Enter the Kitsune Brothers

Twelve years ago a Nine-tailed fox, Kyuubi No Kitsune had gone on a rampage near the Hidden Leaf Village. All the ninjas in the village could not harm the beast. But one man was able to defeat the beast. He was the Fourth Hokage, the leader of the leaf village. Using a baby whose umbilical cord was barely cut he sealed the soul of the Nine-tails in the child, forever saving the village from being destroyed. But another light brought a half-breed boy soon after. Those children were taken to the village by the Third Hokage. And thus begins their story.

Twelve years later…_

A commotion was heard throughout Konoha. Ninjas were yelling at two boys that were above them from the top of the Hokage tower but to no avail they would not listen. Both boys were twelve years old but were different in clothing. Two from the crowd of ninjas went to the Third Hokage.

Reaching the room the Third was in they found an old man his name is Sarutobi Hiruzen writing on a scroll, "Lord Hokage! Something has happened" They called out.

The old turned to the two shinobis showing a wizened faced with a pointy small beard and said," Hmm, what is it and don't tell its Naruto and Mitsuki."

"But it is them, Lord Hokage." said the first ninja.

"They are defacing the Hokage monument faces with paint!" said the second ninja

Getting up from his spot and donning his Hokage robe and hat, he went to the monument to see that the faces of the past Hokages was indeed covered in painted drawing. He had only thought on his mind when saw one of the faces 'all over my faces' soon his eyes spotted the two culprits.

One boy has blonde hair that was wild spiky, green goggles on his forehead, three whisker marks on both cheeks, blue eyes. He wore a black shirt with an orange turtle neck jacket that had blue patch at the shoulders of the sleeves, a swirl on the back and left shoulder sleeve, tied around his waist. Orange pants that held a kunai and suriken holster over a wrapping on his right thigh and blue ninja shoes. In his left hand he had a paint bucket and in his right hand he held a dripping paint brush and a rope tied around his waist. His name is Naruto Uzumaki.

The other has black hair that was spiking backward with white at the tip of each spike, same green goggles, two black birthmark rings around both emerald pupil slit eyes giving him a more fox like look, black-white tipped fox-like ears on top of his head, sharp canines that showed from the top, he wore a black form-fitting shirt, wraps around his both arms going from hands to elbows, his hand had claw like nails, black pants with a shuriken and kunai holster above a wrap on his right thigh, a long furry black tail with white a tip, a cloth held by the same wrapping that went to his ankle exposing his toes and heel. He too had a paint bucket is his left and a brush in right, a rope was tied around his waist with his tail wrapped around it. His name is Mitsuki Kitsune.

Naruto was at the right and Mitsuki was at the left both of them were laughing their buts off at the prank they are pulling. "Hey get down from there now!" yelled a glasses wearing ninja.

Naruto turned and said "No way! Just because you don't have the guts to do something like this but we aren't, right Mitsuki?"

"Yeah, they're too chickens to try." Mitsuki responded with a laugh.

Bringing out his pipe Sarutobi set it alight, inhaled, then exhaled, out of the crowd came a young Chunin dressed in basic ninja gear. He had a scar across his nose and his hair was held in a short spiky pony tail. "Ah, Iruka so you're here" Said Sarutobi, "I thought you had a class to teach?"

"I did, but then I noticed that the two stooges weren't in class" Iruka said while stretching his stomach for a loud yell, "when they're not around class they're pulling prank, sorry about this Lord Hokage." He said before yelling, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING! GET DOWN HERE!"

Both boys were scared out of their minds that they spun around with their arms flailing.

"Oh man, it's Iruka-sensei!" Naruto whimpered.

"Crap, we're dead! We're dead!" cried Mitsuki.

At the academy_

The two young Shinobis were all tied up in front of their class

"The two of you know that the shinobi academy graduation tests are tomorrow and you both failed twice" Iruka scolded, "So this isn't the time to cause trouble, idiots"

Naruto just *humph* while Mitsuki stuck his tongue out to him at which Iruka got frustrated but turned to the class and said, "Alright it's time for a transformation test, everybody line up and transform into a perfect me!"

