Authour's Notes:Naruto is a property of Masashi Kishimoto and TV Tokyo. Please support the official release. I do. I also own all original characters (Lakenzu, Sade, etc.) and this idea so if you take it I will sue. and all other anime references that may be mentioned throughout series i also do not own. Happy reading! P.S. this is not a yaoi!

Ken woke up at 1 o'clock the next day feeling exhausted. His back was still hurt from when Mizuki threw him into the shed and his arms felt drained from using them to master the kaze giri no jutsu. His arms were probably pushed to the limit trying to master such a high level chakra control move with his abilities in that area. He could still feel them fidgeting from throwing that much air around. He decided to shake them a little bit to put the feeling back in them then proceeded to make a nice hot breakfast. Unlike his brother, Ken wasn't obsessed with ramen. Sure he liked the food a lot, but his appetite needed more than grains. He ate vegetables, fruit, and his favorite form of meat, chicken! He got picked at a lot for eating it because of his brown skin, but he never got the joke. He made grits with sausages and eggs and quickly devoured them so he could get ready for his day.

"Time to get ready for a long and lonely day." Ken said. Naruto was out getting his ninja photo taken for his ninja ID, but Ken had his taken three years ago when he passed so he had the whole day to himself. He proceeded to shower, get dressed and leave the house without wearing his bandanna. Naruto convinced him it would be better to surprise everyone tomorrow when they show up with their headbands. It would be nice to see the look on everyone's face once they see the village rejects show up as full-fledged Ninja.

"I'd like to see them say something about us now!" the young boy shouted into the air as he jumped from building to building heading toward the ninja's weapon store. He needed something bigger than kunai to mold his chakra around. The blades were too small for his large chakra reserves and he knew it would be easier to coat a large blade with his wind chakra. Once he reached the store he saw a young girl with brown hair wrapped in buns looking for scrolls. He could tell just from looking at the girl's physique she was a ninja. She would probably ignore him though like everyone else in the village, so he proceeded to do what he always did when they acted such a way.

Ignore them.

But as soon as the boy walked past her to find a bladed weapon she said "Hey."

'Hey?' Ken thought. Did someone just greet him? Did someone just say something to him without trying to make an insult? Impossible! Almost everyone in the village treated him and Naruto with disgust. There had to be a catch. This girl must have been trying to pretend to be nice so she could insult the boy afterwards. He continued to move onward searching for his blade. He soon realized he had no idea how the weapons were arranged in the shop. He couldn't ask the shop clerk where they were because He would just kick him out the shop as soon as he saw him. He usually just 'steals' the equipment and leave. Sure he leaves money for the item on the counter, but since the people still didn't sell him the item it was still stealing. After thinking about why shop clerks would not sell him items in the first place though, he felt less guilty for paying for the materials without permission. He was probably in the right for doing it. Before Ken could continue looking around the shop for a weapon the brown haired ninja girl came back with anger in her face.

"Well that was not very nice." the young girl said to the boy as if she were his superior. "I'm sure your parents raised you better than that." Ken just looked down at the ground. He thought the girl was purposely attempting to criticize the boy for not knowing his parents. He knew the girl didn't know about the spirit inside of him because she's to young to have been there when the kyubi attacked. Iruka explained the law made by the hokage to keep the spirit sealed inside the two boys a secret. That meant no one of the new generation could hate them for that reason. They simply hated them because their parents told them to. This thought angered Ken to no end. It also depressed the young ninja. He continued to look down silently with evident sadness appearing in his face. "Are you okay." the girl said. "I wasn't trying to say anything mean. "I'm Tenten. I'm sorry if i hurt your feelings." said the young girl.

"I'll be fine. Just leave me alone." Ken said in a depressed voice.

"I'm sorry. Let me make it up to you. I'm here every day getting new weapons. I know where everything in the shop is. what are you looking for?" The brown haired girl asked the young boy. Ken's head shot up. He looked the girl dead in her face. She was actually really pretty standing there with a huge smile across her face and her head slightly tilted. Ken almost began to blush. He was at a lost for words. He was always very shy when talking to girls. It's one of the reasons he never expressed his affections toward Hinata.

"I-I am loo-looking f-f-for a blade I can u-use the s-same way I-I-I use my kunai." the boy said as he looked back down toward the ground.

"Well, i don't know how you use your kunai. I don't know you at all Mr. rude. What happened to the super cool guy that was ignoring me about 5 minutes ago?"

"He left when some girl with food for hair started bothering him." Ken responded

"Well screw you!" the girl yelled at the boy while 'pointing her middle kunai' to the she turned around, and began to walk away Ken realized he was actually pushing the girl away on purpose. He was so used to people treating him with disdain the when they tried to befriend him he treated them with disdain. It was a self-defense mechanism. he was treating her with disdain before she got the chance to treat him with it. He was afraid of being rejected! before the girl could take two more steps and leave the store Ken spoke.

