Chapter 1: The Different Choice

13 Years Later, The Day of The 3rd Exam Preliminaries

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"I have something to do, so I don't have time to look after you."

What? What did Kakashi-sensei mean he couldn't look after him? He didn't need to be bay-sat, he needed to be trained. He was going against Neji Hyuuga, the genius, the prodigy, the guy who almost killed Hinata! Besides, Kakashi-sensei was supposed to train him, what was the use of a sensei if he never taught anything. If Sasuke asked Kakashi for training he'd probably agree without a second thought. Heck, Kakashi was actually more likely to ask Sasuke if he'd like some one on one training, just like he always did during practice sessions.

Wait a minute.

With an accusing finger pointed towards the cycloptic jounin, Naruto yelled out "Ahhh! I got it! You're going to train Sasuke, huh?"

Naruto completely ignored the glares the two nurses down the hall gave him as he shouted at Kakashi. They would probably glare at him even if he was talking quietly, stupid people. However, the disapproving glint in his sensei's visible eye was far more painful than any scolding from strangers.

Why couldn't he make Kakashi-sensei proud, like he was of Sasuke and Sakura-chan? No, no, Kakashi-sensei was proud of him. He was, he just didn't say so very often, or act like it… Bah! He couldn't think things like that, because Kakashi-sensei wasn't like the teachers at the Academy. He was proud of Naruto, and he cared about how good a ninja he was. Of course Kakashi-sensei cared, right? Right…

But that still didn't let the slacker of a sensei off the hook. Even though he did care (because he did!), what was with just leaving Naruto by himself for a full month and then letting him get pounded into the arena floor by Neji Hyuuga. That must be it! Kakashi-sensei probably already had a bet placed on Neji, it wouldn't be too surprising. After all, who expected that that Naruto, the dead-last, the dumb ass, the dropout could ever hope to defeat the great Neji Hyuuga.

"Now, now, don't get mad. I found a much better teacher for you than me."

A better teacher? A better teacher!?! Who could possibly be better than Kakashi-sensei? He was THE Kakashi Hatake, the Cop Cat nin, the Sharingan wielder, the master of a thousand kick ass jutsus! There wasn't anyone better, there couldn't be. But he might as well ask who his sensei was talking about, and then try and argue that Kakashi was a far better a teacher than whoever was supposed to train him.

Or maybe…should he do what Kakashi-sensei was telling him? Maybe if he was more obedient, maybe if he listened more like other students Kakashi would be more proud of him, even though he was proud of him already. Because Kakashi-sensei was proud of him damn it! But still…who was he talking about?

"Who?" Naruto questioned hesitantly.

"That would be me!"

'Eh?' Naruto turned his head around as he heard a familiar voice that he couldn't place immediately, and saw a fairly tall man with dark brown hair wearing what looked to be the standard dark blue jounin pants and shirt with bandages wrapped around his lower calves. His posture was very rigid, and upon his face he wore a pair of rimless circular sunglasses. His short hair was almost completely covered by a bandana the same shade as the rest of his clothes, and he had his forehead protector sewn into the front of it.

He looked really familiar for some reason, Naruto knew he had met the guy somewhere before. Wait a second…he was Konohamaru's teacher, that closet pervert Ebisu!

Naruto's eyes widened in recognition as remembered the last encounter he had with the man. This guy, he had the same eyes as everyone else, those same cold eyes. There was no way he would let this guy train him, he was just like those jerk teachers at the academy.

Naruto swung his body around completely and pointed at the man in outrage, with his eyes wide and his body slightly crouched from his disbelief that this guy was asked by Kakashi-sensei to train him. Maybe if he pissed the closet pervert off he would refuse, and then Kakashi-sensei would be forced to help.

"Ahhh! You're the closet pervet!"

The man's jaw tightened slightly and his index and middle finger pushed his sunglasses further up his nose, but aside from a simple comment of "How impolite" he made no other movement of anger or retaliation against Naruto for the outburst.

What the hell? The last time Naruto saw this guy he would probably have scolded him or glared at him or cuffed him in the back of the head. Why wasn't he doing that now?

Either way it didn't matter. The guy was like everyone else, he wouldn't take training Naruto seriously or he would train him wrong purposely. Everyone but Kakashi-sensei and Iruka-sensei did that. But then again Kakashi-sensei hadn't really trained him in anything, and the closet pervert didn't seem to openly hate him anymore…

'Oh, I get it. He's acting nice only because Kakashi-sensei is here.' Naruto thought.

