Chrys was deeply unimpressed. She had heard Kakashi was a porn addict who was constantly late to everything (barring the new releases of Icha Icha anyway), and that he had the Sharingan from his dead teammate (people were very chatty towards the ladies in Kaen when given enough liquor).

But she had never known how damaged the man was. She could see the results plain as day, because he was a sub par teacher compared to Iruka or Anko. The man had passed them on the barest hint of teamwork, I/E feeding Haruno after she got caught in a very poorly cast genjutsu. She and Naruto had managed to avoid his tricks by working as a team, like a summon and summoner should.

However a full weak of training had Chrysalis making one inescapable conclusion.

Kakashi had absolutely no idea how to train newly minted genin. All he did was get on her nerves by telling them to work as a team, and yet he never told the children how. The Academy didn't exactly teach teamwork like they should, even though it was one of the biggest requirements to becoming a genin in the first place.

In fact Chrysalis thought that the place was entirely backwards considering the fact Haruno, who's only contribution to the team was being a shinobi encyclopedia had managed to make it this far.

When she mentioned to some of the older shinobi, she wasn't surprised in the least to hear agreement, especially when they heard how close a damn fan girl came to being the top kunoichi of the year.

(Sakura was beaten out by Chrys, to her rage.)

After seeing how poorly Kakashi taught his new team, Chrys gave him two weeks before confronting the Hokage about it and coming up with a plan to break the ROOT brainwashing that Danzo had ordered.


The week after that, Anko came to their shared house and informed them that Team 7 had been split into two new teams, with Sasuke and Sakura with Kakashi, Chrys and Naruto on another.

Kakashi hadn't been happy about that at all, considering he had wanted to train a new Team 7 after his old team was killed off one by one, the last being by his own hand. However he had been outvoted by both the Hokage and unsurprisingly the council, who didn't like the fact that Naruto was on the same team as the 'last Uchiha'.

They could care less if Anko trained him and Chrys along with another teamless genin.

That child was the first of those she had rescued from Danzo's little program, primarily because his trick with ink had caught her interest. Tricking him into thinking the changeling Danzo had been the biggest test for her minions.

The end results spoke for themselves.

Danzo had yet to cop on to the fact that a good fifty of his personal troops now served Chrysalis and by extension Naruto. Introducing the hive mentality had been easily. Getting them to distrust Danzo had taken months, which was why she had waited before informing the Hokage.

Sarutobi hadn't commented on that odd quirk when he first meet the freed children, but considering Chrys would never do anything that would hurt her summoner in the long run he didn't bother to comment on it.

Besides, what was fifty children acting on hive mentality to five hundred still being held like captives in that horrific training program? At the very least Naruto would get some friends.

Anko had been brought in partly because she was one of the best interrogators in the village and knew how to twist people around to her way of thinking, and because she was one of the few Chrys trusted to actually be around Naruto when she wasn't. That, and because few would actually look at her team since it had Naruto on it unless they brought attention to it.

In the Hokage's mind, they made the perfect shinobi team. This was proven when he gave them the go ahead to go straight to C and B ranks, and got only glowing reviews in return.

Kakashi could barely get his team to complete a simple retrieval mission without them bickering like children. Even if he had left one of the Hive Children (his nickname for the first fifty Chrys rescued. For some odd reason it stuck.) to replace Naruto. That girl tended to rip into both of the other two, often resulting in a short, but painful lesson in why they needed better training.

Haruno had landed in the hospital five times since the change, because she believed the new girl to be a challenger for the Uchiha's heart and had attempted to beat the girl with her strength the same way she used to do to Naruto.

Unfortunately for Sakura, Nadeshiko (Chrys had helped the Hokage rename all the children, and had named most of the girls after flowers among other things) didn't like to be hit for no other reason that pointing something out or asking an odd question. Hence why she tended to reciprocate when Haruno tried to brain her.

The fact that Nadeshiko continued to return to the bunker (Chrys was slowly acclimating them to the outside world) meant that Naruto could hear exactly what Kakashi did to train his old team.

And with every report, he could only thank Chrys for actually insuring his shinobi education didn't start off on the wrong foot. It would have taken years of extensive training to catch up if Kakashi had his way.


Naruto was in the Mission office with his team when Kakashi came in with his old one. They had just finished the most hated mission on the records, catching Tora.

Yet another reason he loved being on Anko's team instead. After hearing how much Naruto bitched when he had to catch that damn cat, she agreed never to make them do it unless they were so low on cash that they had no other options.

Well, that and she really didn't like that cat.

"Team Anko, take your pick of C ranks. Team Kakashi, we still have a few D ranks if you're..." said Iruka.

All it had taken for him not to freak about the fact Naruto had jumped to C ranks in less than a month of being a genin was the fact Chrys revealed she was a summon and Naruto tricking Iruka into a date with Anko after beating him in a jutsu fight.

Anko and Iruka were seen a few times after that, having found a common like of Naruto and having to watch him. It wouldn't surprise Chrys if those two ended up together.

