Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto! Naruto is Masashi Kishimoto's and that's final!

"Naruto"- normal speech

'Naruto'- thought

Naruto- jutsu name_

Chapter 1

Beginning of a legend

Sunny morning was in Konoha practically the same as anywhere else. Or so people would like it to be so.

Normally, the people would slowly wake up with a smile on their faces. Wash up. Eat breakfast. Get dressed. Go out side to the streets. Say their good mornings. Get to work, school, and ninja academy or visit others. Yep. That's how mornings should be like.

Not in Konoha however. It wasn't even past ten-in-the-morning and already there were ninja running threw the village. They were chasing someone judging their calls, threats and promises to that someone pay after he or she was caught. Everyone knew who it had to be, who was chased. A small boy, no older then 12 or 13, with spiky blond hair and strange whisker-like birth marks on his cheeks. The kid was running with a bucket full of paint, laughing like a mad man. The villagers, of course, notice what the child was carrying and couldn't help but wonder: 'What the bloody hell did that brat do this time?' The answer soon came to them, when they all looked at the Hokage Monument. All the heads had a geisha style make up on their faces, while their hairs were painted pink or blue. The heads of the First and Third hokages however additional writing on them, saying …" I'm an old monkey's uncle". Some of the villagers sweat dropped at the lame text.

"Get back here, Naruto!" one ninja yelled, while jumping off the roof, hoping to catch the kid. He was close. Just a second. An inch. And that preteen trouble maker will be caught. That however never happened. The boy dodged his grab while making a turn into an alley.

"Gimme a break, you guys! Haha!" Naruto laughed while running and making another turn. His pursuers came out on the street and… What the…? Where's that kid? They were looking around for a short, blond kid wearing a chainmail under a red, unzipped midriff with zippers and blue baggy pants, rolled just above the ankles, traditional blue ninja sandals and an orange jump suit jacket tied around his waist. But he was nowhere to be found. That's lame. Home in the world could they lose someone, who stands out like a white paper sheet on a black table. It's unheard of. Even two ANBU ninja, who just wanted to make sure the kid wouldn't be killed, couldn't find him. A minute later, they all scattered. None has even noticed a blank falling down, revealing the brat they were looking for. He just adjusted his goggles, then his armband on his right arm with kanji for "thunder", which a piece of clothing had connected to it, covering the boy's arm just to half his forearm. He was proud of himself.

"Better luck next time, suckers." he said when suddenly he felt someone hand on his shoulder.

"NARUTOOO!" the owner of the hand yelled out. The kid nervously turned his head to face that person.

"Oh, hey, Iruka-sensei." Naruto said, smiling. "What are you doing here?"

"What am I doing here? What are YOU doing here? You're missing class!" Iruka answered, performing his Loud Mouth no Jutsu, which actually increased his head, making his voice blow strong wind.

Later, in the academy

Iruka dragged the trouble maker to the academy. That kid has been causing him so much stress lately. He even wondered how come he still hasn't lost any of his hair yet, which he usually tied into a ponytail. The said chunin, for that was Iruka's rank, looked at Naruto who was sitting, tied up, on the floor in front of Iruka's desk. He was trying to intimidate the young blond with his appearance. After all, he was wearing a standard shinobi uniform: Dark blue ninja long sleeve shirt, same-colored pants, a green vest, a kunai pouch strapped to his waist from behind and a forehead protector on its rightful place. He even expected his scar, which was running from one cheek to another across his nose to build the mood.

But he failed miserably. Naruto was just sitting there as if his sensei wasn't even there in the first place. Iruka tied to lecture him again. Still nothing. That put a thick vein… no, wait. Three super thick veins on his head. That's it.

"Alright everyone!" Iruka said facing the rest of the class." Everyone in line! NOW! We're going to practice transformation jutsu!"

"WHAT?" everyone screamed. How could their teacher punish them all like that for what Naruto did? It wasn't fair.

Few minutes have past and half the class have performed the jutsu. All perfectly. It was now Naruto's turn.

"You know? We wouldn't have to go through this if it wasn't for you." a girl with bright blond hair complained at Naruto.

