ANBU Beasts
By
Ragnorokrising
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Summary: Itachi saved Naruto from being killed in an attack outside the village, so naturally Naruto and he become friends. At the age of four, Naruto's only parent and father, the fourth Hokage, sealed the kyuubi inside of him. The attacks got worse, until he and Itachi joined the academy. They graduate four years early and join ANBU where they became Co-captains. When Itachi is ordered to kill his clan and leaves, Naruto makes it his mission to get the village to understand why he did it, so Itachi can finally come home.
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This chapter will cover the history up till the point of his first genin time, which we all know and love.
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Chapter One: Origin of the Beasts
Naruto was a three year old kid, soon to be four, and was taking one last walk outside the village before the kids and civilians were locked inside the shelter. A dust cloud was heading towards Naruto, and he knew it was an enemy ninja coming to assassinate him. He took off in the direction of the village, but they caught him and threw him onto the road, hard.
He backed away and got back up; pulling out a kunai he kept with him. He blocked the kunai they threw at him, but the hidden shuriken slashed his arm, making him yell in pain. "Ha, this is the son of the great fourth hokage? What a disappointment." said the man with a laugh.
A black blur landed a kick to his chest, making him fly into a near by rock. It was a boy about Naruto's age, a kunai in each hand. "I would appreciate it if you left Naruto alone. My names Itachi Uchiha; and I will make you feel pain ten times worse then Naruto is feeling right now. GRAND FIREBALL JUTSU!" a huge fireball shot from his mouth and burned the man, but not enough that he would die.
Itachi picked Naruto up and inspected him, then stuck his hand out with a smile. "Hi, I'm Itachi Uchiha; I know you are Naruto Namikaze. Want to be friends?"
"Yeah, but we better get to the village before my dad locks the gates." they took off in the direction of the village, telling each other their history. When they reached the gate, a clone of the fourth was closing the gate until he saw Naruto and Itachi.
"Hey Naruto, your dad was wondering where you where. What happened?"
"I got attacked again, and Itachi here saved Me." he said as he rapped his arm around Itachi in a brotherly manner. The clone smiled, then closed the door and poofed out of existence, his knowledge flooding into the fourth. They walked along the road, until Minato appeared.
"Heard an Uchiha saved your butt from getting killed." he said with a smirk on his face.
"Yeah, it was awesome. Hey Itachi, think your mom and dad would let you spend the night?"
"Yeah, but it would have to be okay with your dad." they both looked at Minato with pleading looks and he gave. With a nod, they took off to the Uchiha compound. They told Itachi's parents about spending the night and grabbed some clothes and a pillow along with a scroll with a bunch of cool jutsu.
It was a great night for all of them. Itachi got tricked into trying ramen and loved it, Minato gave them both a scroll with the academy jutsu while saying they would graduate early, and Naruto learned two cool fire jutsu.
(Time skip)
Naruto and his father stood atop Gamabunta in the middle of a battle against Kyuubi. The kyuubi was pulled into Naruto, and the word that would echo through the village and the ears of Naruto for the next few years was screamed at the top of the fourth's lungs. "FUUIN!"
Itachi came with another man from ANBU and they took the bodies to the village. The villagers gathered around the greatest hokage they had ever known as he said his last words. "Please, treat Naruto like the hero he is for volunteering to save the village. Itachi and Naruto, you are the future of the village, so carry on the will of fire." his eyes closed and never opened again.
At the funeral, Itachi and Naruto were asked to come and give a speech, Naruto being first. "My dad was a great man who loved this village so much he would give his life, and that's what he did. He left behind a wish for us to keep the will of fire alive. I will follow in my father's foot steps one day and become hokage. Thank you." a round of applause was heard from the four-year old who had a demon locked inside him.
"I didn't know the fourth that well, but I did know that he loved the village. It will be a long time before we get over this loss, but we can't give up. He would want us to stay strong so we don't fall to another village. We can't let his sacrifice be in vane. Naruto and I will be joining the academy soon, and we will carry on the will of fire." an equally large applause followed and everyone went to place a flower on the coffin.
