A/N: This is my very first story. I would much appreciate people telling me what I did incorrectly and how to fix it.

This will not be a harem story, because that is not true love. It will be simply NarutoxMei, because I think they look cute together.

"Normal speech and summon speech"

"Thoughts and summon thoughts"

"Demon speech"

"Demon thoughts"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, If I did, then Mei would be younger and she and Naruto would be together forever.

===Chapter One===

Pain. It was hot and searing. Burning into him and almost, almost bringing tears to his eyes. No, it was not physical or mental. It was emotional pain. Pain from the rejection and shame he felt currently. His own sensei, someone who he considered family, had refused to help him for the Chunin Exam Finals. Pointing out all of his flaws and mistakes.

"You have absolutely no talent as a ninja." Blunt, but calm as always Kakashi began, "Your chakra control is worse than that of a fresh into the academy student. You always rush into battle without thinking. You keep stuffing yourself with ramen and then proclaim how you are going to be a 'Hokage one day.'"

Kakashi then looked him in the eye and said, "You are a lost cause, Naruto. I am going to train Sasuke, he has more potential as a ninja then you ever will. Besides his opponent is dangerous, that Sand kid had crushed Lee."

Naruto was confused, but angry. Didn't his sensei remember what Neji did to Hinata? He needed training too. Naruto voiced his opinion on the matter. "There is no point in training you."

"Why? …Why wouldn't you want to train your own student? What about all of that bull you spewed about teamwork?" Naruto, at this point was yelling at his so called, sensei, whose lone eye narrowed into frown.

"Don't use that tone with me. And we are in front of a hospital be quiet." Kakashi calmed his expression, before he spoke again, this time with a neutral voice, "Just… Go practice your chakra control…"

With that, he just turned around and walked away, leaving Naruto staring at the ground, in front of the hospital. He glared at a small pebble, as if it was the cause of all his problems and kicked it away. 'That's what he always says.' He thought before walking away to the training fields to thing of possible senseis.

Some villagers, who had been passing by, had stopped as they had heard Naruto shouting at his sensei. Most of them had glared at him and started murmuring things like, "Does that little demon have no respect for his superiors?", "I wonder why the council haven't done anything about him."

Others simply glared at him, before going back to their. Most going to the markets, bars or casinos, to spend and possibly win some money, except for three, but they weren't just villagers, they were shinobi. They hadn't stopped to hear the talk between student and teacher, but they managed to catch the end of it.

Two of the three were men, both with blue hair. One with short, messy, light blue hair. He was wearing glasses, attached to earmuffs or headphones, along with light gray camo pants and a stripped blue, long sleeved shirt. His hitai-ate was used more like a chest plate, than anything else. He looked to be about sixteen and rather shy.

The other was a middle aged man with blue hair which is styled in a moused-up manner. His left eye was blue and his right eye was covered by an eye-patch. He wore a talisman in each ear with the kanji for a humble form of "to hear" written on them twice on each side. He wore a dark green, sort of a battle kimono with grey sandals.

Third member of the group turned a lot of heads within the male population. She was relatively tall, her body a perfect hourglass with all of the right curves. She also sported, what many men would call 'huge knockers'.

She wears a long-sleeved, dark blue dress that falls just below the knees. It seems to be closed at the front with a zip, and is kept open on the front-right side from the waist down. The dress only covers up to the upper part of her arms and the underside of her breasts. Underneath, she wears a mesh armour that covers slightly more of her upper body than her dress.

She also wears skirt in the same colour as her dress and, underneath those, mesh leggings reaching down over her knees. Around her waist, she had a belt with a pouch attached to the back on the left along with high-heeled sandals and shin-guards reaching up over her knees, dark blue polish on her fingers and toes, and is usually shown with dark blue lipstick. Easy to tell that her favourite colour was blue.

She had ankle-length, auburn hair styled into a herringbone pattern at the back, a top-knot tied with a dark blue band, and with four bangs at the front. Two bangs were short, with one covering her right eye, and two were long, crossing each other on her bust, just below her chin. Her hair covering her eye was giving her an air of mystery, elegance and grace, but over all, to anyone who walked by her, she would have an air of authority.