"Like I care." he answered her with a smile and not facing her. The blond stepped forward with determination. Somewhere at the end of the line, a certain black haired girl with pupil less white eyes was looking at him. Poking her index fingers, with a small smile and a blush she was mentally wishing him luck. Naruto set his hands and form a ram seal. Immediately, chakra began to focus all around him. Five seconds later there was a big puff of smoke that covered him. When it cleared, there stood a teenage, busty, blond girl. She was nude. And gesturing Iruka a kiss. To that view, of course, the chunin's perverted side kicked in. First, he was completely white head-to-toe. Second, his jaw dropped. Third- eyes wide open. Final, he got a nosebleed of such power, he flew back. A second later, the girl turned back into Naruto in a puff of smoke. The kid was laughing hysterically.

"Ha haha! Gotcha! How do you like my Sexy Jutsu?"

"You. MORON!" Iruka yelled at Naruto while performing his Loud Mouth Jutsu "DON'T EVER PERFORM SUCH STUPID JUTSUS!"

Later that day. The Hokage Monument.

Naruto hanging on the robes tied to his waist, cleaning the sculptures under Iruka's watchful eyes. None of them was in a good mood.

"Remember, Naruto. You're not going anywhere until you clean ALL that graffiti off the Monument." the older of the two said.

"Big deal. It's not like anyone's waiting for me back home." Naruto talked back. It may have sounded some tough guy's talk back, but the boy actually didn't had anyone. He was an orphan. As long as could remember, he was always alone, without any family. And Iruka knew it wasn't just that.

He remembered well that his troublesome student, for as long as he cared, considered everyone to be against him. And he had reasons for it. Everyone in Konoha hated the boy. They would glare at him. Some would ignore him or try to harm him. There were even those throughout the years, who nearly killed him even. Those haven't dared to touch Naruto, due to the law the Third Hokage, the current Village Leader, has made, still refused to provide him with normal treatment, product prize, medical attention, adoption, anything. The boy was treated like a plaque.

Iruka was thinking for a sec. It wasn't that he hated the youngster. So there was no need to be that harsh on him. Right?

"Listen, Naruto"

"Hmm?" the blond murmured while turning his sea blue eyes to his sensei.

"When you're done with this… social task, how 'bout we go dig ourselves some ramen? My treat." Iruka said smiling. He knew exactly how to motivate the kid, as his spirits rose up and he started to clean the mess at a higher rate. His enthusiastic yells could be heard all over the fire country.

Later

It was nightfall when Naruto have finally finished cleaning the Monument and both he and his sensei went down into the village to get their ramen. Naruto was at his next bowl, eating like there was no tomorrow. Iruka could only wonder where all that food was going.

"Naruto?" he asked. "Why are you doing all this?"

"Hmm? What do you mean sensei?" the blond kid asked.

"I mean the pranks you do. Especially the one you performed on the Hokage Monument. You do know who the Hokage is, right?"

"Yeah"

"So why?"

"Because I intent to surpass them. All of them, including the Fourth. I intent to become the greatest ninja there ever existed. Maybe even become Hokage myself. And then people will have to start looking at me like someone and not like something. I'm going to prove to them that I'm not some trash but the greatest shinobi. Believe it!" Naruto answered with his trademark wide smile on his face. Iruka was stunned by the boy's declaration. He could see in his young student's eyes determination. No, he could see something more. Soon a small smile appeared on Iruka's face. He was suddenly proud of Naruto. The kid may be a troublemaking knucklehead, but he had a big dream he wasn't going to quit.

"That sounds great Naruto. But you know that if you want it to become reality, you do have to work hard." the older of the two said, to which he was given a simple reply.

"I know! That's exactly what I AM doin'!"

"Then how come you're doing such a miserable job so far?" Naruto just gave a sheepish smile to that question while scratching the back of his head. Before the chunin could get the answer however, he was given a bill from the stand owner for all the ramen. Iruka took the bill, examined it… WHAT THE…? His jaw dropped. He turned to face his student, but the blond was long since gone. "UZUMAKI NARUTO! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS! I SWEAR!" He yelled out.

Few minutes later. With Naruto.

Naruto was running through the streets, hoping that his teacher wasn't following him. Fortunately he wasn't. The blonde slowed down when he reached the staircase to his block and started to climb up. Then, at the top floor, and walked to the very last door. He opened the door, stepped through and shut them. He felled save… for merely three seconds. After that he got a strange feeling that someone else was inside his apartment. He was trying to sense where the intruder was hiding. When he came into the living room, he felt some force tackle him and forcing him to lay down. Naruto tried to open his eyes, but found that something was on his face. It felt warm, soft and… 'Oh no' he thought. Now he knew what was going on. This feeling of being crushed and hugged into something. It was THAT person.

