Hello Naruto fans, this is NiteOwl18 here and welcome to chapter three of The Fox! Last chapter, you all read of Naruto's new life in Konoha and he's being bullied by almost everyone at school, including Hinata's cousin, Neji. The part of Neji being the Student Body President comes from one of the O.V.A. in the Naruto Shippuden series, the one what it would be like if everyone was at high school. I first saw it, and I like it. However, I have some flaws on it. If you all saw it, then you all know what I'm talking about. Anyway, a week has went by and this story has already at 340 views, 7 favorites, 12 alerts and seven reviews. That's awesome, everyone. However, the review that I have gotten a few days ago wasn't about this story; it was a request from an anonymous reviewer telling me to make a South Park fan fic. To the owner of this review, I'm a fan of South Park, but I don't have any ideas for it for the future. Sorry about that. But, maybe one day, it'll would come to me. Now on with the new chapter, and see more characters from the show with new rows in my story. Enjoy!

Chapter 3: Roots Labs.

The next morning was another crappy day for Naruto. The blond got up from his bed and look at himself in the mirror shirtless, reminding himself of what he is. His right cheek wasn't swollen anymore and his nose wasn't broken anymore, but his black eye was still there. He didn't tell his godfather of what happen cause he didn't want him of making things worst for the blonde. His friends did everything he can to help the blonde from being beaten by these idiots at school, but that was the problem. Every time he gets into a tangle with someone who wants to pick a bone with the teen, his friends came by and rescue him. Still staring at the widow, he felt weak as he is in the reflection when he try standing up for himself and ended with him getting his ass kicked, right in front Hinata. He still recalled yesterday encounter with Neji as he was taking Hinata home, but he shook it off.

No. Naruto thought. Today is a new day for me, Naruto Uzumaki.

Wearing the same clothes, the first thing the blonde sees is his godfather on the lime green couch. His long-sleeved light-green shirt was ripped open, revealing his bare chest. An empty bottle of sake was lying on the floor. From around his face to his bare chest, there were red lipsticks marks all over it. The old man was snoring loudly.

Naruto rolled his eyes. He concluded that he brought home another random chick from the bar last night while he was asleep and attempt to make a move on her, before collapsing in a drunken state.

The blonde teen walked over to his godfather and shake him lightly on his shoulder. He called "Hey, Jiraiya-Ojisan. Wake up. Wake up!"

Finally, Jiraiya woke up, opening his eyes and getting up. The old man then got a less severe headache and groaned loudly. Putting both of his hands onto his head, he moaned "Ugh. My head."

"Jeez perv, what have you been doing last night? Picking up some drunken drink and have a drinking contest, but in the end, you ended up getting drunk?" Remarked the teen.

"Shut up, gaki. And don't scream too loud." Complained Jiraiya.

"Whatever."

Jiraiya look at his godson and manage to get a caught on Naruto's black eye, asking "Cripes, kid, what in kami's name happened to you?"

Naruto quickly lied as he covers his black eye with his hand "I,I got hit...by the door, dattebayo."

"Was it Neji again, Naruto?"

"What? N-No. No! It wasn't Neji, dattebayo!"

"Kid, that's a lie and you know it." Stated Jiraiya. "If you want, you could skip school and stay here for the day."

"No, that's okay." Naruto reply by shaking his head negatively. "I-I'll be going now." He was about to walk right out the door, but the old man stopped him by getting up from the couch.

"Naruto, if there's some problems at school, I could come and pick you up. Or I could call Tsunade."

"No! There's no need! I'm going!" Cried Naruto, who open the door and slam the door behind him, leaving Jiraiya to look at sadness again.

Naruto walked to school, still angry at Jiraiya for butting into his life. Still he felt bad for yelling at him; he was trying to help.

I know that he's trying to help out, but I can't involve him with my social problems neither does Tsunade. She's the women that Jiraiya mention back at the house. Ever since my family has been destroyed, Jiraiya asked her childhood friend and ex-wife Tsunade to look over me when I was young. She is the best medical doctor in this city. She was like a second mother to me, but I always call her granny. Beside her, there was Shizune-neechan; she work along side with Tsunade and raise me as well. She ended up being my older sister figure. I love them two so much, but I can't risk the same thing as them invading my social life.

