi of its chakra, and when it all left the fox the fox died. I guess having what was left of it in me forced out into a machine killed it, since the seal on my stomach vanished and I no longer have a sewer mindscape." The Hokage nodded but had a confused look on his face. "A generator naruto-kun? What exactly have you been doing?"

Naruto gave a smirk. "I think it would be best to show you during the chunin exams old man....and I need my clan home or at least ALL of the slums that I lived in, noone else lived there before so I figure that could be good too." Hokage was surprised at his knowledge of his heritage but didnt show it. "I... I believe I can get the paper work done for both if you want. Its true noone lives there in your part of the village and the clan estate is yours." The boy looked pensive before nodding and pulling out a radio from his pants. "Ok H6 you can get everyone to start moving out into the crappy part of town...The run down part...yeah..and dont forget to...yeah...underground....i dont care....right...um, my old apartment...its the one with all the graffiti....yeah fox...ok Naruto out. Sorry about that old man had to, er move my things in."

The elderly Hokage sighed just knowing that was going to cause trouble. "Now about this chunin thing Naruto-kun I would need proof of yo-" Before the elderly leader could finish Naruto pulled out a scroll and gave it to him to read. As he read it his eyes steadily got wider much to the amusement of naruto. "Yes, ok a you saved a daimo and convinced her to come over and watch you...i'm so getting a mission report of what you have been doing after this chunin exam is over..."

The Hokage shook his head and pulled out a scroll, summoning up a black bandana with the leaf village plate on it. After handing it over Sarutobi pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Naruto. "Here is where you need to go for the first and second exams, the second if you pass the first is in three hours. Good luck Naruto."

Three hours later...

Forest of Death

Anko stood infront of a group of genin and whistled getting their attention. "All right maggots! Its time for your seco-" Anko was cut off by a shushin right in front of her, kicking up dust. Her eye twitched ready to yell at the person who interrupted her until she saw Naruto, and got a lustful look in her eye. "And who do we have here? Some...Meat?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at the jounin but shrugged and handed her a scroll. After reading it she seemed a little surprised but nodded to the boy and put the scroll away.

"All right as I was saying this is the Forest of Death and its time for your second exam! Each team will get either a heaven or earth scroll and will have to get the other from another team. You must bring both heaven and earth scrolls to the tower in the center of the forest in five days and you cant open the scrolls. Oh, and theres killing here so we have to have you sign a waiver saying that we're not responsible for your deaths. Any questions brats?"

A girl with pink hair and a konha headband raised her hand and Anko gave a curt nod to her. "Who the hell was that guy and where is his team? I didnt see him during the first exam! He shouldnt be he-" She was stopped by a kunai held by her throught. All eyes turned on the blonde boy who was just glaring at the girl. "Listen here BITCH. I got passed Ibiki's make up test which was HARDER then your real test. I also haver permission to go alone due to certain circumstances BEYOND your understanding. Realise that sometimes you DON'T snoop in other's buisnesses...and be thankful you haven't signed that waiver yet." Naruto moved his kunai from the now shaking genin's neck and walked over to the tent to get his scroll. Anko followed and everyone went back to normal although it was a bit quieter.

A half an hour later...

All the teams were at their respective gates and when they opened all rushed in. Naruto sped forward with great ease and a smirk on his face. A half hour of running later he got to the tower breathing a little heavily and after reading the wall scroll took out two scrolls of his own. Opening up both of them a burst of smoke shot out a few seconds later and Anko herself stepped out. Looking a little bewildered she looked around and noticed Naruto, then looked at a clock on the wall. "Its been a half an hour since the exam started. How the Hell did you get here so fast!?" Naruto chuckled "Its quite simple. A ninja must cheat to get things done, thats what Ibiki's test proved, and what I reinforced. While I had everyone's eyes on me and the pink idiot, I had a hidden clone nab each of the scrolls."

Anko's jaw dropped and then after a few moments laughed hard. "Thats great kid! My god I can't wait till I tell this to the guys. Well you got five days to relax now, enjoy."

End Chapter One...

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Hello everyone! thanks for all of the reviews and favorites! keyboards busted, think i spilt something one it. so sent laptop in to get repaired and had to write this on friend's computer. . Anyway as soon as it comes back i'll put up the second and third chapters. later and thanks again for the reviews!