AN: Yey, another chapter done. I always feel proud of myself when ever I finish. Why? Because being a lazy person, I tend to not do things even when I have plenty of time. So I consider it a victory against laziness every time I update. And now I would like to thank the following for reviewing: Trenchcoatgirl-Kyo, AngelHinata, unlucky desert rider, D2Killerz. Thanks because when you review, you are way cool...and awesome.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or 666Satan. I'm just your run in the mill obsessed fan.
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Twelve year old Uzumaki Naruto ran through the streets of Konoha. This little run was not for fun or even for exercise. No, the blonde boy was running for his life. A few minutes ago, he had painted a masterpiece on the Hokage monument. This masterpiece consisted of graffiti, crudely drawn beards, mustaches, and runny noses.Too bad no one else seemed to think it was a work of art. A mob of people and shinobi were present as he was finishing his work and began to threaten the blonde. Of course he didn't listen to them until someone was told to call the Hokage. Thus the soon-to-be-shinobi had taken to the streets the moment he realized that the Hokage was approaching.
"You are dead when we catch you!" a Chunin in the mob yelled.
It amazed Naruto that some of these people were able to make it to Chunin. If they couldn't catch him, an AcademyStudent, then how the hell did they expect to go head to head with other stronger shinobi? Maybe the tests were getting too easy. Naruto quickly turned into an alley with an evil grin on his face. The mob blocked the way into the alley thinking they had cornered Naruto. Much to their surprise, and disappointment, the blonde was no where in sight. The only thing that was walking around the alley was a black cat. Now not many of the shinobi or villagers were superstitious, but better safe than sorry, right? They split up into two groups and continued to scour the area for Naruto. Meanwhile the cat walked out of the alley and headed towards the Hokage monument. After reaching the top, the cat 'poofed' into a cloud of smoke. Replacing it was a grinning Naruto who went to lay down above the Fourth Hokages head. The Fourth was the only one who had been spared from the 'make over'.
"So you returned to the scene of the crime."
Naruto quickly stood up and turned towards the speaker. He was scared to find it was his teacher, Umino Iruka. Naruto smiled nervously at him.
"Iruka-sensei! How did you find me?"
Iruka bopped Naruto's head.
"What was that for!"
"That was for desecrating the Hokage monument and for ditching class! If you don't stop goofing off you're going to fail the final!"
Naruto didn't respond and instead snorted and looked away. Iruka growled at Naruto's lack of respect.
"That's it! I'm going to report this to your guardian!"
Naruto visibly paled at the news. He was about to run away again, but Iruka lassoed him with a rope. After securely tying him, he dragged Naruto back to class. As he was being dragged, the blonde was busy thinking about what his teacher said. Why did he have to pull the tattle tale card? Naruto was scared of only two people in this village and one of them was not the Hokage. Baa-chan, as he affectionately called Tsunade, and his over-protective sister were the only people he feared (Shizune was way more lenient with him). Aside from their nagging and monstrous strength, he feared them for their abnormal punishments. Like the time he was forced to dress in a pink bunny outfit and had to do maid like duties for an entire week. That included having to go grocery shopping with Shizune (can you say public humiliation?) and giving his sister massages. And that was only for hiding all of Tsunade's sake and replacing it with prune juice because he thought she was old. Even if she didn't look like it. God only knew what they would do to him once they found out!
His thought's were abruptly cut off when he was thrown to the front of the class. He managed to sit up as Iruka began to lecture him about not passing the final exam...again. He'd heard this lecture plenty of time by now. It not like he was a bad student. On the contrary, he was probably one of the strongest students in his class. It was hard not to be if you have one of the Legendary Sannin and two Jonin training you. The problem was the Council of Elders. They feared that if Naruto got too strong, he would destroy them all in revenge. Revenge for treating him like a monster.
What the council didn't know was that Naruto was already aware of the Kyubi. The fox had decided to make his presence know to him on his fifth birthday. He remembered the look on his guardians faces when he asked them who Kyubi was. It was the first time he'd seen his sister out right faint. It was funny now that he though about it, but back then he had been scared his sister might have died on him or something. Once they had explained to him what Kyubi was and what he was doing in his head, he became afraid. However, the fox didn't give up on contacting him and eventually, Naruto got to know him. He wasn't as bad as everyone said he was. The Kyubi explained to Naruto that someone tried to summon him, but in an attempt to control him, the summoner made him go into a rampage.
"Are you listening Naruto!"
