Fox, Waitress, and Valkyrie
Chapter 1
It's really my first story here so I may seem like I have no idea what I'm doing. Well actually most of the stuff I do is original but I don't feel comfortable giving any of that away until I'm finished so I started writing FF's to get feedback on my writing style which, frankly I don't care if it gets copied. I may sound hypocritical when I say that I don't like crossovers especially when this is one, partly. I may borrow a character, Lenneth, Silmeria, or Hrist, or Lucien's abilities but I won't take villains or plot or anything like that.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Valkyrie Profile. Kisimoto has Naruto while Square-Enix has Valkyrie Profile.
I will try to keep everyone in character except Ayame who really had no character to begin with. Just so you know, I'm not going to bash any characters. I call them like I see them.
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An older vendor of foods and and even older man were sitting in the office of the Hokage, leader of Konahagure, arguably the strongest militaristic power known in the Elemental Countries. The vendor wore a typical chefs outfit and was not pleased at all with the current situation. The leader had on formal robes and a hat with the word fire, written in kanji. He too was displeased with the situation, but he had no idea what to do about the situation.
"Look Ichiraku-san, I respect that you want to protect Naruto, but is this really the best way to go about it? Think about it, you love her more then anything in this world, do you really want her to go the the tough life as a kunoichi?" Sarutobi said. The vendor just smiled to himself.
"That boy, he's like one of my own. The teachers mostly alienate him and the students distance themselves from him. If she enters the academy with him, he'll at least have something, someone to guide him. I know it's hard, but Ayame wants to do this. She suggested this. I dare you to try to tell her no just to have her look at you with an ten-year old pouty face."
"But with your suggestion, she would be two years behind. Do you want her ridiculed like that Ichiraku-san?"
"No I don't. However, if I don't she'll never forgive me."
"Fine, effective tomorrow, I will enroll Ichiraku Ayame into the ninja academy as a first year student." For his sake I hope this works. I know that she'll be good for him, but will she be strong enough.
Time skip 4 years.
An orange clad boy ran through the streets being chased down by a group of chunins for his latest gag. The blond boy was somewhat famous for his gags and tricks that he liked to play. He's done things from basic hair mutation, small-scale theft of food and tools, and outright destruction of the reputation of those who scorned him.
He himself was very quick and light on his feet. The child was also a gifted tactician and clever with his disguises. For him, getting caught was just a way for him to enhance his training. His knowledge of the streets was far above the average ninja. In fact, he was so hard to catch, that the Hokage himself had to assign a D-ranked mission just to catch the poor kid. They all failed.
Only two people ever caught the boy. One was his teacher Iruka. He was fast and agile as well. Plus he taught the kid andknew most of his gags. The other was ..
"NARUTO-KUN GET BACK HERE NOW!" Shouted a girl two years his senior.
Shit, Ayame. Oh well she just lets me off with no ramen for the day, then I plead sorry, she cracks, we laugh about the thing. A young girl dressed in an all-white waitress uniform grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and dragged him into the local sewer, knowing that none of the ninja, well, nobody really wants to go down there.
Ayame was Naruto's best and really only friend in the academy. She trained with him and corrected all of the mistakes that he made when he was in class. Where one of them was, the other was right behind the other. The two met when Naruto was only six and she was eight. Her father owned the ramen shop where Naruto always spent his time, and his money. When he entered the academy at age eight, he was constantly ignored and ridiculed. Sure he had running buddies, but they just abandoned him when trouble came. Teachers would always trick him into studying the wrong material or giving him bad hand signs or advice on how to fail. Needless to say, he finished his first two months down and depressed.
When Ayame entered two years later, he did much better. She was able to point out what he did wrong and was able to correct it. Ayame still helped her father out at the ramen stand, but still attended the academy. She also got the hyperactive kid to settle down and study with a simple bribe. If he did well and understood the material, she gave him a big bowl of homemade ramen. Though she was ridiculed as well for associating with the boy, she was happy because she knew that she was doing what she had to because that's what best-friends do.
When the traffic had cleared above the two, Ayame peeked her head around from the top of sewer and looked around. Seeing the coast clear, she helped her friend up from the depths of the disgusting sewer. After Naruto got up, Ayame began her onslaught of verbal attacks.
"Naruto-kun what did you do this time to piss off so many people? My father won't be happy when I come back smelling you know?"