The closet pervert would go back to normal once Kakashi left them by themselves. So that was his game. Well no dice, it wouldn't work! Naruto would piss him off now, and get this closet pervert to show his true colors, and then Kakashi-sensei would realize that this man was no good.

"Why?! Why is this guy going to be the one to watch over my training?! He's weaker than me to begin with!"

Hah, there was no way this closet pervert wouldn't respond to a jab like that. Naruto was the dead-last of his class. By saying that last bit the closet pervert would definitely get angry. He basically said that the man had no skills whatsoever with that comment. The last time Naruto had met the guy, he had been furious when Naruto had spouted off with something similar. The closet pervert had been reserved, but still furious.

So why wasn't he acting furious now? Again, there was no reprimand or glare, there was only a slight scowl on the man's face where before there had been a neutral expression. Kakashi-sensei spoke for the first time since the closet pervert arrived. His comment however, was not what Naruto wanted to hear at the moment.

"What?" There was nothing else. There was no questioning look in Kakashi's eye, no sudden suspicion of the closet pervert, no nothing. Just a blank look that, if absolutely anything, showed complete apathy.

His sensei's apparent indifference only further angered Naruto. The blonde's whole body was trembling from both anger and sadness. First Kakashi-sensei got someone who hated him and now that he was trying to show it, Kakashi-sensei didn't even care. Maybe the silver haired man still thought Ebisu didn't hate him, the pervert hadn't made any actions that pointed that way.

Okay, so Naruto just had to keep going, keep pushing the closet pervert's buttons and then show Kakashi-sensei that only he was the right ninja to go to for training. 'Maybe if I embarrass this closet pervert he'll show how much he hates me.'

"Because, because! Last time, when I used my Harem Jutsu on him…"

That got a reaction. Ebisu stood up perfectly straight, and his hands rose slightly from panic. As a quick replay of that humiliating event flashed through Ebisu's mind, his jaw opened and started trembling and he immediately rushed forward to stop Naruto from finishing his sentence. Within a matter of seconds, Ebisu had covered Naruto's mouth with one hand and wrapped his other arm under Naruto's own and held it in place. Naruto started flailing around as best he could with his movement so restricted by Ebisu.

He had been in this kind of position before, someone would hold him from behind while another would punch him all over his front and face. While he knew he shouldn't have anything to be afraid of, since the Hokage would send any ninja caught harassing Naruto straight to Ibiki Morino, the response was still engrained in him.

13 years of getting beaten up by bullies and the occasional group of drunks had led to a near phobia of physical contact if it wasn't a part of training or fighting. Naruto was only thinking of how to make this guy let go, but the closet pervert was a special-jounin. This man could slit his throat in a heartbeat, just like that guy at the weapons store had threatened to do if he ever came back to buy something.

Finally Naruto's mind snapped out of panic mode and he started consciously thinking again.

Here! Here it was, the guy was practically choking him, and Kakashi-sensei could easily see that this bastard was just like the rest of the village and couldn't be counted on to train him. He would probably kill him as an accident in their training, like that teacher from his first year at the academy said would happen to him. So…why wasn't Kakashi-sensei doing anything? Why wasn't he stopping the closet pervert? He was just standing there with his hands partly in his pockets, only now there was a small glint of interest in his eye. Interest for what?! This closet pervert was strangling him for Kami's sake!

"Harem Jutsu?" Kakashi asked with his typical lazy drawl.

That was what he was interested in? 'I'm dieing right in front of him, and he wants to know about my Harem Jutsu?!?'

With his mouth covered Naruto could not voice his enraged thoughts however, and Ebisu quickly tried to steer Kakashi away from his current line of questioning. "Oh no, it's nothing, really."

Once Ebisu had said this he removed his hand from Naruto's mouth and shifted it to his other wrist, putting the blonde in a full headlock. So why wasn't Kakashi-sensei doing anything yet? Naruto narrowed his eyes so that his pupils were barely visible, both from his struggle to release himself from Ebisu's hold and to sneak a look at his teacher.

What he saw when he looked at Kakashi though, broke the proverbial camel's back.

