As Naruto tore through a foreign Genin team, and quite likely caused an international incident that would take a great number of compromises to resolve, the Hokage sighed in relief over the fact that the team that Naruto had attacked had been from one of the minor villages rather than from one of the Big Five. The Big Five being the villages located in each of the Elemental Countries. If it had been one of the Big Five, there would likely be a declaration of war in his inbox before the day was out. If he was lucky, Kusagakure, being a small village, would probably want to forget that this had ever happened, especially if he spun it so that it looked like the team from Kusa had deliberately provoked Konoha's Jinchuriki. Everyone knew that doing something like that was suicide, and generally didn't have pity for the idiots who did so.

He'd sent Kakashi out to help calm Naruto down when the first panicked reports came in. Kakashi would know how to deal with this as, according to the mission report from Wave, Naruto had exhibited similar behavior before. Jiraiya, who had dropped by with the intention of training Naruto would undoubtedly help out in the situation, as otherwise, training the boy may no-longer be an option.

Hiruzen felt like slamming his head on his desk when his little council of advisors came racing into the room. Them, and Danzo who was trailing behind them were the absolute last thing he needed right now.

In the village proper, villagers were doing a wide variety of activities which ranged from pissing themselves to holing up in a corner and praying that the situation didn't become worse. All of them however were also remembering slights made against a certain blond boy and silently vowing to never do such things, or anything else that might provoke him again. Up until now, the Uzumaki had been tolerant and forgiving, taking all of their abuse and begging for the merest scrap of attention in return. He wasn't doing so now.

Everone who had been there would remember how Naruto had stormed from the hospital to an inn that housed foreign shinobi who had turned up for the Exams until their dying day. That familiar feeling of KYUUBI! that had preceded the boy brought back many flashbacks of the terror of that night. When the villagers saw the blazing red eyes with slit pupils, the feral markings where the thin whisker-like lines had been, the elongated fangs, and the claws, they had found themselves wondering how they had thought the small boy with the hopeful blue eyes, whisker lines, and only vaguely sharp teeth who wasn't surrounded by such an impressive killing intent had looked demonic. As the villagers of Konoha were once more reacquainted with true terror, they found themselves relieved when this creature who had up until then been a vaguely hyperactive, loud-mouthed, attention seeking brat passed them by, and worried that they'd be next when his target ceased to occupy his attention.

None of the Inn's current occupants moved to stop Naruto as he stormed inside and stomped through its halls. Those from villages that had been blessed or possibly cursed with Jinchuriki knew that attempting to do so would most assuredly be suicide. Baki breathed a sigh of relief when the blond boy passed by the room his team was occupying without even a second glance, and started pounding on the door of the room of the team from Kusagakure who were packing to leave. The teenager who had opened the door, intending to give the person on the other side a lesson in manners only caught a glimpse of red, yellow, and orange before the door he was opening slammed into his face, breaking his nose. His teammate was soon thrown through a wall, which fortunately had been rather thin thanks to the unscrupulous contractors who had been hired to construct the building. The Jounin who had been surprised to find a Jinchuriki who bore a faint resemblance to the female student he'd been saddled with standing in the middle of his team's room went sailing out of the window, his flight being almost terminally halted by the wall of a building across the street. His two students soon followed him out the window, but the paths of their flights went from window to ground.

As Naruto yelled down to the stunned and barely breathing team about what he would do to anyone who hurt those who were precious to him, most especially his family, Kakashi and Jiraiya showed up. Jiraiya promptly used a seal to knock the boy out, and Kakashi picked him up and carried him out of the building, past a shell-shocked audience and a rather stunned Iruka.

That night, as Naruto was being held in a secure wing of the hospital since nobody knew where else to put him, Kakashi went out to a bar to get completely smashed. He had no idea what the fallout from this day would be, but it would undoubtedly be bad, worse if that Jounin who was in critical condition actually died.

"I'm sorry my friend." Gai - who for once wasn't spouting on about youth or setting stupid challenges - said when he approached his rival who was maybe one or two drinks away from falling off of his bar stool.

"Fer wha' ?" Kakashi asked.

"For the loss of your student." Gai said.

"Whaddya mean?" he asked. "Did one of them die while I wasn' lookin'?"

"Well, after today's incident, the...Uzumaki will undoubtedly be removed from your team." Gai replied.

"Why'd they do tha?" he asked. "They didn' the last time."

"The last time?" Gai asked, aware of the fact that all eyes in the bar were on them. Fortunately, it was a ninja bar, so anything revealed would be staying within the ranks.

"Back durin' that cock-up in Wave." Kakashi replied. " 'Ruto though' tha' kid had killed Sasuke, an' wen' bal- bal- well, ya know, nuts."

Gai stood there and stared at his friend/rival, uncertain how to respond.

" 'S long 's ya don' mess wi' anyone he cares abou', he's fine." Kakashi said as he tossed back the last of his drink, stood up, wobbled, and fell over into Gai who enlisted the help of one of the Gate Chunin who were also in the bar in order to get Kakashi home.

Across town, several Academy Instructors were quietly getting plastered as they realized how lucky they were that the little landmine they'd been stepping on for years hadn't gone off in their faces. Iruka's apparent kindness towards the Kyuubi's vessel was no-longer a point of contention amongst them. As they drank, Iruka found himself remembering a part of the Mizuki incident that he'd tried to repress, and had almost convinced himself had been a bad dream.

"You guys remember that scroll incident?" Iruka asked.

"Yeah, what of it?" one of the Instructors said.

"Mizuki tried to kill me during." Iruka said before he gulped down his drink. "Naruto saved my life, then he ripped out Mizuki's spleen and tried to force him to eat it."