The whole class groaned and blamed them for the test but did what they were told and lined up everyone but Naruto and Mitsuki had transformed.

"Alright, next up, Naruto Uzumaki" Naruto walked up to Iruka and in a puff of smoke he had transformed into a naked busty blonde woman with two pigtails and smoke covering all her modesty. The newly transformed Naruto gave Iruka a giggle and an air kissed to which he gaped and shot back hard by his massive nosebleed.

In another puff of smoke revealed a grinning Naruto "How do like that? That's my 'sexy jutsu'" Naruto was laughing hard as Iruka finally got back up with tissues up his nose.

"CUT THE STUPID TRICKS THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNNIG!" Iruka yelled. He wiped his nose, "Now get to your seat I'll deal with you later!" sighing Iruka called out, "next, Mitsuki Kitsune" Mitsuki silently walked up and with no hand signs, like Naruto and the others, puffed into smoke and transformed into a naked purple haired woman that Iruka knew and shot back, again, with another blast of blood from his nose, though this time staying down from lack of blood.

Later that day at the Hokage Monument…

Grumbles and curses could be heard at the top of the Hokage faces. Naruto and Mitsuki were washing off the paint that they did, "You guys aren't leaving here till every drop of paint is gone." Said their Sensei.

"So? It's not like anyone is waiting for us. HAH." Naruto retorted then continued to wash of more paint residue. 'Naruto's right, we don't have any but each other. If I had my way…' Mitsuki thought.

Iruka eyes grew soft as he looked down at the two boys, "Naruto…Mitsuki…."

They looked up and Naruto responding, "Now what?"

Iruka kneeled, "well…once you're through here…" looking up he awkwardly scratched his cheek, "I'll…we could…I'll buy you guys a bowl of ramen." Looking down he saw that only Naruto was the only one smiling and whooping at the offer of ramen while Mitsuki was unfazed and went back to scrubbing the stone. 'I guess he's a little harder to please than Naruto'

It took them till night fall to get the job done then they all went Ichiraku ramen stand to get what was promised. Well Naruto and Iruka did. Mitsuki went to his house instead Iruka thought of going with him but didn't. "Naruto…?"

"Hmmm?" Naruto responded with his mouth still slurping his goggles of.

"Why of all places did you two choose to deface that spot?" Iruka asked, "I mean…you do know who the lord Hokage is, right?"

Still munching his ramen Naruto said, "Of course! To attain the name Hokage…he'd have to be the best shinobi in the village. It was The Forth Hokage who saved the village by finding a way to beat the demon fox."

Still not satisfied Iruka asked again, "Then…why?"

Naruto didn't even look up or stop stuffing ramen into his mouth as he said, "Because one of these days they'll be calling me Lord Hokage!" suddenly he pointed and snapped his chopsticks to Iruka and stated firmly, "I'm going to become better than all of them combined with the help of Mitsuki!" closing his hand around his chopsticks, "And then they'll have no choice but to respect us, Believe it!

Iruka was stunned at the way Naruto said his words that he had a bit of ramen sticking out of his mouth. Pressing his hands together Naruto asked, "…by the way…sensei, I need to ask you something?"

"What another bowl of ramen?" Iruka asked out of surprise.

"Uh-uh, your headband, that leaf you're wearing…can I wear it please?"

A little confused Iruka's and said, "My…" his hand unconsciously went to his forehead protector or hiti-ate, "This? No. Not yet. No way. This is a badge of adulthood. You don't get one till you graduate!"

Naruto got frustrated and yelled, "What a Rip-off!"

"Oh, So that why you took your goggles off"

"Uh, I-I want more ramen!"

The next day back at the academy_

Naruto was a bit off since Mitsuki wasn't there so he listened to Iruka, "for you final exam you must each create a clone. Wait here until your name is called, and then come next door." Iruka looked up and scanned his class to find that only Mitsuki was absent. That worried him since Mitsuki is a half-breed demon he asked Naruto but he didn't know where Mitsuki was either, but he wasn't the only one that was worried, a blonde girl was also looking for Mitsuki. Naruto well he was freaking too much 'clone? Why did it have to be Clone Jutsu! That's my worst jutsu ever!'