However, Tsunade have helped me most of the times a year ago. Since I hit High School, the bullying became much, much worse. The students have physically and emotionally abuse me throughout my freshman year. Then things got out of hand and baa-chan went in to stop it. A group of girls asked me to do their homework in exchange of being their friends and boyfriend. I stupidly went along with it.

After finishing with the homework, I found out that they had no intention of keeping their end of the bargain and have their boyfriends kick my ass, which send me to the hospital. Tsunade became furious and tell the principal of the school, Ibiki Morino, to expel them or she'll have to deal with this herself. In result, the girls and their boyfriends were suspended for a month. But that didn't help me.

I have received dozens of abusive messages from them, telling them what a snitch I am and a wimp who can't help himself without any help from others. Not only that, almost half of the students have sided with them and send me similar messages. I can't go through the day without people telling me what a snitch I was, even though I didn't tell on them.

I once thought about suicide. Maybe one day, I could just end it all and sleep forever. I'll be doing them a favor. But I can't. I didn't want my friends or my love ones to know what I was feeling. It was a good thing that I have to hide my face under this fake mask of mine.

Naruto stopped walking and look up the stop sign as he have a face of determination. He said to himself with a confidence smile "I said that I wanted things to be different, then I'm going to make things different, dattebayo!"

Naruto then got his face being hit with dozens and dozens of dodgeballs before the whistle blows and the blonde falls on the ground.

"Alright, that's enough! Uzumaki, go to the bench!" Shouted a feminine voice.

Naruto lifted himself back up and walk to the bench as he still feels the bruises all over his body. He walked to the bench where he sit between Kiba and Shino.

Kiba asked "You alright, man?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Replied Naruto as he rub his head.

The blonde was in gym class at school; the one class that he doesn't want to show up. He hates this class so very, very much. It was just another thing that the entire class hated about him being really weak. Not to mention, the blonde always get his ass kicked in dodgeball.

The couches of Konoha High School were Anko Mitarashi and Maito Gai. Anko is the most sadist couch, beside Principal Morino. She's twenty-seven years old, light brown, pupil-less eyes and violet hair that is tied on the back, giving it a short, spiky fanned-ponytail. She is wearing a white shirt with a dark orange short. However, the shirt revealed to be a bit tight and hugged her body, revealing her curves on her torso. She didn't mind that her shirt is hugging her and showing off. The rest of the male students are in mind by it, not even bothering to blush or pinching their tents as they see her nipples poking out through the shirt. Her whistle is seen wearing her neck and is between her large rounded breasts.

Maito Gai is consider the weirdest couch ever; the man is twenty nine years old, tall and well-built man with high-cheek bones, thick eyebrows and black hair cut in a bowl style. What was odd is what he was wearing; a green jumpsuit with orange striped leg warmers. His own whistle is seen dangling at his chest.

Blowing it, he screamed "All right, let's continue this nice game of dodgeball, my youthful students!"

"Yes, Gai-sensei!"

The one that scream the same as Gai was a junior student named Rock Lee. He was exactly like Gai, very exactly. It's like seeing double.

Naruto has a huge distaste on dodgeball; Anko sensei always separates the weak from the strong. And Naruto was one of the weakest of the weak. Each day was hell in the gym. The strongest always pick up the rest of the balls and slam every poor bastard without any mercy. The strongest foe in the team was Neji himself. Naruto was eyeing on the teen throughout the game, hitting every nerd or weakling with a dodgeball. When the game is over Naruto shot a glare onto the junior Hyuga, whom he caught and shot back a powerful glare, making the blonde's glare to died from it. Neji smirk in smugness before he went to join the locker rooms.

After the gym was over, Naruto and his friends all headed out of the gym. The blonde managed to caught hear of the comments and whispers around him, recalling of his encounter with Neji.

Kiba have gotten to hear the remarks made to the blonde before saying to his friend "Hey, don't worry about Neji. He's got a lot of problems, ya know."