"I don't have any parents." he said with his head facing down but eyes looking partially at the girl. She froze in her tracks. "I was not born in Konoha." Ken continued. "I was left at the yondaime's doorstep the night before the Kyubi attacked. I am told by Sandaime, he planned on adopting me. I grew up in an orphanage with many other children who lost their parents to the Kyubi. Sadly they all acted as if they hated my guts. There was only one person there who treated me as if he was my friend. He's Naruto Uzumaki, and he's my brother. We moved out of the orphanage and got a place of our own because even the adults there acted as if they hated us. So yes; my parents didn't teach me any manners. None of the adults in my life did. Not even Naruto my brother. I have never had any friends besides my brother, and i guess I lack the ability to make any. I'm sorry for treating you that way and saying those things to you, and my past does not excuse the way I acted. Please understand that I did not act that way toward you just because I'm a mean person though. I hope that you forgive me, and if you are still willing I would love to have you help me find a weapon that best suits my fighting style." the spoke in a clear voice that seemed to have every piece of emotion he felt in it. It moved the girl's spirit to hear those things. It also hurt her to find out people could be so mean to the child. She also began to feel terrible for making the remark about the boy's parents.

"I'm sorry." the kunoichi replied. "I did not know. Please forgive me for saying those things earlier. I was only teasing." the girl said apologetically. "Of course I will help you find a weapon. It's the least I can do to make up for the way I treated you before." the girl continued. "You still have to tell me what type of fighting style you use though."

"I wield two kunai in my hands reverse grip style. I fight using a style of taijutsu invented by the cloud village. It's called capoeira. It's very rhythmic based and involves using my upper body to strengthen my kicks, and maneuver them in a way that increases my accuracy and dodging ability." The boy told her.

"I know of that style. It really advanced. How did you learn it?" The girl asked

"I didn't. I knew it since I was born. I demonstrated it once to my teacher when he wanted to test the class's taijutsu capabilities, and he asked the same question. He gave me some scrolls to help master the style to, but I improve much more quickly when I'm practicing using the techniques against my brother." Ken answered.

"That's really cool! I bet you're like a genius at the academy. There's a genius on my team as well. He's had a pretty rough childhood as well, but he's really good. Not very sociable though. You've improved more than him at socializing in less than twenty minutes" Ken's face turned bright red as he rubbed under his nose. He was really enjoying speaking to the girl. "Well I never got your name."

"I'm Lakenzu Uzumaki, but people call me Ken for short." The boy said proudly as he continued to rub under his nose.

"Well Ken, Why are you looking for a weapon? It seems like kunai would work perfectly fine with capoeira style taijutsu."

"Well, what had happened was..." Ken began to tell the girl the story about how he became a ninja. The girl's jaw was scraping the floor once he reached the end of the story.

"That was you?" were the kunoichi's first words once the shock wore off. "I was one of the ninja chasing you down. Me and my team would have caught you too if Neji wasn't busy training with Hiashi that night. His byakugan would have been a real help in finding you. I really can't believe how good you are. Our sensei couldn't even find the two of you." The girl said with a sparkle in her eyes. "I'm really impressed. I can't believe you, and your brother was able to learn jonin level techniques so easily."

"It wasn't easy. My arms still won't stop fidgeting controlling such large amounts of chakra in one day, Especially when I suck at chakra control, and only went through the basics of learning my chakra nature. Then on top of all that, I had to find a way to put that much chakra on a tiny kunai. It hurts like Heck. I need a bigger weapon so I don't end up straining my chakra coils. I'm not ready for a technique of that level of chakra control yet. I need to balance that chakra out evenly over a large weapon."

"Well, I guess it would also help if the blade was shaped like the blades of air you make too. I know just what you need." Tenten grabbed the boy's hand and dragged him across the store pass the weapons to a black door locked with a seal. After performing a few hand signs Tenten and Ken entered the room only to be shocked the room being pitch black. "I've never taken anyone to this room before. My father said only to take someone who was very special here." She said as her hand that was gripped tightly to his slid up his arm to his shoulder which she massaged softly.

"I'm abstinent... just saying. It doesn't matter how attractive or seductive you are my will shall not falter."

"Oooooookkkkkkkkkkk, but I was talking about special in terms of ninja skills. Thanks for the compliment though. If I knew more about you I might take advantage of you right here and now against your will." said the kunoichi with a devious smile

"Too much info woman! Besides can we focus? I'm the one here for a sword not you!"

"Oh sorry." she then took a few steps forward and turned on a light that shined directly over a blade on a podium. She grabbed the blade by the sheath and showed it to Ken. The blade was in a medium in length sheath while the blades handle was black with silver crescent moons running down along both sides. The hilt was silver and round like a full moon. The sheath was about 27 inches long with a peculiar shape and design. Like Tenten said, the sheath was in the shape of a crescent. Across the sheath was a drawing of the sky at night. It was black with many clouds floating across. The clouds however, were unable to cover the bright silver full moon in the sky. Across from the moon, atop a mountain, stood a wolf howling at the night sky. Below the mountain was a forest of trees that could only be seen because of the light shining from the moon. As a matter of fact, Ken realized that there was another bright light coming off the moon that was hitting the wolf directly, giving it the appearance of bathing in the moonlight.