She lingered for a moment, as she looked at the blond boy disappearing into the crowd, occasional glares shot at his back by the villagers, "Why are they looking at him like that. I am starting to lose confidence in this village." She was pulled out of her musings, by the voice of the middle aged man on her right.

"Mizukage-sama, is everything alright?"

"Yeah, everything's fine." Her eyes, that were rarely serious just a second ago, had returned their usual cheerfulness, "Let's just go to Hokage-dono's office and get this over with." The trio continued walking down the street, an occasional, lustful glance or wolf whistle thrown at her, 'Perverts.' She thought, with an all too sweet smile, that silenced the quickly. The Mizukage threw one last glance, behind her, looking for the blond boy but he was already gone in the crowd.

She pulled back the sleeve of her dress to reveal a small tattoo, with the kanji for 'Dragonfly' and applied chakra to it.

POOF

A dragonfly appeared on the palm of her hand. Its was sort of large you could say, for a dragonfly. Probably twice the size of your average individual. Its body was a mix of light and dark blues, plus a bit of light green here and there, mostly on its eyes. It looked at her for a moment, then lowered its head in a form of a bow.

"How may I be of service, Mistress." It said in a soft, feminine voice.

" Nazu, how many times do I have to ask you, not to treat me so formally and call me Mei?" The Mizukage, now Mei said.

"I apologize, Mei-sama." Mei just sighed at that.

"Anyway, I need you to look for someone and observe them for the rest of the day. At Nazu's light nod she continued, "Search for a rather short kid, with blonde hair, blue eyes and, I think, whisker marks on his cheeks." She listed off with a thoughtful expression, "He was kind of cute." Mei thought with a light smirk, she saw that Nazu had flown off and put her hand back to her side. She withdrew herself to her thoughts as she barely paid attention to the conversation her bodyguards were having, catching parts of sentences and words, as they made their way to the Hokage tower.

"Honestly Chojuro… So pessimistic and unconfident… Getting old… I'm finding it easy to think… Never get married!"

"Getting old!? Never get married!?" Mei's eyes darkened as she turned to her bodyguard, "Ao…" She began with a sickly sweet smile " Shut up… Or I will kill you."

"WHAT THE…What did I do!?" Ao questioned, but she continued walking, as if nothing ever happened.

===Hokage Tower===Sarutobi's Office

Sarutobi sat at his desk filing away missions, reading reports, signing papers asnd placing them in a neat pile. That neat and finished pile was growing much slower, than the pile of unfinished and unread papers. That word 'papers' was starting to become a taboo amongst kage. "I am getting too, damn old for this."

Yes, even he the 'God of Shinobi', the 'Profesor', Had not managed to figure out a way to defeat a Kage's worst nightmare. Paperwork.

The council was being extra annoying and pushy about small and stupid things. Especially the civilians, Sarutobi didn't want to discriminate anyone, but that banshee-Haruno. She gives him the biggest, most painful and long migraine, he felt sorry for whoever had married her.

There was a small beeping sound, coming from the intercome. He pressed a small, black button and the voice of the receptionist rang through.

"Hokage-sama. Mizukage-sama and her bodyguards are here. They wish to have a meeting with you."

"The Mizukage. Holly!… After the Civil War! I hope she is still not angry, about that time when I refused to help the rebellion."

The old Kage quickly composed himself and cleared his desk as much as he could, before answering. "Send them in."

In no longer then a couple of minutes, the Kage of Kirigakure, having told Ao and Chojuro to wait outside, entered the office. "Good afternoon, Hokage-dono."

"Likewise, Mizukage-dono." Sarutobi said, with a slightly strained smile.

Mei smiled right back, the smile sent cold, icy chills down Sarutobi's spine. He kept a calm and warm demeanor though. "Hope your journey has not been too tedious."

"The journey was rather refreshing. It is nice to be outside of the office once in a while." She looked at his mountain of paperwork with well hidden amusement. Her eyes sparkling with laughter. Although the old man couldn't hear it, he could practically feel her laughing at him. He frowned a little, as she continued speaking laughter ringing in her smooth voice. "Anyway, I have come to view the Exams, seeing as some of Kiri's Gennin were be participating this year."

