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Author: BellatrixVecours

Timeline: Directly after chuunin exams, slight AU.

Story will be written mostly from Naruto's point of view. If you don't like stories written in this manner, piss off.

Naruto's point of view

"Kyuubi talking"

Naruto's thoughts

Prologue

It was late afternoon in Konohagakure, the end of a fairly lazy, normal day. Normal except for one thing, Konoha's biggest trouble maker was sitting on the roof of his abandoned apartment complex. Quietly. Thinking. Now. An even stranger was what said troublemaker was thinking of. He wasn't thinking about jutsus or even his crush, Sakura. No he was thinking about his life. And the more he thought about his life, the less he liked it.

'I'm so tired of this. Day after day for my entire life. There's no one I can trust. The villagers hate me for something I dodn't even know about until I became a genin. They will never let me become hokage. Every time I say I'll be hokage, they look at me as if I should be in therapy. No matter how good I get, they'd still choose Sasuke-teme even though he's a traitor. He's done nothing for the village, just sat on his ass. But they all worship him.

That's because you're a fool.

Naruto jumped and spun around in the air, looking for the intruder.. "Who said that!"

"I did. Fool. You've forgotten about me so soon?" " No. Of course not!" said Naruto. "Who could forget about the demon in my stomach telling me to kill the village people?" He sat down on the roof again. " Geez, they don't know how lucky they are. If I was anything like they say I am, I would let you go on a killing spree." Naruto sighed. " So whaddya want kyuubi? If you're going to ask me to let you kill everyone again, forget it."

"I wasn't go to say that, fool. I was going to ask you what you're going to do." the Kyuubi said. "You've been bitching and moaning about everyone hating you for the entire day, but you haven't done anthing about it." "Didn't i just say I wasn't going to kill anyone!" Naruto yelled. " Did I say you should kill anyone? All I said was that you should do something about it. Think about what you want to change. You should make a list. A weakling like you will never be able to remember everything" Kyuubi sneered mentally. "I am not weak!" Naruto yelled. But I will make a list.

Naruto climbed down the side of the building quickly, scrambling to get to his writing supplies and prove to the kyuubi that he was not a weakling. Once inside he quickly found some paper and a pencil and wrote:

How to Prove Myself (Things to Change)

"Couldn't come up with a better title than that, could you fool? "Kyuubi said. "Shut up!" Naruto said "Baka Kyuubi…" he muttered.

New clothes!

"Finally! I was wondering when you would realize your clothes make you look like the fool you are." Damnit Kyuubi, SHUT UP!"

Taijutsu training.

"Why taijutsu?" "If Rock Lee can beat Sasuke with just Taijutsu, I can beat him if I learn. I'll ask Gai if he'll teach me.""As long as you don't start dressing like them." "Yeah right!"

Weapons.

"I need to get better at hitting targets. I might not get as good as Tenten, but I want to get good." " I agree. My vessel cannot be a weakling."

"Will You SHUT UP! I don't hear you offering to help!" Naruto yelled."

If you're going to talk to me that way then I won't teach you any jutsus." Kyuubi said smugly.

"I'll talk to anyway way I want! I don't care if you don't- Wait, did you just say that you'll teach me jutsus?" Naruto said, stunned.

"That's right. But if and only if you can treat me with the respect I deserve" Kyuubi said pompously.

"Fine. But you better keep your promise." "You doubt me? For shame. " Sarcasm dripped from every word. "Now go to sleep vessel. You're going to have a long day tomorrow."

­­­­­­­­­­­­AN.

I'm back! I've been on a long hiatus after getting my story kicked off by but i'm back now. I'm fixing some errors and starting the poll up again. Tha'ts right everyone, you can now get your votes in and vote for you favorite couple. There won't be an actual couple for some time, because i like to have a little bit of a plot, and if i start out with a relationship, this will just end up as a pure smut criticism welcome, notice I said CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. Story ideas welcome. The choices are:

Naru/Hina

Naru/ Tenten

Naru/Sakura(not likely though)

Naru/Sasuke

Naru /Itachi

Naru/Gaara

Naru/Ino

Naru/Kurenai

Naru/OC

If you choose Naru/OC, you have to include a background for your character. No dumb names please. Also, I am an equal opportunity writer, the story may be slash, but it may be het all the same. Both have equal chances of occurring.

If you want, you can send a list of things you want Naruto to do/learn and I will try to fit them in.