"Well Ayame-neechan, we had a test today you know, and I did really well thanks to you, but the Iruka-sensei gave me a zero and accused me of cheating because my answers matched Ino's. So I got mad and left the class, but when I did I used 'it' on the class. And the rest, you know."
"Well did you cheat? Did you copy the fan girl?" Ayame asked, putting her arms across her chest.
"No Ayame-neechan. I knew the stuff. You know I did. We went over it for hours. She must have cheated, but Iruka-sensei took her side." Naruto said. He started to cry at this point. Ayame just put her arms around the boy and pulled him into a hug.
It must be hard. He's the only one that teaches him, and when he succeeds he turns around and betrays him. Ayame continued to console the boy. "You know usually I punish you for something like this, then you put on an act to get me change my mind, finally I let you off the hook anyway." Ayame said.
"Yep." Naruto answered with a laugh.
"Well let's skip all that for today and get you something to eat okay?" Naruto agreed happily and the two best friends went out to get some ramen.
When the pair got there, Ayame got the usual, "change and bathe" routine from her father while Naruto told the aged vendor about what he did. Tensui was very sympathetic towards the boy and gave him a bowl, or six, of ramen. As Naruto was eating, term used loosely, Iruka entered the stand.
"Ah Naruto, I thought I'd find you here. I wanted to talk to you about today." Iruka started.
"No let me talk to you about today Iruka-san," Tensui started. "Now Naruto and Ayame studied hard for that test. I know, I was there. There's no way that he would cheat. He knew the stuff."
"Look Tensui, I understand your comments, I really do. But Naruto acts different and less confident when Ayame is not in class. With her not there he may have panicked and cheated. The answers were identical. How else can you explain it?"
"How about that Ino cheated Iruka-sensei?" Ayame said now appearing cleaned up and changed.
"Ino wouldn't cheat Ayame. She's among the top of the class and well prepared. She also comes from a prestigious clan who would not take kindly to cheating. Therefore it doesn't seem likely that she'd cheat."
"Really? That girl does nothing then stalk Sasuke all day and you know it. She was not ready because of some bogus nonsense. Naruto is among the best in the class, right up there with Shino, Lucien, and Sasuke. Yet his rank is low because of this bullshit and you know it." Ayame yelled. At this point she was in heavy tears and Naruto jumped over the counter to embrace the girl.
"I'm sorry about this Tensui but I had to punish one of them and Ino is a Yamanaka." Iruka said.
"Yes I do. Unfortunately Iruka-san I understand everything going on here." Tensui said. "Can Ayame take her make-up tomorrow morning?"
"Yes that seems nice. I assume that she'll be in class and not working here."
"Yeah. I just needed some help because today is our busy day with finals right around the corner. But she won't miss another day until finals. I'm looking for a temp to cover for when she becomes a kunoichi, but with the money she'll make as a genin I'm sure I can do it."
The next morning Ayame got up and got dressed in her shinobi outfit. She now wore a white shirt that exposed her slender stomach. She also wore a red coat over her chest and shoulders that left her arms and stomach exposed. Ayame also wore a red-slitted skirt with black spandex under that. Her hair remained the exact same. She had pouches attached to the skirt to keep all of her ninja supplies in.
She took the test and passed it with the greatest of ease knowing that her blond friend knew this stuff. She was still really miffed that Naruto got accused of the crime and was just waiting for something to set her off so that she could vent. She walked into the courtyard and saw Sakura Haruno, a pink-haired girl with way too long of hair, wearing a red dress with a circle on the back, and Ino Yamanaka herself picking on Naruto. Ino had long blond hair the same length as Sakura wearing a purple dress. Her waist was tied down with a yellow belt. Hello misplaced aggression.
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Naruto woke up and did his morning routine. The blond then put on a blue shirt and blue shorts with shinobi sandals. He really liked those goggles because they were a birthday gift from Ayame. Naruto and Ayame had come to an agreement, that when he was with her at the academy, he wouldn't wear his hideous jumpsuit.
His cheerful morning came to an end though when his crush, Sakura Haruno announced that the cheater was in. Her fellow Sasuke worshiper Ino game over to join in the torment. Naruto didn't know why Sakura, his crush, treated him the way she did, but it hurt him badly. She never did it in front of Ayame though because she scarred all the girls.
