Chapter 1

Graduation Day

I don't Own Naruto or any Anime/Manga/Game references that will be in this story.

Please forgive the late update, I won't make an excuse, just that I became lazy after losing ten pages of work because my laptop died on me oh well I fixed it and hear it is.

Time Line (BCS (Before Cannon Start) ACS (After Cannon Start) the cannon starts the day of Naruto's greatest prank (painting the Hokage monument), graduation, and the day he steals the forbidden scroll of sealing when he learns Kage Bunshin (shadow clone).

Break in the story time skip

Minor time skip or P.O.V. (point of view) shift

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Demon/Summon Speech"

'Demon/Summon Thought'

Please read, review, and enjoy.

Story Start

0 CS

In front of the Hokage Monument

"Look at what the demon has done," a random civilian shouted. "Not the Hokage Monument too."

A shinobi who looked disgusted stated "this is the sixth time this week, first the Uchiha compound then the Hyuuga, Yamanaka, Nara, Inuzuka, Aburame and Akimichi compounds in that order," as his counted on his fingers.

~Flashback~

Five days ago

A half-naked Sasuke Uchiha was running around the village. He was searching for all of his clothes which had been stolen from all the Uchiha rooms around the compound, including off his own body (he is a heavy sleeper), tie-died neon colors such as pink, orange, and green, and strung up around the village. It also did not help that a letter containing his predicament went straight to all forty-seven of his insane pre-teen, teen, and older fan girls around the village. They had been chasing him for three straight hours while he ducked and dodged his way through the insane fan girls, alley ways, and irate people trying to get on with their lives. Sasuke had learned a terrible lesson that day two in fact, one stay away from hormonal teenaged fan girls least he get raped and two never leave home without a shirt and a backup pair of clothes.

~The next day~

The Hyuuga compound was found bombed with so much neon paint it could have been seen from space, in fact to look at it from a bird's eye point of view it looked like a multicolored fox with nine tails in an intricate swirl pattern and a crown upon its head. Whilst from the ground it looked like a modern art exhibit were the artist was a baby throwing paint on a canvas. A picture of what the compound looked like from above was put on top of the Hyuuga symbol marking the compound. Needless to say not only were they publicly shamed the guards all were punished within an inch of their lives because they did not see the intruder who not only had the time to set up this elaborate prank and mark their clan symbol as well.

~The third day~

The Yamanaka clan woke up with each of their rooms painted in a rainbow flurry of neon colors that each depicted the worst terror of the Yamanaka clan members traumatizing most and blinding some leaving a trial of paint to the central building were the clan head and his family lived. The event lead to the traumatizing and blinding mural of the clan head Inoichi, riding a flying rainbow colored unicorn, with his long golden hair flowing behind him, one of his arms raised to the heavens holding in his hand a silver long sword that was double edged and had an emerald in its pommel and three large diamonds in the cross guard. The most disturbing thing about the mural was the fact the in the picture Inoichi was bare chested and had muscles that would make the hulk look weak and behind the shocking winged unicorn riding Inoichi was a landscape that was just beautiful and colorful with somany shades of neon colors overlapping to form new ones in a mountain, river, and forest. Many of the clan members looked at the extremely gay mural with shock evident in their eyes; they became much more shocked when Inoichi himself came out with a dazed expression to see the mural.

"Nooooooooo, how did they know, how did they know my greatest and most secret dream, that I have had since I was young?" Inoichi cried out to the heavens and started to cry in shame "why would any man do this it is not right."

This scene was forever imprinted in the minds of the Yamanaka clan members as well as the unnatural fear of neon colors.

~Day four~

The Nara compound seated on the edge of the forest next to the Aburame and Yamanaka compounds, had hundreds of deer, doe, and fawns that the deer was the clan's iconic animal. The day had started normal enough as the lazy male members had woken up but refused to move from their beds before the women of the compound (ranged from little sisters to mothers) yelled and frightened the men out of their beds to breakfast. About an hour of yelling and flying pans (never piss of a Nara woman) the males had gotten out of their houses to go to work (merchants, shinobi, etc.) only to walk out of their houses to find hundreds of dogs ranging from the sizes of Belgium Shepherds to that of a mini tractor chasing their deer around, some trying to eat them others trying to mate with the doe.

"Not the deer, never again, what vengeful and angry Kami (god) did we piss off for this treatment!" Wailed an anguished man in shinobi pants with a jounin flak jacket covering a white tee shirt with the Nara clan symbol on it, who was named Shikaku.

