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"Talk"
'Think'
"Talk"
'Think'
Hokage Tower
Naruto walked up to the secretary who was busy painting her fingernails. "Hello miss I need to speak to the Hokage...now." he said to her.
"He's in a meeting now go away." the secretary replied in a snooty voice, completely ignoring him.
Naruto knew she was lying, it was around noon on a monday morning. The Hokage had no meetings, and was probably on his lunch break about now, but would allow a few people in his office if it was an emergency.
And right now it was an emergency.
Feeling that this woman needed a good lesson he did a few hand seals, and whispered, "Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Jutsu." the secretary then screamed and fell from her seat. Her screaming alerted the Hokage.
"WHAT'S GOING ON IN HERE!" he demanded before seeing the boy standing over his secretary. "What did you do to my secretary?" he asked pulling out a kunai.
Naruto scowled a little, "Calm down old man I knew she wouldn't comply so I decided to use some scare tactics." he then put his hand in the tiger seal and muttered. "Release." undoing the genjutsu on the woman.
"Who are you?" the old Kage asked.
"Years ago a fox disappeared, and today he has returned." Naruto said getting Sarutobi's attention.
"Follow me boy." the Sandaime ordered.
Shrugging in reply the blond followed the old Fire Shadow, until they were in his office a minute later.
After locking the door, and placing a silenting jutsu around the room Sarutobi turned towards the boy he thought was dead for som many years, "Naruto is that really you?" he questioned him.
"Right on the money you old monkey!" he said before pointing to his whisker marks, "Or has your memory deterioated over the years since I've been gone?"
Faster than the blond could follow, he was wrapped in a strong, yet awkqard hug by one of the most powerful men in Fire Country.
"I have missed you Naruto-kun." Sarutobi said pulling him closer, only for Naruto to awkwardly return the hug.
"Where have you been for these past seven years?" he asked finally letting go of Naruto.
"Take a seat this will take a while." the blond replied pulling up a chair.
Many Hours Later
Sarutobi was stunned. For the past seven years Naruto has faced, and done so many horrible things it would make Ibiki sick to his stomach. And that was saying something because he was a well known sadist who could handle anything.
"So let me get this straight you've trained with the infamous Shishio Makoto and his group. And traveled all around the Shinobi Nation, and now you want join the village?" Sarutobi asked, but felt that Naruto wasn't telling him everything.
"Yes."
"All right, here's a note for the Genin Exams in ten minutes." Sarutobi sighed after processing the information.
"I thank you Lord Hokage." Naruto said disappearing in a swirl of flames.
"Lord Hokage?." those words sounded bitter in his mouth, out of all the people in the village Naruto was the only one to show him any form of disrespect. But now his go lucky attitude was gone, and who could blame him? Out in the world a boy has to become a man sooner than others. He only sighed and lit up his trusty pipe, hoping the nicotene would sooth out his thoughts.
Academy
Naruto landed before the academy doors. His already furrowed brow narrowed even more. He remembered his first day here, and it wasn't a pleasant one, for one whole year he suffered rigged tests, and punishments for the tinest mistakes. But that was then when he was nothing but a weakling, and this was now. Pushing the doors open he walked though the corridor to the room he had been instructed to go to, room 374. He could hear the class talking and laughing as they approached the door. He knocked on it and were answered with a, "Come in!"
After the door had been opened the room, which had been loud with the playful noises of this years graduating class had turned silent. They looked at the new arrival with suspicion. The fangirls, which had just one second been smothering Sasuke looked at the handsome new arrival but brushed him off as he couldn't compete with their Sasuke-kun. However almost all the guys were wondering about his scars, the coldness in his eyes, and wondering why he was dressed as a samurai because this was a class for ninjas. At the front of the class were two adults in a Chuunin vest, one had brown hair tied in a paint brush styled ponytail, he bore a scar across his nose. The second one had silver hair with deception in his eyes.
"May I help you?" Iruka asked. He was then handed the note, got a look of surprise on his face, and then went back to normal.
"Okay class today we got a new student." he said making the entire class groan in protest.
"Iruka-sensei how come he just walks into here and take the exam, while we had to stay and listen to all your boring lectures. That's bullshit, plus he's probably some wannabe samurai who will lecture us on our ways of life!" a boy with a dog on his head complained.
"Kiba watch your mouth. And the guy just went on a training trip for a few years, plus you all know him you just didn't pay attention to him. Besides you might learn something form him." Iruka scolded reciting what the Hokage wrote on the note. "Go take a seat." he told Naruto.