"Hey, Naru-chan! Nice ta see ya!" a girl voice said. She rose a bit from Naruto, so he could make an eye contact with her. The girl, about a year older then him, had purple hair, chocolate brown eyes with no pupils, purple hair tied in a spiky ponytail. A second later, she stood up, helping the blond get on his feet. What annoyed him was that she just kept teasing Naruto about their height difference. After all, he was only 146 cm tall, while she was, surprisingly, 155 cm tall. Right now, she was wearing a black t-shirt, an orange/brown skirt and a necklace with a serpent fang. All which simply her well developed and seductive figure more attractive.

"What are you doin' here, Anko-chan? I thought you're on a mission." Uzumaki asked her. She simply smirked and answered him.

"Well I was. But our team managed to pull it off sooner than we thought. Besides…" She at him. Before Naruto could notice, he was already laying on the ground face to the ground with her sitting on him. Anko was holding one of Naruto's arms in a firm grab, while pointing a kunai to his cheek. "There's no way I would have missed your graduation day tomorrow, Shorty. So I came here to help you better prepare." she said, licking her lips. Naruto saw that in a corner of his eyes and already regretted coming home.

Next morning. Ninja Academy.

All the students were present in the class. They were all wondering about the graduation today. All felt confident.

"Okay everyone!" Iruka announced. "As you all remember, we're have graduation test today! So… You all have to perform a Clone Jutsu." As their teacher announced that, everybody was mentally celebrating. Well, all but one certain blond. "No! Anything but THAT jutsu! It's my worse!" Naruto was shivering.

Some time later, most of the class was done. All of those people passed. It was now Naruto's turn. He stood in the middle of the room. The only ones there beside him were Iruka and another chunin, who had silver/white hair. Both were sitting in front of Naruto, waiting for him to get started, so they could judge his performance.

"Alright, Naruto. Whenever you're ready." Iruka said. The boy nodded and took his stand forming a ram seal. He started molting his chakra and after a few seconds… puff. There was smoke. Once it died, there stood Naruto… and his two clones. Well… kind of. Both his clone were dangerously pale and sickly looking. Iruka's eyebrow twitched. "You… FAIL!"

Naruto couldn't believe this or rather didn't want to accept this. He failed for the third time in a raw? He could feel himself falling into the abyss. How was he going to become a great ninja?

"Aw, c'mon, Iruka. I think we could pass him." Iruka's partner said with a warm smile on his face. "It wasn't that bad." After hearing that, boy's hope returned. But…

"No! We can't do that, Mizuki. Making an exception won't look good when compared to the other's performance." Iruka stated. "I'm sorry Naruto. Better luck next time." Naruto, of course, frowned at that. He looked like he wanted to cry.

Night time. Hokage's Tower.

The whole place was dark. There was just one shadow moving across the empty corridors of the building. It was moving fast and swiftly. Soon, it reached a certain door. It opened them. Entered the room and started to search for something. Everything was going smoothly… when the lights turned on.

"What are you doing here, Naruto-kun?" an old voice asked. Naruto turn around, finding an old, wrinkled man with a goatee, who was dressed in a white and red robes standing behind him. The prankster knew immediately it was the Third Hokage himself facing him. He was trying to come up with a good lie, but instead he put his hands to form a hand seal which helps to mold chakra and yelled:

"Sexy Jutsu!" The Hokage screamed like a pervert and fainted with blank eyes and a perverted smile, falling into a small puddle of blood under his head. Naruto quickly dispelled his jutsu a resumed his search. After a few seconds, he found what he was looking for. It was a big scroll. He picked it up. Strapped it to his torso and jumped out the window, disappearing into the night.

Else where.

Iruka was lying in his bed wondering. Something was deeply disturbing him.

Flashback

It was early evening when the graduation exams were over. Iruka was watching the crowd. It was a crowd of parents congratulating their children. Everyone was happy. He then heard some people whispering how clad they were a certain blond didn't pass, saying it would've been a big mistake. He took a look around and noticed his troublemaking student, then ONLY one to fail, sitting on the swing under a tree, depressed and heartbroken, watching the people. Iruka felt some guilt for the boy failure. Maybe he should go and try to cheer him up a bit. That's when the Hokage caught his attention.