Kakashi still had not moved. He had not moved his stance, he had not moved even an inch to make some kind of reassuring gesture to Naruto or an attempt to help him. His eye was still just taking in the scene as it happened. There was no protective glint, no small eye-smile to make him think everything would be fine, just that Kami… damned… uncaring… uninterested… dull… look.

That was it, wasn't it? Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

That thought rang through his mind as Ebisu leaned inward and whispered so that only Naruto could hear it "I'll treat you to anything you want later, just please don't tell anyone about that."

That sentence created a second jolt throughout Naruto. The closet pervert wasn't threatening him, the guy wasn't leaning for a kunai or something to make a unspoken demand for him to be silent. The closet perver…no, Ebisu had asked, even if it hadn't been posed as a question. He had even thrown in a bribe, free ramen at Ichiraku's, to try and convince him. But it was still his choice if he continued talking about his Harem Jutsu and how it had totally dominated Ebisu.

But it might be a ploy, it might be a trick, to get Naruto to lower his guard and gain his trust and then BAM. He would be betrayed. Again.

Like Kakashi-sensei was betraying him right now by refusing to help him.

In an instant his mind was made up. He would take the chance with the closet pervert, it was better than staying with someone who only wanted to see just one of his students pass the exams.

But still… he didn't want to give up on Kakashi-sensei. He wanted the man's respect, he wanted Kakashi to be proud of him, he wanted Kakashi to look at him and say 'that is my student'. But one last look at that eye again, that same unconcerned eye, and Naruto's decision was cemented.

As Kakashi leaned down slightly and started speaking again, still with that same blank look in his eye, Naruto interrupted him.

"Fine."

Kakashi stopped speaking immediately, and Ebisu instantly released Naruto from his headlock. Kakashi's visible eyebrow raised a fraction of an inch before returning to its usual spot and he tilted his head slightly in a questioning gesture, but the same bored look was still there.

"What was that, Naruto?" Kakashi had to be hearing things, there was no way his overly loud blonde student would just agree to something like this. He was expecting a continued fight against his decision. It was almost awkward that Naruto had agreed to something like this without much more prompting and lecturing that it was for the best.

Noisy and long bouts of yelling were always abound if the orange clad boy didn't want to do something. And he had said he didn't want Ebisu, so what was the deal?

Ebisu was in a similar state of shock, though his was much more readable. Both of his eyebrows were raised, his mouth was slightly open and his head was tilted downwards toward Naruto, as if trying to figure out if he had actually heard right. His thoughts mirrored Kakashi's but for a very different reason.

Why had the boy agreed? The last time they had met he had done nothing but antagonize the fox vessel. Granted, after spending some time with Konohamaru he realized that Naruto was more than he seemed, he had been a very good influence on the Third's grandson and had managed to instill a desire to work hard. But there was no way Naruto could know of his altered perspective. Which meant… there was something else going on here, and he was going to find out what. There was no way the boy would simply allow himself to be trained by someone he believed hated him, a someone who had called him a failure during their last encounter. There was no way he would be doing this without a very interesting reason. A reason the boy was hiding.

Naruto knew that both of the older ninjas were staring at him, and that he hadn't answered Kakashi-sensei's question. He lowered his head so that his forehead protector shadowed his eyes. He didn't want Kakashi to see him like this, to see him show weakness.

But it hurt. It hurt giving up on the hope that Kakashi-sensei was ever going to see him as an equal to Sasuke-teme. But he had a chance at a sensei that would see him, was willing to help him. Even if it didn't work out, he had to take the risk. Besides, he still had to get better to take on that bastard Neji and get revenge on him for what he did to Hinata. Sure she was weird and always seemed to have a fever, but there was no way she could ever have deserved what Neji did to her.

"I said fine. I'll allow him train me. But I'm dead tired, so I'm gonna go home and rest for a while." He shifted his head, which was still pointed downwards hiding his expression, over to Ebisu. The guy did say he would treat him… "Closet pervert, meet me at Ichiraku's at seven, okay? I'm takin' you up on that offer." And without even waiting for a response, he started walking down the hallway towards the hospital entrance.

It was 4 o'clock now, so he had plenty of time to get away from everyone and let out his emotions. He didn't know what he would do if someone from the Rookie Nine managed to catch him as an emotional wreck. He already had no credibility among his peers, even though he had done so much more than any of them. If one of them managed to catch him crying alone in one of the training fields, he knew practically any chance at being recognized as something other than an idiot and a failure would be completely destroyed.

