A/N: I got some of these ideas from a Growing Affection, Naruto One Man Team, and the Ierokitsune. Thanks them for the ideas!
'Humans Thinking'
"Humans Talking"
"Kyuubi Talking"
"Other Demons Talking"
Chapter 1
The True Naruto
Naruto slowly opened his eyes and looked around his small apartment. It was nothing special, just his bed, a stove, a microwave, his nightstand and his dresser. On top of his nightstand a clock read 3:45. He contemplated for a second and decided that he should have enough time to go over at least one scroll. He got up and went over to his closet to get on his daily 'kill me orange' outfit. After he was dressed he went over the door, went outside and locked it.
'Let's see, my record before was one minute fifty-one seconds. I'm going to try to get there in at least one minute forty-six seconds that should be good.' Naruto thought to himself as he raced down one of the many streets of the Leaf village, heading towards the park at his top speed without using chakra.
"Well you've been doing a lot better lately. Yesterday you beat your previous best by about 5 seconds, which you beat the day before by about three seconds." Said another voice coming from Naruto.
"I know, but the faster I can get the better," Naruto said out loud "Besides, I want to be awake for the graduation exam today. I'm going to pass this time. I think two failed tests are enough to get them off my ass."
About 30 seconds later Naruto stopped and hit the button on the stopwatch and looked at the time 1:44.
"Wow" Naruto thought "I beat it by a full 7 seconds. How's that fox?"
"Well you didn't use any chakra and you hit the buttons at the right time, so that's a good time for today, now let's see if we can't get down to the scrolls, eh?" Said the nine-tails.
"Right" Naruto practically shouted as he jumped down into the tunnel that he had found one of the days when he had been skipping class again.
"Ha ha, you'll never catch me ya losers" Naruto yelled as he ran through the park at top speed, some academy teachers right behind him. He had skipped class again and was running from the teachers who were determined to bring him back to class. All of a sudden Naruto tripped and fell flat on his face. After he let loose a string of curse words that children his age shouldn't even know, he looked back he saw a well concealed wooden trap door hidden beneath the brush.
His face lit up as he realized he could escape through the trap door, even though he had no idea if it was safe of not. He opened the door and slid down into the tunnel below. He tried to find where everything was as everything was dark down here. He smiled as he heard footsteps fall over head and then a voice.
"I saw him go through here! Where is he?"
Naruto turned and started to walk down the dark tunnel that he had just found the direction to. When he reached the end he saw a door with an orange spiral on it, the symbol of the one of the old dead leaf village clans that he couldn't remember. When he looked at it closer he realized it was a blood seal. He had heard about blood seals one of the few times he had been paying attention in class instead of sleeping or goofing off, when he had been there at all. They were seals that, when someone put a little bit of their blood on it, if they were accepted, would open the door or whatever it was guarding.
'I hope this isn't one of those ones that have a nasty side effect if it doesn't accept you' he thought as he bit his thumb and spread his blood on the symbol. Much to his surprise the door opened, though he didn't think much about it. He walked inside and looked around. It was a somewhat large space that was lined with scrolls and books, a few weapons and a couple training dummies.
'Wow, It looks like a cross between an armory, a library, and a training facility… I don't know where to start'
Naruto smeared his blood on the now familiar symbol on the doorway and there was a shuddering sound before the door unlocked and swung open. Naruto pushed it open and walked inside. He walked over to the wall before pulling out a scroll.
"Hmm. Shadow clone jutsu, huh? Seems simple enough. Let's see."Naruto stated before starting to mumble to himself "when dispersed all knowledge gained by the clones is transferred to the user… only one-tenth the strength of the original… most chakra is lost after dispersing…"
"OK" Naruto shouted as he put his hands together for the jutsu and gathering his chakra. "Let's get started!"
2 hours later Naruto emerged from the tunnel and started off towards his small apartment that he was given by the Hokage. He was excited, once he graduated he could finally drop the act that he had started ever since the fox had told him that she was sealed inside of him and that was why the villagers hated him.
After breakfast he walked outside again and started running towards the academy. Once he was there he walked into his class room to find most of his classmates already sitting and waiting for class to start.
He took a seat at middle left of the class by himself and watched as two girls came running through the door.
"I got here first Ino-pig!" Screeched the pink headed banshee known as Sakura,
"What are you talking about billboard brow?"
'Aw great now my day's complete' Naruto thought sarcastically 'Sakura's here'
"Hey Sakura, over here" Naruto called waving to keep up the act of his fake crush on her
Among other things. She completely ignored him and went over to Sasuke to start trying to
(And failing to) flirt with him.
A certain lavender eyed girl saw the display of affection that no one knew was fake and sadden and depressed by it. 'Will he ever love me back?' she thought 'I try to talk to him, but every time I either stutter too much to understand or I just faint.'
Iruka walked in the wearing his standard chunin outfit and called for the class to silence and for all of the students to sit down. When Sakura didn't because she was trying to fit in on the already too crowded bench that Sasuke was sitting on, he yelled at her to sit down, less he throw her out of the class room until the exam started, and she wouldn't know what to do.
"Ok, today you'll be taking the graduation exam. Each one of you will show me or Mizuki one of
The jutsu you have learned over the course of the year. If you can successfully complete the
Jutsu to our standards, than you will pass. If not then you will fail and be forced to repeat the
year.
Naruto walked into the testing room with Mizuki and prepared to take the test.
"Don't worry kit, now that you're taking this seriously, there's no way that you can fail."
'Thanks furball'
"Furball?" the kyuubi scoffed at Naruto "really?"
'Yep! Hehe'
"Ok Naruto" Mizuki started "for you let's try the clone jutsu, alright. To pass you must create at least 2 viable clones. Go"
Naruto put his hands together and focused his chakra and tried to make a couple clones. Then all of a sudden Naruto felt his chakra screw up.
'What the hell?' Naruto thought.
"Kit, Mizuki's screwing with your chakra flow!"
WHAT! THAT BASTARD!' Naruto yelled in his mind
All that happened was that one deflated Naruto clone appeared. Naruto was shocked and pissed.
"WHAT THE HELL" Naruto yelled at Mizuki "YOU SCREWED WITH MY CHAKRA! THAT WAS YOUR FAULT THAT I COULDN'T MAKE A CLONE! LET ME RETAKE THE TEST!
