So here is the rewritten chapter 2

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Chapter 2: Resurgence

Silence held the classroom as everyone came to realize that the two pranksters were nowhere to be found. Iruka was cursing to himself as he and three other chunin were searching everywhere for the two. Iruka was covered in pink paint and the three chunin accompanying him were drenched in ice cold water filled with baby squids. Two of the chunin had tentacle marks on their cheeks and hands.

"I swear when I find those two…" One of the chunin growled.

"I know how you feel." Iruka growled as well.

But up above them, hidden by the ceiling boards was a black haired Uchiha and a blond haired Uzumaki. They were snickering to the point that they were near hyperventilation. Their noses were clinched tight by wraps. In their hands were kunai with a special explosive tag attached to it. The seal kanji of course said explode, but its contents were different. Prongs were in different places and there were at least two different levels of prongs drawn into the seal matrix.

It was a stink bomb.

A few weeks back, the two boys were reading through Itachi's book; How to screw with people (especially little siblings), and the intermediate pranks ranged from nailing filing cabinets shut to stink bombs. They already had the harmless explosion, flame pillar followed by ice wash, and they also had the paint traps. Now they were taking it to the next level.

"Sasuke-nii. Since you have higher skill in shurikenjutsu, you may have the honor of filling out class with the smell of shit." Naruto gave a silent laugh afterwards.

"Indeed Naruto. Now watch the wonder of stink ensue." Sasuke spun the kunai in his hand before motioning Naruto to move the ceiling board. They were given full view of the Chunin search party and worried students. This was the first time that they pushed aside collateral damage all for the sake of a prank. "Take this!"

Sasuke hurled the kunai down and impacted the blade into the Shikamaru's desk. When the kunai's tag started sizzling, Shikamaru awoke with wide eyes. He shot a hand to his mouth recognizing the seal matrix and ducked under his desk.

BOOM!

Green gas spread throughout the room, entering everyone's noses. The academy students were on the ground screaming in pain and the chunin were on the floor covering their noses as tears formed at the corner of their eyes. They were screaming in pain. The horrid smell was too much to take. Even Sasuke and Naruto had underestimated the power of the stench.

When they opened their mouths to laugh at the misfortune of their classmates, the smell had found a path into their mouths. The instant disgust they felt caused them to remove their hands from their noses, allowing even more of the smell into their bodies. Naruto and Sasuke started choking on the smell, causing them to fall through the hole in the ceiling and land onto Shikamaru's desk, right at ground zero of the gas attack.

After an hour, the gas had dissipated, but everyone was on the ground moaning and groaning in pain. Tears were pouring from Naruto and Sasuke's eyes as they had taken the brunt of their own prank. Even though they were severely wounded they were able to communicate.

"S-So how many pranks have b-backfired on us?" Sasuke asked. His body was so numb that he didn't even move his head to look at Naruto.

"That would be prank number fifteen that backfired on us…" Naruto moaned out. His eyes were dry and his nose was on fire. His mouth was parched, and his throat was rough. He wanted to throw up, but there was nothing in his stomach, for he had already thrown up from the stink bomb. Or stink tag, whatever you want to call it.

Once the rest of the class recuperated from the horrifying experience of being in the middle of a gaseous form of a shit storm, they looked at the two pranksters and glared at them, sending as much killer intent at them, causing the two to shrink even smaller than what they were.

The two of them stared in complete fear of what was to come because what they had done. Iruka and another Chunin grabbed the two boys by the scruff of their necks. More specifically, their collars. The two boys were still too numb to even engage with conversation with one another.

Three weeks later…

After their last prank, Naruto and Sasuke promised to themselves that they would no longer commit pranks of that scale in such a small room. It even got to the point that they weren't even going to commit pranks again. But then again, that was a prank too. You will never know what their plans are, unless they let you, because that means that you would have been extremely close to them to be let in on the prank. Or that was just for the sake of misleading potential targets of the pranking.

In the meantime, since pranking was out of the question, Naruto and Sasuke started revamping their training with elements and such in the Uchiha training ground. Sasuke's known affinity was fire, but that was it so far. Naruto's affinity was wind so far as well.

Sasuke had mastered the Gokakyuu no jutsu, the Housenka no jutsu and was showed promise in kenjutsu. He was also extremely proficient in shuriken jutsu and taijutsu.

Naruto showed great promise. He had almost infinite chakra reserves which meant that he could practically drool out A and B rank ninjutsu without any problem. Naruto was also a stamina freak and was able to go on for hours without breaking a sweat. Naruto may not have had the genius skill that his Uchiha counterpart did, but he was determined.

