"You are the demon fox!" Mizuki finished, with a wild grin on his face.

Naruto was quite distraught by this. He was so panicked, in fact, that he ran, but dropped the scroll.

"Naruto!" Iruka called. No luck. Just as he was about to chase after, Mizuki interrupted him.

"Earth Style: Mud Wall!" Mizuki exclaimed, slamming his hands on the ground, with a wall made of earth appearing out of the ground in front of Iruka.

Iruka made several hand seals. "I won't let you hurt Naruto! Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" A barrage of fireballs were sent at Mizuki, but he avoided every one of them.

Mizuki then sent a large shuriken at Iruka. However, he caught it in midair,and sent it back at Mizuki, with an assorted bunch of kunai and smaller shuriken.

Mizuki grabbed the large shuriken, and deflected the other weapons with it. Though, his eyes widened when he saw a kunai with an explosive tag mixed in. He deflected that one as well, with the tag detonating right behind him, which made Mizuki lose his balance for a moment. Seeing his opportunity, Iruka jumped up and kicked Mizuki in the back, sending him into the wall that Mizuki made earlier. Iruka had a soft look on his face. He only muttered one word, before grabbing the Scroll of Seals and running in the direction that he thought Naruto went in.

"Why, Mizuki?"

Naruto sprinted through the forest, as fast as he could. He didn't have a clue where to go, but he just kept running.

'I have to go back to the old man…' Naruto thought.

'No!' He thought again, 'the old man has been lying to me. Why should I go back?'

'It could be a misunderstanding…'

'Please. What could be misunderstood about saying that someone is a demon?'

It was a constant back-and-forth in his mind. Naruto clawed at his hair. "This isn't helping!" He yelled to himself, when he saw a large wall. 'The border!' He thought, surprised, having never been this far out before, even when playing a prank.

Naruto gulped. Should he really go out of the village? But then he frowned. 'No one would miss the demon anyways,' he thought, almost shedding a tear.

And then, he did what he had to do. With a chakra enhanced leap, he jumped over the wall.

Iruka went as fast as he could, which was much faster than Naruto. But with nothing indicating Naruto, he might as well had been blind.

'ANBU!' He excitedly thought, unconsciously going a bit faster.

"Chunin," the one in the owl mask told Iruka, "where did the traitor and Uzumaki Naruto go?"

"Mizuki is unconscious back there," Iruka motioned behind him, "though... I'm still looking for Naruto."

"Thank you. Ram, let's go!" Owl commanded.

"Yes!" With that, they both jumped into the trees, gone from Iruka's eyes in seconds.

With that, Iruka went back to searching for Naruto.

He started to search every nook and cranny of the forest.

Naruto kept running.

He didn't know when to stop.

With tears barely being held in, he looked forward, to the empty plains.

He ran as fast, if not faster than before.

Owl looked at the torn up log. "Substitution," he muttered, "Ram. We need to track the traitor down. He used a Substitution, from what I can tell."

Ram nodded. "Let's go, captain."

For as much stamina as he had, Naruto was starting to run out of breath. Contrary to what his teachers thought, he wasn't an endless stamina machine. Sure, he could last the longest while running laps around the academy, but coupled with the fact that now he was running as fast as he could, he was just about out of breath.

As he ran across the plains, sweat dripped down his forehead. He had an instinct that something bad was going to happen.

And out of all the things in the academy, one thing was drilled into his head.

Trust your instincts.

That was something that even Naruto had to learn.

His instincts were proven correct when a large shuriken bolted across from the other side of the plains.

Naruto hopped over it, looking for where it came from, when he saw a figure run up.

Mizuki.

How did he find him?

Mizuki stopped a few meters in front of him, and smirked.

"Hello, demon."

Naruto was shocked. Beads of sweat ran down his face.

"H-how did you find me?"

Mizuki's smirk got wider. "I'm a sensor ninja." When his face turned neutral. "Enough talk. I'm here to kill you."

Naruto gulped. There was no way he could beat a Chunin!

Well, if he was going to die, he might as well die trying. "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed, making about 1,000 clones.

Mizuki almost gasped. How did the dead last know how to do an A-rank forbidden Jutsu? But he instantly regained his composure. Even so, he would still kill Naruto without breaking a sweat. Mizuki grabbed a large shuriken, and prepared it.

There would be a bloodbath.

Mizuki sent his shuriken in an arc that popped 8 clones out of existence. The clones were trying to draw kunai, when Mizuki already threw some, resulting in 5 more popping. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Mizuki let out a stream of fire from his mouth, making 30 or so pop.

He felt a clone grab him from behind, with two coming in the front, but Mizuki slammed the clone attached to his back on the other two clones. He punched an approaching clone in the stomach. It flew back and popped three more of the clones. Mizuki punched an approaching clone in the chin, and then elbowed a clone trying to hit his blind spot.

One clone tried to approach with a kunai, but Mizuki quickly disarmed it and slashed it in the throat. "Earth Style: Mud Barrier!" Mizuki slammed his hands on the ground, and four walls made out of earth surrounded him, making the clones jump back. "Earth Style: Mud Attacker!" The walls went in the 4 main directions, popping about 50 clones on each side. One clone got a lucky shot in on Mizuki's face, which knocked him back a little. Another clone saw its chance and punched him in the gut, while another one kicked his back.

Mizuki, having enough, punched all three of them. He then took a clone by the hand and slammed it onto another clone. He picked up his large shuriken from before and threw it, popping 12 clones. He took a handful of explosive tags and ignited them, throwing them in the air. Mizuki used a Substitution to get away, while almost all of the Naruto clones got popped.

After that, there were only 5 left, and the environment around them was destroyed.

Iruka saw the explosion. His eyes widened.

"A battle…"

The ANBU saw the explosion too. They rushed towards it.

"How… how did you destroy so many?"

Mizuki smirked. "There was more chakra charged into the tags."

The five clones (and the original) got into a sloppy fighting stance, and the five clones charged.

"I saw this at a training ground!" He said, as he recalled a guy with big eyebrows showing his student a jutsu.

This time, the clones hit Mizuki up in the air. "Uzumaki!" The original jumped into the air. "Naruto Uzumaki Barrage!" He yelled, as he sent Mizuki crashing to the ground with a heel drop.

After that, Mizuki got up, and looked behind him. "ANBU…" he muttered, "it looks like our battle is over, demon." He smirked. "But don't think that I'm not going to kill you the next time we meet." With that, he jumped away.

"Did he say ANBU?" Naruto asked himself, "I can't go back to the village, not now, especially since everyone hates me…" he told himself. "I'll have to run." He started to sprint away, even though he was mildly fatigued.

"Was the mission successful?" Hiruzen asked.

Owl felt a shiver run up his spine. "No, I'm afraid not, Lord Hokage. Both the traitor and Uzumaki Naruto got away."

The third Hokage scowled. "Get our best sensors in here."

"Right away, Lord Hokage." With that, Owl and Ram jumped out of the window, and onto the rooftops.

When the sunlight turned into moonlight, Naruto took a break. Hyperventilating, and with a high pulse, he sat down on the grass. "It wouldn't hurt…" he said, "it wouldn't hurt to take a small nap…" he yawned, already laying down on the grass. He then closed his eyes.

And, that's that. Sorry if my fanfic is low quality. I'm sort of new to writing.