Part 1

A/N: Another Dark Naruto fic. This is my first Naruto fic where Naruto starts out with the Kyuubi inside of him, not another demon. I'm still going to do Chains of Evil, but I've finally decided to give in to my desire to write a fanfic about Naruto and the Kyuubi. No crossover characters in this one, just purely Naruto.

Disclaimer: How the hell does Seth McFarlane manage all of those voices?!

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Ragged breath and sobs of fear could be heard through the darkness, and the sounds of small bare feet running on the wet street. Behind him, he could still hear his pursuers. Three of them, most likely, and probably Chunin. They were laughing and jeering, and Naruto, a stitch in his side and his legs burning with fatigue, forced his body to keep moving. It was easy, when you scared half to death.

"Come back, Naruto!"

"You can't run forever!"

"Happy birthday, Naruto!"

The last call sent the three men into hysterics, and they were now calling out curses and horrible, foul things the likes of which Naruto had never heard before. He turned and ran into an alley he wasn't familiar with, hoping to give the three ment a slip. His heart nearly stopped beating altogether when he came to a dead-end, and turned to see the silhouettes of the three men, slowly creeping up the alley.

"We've got you."

"We have a present for you."

"I'll give you a hint: It isn't a cake."

The three were on Naruto before he could react. One backhanded him, and he stumbled back and fell to the ground, face stinging. Then he doubled up in pain as the wind was driven from him, due to a vicious kick to his stomach. Then came a deluge of kicking, sending pain through his body, bruising soft flesh. One chakra-enhanced kick cracked one of his ribs, and then a hand grabbed him by the hair, hauling him up, and then slamming his head back into the wall. His vision blurred and Naruto went numb, his body limb, barely registering what was going on.

"No, no, you idiot, you save the head for last. If you slam their head too early, they get all fuzzy, and they can't feel the next hit."

"He'll feel this." Naruto snapped back to reality and screamed as a kunai was driven into his right thigh, and again into his stomach, and a third time in his ribs. He gagged as he felt the knife slide in deeper, and felt his blood rolling down his skin underneath his clothes.

One of them backhanded him again, and he felt his jaw break as it moved off to the side and stayed there. Tears streamed down his face, and blood ran from his mouth. One of the men grabbed his wrist and yanked, pulling his arm free from the socket, and then snapping his elbow. Naruto tried to scream again, but all that came out was a choked gurgle.

"Dunno why the Hokage's let you live this long."

"Foolish old man. We're going to correct his mistake tonight."

"And then we'll all be hailed as heroes. Nara-san, hold him."

"With pleasure." One of the Chunin began a set of hand seals. "Shadow Strangulation Jutsu!" The man's shadow sneaked from his body, slid up Naruto's, and wrapped around his neck. The boy began to suffocate, struggling in vain as the shadow not only cut off his air supply, but also pinning him to the wall. As his vision began to darken, he saw one of the other shinobi making a set of hand seals.

"Forbidden Technique: Organ Implosion Jutsu!" Naruto recognized the jutsu as one of the most sinister and wicked techniques on the planet. The Hokage had given Naruto permission to begin Academy training one year ahead of schedule, and in one lesson, Iruka had gone over forbidden jutsu that meant life imprisonment, or in some cases, death, according to the offense. Organ Implosion caused every orang in the body to simultaneously explode, blowing the target's body to pieces.

Naruto screamed and struggled harder as he knew his death was coming. The Chunin's hand glowed red as he came forward, and Naruto began to sob and scream. As the Chunin's hand nearly reached his body, Naruto's scream was cut off, and a foul wave of red chakra burst from his body, sending the three Chunin away from him and canceling the Shadow Strangulation.

The three Chunin, lying on the ground, looked up with horror to see a terrifying sight; Naruto was hunched over, his breathing ragged, the stab wounds healing over completely, while his jaw and arm stopped healing at about half-way. But Naruto was too far gone to notice. The red chakra surrounding his body suddenly swirled and spiraled upward, forming into a giant, red-eyed, long-eared and fanged face that they all knew very well, and made their hearts skip several beats. The Kyuubi roared in rage and dove back into Naruto's body, whose eyes had become red and slitted, the whisker-like markings on his face larger, with fanged teeth and long claws.