Naruto worked his ass off to master other jutsu's within the Uchiha library.

During his search he and Sasuke stumbled upon a wind jutsu. It was easily an A ranked ninjutsu. The kazeganna no jutsu. The wind scythe technique. Naruto and Sasuke studied the effects and how to do it. The two of them dashed out of the library and toppled over each other in the training ground. Naruto quickly sped through the required hand seals and took a deep breath.

Naruto spit out a large cloud of black ash. He felt his chakra sharpen each breath that trailed out of his mouth. Hidden in the cloud of ash was an arsenal of blades made from wind, slashing about, albeit weak but it was still enough to cause some damage to the training dummies placed about in the training grounds. The two boys were amazed with the damage caused by the attack.

"Holy shit!" Sasuke laughed. He coughed slightly though when he realized that the ash cloud was still around. "Naruto, I don't think you did the jutsu right…"

"What…" Naruto wheezed. "Do you think?!" Naruto was coughing out little clouds of ash and dust. "I'm not some genius like you are…"

"Sorry jeez." Sasuke said.

"Anyway…" Naruto said as he straightened up.

They trained like that for weeks and months. Even on weekends and holidays, the two of them trained together non-stop. During all of this time, Naruto was less hated and more respected as time went. People started to see him as a person since the last loyal Uchiha was willing to hang out with him. There were still those who hated the poor boy.

In the Hokage's office…

"Danzo. What are you doing here?" Hiruzen asked with a slight sigh hidden in his voice.

"I have a report for you." The old war-hawk said as he took a seat in front of the Hokage.

"Report from where Danzo?" Hiruzen said as he made a quick motion of his wrists. Suddenly, four ANBU came into existence and left just as quickly. The Hokage then sped through hand seals and focused up a silencing seal all across the room's different openings, windows and the door. Creases in the walls, and corners of the walls.

"Here." Danzo took out a large map of the land of Lightning and rolled it out and spread it open for Hiruzen. "My agents have given me a report from Hiryu Gai in the land of lightning." Danzo took out another map and spread it to reveal the entire city. "Home to nearly ten million people, the second largest city in the entire shinobi world, is also home to many crime syndicates…that are ripe for manipulation."

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes.

"These criminals are just a means to an end. I am not saying that we endorse what they are doing, but instead we…how do I say this…exploit what we have been given." Danzo gave the faintest sign of a smile. "If you allow me to train more recruits for the ROOT program…we can have a perfect information source in the Land of Lightning, and also we'll have a perfect bridge between us and the criminal underworld…"

Hiruzen looked up when Danzo leaned in.

"We could locate Orochimaru…"

Many weeks later…

"Naruto." Sasuke said flatly. But the duck haired boy received no reply.

"Naruto." Still no reply.

"DOBE!" Sasuke slammed his hands onto the desk he shared with the blond.

"Oh!" Naruto said as he snapped his head over to look at Sasuke. "What is it?"

"You were staring again." Shikamaru sighed. "Why don't you get up and talk to her?"

"Yeah Naruto. What are you afraid of?" Chouji added while he stuffed his face with barbeque flavored chips. "We know Ino. She's like a sister to us. So don't worry we'll put in a good word for ya."

"N-No need for that…" Naruto blushed slightly.

"Really?" Sasuke and Shikamaru deadpanned.

"Really." Naruto replied.

"You could barely even look at her without drooling and going brain-dead." Sasuke said with a laugh. "You'll need something to kick start the conversation and I doubt staring will do the trick."

"Why don't you talk to Sakura more instead of just letting her rub up all over you?!" Naruto growled.

"She needs to impress me first." Sasuke said with a cocky smirk.

"Bah…" The other three boys groaned out loudly. "Cocky Uchiha's."

"Alright cla-" Iruka said with a smile, but he was suddenly launched from his foot step by an exploding air tag, causing him to collide with his desk, that just so happened to have a cake. The instructor collided with the cake face first. Naruto and his group of friends were on the desks cracking up like no tomorrow. Naruto was wheezing; Sasuke fell out of his seat, Shikamaru was leaned back in his seat and Chouji was holding his sides. All four of them were going to get it this time.

"YOU FOUR ARE GETTING DETENTION." Iruka screamed with his big-head jutsu. "AGAIN!"

After learning about pointless things like why shinobi wear baggy clothing and why sandals are worn instead of shoes, the four boys were sitting in silence in the detention room. But they were suddenly accompanied by another boy. Kiba Inuzuka.