"This blade was taken from a ninja who attempted to infiltrate Konoha and take the sacred scroll from our village during a full moon many years ago. Strangely enough, the ninja was capable of fighting with the blade in his mouth as he stood on all four of his limbs like a wolf. Even his features were reminiscent of a wolf. The battle to defeat the ninja took many hours, but the ninja was eventually captured. The weird thing is though, that when the sun rose, the ninja only thing he left behind was this blade. Nobody is able to touch the blade though. No ninja has been capable of wielding it so far. I find it very strange that your hair and eyes are reminiscent of a wolf's and that the blade you needed matched this one perfectly. Not only that, but capoeira is a martial art that involves fighting on all limbs for the most part just like a wolves. The blade was put in my family's care because of our history of using weapons. It is our responsibility to find a ninja capable of using this blade and help him discover its secrets. I think you could be the one who can use it." She then turned the blade so that the handle was facing Ken. Ken grabbed the blade by the handle reverse grip style and removed it from the sheath. The blade seemed to shine a bright silver glow as it was removed by him. No, the blade was radiating a white light. It seemed to glow as if it was the full moon. Tenten was blinded by the light for a few minutes, but Ken stood staring at the blade as he continued to move it further and further from its sheathe. Then Ken began to radiate the same light as the blade. The light was so bright it lit up the entire room. Then Ken blacked out.

Ken was standing on a mountain in the middle of the night with the moonlight hitting him. Ken was really confused. How the heck did he get here? Where the heck was here? Also, Why did here look exactly like the sheath to his blade?

"It's because you finally found the sword." A voice said. Ken jumped in the air and fell off the mountain, or at least he would have if the laws of gravity were in effect. He apparently was floating in the air. Ken was more worried about how he was so easily scared by that voice though. Sure, considering the situation he was in, anybody would probably freak out the way he did, but that did not stop him from crucifying himself for his actions. He turned around to find a small black wolf standing on the mountain behind him.

"Hey!" the wolf said to Ken.

"Who are you?"

"I'm the wolf you hate so much even though he did not do anything but have an evil grandkid. Thanks for being so mean." The wolf said. Ken was very confused right now. He did not know what to do, but he knew the first question to ask.

"What the heck is going on?"

"Well let me start from the beginning. My name is Kenbane. I am the ninja who came to the village to get the scroll. Let me rephrase that, we were the ones who snuck into the village to find the scroll. I don't know anything aside from the fact I'm the Kyubi's granddad, my name is Kenbane, and that this blade is connected to us. I don't remember anything from before the attack. What I can tell you is that in a few minutes we are going to get a visit from the beast dwelling in that blade. I think its friendly so don't worry. I think he will explain to us what is going." before Ken could even get the chance to say anything a rip in the universe they were in appeared. Out of the rip Ken saw the beak of an eagle, but he once the creature continued moving out The only features reminiscent of an eagle were the creatures "claws" and its "wings". It seemed to be some kind of combination of an eagle and lion. Griffon was the word that came to Ken's mind when he saw it even though he has no memory of ever seeing a creature like that before or even hearing of its existence. He looked to Kenbane to see if he knew, but from the look on his wolf face he seemed to have no idea either.

"Long time no see Ken. What the heck to you guys so long. I was in that blade for 13 freaking years! Just sitting here waiting for you to show up and save me, but noooooo you were apparently spending the last thirteen years learning ninja tricks you already know." The Griffon spoke telepathically to the both of them.

"What the heck are you talking about? How do you know us? I am so confused? Is someone going to rationally explain what is going on because I don't?" Ken said. The Griffon looked at Ken confused. His eyes the twinkled after a few seconds of staring. The beast flew down to the top of the mountain and stood on its peak where Ken was before he started floating in the air. Ken was beginning to notice the creature's beauty. Its golden fur was amazing and matched its golden eyes perfectly. The feathers on its wings shined a tone of white that perfectly complimented the creature's fur, and the wings themselves were even longer than Ken. its legs were of a lion's- big, muscular, and strong- but as they got closer to the ankles the legs turned into a birds talons but in a way that allowed them to be used as paws as well. Before Ken could find more to compliment the creature the beast began to transform. The beast wings shrunk back into its body while its face began to transform into a lion's. The talons turned into paws, and the creatures eyes shifted from the sharp green eyes of an eagle to the brown eyes of a lion.

"I just checked your memories. You don't know what a griffon is. Apparently you lost most of your memory too, though I have more than you. Ken, me and you literally have a spiritual connection, and I know things are happening pretty fast for you to understand now, but look into your soul and you will find the answers you seek. Just trust me on this one." The lion said. Ken's mind was literally going to explode. He was stuck in some type of alternate world with a wolf and a shape-shifting lion while he stood in the sky next to a mountain. The only thing keeping him from thinking he's going insane is the fact that if he was he would not know it if he was. However Ken felt like he had to trust the words of this creature. This might explain why he already knew how to use wind nature so well, and be extremely advanced in capoeira. Ken had to trust this creature the same way he trust the words of those dreams he has every night. Ken closed his eyes and looked deep within him. The next thing Ken knew He was being swarmed with visions of him and this griffon fighting. Visions of him turning into a werewolf, memories of the times him and this creature-apparently named Zekeon, but called Zeke for short-spent together. He learned things about himself that made no sense to his mind but his soul understood. Ken saw the memories of who he is, and where he is from, when Ken opened his eyes he was on the floor of the black room with Tenten lying on top of him praying she did not make a mistake of giving Ken the sword and kill him.

"Can you stop crying like that? You're getting my shirt soaked." Ken said as he started to wake up. Tenten looked up to find Ken smiling down at her with a face that screamed exhausted, while Ken saw a face that looked like it got hurt by a water tank. "That's not the type of face I want to wake up to in the morning." Ken said trying you make light of what just happened. Tenten however, did not find his jokes funny. She slapped the boy across the face as hard as she could, causing the ninja's cheek to turn red.