"You...you call yourselves men?! Cowards! I'm going to send each of you cocksuckers straight to Hell!" Naruto ran forward, and the Chunin turned to run away. But as Naruto pounced, none of them managed to escape, and the splatters of blood reached out of the alley and onto the streets, shining in the moonlight as the screams of the Chunin rent the air.

Naruto stood amid of a mass of smoking, jelly-like flesh and innards, torn body parts, crushed or half-eaten organs, holding a severed head in one of his hands, his body covered in blood and gore, his hair matted with it. Suddenly, the boy threw his head back, and let out a horrible roar, a human shriek of agony and hatred mixed with the rage of a beast, and his entire world went black.

-Mindscape-

Naruto awoke in a black and red hallway. A damp place, made of stone. He moved through it, vaguely curious, even while his mind was in a half-dead state. He could see a large room at the end of the hallway, but it seemed that, for every ten steps he took, he moved forward by only one.

It seemed to go on and on, but finally, he managed to reach the room. Across from him, he could see a line of bars that stretched upward. He couldn't see the ceiling. Behind the bars were a pair of red eyes, and the presence beyond radiated power, confidence, hatred, and a rage so thick it was almost choking. He strode up to the bars, relieved to be able to walk normally at last, and stopped five feet from them.

"Who dares disturb my rest?!" The voice held power, a booming baritone, and he could hear massive claws scraping the ground.

"...Naruto Uzumaki. Who the hell are you?"

"Impudent whelp! I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the nine-tailed fox demon!" A light went off in the cage, illuminating the massive, red-furred demon, nine tails waving angrily behind it.

Naruto stared at the demon, unperturbed by the glare it had fixed on him. "So, where are we?"

The Kyuubi blinked; why wasn't this human scared? He growled. "Fool! I am not here to give you ans-huh?" Naruto had disappeared.

"You might as well, since you're in this cage. Not much else to do." Naruto was beside the Kyuubi now, looking up at the demon.

'This kid is creepy.' The demon turned to face him, lowering it's head. "Now you invade my cage?! You dare mock the King of Demons?! I should end you."

The Kyuubi spluttered when Naruto reached out and placed his tiny hands on the demon's nose, petting the Kyuubi like he were a dog! "Scary. What's next, a demon puppet show? A barrage of evil tickling? Maybe you can blow some sinister bubbles at me."

Kyuubi blinked, and had to fight two urges at once: The first, to bite him in half, and the second to laugh. 'This kid's got guts! I'm starting to like him.' "Not bad, kid, not bad. For that, I'll give you your answer. We're in your mind."

"My mind?" Vaguely surprised, Naruto reached out to pet again, missed, and stuck his hand up Kyuubi's nose!

This time, the demon did laugh. "H-hey, that tickles! Get your hand out of there!"

Naruto pulled his hand back. "So...you're the reason people call me a demon, then?"

The Kyuubi nodded. "Correct. So, what will you do, now that you know?"

Naruto chuckled. The light in his eyes was just plain wrong. "Then...they're kind of right, aren't they? Now that I know...I can show them just how much of a demon I really am!"

The Kyuubi blinked, and then roared with laughter. "I like you, kid! You've gained my respect, not an easy thing to do for a human!"

"Who was the first?"

"The Yondaime Hokage, the first to ever beat me. Well, Naruto Uzumaki, since you have my respect, you also have my help." The Kyuubi dropped to lay down, and put his head on his forepaws, to look Naruto in the eye.

The boy blinked. "Help?"

"That's right. I'm going to help you to survive..."

Naruto spent the next four weeks in the hospital, after the Hokage and a few ANBU found him lying in the alley. During those weeks, and the next six years, they began to notice changes in Naruto. Alarming changes.

-Six years later-

Naruto sat alone in the classroom, and that was the way he liked it. He was antsy, because today was finally the last day of Academy training, and the day he would be a true shinobi. Of course, he was already a true shinobi, but because of Konoha's thrice-damned Council, he was forced to go through the motions, just like everyone else.