Meanwhile at the Inuzuka compound the clan leader, a woman named Tsume was furious at finding instead of dogs in their kennels, there were cat hundreds of angry wet cats.

"Damn that orange wearing bastard!"

~The Final Day~

Several people were seen running away from a five star Akimichi restaurant holding their stomachs screaming something about diarrhea and not coming back.

The head chief Chouza who was also a Shinobi was screaming in rage, pain, and sadness of his loss of customers and terrible food as his entire family are food coinsures.

"Not the food anything but the food and customers!"

Else ware at the Aburame compound the only thing that happened was that at the same time simultaneously sneezed causing their untrained Kikaichuu bugs to be startled and they attacked the normally stoic Aburame clan were running around in a panic trying to calm the bugs. Not noticing a shadow above the compound walls taking pictures of the unorganized clan running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

~Flashback end~

These pranks had set all the main clans backs and shamed them terribly. Everyone knew who it was but nobody knew how he had pulled off his pranks, all they knew was that 'the demon' had pulled them off. None of the bystanders saw the culprit wearing the extremely horrendous 'kill me neon orange' jumpsuit with blue shoulders and the Uzumaki symbol on the back, start jumping across the rooftops toward the 'Shinobi Academy'.

Naruto Uzumaki an orange wearing shinobi in training on his way to the academy for his graduation and finally become a Genin (low level ninja). He arrived at large four story building that was built in the traditional Japanese temple and jumped through the window on the fourth story into a classroom and sat down in the back row of seats right before kids his age started coming in the room. The kids were heirs and heiresses of the major clans he pranked they are Shikamaru Nara a lazy boy who would rather sleep his problems away then solve them, Ino Yamanaka a pretty girl who has major fan girlish attitude pointed at Sasuke Uchiha, Chouji Akimichi a large boned kid that was always eating and freaked out and got mad if someone mentioned the word fat in his presence and would go on a rampage, Shino Aburame a boy who was calm and calculative usually hiding behind a trench coat and dark tinted circular glasses (no one ever sees he eyes), Hinata Hyuuga a shy girl who would always stutter and in Naruto's presence she would blush heavily and sometimes pass out, Kiba Inuzuka was a brash and impulsive but loyal boy with a small ningen (animal companion, I could be wrong but I do not care) atop his head, Akumaru was the whitepuppy atop Kiba's head and was a very loyal but small puppy, and Sasuke Uchiha named after the third Hokage Hiruzen's father witnessed the death of his parents at the hands of his brother Itachi and was in a constant state of brooding trying to contemplate how to kill Itachi. After the clan heirs and heiresses filed in the civilian fan club of one Sasuke Uchiha led by a pink haired banshee of a bubblegum girl with pink hair and an overly large forehead visible her name Sakura Haruno. At this time many of the fan girls were fawning over Sasuke while Ino and Sakura were having a cat fight slapping each other over who gets Saskue's affection and who sits next to him.

"Hang on where is Naruto he is usually asking me for a date by now?" Sakura questioned Ino as they stopped slapping each other.

"I don't know forehead, and who cares. Do you care?"

"No of course not."

"Will both of you shut up." A Kiba pleaded covering his ears as Akumaru was whimpered.

"Shut up Kiba." They both said in union before they started bickering again about Sasuke.

"Alright, all of you sit down and shut up." The new voice of a man resonated throughout the large room. The man Iruka Umino a chuunin of average height, a scar across the bridge of his nose, brown eyes, and dark brown hair in a spiky pony tail, he was followed by another chuunin. Mizuki Miki was also a chuunin of average height, his eyes are black, and he has shoulder length silver hair with a bandana like forehead protector. "Mizuki, will you pass out the exam please, while I explain? Alright everybody listen up and listen well, this exam will last one hour and you may begin when Mizuki returns to the front. Got it memorized."

Mizuki was walking down the aisle handing out exams and thinking about how he would trick Naruto into stealing the forbidden scroll. He finally reached the final row where Naruto was sitting and passed him a test while subtly placing a Genjutsu over the paper that made all questions on it the chuunin exam questions.

'Well damn it Mizuki-teme' Naruto thought to himself 'that teme placed a Genjutsu over my test.' "Genjutsu kai" Naruto released the genjutsu just as Mizuki turned around and faced the class barely missing Naruto release the genjutsu.

"Begin." Commanded Iruka loudly.

