AN: sorry for the wait guys but don't expect me to update on a strict schedule. I'll be updating a little spasticly sometimes I may get up to two in one day, sometimes it may take me a month. so I would like to apologize in advance. hope you like the story
Chapter 4
Naruto has been running for about 30 minutes, trying to get away from the various jonin a ANBU black ops, with the occasional chunin, and succeeding very well seeing that his senses rival that of an Inuzuka. He just foiled another capture attempt when he finally reached his destination… a small clearing in the woods about 30 miles north of Konoha.
Naruto decided to sit down and rest so he could prepare for the fight soon to come. He sat there for about 10 minutes when a thought struck his mind. 'I have the scroll, might as well use it.' He shrugged to himself and began to open the scroll. When he pulled out about one foot of paper, he then felt all over it trying to find some way of reading it. Surprisingly It did it had brail all up and down the page. (Such a blind friendly town, Konoha.) It said Kage bunshin (shadow clone). Naruto smiled to himself and began to memorize the page, once done he began to work.
TIMESKIP about 2 hours later
Naruto was just about to get up from the ground from his break, when a familiar scent tickled his nose. "Hello Iruka-sensei."
"Hello? HELLO!? IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY AFTER STEALING THE FORBIDDIN SCROLL OF KONOHA?!?!?!?" Iruka screamed at Naruto.
"Calm down sensei" Naruto began to explain "you see thi-"
"Hello Naruto, I see you stole the scroll like I told you." Mizuki interrupted before Naruto could explain.
"Yeah and your not gonna get it." Naruto said "you see I new what you were trying to do from the beginning." At this Mizuki's eyes widened. "You've reeked of treacherousness and evil since the day I met you. And any idiot knows they have to go through the chunin exams to become a chunin. You obviously work for another village so you're trying to take the scroll to them." Naruto finished
"Very good Naruto, you managed to figure out my plan. But you left out one piece of crucial part." Mizuki said.
Intrigued Naruto asked "and what part is that pray tell?"
"To blame the demon child for stealing the forbidden scroll and killing the chunin sensei Mizuki." Mizuki answered
"'Demon child'? Why is it that everyone calls me that!?" Naruto yelled at Mizuki
"Oh yes, you still don't know why everyone calls you 'demon' and 'monster' do you?" Mizuki asked "You don't know why you're hated? Alright I'll tell you."
"Mizuki you know you can't speak of that, it's forbidden!" Iruka interjected
"Naruto the reason everyone hates you. The reason why Iruka hates you... is because you are the Kyuubi no Kitsune!" Mizuki said. Naruto felt like he was just punched in the face and staggered backwards.
"No…no…NO, THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!!!!" Naruto screamed "the Yondiame killed it years ago!"
"It was all a lie; the Yondiame sealed it within you so you are the demon fox!" Mizuki said "now I'm going to do the village one last favor, by killing you" pulling out a giant shuriken. "DIE!!"
What happened next surprised everyone. Naruto felt something warm and wet drip onto his face, he smelled blood, and he heard the ragged breathing of his teacher over him. Iruka had taken the shuriken in the back for Naruto. "Naruto, no matter what he says you are not the demon, he is inside of you but you are not him," Iruka said faintly.
"Unfortunate that you had to get in the way Iruka, but I can't leave any loose ends, so I'm going to have to kill you too." Mizuki said throwing another giant shuriken. The shuriken speed towards, Iruka eating up the distance between them. But the weapon never made it to its target. There stood Naruto… with the shuriken in his bloody hands. He had caught it right before it hit Iruka.
"Don't you dare hurt Iruka-sensei or I'll kill you." Naruto spat at Mizuki. He then put his hands into the cross seal screaming "KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" then at the very least, 147 clones appeared in the surrounding area, all growling at Mizuki.
"How did you…?" Mizuki said in disbelief.
"Now I'm going to pay you back for Iruka-sensei, with interest." All the clones said at once.
The next thing that Mizuki knew was having hundreds of chain wrapped fists connecting with his stomach, face, back, chest, legs, and arms all at once. This went on for a few minutes, ending with Mizuki a bloody pulp on the ground. "Iruka-sensei are you all right?" Naruto asked after dispersing all of the clones.