"I'm sorry Naruto, but the rules clearly state that if you can't make 2 good clones then you can't graduate. You'll have to try again next year. There's nothing me, Iruka, or even the Hokage can do about it."
Naruto just stood there dumbfounded, and very pissed that Mizuki would do this to him. After a few moments he realized that his teacher wouldn't budge and just walked out.
Naruto was sitting on the roof of the academy watching the sunset. He was still really pissed at Mizuki for doing that. Given the chance he would have beaten the shit out of him, but unfortunately, because that would be against the regulations, he couldn't.
"Hey kit, why don't you go talk to the Hokage. If you tell him what happened, then you could get him fired and you would be able to take the test again, but this time with Iruka, and pass it easily."
'That's a really good idea. Hehe. Thanks, I was so mad I couldn't think clearly.'
"No problem kit"
A voice came over from Narutos' left "Hey Naruto. I'm sorry about the test today, but you know I had no choice but to fail you."
Naruto just stayed silent except for the inhuman growl that escaped his throat.
"Naruto, you know there's a different way to graduate than just the test." Mizuki said after a tense silence.
"Ya? How?" Naruto retorted
The assembled ninja were all really pissed at a recent action of a recent genin dropout.
"This is just taking it too far" One shouted
"Lord Hokage, this is no prank. It's serious!" Another yelled
"We have to find him! If it gets into the wrong hands, it could be disasters!" Yelled yet another.
All of the ninja were angry about Naruto. Or rather what he had done. He had taken the scroll of sealing, a scroll containing forbidden jutsu. All of the ninja just wanted to go after him and arrest him.
"Alright, go find Naruto, but Iruka, I need to talk to you."
All of the ninja left except for Iruka, who walked up to the Third Hokage.
"Sir, what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Iruka, I know where Naruto is. We planned this. Naruto was approached by Mizuki yesterday and told him that this was another way to become a genin. Naruto knew what the scroll of sealing was and came to me. So he took the scroll and went out to the forest. I want you to go there and arrest Mizuki and bring back Naruto." The third told Iruka.
"Naruto knew what the scroll was and came to you? Wow, not even many high ranking ninja know about it. How did Naruto know?" Iruka was stunned at how much he knew. Naruto was always the idiot.
"I don't know. But you have to go get him. He requested you come."
"Right! You can count on me sir!"
The Hokage told him exactly where to go in the forest and Iruka headed off to get to his student before Mizuki could, using every ounce of speed he had.
In the forest Naruto had pulled out 3 small scrolls and made some hand signs for a jutsu.
"Ninja Art: Scroll coping jutsu!"
All of a sudden the three scrolls and the scroll of sealing unraveled. Then, on the three smaller scrolls, writing started appearing that mirrored parts of the biggest scroll. Each of the scrolls copied down a different kind of jutsu. One copied ninjutsu, another was genjutsu, and the last was sealing jutsu.
After a few minutes all four scrolls snapped shut and Naruto picked them up. Just then Iruka arrived.
"Naruto, are you ok?" Iruka asked worriedly?
"Jeez sensei I'm fine, I'm practically a ninja. Now let's go before –"
A hail of kunai flew from the forest hitting Iruka and pinning him to a tree.
"— Mizuki gets here" Naruto finished
"Naruto, run!" Iruka yelled at Naruto
"No, now that I've got my chance I'm gonna beat the shit outta this guy!" Naruto told him "I'm gonna get my revenge on this asshole"
"Oh Naruto!" Mizuki called out.
"What ya dipshit?" Naruto yelled back "do you need to go take a piss or something?"
"I'm gonna let you in on a little secret! The reason why everyone hates you! That reason is that you –"
"NO! Mizuki stop! You can't tell him!"
"The reason is that you're the nine-tailed fox spirit!" Mizuki then proceeded to laugh manically.
"Correction. Furball's sealed inside of me." Naruto said.
Mizuki stopped his laughing and he and Iruka both just stared wide eyed at him. There was silence for a few moments. Both of the older men where dumfounded.
"F-f-furball?" Iruka asked weakly.
"Ya, why? What's the big deal, I mean I have a demon fox sealed in me? She helps keep me company." Naruto asked
Doesn't it—"Iruka started
"She" Naruto corrected
"Thank you" the fox said.
"Doesn't she ever try to hurt you or trick you, or at least taunt you?"
"No. I mean really, people have never even meant any demons yet they think that they all want to like take over the world or something. There just trying to help by killing the guys who need to be killed."
"SHUT UP YOU LYING FOX!" Mizuki yelled at Naruto and throwing a Fuma Shuriken at him. Naruto didn't have time to dodge and just coward and covered his head. There was a sickening sound of a shuriken hitting human flesh and when Naruto opened his eyes saw Iruka leaning over him.
"Iruka?" Naruto asked near tears.
Iruka just smiled and fell over. Naruto just stared at him for a few seconds.
"Your next you stupid fox"
Naruto just looked at him with pure hate.
"Kit I'm gonna give you some of my power, ok?"
Naruto didn't answer; he just continued to stare at Mizuki. His eyes stared to glow red and he got to his feet.
Naruto formed three quick hand signs and yelled "Dual release: Searing rock prison!"Huge rock walls rose around then closed to make a roof. The rock started to glow red as the walls heated up. Then Naruto formed a single tiger seal and yelled "Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire!"
'A dual release and a fire style of that level? How can he have that much chakra much less even know those jutsu? That insane!' Iruka though as he watched Naruto.
As the fireball neared him Mizuki formed a hand seal and shouted "Water Release: Great Water Wall!" A huge wall of water flowed from around Mizuki towards the fire dragon. Than Naruto put his hands together for another jutsu and thought 'Wind Release: Pressure Damage!' when the wall of wind hit the dragon of fire it greatly increased in size and decimated the water jutsu.
Right before the jutsu him, Mizuki yelled "Earth release: protective burial!" and sank into the ground causing the flames to pass harmlessly overhead. When he came back up he barely had time to widen his eyes before Naruto screamed "Fire Release: Solar Palm!" and pushed his white hot blazing hand into Mizukis' chest.
Mizuki fell to the ground with severe third degree burns while Iruka stared at him, amazed to say the least.
"Naruto… where did you learn those jutsu? And where did you get enough chakra to use those?"