"I know." Reply the blonde.

"It's amazing that you were seeing Neji throughout the game and glared at him, yet you still don't want to fight back." Added Shino.

"Oh, you guys saw that? Nah, I wasn't going to fight him; I was disgusted of how he treats other people that weaker than him, dattebayo."

"Naruto-kun!"

Naruto was interrupted by a female voice and Hinata quickly hugged the blonde, which surprise him a little.

"I'm so sorry about yesterday." Hinata cried with tears in her eyes. "I don't know why Neji-neesan always do this to do."

Naruto gently let go of her and stare at her watery eyes "It's alright, Hinata. You don't need to apologize, dattebayo."

"I know, but still…"

"Hey, you four! Come on, we're being told that all sophomores are to report at the front of the school!" The four looked to see Sasuke and behind him were a couple of fan-girls, squealing at their crush and love struck. The teen then leave with the fan-girls followed him.

Naruto chuckled "Come on, guys. Let's go before Sasuke gets mauled to death by the girls." The four friends then walked out of the school.

There was a majority of sophomore students in front of the school as they were all lined up to the bus. The students each take a seat to be with their friend or loved ones. Naruto was attempting to seat with Hinata as he sees her in the fifteen row and has an empty seat beside her. Right where he was about to seat, he sees a couple of girls arguing of who gets to sit next to Sasuke, right next to where Hinata is waiting for him. Without hesitation, Naruto quickly sat right next to Sasuke, ending the argument, but the girls all shot glares at the blonde before started yelling at him.

"Naruto, get off of that seat!"

"Yeah! We want to sit next to Sasuke-kun!"

"Don't make us kick your ass, baka!"

"Excuse me!" Interrupted a man.

To the front stood one of the science teachers of the school, Iruka Umino. The man was twenty seven years old, tan-skinned, his brown hair tied up to a ponytail, and a scar that went across the bridge of his nose. Iruka was wearing a long-sleeved green shirt with grey slacks.

"Ladies, do we have a problem here or do I have to make this a problem?" Finished Iruka, threatening them.

All of the girls replied in unison "No, Iruka sensei." With that said, they all scattered and take a seat they could find.

Naruto stare at the man with a small smile and Iruka reply back with a smile as well. Thank god for Iruka sensei. That man can make anyone scattered if anyone tries to mess me up. He's a good teacher.

Sasuke turn to his friend, smiling "Thanks man."

"Anytime, Sasuke."

Hinata asked "Naruto-kun, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Hinata. You don't have to say that I'm alright." Replied the blonde.

Kiba pops in, asking "Say, any ideas of where we going on this trip? I forgot."

Shikamaru was sitting right next to Choji, who were right next to Kiba and Shino, saying "You forgot? The teacher told us about ten times. Were you asleep or something?"

"Weren't you?" Remarked the teen with a grin.

"Troublesome."

Naruto answered to his friends "We're going to Roots Labs."

"Oh." Kiba nodded his head, but asked again "What's the point of this trip again?"

"We're going to learn the inside of the labs and the technologies used to created genetics formulas."

Hinata said to her crush "You seem to learn a lot of this, Naruto-kun."

"That's because I look it up on the computer last night, dattebayo." Smiled Naruto.

"Man, it's going to be so boring!" Whined Kiba.

"Relax, Kiba. At least we get a day off from this troublesome school." The Nara's tone sounded tired.

"Try give it a chance, Kiba. Who knows, maybe this trip won't be so boring after all."

Once the students were all seated, the bus close the door and travel to Roots Labs.

Roots Labs is the most tallest building in Konoha. The building was about a hundred feet tail. The sign that reads 'Roots Labs' was at the center of the building that no one couldn't read it.

The bus arrive at the front of the building, where the doors open up and the rest of the students, plus Iruka sensei, went out of the bus and stand right at the building.

Iruka turn to his students, saying "All right, this tour takes up about two hours. Pair up with another student before we head inside. You have five minutes."

Naruto quickly turn to Sasuke, commenting "Looks like I'm your partner." Sasuke let out a small chuckle.

"Sasuke-kun?"