"Kiba!" The four boys called out. But just as the words left their mouths, their heads were hit with thousand-mile-per-hour chalkboard erasers. When the four turned their attention back to the front of the class, they saw Iruka with a slight scowl spread across his face.

"This is detention! Not some social gathering." Iruka huffed and pulled out a familiar orange book.

Naruto and Sasuke's eyes widened when they saw the book. Naruto's head tilted slightly. Sasuke nodded at him and raised his hand.

"Sasuke, no you can't go to the restroom." Iruka said without even looking up from his book.

"I just wanted to know if you made it to the tenth chapter yet." Sasuke said with an innocent voice.

Iruka's face turned beet red as a large perverted smile spread across his scarred face. His eyes widened when Naruto pulled out a maroon book and Sasuke pulled out a blue book. Iruka shut the orange book in his hands and looked at the two boys.

"What are you two reading?" Iruka said while he narrowed his eyes.

"Lost at sea edition." Sasuke said.

"Lost island edition." Naruto replied without looking up.

"Of what book series?" Iruka asked.

"Icha Icha Paradise." The two boys said at the same time. Iruka was about to reprimand them but then Shikamaru, Chouji and Kiba took out similar books.

"Space edition." Kiba said with a small smirk. His book was grey

"Beach edition." Shikamaru said as he took out a box of tissues. His book was tan.

"Camping edition." Chouji said. But he was replied with balls of paper being thrown at him by his classmates, but he was surprised to see Iruka throwing paper as well. His green book was dropped from his hands.

"You're not cool enough!" Iruka said with a scowl on his face.

"That was the lamest edition to the series!" Kiba added with a disgusted tone.

"Come on Chouji. Here. The desert edition." Sasuke said as he tossed the boy a brown book. "Hana and Riku…let's just say…things get…'sandy' if you know what I mean."

"No…I don't know what you mean." Chouji replied.

SMACK!

Every male present in the room facepalmed. Sasuke sighed deeply and looked at Chouji with a straight face. He reached back into his bag and pulled out the original Icha Icha book and handed it to the plump boy and took back the desert edition.

"Read the first one before you read any other…spoilers you know." Sasuke whispered and went back to his seat to continue reading the lost at sea edition.

A few hours and various perverse giggling fits later…

The perverts of the detention room got so caught up in what they were reading that they didn't notice the sun going down in the distance. They became so engrossed with what they were reading that they didn't get out of detention until it was nine at night. Iruka knew he was going to get a mouthful from his boss.

"Alright you guys remember; the graduation exam is tomorrow. Get some rest and train extra if you want to. And thank you guys for a finally, quiet detention." Iruka finished with a laugh. 'I never knew that those kids were into the Icha Icha series…my question though, is how the fuck did they get their hands on it…'

Naruto waved his friends goodbye and headed home to his run-down apartment in the bad side of the village. He sighed and walked quietly. His hands were in his pockets and his mind was elsewhere. He popped his neck and continued to walk at a calm pace, even though gangs were out at this time of the night.

Naruto could smell the lingering scent of smoke and…marijuana. He clenched his teeth and fists and continued forward to avoid any unwanted attention. He could hear footsteps coming from behind. He quickened his pace.

They kept getting louder.

Naruto walked past a lamp post and saw eight shadows right behind him. He sped through hand seals and ran ahead to get some distance from his would be attackers. He somersaulted and spun around on one foot to face his targets. When he went through the final hand seal he took a deep breath and spit out a large cloud of ash towards the gang of delinquents following him.

"Fuuton: Kazeganna no jutsu!" The boy shouted out as the ash continued to shoot from his lungs.

One was armed with a baseball bat, three were armed with brass knuckles, two were armed with knives and the last two had lead pipes in their hands.

Once the ash cloud washed over them, they started laughing. But it was cut short once the wind blades started flying through the ash cloud. Naruto took off running into the night, not even looking back once at the people he might have killed.

He took to the roofs, mentally berating himself for not taking it in the first place. He made it to his apartment in no time and charged for his room and charged in and slammed the door shut. He locked all thirty locks and shut the windows. He charged for his bed and collapsed.

That was too close.

The next day…

Naruto and Sasuke met at Ichiraku Ramen stand. Well Sasuke met Naruto while Naruto used up all of his money on 'breakfast'. Naruto had finished downing his fifteenth bowl and smiled at the two chefs.

"Thank you Jiji, Ayame-nee-chan!" Naruto shouted in excitement. "You two are the best!" Naruto lifted his final bowl and slurped the ramen broth clean from its container. Naruto reached out and grabbed Sasuke's wallet and pulled out two thousand Ryo notes and slammed them on the counter and headed out towards the academy.

