New chap, sorry for the late update, and the pairings are undecided, since one I havent decided, two i dont know how a pairing would work, at this point I think she's totally fine going solo.

three. Thank god for beta's cuz this chap would have been difficult without one.

Four, obviously I'm going to have a problem updating since I'm working on four stories, and lots of school work, so work with me.

Naruto went quickly and quietly through the door of the Konoha Academy. Hereyes were hard and unforgiving, this was most likely because she skipped breakfast due to an unfortunate circumstances that involved her new "guests".Her eyes traveled around the room, searching for a good place to sit, and stopped upon to Shikamaru and, without pausing, she gracefully sat in the empty seat next to him.

He would have talked to her or challenged her to shougi or something, butshe wasn't paying attention to anything around her. She had earphones in her ears, listening to music and not giving a damn about the classes or the exams, and
Shikamaru knew it would be too troublesome to even try and bother her.

Irukasensei wasn't there yet, so as you can imagine the class was hell.The students were yelling and screaming, a couple of boys were having a practice sparring while some of the ninjawannabe girls gossiped and flirted.

However, unfortunately that wasn't the end. All of a sudden a pink haired girl and blonde haired blue eyed girl raced into the class room, along with the rest of the Sasuke fan club. Each of the pathetic girls was shoving one another to get a chance to glimpse at their beloved Sasuke-kun.

"Holy hell, the embarrassments of Konoha are here." Kyuubi groaned.

Naruto nodded, eyes closed, distractedly listening to the beat of the music.Trying her best to ignore the yells of "SASUKE-KUN." She paid even closer attention to the music, Her head bobbing slightly, as her eye twitched at
seeing those feeble girls throw themselves at him and wondered what they saw in the bastard. Not even wanting to think about it she put her music louder and closed her eyes once again.

While Naruto was lost in her own world a girl rushed past her trying to join up with the rest of the fan girls only to trip over Naruto's foot, as the girl slipped and fell she managed to knock Naruto's bag off her chair, which sent poor Silver flying across the floor.

A low menacing growl erupted in the class room, Naruto's eyes snapped open. She blinked and in that second she saw a furry blur of white rush across the room followed by a yell of "AKAMARU!"

Naruto looked down towards the foot of her desk, nonplussed, and saw Silver growling, and baring his fangs while Akamaru barked. Without warning Akamaru lunged and bit down Silver's shoulder. Silver, in turn turned his head and clamped down on Akamaru's exposed neck.

Growls resonated from both canines but then the Akamaru started whimpering and attempted to bite harder so Silver would release the death grip on his neck. That didn't happen. As Akamaru continued to bite harder so did Silver. Kiba rushed in and tried to pry open Silver's jaws to get Akamaru. He half turned towards Naruto. "Get your damn mutt will you!" He yelled angrily at her

Naruto stood up and took slow steps to where Silver still had Akamaru, and gave him an apathetic look. "Let go Silver. You can play with the brainless rat later." She said in a commanding tone.

Naruto then grabbed Silver by the scruff of his neck who whined and scrambled onto her shoulder.

Kiba gave her a murderous glare. "Don't insult Akamaru." Naruto nodded complacently, and with mock innocence flew him the bird.

"You know he would be a lot scarier if he had killing intent….weapon ….the balls to actually back up what he says instead of just making childish threats."

Naruto snorted mentally and then turned the music up on her walkman yet again as Iruka entered the room and told them to settle down. He looked at them, staring them down like he expected them to have absorbed and learned
everything of importance. Like they should listen to every detail he says and quote it back like a damn Chihuahua.

He looked at them gravely and said "Today you'll take the gennin exam and if you pass you get a chance to be an official Konoha ninja. Then you if continue to do well you'll rise to the ranks of chunnin and maybe evenjounin."

Then Naruto droned out everything. She knew the drill, first they would take a written exam, and then kunai throwing, bushin and another jutsu of their choice. Naruto bobbed her head to the beat and distractedly ran her fingers through
Silver's silky fur, who had fallen asleep after his fight with Akamaru. This want on for a while, and Naruto's eyes were slowly closing.