Naruto looked at the actual test and sighed 'I knew the exam would be easy but this, this is just insulting. I guess that I will just answer half the questions correctly. Oh well.' Naruto went over the test and answered the exact amount of questions needed to pass. After he laid his head on the desk and fell into a light sleep.

After fifty three minutes of sleeping he awoke to Iruka announcing the end of the exam. He gave the exam to a passing teacher and got up to walk out the door for the shurikenjutsu and taijutsu portions.

Outside on the training grounds stood the final year of students in the academy. In front of the students stood Iruka and Mizuki , and behind them stood ten targets for the shurikenjutsu exam.

"Now listen up, we are about to begin the shurikenjutsu portion of the final exam. You start out with twenty points; you have ten shuriken and ten kunai. You must have at least fourteen points to pass the exam. If you miss a target or don't get the kunai to stick to a target you lose a point, you all got it memorized, because I am not telling you again. "Iruka said sternly "Now I want you to move to different targets." The twenty seven students moved toward the ten targets and lined up, one at each target. "Begin!"

After the first twenty five students went only two remained the first Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki. Sasuke lined up his ten shots with the shuriken and right before he released his club of rabid fan-girls screamed trying to cheer on Sasuke, this only made him lose concentration and miss one of the shuriken giving him a nine out of ten on shuriken. He then picked up the kunai and threw them all perfectly in the center of the target not missing one giving him a kunai score of ten out of ten and an overall score of nineteen out of twenty.

"Thank you Sasuke, move towards the taijutsu arena." Iruka said "Naruto your up."

Naruto then stepped up and grabbed the shuriken and kunai; looking at them he saw they were dull. 'Damn you Mizuki, don't think for a moment I don't know this is an attempt to hinder me.' Naruto lined himself up and threw the shuriken into the target purposely missed three, giving him a score of seven out of ten in shuriken. Next he took the kunai and threw them expertly but again missing three giving him another score of seven out of ten, thus getting an overall score of fourteen out of ten.

"Naruto, you barely passed even Shikamaru and Kiba did better, please be careful. Head to the taijutsu arena and get ready for a fight. Ya got it memorized."

"Now for the taijutsu portion of the physical examination, you will all be paired up with a different instructor; we have only have nine instructors so seven students per instructor. In order for the instructors to equally get seven students you will pick up a number from the box at the door leading to the training arena. Have you all got it memorized yet?" Iruka smirked as most of Sasukes fan-girls yelled at not being able to watch him fight. "You all will spar with one of the chuunin instructors here and in order to pass you have to last at least three minutes or land one hit on the instructor, remember they will be going easy on you at a power of low genin." Sasuke only smiled at the idea of being able to fight a chuunin. "After you fight come back into the building and get ready to perform the final test."

Naruto just yawned and walked forward to grab a number first. He reached his hand down into the box and pulled out a slip of paper with the number seven on it. Naruto calmly moved to area seven, the instructor of area seven was a fairly tall chuunin about twice Naruto's own height; the chuunin had short brown hair and light brown eyes. He looked at Naruto and sighed as he knew of Naruto's past beatings. This would not stop him from administering the test properly though. "Well Naruto are you ready?" The instructor asked as he dropped into his stance. Naruto did the same but purposely put flaws into it to lower his points. Naruto waited on the instructor to make the first move, the instructor moved in to throw a low uppercut at Naruto only for him to back up and avoid it. Naruto the kicked at the instructor as he was charging at him for another punch, at the last moment the instructor moved out of the way and hit Naruto in the chest. Taken aback from the hit Naruto breathed heavily, he sidestepped another punch coming at him. The instructor smirked and upped his power and speed a little bit and was happy when Naruto dodged another punch and retaliated with a quick jab to the instructor's abdomen effectively ending the sparing match with a minute and three seconds left. Naruto thanked the instructor. He left the testing area and headed towards the academy to finish the exam.

Once inside he went to the testing area where he stood in front of Iruka and Mizuki. Iruka looked at Naruto happily as he read the report about his taijutsu exam, Mizuki on the other hand was wearing a smirk that practically said I know something you don't while thinking, 'That demon brat will fail here, I know and so does Iruka, that he can't perform a Bunshin let alone three. Once he fails I will get the scroll and I will kill him.'