Oh, kami. Not her. Both of the teen turns around and saw who they didn't want to be near. The girl is sixteen years old and has long pink hair; a red ribbon was tied around it, giving it a ponytail, jaded eyes, and wore a red tank-top and black shorts. The girl's name was Sakura Haruno.

Both of the teens said in unison "Hey Sakura."

Sakura smiled lovingly, but only at Sasuke "Sasuke-kun, would you like to be my partner?"

Naruto glared at the girl, flirting with the teen that all girls wishes to be and not seeing him. That girl right in front of me is Sakura Haruno, one of the friends that turn their backs on me. We became friends when we were kids and I gotten a huge crush on her. But by the time we enter our freshman year, she completely blow me off. Now she's spent her time going after Sasuke, forgetting about me.

Sasuke glared at the rosette teenager; he has lost all respect for her since she broken her friendship with Naruto and speaking to him right in front of the blonde, ignoring him. He answered "Sorry, but-"

"Sasuke-Kun is going with me!"

Oh kami, this bitch again. The second girl was Sakura's best friend, Ino Yamanaka. The girl is sixteen years old as well, long, pale blond hair that falls to her hips, the right side of her face is cover with her bangs, blue eyes and wears the same thing as her best friend, except the rest is purple.

Turning to the blonde girl, Sasuke sighed "No, I'm not going going with you, Ino."

"Then you'll be going with me, Sasuke-kun?" Asked Sakura with her eyes sparkling with stars.

"Not you as well, Sakura. I'll be going with Naruto. Let's go, man."

Naruto nodded and headed to the building with Sasuke, but not before they both hear the two girls shouting, directly at the boy who is always coming between them and Sasuke.

Sakura shouted "Why are you always hanging around with that worthless baka?!"

"Yeah, that loser isn't worth your time!" Ino scream the same as well as her friend.

Naruto stopped, but Sasuke move him along to the entrance. Sasuke whisper to him "Ignore them, man. They're not worth it."

"I know." Replied sadly Naruto.

The blonde has always been the main target by the fan-girls to get close to Sasuke and only talk to the handsome teen, not to him and Naruto or speak to the blonde along. He doesn't know why all the girls don't like him; perhaps maybe for he's taking away Sasuke from them.

The gang move along with the tour inside Roots Labs with the tour guy, who's also a scientist. Around the building, there were about fifty scientists working in different locations. From the looks of it they were working on their methods of tests for their experiments. They even have their own labs; the walls were glass so the entire crew could see what they are doing, plus there are sliding doors. The classmates were bored already by the time they went in, except for the blonde nerd. His cerulean eyes have pick up the looked of the works that the scientist have been constructing for weeks, maybe even months.

The tour guy was at the front who started "Roots Labs have started out as a small facility during the time of the first war. Scientists have been created weapons for the troops against enemy lines both offense and defense. As years went on, Roots Labs went on to construct not only more weapons, but medicine as it may one day help the people who are dying of diseases."

As the tour guide went on and on about the history of the labs, several of the student weren't even listening to the story throughout the time of the tour. The girls were gossiping with each other, probably about Sasuke or hating Naruto for stealing away from them, except for Hinata; she was too busy eyeing on the blonde. The guys were reacting differently; Shikamaru was being bored out of his mind, so was Kiba. Choji started eating his favorite chips. Shino, well, just remain quiet. The only ones that were listening to the tour was Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata.

Kiba lead on Naruto's side and whispered while being bored "You said this trip would be so boring, dude. You lied to me."

Naruto chuckle at his whiny friend as he rolled his eyes.

The tour lean them to a lab once they step inside once the sliding doors open up, uttering "This here is our genetics labs. Our researchers have been developing the birthing creation of super soldiers. Since the time of the first, second and third war, the military is running low of sending good honest men to fight for this city, so they call us to develop a serum that is ten times the average of the human strength. Now we don't have formula of the serum, but one day, if we do find it, we won't have to risk of seeing our good soldiers dying or losing their lives on the battlefield."

Shikamaru asked, not bothering of raising his hand, saying it's too troublesome to do it "Now hold on. How do you exactly create the serum?"