"Don't ever do that again! Do you understand me? That was literally the most terrifying experience I ever had as a ninja. If u ever almost die again I will kill you." The kunoichi yelled at the boy as she was hugging him as tightly as she could. She does not know why she cares so much for a boy she just met, but she feels at peace around him. As if his very person just calms her and makes everything ok. She really liked this kid and she would just die if anything happened to him.

"I promise that i will do my best to not scare you to death, and not die or almost die." Ken told the girl as she continued hugging him. Ken couldn't help but be filled with joy at the fact someone cared for him so deeply. He also was happy at the fact this was his first hug from a girl. Maybe a bit too happy. "Tenten, you can let go of me now."

"Oh! Sorry, I got a little carried away." Tenten rose off of Ken (slowly I may add) While (to Ken's joy) avoiding his 'kunai'. She reached her hand out for Ken to grab and helped him rise from the floor.

"Tenten, where's that sword?"

"Its back on the pedestal, but you better not touch it. You got luc-"

"WOW!" Ken yelled as he swung the blade through the air. "It feels light as the air I'm swinging it through, and it's so sharp it is making ripples in the air without me even adding wind chakra to it. This is great. I can't wait to use it." Tenten stood staring at Ken in awe. Just ten minutes ago that same blade knocked the boy unconscious. Now the boy was swinging the deadly weapon as if it were a toy. She couldn't understand what was going on.

"Hey Tenten, do you want to hold the sword?"

"Impossible! Only one warrior is supposed to be able to hold that sword, and five minutes ago you weren't even able to use it. I'm not going to touch that thing and die."

"Don't worry. As the wielder of Zekeon-that's the name of the sword- I give you permission to wield the blade. Catch" Ken threw the long blade at Tenten with the sharp edge of the blade facing her. She was forced to act upon her ninja reflexes as a weapon user and catch the sword by the handle just before the blade cut her hair. Also on reflex, she tackled Ken to the floor and straddled her legs across his hips. She then placed Ken's blade on his neck.

"What the heck is wrong with you? That could have cut me! Heck that sword would have killed me if I caught- Why the heck did this blade not kill me?"

"Weren't you paying attention? I gave you permission to use It." he told the girl with a huge grin on his face even though there was a blade to his neck. "Also you can't cut me with that sword, Zeke would not allow it."

"What are you talking about?" Tenten asked Ken in the midst of both of their confusion and chaos. Ken honestly had no idea what he was talking about. Just like his movements when he fights the words just flowed out of him, as if they were coming from his soul rather than his head. Probably because of all those memories the griffon put in him. He had not had the time to search through them and figure out what is going on, but technically he still knew the gist whished he knew something to tell her.

"I honestly have no idea." Ken told her with absolute certainty in his voice.

Tenten continued to glare into Ken's eyes to see if he was lying. Once she was satisfied, she began to rise off of the boy and still managed to avoid Ken's 'sword' to the young boy's joy. Once she was up she reached out her hand and helped Ken up from the floor. She returned the blade to the boy and promptly turned around to leave the closet. Ken soon followed afterwards.

"Where are you headed?" Ken asked the pretty kunoichi as they left the shop (without being noticed by the clerk).

"I'm heading to my team. We meet in about 30 minutes and it is a 20 minute walk from here to the training grounds where we meet every day."

"Wait you guys meet this early every day?"

"What are you talking about? It's not early. It's 2 in the afternoon."

"I know. I usually don't wake up this early on a Saturday. Right now I'd be sleeping."

"Well, you are very different from my teammate. He is always hyper and talking about exercising and the spirit of youth. He would probably freak out just hearing you say something like that."

"Hyper! I live with Konoha's number one hyperactive knucklehead ninja! I think that he would take this guy in energy any day."

"Really? We will see about that." Tenten then grabbed Ken by his hand and started leading him through the village to the training area. However, after two minutes of being dragged through the village people were already giving the disapproving and shocked looks. They probably assumed that since the two were holding hands they were a couple. Ken was burning hot from embarrassment, and nervousness. He reversed Tenten's grip and used the same hand she was gripping to grip her by the wrist. On instinct Tenten attempted to pull away from Ken but Ken reacted by pulling her into him. However, Ken pulled a bit too hard and once again Tenten was back on top of Ken. Murmurs erupted from the crowd that saw this, and Ken realized nothing good could come from this situation. Either the crowd was going to go crazy or Tenten finally hits his crotch or the worst possible thing is the unexpected happens. Either way all hell was going to break loose. He could really use some type of distraction right now to save him. He needed Naruto.

"Hey you! Get away from my teammate!" shouted a voice. Moments later a green blur grabbed Tenten and moved her off of Ken. He landed not far off holding Tenten in his arms. At the same time the crowd erupted screaming. One girl yelled "Kill Naruto! He kidnapped the Hokage's grandson and is trying to destroy his innocence by exposing him to naked women. He snuck into the ladies room!" Men, boyfriends, fathers, mothers, and girls were all after Naruto. The area wouldn't have cleared out faster if the Kyubi himself was attacking the village. Ken rose from the ground and faced the green clothed ninja. He needed to get Tenten away from him. She'd been so nice to him that he felt obligated to help his friend. Besides with everyone gone he did not have to worry about hurting civilians.

