A/N: Yo! Being new here I cant really see if people have read the story or not (Can't figure out where I see how many views I got) but my story's been added to fav's and on people's watch lists, so! I decided to launch another chapter! Kudos to my beta reader whom I wont mention 'til I've asked him/her/it about it, and if there's still some spelling faults... Oh well.

And yes, the plot is still pretty lame, and too fast-forwarded, BUT! I'm already working on 2 other stories I wanna release (one being an awesome crossover thing)

And please don't kill me for what I do to poor Naruto... I just think it's been underused in Naruto fics *nods* (Pluss I'm a fan of the whole genderbender theme)

Chapter 2:

Namikaze, Uchiha and School Life.

Naruto was walking near the Uchiha compound, and it was getting quite late. He could sense something malevolent in the air, and Kyuubi also noticed this. 'Naruto. I can sense the person who did this to us. The one responsible for me being sealed within you is here, inside the Uchiha compound, the one called Uchiha Madara.' Naruto started running.

"Fugaku, noooo!" A woman's voice tears through the night, as Mikoto Uchiha watches her husband being cut down in the night while defending her. The man collapses onto the ground, panting, drawing his dying breaths. His gaze falls upon his son, looking grim and silent while standing above Fugaku. "So you've gone to this length to stop us, have you..." He coughs violently, blood seeping out the sides of his mouth. "At least, listen to your dying father's request." Fugaku watches as his son, Itachi, nods. "Leave my wife and your brother... especially your brother, alive... Please do th-" A black shadow flashes across the room and Fugaku's head suddendly rolls away from his body, cut clean off.

"You're weak, Itachi, very weak. If you cannot finish this task, then I will do it myself." The dark figure walks over to Mikoto, who is clutching her husband's chest and sobbing.

'I dont feel particularily happy for saving an Uchiha, but any foe of Madara's is someone I'd like to see alive, if only to grudge him. Naruto, go to sleep for a bit.' Madara Uchiha had his sword raised and was about to strike down on Mikoto when a fiery orange blur crashed through the wall and kicked the blade out of his hand, into the wall on the other side, ripping through it and into the house across the street. The same blur then landed on the wall just over the hole its sword-turned-projectile stunt had created and slowly raised it's head, glaring at the black figure that was Madara.

"It's been a while, Uchiha Madara." The Kyuubi's voice was dripping with venom, and the power Naruto's body emanated made Itachi know he could not defeat it; the difference was just too great. "Would you like to have a go at Round 3?" It's sarcastic voice did nothing to reflect the emotions washing across its/Naruto's face, going from rage to contempt to controlled and back again, never seeming to settle. "The Kyuubi!" Madara exclaimed. He took stock of the situation, being ambushed and not having prepared himself for such a meeting, he decided on the optimal choice right now. "Itachi. My work here is done. Seek me out if you survive this, and wish for... something more. This place holds nothing for us." And with that, Madara was gone, vanished through some sort of temporal rift. And with the Kyuubi's rival disappearing, she released control of Naruto, who jumped down from the wall and rushed over to the sobbing woman at the Kyuubi's incentive.

"Miss, are you alright? Is everything alright with you, miss?" Showing greater care for a human than he would have ever done without the Kyuubi's encouragement, Naruto gradually managed to comfort the woman crying over her husband's body. Just as her tears stopped and she managed to compose herself just a bit, Itachi moved from his position kneeling in front of his father's corpse. "By your wish, Father." And he moved to leave.

"Wait! Itachi... why?" His mother asked him, looking at his back. "Not all of us were in this... There were more like you, who resisted the idea... They're still alive, right?" Upon seeing her son's barely noticable nod, she sighs in relief. "Thank you, my son."

A couple of days later, Itachi Uchiha was perpetrated as a traitor to Konoha and ordered killed on sight. Of course, Itachi himself had long since left Konoha by then. Very few people knew the true story, and the Uchiha survivors, while hating Itachi for his actions openly, secretly thanked him for preventing a greater bloodshed, which would have happened had he stayed his blade that night. The rescue of Uchiha Mikoto and the survival of the pacifists in Uchiha clan helped Sasuke through the tough period of losing his father, and in his eyes, Naruto became like a second brother. Eventually Sasuke would learn the true story behind the events that night, however, and a desire to at least talk to his older brother would linger.