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Ebisu and Kakashi both watched in silence as Naruto walked away from them. Each of them was immersed in their own thoughts pertaining to the blonde-haired loudmouth. It was just very disturbing that he hadn't acted like a loudmouth at the last part of the conversation. And neither of the older ninja was entirely sure what to make of it.

Ebisu watched the orange clad boy turn the corner to the lobby with an expression of confusion and curiosity. He knew something important had just happened, and he knew for a fact that the way the boy was walking showed no signs of exhaustion. The brat had actually looked more tense than anything else, like he was anxious about something.

Ebisu silently made up his mind to follow the demon vessel and figure out what was really going on here. Because there was something that he had missed, something he hadn't been told. And if he was to train that boy right, he needed to know what was going through the little punk's head. Naruto was his for this month, and he would never allow it to be said that Ebisu, Elite Personal Teacher, had ever produced an idiot. So by the time this month was over, Naruto would no longer be an idiot if he had anything to say about it. And Ebisu would have had a lot to say.

Kakashi, while his face still showed that same bored look it always did, was experiencing mixed feelings, all of which laying somewhere between guilt and regret.

He knew why the boy was upset, it was understandable. Naruto had asked for training and he had been turned away. It was… distressing though, to have seen Naruto act like that. He had never been like that before, he would normally yell and argue and then pout once he realized he wouldn't get what he wanted. Hmm, maybe Naruto was finally starting to grow up and take his advice seriously.

That thought still didn't smother the small lead ball in his stomach for blowing off Naruto. Kakashi really did want to help him, he would need it if he was going to stand a chance against Neji. It was why he had asked the other jounin in the lounge at the tower for someone to help train Naruto while he was helping Sasuke. Surprisingly, Ebisu had practically jumped at the chance.

Everyone in the room had been shocked. Either at Kakashi for handing over one of his students to someone else for something as important as the Chuunin Exams, which did not make him feel any better about what he was doing, or they were shocked that Ebisu was the first to agree. The man had said for years that the boy was worthless, that the blonde slacked off when he should have trained and that the Kyuubi was responsible for twisting the poor child's mind into that of a prankster since the boy was too weak to ever actually injure or kill anyone.

Kakashi had waited to see if anyone else was willing to train the boy, since he had indeed been suspicious of Ebisu. No one else had volunteered. Once he and Ebisu left the jounin lounge, Kakashi had questioned the elite teacher about why he was willing to take on Naruto.

Ebisu had responded with an answer of "I have seen something that I don't think many have." The sunglasses wearing man had refused to say any more on the subject, and Kakashi simply observed him to make sure this wasn't a trick to get his blonde student either killed or permanently injured. But Ebisu seemed sincere in wanting to train Naruto, and Kakashi was still wondering what the hell the special-jounin had been talking about.

The Copy-nin resolved to ask Naruto about it and about his actions today, once he and Sasuke got back from their little training trip. Still, he wondered exactly how much Naruto would grow without him, he wanted to see if Naruto was really worth the effort he had already put into him… okay so he hadn't put in that much effort, but he still helped out the boy quite a lot... on a regular basis… occasionally…. Ah, maybe he should have put a bit more effort into helping the blonde, but the overactive genin probably wouldn't learn even if he had.

But at the moment this training excursion with Sasuke needed to be done.

Sasuke needed this training, for so many reasons. He was going against Gaara of the Desert, the boy who had killed over a dozen people in the second exam and would kill Sasuke too without hesitation, if the reports were to be believed. Kakashi owed it to the raven haired boy as his jounin-sensei to at least make him ready so that he would survive his match.

Secondly, if Orochimaru did in fact make an offer to Sasuke for power, he needed to be shown that he could become powerful enough to kill his brother while staying in the Hidden Leaf. Then there was the fact that he owed it to Obito, rest his soul, to help his last living relative. The final reason, however much he didn't want to admit it, was that the Council of Elders was fully expecting the last Uchiha to be ready to become a chuunin by the time the third exam rolled around in a month. And the Council was expecting the silver haired Copy-nin to deliver, or it was his reputation straight down the drain.