"So Naruto-baka, what are you gonna do today. Geez why even bother cheating. If you're so bad at everything shinobi related, why even try. You know that life isn't a game you know?" Sakura jeered.
"Yeah, I mean I understand that Ayame wasn't there for you to cheat from, but I'm honored that you thought that I'm smarter then the world's biggest forehead over here."
Naruto never argued with Sakura. She was the first person to sympathize with him and be nice to him, but she changed after she met Sasuke. With Naruto being a rival to Sasuke, Sakura immediately took the side of the Uchiha. He knew that he just had to buck up and take it no matter how much it hurt him inside.
While the two girls laughed at the boy's expense, they failed to notice the growing killing intent coming, and the appearance of the person who no girl wanted to mess with, Ayame Ichiraku. Quick as a hiccup, Ayame ran across the schoolyard and punched Sakura right in the side of the face. Sakura then flew across the yard before coming to a rest at the base of a tree. Ino looked terrified as Ayame did not look like she wanted to play, but Ino attacked with a punch to Ayame's face. Ayame dodged the attack. She then used her legs to trip and then used her legs to trap Ino's left leg. Ayame also reached her long arms around Ino's neck and began to pull hard on her leg and neck. (1).
"Give up Yamanaka?" Ayame jeered. Ino continued to struggle against the submission move futilely. Sakura knocked unconscious from Ayame's punch and every other girl was too afraid of Ayame to incur the girl's wrath. Ino had no escape.
"Fine I give. Get off me." Ino yelled.
"Who cheated on the test yesterday Ino? Be honest." Ayame yelled.
"Uh Naruto did you know that." Ayame was not satisfied with the answer so she pulled harder on Ino's neck and leg causing the girl to cry out in pain. Ayame then asked Ino the question again.
"Let me rephrase the question Ino. Who cheated on the test yesterday?"
"Urg fine I did alright?" Ino mumbled. Ayame continued to have Ino in her submission move, and again she pulled harder on the girl forcing her to cry from the pain.
"Louder!" Ayame ordered. "Let the field know who cheated."
"I CHEATED ON YESTERDAY'S TEST OKAY?!" Ino yelled. As soon as she said that Ayame let Ino out of the move. Ayame smirked because not only did everybody know who really did the dirty deed, but because she also knew that Iruka had heard the confession by the blond. He stood at the entrance of the school and was livid.
"INO YAMANAKA, MY CLASS NOW!" Iruka yelled as his head mysteriously increases its size threefold. Ino shot a glare at Naruto, but afterward received a glare from Ayame.
The crowd that had gathered around Ayame just stared at her oped mouthed and wide-eyed. Most were shocked that Ino actually cheated on a test with the village pariah. Naruto walked up to the smirking and victorious girl.
"Ayame-neechan thanks, but you really didn't have to do that. I'm fine the way things are." Naruto said, frowning.
"You're right, I didn't have to, but I wanted to." Ayame said as she ruffled Naruto's hair. "And what are you all staring at?" She yelled to the crowd of people. The ring surrounding the pair quickly scattered, except for four people. One was a boy with onyx black hair with matching eyes and a fan symbol on his back. Another had hair in the shape of a pineapple and a lazy look in his eyes. The third had long silver hair that reached down to his middle back. He wore a green shirt with black shorts. His feet were taped as opposed to sandals and his hands were taped as well. The boy also and yellow eyes. The forth one was a large kid with a weird hat on his head.
"Bye Naruto-kun, I don't want to miss the lashing. Catch ya in class." Ayame said as she ran back into the school.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru, the lazy looking one said.
"Well done dobe, getting a girl to fight your battles for you. Too weak to stick up for yourself?" Sasuke, the black-haired boy jeered.
"Is that really necessary Uchiha," Lucien, the silver-haired boy asked. "I mean yeah you're good and everything, but seriously Naruto here has honor and pride to not fight girls." Lucien didn't like Sasuke one bit, and the two were constantly at each others throats.
"Besides Sasuke," the fat one started, "do you really want to interrupt an angry Ayame?"
"Hn," Sasuke grunted as he walked away from the group.
"What a jackass," Lucien said. "I wonder why the girls swoon over that guy anyway."