While a certain old man with a patch over one eye and a walking cane was greatly displeased by the survival of so many Uchiha, he was currently in a position where he could not do anything, as much attention as the clan had now. It was also the matter of the threat imposed upon him and the council that if any Uchiha alive were to be harmed, Uchiha Itachi would go public with this mission, backed by the rest of his surviving family. Danzo was infuriated, and blamed it all on the little orange menace who had interrupted that night, while Naruto himself had gained a little respect in the eyes of people. Particularily the Uchiha clan now saw him as a nice kid, and not only the container of the Kyuubi. And their children often invited Naruto to play, although he often refused and said he had to study.

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Naruto was particularily fond of school. The Kyuubi's blood would cause Naruto a great deal of problems soon during puberty, but right now he benefitted from it. All tasks given to him at school, be they martial, theoretical or physical he aced it all. And his extreme self control, being just so much thanks to the Kyuubi's VERY strict training program, helped him maintain a relaxed attitude towards it. His calm nature and great knowledge made the teachers see him in a new light, quickly dismissing all thoughts and ideas about him being a demon child, rather thinking the Third was right in that this kid could be the village hero instead. His classmates too couldn't understand why their parents were so angered at this smart yet friendly and likeable kid.

All of the attention DID go to Naruto's head though. He was exceedingly happy, and Kyuubi noticed it had a positive effect on his learning. Naruto was now around the age of ten, she knew her blood would start affecting him soon and decided it was time Naruto began learning about the other half of the life he was forced to lead. Naruto was at home, just finished the school day, and was taking a shower. 'Naruto... Once you're finished, come see me. It's something important you need to know.'

After finishing and getting dressed, he lied down on the bed and entered his mind, quickly navigating the corridors from his mind to his belly and appearing before the Kyuubi. Everything had changed here, it no longer looked like a prison. Instead, the seal was the walls of a large western style mansion, with Naruto being the only one having the key. Naruto could go in and out as he liked, the Kyuubi could not.

He knocked twice, before he opened up and entered. "You called, Kyuubi-san?" Naruto closed the door behind him and walked inside, entering the living room and taking a seat in a chair. Furniture appeared and vanished as he or the Kyuubi wanted it to in his mindscape, a power of the mind, sort of. Kyuubi was already sitting in a chair across from him. "Naruto... I told you about my blood, that you get some of it, and it makes you better, remember?" Naruto nods, wondering why this would be all that important. "Well, there's a side effect to it. As you know, or I hope you know, I'm female."

"Well duh, I can see that." Naruto grins at her, which causes her to smile. "Yes of course. But anyway the side effect of my blood. Do you know what hormones are?" Naruto thinks about this, but can't recall anything, so shakes his head. "Sorry, I don't know, Sensei."

"Understandable. But you're approaching an age where hormones will play a great part in your life. It's a period called the puberty, and it affects the human body by shaping it into a man or a woman. The hormones a body release during this period greatly affects this. So in short, you're not essentially -born- as a man or a woman, although if you're born as a boy your body releases male hormones that turn you into a man, and as a girl you get female hormones that make you a woman." Naruto nods as he proccesses this. "Ok, I think I understand, Sensei."

"And the side effect of my blood is that it carries very strong female hormones, strong enough to overpower your male ones. Do you know what this means?" Naruto shakes his head no, not entirely sure although having a rather uneasy feeling about this. "It means, Naruto, that unless you want to unlearn all you know right now, you'll become a girl in... almost... all parts of your physical life. Being born as a guy means you got the possibility to surpass most kunoichi in terms of strength, but you'll look, sound, smell and feel like a woman, at least to outsiders."

Naruto looks at her with a strange look, a mix of shock and fear and something. He stays silent for a long while before speaking. "Are you saying… I have to choose if I want to be a boy or a girl?" he eventually asks, still looking perplexed. "Both yes and no, Naruto. There is a way for you to be a guy around people even if you choose to be a girl, so you don't need to worry about appearing strange to everyone else. But you need to choose, either way. If you say you want to be a girl, I'll teach you everything I know about it in as best I can. If you say you want to be a boy, everything will probably go back to the way it was when you were six."

Naruto is quick to decide then. "That would just be terrible! You've been so nice to me, Kyuubi-san, helping me like this. I don't want to miss this for the world!" He exclaims, and sits there pondering about it for a couple of moments. "Kyuubi-Sensei... Can you teach me how to be a girl, too?"