Naruto only nodded to the scarred Chuunin and started walking up the stairs looking for a seat. So far he didn't like any of the kids. However a few looked to be okay for the most part. One of them was a guy with black sunglasses and a trench coat, a fat guy eating chips, a guy sleeping, and a girl with white eyes so he decided to sit by her. As he sat by her he saw her looking at him, she was shaking nerviously, but the look in her eyes showed that she knew him.
'She's looking at me like she knows me. But unfortunately I don't know her name besides seeing that she's a Hyuuga.' Naruto thought to himself with disinterest.
"Class it time for your final tests." Iruka spoke up, but everyone minus a key few ignored him. Sighing the scarred-faced Chuunin knew what he had to do, "Shut up!" he shouted causing his head to enlarge five times its normal size, creating the famous Big Scary Head Jutsu that was well know throughout the village.
Seeing the mans monsterous head caused the roudy students to shut up, and foucs all their attention on the Chuunin instructor.
"Good for the exam we will do a written test, weapons, and ninjutsu test. But before we begin the test. I would like to announce Sasuke Uchiha as Rookie of the Year." Iruka declared enticing all of the screams and cheers from Sasuke's fan club, and making the blond cover his ears from their shreaks.
"Now time for the graduation exam. The written test!" Mizuki announced before handing them out to the students one by one.
The written part went by with out much hassle, Naruto had no problems because of his training with Saizuchi, and he smirked as they graded the papers.
Iruka cleared his throat, "Okay now we'll announce the scores for the written exam. Sakura Haruno one-hundred out of one-hundred, Naruto Uzumaki one-hundred out of one-hundred, Hinata Hyuuga one-hundred out of one-hundred, Sasuke Uchiha ninety-nine out of one-hundred-"
"What?" a fangirl shouted, "Iruka-sensei that can't be right? The new guy last getting one-hundred percent? That's impossible!"
"Yea Iruka-sensei he cheated!" Sakura screamed.
"There's no way he did better than Sasuke-kun!" Ino added.
"That wannabe samurai couldn't possibly know what us ninja do!" another screamed.
"Shut up or I'll tear your guts out and hang you with them." Naruto said coldly, making everyone back off having the feeling he meant it.
"Naruto please don't scare the students. Come on let's go out side for the weapon and ninjutsu part of the exams." Iruka announced ushering the to-be Genin out of the room.
Outside
Once outside Mizuki and Iruka told them about the next part of the exam, "Now for the Weapons portion of the test! Everyone line up! You need to hit all eight points on the target."
The entire class went up, some did good, others failed miserably, while others did above average. Until Sasuke was the last person to go before Naruto. The Uchiha took out eight shuriken and threw them at the dummy; he hit seven targets while the last one hit a tree.
"Very good Sasuke." Iruka congratulated the Uchiha heir. But the teen simply ignored him and went off to the sidelines.
"Naruto you're next." Mizuki announced giving him a fake smile.
Naruto stepped up causing most of the class to snicker. He heard the whispers that the wannabe samurai couldn't even trow them in a straight line. However a few remarks from the guys said his sword was compensating for something. Narrowing his eyes at their foolishness the blond took four shuriken each in his hands, crossed his arms, and threw them and all of them hit their targets deeply in the dead center of the target and walked away calmly.
Iruka was pretty impressed seeing the last bit. He had to admit that while the blond didn't look it, he had exceptional ninja skills. Clearing his throat he was about to annunce the next part before the fangirls started screching again.
"Sensei!" a fangirl screamed, "Make them do it again! He cheated!"
"Samurai can't throw shuriken it's impossable." another fangirl screeched.
"Yea there's no way that wannabe samurai could have-" Sakura tried to continue but Naruto interrupted her.
"Didn't I tell you to shut up Haruno?" Naruto said with irritation in his voice, and fingering his katana.
"Naruto please stop scaring my students, let's get to the ninjutsu portion of this test so I can go home." the scarred Chuunin sighed, honestly wishing he invested in some earplugs.
A number of students came forward and did the academy jutsu's. Many did a decent job, while others failed miserably. But the ones that did noticably better than the rest was the trenchcoat kid named Shino Aburame. He created an insect clone out of the bugs in his body much to the girls disgust. The fat kid named Chouji Akimichi did his clans Expansion Justsu making him as big as a boulder. The sleepy kid named Shikamaru lazily did the Shadow Posession Justu his clan was famous for. The Hyuuga named Hinata honestly did her best, but didn't have anymore jutsus to perform since her clan deemed it forbidden, and the mutt boy named Kiba Inuzuka did his clans All-Fours Jutsu turning him more feral.