"Hey Lucien show some respect. I mean Sasuke is the lone surviver of one of the most prestigious clans in the leaf. You really shouldn't be so hard on the guy." Choji said.
"Bah. His clan was killed over seven years ago. Child just needs to grow up and have someone put him in his place." Lucien replied.
"I realize that this may be a troublesome question and all, but what do you have against the guy. I mean, you two have never gotten along. The reason that Iruka never has you two spar anymore is because last time you both nearly killed each other."
"I don't hold grudges Shikamaru. He acts that because he had a bad incident, then he's entitled to a lifelong pass on the Konoha Kiss My Ass Club." Lucien responded.
"Well yeah but who had a worse life then Sasuke does? I mean doesn't that entitle him to pity?" Choji said.
"Others have had worse. I believe the saying is 'it's better to have loved and lost, then to never have loved at all.' He had parents for a long time in his life before they were killed. Don't get me wrong that is traumatizing, but would you rather have nothing your whole life and never get a hand up?" Lucien asked.
"Yeah but who could have lived such a life?" Choji asked. Lucien then took a brief glance at Naruto. It was very brief, but just long enough for both children in question to notice it.
"It's not important. Come on let's get to class."
After the dust settled Sakura barely opened up one of her eyes, to make sure that the boys had forgotten about her. Even though she was heavily biased towards Sasuke throughout her entire life, she had to admit that Lucien had some interesting points about sympathy. She also didn't miss the look that Lucien gave Naruto. It was a look that said, that he didn't pity the boy. But still understood the pain that he'd gone through.
Lucien himself was an enigma to the entire class really. He never opened up to anyone and would rip Sasuke apart whenever he got the chance. Up until now, Sakura assumed that those reactions were based off of jealousy towards the Uchiha. Now however, she wasn't so sure.
Inside the classroom Iruka was going over some of the basics for the final test coming up in the next week. This lecture was a practice and a review over the Henge jutsu. Iruka, however told the class that this was punishment for what Ino had done to Naruto the previous day. He smirked evilly in his head. That's what you get for cheating and blaming Naruto for it.
He had everyone line up in a single file line and asked them to henge into himself. Sasuke was first and did a perfect henge of the chunin instructor. He just grunted after doing it successfully making his fan-girls squeal, some guys turn red with jealousy, and a few others to just sigh in their heads.
Sakura was next in line for attempting the jutsu and performed it to absolute perfection. However when she finished she didn't look to Sasuke for approval, or glare at Ayame internally saying, beat that. She just turned to the back of the line, still mulling over the words that Lucien spoke earlier.
Naruto was next to go for the demo. He had a look on his face that meant certain mischief. Ayame recognized that look and had a good idea what he was going to do. Well if this works we got blackmail material, if not then he's gonna get it almost as bad as Ino did. Her fears were realized when he transformed into a woman Iruka's age with her blond hair split into pigtails. Her clothing was, well, nonexistent, but there was some smoke covering the critical areas. Iruka was mystified and fainted on the spot as did all the guys, save one or two, and one or two of the girls. Naruto laughed loudly, rolling on the floor, Ayame giggled trying, and failing, to keep composure, Lucien shook his head trying to keep from passing out, and most of the girls were livid.
Sakura immediately got red in the face from anger and went to hit the re-transformed Naruto in the head, as hard as she could. Her fist was caught by a glaring Ayame.
"Now I know that you weren't going to hit my best friend in the head there were you Sakura?" Ayame used a special voice that insured pain for all who answered incorrectly.
"How can you defend this baka after what he did? That henge is a disgrace against women. It degrades us Ayame. You may not think highly of yourself as woman but I certainly do." Sakura said. After this comment, Naruto, Lucien, and even Ino widened their eyes thinking, did she just say what I think she said.
Ayame without even thinking twice about it, took the arm that she caught and pushed her to the ground with the arm still caught. She then grabbed Sakura's other arm and put her foot on the small of Sakura's back and began to pull Sakura's arms hard. Sakura screamed in pain while Ino just remembered the pain that Ayame put her in no longer then four hours ago.
"Listen you pink-haired fan girl. You think that I don't have pride as a woman? In case you didn't notice, that technique knocked out over half of our class and the teachers. Heck it even KO'd your precious Sasuke. I'd say that a technique like that could be useful don't you?" Even though she got no answer she continued.