"Well as far as chakra goes, I got it from the fox. For the jutsu, I knew all of them, except for the solar palm which the fox taught me, but I just could never master them. I guess furball helped me with that too." He laughed and scratched the back of his head.
"Hey, Naruto, close your eyes for a second." Iruka said.
"Uh, ok…" Naruto closed his eyes then felt his goggles get pulled off then he felt something else get put onto his forehead.
"Can I open my eyes now?" Naruto asked.
"Ok, open your eyes" Iruka answered. He opened his eyes and his hand shot up to his forehead. He felt the engraving of the leaf symbol.
"THANK YOU SO MUCH" Naruto yelled as he tackled Iruka.
"Ow! Wounds Naruto, wounds!"
On the way home the fox decided to have a small chat with Naruto "Kit, there's something I need to talk to you about. I've been sealed in two people before you, and I like you the best. So I'll give you three options. Number one is we just stay the way we are now, me sealed inside of you. Number two is I merge with you. If we do that than I'll be kind of like a second voice in your head, but not only that, when a demon and human merge, a Kekkei Genkai is born. That's how most of them started. So in that case you'll get a new Kekkei Genkai along with some of my fire jutsu. In case three, I can slowly work 95% of my power into you and get rid of myself. In that case you would have all of my power and even turn into a kyuubi yourself. So you would be immortal, and a demon. That 5% that I wouldn't give you would be the things that cause how you look, being able to be sealed away, and being able to be controlled my certain things. Like the Uchiha for example."
'Wait, what? Are you saying that you can basically turn me into a demon or give me a Kekkei Genkai?' Naruto asked.
"That's about the choice I'm giving you, yes. But for me to turn you into a demon would take about 4 years. But in dangerous situations I might speed it up a bit, but if I go too fast it could kill you."
'Wow. But then everyone I know would die and I would just live for basically ever. That would suck.'
"Well, I can also give you access to a certain jutsu that you can only use twice. You can use it on one human and one animal or the like. It's a jutsu that would turn them into a demon too. I can do the same thing with the Kekkei Genkai minus the animal."
'Do I have to decide right now?'
"No, of course not. But I'd like it if you could decide within the next month."
'Ok, thanks furball.' Naruto thought as he slipped into bed.
The Next Day
Yawning Naruto slowly open opened his eyes and stretched. He slid the covers off and shuffled over to his closet.
'I just can't ware orange again. I think I'm seeing everything orange tinted now because of that.' Naruto thought to himself as he opened the closet doors. 'Maybe I can put on something more practical now that I don't have to be the dead last loser that I had to pretend to be so that I wouldn't be killed.'
He pulled out a pair of black nylon plants, and a deep crimson shirt. He pulled on his shoes and grabbed his grey sweatshirt as he walked over to the kitchen. His love for ramen was one of the few things about his old self that wasn't an act. He pulled out a cup of ramen and some milk out of the fridge.
After he was done happily slurping down ramen and getting rid of the milk that he had realized was expired, he walked outside and headed for the academy.
Inside of the academy the door opened and Naruto walked in. He looked around for a seat and saw an empty one next to Hinata.
"Hey Hinata, can I sit here?" Naruto asked her once he got there.
"O-of c-c-course Naruto" she replied.
"Thanks." He said as he slid into the seat. Just then Kiba decided to walk into the room.
"Move it loser." Kiba commanded Naruto "let a real man sit next to Hinata"
"Ya, your right. You're a dog. See ya Skippy" Naruto told him passively. Kiba grabbed him by the shirt and growled at him.
"You want to say that again?" he asked threatiningly.
"Sure. Your right. You're a dog. See ya Skippy"
Kiba replied by punching him in the face. Or at least tried. Narutos' hand shot up and grabbed it faster than Kiba could see. Naruto stared to twist and a loud popping sound rang around the classroom.
Kiba let go and tried to kick Naruto in the chest, and Naruto dodged to the left. Then Kiba tried to punch him and Naruto just slapped it away with his left hand. Kiba threw punches and kicks until he was so tired he could barely stand and was breathing heavily. Naruto moved forward faster than the rest of the class, which where all watching by now, could follow. All of a sudden Narutos' head was next to Kibas' with his fist in his stomach.
"Nice try Skippy, but don't try any more shit like that or I'll send you to the hospital" Naruto whispered then drew back. As Kiba collapsed Naruto took his seat again. Iruka walked into the room and saw Akamaru sniffing an unconscious Kiba and stared yelling.
"WHO THE HELL DID THAT TO KIBA! SASUKE?"
Sasuke shook his head and pointed at Naruto "it was Naruto"
"NARUTO WHAT THE HELL!" Iruka screamed.
"What? He tried to hit me first. Actually he tried to hit me about 50 times before I punched him. Oh and I think I dislocated his wrist so you might want to fix that." Naruto replied. Iruka hit his forehead in response.
"Anyway, let's get started. Ok. You will all be put into three man teams with each other and a jonin team leader. You will complete missions and train in these three man cells. Here are the teams." Iruka started to go through all of the teams. "Team seven. Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuga, and Naruto Uzumaki"
'I'm going to be on a team with Naruto?' Hinata thought blissfully.
'I'm gonna be on a team with Hinata?' Naruto thought happily.
'Ugh. I have to be on a team with loser boy and white eyes?' Sasuke mentally complained
"Team Eight Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, and Sakura Haruno." Iruka said and finished listing the teams. "Ok, your team leaders will be here to pick you up in about twenty minutes. Go eat lunch." All of the ninja got up and walked outside.
Outside Naruto ran to catch up to Hinata.
"Hey, Hinata, since we're on a team and all I was thinking that we should eat lunch together. How about it?" Naruto asked.
Hinata blushed furiously and replied with a weak and stuttering "s-s-sure N-Naruto." They walked over to a bench and sat down to eat. After a couple minutes Naruto broke the silence.
"Hinata, what do you think about Sasuke?" He asked her.
"W-well, he's always so q-quiet a-and he rarely ever t-talks, so I don't k-know much."
Naruto laughed and said "Hinata, you're the exact same way."
She blushed and started to talk "I-I'm s-sorry N-N-Naruto, It's just that –"
"What are you apologizing for? It's just your personality. You're just shy though. I like people like you.
'He likes people like me?' Hinata thought.
Looking at her he started thinking 'hey, fox, what would happen if I would, say umm… have children with that person that I use that demonizing jutsu on?'
