I must say, I was surprised to see so many reviews and favorites, as well as alerts. I must have struck gold. Anyway, I'm glad to see that I haven't gotten flamed with things like "The Third would never do that!" or "Your story is too mean toward Sakura. BLAH BLAH BLAH!" I liked this chapter because I wanted to add a little humor and seriousness with a touch of Sasuke bashing. As for those of you who felt the last chapter was bland and fast, I wanna say thank you for pointing it out. I know it was, but I promise that the rest of this will be not like that. Anyway, enjoy.


Chapter 2

Kakashi opened his eyes with a groan. His head hurt like hell and he felt drained. He looked around him and spotted a calander on the wall and saw the current date. Kakashi lept out of bed hurriedly and began throwing on his clothes, pulling on his Jounin vest as he rushed out his front door only to realize...he was way to early for his meeting with the third. Kakashi snorted and looked around him. It was definaly the right time. That he could figure out by the lack of the Godaime's face on the cliff side. The silver haired man cupped his chin in his hand and began to think about what to do today before his meeting. After a few moments, he grinned happily. He'd go and show up to the tower early, and hopefully give the old bastard a heart attack. Kakashi chuckled darkly. No one messed with his family.

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Tsunade shot up as soon as she began to regain conciousness. She regretted it moments later when her vision began to swim and her head began to pound. She placed a hand on her forehead and opened one eye, barely as she eyed her orginizer. Good. The jutsu was a sucess. Tsunade gingerly got out of bed and walked to the mirror and eyed her reflection before she began to get dressed. As she pulled on her jacket, her apprentice entered the room and stopped in shock.

"Y-your awake before ten?!"

Tsunade gave her a sour look.

"Yes. Now. Gather your things. We're leaving." She said as she left the room.

Shizune hurried after her.

"W-wait! Where are we going?"

Tsunade stopped and gave her a smirk.

"Konoha. There's some one who needs me."

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Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Mizuki calmly.

"Are you sure of this?" He asked as he looked back to the test results from the graduation exam.

The silver haired man nodded his head.

"Absolutly. With his current scores, he'll beat Uchiha Sasuke by one point."

Sarutobi felt his gaze harden.

"We can not have that happen. Sasuke must be number one. Him being beaten by achild with no clan will show weakness in our major clans."

Mizuki smirked.

"We can cover it with a high level Gen jutsu to show he failed and drop him to dead last in the class."

The Third looked at him thoughtfully.

"What of Iruka? He managed to grade half of the boys test and was impressed before he had to go to that emergancy meeting."

Mizuki waved his hand dissmissively.

"Than I'll change the last half. Anyway, do you have a message for him?" Mizuki asked.

Sarutobi sighed before he lit his pipe.

"Yes." He said, taking a drag and letting the smoke slowly blow out of his mouth. "Tell Orochimaru, that our plan is to go forward. If anything, we'll be able to kill all those who have found our secrets and kill the boy as well."

Mizuki looked at the Third calmly.

"I will pass the message along. Good day, Lord Hokage."

Mizuki left and shortly after, Danzo moved from the shadows.

"You sure it's wise to trust Orochimaru?"

"He is the only one I know that can get the job done. And, he is still loyal to me. Uchiha Itachi isn't the only spy I have out there."

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Naruto stared at his test in disbelief before he looked back at Iruka.

"Okay. What the hell? I answered these questions right. Why are the answers different?"

Iruka sighed. The blonde had done alot better than he had thought he would.

"Naruto." He began calmly. "You did very well on this. But, sadly, you can't claim that some one tampered with the test. Only myself and Mizuki had acess to them. Besides, you are a ninja now." Iruka said, smiling to try to raise his spirits.

Naruto glared at him before he threw the paper into the trash can.

"Uchiha Sasuke should not have been number one in this." He stated, anger at the silver haired man.

Iruka watched Naruto go and decided to go after him. Just as he began to raise out of his seat, Mizuki stopped him.

"I'll take care of this. Don't worry."

Iruka gave him a thankful smile.

"Thank you. I just wish he wouldn't take it so hard."

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Naruto listened to Mizuki and how his plan to get Naruto to steal the scroll played out.