He sighed behind the black facemask he wore, as a steady hum of conversation continued in the classroom. Of course, there were always those who saw fit, for whatever reason, to let their opinions be known to the entire room.

Two such people are Ino Yakanama, and Sakura Haruno. Yakanama came from a clan known for their strange, body possession and mind-altering techniques. Still, just because the girl knew one such technique didn't make her strong by kunoichi standards. She was actually laughably weak.

And so was Haruno. She came from a civilian clan, and so was even weaker than Ino. She had no special techniques or Taijutsu styles. All she had were Academy jutsu and the basics of combat. What she did have, that Naruto sensed in her, was a very high Earth alignment, that she probably wasn't aware of...and would probably never figure out. What the two were discussing, and loudly, was a boy named Uchiha Sasuke; namely, who liked him more.

Sasuke, the emo fucktard, was ignoring all of this, probably lost in his own little deluded world. With his older brother Itachi being one of Konohagakure no Sato's most wanted nuke-nin, that left Sasuke as the last Uchiha in Konoha, after Itachi's famous mass-murder of the rest of the clan. Naruto knew little of what jutsu Sasuke possessed, and honestly, didn't care. The bastard saw Naruto as a rival, which made Naruto laugh uncontrollably on several occasions. Sasuke was nowhere near his level, and, most likely, would never be.

Another of the loudmouth's was Inuzuka Kiba, a boy from a clan of dog-lovers. He was clowning around with another shinobi, while his puppy, Akamaru, rested in his coat. Naruto knew the Inuzuka had jutsu that affected their biology, and that of the dog companions they kept. This made most of then unpredictable and often wild and savage, and also left them all with a strong dislike of cats and foxes.

The three idiots made Naruto thankful for people who knew how to keep their noise down to a minimum (with the exception of Sasuke, who he fantasized of removing from existence on more than one occasion). People like Aburame Shino. Shino was an odd boy, who always wore round sunglasses and a coat with a high collar. He knew the Aburame controlled bugs with their jutsu, but that was largely it. Shino was one of the few people he actually tolerated.

Another such person was Nara Shikamaru. The Nara clan controlled shadows with their jutsu, and it had been a Nara that had attacked Naruto on the night he met Kyuubi, but he bore no ill will towards Shikamaru. That Nara bastard had gotten what he deserved that night. Shikamaru was famously lazy, but was also a true genius. However, he had a slacker attitude that annoyed Naruto sometimes. But Shikamaru wasn't that bad.

The last quiet one of the class was Hyuuga Hinata. Hinata was a shy, purple-haired girl who rarely talked, and when she did, she had a habit of stuttering. A lot. Like all of the Hyuuga clansmen/women with their special Kekkei Genkai, the Byakuugan, Hinata's eyes were pure white, but when activated, would attain thin lines resembling irises, or pupils. The Byakuugan was said to give 360 degree visibility, but some spying on Naruto's part told him their was a blind spot over their left shoulder. Hinata's father was Hyuuga Hiashi, the main branch family clan Head, and a true bastard, who regarded Hinata of little worth, hence her confidence and self-esteem problems.

And the last person of note was Akimichi Choji. Choji came from a clan of very large people, or, as Naruto put it, 'gluttonous fatasses'. But their fat was their power, as they used special jutsu to expand body parts, or create rolling, bouncing boulders of flesh. Choji was always eating, and often hung out at restaurants. Naruto often wondered how his clan had any money left.

The sound of the door open and closing had little effect, as Naruto was the only one to hear it. However, his ears rang out as the instructor, Umino Iruka, made himself known.

"SHUT UP YOU LITTLE BRATS"! Everyone except Naruto, Emo-bitch, and Shikamaru jumped at the yell, and Iruka took his place at the front of the class, and began to drone on about something that Naruto either mastered, or mastered and no longer cared about.

'Kyuubi-sama?'

"Yes, Naruto-kun?"

'What do you think I should do today?'