That confused him a little bit, " Excuse me for questioning, Terumi- dono, but they were participating. They are not in the Finals, though."

"That does not mean, that I cannot view what Konoha has to offer."

"Of course . You will be staying at the 'Autumn's Leaf', Konoha's finest hotel." ,He said as he handed her a pass, saying that she was not required to pay.

Another beep was heard over the intercom. "Hokage-sama, you are required at a meeting with the council."

No questions asked.

"Well, this is where I take my leave. Have a nice day, Hokage-dono." Mei said as she turned around and walked out of the office, through the big wooden, double doors. She met up with her bodyguards and they headed to the hotel, after asking the receptionist where it was, since Mei hadn't asked the Hokage.

===10 minutes Earlier===With Nazu===

Nazu was flapping her wings rapidly, creating a light buzzing sound which occasionally ceased when she glided, as she searched around the village for the boy. She checked the busy market first. People bustling in and out of shops, people greeting each other, kids running around playing ninja, women gossiping and yelling at their boyfriends or husbands. All of that activity was creating a warm hum within the village. Although the person she was looking for wasn't there.

She then checked the park, it was unlikely for a ninja to be there, because her target was a ninja. Almost the same as the market, except there were much more children there. Playing tag, Fish in the water or Ninja. Some were crying, for they got pushed off the swing or had scraped their knees. Though, as she predicted, her target, was not there.

She continued towards the area where most restaurants and bars were. She flew past young kids and teens stuffing their faces with food and adult men and women scolding their children about their manners. Nazu was getting kind of irritated, for not being able to find someone with bright blonde hair. That was unusual since she was a calm and tranquil individual, rather calculating and very good at observation, much like her mistress.

She was pulled out of her thoughts as she caught sight of something hideously… orange. She saw that it was a person wearing a bright, 'kill me now' jumpsuit. The person was getting ready to leave, as they said their good byes to the owner of the stand, a ramen stand, she noted. As the person lifted the flap, she saw a bit of the inside of the stand.

What she saw shocked her. There was at least fifteen bowls piled up on the counter. Then she turned her attention to the person. A shock of blond hair met her eyes; she could also see his azure orbs, that held fake happiness. "So that child is hiding something."

"Bye, Teuchi-jiji!" Yelled the boy, as he waved.

"Have a nice day, Naruto!" Answered the old man.

"So the boy's name is Naruto. Those two look rather close."

He boy walked off and she followed. Where ever he went, she went.

As she flew a bit behind the Naruto, she began to pay a bit more attention to the people around him. They threw him hateful glares, as if the boy has done the wrong. Though Naruto ignored them and continued to walk down the street with a fake smile on his face.

She could hear people whispering among themselves and calling him hateful names to accompany their glares.

"Look at the demon, walking around like he's done nothing wrong."

"The Hokage should've finished it off when it was still weak."

"We should help him and finish it off now. We'd be seen as heroes."

Naruto simply continued on his path to the forest. Nazu felt worse for the boy now. She didn't know why the mistress wanted in formation on the boy, but she hoped that whatever it was it wouldn't hurt him more.

It had become dark by the time she had found the boy. The stars had begun to shine brightly and the moon was reflecting sunlight to the surface of the Earth for all it was worth. People had started heading home to their families after a day of hard work. Some single men and women headed towards bars and clubs. Young couples had gone on walks around the park in the romantic light of the moon.

Naruto had stopped walking trough the forest when he reached a small clearing. It had tall grass and some flowers here and there, a small stream ran through the forest, west from the clearing. Each tree had something else growing on it, whether it be the small, humble moss or the long, great vine.

Naruto sat on the ground and leand his back against a leafy plant, growing on the bark of a tree. Nazu landed on a branch of a tree next to the one Naruto was leaning against and observed him.

There was something weird about the boy and she was not leaving until she found out what.

===With Naruto===Same Time===

He sat there leaning against the tree, his thoughts traveling back in time to a few hours ago.

"Why did sensei do that? Wasn't he the one saying that we are a team and we should help each other? He isn't helping much by always sayng 'Just go work on your chakra control.'. Why did he just abandon me?"

"Because your 'sensei' is a Inari-damned hypocrite, that's why." A deep voice rumbled in his head.

