Chapter 2

I OWN NOTHING!

It had been months after the trio spoke, well they still did but Kuro had been exploring the Village… and other hidden militants, for example, Danzo and Orochimaru (surprisingly), both of which had no idea of his peepings, though where he was right now, well he was watching the sun rise beside Mikoto uchiha, a good friend of Kuro's at the moment.

"You woke me up, this early… for this?" questioned Kuro, surprisingly rubbing his eyes while Mikoto giggled, seemingly wide awake.

"I thought since we're friends we could watch the sun rise, unless you'd rather be somewhere else?" said Mikoto, which caused Kuro's right eyebrow to twitch, turning to her until his left ear twitched at a sudden sound. Is that perverted giggling?.

"Do you hear that?" questioned Kuro, making Mikoto frown in confusion until she realised his ears.

"I don't have super hearing remember" she stated, a matter of factly, which made Kuro sigh in annoyance before turning back to the sun rise, until Mikoto yawned as she leaned towards Kuro.

"If you're tired than maybe you should've slept instead of waking me up" Kuro grumbled, which caused her to giggle.

"I'll carry you home" Kuro sighed before picking her up and put her on his right shoulder, making her struggle until she gave up and fell asleep, hanging from his shoulder as he moved through the street, with some villagers looking at him confusingly but none the less ignored him as he approached the Uchiha compound, nodding in greeting to a Jonin, getting a shy smile from the female guard which caused the man to face palm himself.

"Is her father or mother here?" questioned Kuro, making the male shrug.

"They both went to the front gates to greet the transfer students from one of the Border villages one of them was named Kuro Kasai, though he goes by the name James most of the time, he's one of the highest rankings from the villages academy" the woman said, which in turn made Kuro freeze in mid step.

'Oh crap'

Meanwhile

The front gate was in a bust of activity, the Genin's were silent, well one of them was dead silent, He wore a white shirt, Black Jacket, fingerless gloves, two katana hilts at his sides (no blade), bandaged wrists, Black pants and black shinobi sandals, he stood at the back of the group with his arms crossed, his eyes scanning the Leaf Jonins and Genin's with steady eyes, his attention was interrupted by a Jonin approaching him with a smile, only to be ignored as the boy moved further away until he was sitting under a tree, getting odd looks from Sarutobi who was present with Danzo Shimura, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, all of which had their gaze on the boy.

'More potential for my ROOT shinobi' Danzo thought

'I better keep him away from Danzo' Hiruzen thought, seemingly catching the glympse of lust for power in Danzo until he noticed Kuro coming from the Hokage tower, confusing him as Kuro was scanning the genin until he saw the boy, who had a confused look as Kuro began walking to him.

"Hi" Kuro greeted with a wave, making the boy chuckle while shaking his head as he stood up, towering over the boy.

"So, what name did you use this time... Kolbe?" questioned James with a joking manner, making Kolbe sigh.

"Kuro Inferuno, you?"

"Just james, and maybe another name, but who cares" said james, scratching the back of his head in a care free way.

"So, different village?" said Kolbe with his arms crossed, making James shrug.

"I guess, though now I'm part of this one since I'm an exchange student"

"Awesome"

"..."

"..."

"Good talk" James muttered, making Kuro chuckle before holding his hand out to james, confusing him until he caught on to the acting, which resulted in him shaking the hand.

"Nice to meet you Kuro-san"

"Likewise, James" Kuro replied with a grin, making James eye smile before he noticed the Jonin from before speaking to the Hokage, showing a grateful smile with a bow.

"So, what have you been doing in the village?" questioned James, leaning against the tree again while Kuro sat down towards the other Genin and Jonin, saluting to Hiruzen who showed a nod of greeting

"Nothing really, a few more days till we graduate from the academy, The Ramen actually tastes good surprisingly" commented Kuro, grinning happily before James looked up to see Danzo, staring in their direction, that is... until James allowed his "bloodline" to show, which was his skin growing gray veins around his eyes while small drops of blood leaked from the bandages and flow to the Katana hilts, becoming their blades for war, surprising Danzo until Kuro spoke.