Until at least until it was Sasuke's turn. The brooding teen walked up to a training dummy, and flashed through eight hand seals with the last one ending on tiger. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" he called out before firing out a massive orb of roaring flame out of his mouth, the flame then incinerated the training dummy to a pile of burnt wood which made his fangirls scream in delight.
"Naruto how many are you doing?" Mizuki asked once it was his turn.
"One, not including the academy jutsu's" Naruto answered shocking many of the students, as they didn't even know that samurai's knew the art of ninjutsu.
Most thought he was bluffing before he easily transformed into the Sandaime Hokage, swithched places with a nearby log, and created ten illusions of himself. After finishing those three techniques Shishio literally beat into his head he then did a series of five hand seals that ended on snake and whispered, "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" and shot a wave of wind from his hands that leveled fifteen trees. Leaving an impressed Iruka and a pissed off Uchiha.
"Okay now that that's over we'll-"
"Hold up Iruka sensei isn't there another test that we could do for extra credit?" some whiney student who miserably failed all three tests whined out. Causing a bunch of agreements from the other failures.
Iruka in all his years of teaching was at a loss on what to do. He looked over to his best frined only to see him with the same lost look on his face. The scarred Chuunin looked up at the position of the sun to determine the time.
"Iruka I believe we have plenty of time for one test. How about a taijutsu portion?" the silver-haired Chuunin suggested.
"But we haven't done that in years since one student crippled another." Iruka protested.
"But that's only because we weren't fast enough to prevent it. Look it's been six years and we both have more experience under our belts." Mizuki casually replied. "Plus do you really want to teach a larger batch next year when we could get rid of more than a few today?"
The brunette surpressed a shiver, while he did love teaching some students were just plain untolerable. "All right I'll agree with you this time." he sighed giving it.
Mizuki only clapped his hands to get their attention, "Well students there is one more test you could take if you want." he announced to them gaining cheers from a majority, "All right the last test will be sorly based on taijutsu, you are to use no weapons, and no form of nin or genjutsu. Now line up and I'll randomly pick some names for the match up."
Naruto casually watched the so-called matches with little interest. Most of these brats wouldn't survive out in the world with this level of skill. A few matches later he saw the fight between Shino Aburame and Shikamaru Nara. Or should he say the no match was, because Shikamaru gave up before it even began saying it was too troublesome.
Sakura and Ino tied with each other in a match that made him want to throw up.
Hinata won against some no name, which was a no brainer in his opinion.
Chouji fought against Kiba, and won via Chouji sitting on Kiba for calling him fat, while funny it was sad seeing the arrogance of the Inuzuka heir.
"Now will Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki step forward?" Mizuki called out the last two.
The blond frowned seeing that this was far from random, but since he couldn't really do anything without any consequence he stepped into the ring.
"I'm going to enjoy kicking your ass dobe." Sasuke declared.
"You can try Sasuke. You can try." Naruto sighed.
Meanwhile the fan club was cheering on their Sasuke-kun. "Go Sasuke-kun! Kick his ass! That loser samurai can't match you."
"You hear that dobe?" Sasuke asked charging, "You're gonna lose!" the Uchiha threw a punch to Naruto only for Naruto to dodge it and all of the others effortlessly. "Dammit stop dodging so I can hit you!"
Naruto just stopped his punch with his hand, "Isn't it the point for me to dodge idiot. You're annoying go away." he said before punching the Uchiha in the stomach and sending him back into a tree. Unfortunately for Naruto Sasuke wasn't giving up. He got up, pulled out a kunai and ran at him.
"Sasuke is disqualified for using a weapon in a taijutsu match! " Iruka yelled out hoping to stop the fight.
"Actually Iruka-sensei I don't mind a match like this. But don't blame me if he gets hurt because of his stupid actions." Naruto said dodging Sasuke's attack.
Know he couldn't stop him Iruka allowed the match to go on. But he was unaware that they were being watched.
Hokage Tower
Sarutobi was watching the fight through his crystal ball along with a few Jounin; Asuma Sarutobi, Kurenai Yuuhi, Kakashi Hatake, and Gai Maito.
"So this is the Uzumaki kid who disappeared nearly eight years ago?" Asuma asked his father.
"Yes he is." Sarutobi replied.
"I must say he does fight very well I wonder who taught him?" Kakashi pondered.
"What I want to know is why the students hate him just because he's a samurai." Kurenai pondered.