"Who are you?" Ken interrogated the green ninja.

"I'm Konoha's student of the green beast and ally of Tenten. My name is Rock Lee." The boy said. Ken remembers Tenten mentioning this kid ten seconds ago. He certainly was hyper, but Naruto was able to agitate an entire mob. Naruto definitely wins. Before Ken could even have another thought the boy rushed him. He seemed to move as if he were a green blur. He attempted a leg sweep on Ken but Ken did a backflip causing the sweep to miss. He landed in a hand stand and spun his legs around like a helicopter's blades. The boy dodged the first kick to the face by lifting his head back but once he brought it back up the ninja got a kick in the face from the second leg knocking him back into a building.

That didn't keep the ninja down for long however.

He rushed Ken again with a series of punches and kicks. Ken switched from his hand stand and put his legs under him as he whirled his legs around as if he were break dancing. All of his kicks countered Lee's attacks, but then Lee caught Ken off guard, and delivered a Konoha senpuu on Ken. Rock lee's leg swept through Ken's arm and left him unable to stand. He fell on the left side and slid across the ground. Ken flipped back up to see the boy was rushing at him preparing for another assault while ken was off guard. Ken reached behind him for Zekeon and pulled the blade from his sheathe. He put the blade in a standard grip and activated his wind chakra. Ken could feel his chakra coursing over the blade, the weapon literally becoming an extension of his body. Ken took a stance and prepared to release a large wave of energy from his blade. He gripped the blade tightly with both of his hands and completed a downward slash in the direction of lee as he yelled "kaze giri no jutsu!"

A large blade of air was launched from the blade straight toward Lee. He was caught off guard by the long-range attack and the gust of air smacked him across his entire body. It felt as if he was being hit by a high speed punch from Maito Gai, but it hit everywhere. He was knocked back into another building but this time he left a tiny dent in its wall. It took him awhile to rise from the strike. Ken readied himself for another close combat assault by switching his blade to reverse grip and his stance to capoeira. However, this would not offer much help from Lee's counterattack.

"You are really good!" Lee shouted as he rose from the ground, "But i still have a few tricks up my sleeves." the ninja then reached down to his leg sleeves and seemed to unbuckle something. Once he was done ken could see that the ninja had removed weights from his legs.

"Do you really think weights like that could increase your speed that much?" Ken shouted

Lee moved the weight to the side of his body, "My sensei says I'm only allowed to remove my weights when I am either facing an opponent who is too strong to defeat otherwise (releases weights from grip) or I need to protect someone precious to me. You fit both of the criteria (weights collide with ground)" Dust rose and covered the area where Lee stood as the insanely heavy weights crashed into the ground making matching craters. Ken's preflex kicked in but the moment it did he felt the blow his body was trying to protect him from. He was able to roll, and move his body in preparation for the blows and limit their damage slightly, but he was still at a major disadvantage. Lee was moving around him like a green blur of fist and fury. Ken got kicks to his abdomen, thigh, back of his neck, and punched in his face, chest, chin, and the small of is back. Once Lee had finished his series of blows Ken fell to the ground as blood trickled from his lips. Lee stood two feet in front of him in his standard combat stance staring at the younger ninja. "You are no match for me. You are strong, but you still seem to lack the real life battle experience of a ninja. It is clear that I outclass you in combat. Please return the blade you have stolen and turn yourself in. I would prefer there be no blood shed." Ken was beginning to listen to this guy's words. There was no reason for them to be fighting in the first place. Everything was a complete misunderstanding and he is sure that once he began to explain to Lee the truth this entire situation would blow over. He began to consider this option for a while until Ken heard the very words that went against everything he stood for. "Give up." the green jumpsuit wearing ninja told Ken.

Ken snapped.

As he rose from the ground he spoke. He said "I am a ninja from the village of Konoha who has had no love, compassion, or kindness shown to him his entire life except from three people. I have faced situations that are more horrific and terrifying than most people ever could. I have no reason to fight you or hate you. This fight began over a complete misunderstanding... However, I don't care if you outclass me, I don't care if you are more experienced than me, and I don't care how pointless, and foolish this battle. I WILL NOT GIVE UP!" As Ken spoke he began to transform. His eyes turned pitch black along with his hair that grew in length a few inches and spiked upward a little more. His ears began to point upwards like a wolf's and his body began to emit black chakra. Even his blade was covered in the black chakra and it even grew a few inches. Ken could feel all the changes taking place on his body. He could also feel his senses beginning to sharpen. His instincts began to go wild and his mind was only focused on one thing. Winning.