"Alright Naruto in order for you to pass you must perform the three basic academy ninjutsu; bunshin no jutsu (clone technique), kawarimi no jutsu (change of body stance technique or substitution technique), and henge no jutsu (transformation technique). For the bunshin no jutsu you may perform any style bunshin be it mizu-bunshin no jutsu, iwa-bunshin no jutsu, kumo-bunshin no jutsu, or any other variation you know if you cannot perform the standard bunshin no jutsu." Iruka said smiling knowing it was not exactly regulation but still gave Naruto a chance to pass. Mizuki on the other hand was inwardly seething 'that idiot is going to ruin my plans; I hope Naruto can't perform any other clone.' "Alright Naruto please perform henge no jutsu and henge into the Hokage."

Naruto nodded his head and called out, "Henge no Jutsu!" he transformed in to a perfect replica of the Third Hokage.

"Good job Naruto, can you perform the kawarimi no jutsu next on that chair please?" Mizuki said in a mock happy voice. "Hai Sensei." Exclaimed Naruto happily, "Kawarimi no jutsu!" he switched himself with the chair and then switched back.

Iruka smiled at Naruto "Excellent Naruto, perform a bunshin no jutsu now."

"Hai sensei, kage BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto only exclaimed the bunshin no jutsu so they couldn't hear him say kage, three perfect clones appeared in smoke behind him. "Perfect Naruto, you pass the graduation exam." Iruka stated proudly handing Naruto a brand new Konoha headband.

"Good job Naruto-kun." Mizuki said with a strained false smile. 'Damn it my plans to use him are ruined how could Naruto pull off a simple bunshin, how dare he ruin them? Damn it.'

Naruto grabbed the headband and jumped in the air with a smile that nearly split his own face in two, "Thank you, thank you, thank you. Iruka-sensei after this lets go out for ramen later, please?" Happily replying Iruka smiled, "Of course Naruto, I would love to. Your dismissed Naruto, I will see you later. You got it memorized?" Naruto again jumped in the air and ran out the door to the hall leading out to the academy grounds, went over to a swing underneath the tree on the grounds and sat in the swing.

Naruto looked down sadly and sighed, 'I really wish that Onii-san was here that would make my day perfect.' The crackling of lightning and felt a gust of wind drew Naruto out of his musings. He looked around but did not see anything or anybody, he then looked up and smiled with a genuine smile that nearly split his face and would give Guy a heart attack of youth at its brightness. "Nii-san your back." Naruto launched himself at the man standing in the tree.

The man was one hundred and ninety centimeters in height (roughly six foot three inches) wearing the standard ANBU armor consisting of a black skin tight jumpsuit with black combat pants and a black mesh armor shirt over the jumpsuit. He wore a steel chest and back plate, while on his neck he wore a steel chain necklace and on that necklace was a solid gold ring, steel forearm and shin guards, and black steel toed combat boots. This man has black hair and light amethyst eyes behind a white and red ANBU mask in the design of a kitsune (fox). Above his left arm guard his ANBU tattoo clearly visible and on his back hung a custom made one hundred and twenty centimeter full tang katana.

Kitsune side stepped the Naruto rocket coming at him and chuckled when he hit the ground face first. Naruto got up and glared slightly at Kitsune before the both of them started to laugh. "Onii-san when did you arrive?"

"Naruto my dear Otouto, I arrived a few minutes ago and on my way to speak with Hokage-sama I thought I would stop by and congratulate you first." Kitsune said in a deep stoic voice, "Naruto I need to report to Hokage-sama, but later when I am of duty I will see you then and we can get ramen to celebrate with Iruka, but if I can't make it remember I will see you later. Sayonara Naruto."

"See you later Onii-san!" Naruto called out to the fleeting ANBU.

With Kitsune Hokage's office

"Captain Kitsune reporting a successful mission Hokage-sama" Kitsune said handing the aged Hiruzen who had taken up the mantle of Hokage again after Minato died a scroll containing the Mission details.

"Thank you Kitsune. Before you leave I have another mission for you." Hiruzen said calmly, "ANBU I want you to leave the room for a moment." A chorus of 'hai Hokage-sama' rang from four places in the room before four quick flashes were out the door before that to closed. "Kitsune would you please put one of your seals on the door and activate it?" Kitsune nodded and placed a piece of paper with an simple yet intricate seal on it before activating it. This seal would locate any other seal in the room and destroy it why putting up a silencing barrier around the room. "Thank you Kitsune, you may remove your mask if you like."

"Thank you Hokage-sama, but I prefer to keep it in place as no one in the ANBU knows who I am." Kitsune replied before asking, "What is my new mission Hokage-sama?"