"Well, as I say," The man repeated. "We don't know the formula, but our scientists have been working on it from time to time. What we do is we mixed the genetics codes of every animal we ever find and we test out to see if its DNA can adapt to a human DNA. Can anyone tell me why an animal's DNA would adapt to a human DNA?" He turn his attention to the entire class for his answer. No one from either of them didn't want to answer, saying that it's too boring, too lame or too troublesome to say. Iruka scowled at them and was about to yell at them, but remain calm.

Naruto answered with his hand raise up "By using the animal's DNA to a human's DNA, if they're willing to adapt, each of their senses will be linked to each other, thus increasing every strength, mind and the five senses for reflexes and agility for the human, that's it right?"

The tour guy smiled in surprise "Yes, that's correct. You're the first person who have answer my question other than answering it by myself in eight years. Most people beg me to answer cause I'm know the answer."

"That's because like everyone in this building, he's a nerd!"

The entire crowd, minus Naruto and his friends, erupted into laughter. Iruka notice the voice before scolding "Hibachi, if you don't ever wound up having detention for a month, I suggest you keep your remarks to yourself!"

The teen known as Hibachi is another bully to Naruto and a sophomore. He wears a light yellow shirt and wearing a blue sport jacket, grey pants, white shoes, short crop light brown hair and stone colored eyes. He rolled his eyes as he snorted "Whatever." Iruka's scowl never disappear and choices to deal with him later once they return to school.

"Anyways,...if we like to move along…" The tour guide kept continuing of the scientist endless hours of making the serum as he walks. The group follows him, so did Naruto, but then Hibachi's foot trip him, sending him to the floor. The group took a look over the two teens as Hibachi uttered in a fake gasp "Whoops! Sorry, Uzumaki!"

Iruka's anger boiling up, growing "Hibachi…"

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry." The teen replied as he held both of his hands up, innocently. The crowd turn their back toward the tour guide as Naruto is grabbing his glasses that is right in front him. But the short crop light brown teen walk beside him and hit the glasses across further from behind the blonde.

"See you around, nerd." Snorted Hibachi.

Naruto glared at the teen as he walk away from him, smirking. Still on the floor, he search frantically for his glasses, but his poor eye sights was making him trouble of looking for it. Finally, they manage to slightly pick up the glasses and reach for it with his hand. As soon as he grab it, something stop him as a cane drop right in front of him. Naruto manage to grab his glasses and put it back on before seeing who the owner of the cane was.

The golden cane belongs to a seventy one year old frail, old man. The man wears a dark grey business suit and a white shirt underneath it and walks with the cane on his only hand. His right arm is covered by his jacket inside of it, leaving only his right sleeve to be left without an arm. His shoes was black shiny enough to see the student's own reflection. He has black, shaggy hair and x-shaped scar on his chin. His only eye was left while his right eye is bandaged around it, including the forehead as well. The man kept staring at the blonde before speaking in a commanding voice "Why is this boy on the floor like he has crawl out of a tube?"

The tour guide freezes, including the number of scientists around the lab when they saw their boss. He stuttered "Uh, forgive me, Mr. Shimura. I was just showing these students around the lab."

Danzo Shimura look at the class before going back to the blonde as he got up, facing him. He asked "Who authorized this...tour to my building?"

Iruka lightly pushes away the students, answering "I did, sir. Iruka Umino. I'm a teacher at Konoha High School."

Danzo stare with his one eye at the teacher, unmoved by it. He then look at the blonde for the third time before saying "Why is one of your students is on the floor, Mr. Umino?"

Naruto stuttered "I was looking for my glasses, sir, dattebayo."

The old man was still unmoved either by the blonde's stutter. "And you are, boy?"

"Oh, it's Naruto, sir. Naruto Uzumaki." Answered the blonde.

Danzo's left eye widen in surprise toward the boy. Uzumaki? Is he...his son? The man thought carefully as he examine the boy.

Iruka bowed apologetically to the owner "I'm sorry, sir; if you want, we could just leave-"

"Oh, no." Danzo quickly said, who forces a smile. "By all means, continue the tour. I was just looking around that's all."

