A/N – Ok I already wrote this once as well as a chapter for Konoha's Red Flash but my laptop died and the hard drive wiped itself so this is re-written from memory. I hope you guys are happy with my devotion to you. Although you probably have to thank OmegaDelta for pm-ing me to get this done.
Jutsu/Flashback
"Talking"
"Demon Talking"
"Jinchuriki Talking"
'Thinking'
'Demon Thinking'
Chapter 4 – Reactions
Naruto laughed as he jumped back landing on his bed.
'Did you see his face Kyuubi-sensei? It was hilarious.' Naruto called out in his mind. All he heard was a dark chuckle in response.
Flashback
Team 7 walked towards the great gates of Konoha. Sakura was staying as far away from Naruto as possible. Sasuke was trying to get Naruto give him the strange power he could wield. Kakashi was watching Naruto like a hawk with a look of sorrow showing in his one visible eye. Naruto himself hadn't talked to any of the others since they left wave, not even acknowledging they were there.
When they reached the gates they were waved right through, being told by Kotetsu and Izumo that the Hokage wanted to talk to them. They didn't pay attention to the genin until they had passed and they were amazed to see the sudden change in Naruto. When Naruto was a child and prank king, he had often hidden in the guard booth with them. They thought it was funny watching jonin and ANBU running around and never finding him.
They simply shrugged, trying to figure Naruto out was effectively wishing for a migraine.
Kakashi led his team to the Hokage tower, people openly glaring at Naruto or stopping to stare in shock. When they reached the tower Naruto disappeared, no puff of smoke, no swirl of leaves just disappeared, like he was never even there.
Kakashi shrugged and continued on to the Hokage's office, it took them about 10 minutes to make their way there. When they arrived Naruto appeared again, like he was never gone.
The Hokage hadn't looked up from his paperwork yet.
"So Kakashi how was your mission?" questioned the Hokage.
"Well it was successful Hokage-sama but there were a few complications." Stated Kakashi. It was at this point that Hiruzen looked up from his never ending paperwork.
"How soooo" when the Hokage saw Naruto he launched out of his chair and grabbing a calligraphy brush and ink. ANBU appeared from various places around the room, grabbing Naruto while the Sandaime tried to draw the demon suppression seal. Tried being the key word.
When his brush hit Naruto he disappeared in a puff of smoke, revealing it to be a shadow clone.
Flashback end
After that Naruto had explained to the Hokage that the Kyuubi meant no harm, obviously he had waited for Sakura and Sasuke to be escorted out of the room. That in itself was almost as funny as the Hokage's various faces during the explanation.
The Sandaime was wary at first until Naruto had sighed in annoyance and tapped the Hokage's hand. The ANBU didn't notice anything strange until the Hokage's eyes widened. He had had a very strange heart to heart with the Kyuubi. The ANBU were about to pounce but the Hokage raised a hand, stopping them in their tracks.
When they were done with the explanations Naruto had something else to ask, so when Kakashi had left he spoke up.
"I want to be transferred to a different team." He had asked.
Hiruzen was confused at first until Naruto had explained Kakashi's blatant favouritism towards Sasuke and now trying to ignore Sakura and Sasuke to teach him.
Hiruzen had agreed to the transfer if he didn't make chunin in the next chunin exam. Naruto had been confused at first until the Kyuubi filled him in mentally. Naruto had agreed to this, meaning if Kakashi didn't nominate them, Naruto would be transferred and if he did nominate them and Naruto wasn't promoted he would be transferred as well. Meaning Kakashi's only hope to keep the son of his sensei then he would have to nominate them for the chunin exams and then help them during the month break. Not just Naruto, he had to show at least some help to the other members in the team.
Naruto had no plans of being trained by Kakashi; he already had a private tutor in the form of the Kyuubi. So in other words Kakashi had to train Sakura or Naruto would hightail it outa there.
Naruto smiled as he stared at his roof, still going through all the different reactions he had seen today. Konohamaru had thought it was badass, Ayame and Teuchi from Ichiraku ramen had thought it was an improvement to the orange jumpsuit and most importantly the villagers didn't recognize him. Even though the changes were small they were enough for him to buy enough supplies to last him for a month, as well as a large amount of kunai, shuriken and various other ninja tools.