"I dunno, train? I guess I could show you a new technique or two."

'Really? That'd be grea-oh...oh, I gotta go, Iruka's got that look again.' Naruto pulled back to reality in time to hear Iruka's question.

"Naruto? Would you like to repeat what I just got finished telling the class?"

Naruto shrugged. "Sure, why not? You were saying that chakra is extremely versatile and adaptible. It can be used to create shields, extend physical attacks, form jutsu, help a shinobi cling to a surface, walk vertically up a wall or tree, walk on water, run up a waterfall, or balance on a senbon or a twig. It can also be used to change eye and hair color, control the trajectory of thrown weapons, send an incoming projectile off-course, or, as the Suna puppeteers do, control ninja puppets. There are also different types of chakra: Human, Divine, Elemental, Demon, Abyssal, Void, and Chaotic, the last three that no human shinobi can ever hope to perform without killing him- or herself."

Ituka blinked. "Er...correct. Now, back to what I was saying..."

Naruto went back to his conversation with Kyuubi. 'I honestly think he likes having me do his job for him.'

Kyuubi chuckled. "Maybe if you actually paid attention now and then..."

'Feh. I already know all of this Academy stuff.'

"You never know if you may have missed something. Like the fact that you're about to miss your Final Exams."

'Crap!' Naruto hastily pulled himself back to the real world.

"...henge of the Sandaime Hokage, create three perfect clones, and then a third henge of your choice. We will go in alphabetical order, beginning with Aburame, Shino!"

As Iruka went down the list, most passed, some failed. He rose a brow when he heard "Uchiha, Sasuke!" and the females went crazy, cheering encouragement. Naruto watched only to see what he'd do.

As Sasuke took his place next to Iruka, the sensei said, "Your first henge, please, Sasuke."

Sasuke turned into the Hokage, and Iruka nodded. "Good. Now your clones."

Three clones of Sasuke appeared, and Iruka nodded again. "Good. And now your second henge."

Sasuke hesitated for a moment, and then turned into his father, Uchiha Fugaku. The second instructor, Mizuki, wrote down his name and gestured to the forehead protectors on his desk. "Good, Sasuke. You may take your forehead protector, and you are scheduled tomorrow for a photo for your ninja I.D."

Sasuke took his headband and walked back up, sneering at Naruto as he neared. Naruto responded by tripping him, but when Iruka looked up at the booing from the rest of the class, Naruto looked completely innocent. "Clumsy Uchiha," he said.

Iruka frowned. "Uzumaki, Naruto, please come down for your exam." The whole class stopped as his name was called, and Naruto got to his feet, moving down to the front of the class. "Your first henge, please."

Naruto made a half-seal, and turned into a perfect version of the Hokage, pipe and all. Iruka nodded. "Good. Your clones, please."

Naruto smirked, and this time folded his arms as the room filled with Naruto's. They were everywhere, surrounding the two sensei, one crouched on Mizuki's desk, another off to the side. Several were hidden in shadows, one was standing on Naruto's shoulders. The rest were in the crowd of students, and two of them were hissing at Sasuke, distracting him, while a third came up and gave him a vicious wedgie.

Iruka and Mizuki's eyes were bulging out of their heads, and both were speechless, so Naruto took charge, dispelling his clones. "Let me guess, henge of my choice, yes?" Naruto smirked, creating a Shadow Clone behind Sasuke, who grabbed the emo and threw him to the real Naruto. As the screaming emo-projectile neared Naruto, he grinned. "Henge!"

Naruto instantly became Itachi. Of course, this had a profound effect on EVERYONE, but not so much as Sasuke. Naruto sidestepped and Sasuke hit the wall, fell to the ground, and curled up in the fetal potion, crying like a two-year-old.

Naruto walked over to Mizuki, who wasn't moving, dispelled the henge, and wrote his own named down, and walked away. He heard the man mutter, "H-h-headband," and Naruto shook his head. "I have my own, thanks." He took a seat right behind Sakura, letting out a series of rasping breaths and hissing laughter, which was freaking her out bad enough that she wanted to piss herself.