Naruto had finally been called after twenty calls. Standing in front of the desk Iruka and another shinobi were seated. 'Here goes nothing' he made a hand sign and then a puff appeared, "behold the perfect double!" out of the smoke came a poorly made clone. Suddenly Naruto looked to Iruka nervously and was sweating.

Then it came, "YOU FAIL!" Naruto was sent into an exploding shock.

"Iruka-sensei…" Iruka looked to his partner, "this is his third time and he did manage to basically conjure up his other self, even if it was…flawed, I'm not that great at Clone Jutsu myself, but what if we give him a break and…"

Waving him off Iruka said, "The answer is no, Mizuki. Every student is supposed to generate three clones. Naruto only made one, and…he did very badly." At this Naruto got mad, "with all due respect, his performance doesn't merit a passing grade."

Later outside the academy Naruto was sitting on the tree and still Mitsuki still hasn't shown up yet. He heard all praises of every parents felling more and more down.

"Hey isn't he the kid who-?" said a civilian woman.

"Yeah, that's one of them. The only one that failed." Another said.

"What about the other one?"

"He was a no show…"

"Can you imagine if they let one of those things become a shinobi…?"

"Serves them right…"

"I mean, think about what they…"

"Don't even go there!"

Mizuki walked towards Naruto and looked at as if to him to follow. Naruto put his goggles on then vanished along with Mizuki. Watching him were Sarutobi and Iruka, "Iruka, could I have a word later…?" his answer was a nod from Iruka.

That night…

Naruto was on the roof tops sneaking towards the Hokage Tower. When he reached inside of the tower and was tiptoeing to the room with the scrolls the Hokage kept.

"What are you doing, Naruto?" Naruto flinched, looked behind himself and saw The Third Hokage standing right behind him. Naruto panicked. He was about to run for it when an idea struck him, "Sexy Jutsu". The scream of the Hokage rang throughout the halls of the tower. After taking care of Sarutobi for the time being he went straight to the scroll room went through all of them and found the one he was looking for and left the tower and into the forest. He didn't see that he was being watched by the same person who told him were the scroll was.

Later Sarutobi soon regained consciousness and summoned a cat masked Anbu, "Yes Lord Hokage?" The Feline masked Anbu asked.

"Gather all available Shinobis and meet me outside, now!" Sarutobi ordered.

Meanwhile…at the forest…

Naruto finally made it to shed in the forest, "Alright I found it now to see what this scroll can teach me."

Naruto opened the scroll then read what was written 'Hm…Shadow…Clone Jutsu…WHAT? Just great more Clone Jutsu…well, whatever, better get training if I want to be a ninja… I could probably teach Mitsuki after all this.'

…Back at the village…

'Naruto…' Iruka thought while thinking of what the Hokage had said to him.

Flashback…

"Iruka…"

"Yes, Lord Hokage?"

"I understand how you feel…but those two are similar to you…"

Suddenly an image of the nine-tails appeared in his head. The demon fox was attacking and he was being drag away, forced to leave his parents behind.

End flashback…

Then came a knock from door he walked over to the door opened it and saw a hysteric Mizuki, "what is it?" Iruka asked.

"We must go to the Lord Hokage's house!" said Mizuki, "Naruto has…taken the scroll of the forbidden seal as a prank."

Shocked by the news Iruka went with Mizuki to the Hokage's house. There stood Sarutobi in front of all the available ninjas. "He won't get away with this one, Lord Hokage!"

"Yes that is a dangerous scroll forbidden by the previous Hokage" Started Sarutobi, "If used in a certain way it could cause incredible danger. It's been half a day…we must hurry and find Naruto!"

"Yes sir" and with that all gathered shinobi rushed off.

Iruka was searching but soon took a break to catch his breath. He looked to the forest nearby, 'I better check the forest' he thought so he rushed off hopping from roof top to roof top.

But Mizuki was also heading there and he had a plan 'I'll spread word throughout the village a little more…Then get rid of Naruto just like that other one and make seem like he disappeared with the scroll'

Naruto sat on the cold damp ground tired and panting from all his training. Suddenly a shadow came over him. He looked up and saw a scowling Iruka, "I found you, Naruto!"