"Now that is cool"

five days later

"So let me get this straight, because of your appendages, you're allowed to live with the Inuzuka's, and also work for them as a dog groomer, wow, for an academy student you have the worst/best job ever" James commented as he stood at the entrance of the building, surprised to see Kuro sitting beside Tsume, who at the moment was blushing intensely at being on the boys lap, out of surprise of James opening the door with his foot, causing most of the pups their too bare their teeth until Kuro chuckled.

"Why are you here anyway?" his question was answered with him being dragged and Tsume lifted onto James' shoulder, walking out of the Inuzuka compound towards the Academy, some villagers confusingly staring at the trio with Kuro growling as his back became armoured, unseeable to the villagers.

"I can walk on my own you know!" Kuro Growled in annoyance before his foot was released by James who continued on, making Tsume pout in annoyance as he ran after them towards the academy.

The first minute they entered the academy, Kuro could notice some of the students sitting at the desks, with a space between kushina and Minato, both waving to him with excited smiles, making him smile as he appeared in the seat, waiting patiently for the tests, all smiling excitedly before they were given a written test.

two hours later

"Should we wake him up?"

"I don't know, the last time someone tried to wake him they were sent flying through a wall"

"That really happened!?"

"Of course, though he looks weak in appearance"

"I can hear you two" Kuro muttered in annoyance as both Minato and Kushina shut there mouths, much to his amusement before one by one they were called to the next room, leaving Kuro behind in silence until the instructor stood at the door with a smile.

"Kuro Inferuno, its your turn"

"Finally, my joints were beginning to go stiff from waiting" Kuro yawned happily before following the instructor, following him into the other room.

"Okay, Inferuno-san, we would like you to demonstrate three basic Jutsu, Bushin, Henge and Kawarimi, after that you will join the rest of the class in target practice." the man said with a kind voice, making Kuro nod before making the handsigns he memorised, making the Instructors look patiently before out of Nowhere a copy of Kuro poofed into existence, saluting happily before dispelling as Kuro relaxed.

"Now for the henge, if you please take on the appearance of the Hokage please"

*Poof* what stood before them was a perfect appearance to Hiruzen, smiling mischievously before poofing into Kuro who sported a wolfish grin with his arms crossed before interrupting the teacher by replacing himself with him, whistling happily as he sat in the chair, making the teacher chuckle.

"Very good Kuro-san, you may join your fellow classmates in the target yard"

"Right-o" Kuro said happily before disappaering in a blur of motion, leaving behind no poof of smoke, which confused the instructors that did not notice an ANBU with a plain mask drop from the window.

"That kids something else, I actually feel proud to be his sensei"

WITH THE CLASS

when Kuro arrived it was already half the class, with some students wearing Konoha Hetai-ate on the sidelines, making Kuro smirk as he noticed James with a Jonin, saluting lazily as Kuro waited.

"Finally after Minato and an Aburume threw their Kunai, it left Kuro, again alone with five Kunai, making him grin ferally as in a fluid motion threw the Kunai at a dummy, all which embedded into its head, making Kushina and Minato clap

"That was interesting, not a single one missed" the Jonin's muttered in amusement, making Kuro grin while james kept scanning the surroundings, catching a glympse of one of Danzo's ROOT ANBU, seriously they can hide better than that.

Later that day

Cheers could be heard in the Bar, most likely the graduates from the academy and their parents, the only ones not celebrating were Kuro and james, sitting atop a two story building watching everyone else, with Kuro scanning the area's and James having a sip of Sake making Kuro cover his sensitive nose, scanning for a certain red head among the crowd.

"Any sight of her yet?" questioned James as he held a pair of Binoculars to his eyes, making Kuro shake his head.

