AN: It has been asked for again and again, so here it is.

Disclaimer: Me no own Hulk. Me no own Puny Blonde Ninja. Me SMASH any flamers! Puny humans...

ZANGAI: Ikari no Kitsune

ONE

The alarms were blaring throughout the village of Konohagakure no Sato and Hiruzen Sarutobi rubbed his temples. Someone had set off the alarm prematurely...Meaning someone else was watching what he was. Which should be impossible, seeing as he was the only one with access to the all-seeing crystal. However, that problem could wait.

The Sandaime Hokage sighed. He was getting too old to worry about threats from within. Speaking of which...He looked back at the crystal just in time to see the traitorous chunin reveal an S-rank secret. Oh the civilians were going to have a field day with this.

Sarutobi frowned as he focused his sight on the frightened blonde boy wearing a dulled orange jumpsuit. The boy was Naruto Uzumaki, son of his late successor/predecessor Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage. Naruto was also the successor to Kushina Uzumaki, the boy's mother, in being the Sandaime Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. A burden he had tried to keep secret from the frozen thirteen-year-old.

Naruto, I'm sorry...Sarutobi thought with his head dipped. He was laced with guilt. The one thing he should have done, the thing he would have done when he was a younger Kage, was tell the boy of his burden. Why the people ignored him. Why some spat at him.

Hiruzen was too afraid that the boy would hate him.

Before he could further fall into his guilt, words froze him in place as they escaped the boy's lips: "...E-Everyone else...Everyone else knew about him?"

This...does not bode well.

Naruto Uzumaki was very, very confused. He was just trying to graduate! It was the third time, his last chance to be a ninja! What happened to the saying, 'Third time's the charm?' Didn't that matter anymore?

Currently, the blonde boy was backed against a tree with his arms around a large scroll. Said scroll was the source of his problems. After his...failed attempt, his sensei Mizuki walked up to him. The silver haired chunin had given him a trustworthy smile and told him there was a make-up test that could be taken for certain candidates. Steal the forbidden scroll from the Hokage's tower, learn one jutsu, and then put it back. Easy.

Why was it, then, that Iruka Umino, Naruto's favorite sensei, had arrived with an angered scowl on his face? Why did the man looked confused when he reiterated what Mizuki had told him to do?

And for the love of Kami, why did Mizuki know about Kyuubi?

Or Iruka for that manner?

Oh Naruto knew, he knew from the day of his third birthday. The large biju appeared in his dreams, taunting him with power for a full year before falling silent. On his fifth birthday, the fox returned to his dreams, this time being stuck behind a cage in a sewer and tried to get him to remove the seal. On the day of his sixth birthday...Naruto made a deal with the devil.

I can give you power! I can give you the Hokage's rank! What do you want? The fox looked tired, irritated, and had a small glimmer of pleading in his large red eyes.

Naruto answered honestly and truthfully: "I just want a friend."

It threw the large beast for a loop. He just wanted a friend?

And why, prey tell, would you want me to be your friend, ningen? The fox asked with narrowed eyes. Naruto had beamed a smile up at the creature.

"Cuz you want a friend too!"

Well...he wasn't wrong. The Kyuubi had been without contact with his siblings for many, many years. Not since Hashirama Senju had dispersed biju to the other nations. And Madara Uchiha had enslaved him...that definitely wasn't a friendship. No, not since the Sage of Six Paths was alive did the enormous Kitsune have a friend.

The boy's smile widened when the Fox agreed, and he had carefully torn a corner of the seal off.

At the moment, his friend was silent. He was alone when the truth that people hated him because of his friend was revealed. As they say, the truth hurts...but for Naruto, he felt angry.

They didn't know Kyuubi was forced to attack.

They didn't know his mother and great-aunt had protected them from the rage of a fox demon, just like he did to this very day.

They didn't know...that you never make Naruto Uzumaki angry.

"E-Everyone else...Everyone else knew about him?" he asked quietly as his eyes remained wide. Mizuki blinked several times before laughing.

"Of course we knew! You cannot fool us, demon! You steal the face of our Yondaime and walk among us like a wolf in sheep's clothing!" the chunin replied with a smirk. He reached for the large shuriken on his back and pulled it off. The weapon started to spin as Mizuki spoke, "But now, I will be seen as a hero. Unfortunately...Iruka will have to die, and I'll make you watch!"