"Kurenai as you know the samurai and ninjas have been at each others throats for years. The idea why varies, but I believe it is their life styles. Because the samurai fight with honor and loyalty, while us ninjas do the exact opposite. Two sides of the same coin we are, it's such a shame." Sarutobi sighed rubbing the bridge of his nose.
"NARUTO-KUN'S FLAMES OF YOUTH IS SHINING BRIGHTLY! IF I CAN NOT MATCH HIM I'LL RUN TO WIND COUNTRY AND BACK ON MY HANDS! IF I CAN'T DO THAT I'LL DO THREE MILLION PUSH UPS WITH A TEN TON BOULDER ON MY BACK! IF I CAN NOT DO THAT-" Gai ranted not realizing the people in the room ignoring him.
"Lord Hokage do you know why he disappeared?" Kakashi asked, clearly curious how and why his sensei's son disappeared.
"From what he told me after a very bad beating, two Chuunin took him to The Vally of the End and-"
"OH MY GOD DID HIS KATANA JUST CATCH ON FIRE!" Gai screamed in disbelief making everyone in the room look into the crystal ball, and sure enough his katana was on fire.
Back to the Fight
The fight was getting deadly Sasuke has already put a few small cuts on Naruto's yakuta. However Sasuke himself was already suffering from some bruises.
Sighing that the fight was getting nowhere Naruto decided to end the fight. He pretended to leave an opening for the Uchiha to attack him, and that said person took the bait. As he got close Naruto unsheathed his katana which caught on fire as he slashed Sasuke across his chest. Sasuke screamed out in pain as the serrated sword cut and burned at the same time. He hit the ground rolling, until he came to a complete stop ten feet away from Naruto. He was about to get up when he felt a sandal on his neck, and stared up at the emotionless eyes of Naruto with his flaming katana near his forehead.
"Naruto enough is enough you've already beaten him." Iruka ordered appearing next to him.
"Sorry Iruka-sensei just got caught up in the moment." Naruto replied putting the flames out and sheathing his katana in his scabbard. He started walking away until Sasuke jumped to his feet and yelled at him.
"Dobe tell me how you got so strong!" the Uchiha demanded.
"Why?" Naruto asked, though knowing the reason already.
"Because I demand it!"
"You demand it? Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're a sad little man. You are nothing but a spoiled brat, always expecting to get your way because you are the "last" Uchiha. You have absolutely no power over me, so I don't have to do anything you ask or "order" me to. You are nothing but an insect to me." the samurai said shaking his finger while walking away.
In a rage Sasuke ran at Naruto. He jumped into the air and made a flying kick that was about to connect with the back of Naruto's head, the teen whirled around, and caught Sasuke's foot by the ankle. Naruto then swung Sasuke over his head and smashed him into the ground knocking him unconscious.
Sighing Naruto let go of the boys ankle and walked away until Sasuke's fangirls started screaming at him. They were screaming at him saying, "How can you do that to Sasuke-kun" or, "You monster" and the famous, "You will be killed for this."
Naruto just ignored them and walked away, retrieving his hitai-ate from a stunned Iruka, he tore off the blue cloth, replaced it with a long flowing black one, and put it on his forehead all at the same time.
Later that Night
Sarutobi sighed, the council was on his back once they found out that Naruto was alive they were demanding his death for "trying to kill the last Uchiha". Currently he was in the council chambers with all the clan heads, civilian council, the elders, various Jounin, witnesses who saw the fight, the so-called "victim" who by the way was completely healed by the way, and Naruto himself.
Time for an explanation you see the council room, is a large circular room with rows of climbing stands and small desk tops. On the lowest levels of the seats were the ten civilian council members and where Hibari Haruno a member of said council sat at, behind them were the shinobi council seats, amongst them were the Hyuuga, Aburame, Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, and Inuzuka Clan heads. However there was one empty chair that used to belong to the Uchiha, but it would remain vacant until Sasuke was old enough to claim it. On the upper levels were a few men, one was wearing a white cloak and mask. He was the leader of the Hunter-nin Organization, and the Anbu Black Ops The second was woman with long curly black hair and glasses wearing a white outfit, she was Shzume the principal of the academy. The third was a sceavy-looking man in a white doctors uniform, he was Kuro the director of the hospital. And finally behind them at the top were the elders which included Sarutobi's teammates Koharu and Homura, while the last one was a one armed man named Danzou leader of the ROOT ANBU; although nobody knew they existed yet.
Why was Naruto here? Simple, he was on trial.
"Naruto, it says here that you viciously assaulted Sasuke Uchiha. Is this true?" the Sandaime already knew it wasn't true, but he had to do his job or he would never get to go home.