Smiling Naruto said, "About time nosebleed, I found you"

"BAKA, I found you!" Iruka looked at Naruto and saw that he was covered in dirt.

"Hehehe, you found me…I've only learned one Jutsu" Naruto panted.

"Hey, why do look so beat up? What were you doing here?" asked Iruka as he looked at the dirt and sweat covered boy.

"Forget about that sensei" Naruto said, "I'm going to do an incredible Jutsu then…then you'll have to let me graduate, right?"

'So…he was training hard enough to hurt himself' thought a surprised Iruka then he saw the scroll and said, "Naruto…"

"Hn?"

"Where did you get that scroll?" Iruka asked a little anxious.

"Oh this" Naruto turned to show Iruka the scroll, "Mizuki told me about…and this place too…he said that if I showed you this Jutsu…I'd defiantly graduate!"

Iruka was shocked 'Mizuki?' then he sensed something and pushed Naruto out of the path of a kunai barrage but got struck in the process most missing vital organs. And there appeared Mizuki on a tree branch. "Nice job finding the moron, Iruka" Mizuki sneered

"I see…so that's what going on…" Iruka said as he pulled a kunai out from his side and let it fall.

"Naruto give me the scroll!" commanded Mizuki

Confused and scared Naruto looked at Mizuki and Iruka. Iruka pulled out another kunai and said to Naruto, "Naruto…whatever happens don't give him the scroll!" dropping the kunai he continued, "that's a dangerous scroll it has forbidden Jutsu written inside it…Mizuki used you…to get his hands on it."

Mizuki grinned, "Naruto…there is no point in you having it. Let tell you a secret…"

"NO, don't!" Iruka yelled.

Mizuki just ignored him and continued, "twelve years ago…you remember the sealing of the demon fox, right?" When Mizuki saw the confused look Naruto had he continued, "Since that day…a decree was made."

"A decree?" pondered Naruto.

"A decree that everyone in the village know and no one was to tell you."

"W-what…" Naruto suddenly got nervous, "what is this decree tell me!" Mizuki chuckled, "what…kind of decree is it?"

Mizuki gained a dark look as he said, "That no was to tell you that you are the spirit of the Nine-tailed demon and your "brother" is the Nine-tails body!"

Naruto's legs gave from the shock and he fell to the ground "What? W-what do you mean?"

"STOP IT!" Iruka shouted in an attempt to shut Mizuki up. But Mizuki still spoke, "don't you get it. It means that you are part of the demon fox…you killed Iruka's parents and destroyed the village, you and your "brother". You were sealed by the Hokage you admire and…"

"STOP IT!"Iruka yelled again and again was ignored.

"…the village lied to you. Don't you find it funny that you and your "brother" are hated for no reason?" pulling the Fuma shuriken he started to spin it in his hand, "Even Iruka hates your guts!"

Iruka saw the state Naruto was in and tried to get up as he thought 'they never known a parent's love and to hated by our village…'

"No one will ever love you!" Mizuki said as he threw his shuriken.

'…so they chose to get attention, not love. They didn't care if they were criticized they just wanted attention…to be acknowledged of their existence…in any way possible…'

"That scroll was used to seal you in that form" laughed Mizuki.

'They act tough but they're truly suffering'

Naruto closed his eyes as he waited for the pain but instead felt something warm splat on his face and saw Iruka crouching over him with the giant shuriken embedded in his back. Blood seeped from his mouth and back. Mizuki was surprised at what Iruka did.

"Why?" asked a shocked Naruto.

A shadow fell over Iruka eyes, "My…my parents…after they died there was nobody to…compliment or acknowledge me…so I acted as an idiot just to get attention. Since I wasn't good at learning and making homework, it was better than nothing, so I kept acting like an idiot. But it was so painful…"suddenly a tear-drop fell onto Naruto's cheek, "Naruto, you and Mitsuki must've been in so much pain. I'm sorry Naruto, if I only I did a better job…you wouldn't have to feel like this."

Mizuki got worried that Iruka had somehow gotten to Naruto until said boy took off from underneath Iruka.

"NARUTO!" shouted Iruka as he watch Naruto race off out of his view.