"There is a special test that we give to those that deserve it. In fact, it is worth enough bonus points to claim number one in the class. Interested?"

Naruto paused. He could say no, and kill the man, but then, when he used his shadow clones later on, he wouldn't be able to say he learned it from the scroll. Naruto sighed.

"Sure. Humor me."

Mizuki smirked.

"All you have to do is sneak into the Hokage tower and obtain the scroll loctaed in the vault. It's a large scroll and you'll know it when you see it. Once you have it, proceed to this location and myself, Iruka, and the Hokage will be there to congratulate you."

Naruto nodded and Mizuki vanished in a swirl of leaves. Naruto looked out over the village and sighed. If only he could just blow the damn place up. But he had to play his part and strike when the village was at it's lowest point.

"Man, this shit sucks."

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Naruto sat against the tree several hours later, scroll lying next to him. He closed his eyes and thought back to his plan he had made with Kakashi.

(Flashback)

Naruto walked through the streets sullenly as he tried to figure out what to do. It was at this point that he bumped into a very familar person.

"Kakashi!"

The perverted Jounin smiled and nodded.

"Yep. Nice to see your back as well."

Kakashi paused and looked at Naruto with some confusion.

"What's wrong?"

"Mizuki and the oldman have used a Gen Jutsu on my test to make it look like I only got half the test right." He told him.

Kakashi realized where this was going.

"And they want you to steal the forbiddian scroll for bonus points, correct?"

Naruto nodded his head as Kakashi continued to think. After a fw minutes, he snapped his fingers.

"You just have to get him to confess to altering it with a gen jutsu. Mizuki is so prideful, he'll take credit for all of it."

Naruto thought for a moment before a smile slowly spread on his face.

"And you'll just happen to hear it, won't you?"

Kakashi smiled at him and waved a good bye.

(END FLASHBACK)

Naruto sighed again and looked at his watch. Iruka should be finding him...right...about...

"NARUTO!"

Naruto smirked as he watched his teacher dropped down and look at him with dissapointment. Naruto grinned at him.

"Don't worry sensei, I'll explain everything, unless you'd like to, Mizuki." He said casually.

Iruka looked up and spotted Mizuki in full battle gear. The man smirked.

"So, how long do you plan on keeping me in the dark? I know you wanted me to steal this scroll yourself. So, who it's for?" Naruto asked as he stood up, brushing dirt off his pants.

Mizuki's smirk dissappeared and was replaced by a glare.

"I don't know how you figured it out monster, but I will kill you unless you give me the scroll." Mizuki hissed.

Naruto looked at him thoughtfully.

"I'll give it to you if you answer my question. Why were my answers altered?"

Mizuki snorted.

"As if I would allow a demon to outdo the last Uchiha."

Naruto looked at him calmly as Iruka's jaw dropped.

"So you admit you altered my answers. What would have happened if you hadn't?"

"You would have outdone him by a single point over all." Mizuki told him.

Naruto nodded and craked his neck as he eyed the man.

"You call me a demon. Yet I show no trace of the Kyuubi." Naruto caught his startled expression and grinned. "Oh yes. I am aware of the vixen I hold. And trust me, she is rather pissed at you."

"V-vixen?" Iruka repeated.

Naruto nodded, still looking at Mizuki.

"Yeah. She's more like an older sister. Doesn't help that she teases me about Hinata." He muttered darkly.

He could have sworn he heard a giggle.

"You like it."

"Now's not the time, Keisei."

Naruto slowly began to gather his chakra in his hands. Iruka watched as twin orbs of blue began to form. First, the size of a small marble and now it was the size of a melon. Naruto saw Mizuki start to back away as he eyed the twin orbs.

"Oh, I see you recognize my father's own personal Jutu. The rasengan." He said proudly as he began to add a different type of Chakra into it.

Iruka's brain froze for a split second. The rasengan was the personal jutsu of Namikaze Minato, who was the Yondaime. And Naruto said that the jutsu was the personal jutsu of his father...

Naruto saw Mizuki put them together as he grinned at the silver haired man.

"That's right. My father was none other than the village hero, Namikaze Minato. And now, allow me to show you my own personal jutsu. By adding my chakra affinity, wind, I created the Rasen Shuriken. Capable of interacting with the target on a cellular level. It severs the bonds between cells. So, unless you have any last words, you can die." Naruto said calmly as he hurled the twin chakra blades.

