Chapter one

Naruto was tired and sweaty, but he had done it! He had stolen the Forbidden scroll of seals from the Hokage tower and had learned one of the techniques in it like his teacher Mizuki had told him. He had just failed his genin exam for the third consecutive time and was very downcast. His sensei Mizuki had told him of the alternate exam. That's why he was now here in the middle of the forest practicing the Kage BunshinTechnique, and he had just got it right. To say that Naruto Uzumaki was excited would be an understatement.

Naruto sat down before looking at the scroll again.

"Um, let's see. I've got the Kage Bunshin no jutsu down. Let's see what else is there." he said in wonder when he suddenly noticed a small seal on the bottom with some writing on the side:

Warning only Uzumaki's may use this seal! Anyone else will be killed via chakra overload!

Naruto smirked at this before biting his thumb and running it across the seal, only for it to get stuck on the middle of the seal, which started to glow a neon green. Suddenly there was a puff of smoke followed by a soft thud. The smoke cleared revealing a beautiful sword with a T-shaped silver hilt with a single red diamond in the center of the guard, the blade was double edged with strange runes carved onto the metal. Naruto picked it up and swung it experimentally in the air and was delighted to see that it was light as a feather, this is incredible! He thought happily as he swung it in the air, suddenly he heard something coming. He quickly resealed the blade just as Iruka came into view.

"Naruto!" yelled the scarred chunin. Naruto smiled and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Oh man! I only got to learn one jutsu from the scroll, but I still graduate right? That deal isn't it? I learn a jutsu from the scroll and I graduate right? That's what Mizuki-sensie told me!" questioned the blond, Iruka's eyes widened, Mizuki? Why would he tell Naruto that? What's going on? Thought Iruka when he was suddenly thrown back by a volley of kunia. Iruka looked up to see Mizuki standing on a branch glaring down at them.

"It's nice to see that you could join us Iruka." greeted the silver haired chunin before he turned to Naruto, "Naruto give me the scroll and you pass."

"No don't do it Naruto! Those jutsu in that scroll are forbidden! Mizuki's been lying to you so he could take from you and take the jutsu for himself!" yelled Iruka, Mizuki chuckled,

"Don't listen to him Naruto! I'm the only one who's telling the truth! In fact everyone you know has been lying to you your whole life, ever since the Hokage made the law concerning you."

Iruka growled, "Be quiet Mizuki!" he yelled

"What law?" asked Naruto,

"NO MIZUKI!"

"The law saying no one can tell you that the Kyuubi wasn't killed, but sealed into a little baby: YOU! You carry the very thing that destroyed so many lives, including Iruka's. You are the nine tailed fox." exclaimed Mizuki, Naruto's eyes widened, it couldn't be true, he couldn't be the nine tailed fox, could he. Mizuki laughed as he grabbed one of his windmill shuriken, "Die monster!" he cried throwing it, Naruto tried to get away but found himself frozen in fear so he closed his eyes and waited for the metal to pierce his flesh. There was the unmistakable sound of metal sliding into flesh, but the sudden burst of pain the blonde had expected never came. He opened his eyes to Iruka hunched over him with the shuriken pierced into his back. "I-Iruka-sensei? Why?"

The scarred chunin, his face only inches from Naruto's own, was smiling, crying, and trying to hold back his pain all at once. "I-I understand... a bit of what you've been through. When my parents died, I... no one really seemed to care about me. I would act like an idiot, just to... get people's attention. I was never very good in school, so it was all I could do to make people notice me. But the whole time... I was always in so much pain. It must have been so painful for you too, Naruto, right? I'm so very sorry... If I had just paid a bit more attention, maybe you wouldn't have had to hurt so much..." he explained, Mizuki laughed,

"What bullshit! Iruka doesn't care about, he hates you, he's just trying yo gain your trust before he stabs you in the back!" he shouted Naruto looked at Mizuki then to Iruka before he suddenly turned and ran away. Iruka tried to call him back but he just kept going until he disappeared from view. Mizuki scoffed, "There you have it, now he'll want revenge against Konoha, didn't you see it in his eyes? The need for revenge the hatred? He will soon embrace his inner self and become the monster he was meant to be!" he yelled before disappearing into the trees.

Naruto was running as fast as he could to get away from the two chunin.

"Naruto!"

Turning around the blond saw Iruka coming towards him. "Naruto! Mizuki was lying! He was just saying that stuff to confuse you!" The chunin academy teacher held out his hand. "Give me the scroll so we can keep Mizuki from getting it!"

However, Naruto merely spun around and launched himself back at Iruka, smashing his head into the chunin's gut.

The two tumbled down the trees and onto the ground.

"How?" Iruka questioned as he held onto his stomach, "how did you know," there was a puff of smoke. "That I wasn't Iruka?" asked the Mizuki.

Naruto smirked, "because." There was a puff of smoke, when it cleared it revealed Iruka. "I'm Iruka."

Mizuki scowled, "why are you protecting that demon anyways? You know what he'll do now that he has his hands on the scroll. Naruto is just like me. He'll use the power that's inside the scroll to destroy Konoha! That's what demons are like."

"Your right," said Iruka, surprising Mizuki. "That is what a demon would do…"

Naruto who had taken to hiding behind a tree as he listened in, froze at those words. I see… he thought sadly. So Iruka only see's me as a demon too…

"But that's not what Naruto would do," Iruka's words caused Naruto and Mizuki to snapped there attention back to him. "Naruto is not the demon. He's my student and a proud ninja of Konoha!"

Naruto went from depressed to elated, Iruka believed in him. For as long as he could remember only the old man and a nice father/daughter couple at Ichiraku Ramen believed in him. Having another person who believed he could succeed left him with a feeling of happiness.

"You know Iruka I was going to save you for later, but I've changed my mind." Mizuki sneered as he began spinning his shuriken on his arm as he got ready to launch it. "Die!" he shouted and went to throw the weapon only for him to be sent flying backwards into a tree by a orange blur. Mizuki looked up to see Naruto glaring at him.

"If you touch my sensie again, I'll kill you!" snarled Naruto Mizuki smirked, "oh really? How can you beat me I am a chunin while you are nothing!" Naruto smirked and made a ram seal,

"Shadow clone Jutsu!" nothing happened. Naruto looked around in confusion before calling out the jutsu again but still nothing, what's going on? Why won't it work?

Mizuki smirked, "Exactly my point! You're useless! Now die!" he shouted before he charged forwards brandishing a kunia in each hand. Naruto cursed, what was he supposed to do? He had nothing to use except...the sword! But how was he going to get it out of the scroll in time? He gathered some chakra to do the seals for a kawarmi but there was a flash of light and in his hand he held the sword from the scroll, but the blade now seemed to emit a strange golden glow.

I think I shall take over now. Said a voice that seemed to come from now where and every thing went black.