"Thank you, sir." The tour guy bowed respectively before turning his attention to the gang. "Everyone, this is Danzo Shimura, the owner of Roots Labs."

Naruto greeted the old man "I have hear about you, Mr. Shimura. I would shake your hand, but-" He look at his right arm who is underneath his grey jacket and his other hand is supporting the cane.

"That's alright, lad. Now if you excuse me, I have some important businesses to intent do. You all enjoy viewing my labs." Danzo said as he left the lab, leaving the tour to resume.

"Now, as I was saying…" The tour guy resume talking about the difficulty of making the super solider serum. Naruto went back joining the group and listen to the men. Unknown to the group, Danzo was spying on them, but his only eye was looking at the blonde. After hearing who he was, his eye couldn't stop stare at him.

So...he's Minato's son, eh? Danzo thought as his eyes narrowed before walking away.

"Now if we take a look on this holograph here, you would see the DNA of every animal that we have collect during the past year to create the serum." The tour guy explain as the entire class motion to a large oval table. The scientists press a button and a holograph of an animal DNA appear right in front of his eyes. "This is the DNA of a tiger." He press another button and another DNA show up. "This is the DNA of a lion." One by one, the man kept showing the group over several types of DNA of every animals.

"A bear."

"A cougar."

"A falcon."

"An eagle."

"A dog."

"A cat."

"And finally, a fox." The class is now showing the DNA of an ordinary fox shown by the scientist. The scientist continued as he stare at it "Remarkable is it? All the DNA we have collect from the toughest and smartest animal in the known kingdom. "

Sakura raise his hand in curiosity, saying "I get that a lion, a tiger and a bear are the strongest and mostly dogs and cats, but I never hear of a fox could be that strong."

"No, but they're considered to be the smartest animal in the kingdom." Corrected Naruto.

Ino glared at the blonde annoyingly since he known all the facts "And how would you known, Uzumaki?"

"I watch a lot of Animal Planet, only the part that discuss foxes."

Kiba look at his friend, commenting "I never knew you could be into foxes."

"They're my favorite animal, Kiba. They're the smartest creatures ever. They can get away from predators, known when there's someone in their territory, can find food in a mile away and they can be tricky." Explained Naruto.

"And they're dirty and disgusting and make a good fox pelt." Smirked a short black hair girl, which made the most of the crowd chuckled, earning a glare from both Naruto and Sasuke.

Iruka said "Alright, alright, that's enough. Let's keep on moving." The entire class move on to another location, except for Naruto, who was looking still looking at the DNA of the fox. The vents in the ceiling right above him was mostly cold for him, but he didn't care; all he care was looking at the DNA of his favorite animal. Foxes were always his favorite thing, right next to science. Like dogs and wolfs, they have their own pack and would protect them and their family. However, sometimes, foxes is viewed as a hunting sport for them and nothing else. Targeting them for their own selfish purposes. Kinda like Naruto. He thought to himself I always admire foxes throughout my life. They lead their own packs and fight off against any predators. Wish I was like them.

"Naruto-kun." Hinata called out. Naruto was out of his trance and follow the group.

Meanwhile, in a dark secluded place of the building in a large cage, a creature have sniffed out a sense that he have pick up from one of the vents in the ceiling.

"That sense…" Said the creature with a male voice. "Could it be…" He sniffed again just to make sure until his red slitted eyes widen by the identity of the smell. "Minato's?!"

There you go all. More characters from the Naruto universe and their roles like Danzo being the owner of Roots Labs and Kurama being in the lab. Don't worry, you're going to see more of The Nine Tails Fox in no time. Danzo, maybe. I don't know yet. A week ago, I have finished chapter seven, but I haven't started on the eighth chapter. College is getting to me right now. One day, when I have nothing to do, I will post a chapter, either this or Tale of The Gutless Fearless Ninja. Next chapter is where Naruto's wish of being a different person is building up after a prank from Habachi, one of his tormentors. See ya next Friday and be sure to check my other stories and leaving positive reviews. NiteOwl18 out.