Chapter 1

To Ruin a Life

"Good night, Sakura-chan!" Naruto bade farewell to the only female on his team after the day's mission. He said nothing to Sasuke, and that was how the latter liked it.

It had been a week since the Sasuke Retrieval mission and things were tense between the two boys. Sasuke felt guilty about his attempt to abandon the Leaf Village and, even worse, killing his best friend. On the other hand, he was furious with himself for being so weak, losing to the dead last was a blow to his pride and made him question if he would ever be strong enough to even defeat his brother.

Naruto had mixed feelings. He felt bad that he had to rely on the Kyuubi's power to defeat Sasuke. But if the second tail hadn't sprung out, he would've lost to the young Uchiha and lose his best friend at the same time. He couldn't tell if he should feel happy Sasuke stayed or guilty he interfered with his goals.

Sakura switched looks between her two teammates. They were even worse now than the time after the Wave mission. She just hoped that they would resolve their tension before it started to affect their missions. Babysitting the Fire Lord's grandson had been hard enough with the two boys ignoring each other.

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Sasuke sat brooding on the rooftop of his house, a regular occurrence. A figure body flickered behind him and sat down next to the Uchiha. Said Uchiha didn't even need to look to know who would dare trespass onto his rooftop.

"…Kakashi, what do you want?" Sasuke demanded rather than asked.

"Maa Sasuke-kun, does a teacher need to have a reason to chat with his cute student?" the masked jounin drawled. Sasuke scowled when he referred to him as "cute".

"Make your point." Kakashi's lone eye turned serious.

"You know you can't ignore him forever." Sasuke knew exactly who "him" was.

"It's not like the dobe wants to talk either."

"But you could at least make an attempt. Sort out your differences."

"…Kakashi."

"Hm?"

"Make me stronger. You have a Sharingan; you could train me to use it effectively. I will never lose again." Kakashi stared at his student through the corner of his eye. So demanding, this kid.

"And what if you try to run away again?"

Sasuke smirked. "Naruto will stop me." He declared.

Kakashi's lips turned into a genuine smile under his mask. Perhaps the Uchiha and Uzumaki would resolve their problems quicker than he expected.

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Naruto made his way to his apartment after a nice meal of ramen at Ichiraku's. It almost made him forget about Sasuke. Ever since defeating and bringing back the Uchiha, said boy had always been on the jinchuuriki's mind. Sasuke would've been stripped of his ninja rank if Naruto hadn't convinced the Hokage that the Uchiha wasn't in his right mind. Knowing that most of this was Orochimaru's doing, Tsunade let Sasuke off the hook with light punishment.

Naruto had been so busy thinking about his bastard of a teammate he never noticed the man wearing a black cloak with red clouds standing outside his building. The cloaked man bumped shoulders with the blonde seemingly deliberately, muttering apologies and then disappearing. All this without the Uzumaki's notice.

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The cloaked man arrived back at the base with a Cheshire grin. Konan immediately squinted her amber-colored eyes in suspicion.

"Yahiko, what did you do now?" she accused.

Yahiko, still grinning like a mad man, trespassed Konan's personal bubble with his face mere inches from hers.

"You'll see tomorrow, Konan-chan. The news will be all over the Elemental Nations!" he exclaimed.

Konan knew she and Nagato would get a headache from whatever their childhood friend had pulled.

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The next morning, the entire Leaf Village heard an ear splitting scream piercing through their heads. The villagers diverted their attention from whatever they were doing, then went back to their work thinking whatever that sound was it was probably a ninja thing.

The ninjas were also distracted but thought that the scream probably had something to do with Ibiki's torture session. He must be trying out something new. Some genins and the academy students were intimidated at first, and then dismissed it as something the higher-ups should take care of. Sasuke was not one of those genins.

That scream came from the direction of Naruto's house.

Sasuke high-tailed it to his best friend's home, kicking the door open and finding Kakashi already at the scene. The one-eyed jounin was trying to coax the blonde ninja to come out of the bathroom; Naruto had locked himself in there for some reason. Bribes of ramen weren't working.

Sasuke frowned. "Just kick the damn door open already. Or pick the lock; you're a ninja aren't you?"

Kakashi gave a tired sigh. "Ah Sasuke, things like this need to have a little…care. You go home, today's self-training, I'll take handle this." And with that, the masked ninja waved away his student.

Sasuke hesitated before realizing that this was a jounin here, fully capable of handling anything. He didn't know what Naruto was up to but he was sure Kakashi would do something about it. The Uchiha exited the apartment, the blonde orange-clad ninja still not off his mind.