"Why the hell does the Dead last and Bug breath get to do C ranks while we're on D's?" demanded Sakura.

The Hokage had enough of dealing with the girl's mother, and it was clear Sakura was just like her. Hence the reason why he snapped at her.

"Because Team Anko is qualified to go on C ranks since they take their training seriously. At least I know I can trust my best interrogator to keep her team alive, even if she has trouble actually teaching like a normal person."

Then he looked at Kakashi with annoyance.

"And yet your teacher has yet to even show you what tree-walking is. No, there is absolutely no chance I am allowing a bunch of green horns (with the exception of Kakashi and Nadeshiko) taking a C rank when they wouldn't be able to handle a chunin attack, let alone bandits with ninja training," said the Hokage flatly.

Kakashi looked sheepish.

"I wanted their teamwork to be better before I taught them anything," he said.

It was Nadeshiko who spoke this time. She tended to get her training done with Team Anko before going to Kakashi's team. It wasn't like Anko cared.

"Kakashi-sensei, your teaching qualifications are weak at best and nonexistent at worst. Even if we did take a C rank, there is no chance in hell I would go out on it with a team like this," said the former mindless drone flatly.

Naruto and Chrys flashed her a thumbs up in agreement.

Anko grabbed the first C rank that she could, and they went to get ready for the mission. Nadeshiko watched them leave before she turned to the Hokage and asked in a near whine if she could join them instead of D ranks.

To the surprise of Kakashi, the next afternoon Iruka delivered a note from the Hokage saying Nadeshiko was being cleared to go with Team Anko until the C rank was over. Apparently they needed the backup.

Though that did lead to an interesting discussion with the Hokage about who Nadeshiko actually was if she was selected to be their back up when she was supposed to be a simple genin.


"So just to be clear, Inari is a brat who still cries about his dead dad and yet neglects to realize that his mother and grandfather are still alive and care about him. Right, which way is his room?" said Naruto irritated, a twitch appearing in his right eyebrow.

Chrys was also twitching, having practically raised the boy since her second summoning and realizing how bad his home life was.

The two went up to Inari's room, ignored the crying and slapped some sense into the boy. Or in the case of Chrys, reverted to her real form and scared the living daylights out of him in order to keep his attention before returning downstairs.


"Alright brats! Time for some training! Two hours of water walking before we learn your elements!" barked Anko.

Naruto had been waiting for this for weeks since Chrys had changed his team. Kakashi likely wouldn't have bothered, and it was one of the things that the proctors looked for in chunin. He knew the exam was coming up in Konoha in a month, Chrys kept him informed since the minions heard about it off hand.

Once they had done their chakra exercise for the day, Anko brandished four papers. Each genin took one, and channeled chakra into it.

Daisuke, the boy who used ink and happened to be a child from the Aburame clan (his hive was currently under construction, since Shibi was less than happy about the fact that someone had brainwashed a child from his clan, but he wasn't going to neglect the boy's heritage) was the first to complete the exercise.

His element was water and earth.

Nadeshiko was next, and unsurprisingly she was fire.

Naruto went after her, and his element turned out to be wind and water. Anko whistled at that, because wind as an element was actually pretty rare, even in Wind Country.

Chrys was last. And she was the most shocking.

Chrysalis had all five elements. Anko couldn't believe it.

"That's impossible! How can you have all five?!"

"Anko, you know what I am. Is it really that surprising I can use all five?"

Anko paused, thought back to what she was saying, and realized that no, it wasn't that odd. Chrysalis was a changeling. If she could change her face and voice so perfectly she could infiltrate practically anywhere and mimic behavior almost exactly with a little study, then chances were she would need the ability to use all the elements as well.

"Well at least I can help three of you. Sorry, Naruto, but I don't know many water jutsu, let alone wind. It's rare to even have wind type. However, you can ask Asuma for advice because he does have it," said Anko.

"Whoohoo! I get to hang out with Chouji!" said Naruto.

Chrys grinned with amusement. She rather liked the large boy, who had trouble believing at first that one of the prettiest girls in the class didn't mind being around him.

Anko gave him a thumbs up. Not her problem, and Chrys actually liked the boy even if Shikamaru was very close to figuring out what Chrys actually was without being told.

For the next few hours she taught the kiddies elemental jutsu and Naruto a few shadow clone tricks he could use since he had only gotten a brief look at the scroll. Even Chrys was interested in those.


It was the day before Zabuza was expected to return, and Naruto was out cold sleeping outside. This wasn't because he had been out training until he was exhausted. This was deliberate. The clearing had been picked by Chrys who was interested in capturing the little helper Zabuza had, with him or without him.

Which meant Naruto had to stake out the clearing with the best medicinal plants a few days before Zabuza was supposed to return, because as Chrys reasoned there was a high chance the accomplice would need to restock their medicinal plants.

Being on the run meant that keeping a large stock of medicinal plants was impractical and nearly impossible.