"Iruka-kun? Do you mind some personal talk?" the aged village leader asked him. The chunin hesitated for a moment. He wanted to have a talk to Naruto first, but he noticed Mizuki coming up to the boy, it was decided.

Both Iruka and the Hokage entered an empty class room. It was hard for the chunin to believe that this room could look so beautiful when empty and lighted by a setting sun.

"Iruka-kun." The old man started with some seriousness in his voice "I think you're going a little too harsh on the young Naruto-kun. Please, try to understand him."

"But Lord Hokage. He's…" Iruka tried to speak, but was cut off by the Hokage when he rose his hand and continued.

"As you remember, thirteen years ago, the Nine-tails attacked Konoha. I know you lost your family on that day and that you were left all alone. But you at least had someone at the beginning of your journey through live. Naruto however never experienced parental love and was always faced with hatred. And that's because of the villagers' ignorance. They can't see that the boy…"

Flashback end.

Iruka was brought back from his thoughts when he heard a knock to the door. He rose up, came up to the door, opened them and faced a frightened Mizuki.

"Mizuki? What happened?"

"It's Naruto!" the silver haired chunin answered quickly. "He stole the forbidden Scroll of Sealing!" To that, Iruka was shocked. "We are to go look for him!"

"Fine! I'll go look in the north part of the forest then and you go to the east." Iruka said and jumped out of his apartment.

Later. Somewhere in the forest.

Naruto was sitting deep in the forest. Behind him stood an old, wrecked hut, on which he bended the scroll he's taken earlier. He wanted to take another look into it. But he was exhausted. But still, he was interested. He was murmuring something about having not much time left to master a good jutsu that learned from the scroll. He tried to pick himself up, when out of nowhere Iruka appeared before him.

"Ha! Found ya!" the chunin said. Naruto just sheepishly chuckle putting his wide grin on his face and scratching the back of his head.

"Hey, Iruka-sensei! I found ya!" Naruto replied cheerfully.

"Idiot! It was ME who FOUND YOU!" Iruka yelled at the blond, performing his Loud Mouth Jutsu. But he quickly regain his cool when he noticed that Naruto was shirtless, which allowed the chunin to examine the troublemaker more carefully.

The knuckleheaded blonde's body was well build for his age. Nearly muscular in fact. The most characteristic however was a thick stripe on Naruto's body. When Iruka first saw it a few year's back, on Naruto's first day in the academy more precisely, it was a simple ocean blue stripe, staring from the middle of his right chest, going up to his shoulder, over it and falling down, ending just an inch under the shoulder blade. The chunin thought then that it was a tattoo. But now, it looked more like an arrow on the back, pointing down, and splitting into five thinner stripes just above the shoulder blade. One was going up his neck. Second held the original track and that one was the thickest. Additionally, it was now shaped like a lightening. The third, along with the fourth, running on his right arm, while the five, the thinnest, was running just under it and ending just an inch on the chest, also shaped like a lightening. It had to be some kind of birthmark as well.

There were some scratches on his body and a lot of sweat, which suggested that he was training himself to death. Iruka scolded himself mentally when he understood. The blonde was training hard after all. Then he noticed Naruto was on his feet.

"Hey, Iruka-sensei" the kid said loudly with lots of enthusiasm in his voice, "I did it! I managed to learn merely one jutsu from the scroll, but still! Now ya have to let me pass!" As soon as Iruka heard Naruto say it, something troubled him.

"Ehm, Naruto? What are you talkin' about?" the chunin asked confused.

"I'm talkin' about the make up test."

"What make up test? Who told you that?" Now Naruto was all confused as well.

"Mizuki-sensei did. He said that if I manage to steal the scroll from the Hokage Tower and learn at least one jutsu from it, I'll pass. That's how you can still become a genin, right?"

Suddenly a thought hid Iruka's mind. Could it be that Mizuki took advantage of the boy? Why?

The scared chunin was about to tell something Naruto, when suddenly his instincts kicked in. He pushed the blonde away and got hit with several kunai knives and shurikens. He was pined to a wall of a hut, bleeding. Naruto was both shocked as well as afraid. What was going on? Was he the target? Did he mess up so badly this time that he was to be killed on sight? His train of thoughts was suddenly interrupted by a familiar voice of Mizuki.