Iruka snapped out of it, and wrote something for a few minutes. Finally, he began to call out the team names, and then he reached one that caught Naruto's attention.

"Team Seven...Haruno, Sakura...Uchiha, Sasuke-"

"YES! WOOHOO! In your face, Ino-Pig!" bragged the pink-haired girl, while Ino stuck her tongue out. "Up yours, Billboard Brow, he'll still be mine!"

"SHUT UP! Now, continuing. The last member of Team Seven is Uzumaki, Naruto, and your Jounin instructor is Hatake, Kakashi, who will meet you, tomorrow, at eight in the morning, on the roof of the Academy. And he says to skip breakfast. Don't be late!" Iruka finished. Sakura and Sasuke cast fearful looks at Naruto, though Sasuke's was mingled with hatred. Naruto merely flipped them both off, rose, and walked out of the room, taking something from his coat. It was a metal plate with the Konoha leaf on it, attached to a strip of black leather that he buckled around his head, keeping his black-and-blonde hair in check. As he walked out, the Chunin secretary sneered.

"So, how much cock did you have to suck to let the teachers graduate you?"

Naruto scowled. "Not as much as you did to get that fake-ass jewelry, whore." He sent a wave of killing intent at the woman, and her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she keeled over, going into a seizure and foaming at the mouth.

Kyuubi chuckled. "Ever the polite socialist, aren't you?"

'I try my best.'

"So, about those new techniques..."

'Oh?' Naruto rose a brow.

"Tell me that I'm your lord and master, and that you're my personal fairy bitch boy first, and then we'll talk."

'How about I tell you to stuff every one of those nine tails up your ass, bend forward, take your manhood into your mouth, bite it off...and maybe I'll consider it.'

Kyuubi snorted. "You could fuck Sasuke before that'd happen."

'And I can ruin your day with mental imagery of the Old Hokage in a g-string and nipple tassels.'

"NONONONO! OK, OK, you win! PLEASE, for the love of everything unholy, don't do that!"

Naruto chuckled. 'So, about my new techniques.'

"Go find a secluded spot, you sick little..." The rest of it was an incoherent muttering that made Naruto chuckle again.

After a few minutes, Naruto arrived at a nice, empty little clearing inside the woods surrounding Konoha. Not the Forest of Death, no. Naruto only went there if he was doing serious training, or if he was pissed off and wanted to slaughter the monsters and low-level demons that plagued those dark woods. He clapped his hands, eager to get started. 'So, what's first?'

"First, a brief overview. You already know that your two elemental alignments are Wind and Fire, the latter that you get from me. It took me awhile to figure out your third alignment, because I knew it wasn't Divine, and that it had to be Demon, Abyss, or Chaos. And those three are hard to distinguish at first, because they appear to be the same, but when you get to a deeper level, you'll notice large differences.

Demon chakra and jutsu is corruptive and wicked. Very little demon techniques have to do with anything short of utter terror or mass destruction. Of course, because of me, you can use these very techniques, but it would be hard for you, being a human. It would be like a Fire-aligned human using Water-based jutsu. It's almost an opposite, and would require more effort and concentration on your part, and so I will not be teaching any of these to you today.

Abyss is the hub on which Demon and Chaos chakra turns. It is an evil thing, from the outside to the core. Even demons using it will find, eventually, that the nature of Abyssal jutsu is a double-bladed sword. It is useful, and powerful, but will always turn on the user, whether to damage them as their foes, or corrupt their true nature and change them into something horrible. Only those with Abyssal power in their bodies can safely use these techniques, and you do not have that power, or the strength with which to use them, and if I have anything to say about it, you will NEVER use them. Demon jutsu is different, there, in that, one day, you may be able to use them. But Abyssal jutsu is a no-no.