All of the sudden her eyes snapped open. She tilted her head back as an eraser flew past her. The fur on Silver's back bristled as he crouched low growling menacingly.

Naruto's eyes narrowed challengingly. A very sinister looking smile graced her face, and a million twisted thoughts raced through her brain on how to disembowel, torture, and hide her teacher's body.

"Naruto since you seem to find my class so unworthy of your attention we're all going to review our old techniques since apparently, you've decided you know them well enough to ignore my instructions during class." Iruka said, glaring at her.

Everyone groaned. That evil bastard. Naruto snarled, clearly Iruka forgotwho he was dealing with. The village demon did not take kindly to threats involving work, especially from a mere chunnin. Now the question was what to do? What to do? So many available options.

'What do you think?' She silently asked Kyuubi.

"I think you should you should exploit your knowledge of men in the closet." Kyuubi suggested slyly.

'…'

"What?... we all knew he was gay."

'No we knew Sasuke was gay, I thought Iruka was just a guy with no game, that Anko's been crushing on.'

"Lucky bastard."

Naruto rolled her eyes. "You're over two thousand years old, Anko's human and like thirty, I'm pretty sure that's illegal."

"I'm a demon lord nothing is illegal for me."

She raised one eyebrow. 'So if you're released from your prison you won't be pursued, and brought before the Demon Council for a centuries worth of crimes.'

"Ninety-eight percent of those crimes don't count."

'So the time when you brought Kyra, the most powerful empath in existence, back from the dead simply so you could play strip poker doesn't count!'

"Nope. It's not like she was mad."

'Dude when someone says, "I'm going to send you to rot in another dimension you disgusting overgrown plushie' I don't think that's code for keep flirting.'

"It was back then."

'Yeah right, I'm young, not stupid.'

"That's questionable."

'How about the time you accidentally turned the Naga's eggs into a bacon omelet.'

"I didn't know they weren't edible." He whined.

'Moron.'

She was forced out of her argument, when a ruler slammed down on her desk, an inch from her face. She blinked slightly surprised, and looked up to see a very angry Iruka.

"Naruto, it's sad when a student believes themselves above the class, but when the same student can't even stay focused long enough to participate in the class, it becomes a problem."

Naruto stared at him blankly. "You could have just said it was my turn Sensei." Snickering echoed through the class room, and she twitched in amusement as he grounded his teeth together.

"I did, several times; apparently staring off into space was more interesting."

She gave a small smirk, and nodded slowly, and a dark scowl replaced Iruka's normal look. "Well would you do us all the favor of performing your jutsu then Uzumaki?"

She gave a nonchalant shrug, and stood, walking slowly to the front of the class, elegantly sidestepping the juvenile attempts to trip her.

She kept her gaze fixed on Silver's prone form. He had fallen asleep sometime during the lecture, and yet he wasn't on the receiving end of Iruka's wrath. How lucky for him.

She muttered something, and went through several hand signs. She was enveloped in dark smoke, and for a few seconds everyone was blind, when the smoke cleared, Naruto stood unchanged, and next to her was a very dead and deformed looking bushin.

She blinked and glared venomously at it, and contemplated making it blow up into tiny sushi compatible pieces, but Iruka was talking...again!

He looked unnaturally smug. Screw the bushin, could she blow him instead? She highly doubted Anko would thank her, in fact she was more than sure she'd make her life miserable. She massaged her temple, and tried to focus.

"Naruto seriously, after the first four failures, you'd think you'd improve that technique, those clones get more atrocious every time."

"So does your face jack butt."

"He can't hear you."

"Damn it, let me have this."

She rolled her eyes, and trudged back to her desk. She caught Shikamaru giving her a critical glance. She raised a questioning eyebrow, but he merely shook his head, and looked back to the front.

She knew even if she did try on the written test ,and got all the right answers, she'd still fail, which that combined with the failed jutsu, and she was already screwed for the gennin test.