"W-What?" Iruka said in shock before he found himself flying back into a tree. The large shuriken had pinned him by piercing through his stomach. Iruka gasped and blood rushed up his throat. He looked to the terrified blonde with sadness in his eyes. Naruto was just a child...he didn't deserve this. The scarred chunin realized all too late how wrong he was, and the morning before he had overreacted. For Kami's sake, he passed Rock Lee, a boy with the inability to access a large majority of his chakra!

"I-Iruka...sensei..." the boy whispered. His breathing quickened and his fist clenched. Mizuki laughed, ignoring the boy as he spoke to Iruka, whose eyes didn't leave the shaking blonde.

Had Mizuki followed his former friend's gaze, he would have seen why Iruka's eyes kept widening.

"Iruka...Sensei..." Naruto grit out as he dropped the scroll and doubled over. The scarred chunin couldn't do anything but watch as the blonde's body started to bulge and grow. His skin turned dark red as he became larger and his jumpsuit shredded. His pants were stretched to their maximum.

Mizuki's laughter had died when he heard the growing fist slam into the ground. He looked at the blonde with a smug smirk, before it turned into a look of horror.

Naruto Uzumaki, thirteen-year-old dead last of the academy of Konohagakure no Sato had vanished. In his place stood a seven-foot tall, muscled being with dark red skin, eyes, and shaggy dark blonde hair. The being was glaring at Mizuki and he clenched his fists tightly.

The being bared his teeth, which had become somewhat yellowed, and growled. Rushing forward the red being wrapped his hand around Mizuki's left leg. He spun around and threw the chunin at the tree where Naruto had once knelt. Mizuki was sent flying through the tree, impacting the one behind it at an angle that could have broken his back.

The man groaned as he fell to his face, pushing himself up just in time to get grabbed by his hair and pulled up to face the red-skinned creature. The face looked like Naruto's...but the anger in his red eyes...

"D-Damn...D-Demon," Mizuki spat. The being just bared his teeth once more and threw him the other way, this time making Mizuki impact face-first into the tree he once stood in. He was out cold.

The being stomped towards him, reaching down to grab the man by his head once more. Lifting him up, he growled at the broken and bruised face with exposed teeth, cocking his free hand back into a large fist.

Seeing this, Iruka called out, "S-STOP!"

The creature froze and his attention snapped back over to where the scarred chunin was pinned. He comically dropped the chunin in his grip while still having his fist prepared for a punch. Lowering his arms, he stepped towards the pinned man. Iruka swallowed, he prayed that the blonde he saw as a younger brother was still somewhere in there...and that the demon wasn't in control.

"N-Naruto?" he asked cautiously as the large being stopped in front of him. He reached for the shuriken pinning the chunin and grabbed it, his two fingers filling the hole of the shuriken, before he pulled it out with a grunt. Iruka gasped and covered his wound with one hand as he landed on his knees.

A concerned grunt made the man look up to see worried eyes from the creature. Giving the transformed boy a cautious and shaky smile, Iruka said, "T-Thanks...Naruto..."

"E-Rue-Kah..." the creature murmured in concern before he started to shrink. Just as the ANBU arrived, the creature was stumbling backwards as he shrunk. Iruka and the ANBU watched as the smaller blonde boy, with much longer hair, began falling unconscious. A cat-masked ANBU caught the boy as he fell backwards.

Two other ANBU flanked the injured chunin while the last secured the traitor, binding his arms and placing a suppression seal on his head. The two ANBU quickly rushed Iruka to the hospital, remaining quiet as he asked them what they were going to do with, what the ANBU referred to as, 'the Container'. The cat-masked ANBU carefully cradled the boy and stood.

"Neko, kill it," the other remaining ANBU said. Neko snapped her attention to the other black ops shinobi, her face turning into a scowl behind her mask.

"No." The other ANBU bristled and reached for his weapon, which Neko noticed was different than the standard ANBU issue.

"Then I will." He responded, only to stop when something pierced him through the back. His eyes widened beneath his mask and blood dribbled out underneath his jaw. Looking down, he saw a large root piercing through his chest. Before dying, the man said, "Tenzo..."

"ROOT bastard," another ANBU spat as he dropped from the branch he was hidden in. He made a few hand seals before the dirt came up and swallowed the corpse into the ground. Looking up, he nodded at Neko.