"Yeah, yeah."
"That's it! Today in class we'll be reviewing the Art of Transformation. All you have to do is conjure a form that looks like me!"
Naruto waited in line with his classmates. Some of them gave him dirty looks and snide remarks. He ignored them for the most part. The villagers did worse anyways. It was just something he had grown use to by now. At least he knew why the adults hated him so much even if he viewed their excuse to be pathetic. He was the container, not the demon, yet these people insisted on labeling him as a monster. If he did not have his family there to give him support and love, he might have gone mad by now.
"Uzumaki."
Naruto adjusted his goggles and stood in front of Iruka. An evil idea came to his mind, but he decided that he was in enough trouble for one day. Besides, if his sister found out about this 'special' jutsu, she might have him wearing that pink bunny suit for a month! He created an exact copy of Iruka and stalked off back to his seat. Iruka was surprised that Naruto actually did as he was told and that he conjured the form flawlessly. Had he been practicing? He shook off his surprise and continued down his list of names.
Naruto walked towards the area his friends sat which was in the back of the class. He sat in the second to last row with Shikamaru and Choji. Kiba and Shino sat behind them in the last row. One look at them and you'd think these boys would not make good friends because of their vast differences. There was Naruto the unofficial leader, Shikamaru the lazy brain, Choji the food expert, Shino the quite guy, and Kiba the brash loudmouth. They were indeed a strange group of friends, but they were the best of friends and it was all thanks to Naruto that they got to know each other.
Nara Shikamaru was lazy, plain and simple. It seemed like he had no goals in life except to get by everyday with as little movement as possible. However, Naruto learned that Shikamaru did in fact have a goal in life. He wanted to get married, have two kids (a boy and a girl) and retire at an early age. Not exactly what Naruto would call an amazing dream, but at least he was shooting for something in life. Naruto also learned that the lazy boy was actually quite smart. Maybe even a genius. Perhaps that's why he was able to sleep in class yet pass all their written exams. He and Shikamaru became friends after they had been caught sleeping several times in class. They were both forced to stand outside the classroom holding water buckets. From there they got to know each other and before he knew it, Naruto made his first friend.
Inuzuka Kiba was hard to get along with at first. It might have been because the first time they met, Kiba openly mocked Naruto's dream of becoming Hokage. He had after all, failed the test twice. Things changed after they had gone on a trip to practice survival training. Iruka had paired them up in hopes that they would learn to get along. It wasn't working at first, but they slowly learned to stop arguing over every single little thing. On their last day in the wilderness, Akamaru chased a squirrel into the woods. Naruto and Kiba gave chase after the dog only to find that he had been cornered by a pack wolfs. Naruto used Kage Bunshin to distract the wolfs while Kiba retrieved his dog. After that Naruto made Kiba swear that he wouldn't tell anyone that he could use Kage Bunshin since it was an advanced technique. Kiba questioned why, but Naruto told him that he couldn't say. Kiba agreed and from then on they became friends.
Aburame Shino was a lot easier to get along with, but he was too darn quite! Naruto first noticed him when he arrived late for class and sat in the back of the room. Shino was sitting at the end of the row all alone. Naruto thought that was strange and so the next day he sat in the last row again only to find Shino in the exact same place. Finally Naruto took a seat next to Shino which surprised the bug user at first. Naruto did then everyday until Shino finally asked him why he kept sitting next to him. Naruto told him that he knew what it was like to be alone. He, after all, had no friends prior to Shikamaru and had felt lonely. Shino eventually warmed up to him and told him that most of the kids in their class avoided him because of his bugs. They though it was creepy. Naruto shrugged off that excuse and told him he didn't care. He though it was pretty cool to have bugs at your command (which it was). And so Naruto made yet another friend.
Choji on the other hand, was already friends with Shikamaru so it was only a matter of getting introduced to one another. Choji told him that a friend of Shikamaru's was a friend of his. He got along with the Akimichi right away. Why not, he loved food just as much as he did! The difference was that Choji knew the nutritional value of the food he ate which got Naruto interested in learning as well. In fact it was Choji that taught him to to make ramen! His favorite food in the entire world. He had been tempted to ask the Akimichi if he could teach his sister how to cook too, but that would be an insult to her and he would possibly be punished for the insult. The idea still hadn't left his mind though.
Shikamaru laid his head on the desk and faced Naruto.
"What happened to the ridiculous outfit you were wearing yesterday?"