"Oh, hey Kurama." Naruto said within his mind, as he closed his eyes.

"Is that all I get? I the strongest, most awesome and greatest of all the Tailed-Demons!" Kurama called out in mock disbelief. As much as Kurama pretended that he hated the kid, they both knew that he didn't. Naruto was like his own kit.

Naruto smiled a little. He could always count on Kurama to bring a true smile to his face.

"Anyway kit, be careful, you are being watched." Kurama said wearily.

"What do you mean I don't sense any people around here." Naruto asked in confusion as he opened his eyes and looked around.

"Of course you can't sense whoever it is. It is not a pitiful human, like you." Kurama sighed at his kit's denseness, as he asked the dumbest question.

"… But if it's not a human, then what is it? A ghost? Alien?"

"No you dense idiot! It is a summon… or a clan partner actually?"

"What makes you think that it is a clan partner?"

"It's chakra. It feels similar to that of one of the women that passed by, when you and your sensei were arguing. Clan partners have only one human partner until they die or their human dies. That is because their chakra is linked."

"How does their chakra get linked?"

"How does a mother or a father bond with their child? Or how do siblings bond? It is pretty much the same. Over years of partnership their chakra starts mixing a little?"

"Oh. Well, I am eventually going to get my own summon and then I am going to become the greatest shinobi the world has ever seen!"

Kurama just snorted, "What happened to being the Hokage?"

Naruto looked a little down at that, "Well, with the way people look at me and what they think of me I might never become a Kage." He brightened up again, "So, I am going to be someone even better than a Kage!"

"You are not going to give up on that are you?" The Nine-tails got the obvious answer, "Do I even have to ask why?"

Naruto opened his eyes and looked at the moon.

"Because I am Naruto Uzumaki and I never give up. That is my nindo. Believe it."

===With Nazu===

Nazu had been observing the boy that seemed to be an open book when it came to emotions. She could read everything he felt from his expression alone and lets not even begin talking about hi expressive eyes. While he had been quiet she concentrated on his chakra and he seemed to have an enormous reserve, that was very slowly being fed by a much larger and darker one.

When she heard his last sentence she flew off, pinpointing her mistress' chakra and tracking it to where she was.

She eventually found herself at a grand building. Lots of white on the walls, with red carpets and curtains. Above the massive, glass entrance there were letters spelling:

AUTUMN'S LEAF

She flew towards the windows of the rooms sensing for Mei's chakra.

===With Mei===

They had entered the hotel a few hours ago and had checked in (most of the men were checking her out). They had gotten two rooms, one for the males of the group and one for her.

Her room was rather simple, but she liked it that way. There was a king sized bed, with royal blue sheets and pillows. There was a dresser against the wall, a bedside table and a desk with some cosmetics on it and a mirror. All of those were made of dark, elegant wood. The bathroom was spacious. A white sink and toilet. A big white tub with golden taps. The walls had blue tiles and the floor white. The towels in the drawer were also blue and white.

The minute she walked in, she walked straight to the bathroom. The journey had taken five days, and while it was refreshing, it let her feeling smelly and sticky all over.

A normal bath, where she would just relax, would normally take her about 30 minutes. Though this time she had to wash her hair too, and that added another 30 minutes to her usual time.

After she had done that, she called room service, ordered some sushi, ate it with gusto and went to bed. Just as she was about to fall asleep though, there was a light tap on her window. At first she passed it off as a moth, but the tapping continued.

She got up of the bed with a grumble, "If it is some little brat playing a prank on me, I will rip their head off." , she stomped over to the window and spread open the curtains.

It was Nazu. Mei quickly opened the window and closed it after her summon flew in.

"So, what did you gather on the kid? Are you hungry? There's some leftover sushi."

"Not that much. And no, thank you."

"What did you get?"

"Well there is something weird with his chakra. It was as if there was something else inside him, it felt ominous."

"Something inside him? That would mean that he is a-"

"Mei-sama I got his name."

"What was it?"

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"Heh, Fishcake… Wait… Uzumaki?"

"Thank you, Nazu." With that said, Nazu poofed away.

"So, there was an actual, alive Uzumaki… I will have to give him a surprise tomorrow."

possibly to be continued===

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