Naruto shook his head, "No Hokage-dono, I was taking the Genin Exam like everyone else. I was picked to fight the Uchiha and frankly put I kicked his ass. After I won I tried to walk away, but he attacked me from behind. So I caught his kick, and slammed him into the ground." he gave his reply like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Sarutobi nodded, "Alright, that's your story, I already asked Sasuke. And he didn't comment, so I have to ask some of the witnesses who saw the fight." the Third then turned to Sakura. "Sakura Haruno was it?" he asked.
Sakura nodded respectfully, "That it correct Lord Hokage."
"May I have your story? You were present at the fight."
Sakura instantly cast an angry glare at Naruto. "Sasuke-kun was injured by this freak for no reason!" she hissed.
The same was said from Ino and Sasuke's other fangirls. Naruto clenched his fists he wanted to yell in outrage, but he knew that it would do no good and make him look like a fool. Plus he knew that the Hokage had been watching the fight, because he remembered sneaking into his office when he was younger and saw him looking through a crystal ball. Looking at the woman's side of the hot springs...good he now had blackmail material.
However when he listened to the guys he couldn't help but feel some pride, hearing how he kicked the bastards ass and hearing them say the samurai-guy as they called him was an okay guy. He also heard Iruka's side of the story which was more detailed then his story was by a long shot, but was pissed when he heard Mizuki's sorry ass story saying he was about to kill the entire class and burn down the village.
The verdict was that Naruto was innocent of all charges, and that this "trial" was a waste of time. He ordered everyone minus Naruto, and the entire council to stay in the room.
Sighing at the stupidity of the council, Sarutobi spoke the dreaded demands the council asked him to tell Naruto, "Naruto even though you are innocent, the council still asks for your execution." he sighed before rubbing his temples.
"What are the charges exactly?" Naruto asked probably knowing the answers anyways.
"Why we shouldn't kill you for abandoning the village!" a fat civilian council member sneered.
"I was six years old dipshit, and I was a civilian at the time so I can't be executed as a Missing ninja." the blond stated.
"You would've spilled our secrets to another village!" the same man responded.
"What secrets? I didn't know any jutsu's back then, and I didn't know anything about your defenses, number of shinobi, or structure of the village. Even if they did capture me I wouldn't be able to tell them everything." Naruto said to the man like he was retarded.
"That was an awfully detailed list Naruto, care to explain that?" Shibi Aburame asked.
"Well Lord Aburame when I "left" the village, I was taken in by my sensei's and taught a lot of things." the Kyuubi jinchuriki replied, causing the mans eyebrow to slghtly rise up being called "lord".
"Such as?" Homura pried into the conversation.
"Like I'm going to tell you." Naruto spat with venom in his voice.
"Why you ungrateful little-"
"That's enough Homura!" Sarutobi shouted at his teammate.
"Are we done yet, this meeting is too troublesome." Shikaku Nara sighed.
"I just have one question for the brat." Koharu said, "We of the council demand you hand over that katana to Sasuke."
"What did you say?" Naruto asked in a low voice.
"I said we demand you hand over that flaming katana to Sasuke Uchiha." she repeated earning a blast of killing intent from Naruto.
"Listen you wench. You have no right to demand me to hand over my most sacred possession." the blond replied, trying to keep is voice even.
"The hell we do! You are now a shinobi of this village, so you have no choice but to listen to us!" Homura bellowed.
In response Naruto unsheathed his katana, its flames roaring with rage, "I will never hand over my sensei's katana to anyone. The only way you can have it over my cold dead body."
"Who is this sensei of yours anyways? Whoever he was he was some sorry excuse of a man to train a monster like you!" the fat civilian laughed, making Naruto release even more killing intent that made the man start to gasp from air.
"You pathetic excuse for a man. How dare you speak of my master that way!" Naruto raised his voice at the council, making everyone in the room, minus Sarutobi look at each other disbelievenly.
"I answer to none of you except for the Hokage himself. If you try to control me you'll pay with your lives." the blond said with absolute conviction in his voice. Putting the flames out he sheathed his katana in the scabbard, "And remember this I'm back, and will not take this bullshit anymore. If I'm attacked by anyone I'll defend myself, if I hear anyone breaking the Sandaime's law I'll kill them, and if you pull a stunt like this ever again...I'll make the Kyuubi attack look like a harmless little fox when I'm through with this village." he said to everyone with malice in his voice, and stormed out of the room. Leaving a foul smell from the civilian council, smirking members from the shinobi council, two amused people, and four plotting men and women.