It began to rain as Naruto and Itachi stepped up. They focused their chakra into their hands and shaped the water into a shape, then froze it, placing two roses that would never melt on the black coffin with yellow flash written on it. They walked to the back of the crowd, and Kakashi Hatake, the student of the fourth, took them home.
(Time Skip: day of graduation)
Naruto and Itachi waited for their names to be called. They were in the class five years ahead of them, but they were the top of the class, in every aspect. Itachi was called in and came out with his head band on. "Ten clones Namikaze. Beat that." Naruto smiled and walked into the room. "Alright Naruto, make a clone, and do the replacement and transformation techniques." said Iruka.
Naruto flashed through some hand signs and twenty shadow clones appeared. Half turned into different shinobi from the village, half of the remainder turned into logs with kunai and shuriken in it, and the remaining five used a variety of different jutsu to show off. Iruka smiled and tossed the hand band to the boy. Mizuki growled and lunged at Naruto with two kunai yelling "DIE DEMON!"
Naruto disappeared in a thick puff of white smoke when the kunai sunk in, then Mizuki flew threw the door and into the room were the others were waiting as Naruto calmly said "Rasengan." loud enough for every one to hear. The blue orb disappeared from his hand as he took his place next to Itachi. "Okay class, come back tomorrow to find out your teams."
Itachi and Naruto walked out the door, their friends Hana, Idate, Joshi Hyuuga, and Konia Nara walking up to them. Hana walked over to Naruto and said "What did Mizuki do to make you hit him with a Rasengan?"
"He attacked me with two kunai while yelling die demon, even though every one knows I'm not the kyuubi. I'm going to the Office, so I'll so you tomorrow." they parted ways and Naruto headed towards the monument. He went into the hatch that was the right eye of the fourth and landed in a huge library with swords, scrolls, a desk, food, and even a pair of guns from a friend of his father's that died during the war.
He grabbed a sword with metal wings and the head of a beast with an open mouth and went into the room full of target dummies. He let a little chakra flow into the sword and swung it, releasing a wave of electricity. He made a clone and had it take a large sword with a skull on the handle from the rack and they fought while some more clones practiced with the guns, jutsus, and taijutsu, along with the three styles that went with the gun and swords.
Four and a half hours later, Itachi came in with five clones and a bunch of bags of food and weapons. He set them down, then another clone came in with a message. "Itachi, Naruto, Mizuki just stole the scroll of sealing from the Hokage's office and is running from ANBU. They want you guys to beat him down." the clones all disappeared and they took off towards the last known position of Mizuki and found him reading the scroll.
He turned to them and smiled. "Ah, the demon child. Just what I needed to try my technique out on." Mizuki went into hand signs he thought they would be surprised by but they matched him in every sign. The trees around them groaned as Tree Clones came out of them. "Mizuki, my dad was the fourth, remember. I have access to the scroll whenever I please. You area low Chuunin level and we are both ANBU captain level."
They tree clones grew weapons from their bodies and easily dispatched the un-finished ones Mizuki made. Mizuki growled and did some more hand signs they didn't know. A huge dragon came up out of the ground behind them, then the trees, the water, and the mist that had surrounded them. "Nature Dragon Barrage!" the dragons launched at Itachi and Naruto who became logs covered in explosive tags right before the dragons hit.
"That was impressive, don't you think Itachi? But it seemed a little advanced for him. A clan jutsu maybe?" came the disembodied voice of Naruto.
"Most likely, but if we kill him then we will be the only ones who know it, since he is the last of his clan." a laugh was heard as a red glow exploded a tree. "As thanks for keeping me alive so long, allow me to do it. Please step away Mr. Itachi." said Kyuubi as his features began to form on Naruto. He did a bunch of one handed seals and four orbs of lightning shot out of his hands, impacting on Mizuki's chest.
He landed on his chest, electricity still covering his body. Kyuubi drew the sword Naruto had been using at first and forced half his chakra into it. He did an incredible fast combo then thrust forward. A huge burst of lightning shot out of the tip and became a beast resembling the creature on the handle. It swallowed Mizuki and killed him instantly.