"Was it the fox?" Neko asked. Tenzo shook his head and remained quiet, preferring to wait until they returned to the Hokage.

"It was the fox's chakra, but it wasn't the usual malicious taint that we felt thirteen years ago, perhaps the seal faltered when it tried to make it pure enough not to harm him," Tenzo suggested as he stood in front of the Hokage. Sarutobi hummed as he lit his pipe. This definitely didn't bode well. The hokage looked to the blonde sleeping on the couch that was within his office. His pants were several sizes too large and his height had increased from the short 4' 8" to an amazing 5' 2". His hair was still long from...whatever happened to the boy.

"This is troublesome," Sarutobi sighed out as he inhaled his pipe's tobacco, "With Naruto knowing about the Kyuubi's existence and an unknown transformation...the Civilian Council will call for the boy's death."

"He won't be safe if we make him a ninja," Tenzo added, getting a nod from the Hokage. The civilians would send him out on high ranked suicide missions. Sarutobi hummed and placed his interlaced fingers in front of him.

"What are the possibilities of that...Zangai (roughly: Hulk) using jutsu?" Sarutobi asked the ANBU. Tenzo looked at the boy, turning his head to do so before looking back at his leader with a shrug.

"Honestly, I haven't a clue," he said, "That was by far the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life. Yet...it was also incredible."

"Indeed," Sarutobi admitted. He stroked his beard as he thought how he could make this work. Naruto wouldn't be safe if left a civilian, nor if he went on a Genin squad. But there was one more option. He didn't like it, but it was the only one left.

"Tenzo," he said, getting the ANBU to straighten up, "I have a S-Class mission for you."

"Involving the boy, Hokage-sama?" Tenzo asked. Sarutobi nodded.

"Yes," he answered, pulling a scroll out and activating his security seals. He quickly scribbled some words down before signing it. Rolling the small scroll up, he handed it to the ANBU captain as he continued, "You are to escort one Naruto Uzumaki to the care of the Sanin Tsunade Senju. Once you meet with the Sanin, you are to give her this scroll."

"Hai, Hokage-sama," Tenzo said with a nod. A groan got the two men to look over at the blonde. Naruto blinked several times, rubbing his right eye with the back of his hand. Sarutobi sighed as the blonde looked around the room before locking eyes with the old Hokage. He really hated to do this to the son and legacy of the village's Yondaime, but to protect the boy, it had to be done.

Naruto glared at the ground as he and the ANBU Tenzo walked towards a small town half a day away from his village. Around his head was a black headband, his home village's spiraling leaf symbol carved into it. His jumpsuit was ruined, ripped to shreds when he turned into that...thing.

Zangai, Naruto corrected himself mentally as he glared at his new clothes; dark grey cargo pants that fell past his feet as well as being too large. Tenzo had placed a seal on them that would shrink them to his waist, but would allow them to expand if he would change. His shirt was a plan white T-shirt, and slung over his shoulders was a yellow backpack with several scrolls and books inside.

I didn't even get to say goodbye to Iruka-sensei, Teuchi-jiji, or Ayame-neechan...thought the blonde sadly as his glare lightened. A hand landed on his shoulder and Naruto looked up to the kindly smiling Tenzo, who had changed into the standard Jonin attire with a helm-like headband around his head. The man helped explain the necessity of this trip, and having an ANBU admit that he couldn't stop Zangai if he tried helped the blonde understand just how much collateral damage could be done if the beast wasn't left alone.

"Naruto-kun, you need to settle down," he said calmly. Naruto immediately scowled.

"You try settling down when Jiji sends you out on a training trip for who knows how long!" the freshly made Genin snapped back. A dark look crossed the ANBU's face and Naruto shuddered before sobering up. That face was just scary, but as he calmed down he knew why it was used. When he first was told he was being sent to train under Tsunade, he had gotten upset and changed once more. A quick yokai suppressing seal from the Hokage and he was back to normal.

They discovered it was due to high emotions that Naruto would transform into the Zangai. Unfortunately, this also led to Naruto admitted that he had spoken to the Fox within him. This only made the Hokage that much more sure of his decision to send the blonde away.

Naruto sighed, "Sorry Tenzo-san..."

Tenzo said nothing but gave the blonde a slightly tighter squeeze on his shoulder in reassurance. The blonde genin smiled before looking up and curiously asking, "So...what's this Tsunade lady like anyway? If she's so good why isn't she in the village?"