Finally, we have Chaos. Chaos is not an evil thing, it is not wicked, or sinister, which is the mistake many think in regards to it, not just as a power, but as the word. Chaos is wild change, it is savage, uncontrolled. Chaos jutsu is powerful, but always unpredictable. A Chaos fireball may not burn the victim. It might impact on them like a boulder, it might freeze them, it might pass through them. It might even fail. Or it might turn on the user. Chaos chakra is something like two-fifths of a reaction. To fifths to fail, one fifth to succeed, one fifth to change its nature, and one fifth to do nothing or turn back on the user. Only a true Chaos Master can hope to change their attacks into a fifty-fifty: Half a chance to fail, half a chance to work. Chaos can also change the nature of something else. This is difficult to explain, and even harder to do. And for whatever reason, I have determined that Chaos is your third alignment."

'Chaos? Interesting. So, what will you be teaching me?'

"Four techniques, actually. One Wind, one Fire, one Lightning, and one Chaos. Lightning shouldn't be hard for you with Fire as an alignment."

'How do you know Chaos techniques?'

"I read. Now, your first technique is called Air Crescent. You'll basically use your chakra to 'grab' air and force it into crescent shapes, and then fling them at the enemy as deadly scythes. Here are the hand seals. Have at it."

The hand seals poured into Naruto's head, who went through them, and began to practice. He drilled himself over and over, until the hand seals were completely burned into his brain. He nodded, and turned to a tree, his first victim. As a master of Air jutsu, he didn't need to make the seals, so he simply went through them in his head, and stood his his arms folded, eyes closed, and head bowed. What he did here was like psychically manipulating his chakra. He could see it happening in his head as it happened outside of his body. His chakra spread out, and began to thin, whirling in midair. As the chakra spun faster, it began to trap the air around him inside the shapes, forcing the air to move as it was shaped into the crescents, however big or small he wanted them to. As the crescents were formed, he used his chakra to 'grab' one side, and flung seven of them at the tree. "Wind Release: Air Crescent Jutsu!"

He watched the blades of wind slice up the trunk, and the tree fell with a loud crash. All of this took him about ten minutes.

Now that he did it once, he did it again, this time, his eyes open. He performed the jutsu in half the time it took him to do it the first time, and slung the crescents at the felled three, chopping it into firewood. Again, he performed the jutsu, concentrating harder, and managed to do it in the time it would take a shinobi to perform the hand signs.

'Air Crescent, mastered. Next?'

"Nicely done. Well, next is called Dragonfire. It's basically just blowing out a stream of fire from your mouth, which shouldn't be hard at all. It's one of the simplest Fire techniques, but a useful one. Try it."

Naruto went over the hand seals in his head, doing this several times until he could do it without concious though. He went through them one more time. "Fire Release: Dragonfire Jutsu!" He exhaled a large stream of flame, which caught the wood that used to be a tree on fire.

'That was easy. I expected something difficult.'

"Meh, difficult later, easy now. You'll burn yourself out if all of your jutsu are high-level techniques. Remember, in a fight, you'll want to keep an equal balance of high and low jutsu in mind. Powerful strikes first, so that when your chakra is low, you can pick and choose the best lower jutsu to end the fight. But remember that jutsu doesn't make a shinobi, so you need to practice your Taijutsu as well. Your Lightning technique is Shock Bolt, which propels a bolt of electricity at your opponent. Here you go."

Naruto studied the hand seals, and began to drill himself yet again on the motions. He glanced at the sky, noticing the sun was dipping lower. He wondered how long he'd been out for. Not that long, surely. Or maybe it had been later than he thought when he left the Academy. He looked down, and noticed that he was subconciously performing the hand seals, so he nodded, having gotten it down. He performed the hand seals again. "Lightning Release: Shock Bolt Jutsu!"

Electricity crackled around his hand, waiting to be thrown forward. He glanced at his hand curiously, and applied more chakra to up the voltage.

"Careful, Naruto..."

Naruto ignored Kyuubi, forcing the voltage higher and higher. Then he threw his hand out, and screamed as the bolt ripped past his arm, obliterating an entire tree and frying his hand instantly. He cut his scream off abruptly and swallowed, forcing his mind from the pain as his hand shook. He heard Kyuubi's exasperated sigh.