Iruka looked up at the blind Jinchuuriki and said "I'll be fine, don't worry Naruto"
"Okay, as long as your alright." The boy said relieved that his teacher and father figure was alright. He then collapsed in a heap on the ground. When Iruka looked him over he saw that Naruto was suffering from chakra exhaustion. He would be out for a few weeks. Iruka just waited for someone to come and get them, being too injured to bring a near dead Mizuki and an unconscious Naruto back into Konoha. Soon ANBU came and took them to the hospital.
INSIDE NARUTO'S DREAMSCAPE
Naruto felt like he was hit over the head with a sledge hammer again (you don't know what might have happened to him when he was a kid). He had a massive headache. After standing still for a few minutes the headache soon dissipated. Naruto then noticed he was standing ankle deep in cold water.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Naruto asked the darkness. He heard the slow breathing of what sounded like a large beast coming from behind him, so he decided to investigate. He began to walk down what seemed to be a hallway, by the feel of the walls, until he suddenly came into a large room. He became nervous when he heard the breathing very close by. He still walked towards the sound until he ran headfirst into a large metal column. He felt around and found more evenly spaced out over a distance of about 150 feet. He hated the smell of the place…it smelled evil.
"So this is my container" said a loud deep voice from behind the bars.
To say that Naruto was surprised would be an understatement. He yelled and fell over his own feet, landing on his butt. "W-w-who a-a-are y-you?" Naruto managed to stutter out.
"I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune, king of the Bijuu" he said to Naruto
With newfound confidence Naruto stood up and began to yell at the demon. "So you're the reason for all of my suffering!"
"Same to you, human" kyuubi retorted. "Speaking of your suffering, it was all because you could not defend yourself. Because you didn't know of me the only thing I could do was heal you, now that you know I may now do more than that."
"Heal me! Why can't you heal my eyes?" Naruto asked
"I can heal wounds, but I can not change genetics" Kyuubi answered "Now back to what I was saying, at fist I could only heal you now I can grant you power. More than you could ever want."
"Who says that I want power?" Naruto said
"I live in your mind kit I know everything about you and then some. You might not want power in the ways most people want it but you do want power to protect those that are precious to you." Kyuubi stated
"Fine now how are you going to give it to me?" Naruto asked
"So full of questions, you humans. You just leave it all to me." Kyuubi chuckled
"Another question, where are we?" Naruto asked yet again
"We are inside your mindscape." Kyuubi answered
"But that does-" Naruto tried to say but Kyuubi interrupted
"These never ending questions bore and annoy me so stop before I change my mind about granting you power." Kyuubi threatened. This instantly shut Naruto up. "Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to increase your senses and physical strength exponentially, I'm also going to, at times of need, grant you a portion of my chakra."
"Wow" Naruto said
"Now it's about time you wake up, you have a visitor." Kyuubi said
"Really? Who?" Naruto questioned
"The strawberry girl." Kyuubi said simply
"Sakura," Naruto said quietly. "Okay talk at ya later."
After Naruto left Kyuubi sighed in relief "Kami it's about time he left. He's more annoying than the yonibi (four tails)."
SC
Naruto woke to a head splitting headache. Every sound made pain lance through his skull. When the pain died down he noticed. That he was laying in a very comfortable bed, and that the smell of alcohol permeated the area, it almost hid the smell of strawberries coming from the corner of the room…Almost.
"Sakura-chan, how long have you been here?" Naruto asked
"Well good morning to you too." Sakura said "I've been here since ANBU brought you in. What happened last night anyways?"
"Mizuki-sensei became a traitor." Naruto said in disgust "and I learned something about myself." Naruto added quietly
"And what is it that you learned?" she inquired
"Tell me Sakura-chan, have you seen the way people look at me, treat me? It's all because of something terrible"
Now that she thought of it Sakura had in fact seen how the people of Konoha treated the blonde boy. "Why is it?" she asked curious to why people would treat her Naruto like that.
"It's because of I have a demon sealed inside of me, the Kyuubi no Kitsune." At this Sakura gasped. Naruto expected that she would be surprised. He also expected that she hate him too after this. What he did not expect was a crying Sakura hugging him tightly. He didn't really know what to do in a situation like this not having much experience in this field, so he tried comforting her as best he could.
"Naruto-kun I can't believe people would treat you like this because of what is inside of you." She whispered into his chest.