"Tsunade-sama, like Jiraiya-sama and Orochimaru, is one of the three Sanin, the strongest group of shinobi just shy of being Kage level. They gained their rank after they survived a fight with the tyrant Hanzo of Amegakure no Sato. Tsunade is the best medical kunoichi in the world and her strength is unmatched. Hopefully, she'll be able to give you a diagnostic and we can find out if the fox's chakra altered your DNA," Tenzo answered. Naruto nodded before tilting his head.

"But I thought the chakra was maintained through the seal. Wouldn't it be smarter just to find a seal master?" the blonde asked. Tenzo sighed once before answering.

"The only master of seals that the village had was the Yondaime, his sensei had started him on the art but the Yondaime's wife had showed him more. With Jiraiya-sama, the Yondaime's sensei, out maintaining Konoha's Spy Network, the Hokage knows only of one more person with the skill necessary to check your seal, but he is very untrustworthy," The ANBU replied. Tenzo looked down at the blonde once more with a sly grin, "But because of my abilities in Mokuton, I can sense that your tenant was not behind the Zangai. Perhaps if you meditate later and speak with it, we can find out more. For now, focus on helping me locate Tsunade-sama."

"Hai, Tenzo-san," the blonde replied with a small nod. Although a bit miffed that the ANBU wouldn't refer to the Yondaime as his father* or the Yondaime's wife as his mother, Naruto remained quiet and looked at the small village ahead, determination burning in his eyes.

I'll find this Tsunade person and get rid of Zangai, Naruto thought as he slightly quickened his pace, And if I can't get rid of it, I'll learn to control it or my name isn't Uzumaki Naruto! Future Hokage!

A blonde haired woman with generous assets and her hair pulled into two pigtails falling down her back furrowed her brows as she got a jackpot on the slot machine she was sitting before. Her light brown eyes narrowed as coins kept spilling out of the machine before she abruptly stood, startling the dark haired woman that stood behind her with a small pig in her arms. The blonde woman quickly left the casino she was in, the younger dark haired woman running after her and calling her name in concern.

"T-Tsunade-sama! Wait! Why are we running? You got a jackpot didn't you?" the younger woman asked after she had caught up to her companion. The pig in her arms snorted in agreement.

"Shizune, go back to the hotel and pack our things," the woman, Tsunade, instructed, not answering the other's question. Senju Tsunade abruptly stopped when small claps interrupted her. Turning, Tsunade's eyes hardened into cold brown orbs as she faced a man wearing brown and red clothes, shinobi armor that was required to be worn by jonin of Iwagakure no Sato.

"Well, well, well," the newcomer said as he clapped slowly, "Tsunade-hime. What a pleasure. To see the Konoha no Namekuji Tsunade-hime (Konoha's Slug Princess Tsunade) once more makes my heart beat."

Tsunade's hands clenched into fists and she slowly slid into a fighting stance before she replied, "Atsuikawa Katashi...the Tome Sai (Unstoppable Rhino). You're the one man I never wanted to see again!"

"Still sore about your baby brother, are you?" Atsuikawa asked with a laugh before he planted one foot into the dirt, "I've waited years for this reunion. No other Sanin to back you up now! Let's see who will win!"

"Shizune! Get out of here!" Tsunade barked at her student and fellow traveler. Shizune hesitated, causing the blonde woman to bark, "Now!"

"Time to die, Senju!" Katashi announced with a hint of acid in his tone as he dropped to a crouch, "Atsuikawa no Jutsu: Tori no Tsurigu (Atsuikawa Technique: Barreling Tackle!)"

"Mokuton: Mokujouheki (Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall)!" A voice suddenly cried out. Tsunade's breath caught in her throat when the blurring form that was Katashi vanished when large pillars of wood suddenly shot up in front of her, locking overhead and defending her from the attack. Tsunade's head quickly swiveled around and her eyes widened when they locked onto the symbol of the headband around her savior's head.

It was a leaf formed from a spiral, which could only mean one village. The one village she wanted nothing to do with anymore.

Konoha.

AN: So that's chapter one! This will basically follow Hulk's early years as a misunderstood hero, with Naruto taking the place of Bruce Banner trying to rid himself of the Hulk. However, he will learn medicine from Tsunade and Shizune. Tsunade will make a return to the Leaf, just not immediately.

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