"Naruto!" he said loud, standing on a branch of a tree before the hut with two oversized shurikens strapped to his back, "Hand me the scroll! Hurry! Then you'll pass the test!" The blonde was about to do so, even if he was hesitating. And he had reasons for that. What is going on? Why Iruka-sensei was acting as if this test was unheard of? Why did Mizuki have to hurt Iruka? Something just doesn't fit. Naruto finally grabbed the scroll and lifted it. But before he could hand it to the silver haired chunin…

"Naruto! Don't do it!" the wounded chunin shouted, pulling out some kunai knives out of his body. "Mizuki's lying to you! He's betrayed the village and his now tryin' to frame you!" Mizuki looked at Iruka and smirked.

"Oh? I'm lyin'?" He turned to the kid, "You want to know who's REALLY lyin' Naruto?" The blonde's shocked expression said everything. "Do you want to know why everyone in this village hates you so badly?"

"Mizuki! Don't! That's forbidden!" Iruka yelled with sign of pain.

"There was special law created especially so no one would ever talk about it. The law of which only you haven't been told." Mizuki continued, his voice getting more and more villainous.

"Mizuki! NO!"

"A law that forbids us from mentioning the truth about the Nine-tails. The truth it was not killed but sealed inside a newborn!"

"SHUT UP!"

"You Naruto! You were that newborn! This means… you Are the Nine-tailed Demon Fox!" Mizuki finished with a dark smile plastered on his face.

Naruto however a different expression. He was shocked. Afraid. Heartbroken. Betrayed. Even more. It all made sense now. All the glares he was given, all the harsh treatment. It was all because of the Fox. HE was the DEMON, not a child. The blond was so deep into his thoughts and sorrow, he didn't know what was happening in the real world. If he was, he would notice Mizuki preparing to throw one of his big shurikens at him.

"And now, allow me to relief of the pain, you DEMON!" the silver haired chunin said throwing his weapon at Naruto. It was coming in fast. No time react. That spinning projectile would slice him for sure. At least he will give this village what its inhabitants wanted. The demon's death. Everyone will be happy.

But before the shuriken could hit the boy, someone tackled him. Naruto was lying on the ground and could hear the sound of metal shredding through flesh. A second later he felt something warm and wet dripping on him. He looked up and found that Iruka was kneeling over him, shielding him. He was bleeding and crying as well, but he was smiling to the boy.

"Wh-why?" Naruto asked. Iruka quickly answered him with a warm tone.

"Because… we're the same. I was no older then you when my parents died fighting the Fox. I was left alone. No one gave a damn about it. And I hated it. So I became a class clown to draw attention of others. I know what it's like, Naruto. I know the pain of loneliness. But you don't have to be anymore. I'm with you." Naruto was looking at the wounded chunin with a confused look. He didn't know if what Iruka said was true or was it just some trick to torture him before killing. A few more seconds later he crawled out from underneath him, grabbed the scroll and ran of into the woods.

"NARUTO!" Iruka screamed panicking. Soon he heard a maniacal laughter of Mizuki, who now stood next to him.

"Did you the look in his, Iruka?" traitorous chunin started, "These are the eyes of the demon."

"You…" the wounded ninja tried to speak, but was cut off.

"Don't worry, Iruka. I'll safe you for later. For now, I have a certain fox to hunt down" Mizuki disappeared in a blur. Iruka knew, that he must act fast, if he was going to save his student.

Elsewhere in the woods, Naruto was jumping cat-like from one tree to another, the scroll still strapped to his back. He was moving like crazy. If he stops now, someone will kill him, at least that's what he was thinking. He dared not to look elsewhere. Suddenly Iruka appeared next to him, keeping up the pace with him.

"Naruto!" the chunin said loudly, ""We lost Mizuki! Give me the scroll! Together we can handle hi…!" he was cut off when the blonde tackled him. Both fell, Naruto next to a tree and Iruka a few feet away from him. They were both patting. The scarred chunin rose up and glared at the fox kid.

"How did you know I'm not Iruka?" he asked, turning into Mizuki, his real self, in a puff of smoke. Naruto only smiled and also puffed. When the smoke died out…

"Because I'm Iruka!" He said proudly, putting down the scroll, which happened to be a log. The traitor was furious. He was fooled. But then, where was the real Naruto. None of the two chunins knew that the young knucklehead was watching them from behind the tree not too far away from them.

"Why are you protecting that demon, Iruka!" Mizuki asked him. "Have you already forgotten what that demon has done to your parents? Don't you want to make that thing pay for making you an orphan?"