"So you don't hate me?" Naruto asked hopefully
"Of course I don't, I hate what is inside of you, but you are totally different." Sakura answered. The next thing she did was completely on impulse she looked up and kissed him on the cheek. Though Naruto couldn't see this, she began to blush furiously, embarrassed by what she just did. Naruto was also blushing, not by the kiss but because he wanted another and another and another. Of course he would never tell her this, but he did. Naruto then noticed that he was wearing only a pair of boxers this only caused him to blush harder.
"Um Sakura-chan, where are my clothes?"
SC
"Hurry up Naruto-kun we're going to be late!" Sakura yelled behind her
"I'm trying, but I'm blind and I've never been down this road!" Naruto yelled back after running into the third stand on this street
"HEY WATCH IT!" shouted another vendor
SC
"Yatta! We made it Naruto…Naruto?" Sakura asked a little out of breath
Naruto was far from out of breath. He looked like he just came from a war zone, covered with bruises, cuts and lots of dust. "Sakura-chan…Never again… will we ever… run down a road I've never been down…"
"Aw stop whining you big baby," Sakura giggled. "Let's go sit down"
Naruto and Sakura walked towards the end of the class. When they got there Naruto plopped down on the chair next to Sakura.
"Okay class! Today you're going to learn who your jonin senseis are going to be. Okay team one consists of…" and after that Naruto kind of spaced out until… "Team seven consists of Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Uchiha Sasuke, your jonin sensei will be Hatake Kakashi." At this Only Sakura cheered, of course Naruto was glad to be on Sakura's team he just wasn't one to cheer out loud. Sasuke on the other hand didn't care a mite.
After the teams were called out the jonins would come in and take their teams "Okay team eight come with me" a red eyed konoichi said. "Team ten your with me" said a large man with a cigarette. One by one the senseis came and took their teams until only Team seven was left.
"What's taking this guy so long?!" Sakura screamed.
"I don't know Sakura-chan but don't be too, angry he is only a couple minutes late." Naruto reassured her
TIMESKIP A COUPLE HOURS LATER
"IF HE ISN'T HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE SECONDS, IM GONNA KILL SOMEONE!!!" Sakura screamed to the heavens
"Shut up Sakura." Sasuke said with a deadly tone in his voice. He had been listening to her gripe about how "Kakashi-sensei isn't here yet" and other crap like that, and he just got sick of it. Even though he was thinking along the same lines.
Naruto though got tired of both of them talking and was just about to yell at them when he heard a faint heart beat right outside the door. On pure instinct Naruto threw his staff like a javelin with enough force to skewer a wild boar, strait towards the sound. Sasuke and Sakura were surprised that he would do such a thing at random, but what surprised them more was that the staff had gone halfway through the wall.
"Naruto-kun, why did you do that?" Sakura asked confused. Sasuke nodded, silently asking the same question.
"Look at the other side of the wall and find out" Naruto answered cryptically.
Filled with curiosity Sakura silently went and opened the door. When she looked out she gasped. Sasuke wanting to see what happened got up and looked too. There in the hallway stood a man with spiked gray hair, a mask that covered most of his face, with his hitiate over one eye, wearing standard jonin attire. But what amazed them the most was where the staff had gone. It had gone about four feet through the wall into one of the sleeves of the man's vest and out the other sleeve. The man seemed shocked beyond belief that something had gone through the wall and his vest, thrown by a genin no less.
"Who threw this? Was it you?" Kakashi asked looking at the Uchiha.
"No it was me." Naruto said as he walked through the door. "I believe you are Hatake Kakashi." Naruto said from behind Sakura and Sasuke. "You're late." When Kakashi saw that Naruto was blind, his eye widened even more. Of course if Kakashi was alert he could've dodged the weapon easily, but…but these where genin. He would never thought any of them were capable of doing this.
"My first impression of you guys are, a fangirl, an idiot, and one actual ninja." Kakashi said as he sidestepped to his left, to get off of the staff. "Meet me on the roof" he said nonchalantly before shunshining (sp?) (Body flicker) to the roof.
Sasuke and Sakura just stood there and stared at Naruto, as he began to walk up some stairs. "You guys coming?" Naruto asked
"Yes Naruto-kun," Sakura answered hurrying after him.
"Hn," Was all Sasuke said slowly following the two.
AN: going to have to stop it right there. Sorry guys I took so long and then cut it off right there, I'm sorry but I really needed to get this chapter out. and always remember... there's nothing gay about a man hug. Keep reviewing!