"Ah yes of course, I would like you to take a temporary leave of absence from ANBU and let your second in command take over for your time of leave." Hiruzen smiled as he saw Kitsune stiffen slightly.

Kitsune wondered, "If I may ask why I am to be put on temporary leave from ANBU, as I am perfectly capable of continuing without rest."

Hiruzen smirked and replied, "Oh you won't be off duty, you will take a team as a Jounin-sensei, and take a Genin team. You are to report to the Jounin team meeting after our discussion and you will train your team, once they are all chuunin you may resume duties as ANBU Captain."

Kitsune was about to decline but he saw the look in Hiruzen's eyes and sighed in a battle he lost the second the old man started talking. "Hai, Hokage-sama, I Kitsune, Captain of ANBU squad three take a leave of absence and give position of Temporary Captain to ANBU Okami (wolf) second in command, Lieutenant of squad three." Kitsune removed his mask and set it on Hiruzen's desk.

Behind the mask reveled a young man's face that couldn't be older than fifteen? He had an angular, defined, die for handsome face with no trace of baby fat showing definite signs of training and experience.

After removing the mask the young man's hair turned from black to the purest silver and his eyes changed from a light amethyst to a vibrant crimson ruby in color. While this happened Hiruzen pulled out and paced on his desk a brand new Elite Jounin grade flak jacket/vest and pulled out a makeup cover patch for his ANBU tattoo. The young man bowed and picked up the flak Jacket and put it on over his ANBU armor and zipped it up to his neck, and if one looked you could still see the chain necklace. He then grabbed the makeup cover patch and applied it to his skin over the ANBU tattoo, he applied chakra and the patch turned the exact shade of his skin and melted into it for a perfectly seamless look.

"Thank you, Hokage-sofu." The young man said with a perfect voice that was no longer deep. His voice was not deep, nor was it high but perfect to listen to if you were spoken to.

The old man smiled, "Nakashima you know there is no need for formalities around me when you are off duty, now you are dismissed so go to the Jounin council and get a genin team."

Thirty Minutes after the council

Nakashima knocked on the door leading into Iruka Umino's apartment. After a minute of waiting he heard the lock on the inside of the door unlock. Iruka opened the door only to be shocked at the person standing in front of him was. "Nakashima-san, wow I haven't seen you in ages how are you doing and when the hell did you make Elite Jounin."

"Hello Iruka-san it is good to see you to, in the order of your questions, I have been fine, and I made Elite Jounin toady. But hopeful will be able to regain my former position soon." Nakashima said whispering the last sentence more to himself than Iruka. "I have two messages for you, one is the letter from the Jounin Council about team placements, and two I would like you to when you go and see Naruto-kun that you stay with him tonight if anything happens until I get back please."

"Uh, thank you for the team placement announcement and um sure…. Guess I will stay with Naruto-kun until you get back." Iruka said.

Nakashima smiled, "thank you Iruka-san." He shunshined away with a wind and lightning shunshin no jutsu (body flicker technique).

An hour later with Naruto at Ichiraku Ramen

Naruto and Iruka were walking out of Ichiraku's after eating their fill of ramen, for Naruto that was twenty-seven large Naruto special bowls and counting and for Iruka it was two regular bowls of miso ramen. "That was great thanks Iruka-sensei!" Naruto proclaimed happily patting his miraculously um bulging stomach, "To bad Naka Nii-san couldn't be here."

"You don't have me to thank, Nakashima he paid for it." Iruka cried happily with his wallet still intact as he usually lost all his money to Naruto's eating habits.

They continued their way back to Naruto's apartment where they parted ways. Naruto went straight to bed and fell asleep imedietly.

Three days later Monday morning

For Naruto it had been a slow morning; first he woke up to a note on the refrigerator stating his brother was off for the day, than he left for the academy where he heard all the students yelling about one thing or another, and then Iruka came in with a long ass boring speech about being a ninja before starting to call the team placements. He started to zone out then.

"Team seven will be Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka continued from his list. Naruto hearing his name perked up and remembered who his team mates are and started to lightly bang his head on his desk not to disturb anyone. "Your Jounin sensei will be Nakashima Tadayoshi Yūgo."

That's all for tonight I am beat (ready to pass out more accurately) thank you for reading and a few notes I will be using Japanese for terms like grandfather brother mother etc. also jutsu and greetings and simple sayings will be in Japanese. Also on a side note Temari has been added to the poll for Naruto's girlfriend. Again thank you and please review.