"No." Iruka answered him, "I don't blame Naruto for what happened. His not like that."

"Don't fool yourself. You saw his eyes. The eyes of a demon. Now, he's going to run away with the scroll. And once he learns all of its secrets, he'll return to have his revenge on this village. That's what demons are!" Mizuki shouted the last sentence out. Iruka was trying to catch his breath before he answered.

"Your right, Mizuki." Naruto, after hearing that, was shocked beyond believe. He felt whatever hope he had left leaving him. So Iruka was never there for him. He too hated him. The blonde was about to move, tried to run away, when he heard Iruka say the words that would fire his fires of hope back. "That's what DEMONS are, not Naruto!" The blonde froze at the sound of that. "Naruto may not be the most skillful of my students. He's the greatest troublemaking knucklehead I've ever taught. But I'm proud of him. He always works hard. That's what makes him special. That's why his too different from a demon. He is Uzumaki Naruto of the Hidden Leaf Village!" While hearing that, The boy was crying. So someone did acknowledge him. He was crying uncontrollably, yet he was happy.

Mizuki however frowned at that. He was glaring at Iruka with pure anger. He took the last of his big shurikens into his hand and began to spin it.

"I was going to kill you later" the traitor said calmly, but his voice became sinister, "But I guess I'll start with you after all!" Mizuki was about to throw his weapon. Iruka was too injured to move properly. There is no way he could doge the attack in time. That was it. The shuriken was send flying. The silver haired chunin smirked. That was it for the wounded one. Iruka closed his eyes, ready for death to claim him.

But the pain never came. The scared chunin heard the swirling shuriken stop. He opened his eyes and was stunned to what he saw. Naruto stood just before him, holding the projectile with his one hand. A small amount of blood was dripping, but Naruto merely grimaced. Then he threw the shuriken back at the surprised Mizuki, who barely dodged it. The weapon disappeared in the trees. Mizuki glared at the brat.

"You… YOU…!" the traitor started. But he stopped that Naruto's scratches started to disappear in a hiss. The boy was healing.

"If you lay another finger on Iruka-sensei, I'll KILL YOU!" the kid said darkly, growling. Iruka couldn't help but notice that the blonde's tattoo-like nevus started to slightly glow with a bluish light.

"So the little demon has shown up, huh? Excellent! Now I get ya!" Mizuki was smirking Taking his stance, while Naruto took his.

"Just tried and I'll pay you back tenfold!" the blonde countered, making a cross seal with his middle and index fingers on both hands. Mizuki charged at him yelling.

"Bring it on, Nine-tailed Demon Fox!" Iruka was scared for the boy. He wanted to tell him to run, but what he was about to witness would surprise him mentally for the rest of his live. He heard Naruto say out loud something he did not expect.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" There was a big puff of smoke that covered the entire area. Once it died, both chunins saw that there were dozens, maybe hundreds of Narutos, who were amazed by the fact they were… SOLID! The blonde has actually managed to master an extremely advanced jutsu, which even most jonins, the ninja of higher rank, had trouble with. The traitor was confused, he wasn't certain what was going on. What is this? Then Narutos reached out their hands and a small lightning shot out from their hands, binding Mizuki and holding him immobile.

"Hey, whazzup, Mizuki-teme?" One 'Naruto' asked, "I thought you said you were going to come at me. Well, if you won't come… THEN WE WILL!" All Narutos jumped and the silver haired traitor, who shouted in pure fear. The sound of beating could be heard.

After a few minutes, Mizuki laid on the ground, beaten and unconscious. Naruto dispelled his clones and ran over to Iruka to see, if his teacher was alright. That it was.

"I'm fine Naruto. But… where did you learn that strange lightning jutsu you used to bind Mizuki?" the chunin asked, confusing the blonde.

"I don't know. I just… felt it and it just happened." Was all he could say. Iruka was confused as well. Could it be the fox's power? No, it can't be. Even he knew that lightning wasn't he's element. But still… He stated he'll talk with the Hokage about this later. For now, he wanted Naruto to close his eyes.

"Okay, Naruto. You can open your eyes." The chunin said after a few moments. When the blonde opened his eyes, he noticed Iruka's forehead protector gone. He touched his forehead, and felt something cold and hard. Iruka smile widened. "Congratulations! You are now a genin of Konoha!" Naruto gasped, smiling. He could feel his eyes watering. The blonde was so happy, he jumped at Iruka, giving him a big hug. They both were laughing.

