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TIMESKIP : 1 WEEK APRIL 21ST - NARUTO'S APARTMENT

His alarm clock just wouldn't shut up, so he dragged himself out of bed and prepared himself for his big day. Today, he would be put on a team and start his shinobi career. He looked back at the bedroom, spying Kurumi still peacefully sleeping on the mattress. He exhaled loudly as he recalled what happened over the past week.

FLASHBACK

Naruto was sleeping peacefully in his hospital bed when he felt himself fall face first into ankle deep waters in a sewer. Before him was a massive gate with a seal tag locking it shut.

"So, kit...You told her about me, did you?" A booming voice asked him.

Naruto froze when he heard it. After he heard the voice, a towering pair of blood red slitted eye peered out at him from behind the bars of the gate. "W-who are you? W-wha..." He started to ask, but he paused as realization dawned on him. "So...you must be the Kyuubi that everybody thinks I am." He growled.

The demon smirked at him. "Hmmm...Not totally stupid, are you Kit? Good. I promised you an explaination about your new friend, and I'll give you one..."The massive demon told him as it began to explain about the history of the world prior to the one he knew came about. He also told Naruto the truth about the Steel Angels and their real purpose.

This was alot for the young shinobi to take in. The demon was patient, though, and gave him time to process it all. "So...Kurumi-chan was supposed to be a weapon and she really is an angel given a body...What the hell is an angel?" He muttered out loud.

"Angels are known as holy and pure spirits, and are supposed to be the embodiments of love and light. She will be loyal to you and only you, and will love you unconditionally until the day you die. I knew that she would accept you, and urged you to tell her so that she would understand."

Naruto looked at the demon incredulously. He couldn't believe that the big, bad Kyuubi was actually a pretty decent being. It just didn't add up. Why did he attack the village then?

"I know what you are wondering, why did I attack all those years ago and then again 12 years ago? My kind and I were summoned here by an unknown clan over 400 years ago, so that they could claim the world as their own. A member of the same clan set me to attack Konoha, as well. I only remember his first name however. It was Madara, I believe."

The young blonde wasn't entirely sure if the fox was to be believed, but something nagging at him told him that it could be trusted. He thanked the fox and exited his mindscape.

He woke up the next morning with his face shoved into Kurumi's generous bosom. Apparently, after he had gone to bed, she crawled in with him and was snuggling him like a teddy bear. His first reaction was to pull away, but her monsterous strength held him fast. She woke up and looked at him with his face in her chest and he braced himself for the decimation of his face, but it never came.

"Mmmn...Good morning, master." The girl next to him sighed softly.

Naruto was stunned beyond belief by her reaction, or lack there of. Instead of kicking his ass six ways from Sunday, Kurumi was squeezing him tightly into her...ample chest, giggling happily while doing so. He suddenly remembered about the previous night, but Kurumi beat him to it.

She told him that she found him and brought him to the hospital with the help of two people in funny looking masks.

'ANBU...If they were involved, something BAD must have happened.' He reasoned.

Yui Ayase had just finished talking with Haruna downstairs during their turn over about what happened to Naruto the previous night. She wasn't told that Kurumi was a Steel Angel, but someone important in his life and it was sanctioned by the Hokage himself. The young woman made her way up to his room to check in on him and found a shocking surprize waiting for her there.

Yui walked into the room just as Kurumi pulled him deeper into her embrace, squealing with glee. Yui's big sister sense kicked in just then.

"Well, well, Naru-chan...Getting popular with the ladies I see." The young nurse commented slyly with a matching smirk, enjoying the near atomic red blush on his face as she brought the food cart into the room.

"I've got your breakfast, kiddo." She added while pulling out a tray.

After they were done eating, Naruto was checked out of the hospital and returned home. He proceeded to get to training so that he could fulfill his dream of being Hokage someday. The first order of business for his training was to make a Kage Bunshin and spar with it. Kurumi was unused to seeing ninja techniques, but took it rather well.

When the smoke cleared, she couldn't tell which was the real Naruto, but she still grabbed one and gave him a smooch on his cheek. The surprized clone stood in slack-jawed until it exploded in a puff of smoke. A dazed Kurumi stared for a brief moment before bursting out into tears.

"Waaaaahhhhh!!! I blew up Master!!" She wailed until he calmed her down.

He was about to get back to training when he noticed something odd about his clone. 'Wait...She kissed the clone, but I knew how it felt...I need to ask the old man about this sometime.' He thought.

A couple of days later, he finally got around to asking the Hokage about the Shadow Clones and the answer he got back broke all previous records of awesome that he had ever seen or heard. He was informed that the Shadow Clones would transfer anything it learned back to the caster, this included chakra control exercises.