"No, I've only spotted Minato but thats-" Kuro said before he noticed Minato stop in with a confused look, making him scan the area before moving through the crowd, causing Kuro to slap James in the mouth while climbing to his feet.

"He's moving!" Kuro grunted while running across the roof before hopping to the other roof, making James grunt before following after his friend, looking down to the crowd before he noticed a few suspicious acting, sending a blood clone to watch while zooming to Kuro's side.

Following above Minato until they stopped at the Gates of Konoha, making Minato yell to the guards to send help while running by, making Kuro and James look at each other before grinning, crouching down to their knee's before lunging upwards, Kuro leaving a trail of ash and James a faint trail of blood, landing softly on tree branch's the duo exploded into motion behind Minato, completely oblivious to their presence as he followed single strands of red hair, making him move faster before he slowed to a stop at the sight of a clearing... where he saw Kushina and Kumo-nin, making him prepare to move in until he and the Kumo-nin heard soft laughter... coming from every direction.

"Don't go Zec mode on me on this" james growled as they stood on a branch, turning to look at Kolbe, only to see nothing but air, making him pale as he turned to see Minato sneaking up on the Kumo-nin, followed by a strand of ash moving on the ground like a snake.

Moving behind one to Kushina's left while Minato prepared to throw a Kunai, James lifted up three fingers.

"Three"

Kolbe was the first to strike, leaving a gaping hole in the man's chest while Minato three a Kunai into a shinobi's throat, gurgling in pain as Minato bolted for the leader with the Ash snake.

"Two"

The leader threw two Kunai in surprise, both deflected by the ash while becoming a shield for Minato who saw the facial structure of Kolbe in the ash, grinning evilly before moving for him to throw the Kunai.

Understanding the situation Minato threw it with pinpoint accuracy hit the man... right between the eyes, leaving the rest of the capture party to Kuro/Kolbe ashe reformed, sporting a psychotic grin as his eyes glowed blood red, showing his teeth becoming jagged and his lips widing to the point where they were unnoticeable.

"BRING IT!"

"one"

His Taunt instantly took hold as the Kumo-nin dashed forward to the child. Oh what a stupid idea that was.

Taking a step forward Kuro instantly sent a torrent of ash lances into the charging Kumo-nin, causing the rest to pale before they were impaled by a Blood red spike, leading to james casually walking by them to a twitching Kuro, giggling insanely before he was smacked upside the face, waking him from the slaughter.

"WHEN DO WE KILL EM!?" Kuro shouted out of surprise before looking around in confusion, before turning to see Kushina in Minato's arms, making him smile before vanishing in small amounts of ash.

Ten months later

The training ground was silent... well, as silent as it will ever get as Kuro, James and a female academy student sat with them wearing her Hetai-ate on her left thigh, while James had his, while Kuro had it over his mouth like a mask, his appaerance had changed during the last months, he now wore a cloak like coat, though he wore cargo pants underneath with black combat boots and had a grey muscle shirt and fingerless leather gloves.

"Okay team, today we'll be doing something more different and interesting, we will be doing our first B-Rank mission, we will be escorting a party of merchants to Sunagakure, there we will meet up with the village and return here, tomorrow we set out to meet up with the merchants so rest easy tonight, oh and James please reframe from annoying Kuro, after the incident with those Blank ANBU he needs his energy"

"Hai Sensei" the girl said with a two finger salute while Kuro stood up with james walking to his own apartment, making the Kunoichi turn to Kuro with a faint blush before their sensei cleared his throat, making her pay attention.

"You know, if you really want to know him you could invite him to your house every once and a while, he needs to do something other than grooming the Inuzuka pups and dogs, try talking to him"

"But his ears are so adorable its hard not to notice them"

"Just try to focus on his face and not his ears Tsuki"

"Yes Ishigi sensei"

"Good, now quit being shy and speak with whichever one of your teammates I have to report to Hakoge-sama" the newly named ishigi said with a smile, making the blushing girl look between james and Kuro before walking to Kuro with a jog until she was walking by his side, making him raise an eyebrow until she smiled shyly.