"Hehehe, Naruto isn't the type of person to have a change of heart" The traitor Mizuki laughed, "And I think…he plans on using the scroll to get his revenge. You saw his eyes those were the eyes of a demon."

Taking the fuma shuriken out of his Iruka spoke, "Naruto is nothing...like that" he threw the shuriken at Mizuki.

Mizuki dodged it by simply moving to the left, "Well it doesn't really matter, I'll kill Naruto…then I'll come back and kill you." And with that Mizuki took off in the direction that Naruto went leaving an injured Iruka behind or so he thinks.

…Back in the village…

Sarutobi had just found Naruto and heard everything that Mizuki had said, 'He told Naruto…this is bad if Naruto uses that scroll he may unless the demon within him and then the entire village will be in danger'

…Back in the forest Iruka had just caught up with Naruto. "Naruto, give me the scroll Mizuki is after you!" Suddenly without warning Naruto sprang to Iruka catching him unguarded striking him with shoulder to the stomach. "How…How did you know…" in a plume of smoke Iruka was replaced with Mizuki, "that I wasn't Iruka?"

"Because…"started as he went and sat against a tree then he to puffed into smoke to reveal Iruka, "…I am Iruka." Unknown to them Naruto was hiding behind a tree only a few feet away.

"… I see," Getting up Mizuki laughed, "so you would change into the thing that killed your parents to protect him."

"I won't hand you the scroll to someone like you!" Iruka panted.

"Idiot, Naruto and I are the same!" Iruka was taken aback at that statement, "If you use the skill in that scroll…then you can do whatever you want!" Mizuki speared his arms wide, "there's no way that the demon fox wouldn't use the power of the scroll."

"Yeah…" Iruka sighed. In the back ground Naruto heard 'see…even Iruka deep down hates me' he thought. "The demon fox would do that…but that's not Naruto" Naruto was stunned, "Naruto is one of my students, true he may not be the hardest worker…and clumsy and no one accepts him…he already knows what it feels to have pain in your heart, but he isn't the demon fox…he is a member of the leaf village, HE'S UZUMAKI NARUTO!" Naruto started crying at the fact that someone did acknowledge him.

Mizuki was pissed that someone did care for Naruto so he reached behind his back and grabbed his last shuriken, "Well…whatever, I'll just take care of you just like Mitsuki." Both Naruto and Iruka were stunned.

"What did you say?" asked a stunned Iruka.

"Yeah, I took care of that brat Mitsuki before the test then I went to Naruto…" Mizuki explained, "I had it all planned out, kill Mitsuki, then have Naruto steal the scroll for me and kill him next" Mizuki spun the giant shuriken, "but I guess I'll have to move my plans a little and kill you now!"

'No, not Mitsuki' Iruka thought, "You'll pay for this Mizuki I'll make sure of it." He tried to get up but failed miserably.

Mizuki was about to throw the shuriken when Naruto rammed him with head butt to his chin sending him flying 'Naruto!' thought an even more stunned Iruka. Naruto skidded to halt and was crouching a small amount of red chakra was seeping from his body.

"You shouldn't have done that…you…" standing he turned to Mizuki showing the tears that were running down his cheeks, his blue eyes were mixed with red and showed uncontrolled hatred, hatred that was aimed at one person, "BASTERD! I'll make you pay…I'll kill you for what you did to Mitsuki! I'll rip you to shreds!"

Iruka was too stunned at the killing intent he emitted. Mizuki was unfazed, "Hah, I like to see you try! I'll kill you in one shot, demon fox!"

"Shadow…Cone…Jutsu!"An explosion of smoke covered area for a second then cleared to reveal over a thousand clones of Naruto, "Now it's time for you to…DIE!" They all charged the hapless Mizuki and pounded him till he was a bloody pulp and the Clones vanished from lack of energy and chakra. When it was done the true Naruto stood alone he reached to his kunai holster, "Naruto stop!" he looked at the source of the voice and saw Iruka leaning against the tree, The look in Naruto eyes sent an arctic chill down Iruka's "…don't…kill him"

"Why? Why should he live after what he did to Mitsuki!" Naruto practically yelled the tears still streaming.