"Well, without creating huge problems, they would just get the Kekkei Genkai that you would have if you chose to have that."
'So I would still create a new Kekkei Genkai?'
"Yes."
'I think I can live with that. Fox I'm going to go with option number three.'
"Are you sure about this kit? Once I start I can't stop or you'll lose your sanity."
'Yes, this is my final decision. '
"Alright, I'll get started after about an hour. If you ever change your mind, just tell me, ok?"
'Ok, thanks.
They finished eating and talked for a few more minutes before Naruto decided that they should go.
"Well let's head back" Naruto said standing up and held out his hand to help Hinata up. She took it and they started back towards the academy.
"Hinata, lets at least try to get along with Sasuke, ok?" Naruto told her
"O-ok." She replied. As they opened the door to the classroom
A Half-hour later they were still sitting there waiting.
"Well this sucks. Everyone else's team leaders got here like 25 minutes ago. Where's ours?" Sasuke complained.
"Ya, of all the people we could have got, we get the lazy fat ass that probably got neutered." Naruto Replied.
"That's assuming it's a guy. What if it's a girl? Or a guy with breasts." Sasuke said.
"I don't think we're gonna have Kiba as a teacher Sasuke." Naruto said, than both of them burst out laughing.
"y-you shouldn't talk about Kiba that way." Hinata said but she couldn't hide her grin.
"Hey, Naruto, let's say we get back at this lazy fat ass and pull a prank on him." Sasuke said after the laughing had subsided.
"I got an idea" he said and formed a hand seal.
"What was that?"
"Just a little genjutsu"
"What will it do?"
"You'll see. It's like a trap though. Don't go to the door or you'll set it off."
After a couple minutes they heard footsteps coming down the hall.
"Here he comes" Naruto whispered.
The door slid open to reveal Kakashi. He stepped inside and then stopped cold.
"No. NO. NOT YOU TOO! DAMN IT NO! RIN!" he screamed as he collapsed.
Naruto and Sasuke slapped high fives while Hinata rushed to his side.
"That was great! What was that?" Sasuke asked Naruto.
"Ninja art: World of fears. It's a genjutsu that when tripped by a person, when they walk into a room normally, see their worst nightmare.
"Sounds pretty useful."
"It's great for pranks"
Kakashi groaned and sat up.
"Are y-you alright" Hinata asked worriedly. His one visible eye shot open as far as it could.
"Where's Rin? Tell me!" he demanded.
"Calm down. I don't know who Rin is, but she's fine. I just put you under a genjutsu." Naruto answered.
Suddenly he had Naruto by his neck and threw him into the blackboard. "If you ever do anything like that again I'll kill you!"
"Damn dude, it was just a prank, calm down." Naruto said as he got up.
"JUST A PRANK!" he screamed then he regained his composure "alright you asshole, asshole with black hair and… what's your name?" he asked Hinata.
"Hinata Hyuga" She replied.
"And Hinata, I want you all to come with me.
A few minutes later they were sitting on top of the academy on railing opposite each other.
"Ok, I want you to tell me your likes, dislikes, hobbies, and goals. I'll go first. I like Icha Icha books, I dislike ass holes (cue glare at Naruto), my hobbies are reading Icha Icha books, and my goal is… never mind that. Ok, go asshole number one" Kakashi said looking at Naruto
"I like ramen, dislike when the villagers try to kill me, my hobby is training, and my goal is to become Hokage!" Naruto said.
"Go asshole number two" Kakashi said looking at Sasuke.
"There's not much that I like, my dislikes are when those stupid girls try to flirt with me, my hobbies are the same as Naruto, training, and my goal is to kill a certain man and restore my clan."
"Ok then… and Sasuke I hope that you realize that to restore your clan, you're going to have to have children, and to do that you're going to have to find a wife and –"
"SHUT UP KAKASHI" Naruto yelled.
"Fine. Ok, go Hinata."
"Ok my likes are… um… I like… uh…"
"*cough* Naruto *cough*" Sasuke teased. Hinata just turned red from her neck to her forehead.
"Oh so you want to sleep with Naruto?" Kakashi joined the teasing. This was too much for Hinata and she went unconscious. This was bad because she was sitting on the railing.
"Holy shit!" Kakashi yelled and raced for the railing, but Naruto beat him to it, rolling backwards into a freefall. After less than a second he scooped her up.
"Oh shit, now he's gonna die too!" Kakashi was panicking. That is until he adhered to the building by putting chakra in his feet. He calmly walked up the side of the building and set Hinata down.
"Is she alright?" Kakashi asked worriedly.
"Ya, she's fine." Naruto answered.
"I think you took it a little too far Kakashi" Sasuke practically scolded him.
After Hinata woke up Kakashi started again.
"I want all of you to meet me at training ground eight tomorrow morning. Oh and don't eat breakfast."
All three of team seven answered with an ok.
The next morning on the way to the training ground the fox decided to talk to Naruto.
"Kit, about the transformation into a demon, I basically have to do it one trait at a time, not all of the traits at once. I just felt like telling you this, because I'm doing the chakra first, so I'm gonna give you some jutsu that you will be able to use now, got it?"
'Ya, I got it. Thanks, but what jutsu?'
"You'll know soon"
Naruto all of a sudden got a headache, and he felt like he knew something he didn't before. Like when he released a shadow clone, but on a much higher scale.
'A few? That was more than fifty jutsu!'
"I know more than three hundred, so to me that's only about sixteen or seventeen percent. To be exact 1/6th of my jutsu."
'You know that many jutsu?'
"Well I'm only a couple thousand years old."
'Right. Well thanks fox'
"No problem"
Just then he walked into training ground eight to find Hinata already there and sleeping peacefully. He looked at her for a few seconds before deciding to leave her alone. But it proved it didn't matter as soon as he sat down she stirred and woke. She looked over and saw him.
"N-Naruto! W-when did you g-get here?" Hinata asked him.
"A couple of seconds ago. You look really beautiful when you're sleeping." He replied.
She blushed deeply and replied by saying "t-t-thank y-you N-Naruto." He just smiled at her and sat to wait for Sasuke and Kakashi. Sasuke arrived after about five minutes.
"Hey Naruto, Hey Hinata."
"Hey Sasuke."
"Hello Sasuke."