Kyuubi's chakra faded away and left Naruto to sheath the blade. Ibiki flew towards them from a tree and looked at the body of Mizuki as Naruto made a clone to switch with the scroll so he could study it more thoroughly. "You guys did a number on this guy. How would you like to join ANBU?" they shrugged and said yeah. "Come by after you find out who your teams are tomorrow and we will get you your equipment."
They went home and slept very little in anticipation. The next morning, Itachi walked into the academy to find Naruto using a small fireball to heat his ramen. Iruka came in after every one arrived and began to read out the teams. "Team one… Team Twelve is Itachi Uchiha, Joshi Hyuuga, and Konia Nara. Your sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi. Team Thirteen is Naruto Uzimaki, Hana Inuzuka, and Idate Morine. Your sensei is Kakashi Hatake."
"Damn it, not the perv who's always late for everything?!" Iruka laughed at the way he perfectly described Kakashi, who appeared and hit him on the head screaming "I'M NO A PERV BLONDIE!" Naruto hit him back and yelled equally as loud "I SAID DON"T CALL ME BLONDIE PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
"BLONDIE!"
"PERV!"
Itachi punched them both in the face to shut them up. "Kakashi, you read 'Icha Icha Paradise' and spy on girls in the hot springs so you are a perv, and Naruto, you are blonde so that makes you a 'blondy' as Kakashi put it. So both of you shut up and leave!" he yelled as his sensei and team walked out the door.
"Hey Iruka-sensei, how did you manage to get Kakashi to come on time?" asked Hana as she watched Idate keep the two apart.
"I told him to be here three hours before he was really suppose to be here." Kakashi gave Iruka a shocked look then looked at his new students. "The roof, five minutes." he said as Naruto's kunai turned him into a puff of smoke made by shadow clones. The real Kakashi watched as his shadow clone was revealed.
"I guess I got a good group this time. Ouch, what hit me?" he said as some one or thing smack him in the back of the head.
"It was me sensei. You really should have gotten a better hiding spot." said Naruto as he revealed himself. Kakashi turned back to the window as the Naruto turned to smoke and the others became Narutos and did the same. "A shadow clone with Transformation Jutsu. Interesting."
Kakashi was dragged by Naruto to the roof were the other members were waiting on him. Kakashi was released from Naruto's grasp and sat on the padded seats. "Okay, let's introduce ourselves. Tell us your hopes, dreams for the future, things you like, and things you dislike."
"Why don't you go first sensei." said Hana to the Cyclops.
"Okay, my name is Kakashi Hatake; my hopes are… my dreams are… my likes are… my dislikes are fan girls. You with the dogs, your next."
"Okay, my name is Hana Inuzuka; my hopes are to get my dogs to talk, gaining a high status in my clan, my dreams are to make my clan even stronger, my likes are my friends, my dogs, my family, training and my dislikes are fan girls, cats, and fleas." 'A basic Inuzuka, but she has great potential.' "Ibiki's brother, you're next."
"My name is Idate Morine; my hopes are to impress my brother, my dream is to surpass him and become head of ANBU Black-OPs, my likes are my friends, training, my family, training, and dango, my dislikes are people referring to me as 'Ibiki's brother' instead of Idate." 'Also has potential, and a good goal to work for. He looks fast if the weights on his legs mean anything.' "Blondie, you know the drill."
"My name is Naruto Uzimaki Namikaze; my hopes are to help my friends with their hopes and dreams and not be a disgrace to the Namikaze clan and not make my dad's sacrifice meaningless, my dreams are to become Hokage and get a high rank in ANBU, my likes are my friends, training, visiting my dad's grave, ramen, and helping my friends, my dislikes are people calling me Blondie and the time it takes for instant ramen to cool." 'Just like sensei was. I think I will have a lot of fun training these kids.'
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Itachi and Naruto sat down in chairs and watched as Ibiki dug threw the storage closet. He threw an ANBU outfit to each of them, a weasel mask to Itachi, a fox mask to Naruto, a katana to each of them, cloaks, assassin gauntlets, metal cased gloves, and a belt with daggers, smoke bombs, trench knives, etc. to them.
Ibiki pulled himself through the wreckage and said "Well, boys welcome to ANBU Black-Ops." they smiled then Naruto smacked Itachi after he groaned. "What was that for Naruto!?" yelled Itachi to the blonde.