"I swear you're an idiot." Sasuke growled slightly breaking the comfortable silence. Naruto looked over at Sasuke and found that his wallet seemed to be…crying. It was empty. Not even dust bunnies resided in there. "You used up all of my money on ramen runs…"

Naruto looked up to see Sasuke was crying as well.

"Dude…it's just money…" Naruto said while placing a hand on his shoulder.

"IT'S MY MONEY! I WANTED TO USE IT FOR RAMEN TOO!" Sasuke started whining like a three year old girl. People were looking at the two boys with a weird look.

"Are those two…?" An older girl whispered to her friend. "…gay?"

"I don't even know…" Her friend replied. "The Uchiha is acting extremely weird."

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!" Sasuke whined loudly, making a large scene. "IT WAS MY MONEY!"

Naruto shut his eyes and slapped the Uchiha across the face, knocking him back to reality. Naruto's hand print was burned into Sasuke's pale cheek. It was a long silence. The demon boy just bitch slapped the Uchiha.

Sasuke's left eye twitched slightly. Then it was the entire left side of his face. Then everything happened in such a quick blink of an eye. Soon enough, Naruto was on top of Sasuke, wailing on the Uchiha's face. Naruto raised his fist again and smashed it against Sasuke's forehead. People were cheering for the fight to continue distracting Naruto.

Sasuke flipped the boy over to where it was Sasuke that was on top and not Naruto. The black haired boy gave Naruto the same treatment that he had received not even a second before.

At the academy…

Iruka walked with the caution of a cat. He was on all fours with his eyes narrowed. His students looked at him with terrified looks.

'I think sensei finally snapped…' Kiba said as he and Akamaru sunk into their seat.

'I feel uncomfortable watching Iruka-sensei do this…' Ino said as she backed into her seat more.

Iruka paid no attention to what his students were thinking. To him, it was a game of cat and mouse. It was catch or be caught. He was tired of being caught in their pranks. He didn't care if he had bonded with the two boys the night before over literary porn. Those two were devious children waiting to strike. Like the way shinobi should be.

Suddenly, the classroom door shot open and in walked three people. One chunin and two extremely beat up academy students. Naruto's right eye was swollen and his jumpsuit jacket was matted and torn up. He was holding it with his right hand, revealing the muscles he kept hidden, causing many girls to gasp and blush.

Sasuke's left cheek was purple and black, and his shirt was ripped open in some parts revealing muscles in certain areas. Blood was on both of the boys' clothing. They limped over to their desks, but didn't sit down.

The chunin walked down to the front of the class and gave everyone a smile, but gave a hidden scowl to Naruto. The chunin was named Mizuki.

"Alright, Naruto, Sasuke. Take your seats." Iruka said from his position on the ground.

"Y-Yeah…" Naruto hissed in pain.

"We'd rather not…" Sasuke finished. The two of them were leaning on the backs of their seats. "We got in a little…'scuffle' with one another on the way here…"

"Boys." Ino huffed and shook her head. Every girl did.

"Alright…do you two need to go to the nurse?" Iruka asked.

"Nah. No thanks. We wouldn't miss the test for the world." Sasuke said with a small smile. "We both still have chakra."

"Alright. Then let's get this test started." Iruka said. "Sasuke, come down."

The boy limped down the steps and stood in front of his sensei with a look of painful confidence. Sasuke winced slightly but kept a straight face.

"Alright. Do a transformation technique." Iruka said as he looked up from his clipboard.

Sasuke shakily brought up the ram seal and channeled chakra, transforming into another Iruka. After the instructors made a quick overview of the henge, they nodded and put their marks onto their clipboards. Sasuke then proceeded to dispel the jutsu and reverted back to his normal self.

"Very good Sasuke. As expected. Now on to the Kawarimi." Mizuki said. Sasuke nodded his head and replaced himself with Naruto. The blond plopped onto the ground while Sasuke was seated in Naruto's seat. Naruto struggled to get up. Sasuke then replaced with Naruto once again, but Naruto was now on the desk with his butt up in the air, only a couple of inches away from Ino's red face.

Sasuke giggled slightly and turned his attention back to his teachers.

"Funny." Iruka said in between giggles. "Anyway. On to the final part of the test. The Bunshin." Suddenly all pain was forgotten for both Naruto and Sasuke.

'Oh…' Sasuke said in his mind.

'…Fuck.' Naruto groaned in his mind. His chakra control was only good enough for henge and the kawarimi, but there wouldn't be enough chakra control in the world for him to do a simple bunshin. Sasuke looked back to Naruto and gave a slight frown. He nodded his head anyway and formed the ram hand seal and focused enough chakra to create a moveable bunshin.