Naruto was only faking being asleep when the accomplice showed up. He had a ton of clones around the area, henged as trees...this clearing had been demolished by Nadeshiko who had been practicing the Grand Fireball for the past few days. Several were hidden behind a simple screen, so they couldn't be seen right off.

And lets not forget the others there with him as well.

There were at least ten changelings in the event that the accomplice tried to pull a fast one and managed to take out the fifteen clones hiding. Today the Kyuubi had decided to sleep rather than possess a clone.

Naruto still couldn't believe his seal didn't cover the clone possession, but considering it kept him on the Fox's good side to let him out and about every once in a while he wasn't complaining.

Finding out that the accomplice wasn't as cold as he portrayed made his day. It meant that Chrys could possibly convert him. Which meant they would have someone to keep an eye on Naruto when she had to recharge and restore order back home.

The only reason her minions had yet to challenge her position as Queen was because she was definitely getting stronger.

Chrysalis' idea of using lust in place of love was working like a charm. Most of her minions were working inside brothels (which had the added bonus of keeping tabs on Jiraiya ironically enough) and bars (this kept tabs on Tsunade) which meant they heard more rumors and information than Jiraiya did.

Plus there was the fact that whatever they saw, she could see as well.

Naruto confirmed that this boy/girl was Zabuza's accomplice, and one of the changelings followed the accomplice back.

Zabuza would be in for a nasty surprise when Chrysalis showed up...


Zabuza was the one to notice that they weren't alone. He grabbed the closest pointy thing around, which was a kunai.

"Who's there?" he demanded. Haku went on instant alert.

"Oh good, you aren't as stupid as you look. This will make things easier," she said, walking out of the shadows. It was Chrys in human form.

"You're one of those Leaf brats."

"Oh, I may be allied to the Leaf at the moment, but I am most certainly not as young as you believe," she replied sneering.

She was only nice around Naruto and mostly the Hokage. Anyone else would have to take their chances. She dropped the human form and returned to her real form. Zabuza wasn't the only one gaping.

"What the hell are you?!"

"I am a Changeling. The Queen of the Changelings to be precise. It just so happens that one of the children you fought happens to be my summoner. Now Demon of the Mist, I am giving you and your apprentice a choice. Either join us...or be killed. And just so you know how serious I am, I suggest looking out the window," she said smirking.

Haku looked out, and blanched.

The area was filled with smaller, but equally bug like horse creatures that looked like the one in the house. There was little doubt if they tried anything they would attack.

"Now that I have your full attention, perhaps this information would interest you. Gatou has absolutely no intention of paying you. In fact he is currently recruiting as many low level bandits he can get his hands on to kill you even if you did managed to kill the Leaf ninja sent. And even if you did kill them all, what would you do once the Leaf sent their Hunters after you? After all, the blond child happens to be the hidden son of their Fourth Hokage, though that information was classified to keep Iwa away."

"That orange wearing nightmare is the son of the Fourth?!"

"And he happens to be the son of the Whirlpool's last princess, the Red Habenaro Kushina Uzumaki. In fact he shares the same burden his mother once took on after Mito Uzumaki's death."

If Zabuza was pale before, he was white as a ghost now.

"He's like his mother?! Shit, there is no way in the nine hells I am going to go after the Leaf now!" said Zabuza flatly.

"Master Zabuza, what burden did this Kushina Uzumaki have?"

"Kushina Uzumaki...she was like Yagura, only she had three times the tails he did. She was the second container for the Kyuubi," said Zabuza.

"And my summoner. So what do you say Zabuza? Do you want to fight Naruto and his demon, not to mention the most sadistic bitch Konoha has ever produced...or do you want to make a deal with her and temporarily join the Leaf until you can get revenge on the one who took control of your friend Yagura?"

Zabuza looked at her sharply.

"How did you know about me and Yagura?"

"My race can change into anyone, and they happen to be seeded around the Elemental countries. Ninjas don't even have the ability to remove our illusions, and we can take the place of anyone with perfect accuracy so long as we observe them long enough. In fact the Hokage has me keeping tabs on his former students as we speak," said Chrysalis pleasantly.

"How sure are you that Gatou is going to betray us?"

"Why don't you send your apprentice to find out?" Chrysalis countered. And with that, she vanished into darkness. If Zabuza wanted to make a deal, he could come to them.

Three hours later Haku returned, pale, and informed Zabuza that the...horse-bug thing had not been lying in the least. Gatou had just been giving a speech about what they were to do when he showed up, and it was clear he had no intention of paying them what he owed. So he had Haku drop a scroll off next to Anko so she could find them and they could make a deal.

At least the Leaf ninja were being up front about their intentions.


(If you're wondering why I didn't type the whole Zabuza shows up and fights them, the fact is that it has been rewritten too many damn times to count, and we all know what happens anyway. Zabuza shows up, traps the jounin with the water jail, the jounin gets freed and Haku shows up last minute to save his ass. Frankly I didn't want to rehash what we all know is going to happen and this way you get to be held in suspense about their fighting abilities until the bridge scene.)