"I tried to warn you! If you force the voltage up higher than the charge your body contains, you're going to injure yourself! I can heal this wound easily, but if you blow your fucking arm off, then you'll be on your own, because I can't handle that! Not unless I make you a han-..." Kyuubi stopped talking.

'What? A han-what?'

"Nothing, forget I said it." Kyuubi's red chakra surrounded Naruto's hand, healing him, and hoping he'd let it go.

No such luck. 'Old Man in a g-string..."

Kyuubi cringed. "Gah! Alright, you little bastard! I was going to say 'hanyou'!"

Naruto blinked. '"Hanyou" means "half-demon".'

Kyuubi sighed, and gave an almost inaudible groan. "Yes...it does."

'You can do that?'

"Yes...maybe...I don't know. Probably. But not right now. Would you like to drop it, or not continue your training?"

'...you win this time, fox-teme (bastard).'

"Goddamn right, I do! Now for your Chaos technique. It's called Wild Whirlwind. It's a storm of air, that brings with it...I dunno, it's randomized. The air might catch fire, it might bring rocks with it, or spawn freezing wind, or shadows...who knows? It's always different. However, if you are fast enough, you can add your own element to it, like your Air Crescent. Now, I have to warn you, for all of their power, Chaos moves are ridiculously easy. That's why it's so wild. I fully expect you to master it in one try. What I don't expect is almost nothing. Be prepared. Here are your hand seals. Oh, and even with a Chaos alignment, you'll need hand seals for this one."

Naruto drilled himself on the hand seals yet again, but kept stumbling. They were different from normal seals, with different positions, and he needed to keep a strange rhythm to do it. But finally, after maybe ten minutes of trying, he was able to perform the seals perfectly.

"Chaos Release: Wild Whirlwind!" As he let his chakra go, something different came up. It was a chakra he'd never felt before, springing up from a well within him. It rushed up to the surface, howling out of his body, and taking control of the jutsu with ease. At once, a wind storm began, not just near him, but around him.

"Shit...get out of there, Naruto!"

He didn't need to be told twice. Struggling against the wind, even with his speed, he finally managed to clear the area, just as a fierce blast of icy wind swept over the whole area, turning everything into ice. Naruto blinked. 'What the hell was that?!'

"I...don't know." Lie. "He has Chaos chakra inside him? I've never felt that before...no, now I CAN feel it. He's awakened it. This could mean one of over a dozen things...most of them bad. Or could be possibly be a Chaos Lord?'

'Well, I think I'm going to head back and exercise before bed.'

Naruto turned, and headed back from the forest. He found it easiest to travel by jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and soon, he soared through an open window of his apartment.

As he performed sets of mundane exercises like push-ups, sit-ups, and other stuff, he reflected on the day's events. And what would come tomorrow. A team with his two least-favorite people (OK, this was outright lying to himself, he HATED them both), and a new sensei. Hatake Kakashi was a name familiar with him. All in all, he constructed several scenes in his mind of him with his team and sensei.

Each one spelled 'disaster'.

-The Next Morning-

Naruto had been on the roof for an hour before Sasuke and Sakura showed up. It was obvious that Haruno was bugging the Uchiha for a date, the latter steadfastly refusing.

Naruto sighed, and dispelled the Genjutsu he was using to cloak himself from sight. This made Sakura shriek, and Sasuke narrow his eyes.

'How the hell did he do that? He was standing in direct sunlight, nobody but ANBU can perform Genjutsu that well! Agh…I would've seen that if I'd had the Sharingan!'

Naruto turned towards Sasuke, and smirked behind his mask. "Like what you're seeing? You ain't gonna come out of the closet to me, are you?"

Sasuke clenched his fists. "What did you say, freak?"

Naruto half-turned away, and dug in one of his ears, an act designed to piss off the Uchiha, which worked. "Hmm? Oh, nothing. I just thought it odd that you'd proclaim your love of taking it up the ass to me. But then, Itachi isn't here."