"Um, a-are you doing anything at the moment?" questioned Tsuki with a blush, making Kuro stop in mid step with a look of thought.

"Nothing at the moment just gonna get something to eat" Kuro said with a shrug, making the girl blush as he continued forward.

"Your welcome to join me if you want" Kuro said while walking ahead, making the girl smile before running after him.

The next day

The merchant party was silent, heck it was silent enough you could hear people breathing, hastily breathing, like hyperventilating breathing.

Kuro, who had been following at the back of the party with his eyes scanning the surrounding tree's, even the merchants who separated from the larger group, caused a bit of suspicion until they moved closer to the group, it counted to almost, it also didn't help with James and Minato arguing, yes this mission required two teams, and boy was Kuro close to homicide.

"Look at the show off, being team leader" James taunted as Minato spoke to Kushina, sending her to Kuro for flanking, making said teen scowl childishly

"I'm just trying to keep us alive, what's got you so worked up-!?"

"Why couldn't them two get along, You both got along" said Kushina with a sigh, making Kuro sigh in agreement.

"Sometimes I feel like the good guy of the team" said Kuro, looking to the furthest merchant from the group with his eyes slowly turning a pale purple, which caused his eyes to widen as he could see through the cloaks they wore, seeing almost all of them in royal guard clothing, while a girl, in the cart, had that of a princess.

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me?" Kuro muttered as he began scanning the tree line, seeing no sign of danger until he caught a faint scent to the left, snapping his head to the direction he could see three bandits… aiming their crossbows.

Thinking fast Kuro moved like a blur, seeing everyone but James in slow motion, confusing the teen before he noticed Kolbe zooming towards the bushes with his hands as Naifu tsume/knife claws, stabbing into the first bandit in the neck, severing it completely and moving to the next bandit, biting into his neck savagely while his right hand stabbed through the last members chest, making James relax in relief, turning back to Minato while Kuro moved back to Kushina, letting the world resume forward like nothing happened, if you ignore the cries of death than yeah.

"Crap" muttered Kuro as Ishigi went to investigate, vomiting the instant he saw Kolbe's handiwork, making Kuro inwardly chuckle as the merchants paled while he grinned savagely with his eyes having a red glint in them before vanishing as James turned to him with a bored look.

"You could at least try and make it clean Kuro?" James said flatly, making Kuro shrug before scavenging a crossbow and bolts along with the quiver.

"Wolves always fight dirty…" said Kuro as Tsuki shivered at the sight of his blood stained sleeves before he whipped the blood off while turning to the cart, walking towards it before in a flash he held the girl by the scruff of her cloak, making her struggle as he tore the cloak off to show her royal garbs.

"Yep, we're fucked"

Hours later after setting up camp

The royal guards did nothing but glare at Kuro, which actually did nothing as he sat alone, tweaking with the crossbow, making few adjustments.

His experimenting however was halted by the royal girl, glaring lightly at him.

"Can I help you, your highness?"

"Just because I'm rich doesn't make me Royal"

"Rich, Royal, they're both the fuckin same to me, so if you want to speak to someone else, be my guest 'cause I'm busy" Kuro said with a shrug, twirling a nut tighter before he looked up to see the girl walking to Ishigi who was talking with the leader of the Caravan.

"Tsk, figures" Kuro said softly as he stood up, moving to the tree's to hunt before he noticed the girl sneak a look in his direction, the wonders of having a sixth sense.

Moving through the forest Kuro began to sniff the air, catching a few smells of rabbits and deer's scent. As quick as he can he pulled out his newly tinkered crossbow and fires it right between the eyes of the deer as the rabbit runs away. While this was happening, action in the camp began as James and Minato started to argue about whose stronger. The rich girl came running to them yelling "whoever wins will get a kiss from me!"