"As far as my female pride, you think that because I actually, you know, train instead of plotting ways to get your precious Sasuke to like you." Ayame released Sakura from her painful hold. "In case you didn't notice, and I do notice what you girls say behind my back, I have no personal life. All I do is train, go here, and tend the ramen shop, while you girls are out pampering yourselves, plotting to get some boy, and just doing nothing. And you wonder why I'm so far ahead of you."
"So are you saying that if I want to take on a group of shinobi, all I need to do is strip and look 15?" Sakura asked rhetorically.
"Sakura for the love of all that is good and precious, for the sake of every man, woman, and Sasuke, don't strip." Lucien jeered. Sakura wanted to go over and hit Lucien over the head, but after coming to her senses, decided against it.
Iruka got up after a while a berated Naruto for his use of stupid techniques. However the blond responded to the teacher in a similar manner to him that Ayame did. Class broke out that day and everybody went home. After class however, he apologized for the incident the previous day and gave Naruto his rightful score on the test and Ino scored a giant goose egg.
The week flew by and before everyone knew it, the gennin exams were the next day. Naruto and Ayame trained side-by-side all week preparing for the exams. After day broke and night fell, Naruto still didn't feel confident. He knew that he could do well in taijutsu and break a simple genjutsu, but the basic ninjutsu still scared him. After training all week he could do the basic bunshin but not proficiently. He could make the clones and they did look a bit like him, but would it be enough to pass. He knew that he had to pass and be on the same team as Ayame.
He decided that he needed someone to talk to, so he went over to talk to Ayame. Maybe she could calm him down before the exams. He appeared in his usual place, the window, and knock on it until she woke up and let him in.
"Naruto-kun what are you doing here? We need some sleep for the exams tomorrow." Ayame said wiping her tired eyes.
"I can't do it. I mean that bunshin it's not good enough to pass and I don't know if my grades will cover it."
"Naruto-kun we've been over and over this. You just need to be in an absolute zone. Just focus your chakra and calm your nerves." Ayame reached around and pulled the blond into a hug. "I believe in you ya know. You can do this."
Naruto slept at her place that night and talked about the exam. It wasn't uncommon to find the boy at Ayame's house, especially before a test. They were comfortable around each other to the point where they could sleep in the same room without feeling the least bit uncomfortable. At least it had been that way until the previous year. For a reason unknown to Naruto, Ayame was getting a bit more uncomfortable with sleeping in the same room.
The campus around the Konoha Academy was buzzing with students for the exam. Emotions of the students ranged from anxious, eager, confident, doubt, and for one student, boredom. The exam was simple, every student was given 3 tests. If they failed even 1 test, unless they had a fallible excuse, game over and they failed. The teachers passed out the papers for the written portion of the exam. It consisted of some basic shinobi codes and guidelines. Naruto passed the exam with little difficulty. When the results were posted, he scored an 81. It ranged right in the middle of the pack. Leading the pack were Sakura who scored a 98, Sasuke who scored a 96, Ayame and Lucien both scored a 95, and Shikamaru turned in a paper with salivated answers. Still he scored a 68. Kiba hit bottom with a 62. It was a first for the academy, everyone passed the written test.
The second test was a test of taijutsu. Students were lined up against Iruka who tested students on their basic combat skills. Students were given 8 seconds to score a glancing blow. Every second past ten deducted, 2 points were deducted from the student's score. A couple of people scored a perfect. Sasuke, Lucien, and Kiba each hit a perfect. Ayame scored highest of the girls with a score of 94. Naruto hit Iruka for a 96. Of course, nobody felt happier about this then Ayame. The lowest score was Sakura who scored a 72. Once again all students passed this exam.
Ninjutsu was the final portion of the exam. They had to perform the three basic jutsu and they were scored based on each jutsu performed. One third of the points were given to each jutsu, henge, bunshin, and kawarmi. Henge were graded that every fault deducted 5 points from their score. Kawarmi was a pass or fail meaning if they could do it they got 33 points but got nothing if they couldn't. Bunshin was given half points if they could do the technique and points were deducted if they missed anything. Sasuke again scored perfect and was the only one to do so giving him rookie of the year. Naruto barely managed to pass scoring a 63. Ayame scored an 85 and again was the highest female who took the test. For the first time in history all students passed all portions of the exam.
