A/N: Yo. I know I am writing short chapters, but honestly I really only like writing four pages in microsoft word then posting them. :x I will probably start writing more once my midterm is over. :D
Disclaimer:. I admit it. Your retarded :)
Niko sat with Sakura and Hinata in training ground twenty talking about each other and things that they all wanted to improve. When the subject got to Naruto however, both girls seemed to hold a low opinion of his skills despite them being friends with the blonde. Niko the decided it was time to tell the girls something that they would never forget about their friend.
"You know Sakura, I bet that Naruto has better chakra control, and better weapon aim than most chunin in the entire village. At least I know he has more chakra than any jonin currently in this village, save maybe Kakashi. However, had Naruto been allowed to grow up with people teaching him jutsu and control skills he could probably even fight half the jonin in this village."
Sakura and Hinata were staring intently at the boy as if he was holding a piece of meat in-front of savages but just wouldn't let it get close enough for them to taste only to smell and see. Finally after a few moments of waiting Sakura huffed and started to speak, "So are you going to tell us what you know? And why you wear that stupid orange…. Thing! like Naruto or are you just going to keep it to yourself like some homicidal maniac craving for suicide. Because if you do not tell me Hinata might have to kill me after I cut your testicles from your body and hang them from the Uchiha's ears like earrings."
With this said Hinata and Niko both visibly paled. Well for Hinata it was more like adding a fresh coat of white paint to a previous two day old white paint job. You could barely tell.
Waving his hands in surrender Niko sighed; "I guess you two deserve to know" He began before adopting a serious voice that startled the two girls in-front of him. "However before I tell you, you two must tell me what you know of the Kyuubi attack on this village from twelve years ago."
After telling what they knew of the Kyuubi attack, well what they were told in the academy which was simply, the yondaime use a powerful fuuinjutsu to send the Kyuubi down to hell taking his own life to do so.
"Well I can pretty much imagine that you think this is true however, I am sorry to say. It isn't. Well parts of it are not true."
The shocked looked on their faces made Niko grimace, he really wished Naruto was here to do this but they had both decided that today was the best time to do it and since Naruto was AWOL that only left him, but since he promised Naruto that today had to be today. So, being much like his friend he could not break said promise and decided to go with out Naruto.
"Well the yondaime did defeat the Kyuubi with a fuuinjutsu but he also used a ninjustu, to call upon to death god to seal the soul into a person because no jutsu the yondaime could create was powerful enough to destroy a body made of pure chakra like the tailed demons are."
"Wait… Tailed demons? You mean there are more?"
"Yes, exactly eight more Hinata. And no Sakura I will not tell you where I got this information from because he is like a father to me and Naruto alike, HOWEVER!" began Niko again, breaking Sakura and Hinata from there thoughts, "The fuuinjutsu that the yondaime used sealed the demon into a baby whose chakra pathways were not yet formed and being a baby it was innocent to everything thus canceling out the evil of the Kyuubi."
"Wait, so who was this boy?"
"Yea and what does he have to do with Naruto?"
Niko chuckled, "The boy you two are so uppity about now, is… Naruto."
Silence.
Upon walking onto the training seeing the two girls mouths open and the boy sitting there with his head down, one would think that someone had just died. In fact, something did happen, something died inside of the two girls that day. They now understood all of the teasing and taunting Naruto got, they understood why he would plaster on fake smiles to make others laugh when he himself was basically being tortured on the inside. They understood why Naruto was never around during October tenth or why he wouldn't be at school the following week. They clearly saw everything now and they couldn't bring themselves to feel mad for being left out of the loop.
Niko after several minutes began to rise watching the two young kunoichi in-front of him, "I am sorry for you two to have to find out so soon, but I thought it best. Naruto was supposed to be here but I guess that he got cold feet at the last minute. But, I don't blame him. I will see you two later. Think about it all and do what you feel is right. If you do not want to be Naruto's friend, while I will hate you for it just remember that he won't." With that said Niko walked off the training field and towards Ichiraku ramen where he knew the blonde to be at.
However back on the training field the two girls continued to sit there not even really noticing the other due to both of them being lost in thought over their newest friend and what he had faced his entire life with out even showing an ounce of remorse towards the citizens of the village. Well, maybe that was stretching it. He did pull of some pretty mean pranks. However, they never could trace them back to the culprit they only had partial evidence and the one time Naruto did get caught Iruka made him clean up his mess.
That was Hinata's train of thought when suddenly she realized something. Iruka-sensei knew about the Kyuubi in Naruto, he had to. Is that why he failed Naruto when he tried to graduate, or did he truly care about the boy and want to make sure he knew how to handle himself before he left the academy and become a shinobi. Now that she thought about it, Naruto probably could have graduated before any of them. Yet, he was never given the chance to due to his tenant. Is that why Mizuki-sensei was killed? Did Naruto use the demon inside of him to kill the man? Or did what Niko say about him having more control and chakra than most ninja in the village hold truth. She had to find Iruka and ask him. He probably knew better than anyone else in the village.
After standing and saying good bye to Sakura, Hinata ran to the academy where she knew the scarred chunin would be at for most of his day which ran into some hours of the night.
Sakura however just sat there in amazement. How could she of not seen it? She thought about Naruto and her feelings for him. What did they mean? Suddenly finding her self second guessing all her emotions she went to find someone who was able to understand her feelings. She went home to talk to her mother.
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The sound of bowl hitting bowl could be heard as Niko walked into the ramen stand where he saw Naruto making several stacks of empty bowls of ramen.
"Hey man."
Now there were many things that people could assume was a sign of an oncoming apocalypse such as a meteor hurtling toward earth, Orochimaru turning him self in, or even a bigger sign; Sandaime Hokage tap dancing in the street while reading a copy of Icha Icha Paradise. However, none of these happened. But, what did happen caused Niko to flinch, Ayame and her father to gasp and the other patrons of the restaurant to flee for their lives. Naruto set down his chop sticks and spoke softly, "I don't feel like eating any more ramen, how much do I owe you old man?"
Silence.
Naruto started to look around at the faces of everyone. "Uhm… What's wrong with everyone?" Three thuds were heard as the bodies of Ayame, Teuchi, and Niko hit the ground.
After standing back up and paying for Naruto's bill Niko led the blonde out of the ramen stand and pulled him into a nearby alley. "Why didn't you show up today?"
"I just didn't feel like being turned away by two more people."
"Why do you keep insisting that people will turn away?" Niko sighed. He knew this was going to happen today. He knew Naruto would not show up, he also knew why. "Well I told them."
"I know you did."
"Wait… How did you--" Niko was cut off by three Anbu soldiers surrounding him with kunai drawn.
The Anbu on Niko's left spoke. "Niko Marshiazi, you are to come to the Hokage's chambers immediately, failure to do so will end in immediate punishment."
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Iruka was busy at his desk when Hinata burst through the door saying something about Niko telling about Naruto being a demon. Iruka blanched visibly grabbed Hinata and shunshined to the Hokage's tower. After running through the building and into the Hokage's chamber, Iruka looked at the Sandaime with a pained expression. "Hokage-sama, we might have a problem."
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A/N: What will happen to Niko? Why did Iruka act the way he did? Why Sakura turning to her parents? Where is the Sasuke bashing? OH THE TORTURE! BWAHAHAHA. Review. Or I will find you. And.
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