A separate reason, though he would never admit it to Naruto or to anyone else for that matter, was that he believed Naruto was simply not ready to become a chuunin. He was too loud, too rash, and he didn't have the raw talent to survive if he was to go on difficult solo missions. He knew it was a cheap shot to undermine his blonde pupil's development, but if losing in the Chuunin Exams would keep Naruto alive and out of the way of others until he was ready to learn how to become a proper ninja, then the Copy-nin was going to do it. Naruto still needed to mature a bit more, and perhaps losing in the exam would make the blonde more receptive to his teachings. Kakashi knew this would be would be for the best.

'I'm sorry Naruto, but you'll get much stronger this way. And once the exams are over I'll have plenty of time to make it up to you. I promise you that.'

"Well then, Ebisu-sensei, please take care of him. Oh, and like I said before, it's his basics that need the most work. They really are a mess." With that said, Kakashi turned around and began walking back toward Sasuke's room. He needed to find a medic-nin or a nurse that knew when his unconscious student was going to wake up.

Ebisu still remained standing in the hallway, thinking over Kakashi's parting words and Naruto's actions during the conversation earlier.

With a start, he pieced the two together. Or at least he thought they were together, he really hoped they weren't though. He finally turned into the same hall that Naruto had left down not long ago and started walking. He needed to find the boy and check if his assumption was correct or not. As he walked toward the hospital entrance though, he truly hoped that Kakashi didn't speak like that about Naruto's skills in front of the boy himself.

'Kakashi-kun, if you just messed up your relationship with this boy, I'm not going to fix it.'

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Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

As soon as he was outside the hospital doors, Naruto pushed chakra into his legs and made a straight leap to the roof tops a good forty feet away on the far side of the street. He had to get away from here. He had to get away from everyone and just be alone. He couldn't let people see him if he wasn't smiling, and he definitely couldn't let people see him crying. He felt his eyes sting as one thought kept running through his mind.

Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

He ran and jumped over the many houses and stores and streets until he made it to the training grounds on the far side of the village, the entire time barely keeping the salty droplets from leaving his eyes.

Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

Naruto made it to one of the old meadows and just kept running, even though no one was around. He reached a slope in the meadow and started running up the small hill, with his eyes burning and tears now freely falling. His vision blurry, he didn't notice the stone jutting up from the ground. The next thing Naruto knew he was face first in the grass and earth, with his whole body stretched out and trembling.

Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

Naruto resolved to stay there like that, just laying in the dirt and crying to his heart's content. He didn't even care if he missed out on free ramen from the closet pervert. What did it matter? Kakashi-sensei would never want to teach him, he made that clear today. Kakashi's approval meant more to him than anything, and with heartbreaking acceptance, he realized he would never have that approval.

Because Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

He never had. He couldn't have. Not when he always gave Sasuke-teme and Sakura-chan advice and training and he was left there to try to overhear and learn as best he could. Kakashi-sensei only told him what he was doing wrong, and never said how to fix it. While that was a far cry from what happened at the academy, where he was openly mocked and hated and the teachers tried to make him fail, it wasn't what a jounin-sensei was supposed to do. It couldn't be. Because if that was how it was even if he passed this Exam and became a chuunin, he would probably die on his first mission.

Kakashi-sensei didn't care.

But why? Why didn't Kakashi-sensei care? He always tried his hardest, and even though he didn't have the Sharingan, and even though he wasn't a genius at chakra control, he had some skill and he had plenty of determination. That was worth something wasn't it? Didn't that guy with the green spandex and big eyebrows say so? That a genius of hard work was better than a normal genius?

But then why?

Kakashi-sensei had told him that they were a good team. Kakashi had said that he cared about his comrades. That's what he and Naruto were right? They were comrades, teacher and student yes, but they were still comrades. So why didn't Kakashi care?! He was a part of the team. He was part of team 7…

So why didn't Kakashi-sensei ever give him that proud look he always seemed to give to Sasuke-teme. That was all he wanted, it could have been a fake a look of pride even, he just wanted to think that he was doing something right for once. He just wanted to be congratulated, just once would be fine, just to be told that he was doing something how it was supposed to be done. So that Kakashi-sensei would just look at him and say "good job, Naruto".

He was so wrapped up in his thoughts he didn't notice a small rustle in the grass not far away.