That did it. With a roar of rage, Sasuke bull-rushed Naruto, who rolled his eyes. He sidestepped Sasuke and tripped him, hard. As the Uchiha's legs came up into the air, Naruto grabbed one, swung Sasuke over his head, and into the roof, cracking it and nearly sending the senseless Uchiha THROUGH it.

"Two things: Firstly, head-on attacks only work if you can match or beat the strength of your opponent. Which brings us to the second, don't attack someone who severely outclasses you, dumbass."

Sakura was livid, and just as loud as ever. "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO SASUKE?! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!"

Naruto dug a finger into his ear again, this time for real. 'Shit…I think I'm bleeding.' Leveling a glare to Sakura, his eyes, which he normally disguised as having no iris or pupil (like a mimic of the Byakuugan's dormant state), began to glow a bright, angry red. "If you don't like the way I treat Uchiha, then why don't you do something about it?" Sakura trembled. "No? Then shut the fuck up!"

Sasuke was just now coming back to the land of the living. Naruto noticed this, and stomped on his stomach. This time he DID go through it. 'That oughta take care of him. We've still got awhile to go.'

Two hours later, Sakura had begun an annoying habit of pacing around the roof. "Where is he?" she muttered to herself. "He's late!"

Sasuke came up through the door of the roof, limping. Naruto grinned. "Hatake Kakashi, mid-level Jounin, once an ANBU, holder of the wolf mask, son of the famous White Fang, known as the Copycat Ninja, holder of over a thousand jutsu, and having a permanently-active Sharingan in his left eye socket. Thus, the reason why he keeps his forehead protector over that socket. He's known for being extremely tardy. You know how they say 'Timing is everything'? Nobody told him, apparently. I'd say he'll be here in another hour. Or he'll show up now."

Kakashi came through the door, eye-smiling, and raised a hand. "Yo. I'm Hatake Kakashi, and I'll be your team instructor."

Kakashi turned his eye on each of them in turn, noticing the tension in the air, the glares, and the outright fear. His eyes narrowed when they reached Naruto. The Kyuubi vessel. And Kakashi, his senses acute, even for a shinobi, had picked up every word. He didn't like having a kid he'd never met knowing so much about him.

Sasuke, of course, only paid full attention to the 'Sharingan' part. 'A Sharingan eye? Could he possibly be…?'

Kakashi folded his arms over his chest. "My first impression is…I hate you."

Cue group sweat-drop.

"So, why don't you all tell me a little bit about yourselves? Name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and goals. You, the pink-haired girl, you can go first."

Sakura nodded. "My name is Haruno Sakura. I like flowers, studying, and…" She looked over at Sasuke, and giggled. "I dislike Ino-pig, and creepy people." The last, she glanced at Naruto, and glared. "My goals are…" She looked back to Sasuke, and squealed.

Kakashi rolled his eye, and pointed at Sasuke. "You."

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like almost nothing, I dislike almost everything, my hobby is training, and my goal is to kill a certain someone, and revive my clan."

Sakura blushed. 'Wow, Saskue-kun's so cool!'

Kaskashi pointed at Naruto. "And you last."

Naruto folded his arms, and leaned against a vent. "Uzumaki Naruto. My likes and dislikes are personal, my hobby is training, and my goals are personal."

Kakashi sweat-dropped. 'OK…we have a fangirl, an avenger, and a misanthropic psycho. This is going to work out great.' No amount of sarcasm, there.

"Well, since we've all gotten to know each other so well, I have a surprise for you." Sasuke was about to say something, but an elbow from Sakura shut him up. "A test. A test that, if you fail, means you will be sent back to the Academy." Kakashi's eye narrowed at their expressions of shock and outrage. "Meet me at the number seven training ground in exactly ten minutes. And, Genin…don't make me wait."

With that, Kakashi disappeared, and the three Genin looked at each other. Even Naruto was surprised.

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A/N: End the of the first chapter of my newest Naruto fic. I know I go through a lot of them, but that's because some of the previous ones were just ridiculous. I really think this one will succeed, though. And yes, I know I screwed up the formula for how they meet Kakashi and set up the test…but by the time I noticed, I'd gone too far, and was too lazy to re-write that much of it.

Later!