Without wasting any time, he dashed out of the office, Henge'd into a random genin and went into the shinobi only section of the library to do some serious studying. After two days, he absorbed a lot of knowledge from there and learned of some interestong control exercises, such as Tree Climbing and Water Walking, and immeadiately set to work on them, with Kurumi watching on as his own personal cheerleader.

Somebody cheering him on like that was still strange to him, considering the only things he knew up to this point were ridicule and jeering. 'This is gonna take some getting used to.' He mused.

FLASHBACK END

Naruto sighed as he started to get ready for his first day of being an actual ninja of Konoha, brushing his teeth, eating some breakfast and setting some out for his new houseguest, whenever she woke up, and let out a note for her to find, telling her where he was in case she got worried. After all that, he finally headed out the door and bounded over the rooftops, Academy bound.

KONOHA NINJA ACADEMY

Naruto walked through the door of his classroom and began to make his way to his desk, only to be stopped by Shikamaru Nara.

"What are you doing here? Only the ones who passed should be here, Naruto." The lazy boy grumbled from his desk where he had apparently been taking a nap.

Naruto was too preoccupied by recent events in his life to get angry. "I did a make-up test and passed it." He explained in an annoyed tone.

Thankfully, this explaination was good enough for Shikamaru as he shrugged and put his head back down on his desk. If it involved more effort than breathing, it was too troublesome for the lethargic Nara heir. With how easily he fell asleep, one would think he was narcoleptic.

Naruto just shook his head and carried on with his day, taking his seat next to Sasuke Uchiha, the rookie of the year. The last Uchiha regarded Naruto like something that one would scrape off of your sandal and had no qualms against saying so, either. The Uchiha had everything he ever wanted, but he as good as pissed all over it to brood and sulk by himself. He always whined about being all alone when he had people throwing themselves at him left and right. 'Stupid Teme...Unlike you, I had no choice but to be alone.'The blonde Genin thought darkly as his attention was diverted from the brooding crybaby to the doorway of the room.

Almost rampaging through the door came two of Sasuke's biggest fangirls, Ino Yamanaka and his long time crush, Sakura Haruno. They stopped at the foot of the steps that intersected the classroom searching for someone. She finally looked in his direction. 'D-Does she like me after all?!' He thought hopefully.

As she approached him, he stood up and attempted to greet her. "H-hey, Sakura-chan..."

That was all he got to say before she yanked him aside to get to the object of HER affections, Sasuke Uchiha, and rather rudely at that. He was sent tumbling into a desk across from his own face first as she yelled at him for getting in the way.

'I guess she doesn't even care about me at all. I could probably be killed in front of her and she'd see it as a good thing.'He thought sourly as he scraped himself up and reclaimed his seat and laid his head in his arms like Shikamaru was.

Sakura and Ino looked like they were ready to stomp him until Iruka walked into the class.

"Alright! Everybody sit down and I'll read off the teams that you will be on for a while. He read through the teams and nothing he read lept out at the short blonde until he came to Team 7.

"Team 7 : Naruto Uzumaki..."

This got his attention. He would now find out just who was on his team, and he was praying it would be someone even remotely useful and not annoying. But his hopes for some semblance of peace were shattered when his next teammate was announced.

"...Sakura Haruno..."

Naruto let his head hit the table with a loud bang and a quietly muttered "...Dammit..." The whole class was at a loss for his weird behaivor. They thought he'd be bouncing off the walls now that he was teamed with his crush, but he was acting like he was being led to the gallows.

"...And Sasuke Uchiha."

Another loud bang was heard from Naruto, followed by several more. "Kami must really hate me...Damn you, old man..." He muttered through clenched teeth.

"The Emo Crusader and his personal cheerleader...What's next? A sensei who's hobby is fox hunting?"

The rest of the class had no idea what to make of his last statement, but Iruka cringed at it. 'I'm sorry, Naruto. I really hope that last part won't be true.'The scarred chunnin thought as he went on down the list.

Naruto wasn't even listening now, just going numb from how he was now shackled with two people who would rather see him buried than even stand near them. The sensei was someone he had never heard of before, but he had a bad feeling about this, and his bad feelings were usually right.

Furthermore, he had Kurumi around, now. If she saw what Sakura did to him on a regular basis, the Uchiha fan club would be lighter one member as the pink-tressed angel would probably make her into a permanent fixture on the Hokage Monument. Sasuke would have to watch his mouth around her, but just that was asking for too much from the arrogant Uchiha.

Before Naruto knew it, everyone else in the classroom had disappeared and his new 'teammates, a term he would come to use very loosely, were the only ones left, still awaiting the arrival of their tardy sensei. Naruto's stomach was growling for ramen again and began to get irritable. "Geez, hasn't this guy ever heard of a watch?" He grumbled.

Back at his apartment, Kurumi was getting restless. Her master was now overdue by three hours and the events from a week ago were still fresh in her mind. Not wanting to take any chances, she immeadiately bolted for the Academy in search of her diminuitive master, making all possible haste.