Naruto and Ayame were excited to wear their headbands with the swirl of Konoha on the front. Naruto wore his on his forehead while Ayame's dangled from her neck. During the celebration Mizuki, a chunin assisstent of Iruka's, visited Naruto and pulled him away from his best-friend. Mizuki was dressed like an average chunin and wore long silver hair.
"Congratulations on passing Naruto. Unfortunately I have some bad news for you. You see your score on the ninjutsu portion was low, and that took you out of the running for being on a team with Ayame." Naruto's face fell at that he and Ayame wouldn't be on a squad but he was wondering just why Mizuki was telling Naruto this.
"Now if you manage to raise your grade by about seven points then statistically you and Ayame will be teammates. What I'm giving you is an extra-credit assignment." Mizuki offered.
"Extra-credit? What would I have to do to get the credit sensei?" Naruto asked.
"The assignment is to borrow a document that the Hokage has. Then I want you to learn a jutsu from it. If you pass you'll be teammates. I have a map here and I want you to take the scroll there when you get it. It's a secluded training spot only Iruka and I know about. See you tonight." Mizuki waved after he gave Naruto the scroll. After the meeting with Mizuki, Naruto searched for the companion that he got separated from. After a while of searching, he found her.
"Ah Naruto-kun I was looking everywhere for you. What happened." Ayame asked.
"Can we talk in a more secluded spot Ayame?" Naruto asked. "I don't feel comfortable about talking about it in public. Ayame agreed and the two went over to her house where they would have some privacy. Naruto then explained the whole deal with Mizuki to Ayame.
"That does sound odd. Nothing here adds up at all." Ayame said.
"I know. All signs lead to a trap but, what if he's right and we will get split up?" Naruto asked.
"It is risky but I say it's your call. I personally would side against it. It's just too weird." Ayame mentioned.
"I agree with that. He's definitely up to something. Ayame here's what we're gonna do."
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That night Naruto went to do Mizuki's errand. He was easily able to sneak into the tower and got to the Hokage's office with little resistance which scared him. He got the scroll be using his oraike justu to force the old man into passing out. And Iruka-sensei calls it a stupid jutsu. He then took the scroll and went to the place that Mizuki marked on the map. He unfurled the scroll and studied the first technique on the list. It was the Kagebunshin Jutsu. Hmm like regular bunshin only real. The possibilities.
He quickly decided that was the technique that he would learn. After about an hour he mastered the technique in just enough time for Iruka to drop down into the clearing.
"Naruto do you realize what you did? Why did you steal the scroll? You went way too far this time!" Iruka yelled. Naruto figured on something like this happening but faked into using a pouty face that always worked wonders on Ayame.
"But Iruka-sensei, Mizuki-sensei said that if I could master a technique from this scroll, then Ayame-neechan and I would be teammates. Did he lie to me?" Naruto faked. Iruka fell for it worse then Ayame usually did.
He does look like he was training, but why here in this forest? Why not run off with it. Something smells here and I think Mizuki knows what it is.
"Ah Iruka so you found him. Good job Naruto, now give me the scroll and I can take you back to the village." Mizuki smiled distrustfully.
"No don't listen to him Naruto. Give me the scroll. He obviously wants the scroll for his own use." Iruka shouted back. For Naruto everything was going as he thought it may. However, what happened next, was not a part of the plan at all.
Mizuki smirked and tried a different card to get to Naruto. "Hey Naruto, do you know why the village hates you and treat you as an outcast?" Iruka cringed at this line.
"Mizuki don't. It's forbidden!" Iruka shouted. Naruto just stayed silent but his face showed that of shock. Somehow he knew that his life was going to change forever in just a few moments.
"Well the attack of the Kyuubi that decimated the village was a lie. True he did destroy many buildings and took countless lives but the Yondaime never killed the hokage, he sealed it." Iruka had heard enough and charged Mizuki right where he stood, but the chunin was ready and stuck Iruka to a tree using a trap that he set up for this purpose.
"W-what did he seal it into sensei?" Naruto barely squeaked out. He did not like where this was going but he knew that it wasn't time to spring the trap yet. He had to find out what was going on. "A-and how do I not know?"
