I awoke in my crummy apartment, ocean blue eyes scanning the gray and falling apart place I called "home". "Another day another play hmm?" I thought sighing as I stood and got a quick, and once again, cold, shower, my landlord once again "forgetting" to turn it on. Going into my kitchen I frowned at seeing just ramen everywhere. Don't get me wrong I love the stuff… just not for breakfast. Opening my refrigerator I sighed in relief when I saw I had a few fruits and vegetables left that weren't bad yet.
Grabbing an apple and banana I quickly devoured them before starting to get dressed in my usual orange. Stopping I thought suddenly, "It's been 21 years of this… I'm so tired of pretending to be an idiot! I know I had to do it to survive this long but now that I think of it I'm a Jounin! Hell I'm stopping this play now! I'll be myself from now on and if the idiots around here try anything I'll defend myself. As if they could hurt me anyways… I've taken down the damn Akatsuki!!!"
Nodding to myself I opened my closet and took out a box hidden in the far back behind a mountain of clothes that I put to make people think I was unorganized and messy. Opening it I took out the outfit I'd gotten myself during my training with Jiraiya secretly while he was peeking at girls.
Putting it on I smirked and nodded thinking, "Perfect." before heading out towards the training grounds. Sasuke, Sakura, and I were all Jounin, Sakura a medic as well, but we still trained with Kakashi since we didn't want any teams right now, and well Kakashi had had enough thanks to us. In fact all the Rookie 9 trained with their old teammates and senseis, for old times sake.
As I walked I noticed people staring at me in shock before giving me the usual looks. I surprised them, since usually I just kept smiling, by glaring right back, my face clearly saying, "Back the hell off!" making them squeak in fear and turn away.
Sakura sighed for the thousandth time that morning saying exasperated, "Where is Naruto!! He's even later than Kakashi!" "He might've just woken up late." Kakashi said, hoping she'd be quiet so he could read. Sasuke merely snorted as if he could care less, though inwardly he was worried, Naruto was NEVER late!!
He suddenly noticed someone walking towards them and looked, his eyes widening at what he saw.
Naruto was walking towards them wearing a black shirt and gray cargo pants, his headband now blac, two swords strapped to his sides, and wearing a red cloak with black flames on the bottom... he screamed SEXY!
Naruto stopped in front of the shocked group and said calmly, "Sorry I'm late. I got lost on the road of life." Blinking, coming out of her shock, Sakura registered what he said and grew angry at the horrible excuse and aimed a punch towards his head yelling, "Baka!" They were surprised when he easily caught her punch, not even moving a single inch, all 3 knowing her punches were as powerful as Tsunade's if not more!
"I suggest you don't do that again Haruno." He hissed, his eyes narrowed angrily, the normally warm blue now cold as ice and hard as steel. "But h-how?!" Sakura asked shakily, so used to seeing him fly away from her punches. "As if such weak punches could harm me." he snorted, "I merely acted like that to survive." "What do you mean?" Sasuke asked, Kakashi actually putting his book away to listen.
"I mean all my life I acted as a hyperactive knucklehead to survive as long as I have. If I hadn't I would've been killed!" Naruto said heatedly. "Why?" Sakura asked confused, Kakashi and Sasuke rolling their eyes at her idiocy. "Because of the Baka fox Kyubbi sealed inside of me!!" Naruto said exasperated, "You'd think after 8 years as a team you'd understand and put the pieces together!"
She scowled and ignored them for about 5 minutes before they decided to start training. Kakashi paired up against Naruto, Sasuke against Sakura. The four flew at one another and started sparring. When Sakura and Sasuke finished they turned to continue watching Kakashi and Naruto and were amazed as Naruto, eyes closed, dodged every attack Kakashi threw his way.
"You're getting slow Kakashi!!" Naruto said, eyes opening, flashing in the sunlight as it shined in them, "My turn!" He suddenly disappeared in a flash of red, the two curious when Kakashi paled and looked as if he'd seen a ghost, before Naruto reappeared in another flash of red, punching Kakashi hard in the gut, knocking him to the ground about 10 feet away, breath knocked out of him harshly. Disappearing in a flash again he reappeared over Kakashi, two swords at his neck, where if he so much as twitched he'd be cut and die.
"Give up?" Naruto asked, pulling away just enough to let him nod. When he did he grinned and helped him stand when Kakashi asked, "How did you learn the Thunder God Technique!?" Sasuke gasped at the name, Sakura looked confused. "Well seeing that it's part of my heritage I figured I'd learn it." Naruto smirked, "In fact I perfected it. I don't need those kunai he did and I can go from here to Suna in a flash without using even 1% of my chakra. Heh… I even created something better than the Rasengan that only I could do thanks to my chakra."
"Let's see it then!" Sakura demanded, wanting to see him fail, for she'd been seeing the looks Naruto had been giving Sasuke for a while now, but what she hadn't seen was Sasuke doing the same. So she wanted to see him mess up again like usual and go back to the idiot he was, the one that would ignore Sasuke and the one Sasuke would ignore as well.
"Fine." Naruto shrugged and they stood to the side to let him do it. "I'm aiming for that tree there." he said pointing about 50 feet away to a large oak, "Don't worry when it goes off… it won't backlash too bad."
He then turned and they watched as blue and red chakra suddenly swirled around him, his whisker marks darkening, canines and claws lengthening, but his eyes remained blue. "Here we go!" he growled, his voice deep, a harsh growl in it.
He rushed towards his target, leaping in the air and pulling his arm back, chakra gathering in his palm, turning a dark purple from the mix of blue and red chakra.
It stayed compressed and small, about the size of a golf ball, when he threw it towards the tree and forest behind it. When it hit they gasped and shielded they faces with their arms when a bright flash enveloped over half of the forest behind the initial target, a huge explosion occurring. When it cleared they stared in awe at the bare land left behind, no forest there anymore.
Naruto landed on the ground and turned and said, "That's my Supernova. Took about a month to get right to where it wouldn't backlash on me. Landed me in bed for days on end at times." "But you were always at training." Sasuke said. "Sent clones." he said shrugging, "When you destroyed one you merely thought it was me being my usual self, send clones to do stuff for me."
Soon they stopped training and they left to do their own things. The Leaf soon learned how Naruto truly was, Tsunade nearly having a heart attack when he was polite and calm upon seeing her. When she tested him to see his true IQ she nearly had a stroke when he passed it with a higher score than Shikamaru… by a whole 50 points! His chakra control, speed, stealth, jutsu level, everything was retested for him and they found he passed each above Sanin.
Soon Naruto found out he now had a fan club, both guys and girls. When fan girls surrounded him, the boys growling at them but doing nothing, they were more dangerous after all, Naruto raised an eyebrow and simply pulled from within their grasps and turned to the girls saying darkly, "Give up on getting together with me. You have no chance!" "B-but why?!" they asked teary-eyed. "Simple." he grinned, more feral than anything, surprising everyone with his answer, "I'm gay." With that he left the squalling girl and cheering boys, continuing on his walk with his team. Sasuke, well he was having a party in his mind from the news, knowing he had a chance with Naruto now.
But their hanging out was interrupted when an ANBU appeared in front of them. "Naruto Uzumaki." he said stiffly, "The council has summoned you." "Very well." he said coldly and they disappeared. Turning to his team he said, "You may come if you wish. I know what they want so it won't matter." They nodded and followed.