Back with Naruto, the errant sensei had finally shown up and declared that they were all idiots, asking them to meet him on the roof of the school. Naruto just sighed, too tired to shout or respond, so he just walked towards the door, but noticed that the rest of his 'team' had yet to even stand.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go." He said to them, motioning for them to follow.

Kurumi had just gotten to the Academy and began to search the place from top to bottom. Seeing no sign of her master inside, she decided to head for the roof.

Naruto and the team all took a seat in front of their sensei and he introduced himself. "I'm Kakashi Hatake and I'll be your Jounin Sensei for a while to come. My likes aren't important, the same with my dislikes. My hobbies aren't for minors and my dreams, are a secret." He told them with an eye smile.

"Well, at least we know your name." Naruto grumbled.

"Okay. Moving along, pinky. You're up.

"Okay!" She nearly squealed. She went into her usual rant about Sasuke and declared that she hated Naruto. Kakashi just shared the blonde's exasperated sigh as he told Sasuke to introduce himself. All he got was a similar headache, with all of the brooding boy's single-minded obsessions with killing his brother. 'This teams off to a nasty start. A near lunatic and his ignorant cheerleader. Now, on to the blonde kid.' He thought sourly as he called for Naruto to introduce himself, hoping he wouldn't be as much of a headache.

"Okay, okay." He muttered as he raised his voice. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like ramen, training...and my new friend. I dislike stupid villagers, arrogant bastards, annoying fan-girls, and those who look down on everyone else like they think they're better than everybody. My dream, is to one day become strong enough to protect this village and prove that the trust that was placed in me wasn't misplaced." He told them in an unwaiveringly confident tone, devoid of any arrogance.

Kakashi knew just what he was talking about with the villagers and the trust issue. 'You've grown up pretty interesting, Naruto. I'm actually looking forward to this now.' He thought as he seemed to lighten up.

"NARUTO-KUN!!!" A young female voice shouted from a corner of the rooftop. The team looked around and found a older teenage girl with pink hair the exact same shade as Sakura's bounding up to Naruto and enveloping him in a bone-crushing hug while giggling happily.

Sakura couldn't believe it for three reasons. 1 : She thought that she and her aunt were the only ones with hair that color in the village. 2 : Said person had just added "kun" to Naruto's name and practically glomped him. 3 : Sasuke was looking at her with an unusual amount of interest.

Kakashi was surprised to see that someone had slipped right past his senses and got this close. He knew that she didn't use the stairs and that the only other way up to the rooftop was from the ground, meaning that she could quite possibly be a kunoichi and a fairly skilled one at that. He also wanted to know what business she had with his new student if she was being that familiar with him. He wondered if this would turn out to be like one of his Icha Icha books come to life.

'That wouldn't be so bad.' He thought with a blush that could almost be seen underneath his mask.

Sasuke's eyes nearly popped out of his skull when he laid eyes on the new arrival. This girl was undeniably beautiful and she seemed to radiate with power. But one thing bothered him. 'What's the dobe doing with someone like her?'He wondered as he spoke out.

"Hey you. Who are you and what are you doing with the idiot when you could be with me?" He demanded, somewhat jealous of Naruto.

Naruto nearly went white when Sasuke displayed his typical Uchiha charm in full view of his insanely protective angelic friend. "I'm sorry, but what did call Naruto-kun?" She asked in a sweet voice.

Kakashi paled as well. When a woman used that voice, it meant pain and suffering on an unholy scale, and Sasuke just brought it down on himself somehow. Naruto had a similar reaction. "Kurumi-chan! He was just...joking! Yeah, joking!" He told her, trying to placate her.

It would have worked, if Sasuke knew how to keep his trap shut. "I said who are you and what are you doing with that loser?" He repeated in a deliberate slow tone.

Kurumi began to advance on him but Naruto was trying to hold her back for all the good it was doing. "Hey! Kurumi-chan! That teme's not worth it!" He called out to her, but she tuned him out. "Kakashi-sensei! A little help?! She's wicked strong!"

Kakashi nodded and tried to help, but found that the girl's strength was far beyond even his own. In fact, it only seemed to annoy her "Who is this girl?!" He asked his new student, being dragged along for the ride by this strange girl.

Before he could answer, said girl picked Sasuke up by the frnot of his shirt and lifted him like he weighed nothing at all. "Let's try this again. What did you say?" She repeated.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on the point of view, Sasuke was a slow learner. "What's up with you? He's just the dead last and a stupid orphan, nobody important. Besides, I'm way better than that blonde idiot." He told her arrogantly.

He didn't think that Kakashi would leave him to suffer the consequences and he believed that the village and the council would punish anyone who didn't respect him. It was only a matter of time before this girl would know it. In fact he was toying with the idea of getting her engaged to himself just to put her under his thumb.