"I got Kakashi for sensei and we had a shouting match were I called him a perv and he called me Blondie, then you said we both were what the other said. I just thought you should know." Itachi glared at him. He made his clone disappear and began to laugh. Naruto beat him up, but the laughter never stopped.
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Team Thirteen sat under a tree discussing a strategy for what ever test Kakashi was going to give them. He appeared and they quit talking. "Okay, you have to get the bells from my belt here." he said as he pointed to the small golden metal balls on his belt. "Who ever gets a bell stays, but the person who doesn't goes back o the academy. I should warn you; this test only has a 33.3 success rate per person. BEGIN!"
The team split up, Hana and Idate going into the tree while Naruto made a bunch of Shadow Clones. They attacked Kakashi from all directions, using kunai, shuriken, senbon, fists and feet. Kakashi used a Fire Dragon Jutsu and destroyed them all. A bell rang, and Kakashi saw Hana and Idate step out of the woods on either side of him, each holding one of the bells. "Congratulations, you two pass, but Naruto goes back to the academy."
"Fine, that means I get to burn this when I get home." said Naruto as he waved Kakashi's latest copy of 'Icha Icha Paradise' in front of his face. Kakashi sighed and said "I guess you don pass, if you can tell me the true meaning of the test."
"Team work. It was actually obvious. There are no two man teams, or they wouldn't have bothered in putting genin in groups of three. We knew you would use this test after talking to some of the students you failed, so we planned out the strategy. I would make clones to attack you while Hana and Idate took the bell and I took the book."
"Good, you are the first team to do that. We start missions tomorrow."
(ANBU HQ)
Itachi and Naruto met blow for blow with the Katanas and reviewed the day. Both learned at least twenty high level jutsu thanks to the Shadow Clone Jutsu and Kenjutsu on their own time. They stopped and got something to drink. A man with a wolf mask, Ururu as they called him, said to come to the main meeting hall for Captain Ibiki's announcement. They arrived quickly and found a seat near the front before the rest of the organization showed up.
Ibiki stood in front of the podium. "Attention ANBU members, I have some bad news. I will be leaving ANBU to lead the interrogation squad. I called you all here because we will be having battle between the ten candidates I have chosen to take my place. Please come up when I call your name." ten older members came up to the stage s Ibiki called their names out. Itachi and Naruto stood up with Naruto yelling "You aren't really going to let one of those weaklings become captain are you Ibiki!?"
"Naruto's right about that. We could beat all of them easily." agreed Itachi as the ten on stage glared at them. "You two think you're so tough, come up here and fight to." said Ibiki as he moved off the stage. They two appeared on stage with their Katanas drawn out part way in preparation. Three of them rushed Naruto and five rushed Itachi. Naruto slammed his katana back into the sheath with an audible click as hundreds of cuts appeared on the eight with one sentence. "Judgment cut, Namikaze Style."
The remaining two used a bunch of jutsu which Itachi beat with his Sharingan and both rushed in and slashed the two across the chest in an upward motion, sending them flying. Naruto cut open his chest and did some hand signs as he yelled "Blood Dragon Barrage Jutsu!" the blood became mini dragons that sliced the two open and grew bigger with the blood. The healed the wounds of the members after that as Kyuubi healed Naruto.
Itachi and Naruto face each other and began a long battle.
(Time Skip)
Ibiki stood between the boys, stopping them from destroying the building. "Well, it seems ANBU Black-Ops for the first time ever, has co-captains, Naruto Namikaze and Itachi Uchiha."
(Time skip)
Itachi, now a Jounin with Naruto, walked out of the council meeting with a grim look on his face. They had found out that his clan was planning a revolt and ordered him to kill them. He had the Mangekyou Sharingan now after killing his best friend. Naruto and he had had a huge fight a year ago and Itachi had gotten a new best friend, which he sent down the river, literally.
Naruto saw the grim look Itachi had and walked over to him. "Don't worry, I'll help you do it, and you won't have to suffer so much." Itachi shook his head at his co-captain. "My clan, my mission, their blood will be on my hands Naruto!" Naruto sighed in defeat. "Want to have a fake 'all-out' battle to make it more convincing when you leave?"