However, deep down in his mind, Iruka knew that Naruto's journey to the position of Hokage has only just began.

Chapter end

Omake

Naruto and Anko were celebrating his graduation. Both were drinking some juice, laughing. Then Anko said:

"Now, Naru-chan, in two days time, you'll get to know your team as well as you're sensei. Isn't that exciting?"

"Well…" the blonde wondered, "I just hope I don't get someone like your sensei." He answered. Anko froze suddenly. She knew perfectly what he meant. To think it was one year ago.

Flashback

Anko and her two assigned teammates were sitting in the class room, waiting for their jonin-sensei. They all wondered, what he would be like.

Then, the door was knocked down, as a bulky-looking jonin entered the room, apparently not caring if the door was there in the first place.

The guy was dressed in a standard jonin uniform, plus some spiky bracelets with a fore head protector tied on his left forearm. The guy also had black, three bladed claws strapped to his waist. But what caught the team's attention was how the guy looked. He was so ridiculously big and bulky. His skin was a bit darker than anybody else's, and under his feline-like eyes were even darker marks. The jonin was bold, had lower jaw set forward, wide face, small, almost flat nose and no eyebrow. He had the most intimidating appearance Anko has ever seen in her live. The guy had some meet in his mouth, which he was still chewing, but didn't look like he cared if other people see it. This actually made his lazy looking expression rather normal. In a few seconds he swallowed his snack, looked at the new promoted genins and put a smile on his face.

"Hello there, little people!" he said with a rather dark sounding deep baritone. That's when everyone noticed the giant had sharp, feline teeth. "My name is Nekokage Kuromaru. But you people may call me Kuro-sensei. Here," he said picking up a chalk, "…let me spell that for you." He turns around to face the blackboard and began to write on it. There was a horrible screech. Anko and her assigned teammates felt horrible goose bumps as well as a terrible pain in their teeth. They managed to notice the glass in the room, maybe in entire academy, break a second after he the noise started. Anko could barely keep her focus on the surroundings when she noticed one of her fellows trying to knock himself unconscious. Unfortunately, he either couldn't hit his head in the desk hard enough, or the screech was to annoying to be unconscious.

Suddenly there was silence. The genins took a look at their jonin-sensei and noticed he was looking at them. Then, Anko saw something that would actually scare her.

The guy was smiling. He was enjoying himself doing that.

So he continued. Ah, the pain.

Mean while in Konoha, the people started to cry. They could all hear that horrible screeching. The animals were acting like crazy, especially in the Inuzuka compound. Even in the Torture and Interrogation Department, a certain konoha-nin with two scars on his face, who was in a middle of interrogating some criminal, tried to cut the noise out by plucking his ears, while his prey cried he'll start talking, if only they make that screech stop.

Elsewhere, in the Hyuga compound namely, all the Hyuga began to cry, while their byakugan active. This was worse a torture. Everyone in the village wished the screeching stop. Even the ANBU in the academy ran away to find a quiet spot.

Finally. Silence.

Anko opened her eyes and noticed their sense' finished. He faced them smiling.

"I'm going to be your sensei. Yes sir. From now on, you're all under my care on your way to becoming powerful shinobi." He looked at them and noticed they couldn't pull themselves together yet after his writing period. He showed them a grin. "Looks like you can't handle the pain yet. That's too bad. Guess I'll have to start writing some more" They all paled.

Flashback end

"Yeah," Anko started to shiver, "wish you a better one than mine." She sweat dropped.

Omake end

A/N. Hope you liked the chapter. Please review.

Bio:

Name: Nekokage Kuromaru

Age: 31

Height: 196 cm

Blood type: AB

Affiliation: Hidden Leaf Village; team 12

Rank: jonin

Stats: Taijutsu- high; ninjutsu- good; genjutsu- average; strength- super high; stamina- high; intellect- high; chakra- super high, speed- good.

Special skills: high pain endurance, weapon master.

Name: Mitarashi Anko

Age: 14

Height: 155 cm

Blood type: A

Affiliation: Hidden Leaf Village; team 12

Rank: genin

Stats: Taijutsu- good; ninjutsu- average; genjutsu- good; strength- good; stamina- high; intellect- high; chakra- good; speed- good.

Special skills: terrain adaptation.