After about another Half-Hour of waiting Kakashi finally arrived.
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!" Naruto and Sasuke both screamed at the same time.
"Well you see, a black cat crossed my path so I had to—"
"LIER!" They both yelled at him in stereo again.
"Well anyway, let's start our training." He held up two bells for all of them to see. "If you can't each get one of these bells from me before noon, then you will fail and be sent back to the academy. Understood?"
"But Kakashi, there are only two bells, and three of us. Wouldn't that mean that one of us will get sent back to the academy anyways?" Hinata asked her team leader.
"That's very perceptive Hinata. Yes, indeed one of you will be sent back to the academy." Kakashi
Answered, but continued before anyone else could interrupt "Now, if you don't come at me with the intent to kill, you won't get the bells. Begin" He finished after he hopped back. Both Hinata and Sasuke disappeared and hid. Naruto just stood there staring at Kakashi. Much to all three of the genins surprise, Kakashi took out a book.
"TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!" Naruto yelled at him, than charged head on like an idiot. He launched a punch at Kakashi's head only for Kakashi to block it without looking. Then he launched a kick at his sternum, which Kakashi just dodged. This continued for a couple minutes, but with Kakashi launching a few punches and kicks here and there, which, much to Kakashi's surprise, he either dodged or punched.
'Wow, this kids Taijutsu sucks, I'm only going about one fifth my normal power. It would be tenth, but I'm reading right now, and that makes me be at about half power already.' Kakashi thought.
He sighed and stated simply "I'm, getting bored. Time to end this." All of a sudden he was behind him with his fingers in a tiger seal. "One Thousand Years of Death!" he said calmly then stuck his fingers up his ass. Naruto's face got a confused look before he exploded in a puff of smoke. Kakashi's visible eye widened. 'No way! If that clone was only one tenth the power of the original, then his Taijutsu is as strong as mine! There's no way!"
Kakashi turned to a clapping sound behind him to see the original standing there clapping.
"You have a good Taijutsu style. You use as little movement as possible to conserve energy, wait for an opening or weakness, and then exploit it. I would say you use the Ryusui (Meaning flowing water) Style." Naruto stated. Kakashi's eye widened as far as it could.
'That's impossible! There's no way that that newly graduated genin could be strong enough to know shadow clone jutsu, use it to hold me off with Taijutsu and be able to recognize my exact Taijutsu style in only a couple of minutes! He's supposed to be the worst of the class!'
Naruto went through three hand seals and yelled "Dual Release: Searing Rock Prison!" Then a he made another two hand signs and yelled "Dual Release: Pressured Great Dragon Fire!" A huge glowing red rock building rose around them and a gigantic flaming dragon flew towards Kakashi. Kakashi Reached up and pulled his Forehead protector off and performed a fast water jutsu. "Water Release: Water Shockwave!" he yelled and a huge wall of water extinguished the dragon, destroyed the rock prison, and washed Naruto away.
'What the hell is this kid?' Kakashi Thought. 'He even made me use my sharingan! I don't have to use it even against some Jonin!'
Meanwhile in the forest, Sasuke was looking at the Jonin's eye with disbelief. "Where the hell did he get a sharingan? That's the Kekkei Genkai if the Uchiha clan! He can't be… can he?"
Back in the fighting Naruto started to think, and then formed a quick shadow clone before sending it off into the forest. Kakashi attempted to follow, but Naruto moved in the way.
'Time to use one of Furball's Jutsu.' He made fifteen quick hand seals and shouted "Demon Fire Style: Kyuubi Firefox clone!" his chest swelled up and he blew out flames, but they stopped before they hit Kakashi and started to form a shape. Soon it was obvious that it was a nine tailed fox.
Soon the clone that Naruto had created got to Hinata.
"Hinata, I need your help. I can't take the bells by myself. I'm going to need your help." He told her. She nodded her head and then the clone went to relay the same message to Sasuke.
Back with Kakashi again, he stood speechless. 'Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!'He thought 'that's impossible for a human to use! Demon art's take too much chakra! Even any of the five Kages can't use even the lowest level demon art! I know this kid's a host for the Nine Tails, but still! Unless the fox gave him it's chakra, he still shouldn't be able to use that!
Naruto made seven quick hand signs and yelled another jutsu "Kyuubi Firefox Clone Control!" The miniature fire version of the demon started towards Naruto's sensei. All of a sudden it started to move with blinding speed and its muzzle was inches from Kakashi's face and its nine tails making a barrier around him.
"Water release: Water Shockwave!" Kakashi yelled and a huge wave of water came out and slammed into the flame clone and a huge cloud of steam appeared, but when it cleared, the fox wasn't even smaller.
'No way! Even the second hokage's jutsu doesn't work!' He thought franticly. All of a sudden the fox pulled its tails back giving Kakashi an opportunity to jump back. As soon as he retreated, the fox dissipated, and a new, smaller, fireball came at him from the side. He jumped back again and tried to catch his breath, but before he could he heard a soft voice behind him.
"Eight Trigrams: sixty-four palms!" Hinata quietly stated. Kakashi felt his chakra points being hit and closed, and when it was done he fell over and felt two the bells be taken. Hinata hit his chakra points again to get his chakra moving. He stood up and pulled down his forehead protector and was surprised to see that Naruto was the only one not to have a bell.
"Naruto, why didn't you take a bell? You did most of the work." Kakashi asked him.
"Because I was just a distraction." He answered.
"Oh. Ok then." He said back, but in his mind he was screaming 'JUST A DISTRACTION! YOU USED A DAMN DEMON STYLE JUTSU! IF THAT WAS JUST A DISTRACTON THAN WHAT WOULD BE YOU GOING ALL OUT?'
"Alright, Naruto is the only one without a bell, so… You all pass!" Kakashi told them.
"WHAT?" Naruto yelled "I thought that because I didn't get a bell I would get sent back to the academy!"
"Nope. This was a test of teamwork, and needless to say you all passed. You all contributed to rendering me defenseless and taking the bells. You will all become full ninja and take on missions starting tomorrow. Ok? If you get it, than you can go now." Kakashi said to them. As Naruto walked away he looked at his back and started to wonder just how strong that kid was. At the same time Sasuke was wondering about Kakashi's sharingan.
The Next Morning
Naruto awoke to a cool breeze against the side of his face.