"You." Mizuki stated with a sneer. Naruto felt his world crash down around him with that single word. He felt like Ayame herself drove a kunai into him to betray him. "Our present hokage made it clear that anyone who spoke of the truth would die of it. Now die Kyuubi!" Mizuki took out a large shuriken and threw it at Naruto. He felt like maybe if Mizuki killed him then he would do the village a favor. He closed his eyes and waited for the ultimate impact to happen, but before that could happen, he heard a shriek. A voice that could make everything right in the world.
"NARUTO-KUN!!" Ayame screamed as she dove in front of the attack. The shuriken hit her right in the ribs. Naruto felt Ayame's blood on him and began to cry. "Naru-to-kun. Don't l-listen t-to him." Ayame barely breathed out. "I don' c-care w-what's inside you. I c-care about y-you. I, luh, oo," were her last words before she passed out.
Naruto froze. He thought about what happened, that Ayame really did accept him for his burden, and now she was dead. "What a pity. She held such promise. Too bad she had to die for a dem ..."
"Shut up." Naruto said, completely devoid of any emotion. Red chakra started to circle around him in a cone shape as his body began to transform. His eyes turned from sky-blue to blood-red. The canines in his teeth grew and his fingernails grew into claws. Mizuki himself was scared out of his wits. He knew that he could take a gennin easy, but this was new. He could only think one thing. One thought that we all think when we know we went too far. What did I just do?
With blinding speed and rage he charged Mizuki and but him open in the chest. Before he could get away, Naruto grabbed his arm and his claws dug into Mizuki's wrist. He then kicked Mizuki to the ground headfirst and the impact broke his neck killing him instantly. Naruto calmed down after this and reverted to his normal state. He looked back to Ayame and saw an ANBU, a special forces of the leaf, beginning to heal Ayame. She had a blond ponytail that extended to her upper back and a face mask with a dragon on it. That was their backup plan. The ANBU, who was a bodyguard of sorts for Naruto, was supposed to intervene if things went wrong.
"I'm sorry Naruto-kun, but I think you had to hear that." Dragon started. "She'll be fine, the attack missed her lungs completely and I can heal her without major injury."
"You mean she'll be okay?" Naruto sniffled. "That's a relief. I'll get Iruka-sensei from the tree." Naruto got the teacher from the tree and sat in silence by Ayame's side. They all stayed in silence until Naruto asked the question. "It's true isn't it. I am a demon. I even killed a man." Naruto broke down crying at this point.
"No that's not true. Yes Kyuubi is sealed in you and apparently you can access its power, but you are not Kyuubi. Kyuubi killed thousands of innocent without remorse, in fact, he's probably proud of his action. Regardless of what you did, Mizuki would have died anyway for breaking the law." Iruka said, patting the boy on the back.
"Besides, you fought for Ayame, not yourself. You did what any shinobi of the leaf would be proud of, sticking up for a person that you care about. You should be proud." Dragon responded. Naruto felt a bit better of the situation now. He just wished that Ayame would wake up. Iruka broke the silence.
"Tomorrow I'm going to announce the gennin teams Naruto. I already have the teams if you want to know." Iruka said slyly.
"I know, Ayame and I aren't on the same squad. Mizuki told me." Naruto said dejectedly.
"Ayame won't be in class tomorrow for obvious reasons. I assume that you're going to be by her side" Naruto nodded in agreement. "Well Ayame's teammates are Lucien and you." Iruka said.
"Really?!" Naruto screamed. "That's awesome." Naruto rapped Iruka in a fierce hug. "Thank you sensei! Who's our sensei?"
"AH Naruto. That is a surprise. Your instructor will meet you three at the stand tomorrow afternoon at 5."
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First chapter done. Now for the footnote
(1): I tried to describe it as best as I could. If you want to see it just type in youtube "John Cena STFU" Not a fan of WWE but a friend of mine is and the submission move seems like it'd work in this case. (Don't own WWE, Vince McMahon is the CEO.)
I tried to make it unique and put a spin on it that I haven't seen yet. As said the main pair is Naruto and Ayame. I think I was obvious about that. Lucien, my OC, will get a pair too but you yourselves can decide which female he gets. Choices are, Sakura, fem-Haku, Temari, Tayuya, or anybody else who you can give a GOOD reason for.
I know I haven't done any VP stuff yet, but that will come into play as I introduce Lucien a bit more.
I have no Beta either to look over this either so if you're interested please let me know.
Thanks for reading the first of many chapters. Please Review.