As soon as Sasuke left, Kakashi turned back to the bathroom door.

"Hey Naruto-kun, Sasuke left. You can come out now." He called out.

"…You won't tell Sasuke-teme about this will you?" came an unusually high-pitched and feminine voice of Naruto's after a moment of silence. The jounin took notice of the change in voice.

"No, of course I won't." he reassured.

A few moments of silence passed and the door lock clicked, indicating it was being unlocked. Kakashi had his suspicions but he was still unprepared for what he saw.

Half hiding timidly behind the door, a female Naruto was seen waiting for the Copy Nin's reaction. Her blonde hair reached knee-length and the night clothes she wore were two sizes too big for her. The other distinctive features, like the blue eyes, tan skin and whisker-like birthmarks, stayed on the blonde girl.

"My my Naruto-kun, you've become quite the cutie." Kakashi giggled.

Naruto glared at her teacher. This was soooooo not funny. His manhood had been stolen away from him for heaven's sake!

"So, you mind telling me what happened to get you like this?" Kakashi asked, turning serious.

"How am I supposed to know? I just came home from Ichiraku's last night and went to sleep, then BAM! Next morning I'm a freaking GIRL!" cried the boy-turned-girl.

"Naruto, people's genders just don't simply change overnight." 'Then again, you're not a very attentive person so I guess there's no point asking.' was the added thought. "We'll have to report this to the Hokage. By 'we' I meant 'I'. You stay here and out of trouble, okay? See ya." With a wave, the jounin body flickered his way to the Hokage's office, leaving a very distraught and disgruntled Naruto.

After explaining Naruto's predicament, Tsunade couldn't help but burst into a full-out laughter session. Oh this was too rich, Naruto turns into a girl and is unable to turn back, unlike with the Sexy Jutsu. A messenger hawk sat on her windowsill. Still laughing, the Hokage unstrapped the message and read through it.

Sudden silence invaded the room, Kakashi shifted uncomfortably. The Hokage's face became serious but still slightly amused.

"Well, what a turn of events." Tsunade mused, "It seems Naruto isn't the only one."

Kakashi's brow rose. What did she mean?

"Cat," an ANBU ninja appeared and knelt before the Hokage, "send a team to the Waterfall Village and put down their rioter." The Hokage ordered.

"Yes, Hokage-sama." Cat submitted, then disappeared.

"…Mind telling me what that was about, Hokage-sama?" Kakashi's curiosity was spiked.

"The Village Hidden in the Waterfall has complained about their Nanabi Jinchuuriki rampaging and causing riots because her gender was somehow swapped." Tsunade explained.

"The Kyuubi and Nanabi Jinchuuriki's sex had been changed. Who's to say the others haven't been changed too?" Kakashi suggested, finishing what else the Hokage wanted to say.

"The biggest question is who did it? How and why? No one could gain any purpose from changing someone's gender."

"Unless we find the culprit, I guess we'll never know." concluded Kakashi. Bowing to the Hokage, he took out his favorite orange book and left while reading it.

Taking a large swing from her bottle of sake, Tsunade sighed. As Hokage, it was her responsibility to investigate and eliminate any possible threats to the village. She couldn't shake off the feeling that Akatsuki might be involved. It must be because Bijuus were involved.

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When Kakashi returned to the Uzumaki's apartment, his favorite blonde knucklehead was nowhere to be found. He should have seen this coming, Naruto was never the kind to listen to orders or stay in one place for too long. But Sasuke was probably still walking around; Naruto wouldn't want Sasuke to see her wouldn't she?

Sighing, Kakashi went outside to search for the bane-yet-blessing of his existence. He contemplated going to the training ground then he remembered telling Sasuke today was self-training and, naturally, Naruto would have caught that. But he didn't tell Sakura.

Sakura would have come over to Naruto's place first if her teammates didn't show up for team meetings. The pink-haired kunoichi didn't crush on the Uchiha anymore but she was still sour he rejected her so painfully. If Sakura found Naruto in her…condition, then she must've dragged her off somewhere.

…Oh well, she was Naruto's problem now. Kakashi giggled evilly as he body flickered away.

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"Ow OW! Sakura-chan, that hurts!" Naruto cried as Sakura forced her into wearing the contraptions females call bras nowadays. Sakura couldn't believe just how big Naruto's bosom was.

Sakura didn't know what to do when she arrived at her teammate's house and found out he turned into a girl (without the Sexy Jutsu) and can't turn back. But she did know that she needed to take said teammate shopping because her clothes were just so ill-fitting.