Now that he had all he needed for the next few weeks of training and then the chunin exams he could rest. Although rest probably wasn't the best word for it, as soon as his eyes closed he found himself being drawn into the seal.
-Mindscape-
"So what do you want Kyuubi-sensei?" Called out Naruto as he walked down a hallway in his mind. It was no longer a filthy sewer it was slowly changing; right now it was halfway between a cave and an open meadow. The meadow was slowly taking over but still these small cave areas existed linked together by walkways.
As Naruto walked into the large meadow he saw his sensei. The Kyuubi but not as most people would picture him. Instead of a giant fox made of chakra, it was instead a man. He was about 6" tall with blood red hair slicked back down to his shoulders. He was wearing black samurai style armour. Blood red sandals matching his hair adorned his feet. This is where the human resemblance ends however, poking out of his hair were two red fox ears, his eyes were red with slit pupils and fangs jut out of his lips. 9 flowing red fox tails swung around behind him, each moving independently.
"Now kit we have a long night ahead of us, but first I wish to tell you something that I never told your predecessors. My name." Started Kyuubi before Naruto interrupted.
"Wait I thought your name was Kyuubi?" Kyuubi snarled and smacked Naruto in the back of the head.
"You baka, Kyuubi is my title not my name! My name is Kurama, leader of the kitsune clan." Kurama took a deep breath before continuing, "Now that we have done that we are going to continue your training in using yokai."
Naruto's body may have slept that night but his mind didn't, while he slept for a few hours in his bed his mind trained for days, trying to control as much yokai before he would lose control. He would always lose control when entering the 4-tailed state. This frustrated him to no end but he knew that he wouldn't accomplish much inside his mind. One good thing about spending so much time on one thing is it left Kurama time to transfer the information about demonic jutsu directly into Naruto's mind.
For the next few weeks Naruto's nights were like this while during the day he would go to his team's training sessions mainly to make sure Kakashi wasn't exclusively training Sasuke. Kakashi was trying to train all of them; he didn't want to lose his sensei's son. Naruto rarely paid attention to Kakashi's pleas of forgiveness or his offers of training. He merely observed the training taking place, or at least that's what they thought, in reality he sent a reinforced clone to training while he himself walked around Konoha invisible to the naked eye.
Kurama's training in stealth had all come back to him, allowing him to blend into almost any landscape.
He had been watching the arriving genin for the chunin exams and been evaluating who he thought would make it. So far no one had caught his eye skill wise but that didn't mean he was right.
'Ahh finally a team with promise.' Thought Naruto seeing a team of suna genin, one obviously a Jinchuriki. He watched them until the Jinchuriki split off with their sensei while the other two started walking around the village. At first he wasn't sure who to follow but he could sense the Jinchuriki's yokai so finding him wouldn't be hard.
He followed them for about 10 minutes before Konohamaru ran straight into the one with a bandaged object. Not 5 seconds later did his clone and Sakura come around the corner, Sakura immediately apologising for Konohamaru saying it was her fault.
"I don't care whose fault it was, this little gaki ran into me so I'm going to teach him a lesson." The ninja said with an almost sadistic grin. This was when the clone came to the rescue.
"I suggest putting him down before I have to damage you." Said the clone with a large sadistic grin plastered over his face.
"Kankurou listen to the hunk, you don't want to start an international incident." Came the voice of the blonde girl behind him.
"Aww come on Temari it's just one kid, how much of an incident could that be." Complained Kankurou.
Suddenly an ear-splitting crack was heard. For a second no one could find the source of the crack until looking to Kankurou who was holding the arm that was previously holding Konohamaru.
"I said to put down the Hokage's grandson and you didn't listen, this was my way of protecting my leader's legacy." Said the Naruto clone, "Oh and don't worry nothing broke, yet." A faint cry of boss is so awesome was heard in the background as Konohamaru ran away.
"That's it!" yelled Kankurou, reaching for the bundle on his back. But before he could a rock hit him in the injured arm causing him to grit his teeth in pain.
Looking up into a tree (funnily enough the same tree that the real Naruto was hiding in) revealed Sasuke.
"Urgh they keep crawling out of the woodwork" exclaimed Kankurou.
"Kankurou you are a disgrace to our village" called out a monotone voice from the tree that was apparently the preferred hiding place in the village.