Mizuki lept back to avoid them. He grinned at Naruto until he felt an unpleasnt feeling. Iruka would say that unpleasent didn't even compare to how it looked to him. Naruto had shoved a newly formed rasengan right up Mizuki's rear. The silver haired man screamed out in pain as he was launched away and into a tree. Naruto heard the sickening thud and watched as he slid donw the tree were he twitched once before he remained stil. Naruto sighed and dropped down to Iruka and smirked.

"Guess my new version of the the Thousand Years of Pain needs alittle work."

Iruka's brow twitched as he placed a hand over his rear.

"No. I think the message is rather clear. Anyway, we need to get back to the Hokage about this."

Naruto pretended to think before he looked to Iruka.

"But if he cast a gen jutsu on it, than it was probably Jounin level. We'll need a Gen Jutsu expert to break it if it fooled the Hokage as well."

Iruka stopped.

"That's true. Come. We'll speak with the Hokage."

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Kakashi walked besides Iruka and Naruto as they headed to the Hokage tower. Kurenai was out on a mission and wouldn't return for another hour, so they gathered him up instead. Currently, he was reading his favorite little book. Naruto looked at him and decided to ask him a question he'd been dieing to know for years.

"Hey. Kakashi?"

The Jounin didn't even look at him.

"Hmm..?"

"How come only having one eye open doesn't effect your ability to dodge?" Naruto asked.

Inwardly, Iruka wondered the same thing. Kakashi smiled at Naruto as the continued toward the tower.

"Naruto. To a true ninja, things like depth perception have no meaning-WHAM!"

Naruto felt his jaw drop and Iruka smacked his forehead, shaking his head. Kakashi had walked right into a light post. The sharingan weilding Jounin stumbled back before he cleared his vision with a shake of his head and walked around the pole as the other two hurried to catch up. Naruto grinned.

"So what was that about depth perception and true ninja?"

Kakashi put his book away and focused on where he was going. He didn't even turn to talk to him.

"We shall never speak of this incident again." He muttered as they entered the tower.

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The Third watched as the three entered and winced inward. Kakashi would probably have an idea of who the gen jutsu belonged to. He just hoped it didn't come back on him.

"Well, Kakashi. I want you to look at this paper and tell me if it has a Gen Jutsu placed on it."

Kakashi nodded and lifted his head band and eyed the paper before he placed it back on the desk. The Copy nin began to blaze through hand signs before he slammed his hands on the paper.

"Dispeal: Illusion Destruction!" He called out as he broke the illusion on the paper.

Iruka watched as the paper seemed to shimmer before it stopped. Kakashi covered his eye again and looked to the Third.

"That was a high level illusion. Definatly a high Jounin level. I think Mizuki had an acomnplise in altering this paper. It's inderstandable that Iruka didn't catch it." The Hatake informed him.

Sarutobi looked to Iruka.

"Do you have the answer key?" He asked.

The teacher nodded as he pulled it out of his vest. He saw Kakashi and Naruto giving him a werid look.

"What? Any good teacher carries their answer keys incase something like this happens." He said defensivly.

"So, having an instructor and an acomplise alter a student's exam by an illusion and then having said student steal the forbiddian scroll, fight said instructor, kill said instructor, rush back to the village, grab the nearst sharingan weilding Jounin, rush to the Hokage twoer, break the illusion, and check the answers was something they cover in your training?" Naruto asked.

"That's ri...Oh shut up." Iruka mumbled as he went over to the paper and checked the answers.

After several minutes, he pulled out a red pen and wrote the new score on the paper. He smiled as he handed it to Naruto.

"Well, looks like you did actually ace the test." He looked to the Hokage.

"We're going to have to redo the teams. Including Kakashi-san's team."

The Hokage sighed.

"No. It is already done. I cannot change them."

Kakashi looked at the man and fought back the urge to punch him.

"No. I will not take Sasuke. You promised me that I would get the number one male and number one konouchi with the worst over all. As I see it, my team will consist of Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuuga, and Kiba Inuzuka."