Unbidden, thoughts of all his sensei's words over the several months of team 7's existence sprang to mind.

'You're slow, Naruto.'

'Ignore the guy with the lowest scores.'

'I didn't expect you to freeze up like that, Naruto.'

'Aren't you a little weird compared to the rest?'

'Naruto, pay attention, and you might actually learn something.'

'It looks like the best at controlling chakra right now is Sakura.'

'Your movements are too wasteful.'

'Congratulations on awakening your Sharingan, Sasuke.'

'Naruto, you need to work on your chakra control.'

'Well, Naruto, you did the worst out of all three, so you get tied to the log.'

'Those who don't have many abilities tend to complain more.'

'Don't fall for an obvious trap, idiot.'

Every memory that he had, every time that Kakashi didn't help him, every time that Sakura-chan punched him, and every time that Sasuke-teme upstaged him replayed like a broken record through his head. By now the tears had stopped, but he was no less saddened or upset.

Abruptly he pulled himself to his feet and just yelled to the sky, giving all his anger, sadness, and frustration a physical voice. He pulled off his forehead and smashed it to the ground. He tore off his equipment pouch and threw it down the hill.

"If you wanted me to quit as a ninja why didn't you just say so Kakashi-sensei! If you didn't want me on your team you should have just FUCKING SAID IT!"

After his outburst his voice took on a softer tone, one that most everyone who knew him would say wasn't possible for the 'loudmouth dead-last' to make.

"It would have been easier that way. I'm used to that kind of thing. I could have handled that. I would have known you thought of me as a failure. You didn't need to make me think you would be proud of me." Naruto simply fell over onto his side so he was facing down the hill. His face took on a deadened expression, with his lips slightly parted and his eyes half lidded and devoid of their usual spark. "It would have been easier…" he whispered.

"I thought you said there was no easy way to become Hokage."

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First of all, I'd like to say thank you to ACTION NARUTO LOVER, LbcLostKid, crusnik, and mangalover248 for reviewing. And to answer Lostkid's question, the seal on Naruto's back that was mentioned in the prologue will be explained later on.

I hope you guys enjoyed the first real chapter, and I'm almost done on the next. Just a warning to you all though, my inspiration comes and goes at random, so I don't know how often I'll be updating on a regular basis.

Anyways, I hope I didn't make Kakashi too much of a jerk, but I tried to make it so that he had reasons for abandoning Naruto. Sakura, I honestly don't know what he was thinking when it came to leaving her behind. So I just left her out, implying that he didn't care since she wasn't in the third exam.

To any of you that are wondering about Ebisu, yes, he will be a pretty important character in the story, at least right now. This whole story is based off of an idea about what Naruto's heritage could be, and what could have happened if he accepted Ebisu's training willingly. I may be OOC when it comes to Ebisu, but then again, he's an extremely underdeveloped character, and no one really knows what he's like except that he dislikes open acts of perversion and he believes he has an image to maintain (mainly proving to others that he's not a pervert and that he is a great teacher).

I have a few other ideas in my head that I'll write down in the A.N. next chapter, and I'd like opinions on if I should start writing those stories as well. But that's next chapter, so…

One last thing. When you guys review, say which girl you want Naruto paired up with. The choices are any girl in or around his age group, so no Anko, Tsunade, Shizune, or Kurenai, or any others that I'm not thinking of right now. I've got certain situations and plot developments that will promote a relationship for each of the girls, I just need help to pick which girl, hehe. The list of eligible Bachelorettes are…

Ayame the Ramen Girl

Hanabi. Hinata's younger sister, I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep her as a potential pairing, if I do chose her, it will be in the far future

Hinata the Hyuuga Heiress

Ino the… ahem, well… I dunno. Moving on…

Karin. Yes, that Karin, the Sasuke fangirl of team Snake

Kin of the Hidden Sound…will not be included unless there's a large amount of people wanting the pairing. Sorry, but there are plans for her and they do not involve Naruto.

Sakura the Queen of the Sasuke Fan Club.

Tayuya of the Northern Gate

Temari of the Sand Siblings

Tenten the Weapons Mistress

Yuugito the Container of the Nekomata. She's a little older than I might like, but hey, they never actually say how old she is, and I think she and Naruto might connect considering their common past and demonic counterparts.

And I think that's it. So read and review and let me know how to improve. Thanks much.