James and Minato both look at her then back to each other and nodded as they both jumped back and disappeared in the tree. A few seconds later Minato stumbles across Kuro who was making a new bolt pouch then disappeared again into the trees.

A few mins later James walks back carrying Minato on his shoulder and throws him on the ground. The rich girl carefully walked up to James as he turned around slowly "wow that was quick I guess that means you get the kiss, huh? By the way my name is Tengoku no Koibito."

As James turned around fully she saw his arm covered and dripping with blood. Koibito froze in fear of what happened. Before she could ask what happened James swoops in for the kiss that seemed to last for hours as James pulled away Koibito looked again at his arm there was no blood. She grabbed his arm in shock and scanned his arm for any wound. "What happened to your arm?!"

"What are you on about it was never bleeding."

"But there's blood on the bandages-"

"You must've imagined it because of Minato being unconscious, Look I don't want to talk about it, also, smack Minato awake, it'll be both funny and Karma to him" James said with a smirk before walking away, making Koibito look to Minato who was being fanned by a tired looking Kushina, making her smile until Kuro came out of the bush's… carrying the deer on his shoulders.
"Who want's a feast!?" cheered Kuro with a grin, showing his fangs, making her gulp as he began moving to Minato. "Yo foods here wake up" Kuro said with a smirk, lightly kicking Minato who groaned on the floor.

"Minato, time to wake up!" as both James and Kushina punch him, making Kuro roll his eyes while dragging the deer to the fire, making Ishigi pale as Kuro dropped the skins on the ground, ripping rabbits leg off and stab it with a metal rod before placing it on the fire, waiting patiently while his dinner cooked followed by him preparing the other foods for everyone, giving Koibito the leg of the deer with some seasoning he brought along, making her huff as she took the given food and began to nibble on it, making both James and Kuro shake their heads with Tsuki eating a rib of the deer beside Kuro, who noticed more faint scents, especially that of a boar.

The day after was not really eventful, with James and Koibito walking beside each other with a comforting talk, until the point where Kuro began listening to the royal guards, whatever they were called again.

AN/ The guards will be G#1 and G#2

"The boy is stepping over boundaries" G#1 growled silently to the guard as he glared at James' head

"Yes, Yes I know, we should have informed the lady that she is being sent to Suna for a political marriage, and now that he's here its going to be difficult" G#2

"And what of the boy, Kuro was it, what will we do with him if he figures out about the master's plan?" G#1 questioned with a startled look in his eyes while G#2 tilted his head down to show a grin.

"Leave him to me, we'll kill them in their sleeps" G#2

'Yep, they made a big mista-' Kolbe thought in smugness until he noticed the distant twigs and tree branch's snap, making him glare to the back to see no movement until he began to turn, making him spin around in time to kick a harpoon out of the air, shocking him greatly at seeing a Harpoon in dry land.

"WHO THE FUCK USES HARPOONS!?" Kuro shouted in surprise, making everyone turn to see him catch the projectile and volt it towards the source, getting a cry of pain and agony that was followed by six bandits.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Gōmon no senshi!" Declared James before a poof of smoke appeared only it quickly dissolved into a large pool of blood that just stayed there until it rippled as James simply walked over it with a glare, making Kuro grin as he leaped over the blood pool that was now bubbling after James stood in front of it,

"Rip 'em to shreds" James ordered sternly, making the bubbles stop before four figures in rotten armour and flesh emerged, baring swords, shields, spears, though one, held a large Warhammer.

Registering his order the summoned warriors let out a war cry while charging forward, baring hungry looking mouths that were like rapid dogs.

Watching from the back Kuro had his arms crossed while standing beside Koibito and Kushina, both pale as the undead gladiators slaughtered the bandits with no mercy until all the bandits were nothing but corpses with James rejoining the group, making the guards before look at each other and pale.

And that night not a single sleep was interrupted.

And that's a wrap, thank you for reading if you did and please feel free to review/comment so yeah enjoy yourselves