'Wait, a cool breeze? How can I feel a breeze if I'm inside?' Naruto thought. He opened his eyes to see a brick wall in his face. He slowly rose and looked around to get a better view of his surroundings. He could see his apartment in front of him and Ichiraku down a street to his left. He could also see the Hokage tower past his apartment.
'I must of collapsed out here because I was so tired after our exam, I'm just glad no one did anything to me. With me unconscious like that, someone could have done anything to me.' He moved tail back and forth nervously. His head whipped around so fast it hurt his neck, but he didn't care 'YOU STUPID FOX! I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT THIS WOULDN'T CHANGE MY APPERANCE!' He screamed in his mind as he looked at his fox tail.
"It wouldn't have, but when you fought Kakashi, you used a little bit more power that you should have, so your appearance changed. I'm sorry. By the way, every time you do something like that, you'll gain another tail. When you hit nine tails, you'll turn into a small version of a Kyuubi. Well, appearance wise anyway."
'Aw damn. Couldn't you have told me that earlier?'
"Sorry, but you where a little bit to focused, so you probably wouldn't have paid attention."
'Ya, but couldn't you have told me even sooner than that?'
"I didn't think that you would go that overboard. But I can give you a transformation jutsu to fix that tail."
'I already know how to do transformations' at this point Naruto had started to walk towards his house.
"It's a special one that can virtually only be broken by the user. Not only that but even the Sharingan can't see it."
'Really? What is it?'
"Here I'll give it to you." Naruto got a slight headache and gained the knowledge of a new transformation jutsu.
'Thanks.'
"No problem, now use the jutsu."
'Right.' Naruto went through two hand seals the disappeared in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared the tail was still there. 'What the heck? It's still there.'
"Not to other people. It's actually like an unbreakable mass Genjutsu rather than a transformation."
'Oh, thanks.' Naruto walked inside of his house and got into bed. "See ya in the morning fox."
The next morning Naruto headed out for the river where they were supposed to meet Kakashi for their missions, but not before stopping and getting some breakfast ramen from Ichiraku's , than getting there to find Hinata waiting.
"Hey Hinata! How'd you sleep?" He asked her.
"G-good Naruto." She replied. He smiled at her and turned to the river to wait. Another twenty minutes later neither Sasuke nor Kakashi had shown up.
"Hey, Hinata, can you find them with your Byakugan?" He asked.
"Um, s-sure N-Naruto" she answered. The veins around her eyes popped out and she just stood there for a while before turning to him.
"I-I found t-them t-they're ov…"she trailed off.
"What? Where are they?" he asked
"U-u-um N-N-Naruto, w-when did y-y-you grow a-a t-t-tail?" she stuttered quietly.
"What are you talking about?" He nervously replied.
"I-I s-s-see a t-t-tail on y-y-you." She said.
He sighed and Admitted defeat "Ok, Hinata, you can't tell anyone about this, I'll tell you all of this later, got it?"
"o-o-ok N-Naruto" she answered as she deactivated her Byakugan and the veins around her eyes turned back to normal. He released the Genjutsu for Hinata only and his tail suddenly appeared to her normal eyes. Much to Naruto's Relief, she didn't pursue the subject. He turned around to wait for Kakashi and Sasuke to come, then was startled as Hinata put her hand on his tail.
"What are you doing?" He snapped at her as he turned around.
"I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't h-have done that." She put her head down
"It's alright Hinata." He said feeling sorry for snapping at her.
Sasuke walked up to the two and asked "Have you guys been here since Kakashi told us to be?"
"Ya why?" Naruto replied.
"Because he's gonna be late anyway, so why come early?"
"In case he actually comes on time."
"Ya, like that's gonna happen, but whatever."A few minutes later Kakashi got there, and after getting the questions about where he's been and ignoring them he finally told them that they would be going to get missions.
When they arrived at the mission room they saw Iruka and the Hokage sitting in chairs waiting.
"Naruto!" Iuka's half open eye's shot fully open. "How are you?"
"Iruka now's not the time for that." The Hokage told him off. "Ok, so, we're going to give you some D-ranked missions. So, we'll start with –"
"D-ranks. Ha! We should be doing at least C-Ranks!"
"Sasuke! Your just newly graduated genin! That means that you'll be doing D-Ranks because you're not strong enough! Got it?"
"Well, actually sir, I believe that they are strong enough to do a C-Rank, I'm not saying that they should though as they don't have enough experience working together, but they beat me and took the bells in my test." Kakashi informed them. The eyes of both of the ninja behind the desk widened.
"T-they beat you?" Iruka said
"Yes. Well, actually Naruto did most of the work while Hinata dealt the finishing blow and Sasuke forced me into position for Hinata to strike." He replied.
"Fine, you can go on your C-ranked mission. But only because I don't want the civilian counsel to get annoyed… again." The Hokage sighed and caved in.
"The counsel? Why would they get annoyed?" Naruto asked him.
"They treat me like I'm royalty. It's actually pretty annoying." Sasuke answered "I mean they just take it overboard. More than once they have walked in on me when I'm taking a shower for ridiculous reasons, like, is the water hot enough, do you have soap, do you have shampoo, do you have good enough water pressure. The list goes on and on."
"Which ones?"
"Mostly the woman. Stupid pedophiles." He replied. They all cracked up and couldn't stop laughing for about 3 minutes.
"Well, I'll have to talk to the pedophile counsel. Hopefully this won't happen again… but Sasuke, what was the most ridiculous reason for them coming into the bathroom?" The Hokage asked.
"uh… that would be… would you need help scrubbing yourself Sasuke, though only one person has ever said it." He replied.
"Who?"
"Isako"
"Hmm. Ok, I'll talk to them about it. In the meantime, Tazuna, come in!"
A somewhat large man walked in through the door behind them carrying a bottle of sake.
"This is it? I order a C-Rank mission and I get a bunch of brats? Can't I at least get some decent ninja?" He complained.
"Team Kakashi, your mission is to protect Tazuna from bandits, thugs and such as he finishes building a bridge that he is making."
"I demand better ninja!" Tazuna told the Hokage.
"Don't worry. We will protect you with the best of our abilities, which will be more than enough as we are far above the academy level and we have one of the leaf's best Jonin with us. Rest assured, you will come back from your bridge building without a scratch on you."