She sighed, and glanced surreptitiously around the room. Ino and Sakura were trying to murder each other by glaring, and she truthfully wished them all the luck in the world. Shino was by himself. Kiba was petting Akamaru, and smiling
triumphantly at her. Yeah well with any luck his owner will buy him a muzzle, and a nice, shiny chain.

Hinata was twiddling her thumbs, and Sasuke was… you know what she didn't really care.

She tapped the edge of her desk impatiently, could today get any better? She sighed, and reached out stroking Silver's fur. She gently moved him to the side, and rested her head next to him on the desk. All she needed was a small nap.

An hour and a half later.

Something was shaking her. She jerked up, abruptly, Her eyes snapped open, and she drew her kunai, practically engraving it into her trespasser's neck. A pair of white pupil-less eyes stared back at her.

Crap. Hyuuga. She quickly withdrew her weapon, "My bad Hinata, I didn't know it was you." She apologized.

"I-I-I-It's o-ok Naru."

"You think if she tries, she can hyperventilate when she stutters?"

'Be nice fluff ball.' Naruto scolded him.

"Hinata breathe, you don't have to try so hard no one's here to judge you, or attack you." Naruto told her gently.

The pale eyed girl nodded, clearly still nervous. "N-N-Naruto w-why do you lie?"

Naruto paused, as she was about to pick up a very disgruntled Silver. "Run that by me again."

"Y-Y-Your n-not as h-h-helpless as you m-make yourself out t-t-t-to be are you?"

"She's known you for only for a day, and she's already got you figured out."

'She is a Hyuuga.'

"Hinata... I don't think having this talk right now is necessary."

Naruto grabbed Silver's scruff, and draped him over her shoulders. "Maybe another time Hinata."

She then disappeared in a burst of wind, leaving behind a very bewildered Hinata.

--

She trudged home, adamant on taking a long hot bath. She flinched as Silver took a bite out of her ear.

"Owe!"

"He's teething."

'If he bites me again I can guarantee he won't have any teeth left!'

"Don't lie; you know that pup has you trained, every time he whines you end up caving, and getting him whatever he wants."

'Shut up!'

She quickened her step as her house came into view. She wanted a bath, and sake.

She slammed the front door open, and Silver jumped off her shoulder rolling on to the ground. He tumbled over his paws before righting himself, and racing out of the room.

"Admit it you think he's cute."

'Go away.'

Naruto walked slowly towards her room, her feet dragging on the hard wood floor. She passed an unconscious Anko, and expected to see Kenichi accidentally maiming himself with her weapons. Instead, she walked in to see him staring blankly at the wall, a cold dead look in his eyes.

'What happened to him?'

"Like I would know."

"Kenichi." She asked as she approached him cautiously so not to alarm him.

No response.

She looked at him again slightly alarmed, and began to shake his shoulders. He blinked, and turned to look at her as if noticing her for the first time.

"What the hell happened to you?"

He trembled slightly; obviously, whatever happened had him terrified. "I-I-I got h-hungry. S-s-so I went into the kitchen, and t-there were these orange pastry things…"

She gaped at him, if this was going where she thought it was he was lucky to even be alive.

"It looked good, so I ttried some, and t-that lady on the couch wokeup."

"I'll pray for his soul."

'Oh my god.'

"She came after me with knives, and poisonous snakes, and she tried fry me in flour and turn me into the perfect playmate for her snakes…I don't understand! I didn't touch her, I wasn't loud but she still woke up."

Naruto's gaze was unusually sympathetic. His was a fate she wouldn't wish on anyone. "Anko is a bit overprotective to the point where it's disturbing, when it comes to her dango. If you want to die there are safer, less painful ways to go. I told you she had a kunai fetish, didn't I?"

"I thought you were kidding!"

She gave a snort. "Not even close."

He chuckled, and they lapsed into a comfortable silence.

"So…um, how was your test?"

"Yes, how was your test, dear kit?" Kyuubi asked in mock curiosity.