Lee rushed Ken trying to catch him off-guard during the transformation, but it did not work. Lee led with a jab but Ken moved his head a little to the left and dodged. His enhanced senses apparently enhancing his pre-flex also. He could put himself in the very place to dodge Lee's move before his over even came. Following up from the jab Lee tried an uppercut to Ken's chin. Ken already moved his head back and attempted and spinning roundhouse into Lee's chest. Lee dodged moving like a blur behind Ken thinking that if he didn't see his move he would not be able to dodge it. Lee attempted a Konoha Senpuu on the right side of Ken's head, but he ducked, spun around and did a reverse grip close range wind slash. This one however was actually sharp. The black air slashed right into Lee's left armpit and sent him flying into the air. The wound was deep, but Lee had been through worse. He maneuvered himself in the air to angle his body properly so he could deliver a heel drop to Ken's head. As he came back down hard Ken blocked the bottom of Lee's heel with the flat side of Zekeon. Ken was ready to launch a roundhouse with his back leg but Lee was still pushing down hard with his right heel. Right when Ken felt he could push Lee off Lee Brought down his left heel which broke Ken's guard and smashed him down, face first, into the concrete. He was sure to have a broken nose after that. After the blow Lee reversed his momentum by pushing off of Ken's head and landing approximately 6 feet away in front of him. Ken front flipped him back up right after Lee landed and wiped the blood dripping from the back of his head, his forehead, and nose off. These two were fighting viciously. All reason left both of them during the fight and they were completely focused on defeating the person that stood before them. They rushed each other, Ken with his blade in reverse grip ready to cut off a limb, and Lee Fist loaded ready to lunch and knock ken into a coma. They were ready to end it.

"Stoooooooooooooooop!" Tenten screamed. The two ninjas froze. Ken had Dodged Lee's punch. It was centimeters off of his left cheek as he was in Lee's guard. He had his blade pressed against Lee's neck ready to chop off his head. He had no idea how he could get so caught up in one fight. He hated killing, and yet h was about to do that very thing to a fellow Konoha ninja. Then again he was about to do the same to him. Though his punch missed he had another hand with a kunai between his knuckles pressed against Ken's abs. If they would have stopped even a second later at least one of them would be dead, at most both. Their eyes were meeting each other in a deadlock. They were watching each other. Waiting to see who was going to make the next move and who would finish the fight. The yearning to win began to wash out all of ken's logical thoughts all over again, and he was ready to strike.

The next move was made.

Tenten launched a flurry of blunted shuriken and kunai at the ninja in an attempt to break the two apart. It worked. Ken did several backflips to distance himself from Lee and the Kunai. Lee simply blurred to a roof. Show-off Ken thought. "You two need to calm down. Yall are both Konoha ninja! At least sit down and talk about this before yall decide to fight, and especially kill each other!" Tenten yelled at the two. Ken knew she was right. Heck he even knew to tell Lee the same thing, but all of his sense of reason left him in that fight. His cool, calm demeanor was taken over by bloodlust and rage. If it wasn't for the little meeting he had five minutes ago he had with that wolf spirit he would have had no idea what came over him =, but now he completely understood. The wolf's took advantage of Ken's emotions and began to leak his essence through. Ken almost had no control over what he was doing. Almost. Ken noticed his form was changing back to normal. His senses moved from high alert to normal, his chakra receded back into him, and his physical appearance went back to normal. Zekeon changed back to normal as well. He was back to his old self... confused and disoriented.

"Sorry!" Ken shouted to both Lee and Tenten. "I guess we both got a little out of control there. Lee! That's your name right? Can we talk? I don't want to fight you anymore." Lee just stared at Ken in his causal battle stance as if he was waiting to see if the ninja was kidding. Tenten had to throw a few more blunted shuriken at him to get his attention and snap him back to reality."

"Stop throwing kunai at me." Lee yelled. "My spirit was burning and my blood was pumping during that battle and you ruined it. I never felt so invigorated in a fight before. I do not wish to end our fight for it embodied the very essence of youth." Ken was caught completely off guard. What the griffon was this guy talking about?

Don't swear on my race, said a sword that could apparently communicate with Ken telepathically. He was going to have to get used to that.

"Lee now is not the time to fight people. Can we please talk this through?" Tenten pleaded

"You are right Tenten. If we make a proper greeting with one another our spirits would be intensified in battle. (Looks to Ken) My name is Rock Lee, disciple of Maito Gai- the green beast of Konoha- and also a member of team Gai along with Tenten and my rival Neji Hyuga." Was it just Ken or did his introduction sound more of a battle intro.

"My name is Lakenzu Uzumaki, the older brother of Naruto Uzumaki, and the new wielder of Zekeon: the full moon blade. I would gladly battle you any time, but first let's try to work everything out today." they continued to glare into each other's eyes never breaking contact for a second.

"Your spirit is fierce like a flame, but it has a sense of serenity as if it's-"

"The wind. Yea I get that a lot."

"Alright, May we engage in a heated battle of spirits another time. Please, explain the situation." Ken explained the situation to Lee. How he met Tenten, How he got the blade, he even explained why he snatched his hands away from and why everyone ran away which prompted Tenten to smack him for his behavior and admit defeat because no matter how hyper and annoying Lee was he could never get an entire half of Konoha to chase after him. That was so annoying it should be a super power. He did make sure no not mention the boners though.

"Your brother truly has the spirit of youth!" Lee said as Ken finished his story

"Anyway that's how everything went down. I wasn't attacking Tenten at all. In fact I think she's fairly nice."