"Sure, if you wanna do it." they went to Ichiraku Ramen and began to eat together for the last time. That night, Itachi killed al his clan except his younger brother Sasuke. Naruto and the other ANBU members he had brought with him caught up to him at the gate.
"Itachi, you killed your clan, now I must kill you. No holding back, just you and me!" Itachi and Naruto rushed each other. Itachi used an attack called Hokigoi, a fire style jutsu that rapped the user in armor with the Uchiha symbol on it while using the Mangekyou Sharingan and Naruto used the Rasengan with the Chidori in a white ball of chakra with electricity crackling around it every few seconds and Kyuubi's chakra.
They made contact and a red and black explosion went off as Naruto was hit in the right eye by black fire and Itachi had his left hand turned red as a full burst of Kyuubi chakra hit it. Itachi managed to stay conscious but Naruto blacked out without his eye. Itachi ran while the other ANBU took Naruto to the hospital.
Naruto woke up the next day in his reserved hospital room and went into the bathroom to see what had happened to his eye. He screamed out in surprise as the three tomi that formed around the Sharingan eye appeared when he ran his hand over the eye. 'Kyuubi, why do I have a Sharingan!?'
'Well, when Itachi's chakra entered the chakra points in your right eye, you gained a Sharingan and when you impacted him with my chakra, his hand became like yours when you use my chakra. An equal exchange. He knew it would happen, that's why he aimed for your eye.'
'The bastard still could have told me about this. Now I have to wear my head band like Kakashi. Wait, this means I can copy and Ninjutsu, or Genjutsu! Sweet!'
'He gave you a small amount of Mangekyou Sharingan with that black flame so you will have to come train with me at night. Do you need anything else while I'm awake?'
'No, I'm fine. Talk to you later.' Naruto put his clothes on and took a better look at what he looked like. His jaw dropped again as he looked at himself. When he fought Itachi, he was thirteen, now he was at least nineteen. He ran out of his room, right into a medic. "Oh, you are awake Naruto. My name is Ami Hyuuga. I was assigned to you during the six years you were in your coma. You missed a lot. Your team have all become Jounin as well. I will tell the hokage you are awake."
She walked off, leaving Naruto to think things over. Six years in a coma, and he never even realized it. He automatically went to Kakashi for help. "Yeah, six years. It was a long time. I feel old now that I see how you have grown. Idate became Co-captain in Itachi's place and Hana got her dogs to talk. Well, speak of the devils." Naruto turned to where he was looking and got tackled to a matured Hana. As Naruto inspected her body, he shook the images out of his head and said "Hana, its good to see you to, but could you get off me?"
She blushed and let him up. "Sorry, but when the Hokage told me you were awake, I got over excited. Why'd you have to go into a stupid coma?" she said as she punched him the chest. He smiled and ruffled her hair. "Sorry puppy dog, I couldn't really help it. It took a while for my eye to adjust to the new chakra." both his former sensei and teammate a quizzical look as he pulled his hand over his eye and made the Sharingan appear.
Hana fainted and Kakashi pulled his own Sharingan eye out to make sure it was real. "How did that happen?"
"Well, when Itachi and I were fighting that night, his Mangekyou and Hokigoi chakra merged itself into the chakra points in my eye and gave me the three tomi Sharingan and a small amount of the Mangekyou Sharingan and I gave him a hand with the power of Kyuubi and a Rasengan."
"Oh, well I guess I have to show you a few of the jutsu I copied."
"If by a few you mean all, then yes. I'll make a clone and he will take Hana home and tell Idate I'm back." they began to let Naruto copy the jutsu as a clone took Hana home.
(Time Skip)
Naruto stood in front of the Hokage, his head band over his right eye. He wore the three swords and the two guns on his side along with his father's yellow trench coat and a navy blue shirt with black pants and a belt buckle with the Namikaze and Uchiha symbols next to each other. "Naruto, I want you to take on team seven of the graduate this year." Naruto nodded and disappeared.
Iruka finished team six as Naruto appeared. "Oh, hey Iruka, I came to get my genin team."