Naruto grinned sheepishly. "You mean my orange jumpsuit?"
Shikamaru nodded. Shino, Kiba and Choji waited for him to answer.
"My sister ripped them off me and burned them the minute I got home."
The boys laughed out loud while Shino only chuckled.
"Wow, she burned it?" Kiba asked.
"Yeah, she said that it wasn't a good outfit for an up and coming ninja."
"Well it really isn't." Shikamaru said. "That outfit screams 'kill me'."
Naruto snickered. "I know. I just wanted to see their reaction to it. I didn't think they'd up and go buy me more clothes though." he pointed to his outfit which consisted of a dark red shirt, black vest with several pouches and red spiral on the back, and dark blue shorts.
"Man your lucky Naruto." Kiba said.
"Why's that?" the blonde asked confused.
"Cause you have a hot Kaa-san!" Kiba all but yelled. Some the boys in the class turned to looked at them and silently agreed with him. Iruka had also heard the comment and he mentally agreed with Kiba, though he would never let anyone else know that.
Naruto's face scrunched up. "Ewww! That's my Kaa-san your talking about! I didn't need to know that!"
"Oh come on! You guys agree right?" Kiba asked the other boys.
Shino looked away, Choji grabbed a bag of chips and stuffed them in his mouth as he gave an incoherent response, and Shikamaru said it was too troublesome to answer.
"I'll take that as a yes." Kiba said with a toothy grin.
The boys didn't do anything to deny it. Naruto looked almost scandalized.
"I can't believe it." he said as rested his head on the desk.
"Have you guys noticed how big her..." Kiba moved his hands over his chest and made some exaggerated movements.
"Kiba!" Naruto exclaimed. "Stop checking out my Kaa-san! You don't see me checking out your sister!"
"You check out my sister!" Kiba said as he stood up and slammed his hands on the desk.
The whole class turned to Kiba who quickly sat back down, however, he wasn't about to let Naruto slide.
"Well?" he questioned.
"I don't. I was just giving you an example." Naruto stated.
"Okay, okay, I'll stop talking about it, but I'm gonna enjoy her hotness while I can."
Naruto groaned. Curse the hormones that hit the teenage boys in his class. They sat in silence for a few seconds.
"Your sister and Shizune are lookers too." Kiba blurted out.
"Kiba!" Naruto growled.
The Inuzuka put his hands up in defense. "I'l stop. I'll stop."
A squeal brought their attention towards the front of the class. They all sighed. The girls in their class were fawning over the class heart throb, Uchiha Sasuke. The boys didn't really see what the girls though was so great about him. He was cold, a prick and just a plain jerk in general.
"What do they see in him?" Kiba asked no one in particular.
"Who knows." Shikamaru answered. "Must be the whole mysterious dark thing he has going. The girls seem to eat that up."
"So, Shino is dark and mysterious. Plus he's not that bad looking and I mean that in the most straight way possible." Kiba retorted.
"My bugs." was Shino's simple explanation.
"Oh yeah."
"Are you guys talking about Sasuke-kun again?"
The boys turned towards two girls, Yamanaka Ino and Haruno Sakura. The two biggest Sasuke fan girls in their class. Sakura glared at Naruto. For some reason, she didn't seem to like him very much. Maybe it was because Naruto made it a point to demean the Uchiha whenever the chance presented it's self.
"You're just jealous of Sasuke-kun because he's way better looking than you."
"And he's stronger. He's at the top of our class." Ino added.
"That doesn't automatically make him a better person."
"Don't waste your breathe Naruto." Shikamaru yawned.
"Yeah you're right." Naruto turned away from the girls and faced the front of the class. "It's useless to argue with ignorant people."
"Why you..." the girls growled.
"It's time for class." Shino pointed out as he too faced the front.
The girls 'hmped' and stomped away. The boys remained silent for the rest of the class. The girls had ruined their mood. Damn the Uchiha.
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It was after school now and Naruto was standing next to Iruka at the Academy entrance. Kiba wanted to stick around to see who was coming to meet with their teacher, but Naruto made him leave. He had been given way too much information for one day. He really didn't need to see his friend checking out his Kaa-san, sister, or Shizune, though now he wondered who exactly was coming to meet with his sensei. Iruka hadn't been specific. He shuddered at what his punishment might be if his sister or Tsunade showed up. Iruka noticed his student's shudder and wondered what could have him so scared (he didn't see him in the bunny costume.). Then again, women were scary when angry...especially Kunoichi. In the distance, Naruto could see a figure coming. He was grateful it was not his sister, but this person wasn't any better. Some of the students stopped at the gates with Naruto and Iruka to watch the person walk towards them. The girls were all in awe of this persons presence.
