Chapter 1

Naruto sighed as he looked out over the village. The large market square was directly below the large building, and Naruto could see merchants and early morning shoppers bustling around the large space.

Looking at the large calendar on the wall near the desk, Naruto bit his lip and ran his hands through his hair, tugging on the long locks that framed his face. He hated this day, wished it had never happened, but at the same time, he loved it, was glad that it had happened to him, had helped become who he was today.

24th November. The day he left Konoha.

- - - Flashback - - -

Naruto stared at the villagers, fearful and in pain. The three elders stood in front of the large crowd, pleased smirks on their faces. The villagers and some shinobi stood behind them, holding all sorts of weapons - swords, kunai, knives, bats.

Tsunade stood to the side, no expression on her face as she glared at nothing. Naruto's friends stood near her, some of them looking at him with hostility, some of them crying, some of them glaring at the three old ninja's standing in front of him.

"Naruto Uzumaki, you are hereby banned from the Village of Konohagakure of Hi No Kuni." The stern looking woman in the middle declared.

Naruto looked at the woman, shocked that he was being banned from his home.

"What!?"

"You have been unable to bring the last Uchiha back to our village, and are a threat to everyone's lives. We cannot, under our duty as the council of Konoha, let you stay here any longer." The man wrapped in bandages leered.

"You have three hours to pass the Konoha borders, and if our sentries haven't reported seeing you by then, we'll send Hunter-nins out for disobeying direct orders." The other man growled.

Naruto stared at them, shocked and hurt. When they did nothing but stare at him with horribly smug expressions on their old faces, Naruto turned imploring eyes to his friends and Tsunade.

Some of the just stared at him impassively, whilst others shook their heads, tears gathering in the corners of their eyes. What shocked Naruto the most, though, was when Sakura stomped up to him, an expression of utmost rage on her face.

"You let Sasuke-kun get away! You Demon let him go to Orochimaru! You didn't stop him!" And she attacked him. Slapping him across the face, she yanked his arm out of the socket and stabbed him through the hand with a kunai.

"I hope you bleed for what you have done, Demon." She hissed, walking back to the other genins, who stood there in shock at what the pink-haired kuniochi had done.

Tears gathering in his eyes, and his whole body turning numb, Naruto did the only option left to him.

He turned, and he fled.

- - - Flashback ends - - -

Now, looking back on the events that happened six years ago to the day, Naruto felt that Fate had always set two paths for him.

Be a village tool, or leave and become something he'd always dreamed he'd be. And he became what he'd always wanted.

Leaning back on the large, wooden desk behind him, Naruto grinned at the sight of three men, obviously ninja, entering the door to the building he was currently in. Closing his eyes, he waited for them to reach his office.

Knocking sounded on the door a few minutes later, and at the immediate response of 'enter' the door was pushed open and the three men Naruto had previously seen walked through the large doorway.

The first man in was tall and slim, with long, dark brown hair tied in a loose ponytail a few inches before it ended. He had a dark blue cloth, with a quarter moon in the corner and a spattering of stars all over the cloth, covering his eyes. The cloth was tied at the back of his head, and the tails of it dangled down to waist. He had on a light grey, chinese style shirt on with baggy black pants that ended below his knees. From the end of his pants to his shoes, there was dark blue leg warmers. He wore black shinobi sandles. Tied around his right left were bandages, a weapons pouch on top of that. Attached to his waist was another pouch, full of medical supplies. Tied around his left leg was a Hitai-ate.

The next man in was rather average in height, and slouched a bit. He had jet black hair held back in a lazy ponytail, the ends of it brushing his neck. He had narrow, intelligent dark brown eyes, and a ring in each ear. He had the same cloth as the first guy wrapped around his forehead, the tail reaching his shoulder blades. He was wearing a mesh shirt with a dark blue, short sleeved t-shirt over it, and the same pants as the first guy. He was also wearing leg warmers, only his were light blue, and he wore blue sandles on that covered his ankles. He had a Hitai-ate tied around his right arm. He also had a large puch attached to his hip, and a long knife attached to the pouch.

Both of the Hitai-ate's had a swirl in the middle, and a long, horizontal cut going through it.

Naruto smiled at the two as they both collapsed on the available furniture scattered around the room.

"Norio, Akira, how was the mission?"

The second person to come in, Akira, groaned loudly, and Naruto chuckled at the obvious hate of missions. The long haired male, Norio, sighed before heaving himself up and over to Naruto.