"B-because Mitsuki wouldn't want you to kill him, that's why we'll let Anbu take care of Mizuki." Iruka Pleaded 'At least I hope…' Naruto looked down at Mizuki and fought the urge to kill, went to Iruka and cried. He cried at the loss of his only "brother", the only real friend he had in this world. Iruka wrapped Naruto in a gentle hug and let him cry

…Back in the village…

Sarutobi, the Third Hokage had seen of what had become of Mizuki and heard about Mitsuki. Looking out the window 'So, he has killed Mitsuki. If that is the truth then Naruto may never be the same. I'll-'his thoughts were interrupted by the same Anbu he had ordered to gather the shinobis outside along with two others one crow masked on her left and the other a monkey on her right.

She bowed and said, "Lord Hokage…I… I have terrible news"

"Mitsuki is dead?" Sarutobi asked scared that what Mizuki said was to be true.

"What? N-no that's not it, three Chunin have been killed at the home of one, Naruto Uzumaki and one Mitsuki Kitsune"

Sarutobi turned to them, "What happened! Is Mitsuki alright?"

"It would seem that the three chunins had tried to kill Mitsuki but were somehow killed by their own target, two of them were burned to point of being ashes and the last one was ripped beyond recognition." Neko reported, but before Sarutobi could speak she continued, "Mitsuki was in front of all of them somehow unharmed, but was bathed in blood, head to toe to tail." Neko finished then stood and moved next to Crow to reveal the sleeping yet blood covered form of Mitsuki.

'So he live to see another day with Naruto' "alright take him to the hospital and have them examine him to make sure that he is alright, now go!"

"HAI!" all three said and left.

He turned back to the window grabbed his pipe, lit it, breathed in and exhaled the smoke, 'so the time has come, Mitsuki's powers are starting to manifest. The first sign: the power to transform himself into an actual fox without Chakra. And now the second sign has happened: the Power of Fox Fire, Kitsune-bi. Now seven signs remain. Let's hope that what I am going to reveal to them won't affect those two boys relationship with each other.' And with that last thought Sarutobi walked out of his office and to the shinobis.

"We should have killed him when we had the chance!"

"He's probably gone by now!"

"It's alright the scroll is safe" all the shinobis looked to their leader, "and it will be here soon, so you're all dismissed." Some were going to argue but Sarutobi left to the hospital before they could voice any of it out. "I know your there so go to the forest and tell Iruka were to meet me" He spoke.

"Yes sir" A voice spoke.

…At the forest…

Naruto had finally stopped crying. "Hey Naruto close your eyes"

Naruto looked at Iruka with a confused look but closed his eyes anyway.

Nothing happened, "Can I open them now?"He asked after a minute.

"Yes you can open your eyes now" Naruto open his eyes but nothing changed Iruka still looked like a mess and they were still in the forest. That is until he looked closely to Iruka. He didn't have his headband anymore he felt his head and there it was he was wearing his teachers headband. Iruka saw his expression, "you're now an official ninja, congratulations Naruto."

Iruka saw a frown on Naruto face tears started to form and then he got tackled by Naruto who was crying and laughing. Suddenly an Anbu with a hawk mask appeared, "Iruka, Lord Hokage has asked that you and Naruto are to meet him at the hospital at once." Not waiting for a response he took off leaving a bewildered man and boy behind.

Chapter One Edit complete.

Review for Edited Chapter One: Enter the Kitsune Brothers.

Oh man this is harsh. First I seem to be constantly misspelling Mitsuki by putting "e" between "M" and "I" then I go and post an edited version without thinking of making the changes to his name. MAN AM I SLOW OR WHAT? Aha ha ha ha

Uh and sorry for not updating (and replacing chapters more than once) It seem that the computer that I sent to get repaired didn't get picked up on time and well it got sold for scrape by the company. (Oh well). I'm using a Library computer so it's much harder since I have a time limit and also I got other projects going like my own book (which is still a work in progress) pile that up and you get a slow update. Oh yeah, to those who put my story (and me) as favorite's thanks but, could you at least leave a REVIEW. Thanks and give me some support for this, Luna out. (Man, I hope this is the last time I replace chapter 1)