His little delusions didn't work out for him, as the angelic girl punched his ticket for an aerial view of the village with a crash landing in the woman's side of the bathhouse. "STOP PICKING ON MY MASTER!!!" Kurumi roared as she relaxed from the hellish haymaker she nailed the Emo avenger with.

He quickly found out that last Uchiha or not, the women in the bath didn't take kindly to intrusions of any kind and beat him within an inch of his life. He trudged out of there a wreck, swearing to return the favor somehow as he dragged himself back to the Uchiha compound.

Back with Team 7, Kakashi whistled and commented on her punch. "Nice distance." He said non-chalantly with a hint of praise.

Sakura was in shock that their sensei just let that strange girl nearly launch her crush into orbit. She immeadiatly marched over to her blonde teammate, beating some answers out of him her goal. "Alright, Naruto-baka! Who is she?! Why'd she do that to Sasuke-kun and why didn't you stop her?!" She yelled at him while pulling on his shirt.

Kakashi saw this and slammed headlong into damage control mode, pulling her away from him. "Don't make her angry again!" He whispered, pointing to the girl who was now cuddling her former target.

"Besides, Sasuke had that one coming to him. He needs to learn to watch his mouth and attitude because his name won't protect him beyond the village's borders." He declared to Sakura's horror and shock.

"B-but sensei, he's an Uchiha and..." She began to blabber out an excuse, but a harsh gesture from Kakashi ended it.

"No more making up excuses for a petty crush. You're a kunoichi now, so act like it." He told her harshly.

He cleared his throat and got everyone's attention, telling them that he was going to give them a test the next day and not to eat or they'd get sick.

After poofing away to go inform Sasuke, Kurumi took her small master's hand into hers. "Come on, Naruto-kun! Let's go home!" She chirped cheerfully as they walked away, leaving Sakura to figure out just what the hell was going on.

NARUTO'S APARTMENT

Naruto and Kurumi made their way home amid the dimming sunlight and settled down for the night. They had just eaten over at Ichiraku's, where Ayame and Teuchi pressed them for details on what his team was like. When Teuchi learned that an Uchiha was on Naruto's team, he became uneasy. He knew Sasuke's father, Fugaku, on a professional level. He may have had the village fooled, but not him or the Yondaime. They knew him for who he really was, a thief and somewhat of an abusive husband. He could see that Sasuke was becoming a mirror image of what his father was, arrogant and power-hungry. Indeed, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

He broke off his thoughts and thought of how Naruto and his new, 'friend' were doing. He leaned in and whispered in a conspiratorial manner, "So kiddo, just how are nights around your place with her around?" He asked with a smirk on his face. Teuchi could only imagine the kinds of things he'd do in Naruto's position, pervy thoughts running rampant in his 40+ year old psyche.

Kurumi and Ayame were having little conversation of their own right next to them. "So Kurumi-chan, how is living with Naruto?" She asked innocently enough.

She knew enough to know that Kurumi was none too subtle when it came to smothering her master with affection and it led to some rather risque situations over the past few days. She had one time tried to drag Naruto into the women's side of the hotspring, but luckily Ayame had come along and managed to convince her that he needed to do this himself. She pink haired girl pouted for a moment but she relented.

"His place is kinda small, but it's our little love nest! We end up sharing the bed almost every night, but I don't mind a single bit!" She giggled furiously and causing Naruto to slap his face with his palm, completely embarrassed. They ate the rest of their ramen and headed for home.

Thoughts of what Kurumi mentioned caused the perverted side of Teuchi's mind to blow a mental fuse as he tried to imagine the kind of situations the boy possibly found himself in like Kurumi sautering into the bedroom wearing a pink see-through nighty as she slipped into the bed...

A loud thump attracted Ayame's attention over to her father, who keeled over. Her first reaction was concern, but then she saw the nose bleed and a pervy grin on his face. She walked back into the kitchen and came back out with a large pitcher of water. She tried smacking him a few times to bring him around, but to no avail. She just upended the ice cold water on her dad's face shocking him out of his hentai induced stupor.

"I hope that cooled you off, pervert." Ayame huffed at the man, crossing her arms.

Teuchi got on his knees, begging for forgiveness from his only daughter. "B-but Ayame, I couldn't help it!"

Ayame just huffed again as the begging continued on into the evening as passersby were treated to a rather hilarious specticle.

A/N : I know that its been a little while, but I was working on another project of mine. I also wanted to issue a Fanfic challange to anyone who wants to accept. Below is the criteria.

Midori no Hibi (Midori Days)xNaruto crossover.

Must be Midori Days concept used in the Naruto world.

NaruxHina allowed, but originality encouraged. Get creative!

Please contact me if you are interested.