"Sorry Gaara" came the reply from both Temari and Kankurou. With a sand body flicker Gaara moved from the tree to with his siblings. With a flick of his finger sand shot out and dispelled the Naruto clone forcing Naruto to reveal himself.
Sasuke and Sakura were shocked; Sasuke had been using his sharingan the whole time meaning Naruto hadn't substituted with a clone, also meaning Naruto had been skipping training and D rank missions.
"Who are you?" Questioned Gaara in his monotone.
"I'm Sasuke Uchiha." Replied Sasuke with an air of confidence that can only come with being told they are good without any actual effort being put in.
"Not you, I was talking to the one who holds great power." Stated Gaara looking straight at Naruto, causing Sasuke to look pissed and slightly constipated.
"Who me?" questioned Naruto, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, little one." Gaara seemed to swallow in fear.
'Don't anger him; do not try for his blood, whatever you do, he will kill you before you can try.' Came the desperate voice from within Gaara's mind.
"S-s-sorry sir." Said Gaara, stuttering in fear. Temari and Kankurou were shocked beyond belief, nothing scared Gaara. Before they could think more on it Gaara looked at them with a hard look in his eye, so instead of commenting on anything they followed him.
'I wonder why Gaara's scared by the blonde hunk, he's good looking but that doesn't mean he's strong.' Thought Temari.
Once the sand siblings had left Naruto looked at his teammates, scoffing he disappeared before their eyes. Shocking Sasuke who didn't see anything even though he had had his sharingan active the whole time.
The next day found Naruto waiting outside the academy grounds, being the first of his team to show. He waited for half an hour before his team arrived.
"Took you long enough" he said.
"Hn, let's just get this done with." Guess who said that (If you guessed the resident emo brooder who goes by the name of Sasuke then you get bonus points).
The three walked in to the academy and up one set of stairs before seeing a crowd of chunin hopefuls crowding around a door. A green clad genin seemed to be getting beaten to a pulp by two genin in front of the door who looked suspiciously like Kotetsu and Izumo.
"Let's just continue on, don't alert them to the genjutsu." Naruto whispered to his teammates. They nodded and continued on.
Sadly they didn't make a few steps out the door when the green clad genin from before was standing in front of them with his teammates coming through the door. All of the boys injuries were gone.
"Are you Sakura?" the boy questioned, simply waiting for her to nod before continuing, "I am Rock Lee and will you go out with me, if you do I will protect you until the day I die." He yelled out, displaying his Youthfulness for all to see. (A/N That made me feel dirty writing that.)
"Uhh sorry but I have my eyes in someone else" she said while looking at Sasuke. Lee took this as a challenge.
"Then I shall fight you Sasuke Uchiha, you are considered a genius and hold Sakura-chan's heart so I must fight you." Called Lee.
"Lee we don't have time." Called his female teammate.
"Do not worry Tenten and Neji, my youthfulness shall shine through and make this quick." He called.
"Fine Lee but we aren't waiting for you." Said the other teammate, presumably Neji.
They walked off, Naruto with them.
"Make this quick Sasuke, I don't want to fail because you end up a bloody mess before we reach any fighting stages." Called Naruto as he walked out.
It wasn't 2 minutes later that Sasuke, Sakura and Lee came up to the third floor.
Team Gai moved on ahead while Sasuke caught his breath. After he was alright they went to the room and found Kakashi leaning against the door reading his smut book.
"Ahh good you all showed up, so um good luck don't fail too early on." Said Kakashi before disappearing in a body flicker.
"Well this should prove interesting." Said Naruto, a sadistic smile present on his face.
A/N And cut. Yeah I know that's a bit of a dick spot to stop the chapter but I'm tired and I'd rather write the first and second tests together so I ran out of room here. And if anyone is thinking that "if Naruto and Temari are going to be together then why didn't she fall for him straight away?" My answer is who does that actually happen to. Naruto will end up with Temari but for now she just thinks he's good looking.
Please review and I have a question that has been plaguing me since I saw the size of my alert list compared to my favourite list. Can you guys tell me how many stories you have on alert compared to favourite. If it makes you feel better I can go first, I currently have 6 favourite stories and 54 alerts.
Thanks Trigger2332 out!