"Right, team seven is Sakura Haruno, Kiba Inuzuka and Sasuke Uchiha. This is your sensei, Naruto Uzimaki Namikaze."
"Hey, don't bother introducing yourself Sasuke and Kiba, I know you through your siblings even if you don't remember me, but I will need to assess the girl's power. Meet me at training ground twelve in half an hour." he used Shunshin to disappear and went to Ichiraku Ramen. The old man came out and asked what was wrong. "I got assigned a genin team.
"Well that can't be that bad can it?"
"Sasuke was on it, and I got the leader of his fan club. At least I got Hana's little brother."
"See, there is a little bit of good news, no what do you want?"
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Team seven sat under a tree. Kiba and Akamaru seemed really happy for some reason. Sakura wanted to know why. "Hey Kiba, why are you so happy?"
"Naruto was on my sister's team. He was ANBU co-captain with Itachi Uchiha at age twelve and the battle between them gave him a Sharingan, plus he use to come over when he was a low level ABU and teach me a lot of jutsu. We scored big time." Sasuke and Sakura both looked surprised at this information.
Naruto appeared before the conversation could go any further and pulled out two bells. "Who ever gets one of these bells becomes a genin and whoever doesn't goes back to the academy. BEGIN!" They disappeared as Naruto pulled out a kunai and began to sharpen it.
(Kiba's prov)
Kiba and Akamaru did the Man/Beast Clone Jutsu and then a Shadow Clone Jutsu and sent two clones to tell them the test required team work to pass. He grunted at the results. Sasuke said a team would only hold him back and Sakura said that the top two students didn't need the help of the 'dead last'. Kiba walked out with Akamaru and they leaned against the posts.
"You just gonna lean there or come at me?" asked Naruto as Akamaru turned back to normal and got inside his coat.
"Why bother. I tried to get them to use team work, but they just ignored me. I hope they fail." Naruto smirked, realizing Kiba was actually really smart.
(Normal prov)
In the bushes, Sakura was looking for Sakura. "Where are you going Sakura?" asked a voice behind her.
"I'm going to tell Sasuke that if we work together, we can get the balls and I can earn his love." she said the last part with her hands clasped over her chest. Then she realized that the voice was Naruto and was caught in his Genjutsu as an invisible wind picked up. "Sa…sakura."
"Sasuke is that you-ahhhhh!" Sasuke came out of the bushes, hundred of kunai and shuriken sticking out of him. "Sasuke, who did this to you?"
"It was…It was…" he fell limp in her arms as she passed out. Naruto moved on to Sasuke. He dodged the kunai and shuriken thrown at his back and blocked the kick. "Not bad kid."
"I'm an Uchiha and the best in the village. Of course it was good." he stabbed Naruto in the stomach, turning him into smoke as Sasuke fell to the ground on his head.
"An Uchiha yes, but nowhere near the best in the village. You think just because you are an Uchiha you don't need any one to help you, but you failed the minute you refused Kiba's offer." said Naruto as he pulled him into the ground. He went back to Kiba as Sakura found Sasuke and thought he had been beheaded but his head was alive.
Both Sasuke and Sakura woke up tied to the poles. Naruto untied Sasuke and gave him and Kiba some lunch. "Don't give sakura any or you all fail." once he had disappeared, Kiba opened Sakura's mouth and poured half his lunch down it, the cut her free. "I told you, we need team work to win. Sakura can't be weak during this battle, well, weaker" Sakura hung her head in shame as Naruto reappeared.
"Kiba what did I say about feeding Sakura?"
"I don't care. If she wants to make it out alive she needs to have energy. If she is weak, the team is weak. And weren't you the one who said 'Those who disobey orders are trash, but those who leave their comrades are worse then trash' and 'a team is only a strong as its weakest link'?"
"If we want to become ninja we need to work as one team, one person." said Sasuke once he figured it out.
"If you fail one of us, you fail us all." said Kiba as he and Sasuke stepped in front of Sakura. Naruto used his Chidori and Rasengan merger and rushed them, then popped Sasuke and Kiba on the forehead with his index and middle finger on either hand and said "You all pass."
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A/N: I got the idea from my friend on Friday and I typed it out. Leave a review telling me what you think.