"Tsunade-sama. I'm glad you could come." Iruka said with a bow.
Yes, one of the Legendary Sannin stood before these mere mortals with a frown on her face. They were not worthy. At least that's what everyone but Naruto was thinking.
"What did my son do this time? Although I already have a vague idea of what it is."
"Well, he desecrated the Hokage monument." Iruka explained.
Tsunade glared at her son. She loved him, but he was such trouble making brat sometimes. It's a wonder she didn't develop more wrinkles from her constant worrying. Well even if she did, she could take care of it with her special Henge no Jutsu. Haha, she was such a genius!
"Well what do you have to say for yourself?" she put her hands on her hips.
"It was in the name of art!"
She tapped him on his head. Much to everyone's amazement, he was sent face first into the ground. Iruka stared wide eyed at her. Now he understood why Naruto was scared.
Tsunade smiled sheepishly. "Whoops didn't mean to do that." she helped her son up and healed his head. "Sorry, I guess I don't know my own strength!" she laughed.
Iruka and the other spectators resisted the urge to sweat drop. Instead they decided to ignore what could potentially be child abuse, and went about their business. Naruto stood up, now fully healed, and tried to think of something that wouldn't get him killed.
"Uh, I didn't draw on all of them?" he said hopeful.
Tsunade sighed. "Well let's go see the mess you made. Then I'll give you your punishment."
A few seconds after they left, a girl with black hair done up in two buns came to a screeching halt in front the Academy gates. She had a book and pen in her hands. She looked around ferverenlty.
"My Tsunade-sama sense was tingling." she grabbed a nearby student. "Where is she!"
The poor boy was scared out of his mind. The Kunoichi began to shake him.
"Answer me!"
The boy pointed in the general direction Tsunade left. "T-They went t-that way."
Before she could take off again, a man in green spandex and bowl haircut appeared in front of her.
"TENTEN! I'M GLAD TO SEE YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH BURN BRIGHTLY BUT OUR MISSION IS THIS WAY!"
She had not time to retort since her sensei grabbed her arm and ran towards the village gate. Tenten could only flutter helplessly in the wind as she was taken farther and farther away from her idol. And just when she had finally worked up the courage to ask for her autograph.
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Meanwhile, Tsunade, Naruto and Iruka had arrived at the monument. After assessing the damage and after Tsunade was done laughing at her sensies face, she announced that Naruto's punishment was cleaning all the faces off. Naruto was confused by how normal her punishment was, but didn't complain. He got to work as Iruka and Tsunade supervised him from above.
"So why didn't he draw all over the Fourth's face?" Iruka asked.
"I suppose it's because he admires him." she stated.
The truth was Naruto knew his father was the Fourth. It happened a year after Kyubi made contact with him. He began to question Tsunade about who his father was and why he didn't have one. She could have made something up, but after discussing it with Shizune and Amara, they decided to wait until he was a little older to tell him. That day came when he turned ten. There was a lot of crying that day, but it turned out to be for the best. After that day, Naruto had declared to them that he was going to become Hokage just like his father because he too wanted to protect his precious people. When he first told them that, she could not help but be proud of him. It was a shame he had to hide his talents since the Council of Elders were a bunch of ignorant old fools.
"If you don't hurry up, we're going to miss dinner." Tsunade informed him.
"Is Onee-cha cooking?"
"Yes."
"I'd rather take all night cleaning."
"Iruka will buy you ramen."
"What!" Iruka exclaimed.
"Yeah! Now that's what I call motivation!"
Before they knew it, Naruto had finished cleaning the monument. He eagerly jumped up to the two shinobi and awaited to be taken to his reward. They traveled to Ichiraku's and Iruka bought him a bowl, but only one since he knew just how much Naruto could eat. Tsunade purchased more ramen to go since she figured that Amara had more than likely failed at making anything edible for them... again. She was a great shinobi, but a horrible cook.
They bid Iruka good night and headed home. Home was in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Konoha. Since Tsunade was the only living relative of the her grandfather, the first Hokage, she inherited everything. Which was nice especially after adopting Naruto and Amara. The house was spacious which Naruto used to his full advantage when he was younger. Especially when he was avoiding bath time. They entered the house and searched for Amara and Shizune in the kitchen. Black smoke greeted them as they walked in.