Sarutobi mentally cursed. He had hoped that Sasuke would be number one. He didn't think that Mizuki would blurt out that the test had been altered. Now, he was backed into a corner.

"Kakashi. Be serious. Only you can train the boy to weild his sharingan."

Kakashi sent a small glare at him.

"He doesn't have an active one. When he awakens it, I will be willing to train him on my off hours after I finish with Team 7."

Sarutobi sighed as he rubbed his temples.

"Reguardless, Kakashi. Sasuke is the last Uchiha. The counil is demanding, no, actually ordering you to take the boy."

Kakashi thought for a moment.

"We'll just have a little test. I am allowed to test any potential students before I accept the team. I'm sure you can appreciate this, seeing as how you refused to train my father over Orochimaru." Kakashi shot coldly.

Sarutobi felt his anger rising. But he could do nothing about it. Kakashi was well with in his bounds to do such a thing.

"We'll call him in the morning. Untill then-"

"No. Now." Kakashi told him.

Sarutobi frowned as he told the secritary to fetch the Uchiha. They only had to wait twenty minutes before Sasuke arrived. The young man looked at the Hokage with curiosity. Sarutobi smiled at him kindly and Naruto noticed that it was different from the one the Third had given him as a child. The other looked forced compared to the one Sasuke was getting.

"Sasuke. We have a bit of a problem. You see, Naruto's test was tampered with and his real score places him above you in class standing as number one."

"So? I could care less." Sasuke said flatly.

"Well, you see, if it hadn't of been discovered, you would be taken by Kakashi Hatake as your sensei."

At this Sasuke glanced to the Jounin and looked back to the Third.

"I don't see a problem."

"Well, he would only agree to take a team if he was goven the number one male and number one konouchi along with the worst over all. Since Naruto is now number one, he wants to train him."

Sasuke faced Kakashi and eyed him again.

"You'll train me." He said before he looked back to the Third. "You'll order him to."

Kakashi looked at the boy in disgust.

"I don't think you have the authority to demand anything of me."

Sasuke looked at him coldly.

"I'm an Uchiha. An elite. I get the best. I will see you tomorrow for training, sensei." Sasuke said as he turned to leave.

Kakashi had to fight the urge to strangle the little brat.

"No. I have a test for you both. It will decide who I train."

Sasuke didn't miss the anger in his voice as he faced the Jounin.

"Alright then. Test me." He replied.

Kaksahi took several deep breaths before he looked at the boy.

"Alright. A senario. Say you are outside the village, training. A man sees this and make you an offer. He will give you the power you need to accomplish your goals. All you have to do is-"

"I'd take his offer. I need all the power I can get to kill a certain someone." Sasuke interrupted Kakashi.

The Jounin narrowed his eye at the boy.

"Even if it means severing your bonds with your friends, sensei, and what your village stands for?" Kakashi asked.

Sasuke shrugged.

"If they were able to supply me with the power I need, I wouldn't have to consider the person's offer." He replied.

"I see. Naruto. Same senario." Kakashi turned to the blonde who crossed his arms.

"Tell the guy to fuck off."

Kakashi kept his face blank.

"Explain why you would chose that answer."

Naruto looked at him calmly.

'Simple. True power comes from your bonds. The ideals you uphold and defend, the people who help you and care for you. That is what gives a shinobi true power."

Kakashi knew what his answer would be and had to restarin himself from smiling.

"I see. Is that your answer?" He asked gravely.

Naruto nodded. Sarutobi had a sinking feeling. Sasuke had basically just said that he'd abandon his village for power without second thoughts. This was not going to go well. And Sasuke didn't help matters as he smirked at the blonde.

"And that's why you fail this test, dobe. Bonds make you weak."

"Actually, you fail this test, Sasuke." Kakashi told him as he turned to the boy. "You show traitorous tendcies and have basically just said that you'd abandon the village at the moment someone offers you power. I will not take you as my student. Hokage-sama, I officially refuse to take Sasuke Uchiha on as my student. In his place, I will take the number one male studnent, Naruto Uzumaki."

Sarutoni sighed and nodded.

"Very well. Sasuke will be placed on Team 8. Kakashi, Sasuke, Iruka. You are dissmissed. Naruto. I'd like to have a word."