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"Now then, I'd like everyone to form a line and come here to do a Henge. In order to compare, each of you should Henge into me." The children groan, so far the Gennin tests have been a trouble for the youngsters, except the three brainiacs Nara Shikamaru, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto who act seemingly un-phased by it. The line forms and one by one, they walk up to the podium and transform in front of the rest of the class.

Each of the students manages to do Henge, in varying degrees of success, all up until it is Naruto's turn. When Naruto stands on the podium, he turns to Iruka-sensei and appologizes. "I'm sorry Iruka-sensei, but I can't do the Henge." The entire class exclaims a resounding "EEEEEEH!?" that causes the building to all but shake from the force. Iruka looks confused at his star pupil. "How can that be, Naruto? You're one of the smartest kids in school. Don't tell me you've been slacking on your studies?"

Naruto shakes his head. "Wrong, Sensei. You see, I can't do the Henge because it's below me. It's a genjutsu skill, basically. The theory behind it is that you use genjutsu to wrap the visual representation of your target around yourself in order to decieve your foes. So basically you create a fake image. It's by no means a perfect skill, and in Konoha there are no less than three clans that could easilly see through that skill, The Hyuuga, Uchiha and Aburame. Probably, no almost guaranteed the Inuzuka too. In order to fool them, you need something more solid, so I've taken the liberty of creating my own skill. Please watch."

He quickly forms a series of hand seals before he exclaims his technique: "Henshin no jutsu!" Naruto feels the by now already familiar feeling of his body changing, twisting and turning and growing in various places. His whiskers change position and texture, turning into a scar across his nose, he grows taller and his skin tone grows a bit darker, his clothes transform into the basic blue and green Jonin pants and vest, and after less than 3 seconds, Naruto has turned into a perfect copy of Iruka-sensei.

"The Henshin no Jutsu is a transformation jutsu that makes you into a real flesh and blood (and various other elements) copy of your target. Sasuke, Hinata or Shino can confirm this with their eyes and/or bugs. My chakra circulatory system matches yours, even the age of my cells is the same as your own."

"Byakugan!" Hinata says as she takes a look at the two people, indeed seeing two identical copies. "He's right, Sensei. Not even twins are this similar, he matches you completely." Sasuke confirms, and Shino just nods, his bugs confirming it's not a genjutsu.

Iruka can just look stunned at Naruto who just turned into him. "Ah... Great work, Naruto-kun! Excellent." He touches Naruto/Iruka and blinks his eyes. "You pass." Is all the shocked teacher can say. Naruto grins and dispels his jutsu, walking over to his seat and grinning widely. "Next up is the Bunshin jutsu. This is the final test, and you'll have to do it in a separate room." Iruka looks at his class as they finished their Henge's, everyone after Naruto feeling slightly miffed about it. Whispers start spreading as soon as they sit down and looks are thrown in Naruto's direction.

At the test room for the Bunshin, Naruto walks into the middle of the room and bows politely. "I am sorry, Sandaime, Iruka, but I will also not be preforming the Bunshin no Jutsu. As Iruka can testify, I suck at it, and I'd probably fail if I tried." Sandaime nods understandingly, and Iruka looks a little downtrodden. "Well, regardless, you preformed well enough on the taijutsu, target practice and especially the henge test to pass even if you skip this, but wouldn't you at least try?" Iruka asks. Naruto grins. "Dont worry, I never said I wouldn't do a Bunshin. It's just not a regular one." Naruto forms a cross with his index and middle finger on both hands. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" he says while smiling, and five copies of Naruto appears out of nowhere.

His peers look at Naruto incredously. "Kage Bunshin..? Naruto, you.." All six Naruto smile. "I've been training very hard, and thought and wondered how I would overcome my weakness of Genjutsu. I can't do a proper Henge or Bunshin, they're both requiring finely attuned chakra control skills. I just don't get how I should do that. Yet. But, I asked around and overheard/saw a Jounin performing this technique once, and tried to mimic it. The Henshin no jutsu was entirely my own doing however."

"Naruto, I'm more proud of you than you could imagine." The Sandaime smiles and walks over to Naruto, handing him a Hitai-ite with the Konoha Leaf symbol. "Come with me, there are a few things you must know. I believe you are mature enough to learn it now. Iruka, I trust you can finish the rest."

So there ya go! Hope it wasn't as sucky as I feel it is xP

Read, enjoy and let me know if you have any opinions, or not. I don't care much either way. ^_^

(Ok I do, stop hitting me! Stupid beta reader of mine, I got slapped! T_T)