"HA! You do that kid and I'll admit that you're the best genin team in the five great nations."
"Are you saying that the leaf village is not up to the task of protecting you from a couple bandits and thugs?"
"Err, no, no! Not at all! It's just that without a scratch seems a little farfetched!"
"Hm. Well, you will leave three days from now at 8:00AM. Got It?" The Hokage dismissed them. Some yeses and oks sounded throughout the room as the four Ninja and Tazuna left.
Throughout the whole event, Hinata had been glancing at Naruto's tail every few seconds. Sasuke, because he couldn't see the tail due to the genjutsu, took the glances at being aimed at Naruto's butt.
"Can't wait until you can grab his ass?" Sasuke snuck up behind her and whispered in her ear. She turned red and started to stutter a denial, but Sasuke had already left and was laughing his way back to the Uchiha compound.
"Hinata, meet me at my apartment in half an hour, we need to talk, ok?" Naruto said after walking over to her.
"o-ok, Naruto." She replied.
Half an hour later they were sitting on Naruto's bed in his small apartment.
"Huh… ok where do I start? Well, I can't explain the tail without explaining some things first. You know about the Kyuubi attack twelve years ago, right?" after a nod from Hinata, Naruto continued "and you know how all the villagers call me demon, monster and such?" he was expecting another nod but when he looked at her he saw her eyes wide open.
"Um… Y-y-you don't h-have t-t-the K-K-Kyuubi s-s-sealed inside o-of y-y-you d-do y-you?" She asked.
"… Wow… that was fast… man, and here I was, about to go into a huge back story before finally telling you and expecting you to run away and never want to see me again, and then you figure it out that quickly."
"I-I would n-never do that N-Naruto."
"Well, as for why I have the tail, you were there for the fight against Kakashi, so you know what I did and what jutsus I used and so on. Well, apparently if I push myself to hard, I'll grow a tail, and I guess that I went a little too hard in the fight against sensei…"
"Oh, w-well at least y-you know now."
"Ya, you're right, at least I know now."
"Um, N-Naruto?"
"Ya Hinata?"
"Um, I know that y-you have the n-nine-tails sealed in y-you, but how did you do d-demon arts? I-I thought that humans couldn't do demon a-arts."
"Oh… well… um, that was because… uh… well I can use the foxes chakra, so… because he's a demon, I can use demon arts."
"B-but, wouldn't the s-seal stop you from using the k-kyuubi chakra?"
"Well, I guess that either the seal is weakening or it was made so that I could use Furball's chakra."
"Furball?"
"Hehe… uh ya, that's my name for the fox…"
"T-that's kind of a funny name N-Naruto."
"I guess so."
"W-well I should probably get h-home now. Goodbye Naruto.
"Seeya Hinata. Oh and I was thinking that before we left in a couple days that we could go get lunch somewhere and get to know each other better."
"O-ok N-Naruto." Hinata hastily left.
"Hey, Kit, if you're done, I need to teach you a new jutsu."
'Couldn't you just give me the knowledge of how to do it?'
"I will, but I will, but you need to do something first."
'What is it?'
"Ok, go to training ground seven and go all the way to the northeast corner."
'Um… ok.'
Naruto arrived without a hitch, besides having a drunkard try to smash a sake bottle over his head. Once he was there he found a fox sleeping against the fence with a scroll lying next to it.
'Um… am I here for the fox?'
"His name is Hotaru. Now go wake him up. Gently too, he's pretty nice, so don't be to mean to him please."
'Ok.' Naruto walked over to Hotaru's sleeping form and gently nudged his side. The small fox's eyes slowly opened and looked at Naruto. He yawned and slowly stood up.
"Who are you sir?" Hotaru asked Naruto nicely.
"My names Naruto and yours is Hotaru, right?" Naruto asked him.
"Yes. What do you need Naruto?" He replied.
"Uh... Hehe… I don't actually know, Furball hasn't told me yet." Naruto told him and scratched the back of his head.
"Furball?"
"The Kyuubi."
"You're the Kyuubi Jinchuriki!"
"Um, ya."
"Then you must be here for the summoning scroll! Here let me get it for you!" The hysteric fox clumsily turned around and fell down on his face.
"It's ok, I can get it." Naruto said to Hotaru who was rubbing his snout.
"I'm sorry, I'm clumsy and I—"
"Don't worry. I don't care."
"Thank you. Well, anyway, to get a summoning contract, just put blood on all five fingers of one of your hands, sign your name in blood, and put your fingerprints on there, ok?" Hotaru told him as he picked up the scroll.
"Ya, I got it. Thanks." He replied and opened the scroll.
"Wow. There aren't very many name on here are there?" Naruto asked.
"No. The foxes are normally pretty strict about who they let summon them." Hotaru replied
"Then shouldn't you ask before you let me get a contract?"
"Um. Well, actually I've been sitting out here waiting for the Nine-tails Jinchuriki. I was never really one of the strong ones so I was never one of the foxes that could be summoned. That's why I was chosen to be the one to watch for you."
"Oh… well how long have you been out here?" Naruto asked him as he finished his signature.
"Oh, about three years."
"Three years? That's insane!" Naruto said as he looked up from the scroll after pressing his hand to it to add his fingerprints.
"Don't worry. The rabbits out here taste pretty good. So do the squirrels… and the other wildlife…"
"Umm… ok… well, anyways, I'm done signing the scroll."
"Oh! Well do you know how to do the Jutsu?"
"Ya, Furball told me."
"Ok, then try it!"
"Ok, but uh, first a question… what's the strongest fox that you can summon?"
"Uh, normally, the Kyuubi, but right now one of the minor Nine-tails."
"They have minor Nin-tails?"
"Yes. Now try the Jutsu."
"Fine." Naruto spread blood to all five of his digits then went through the boar then dog then bird then monkey and finally the ram hand sign and slammed his hand down on the ground "Summoning Jutsu!" A larger than average sized black fox appeared in a puff of smoke.
"Who are you and how did you summon me? We have very strict limitations on the one's who can summon us. Now, if you ever summon another fox again we will be forced to kill you!" He said when he saw Naruto. He looked around a little bit and saw Hotaru.
"Wait, if Hotaru was the one who accepted your signature, then you must be the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki! I-I'm sorry sir! I didn't know that it was you! Please forgive me!"
"Don't worry! I don't care, I'm used to it."