After putting out the small fire, they sat down at their table and ate the ramen Tsunade bought.
"I can't believe I burned the noodles." Amara said with a sigh.
"At least you've stopped burning water." Shizune added hopefully.
It amazed them that someone could actually burn water, but they didn't voice their surprise.
"Come on now Amara, I'm not that good a cook myself." Tsunade said.
"Yeah, but at least you haven't burned down the kitchen."
Oh that was a fun memory. Amara was attempting to make curry but something went horribly wrong. The result was the kitchen getting burned down and them eating take out for the next two weeks.
"Anyway, enough about me." Amara turned to Naruto. "I heard you desecrated the Hokage monument. Mind explaining why?"
"Oh, I was bored in class so I ditched and tried my hand at being an artist!"
Amara glared.
"I didn't paint on dad." he tried to say, but it ended up sounding like a question.
"Well you're just lucky I wasn't the one who went to meet with Iruka-sensei. I would have made you clean it up with the pink bunny costume." Amara stated.
"Hey that reminds me, how come you gave me a normal punishment. Not that I'm complaining or anything."
"Because I was in a good mood today." Tsunade answered.
"What happened?" Shizune asked.
"I won a poker game against Kurenai, Anko, and Tsume (Kiba's mom)!"
Naruto and Amara spit out their ramen while Shizune gaped at her mentor.
"What?" she asked confused.
Tsunade winning at any type of gambling game was like coming across an army of black cats, breaking a store full of mirrors and walking under a block full of ladders. In other words, a sign that something bad was going to happen.
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Naruto sat at his desk as the Academy. He was mentally preparing for his final. Well not really. He was actually going over the events at his house the night before. After getting over the fact that Tsunade had won a poker game, he asked her if it was okay for him to finally pass the Academy test. She gave him the go ahead, but told him not to go all out. He complained because he wasn't going to be able to one up the bastard Uchiha. Tsunade told him to deal with it since the last thing she wanted to do was sit in a room with the elders and hear them bitch about how strong Naruto was. He begrudgingly agreed and so here he was waiting for his turn.
"Uzumaki Naruto." Iruka called.
Finally, it was time to show his teacher he wasn't an idiot.
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Naruto walked out of the Academy with a headband and a big grin on his face.
"Congratulations Naruto!"
Tsunade gave him a big hug as did Shizune and Amara. He could only blush slightly and smile. He was finally a Genin!
"Hey Naruto!" Kiba ran up to him. His sister and mother in tow. "Can you believe we're Genin!"
"Now you boys do know that this is also a big responsibility." Tsunade said.
Naruto noticed Kiba's eyes traveling towards Tsunade's chest. Shino was making his way over with his dad when he noticed the look Naruto was giving Kiba. He decided to intervene before anyone got hurt, so he tapped Kiba's shoulder. The Inuzuka looked at Shino who pointed at Naruto. Kiba came face to face with Naruto's scowling face. Kiba grinned sheepishly and stopped openly staring at Tsunade.
Choji and his father joined them along with Shikamaru and his parents. At that point, Tsunade invited everyone to her house to celebrate the special occasion. The Nara's agreed even if Shikamaru thought a party was troublesome. The Akimichi's agreed on the condition that they be allowed to make the food. Tsunade had no problem agreeing to that. The Inuzuka's didn't need to be told twice. They were up for any party. The hardest to convince were the Aburame's. They weren't very social by nature, but they reluctantly agreed to attend.
As the group left, some of the other parents watched Naruto with disgust. They whispered to one another about how and why he had been allowed to become a shinobi. Their murmurs were quickly silenced by death glares from three Kunoichi's. Naruto was relieved that they got them to stop. He didn't want to be depressed on this day, especially not in front of his friends. It wouldn't be good for them to start questioning him. Unbeknownst to Naruto, this little event did not go unnoticed by Shino and Shikamaru. They filed away the information for some other time.
Mizuki watched Naruto from the shadows with a scowl. The boy had proven he wasn't a failure, which unfortunately, ruined his plans to steal Konoha's forbidden scroll. Suddenly an idea struck him. Perhaps the boy could still be of some use. He disappeared deeper into the shadows with an evil smirk on his face.
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AN: And that is the end of the chapter. I hope it was long enough since I really did try to make it longer than the last. If you can review then please do, just no flames. Constructive criticism is one thing, but a review that says 'you suck' is definitely not it.