The named shinobi nodded, except Sasuke who stormed out of the room, and left. Naruto looked at the tired oldman.

"Naruto. How did you learn those advanced techniques?" The Third asked.

"Simple. Keisei helpped me. She knew of all those moved in the forbiddian scroll. I'm a walking forbiddian jutsu repository." Naruto said with agrin.

The Third's gaze hardened.

"The fox helpped you. I see. And has it tried to effect you in anyway?"

Naruto snorted.

"Please. She'd rather be inside me than outside. It's hurts her physically to be out in our world, as does it hurt the other guardians."

Sarutobi looked at him curiously.

"Guardians?" He repeated.

"Yeah. They make sure that the cosmic balance between the universes. They actually exsisted in a subverse that was similar, yet different. They were focibly yanked from their universe and fused into the ten Juubi that was eventually divided back into the nine guardians."

The Hokage mulled this over.

"I...see. Very well. You may go. You'll need your rest for tomorrow."

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Naruto watched his target carefully as the old man limped through the streets to his home. The oldman was parinoid. He would stop every block, look around, and limp the next block. A few times, he cut through alleys and other shortcuts, going in several circles untill he finally made it to his home. Naruto felt irritated that he had been wondering around for an hour before the man entered the house. The blonde ninja could sense the seals he was activating, protecting his home against any kind of entry. This caused Naruto to smile. The blonde moved from roof to roof, remaining as quiet as any ANBU could. Naruto landed on the man's roof and noticed several seals around the roof as well. The blonde boy acted quickly, sending out a chakra pulse that put the seals in a diagnostic cycle. This gave him an opening of two minutes to get in, do what needed to be done, and get out. Using the roof entrance, he entered the building, moving toward the man's room, which was the only source of light in the darkened home. Naruto flatened himself against the walls. Peeking into the room, he saw the man scribbling away at a sheet of paper. Naruto moved quickly. Moving like a lightining strike, he clasped his hand over the man's mouth and shoved a kunai into the base of his skull, severing the spinal cord. Naruto twisted the kunai, severing whatever nerves were left. Naruto yanked his kunai out and let the man hit the floor. The blonde grinned evily at him, his eyes blood red with fox like slits. Naruto knelt down net to his head and wipped the blood on the man's trousers. He could see his exposed eye glairng at him with deep hatred. The blonde's grinned widened.

"Oh, yes Danzo. I know all about you. I know about your seals. That's why no one will suspect me. No one. I just wanted to let you know something before the life leaves your body. I know you ordered the death of my mother. I know you planned to use me as a weapon. I also know that you were part of the reason for the Uchiha massacure. Don't worry Danzo." Naruto said as he placed his kunai on his throat and began cutting through the tissue, muscle, and blood vessels. "You were right about one thing." He said causally. "I am going to destroy this village, just as Kyuubi wanted to. So, in a way, I have been affected by her. But hey. Take some comfort that you were right." Naruto said as he cut the rest of the way throught.

Danzo's eye stared up in shock and pain, frozen on his face forever.

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The Third Hokage walked to his office the next morning, wondering what kind of day he would have. He greeted his assistant as they arrived at the same time. As they entered the office, Sarutobi saw her eyes go wide as she screamed, pointing at the desk. The Third looked quickly and felt his eyes widen. He hurried over to the desk. Written in blood was, "One mistake corrected. Three more to go." Sarutobi looked into the unseeing eyes of Danzo's head, his normal eye and sharingan eye both glazed over. Hiruzen gripped the edges of his desk as he realized that some one knew of his book. If the head was any indication, the Uchiha massacure mastermind was now dead. All that left was the Kumo incident, the Hatake problem, and finally, Naruto. He wondered just who could do this, not even suspecting that a freshly minted Genin Naruto could do this. Oh how wrong he was.

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Naruto sat in the classroom, next to Hinata as they both waited for Iruka to tel them the teams. Naruto smirked as he looked around the rooms. He knew who his sensei and teammates were. He leaned back as Iruka entered and smiled at them, clipboard in hand.

"First off, I want to congratulate you all for passing. Today is a very special day. It is the day that you get placed on you teams. Now, I will call each name in the team, followed by your Jounin senseis. Now, Team 1...."


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