"O-Ok sir, thank you."
"You don't have to be so formal, and please, don't call me sir, my name is Naruto."
"O-ok Si— Ok Naruto. My name is Kurodai."
"Nice to meet you Kurodai. I guess that I'll see you later then."
"Goodbye Naruto." The black fox disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"So, Hotaru, Uh, are you going to go back with the other foxes now?" Naruto asked him.
"Well, actually, they won't let me go back. They banished me, but they just won't say it because the only reason that they did it was because that I'm weak…" He replied sadly.
"Well, why don't you come stay with me? You can be kind of like my pet."
"Oh no, I can't do that. That's too much. Maybe as a servant."
"No way. Now come on. You're gonna come live with me as my pet."
"O-Ok Naruto…"
When they got to Naruto's apartment, there was an ANBU standing outside.
"Um, what do you need?" Naruto asked the ANBU.
"We need you to report to the council chambers at once." He replied.
"Um, why?" Naruto questioned.
"It's not my mission to tell you." He stated simply, and then disappeared.
"Um… Ok then… Well I'm sorry about this Hotaru, but can you just go inside and I'll be back in an hour or so, ok?" Naruto asked Hotaru
"Ok." Hotaru replied.
Ten minutes later Naruto walked into the council chambers in the Hokage tower.
"Ah, and here the boy is now." Someone said from the civilian side of the chamber. There were six people on each side of the chamber and Hokage standing in the middle of the room. One side was the civilian side that had a say over civilian matters. The six people there were Isako Haruno, Niku Mesu a fairly good meat butcher, the Hokage's two advisors Homura and Koharu, Keiniku Noka a chicken farmer, and Shibo Shiri who had retired from his shop a long time ago. On the Ninja side there was Hiashi Hyuga, Tsume Inuzuka, Choza Akimichi, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shikaku Nara, and Shibi Aburame.
The Third Hokage turned around and looked at Naruto.
"Ah Naruto. Now we can finally start." The Hokage said.
"What's this about?" Naruto asked.
"Well, first of all I don't know why the civilian side is here for this, so they won't have any say in the matter." The Hokage told him.
"Please, lord Hokage, when you hear our argument then you'll understand why we're here." Niku said.
"Fine, why can you stay?" the Hokage asked.
"Well the issue is the survival exam. And this is where Naruto and his team were attempting to become genin, correct?" Niku asked.
"Yes." The Hokage answered not liking where this was going.
"So if he's not a genin then he's a civilian, right?" Niku asked.
"Well, I guess that would be correct, yes. But he did graduate from the academy, so he is a genin, but he was taking the test to let him stay a genin." Sarutobi replied.
"Well, Sarutobi, the law states that until all Genin tests are completed, the person is still a civilian, and that survival exam was a genin test." Niku told him.
"Fine, you can stay." The Hokage caved in ignoring the smug looks he was getting from the civilians.
"And we also ask that the ninja counsel leave as this is a matter of civilians." Isako said.
"Well, this matter does involve Kakashi, who is a ninja." Inoichi said.
"Fine." Isako said.
"Ok, you can make your case now." The Hokage told them.
"Well, we believe that Naruto Uzumaki should be arrested for using the power of a demon, and attacking a leaf ninja with before stated power. We also believe that his teammates should be arrested as well as accomplices to his crime." Isako said and sat down.
"You're going to arrest your precious Uchiha?" The Hokage asked.
"Why would we do that?" Niku asked.
"Well he is Naruto's teammate…" Sarutobi said.
"WHAT? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! WE DEMAND THAT THE LAST UCHIHA BE REMOVED FROM THE TEAM WITH THIS BOY!" Isako screeched, making more than a few ears bleed.
"You have no say in the matter, as he is now a ninja." Hiashi said.
"But Sasu—"
"Will stay on Naruto and Hinata's team until they are chunin."
"Wait you put my daughter on the Uchiha's and Naruto's team?" Hiashi asked the Hokage.
"Yes. Do you have a problem with him being on Naruto's team?" Sarutobi asked.
"No, I have no problem with her being on Naruto's team, but I don't really want her on the Uchiha's team." The Hyuga elder replied. There was a chorus of arguments from the civilian side, but Sarutobi silenced them with a wave of his hand.
"You know that I can't change it Hiashi."The Hokage told him.
"I know, lord Hokage."Hiashi replied.
"Well we demand that you arrest the boy and the Hyuga!"Isako yelled.
"Why would you want to arrest Hinata?" Hiashi asked, aggravated.
"Because she probably conspired with the boy to hurt Kakashi." Isako replied.
"We are not going to arrest Hinata or Naruto." Sarutobi said angrily, as they were getting on his last nerve.
"But he used a demons power to attack a leaf ninja." Isako told him.
"Look, I'm tired of you saying that Naruto is using the Kyuubi's power, just because it's sealed inside of him doesn't mean that he uses its power!" Sarutobi replied, his last nerve gone.
"But Lord Hokage! He used a demon art! It was provided in the mission report that you obviously didn't read." Niku said.
"Do you really have to make up this much? There is no way that he could use a—"Sarutobi was cut off.
"Well, actually gramps, that's not true. I, uh, did use a demon art, but it was a low powered one." Naruto informed him.
"What? But. But. How?" The Hokage stumbled
"Well, I used some of Furball's chakra." Naruto told him.
"HA! YOU ADMIT IT YOU DID USE A DEMONS POWER! ARREST HIM!" Isako screeched much to everyone's displeasure
"Yes I admit to it, but there is no law anywhere that says that I can't." Naruto retorted.
"Ya right, that was outlawed after the first great war." Shibo said.
"That was demon summoning. He's right there's no law against using a demons power. Now if no one has any further arguments, then you are dismissed." The Hokage said the last part angrily and let some killing intent wash over the room. All of the council members walked out of the room in a haste. As Naruto started to walk out Sarutobi stopped him.
"Naruto, since when could you use the Nine-Tails chakra?" The Hokage asked.
"Since when I fought Mizuki." Naruto replied.
"All of it?" He asked.
"No, just about Seventy-five Percent." Naruto told him.
"Oh. Um ok… You can go then." Sarutobi let him walk out of the room.
Naruto got home to find a sleeping Hotaru on the end of his bed. He quickly got changed and slipped into bed. In three days, he would go on his first mission.