"Great, but Tenten shouldn't you tell the Hokage you found someone who can wield that sword, and better yet knows its name! That's the main reason I attacked. I thought you stole that sword from Tenten; I am not surprised Tenten was on top of a guy. Wouldn't be the first time. She always ends up on to-" Lee got a fist smashed into his face and fell to the ground screaming in horror as he grabbed his face. Lee was right though... about the sword thing anyway. Ken had no idea about the last part, but apparently it was something she did not want Ken to hear. Ken and Tenten should have thought about that. The last person who used this weapon was some werewolf (whatever that is, he'd have to ask Zeke later) who attacked the village. And just two days ago he stole a sacred scroll. The crowd that was staring at him probably thought he was making a hobby out of taking sacred artifacts. Of course people would be trying to kill him.

"Crap, I completely forgot about that! I'll tell Gai sensei. I'm sure he will be able to see the Hokage sooner than I could. We gotta hurry by the way Lee. We are going to be late!"

"I can't leave yet! I want to know where Ken learned to fight like that. How did he coat his blade with chakra, and what was that transformation technique you used that mad your chakra go black?"

"Don't worry. He's coming with us. He'll explain on the way."

"Why am i coming?" Ken asked shocked

''Because, you need to explain to us just what happened, We need to find out why you can use that ninjato, you want to learn a new style of taijutsu, and cause I said so!" She grabbed Ken's hand dragged him to the training area once again. Lee was not far behind speaking things about springtime, youth, singing birds, and something about bees. ken explained how he learned the wind slash to Lee and why the sword made it so much easier to manipulate the air, but it still felt like the him and the blade were not completely in sync. Tenten said it was because it was a new sword and he had to get used to new weapons because they are an extension of his body, but Ken felt the connection was much deeper than that. And even if it was Ken knew that was easier said than done after the vision he had.

Speaking of vision he had to explain his werewolf (still did not know what that was but the words kept flowing in his head as if he did) transformation to his friends. Felt nice to finally use that word. It would be a shame if they neglected him after he revealed he had the Kyubi's "parent" enhancing his physical capabilities. How was he supposed to say that? 'OH that was just the Kyubi's ancestor who's not really his ancestor taking over my being and trying to kill you. No big deal.' That would go over real well. And yet he could not lie either. Christians (these memories were getting real confusing with these weird names) are not supposed to lie, and somewhere in his memory he discovered he was one of those. But the most perplexing question was how he has memories that date back to him before he was even a baby! This made no sense. At any rate he already did not like lying in the first place and he was not going to lie to his new friends, however being deceitful and lying are to different things (he thinks?).

"I enhanced my senses and changed my chakra by matching it to a wolf's. That's why my eyes turned black." He would have to thank Kiba for showing him how those techniques worked. What he did with Akamaru and Ken does with the wolf sprit was so similar that it could basically be described the same way.

"You got a teach me how to do that!" Lee said bursting with excitement

"I thought only ninja from the Inuzuka clan could do that." Tenten said astonished.

"Well it wasn't a full use of the techniques and as you can see there are some drawbacks. The wolf's nature takes over my emotions and logic and I fight like an animal. I turn into an animal ready to kill cause there is no mercy in the animal kingdom. It was my first time doing that and I promise I won't be doing it again until I can control It." ken said. He knew it was true. If the wolf really took complete control over him Most of the village would be gone right now. He knew that he had to learn to control it or it would control him again.

"Even so, how were you able to dodge my moves? Your eyes weren't keeping up with me I saw so how were u able to predict my moves and dodge?" Lee asked

"Oh! That's another of one of my unexplained natural abilities. I call it foresight, but others call it this stupid name pre-flex. Fore sight allows me to see into the immediate future a little bit and predict my opponent's next moves. So When I went animal it got enhanced just like the rest of my senses. It's like a sixth sense I guess. It's really iffy though. Like sometimes it happens so good i can dodge the move perfectly other times though it tells me the instant before I'm hit like I'm fast enough to dodge it. So I got to learn to master that too."

"We're just about there now." Tenten said as they approached the training gate. He opened the gate and entered a large forest. There were many hitting post and multiple target dummies place around the area. There was also an obstacle course set-up. It appeared to be made specifically so learn can learn to control his insane speed when he took of the weights. Once Tenten finally let go of his hand he turned his head to find the green beast of Konoha. He looked like an older version of Lee. Seriously, Lee could have been the guy's bastard son, but he was absolutely sure Lee was Gai's bastard son once he heard Gai speak.

"Are the flames of youth not burning in you today?" Gai asked as he looked at Lee. "Where's your passion for training, your burning for new strength Lee?" Gai said as he looked away ran to a hitting post, curled into a fetal position and cried.

"I'm sorry Gai-sensei!" lee shouted as he curled up next to his sensei (And definite father) and started crying.

"It's okay Lee. To make up for this we will just do 100 laps around Konoha."

"Yes Gai sensei!" Ken had thought these two were insane. He wasn't even sure he could do that, and the majority of his training was done to training on his arms so he could build his upper body strength for capoeira. He stood in complete utter confusion as he saw the look-alike student and teacher hugging and crying in into each other's shoulders.

"Oh! And Tenten, you are excused from your punishment. I can't punish a young girl for exploring the passion and mysteries of spring time youth with her boyfriend." Tenten, being used to Gai's behavior, giggled and blushed at Gai's actions though she was still going to yell at him. But looking at Ken's face was too funny. She couldn't kill Gai, she couldn't stop giggling and laughing at Ken's face. It was the color of a tomato and he started yelling at Gai sensei trying to explain the situation, but Gai just kept talking about the fire in a man's heart, and something about lust, or was it loins. Ken couldn't remember he was too embarrassed and removed from his usual calm demeanor. After Tenten had her fun she decided to break in and end the chaos.