The clone turned and winked at the resident pink haired banshee before dispelling, causing a massive uproar of fan girls. Naruto took out ear plugs and stuffed his ears with them. He glared at Sasuke as he walked up the steps with a smug look on his face.

"Alright. Up next is…"

A few people later, it was Naruto's turn. He walked up to the front and dived right into it without needing Iruka's instruction.

Naruto instantly transformed into the Fourth Hokage. He smiled at Iruka and dispelled the jutsu wanting to get the test over as quickly as possible. Iruka was about to open his mouth to tell him to get the next jutsu ready, but Naruto beat him to the punch line first. Naruto switched with Iruka, and switched with a log outside and then switched with Iruka from outside and reappeared back inside in his previous spot.

Mizuki was slack jawed and almost dropped his clipboard. Hell, the entire class was slack jawed. Ino especially was.

'Hmm…interesting…' Ino thought with a small blush and the faintest form of a smile.

"Now…" Mizuki said with a small smile. "For the Bunshin."

Naruto took a deep breath and sighed deeply. He stretched and threw up the ram hand seal and started forcing chakra out of his body in tsunamis. As expected, Naruto used at least five hundred percent more than the required amount of chakra to perform the bunshin jutsu perfectly. Ino tilted her head slightly and shrugged.

Pop!

"I'm sorry Naruto…but you fail this test." Mizuki said just as Iruka entered the classroom. He sighed when he saw the bunshin that Naruto created. The poor boy collapsed onto the floor. He was breathing hard and looked exhausted.

It was a loopy, grey and dead bunshin. Its arms were like floating noodles, and its head was flat. Its left eye was in its ear and its right eye was in its forehead, giving the already appalling clone a more grotesque look. One of Naruto's classmates threw up after looking at the clone.

"It's ok Naruto…we'll find a way to get you to pass…" Sasuke said as he wrapped Naruto's arm over his back.

After class…

Naruto sat on his swing with Sasuke leaning against the tree that the swing hung from. Naruto was brooding much like how Sasuke used to. He had failed the graduation exam again. What more could he do?

Naruto took a deep breath and sighed for the umpteenth time that day, no, that hour. Naruto was depressed and no matter how hard Sasuke tried to cheer Naruto up, nothing would work. Even Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji tried to, but nothing worked.

"Yo, Naruto. I'm going home now. Be safe bro and good luck." Sasuke said with a frown. Once everyone left the courtyard of the academy, Naruto was suddenly approached by the white haired instructor from his class.

"Naruto." The chunin called out.

"H-Hai, Mizuki-sensei?" Naruto asked.

"I have a proposition for you…" Naruto's ears perked up at this.

"What kind of proposition?" Naruto asked.

Somewhere in the forests surrounding Konoha…

Naruto was staring intently at the scroll in front of him. It was fairly easy to get seeing as how all he had to do was go off into his oiroke no jutsu state. Naruto mentally facepalmed when he realized how many perverts were in his village. He shook his head and yawned. He threw up a cross hand seal and focused chakra through the seal. Suddenly a few pops could be heard going off next to Naruto.

They all looked at Naruto with aloof expressions. One reached out and tapped Naruto's arm, snapping him from his surprised state at perfect clones. Naruto smiled brightly at them.

'Kit.' Naruto's eyes widened when the voice vibrated within his mind. The clones popped out of existence one his concentration broke with them.

'W-Who's there?' Naruto asked out.

'Listen to me. Do not trust that bastard Mizuki.' The voice told him.

'Why not?' Naruto asked.

'Just don't!' The voice sounded annoyed. Naruto flinched slightly but nodded his head. 'Good. Someone's coming.'

"N-Naruto?!" Iruka called out in surprise. "What are you doing with the scroll?"

"I-"

"DEMON-BRAT!" Mizuki screamed out with a delirious tone lacing his voice. "Iruka. Why must you get in the way of retribution?! You aren't supposed to be here!" Mizuki reached to his back and unclipped a large fuma shuriken and hurled it towards Naruto.

"Naruto get down!" Iruka tackled Naruto and shielded his body.

Darkness…

Naruto came too in a wet sewer at the base of a large cage. He looked closely at the bars and noticed complex seal matrices drawn and etched into the bars. He looked up and caught sight of a large tag with the kanji for seal on it placed as a lock for the cage doors. He was about to venture between the bars, but was blown back by a powerful wave of Malicious intent.

"Hello…kit."

'R-Red eyes…'


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