"Mission completed. It took us three days to reach the hideout you told us about, and we managed to talk out way out of getting attacked. We handed over the scroll, and after they'd read it, they told us that within the next two weeks, they'll send out a representative with their answer." Norio reported. "On our way back, we were attacked by bandits. They weren't very good, but enough to slow us down. Especially as Akira hardly did anything." Norio turned to glare at the lazy man stretching on the sofa pushed up against one of the walls.

"Eh, you had it covered."

Naruto snorted, used to this sort of banter happening after a mission.

"Go on. Go home, get some food, have a bath, and let out your frustrations. You have a week off, but I expect a written report by Thursday. From both of you." He glared at Akira for emphasis. "Off you go. Just don't break anything this time."

Akira blushed slightly as he walked out, but was far too used to his friends weird jokes by now to say anything.

The leer on Norio's face only made it worse.

Tsunade, Godaime Hokage of Konohagakure, looked down at the list of villages for the Chunnin exams this year.

Getsugakure, Hoshigakure, Kirigakure, Kumogakure, Shimogakure, Sunagaure, Tsukigakure, Yorugakure and Yukigakure.

Looking over at the names, she saw that for the second time in years, Yukigakure would be entering. They had only recently got back together again after the melting of the snow, and had only starting participating again last year. She was rather glad that Kumo would show up, as they had only just agreed to a peace treaty with Konoha. And Suna. Konoha and Suna had almost had a fall out when Gaara became Kazekage because of what they had done. And Yorugakure. Now that was a new one. She had only heard of it a few months ago, and that was when they sent a representative to the meeting that dictated where the Chunnin exams would be held and who would be going.

- - - Flashback - - -

Tsunade steepled her fingers as she looked around the table at the other Kages and representatives waiting to sign up for the Chunnin exams. They had just decided that it would be held in Konoha this year, and were now discussing which village's were going to participate.

All the villages allied to Konoha, and those who Tsunade is fine with letting in her village had already applied, and they were ready to conclude that part of the meeting when someone spoke up.

"Yorugakure would also like to participate."

Everyone turned to look at the young woman who had spoken. She was young, no older than seventeen, with long blond hair and sparkling hazel eyes.

"Yorugakure?" Someone questioned.

"It is a new village, only created four years ago. It is located in Saisei no Kuni, which is an Island near Kaminari no Kuni. Our Kage would like for us to be able to aprticipate in the exams."

"If your Kage want's to be able to participate, why isn't he here himself?"

"As we are new, he is extremely busy, and although he wished to come, he was unable. As his assistant, I am to fill in for him, as I know nearly as much as he does about our village."

"And what is this Kage called?"

"Our Kage, is the Tsukikage."

- - - Flashback ends - - -

And Tsunade had agreed to let them come, as long as their Kage comes with them. After all, if an unknown village was coming to her's, she wanted some leverage over their village.

Naruto raised at the three kids in front of him. The two boys and one girl were all covered in green goo and purple feathers.

"What did you do this time?" Naruto asked, more amused than he was letting on.

"We didn't do anything, Sensei!" They all shouted at once.

"Of course you didn't." Naruto agreed, sceptical.

The three eleven year olds glared at him, not believing what he said for a second.

"Anyway!" Naruto said cheerfully. "The reason we are here!" Pausing for a moment to allow suspense to build up, Naruto grinned when all three Genin leaned forward. "You're participating in the Chunnin exams!"

Laughing slightly at their faces, Naruto reached into one of his pockets and pulled out three papers, handing them out to each Genin.

"Alright, its being held in Konoha, and will start next month, on the 19th. We need to get there at least three days before the exams begin to register that we're in Konoha. It would take me a week to get there, so I'm going to give us two, which gives us enough time to go slightly slower and have enough time to rest. We'll be leaving on 27th. You know what you need to pack. As we're one of the only teams going, I'm going to tell you now that I expect you to do your best."

"Hai, Sensei!"

Smiling as his kids ran of, pushing each other and laughing, Naruto realised that he didn't miss Konoha one bit.

After all, why should he? He'd put all that behind him, exceeded all expectations put on him by the people in his old home, created his own path.

He'd changed his techniques, his style, his way fo life. His appearance had changed, his personality had changed, everything had changed.

He was no longer Naruto. He was Eri Uzumaki, and he'd show those Konoha idiots who thought they could get away with what they did what happens when you cross him.

After all, he is Eri Uzumaki, and he's the Tsukikage of Yorugakure.

Hello. This idea popped into my head ages ago, but I only now wrote it down. I'm not sure what I think of this, and Was wondering on your opinion. Whether or not I should continue with it like this, change it, or not bother continuing.

Hope you like it, anyway. Review and tell me what you think.