"Gai sensei! This guy can use the full moon sword." This immediately caught Gai's attention. Gai completely changed his character. His face changed from a young child to a hardened serious warrior. He could see the experience in his face show and his skill radiate. Ken was completely caught off guard. Just that one statement caused him to change completely. It was amazing and scary at the same time.

"Alright tell me what happened." Gai ordered. Tenten explained.

"Alright. If all that is true then why does Lee have a giant cut in his armpit, but this guy-Ken right- doesn't have a scratch on him?"

"What do you mean? Ken has a-" Tenten stopped. Ken did not have a single wound. Sure his clothes were dirty but if you saw him you would never have guessed he was in a near fight to the death with Lee earlier that day. All of the bruises Lee gave him were gone and the gashes in his head were completely healed. Even the blood was gone. Nobody could heal that fast.

"Yeah... I heal fast cause... When I'm in my wolf state the chakra works to heal my body too. Yeah that's why." Ken said unconvincingly. He looked at Lee's cut which had just stopped bleeding about ten minutes ago. Right before they entered the training area. Ken had not thought to explain that.

"I'll pretend to believe that. Every ninja has secrets. "Gai said winking to Ken. He must know about his 'situation' and covered for him. He was happy that the Jonin was not going to attempt to kill him for losing control, and almost killing his student. He thought the guy was weird, but he's pretty nice too.

"Well Tenten, I'll tell the Hokage about the situation. You take Lee to the medics. He's trying to hide it but he actually lost a lot of blood. He's really tired and won't be doing any missions today. So you guys get a day off. Lucky huh? You are all dis-"

"Wait!" Ken yelled. "I also cam e for another reason. Yu taught Lee his taijutsu right? Well my brother and I never had a proper teacher in that area and we would like you to teach us. I am going to be training to increase my speed to Lee's level so can you please just-"

"Sure." The ninja said confidently.

"Really? its that easy?" Ken said slightly bewildered.

"Sure! Usually in the morning it's just me and Lee anyway." In the morning? Ken thought to himself. "Be here 7:00 sharp for your first day of training. It starts right after I get permission from your sensei. Once I get permission you can start the training and you will get your weights. Understand?"

"Yes Sir!" Ken said excitedly to hide his sadness. He just lost the thing he loved most... sleep. Ken Loved to sleep more than he loved life. It's one of the reasons he did not fear death, "The Eternal Sleep." sounded relaxing to him. He would hate being up that early but what would annoy him more is his hyper brother bothering him as he tries to wake up. Life for him was like a double sided coin today. He got a new sword, but it gave him some scary memories that are confusing him, he made a new friend that is laughing at him for overreacting to the girlfriend thing, he got someone to help train him and his brother, but now he has to wake up way earlier than he would like, and he finally used the wind slash in a real one on one fight, but he went all demon wolf on the ninja he was facing and almost killed him. Overall, since the bad cancels out the good, the day was an average day.

"Team Gai out." As soon as Gai gave the command he was gone with Tenten running to catch Lee as he began to falter.

"Lakenzu Uzumaki," Lee began "From this day forward we are rivals." and he was off with Tenten carrying him to the medics


Ken got home around 8:00 to find Naruto eating some ramen from a bowl.

Figures.

All Ken could do was smile. It was nice to have some normalcy that day. He went to lay his blade on the couch then went to the kitchen to fix something to eat. He made some chicken with veggies and sat next to his brother and talked to him about his weird day. Naruto said that his day was much weirder and that Ken's sounded more like an adventure. He was probably right. He met a cute girl, wielded a legendary sword, fought in an epic battle, and found a very weird, but Ken could tell wise, teacher. His day was actually pretty fun. Naruto's seemed much more fun to him though. He spent the entire day with the Hokage's grandson! He thought that was awesome. Then he learned what happened. Ken chastised his brother for doing such inappropriate things with a young boy, and Naruto argued back by bringing up the fact Ken almost killed someone that very day. As the two brothers' argued Zekeon turned into a puff of smoke and revealed his true form. Both Naruto and Ken turned their heads to find a giant griffon standing in their living room.

"So Ken, did you fix me anything to eat." The large griffon said with his wings curled by his side.

Just another normal day.

Author's Notes: I realized my last story was not too long but actually really short so i brought up the legnth a bit. I don't want my chapters to be ridicoulously long so I'm making this standard legnth.

No, all the chapters will not always be told from Ken's Pov. Naruto and Ken are the main characters so you will see things from Naruto's Pov as well. Also If you are confused as to what I'm doing with Ken good. That was the intent. All will be revealed in time (A lot even just in the next chapter) so be patient.

This is not a Kenten story. I don't support having OC's fall in love with story characters but I do think Tenten is a cool character who doesn't get enough screen time in the anime or manga.

Naruto is going to get along with Sasuke a lot better in this series since he spent his whole life with a duplicate of the guy so don't be surprised if they become best friends. Also don't be surprised if Naruto is a lot stronger in this series. He has someone to compare himself to (his brother) so it would make sense that he tries to learn techniques that would help him keep up with his brother's taijutsu. In other words, Naruto's taijutsu will be much better in this series but still similar to his original fighting style.