And now here was Naruto in the clothing shop, enjoying the torture session of trying out and buying clothes. She hoped against hope Sasuke won't stroll by and see them. She'd probably never hear the end of it from him; this was embarrassing enough with Sakura knowing.

Evening rolled by, and the girls had just finished shopping. Entering her home through her window, Naruto collapsed onto her bed. She'd never look at females and shopping the same way ever again. At least she got clothes that actually fit. Though Sakura protested, Naruto got a smaller version of her orange jumpsuit but she knew she couldn't wear that forever.

A knock on her door alerted her to a surprise visitor. Without thinking who it might have been, Naruto opened the door. As fate would have it, the visitor was (surprise surprise) Kakashi Hatake.

"Yo, Naruto-chan! I just wanted to check up on you to see if you're okay. Since you're alive and healthy right in front of my eyes-"

Kakashi didn't even finish his sentence when the door slammed right into his face. It didn't matter; he was going to leave anyways.

Taking his time walking down the stairs he (expectedly) met Sasuke. Onyx eyes were fixed onto the Copy Nin as he answered the silent question.

"'He's' fine, Sasuke, 'he' was just being a drama queen. Perhaps you should talk to 'him'." And with that, the masked man walked away giggling perversely.

Sasuke eyed him suspiciously and then dismissed it as his teacher just reading that orange porn book.

"Oh Sasuke, by the way," Sasuke turned back to hear what his teacher wanted to say now, "news is around that all the bijuu vessels are mysteriously having their genders swapped."

"And why does this concern me?" Sasuke asked, bored. Kakashi chuckled. Even experiencing the Kyuubi's power firsthand and yet he couldn't tell Naruto was a jinchuuriki.

"Just thought you should know." Kakashi body flickered away.

…

Naruto was mulling over whether she should wear her new jumpsuit and put on a henge for tomorrow's team meeting or just wear the clothes Sakura bought for her and go the way she was. Secrets couldn't be kept forever. Putting on her night clothes, the blonde ninja prepared for a shower.

A knock on the door resounded through her apartment. Thinking it was Kakashi again, Naruto stormed her way to the entrance and pulled back the door with more force than necessary. Poised to shout at her teacher, her mouth was left open and hanging when she saw Sasuke. Sasuke, on the other hand, was caught off guard to find Naruto looking and dressed like a girl.

"Dobe, what are you doing? Release the henge before you embarrass yourself." Sasuke said, thinking his blonde teammate was experimenting with his Sexy Jutsu or something.

"Uh…I can't…" Naruto struggled to find a good excuse.

"Why not?"

"Uh...you see…Granny Tsunade had this super special mission…ah…that only I could do and…uh…it requires me to do the Sexy Jutsu…um…for a long period of time so….I'm practicing…"

"Oh…okay? Look, Naruto, I need to talk to you."

"Can't it wait till tomorrow? I'm kinda busy right now."

"No, I need to tell you now." Sasuke steeled himself. He had never before done what he was about to do now. Naruto waited in silence for him, frowning. When half a minute passed Sasuke still said nothing.

"Look, teme, I need to prepare for tomorrow so I'll just be-"

"I'm sorry." It came so fast and so suddenly it barely registered in the blonde's mind.

"Eh?" was said blonde's intelligent reply.

"I'm sorry for trying to abandon the village and I'm sorry for trying to kill you. There! Happy now?" Naruto was shocked. The Sasuke Uchiha was apologizing, a rare thing to get from him. Naruto should bask in this, and bask in the the glory of being the righteous one she did. But she didn't show it.

"So, we cool now?" Naruto asked, grinning.

"Yeah, we're cool." Sasuke said, giving the tiniest of smiles.

When the Uchiha left, Naruto showered herself and collapsed on her bed. Before falling asleep, she wondered what she would do if Sasuke found out her secret. Would they still be friends? Or would he treat her like every other girl?

That day, if people had listened very closely, a total of exactly nine people were screaming around the Elemental Nations. The news had spread like wildfire that every jinchuurikis' genders were unwillingly changed by an unknown cause.

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Author's Note

Hellooo readers! I bring to you my second fanfiction, Genderbent Jinchuurikis. To answer some unasked questions that most of you must be having, yes Yahiko is alive. He didn't die but his position as Akatsuki leader was handed down to Nagato as a result of mental insanity. And in later chapters you will come to know just how the jinchuurikis' genders were changed. For now just read and maybe leave a review? :3

See ya!

DoGB