'Shut up, fuzz ball.' She growled mentally.

"A waste of time."

Kenichi looked at her wide eyed. "What do you mean? Shinobi training is
supposed to make you strong!"

Naruto shook her head. "You don't have to be a shinobi to be strong. Even if I don't make gennin I'm still a formidable opponent. Most of the jounins are rather afraid of me."

Kenichi scrunched up his nose, and shook his head decidedly, "You can't seriously be that strong, and you're a freaking girl."

She laughed long and hard, and gave him a half hug. "And apparently, you're a sexist little brat."

"Am not!" He shouted indignantly.

"You don't know what that means do you?"

He huffed, and crossed his arms, in a pout. "So what."

Naruto rolled her eyes, but grinned nevertheless. "It'd be nice if I were you, I could change my mind and decide not to go replace her dango. After all, just think she wasn't even sober when she went after you, and she already has you terrified. Imagine what she likes when she's thinking clearly."

He visibly paled, and shivered, the idea obviously wasn't that appealing.

"That's just cruel."

"I was kidding."

"Your idea of humor sucks."

--

Naruto walked through the streets of Konoha, drearily eyeing each store carefully, before warily moving on. She always kept one eye on the shadows.

Now was no the time to get jumped, not that an average mugger could scratch her, but an anbu with a grudge was not in any way an attractive idea.

She stopped as the store where Anko stopped as a regular customer came into view. She spotted a seat at the counter, and plopped tiredly into it. She firmly rubbed her eyes, willing the mountainous bags away.

"Uzamaki-san."

She turned, and was met by a familiar face.

Naruto inclined her head slightly in greeting. "Ohayo Yuki."

Naruto stared at the cook, noting the painfully drawn look to her face, and the carefully placed smile, that didn't quite reach her eyes. Normally Naruto would write this off as the narrow mindedness of the villagers, but Yuki was one of the few who didn't share the same sentiments of thecivilians, she always seemed happy.

"What's wrong?"

"You didn't hear! The forbidden scroll was stolen not to long ago."

Her intelligent reply was, "What?"

"Mizuki was a traitor all along; he took the scroll, and plans to leave Konoha with it, and give it to god knows who!"

"Oh, glad I'm not part of your village."

"I'm sure you are fuzz ball."

Naruto glanced at Yuki. She knew for some unfathomable reason she had been crushing on Mizuki for a long time, so his betrayal was most likely an unnaturally painful experience for her, especially, but a new thought presented itself, and she flinched at the implications.

"Yuki, do you know which way he was heading when he ran... It's really important that you remember."

The girl looked at her, surprised at the question, since Naruto usually kept out of Konoha's issues, and hesitated before answering slowly.

"The forest, he was headed for the forest I think."

Naruto groaned. He couldn't make her life any easier, of course not, that would imply that something good was happening to her for some corrupted reason.

"What the hell are you just standing around for, you need to get to him
before Anko does."

Naruto didn't reply, she was seemingly enveloped on a cocoon a violent winds and she silently disappeared.

--
Kenichi glared out of the window for what had to be the twentieth time in the last five minutes. Where was Naruto? He was bored out of his mind, and couldn't play anything for fear of waking a very violent and sadistic middleaged female.

He ran his hands distractedly through his already messy hair. He could play with the dog, or wolf, or whatever, but what was the point all it did was bite him. He knew the dog hated his guts anyways it had eyes only for Naruto.

Speaking of Silver where was he? It was disturbingly quiet in the house. He pulled himself away from his post at the window, and tip toed quietly through the house. He paused at Naruto' room, and in that moment saw a silver blur
lunging at the window.

What the hell?

He glanced at the pup curiously, as Silver shook off the impact, and growled daringly making another mad dash at the window, and a loud thud echoed through the room as the pup was again sent sprawling.

Kenichi winced at the sound, and ran as the pup attempted to lunge again. He grabbed him roughly at his neck, and secured his other arm around its stomach.

"Are you insane?" He hissed.

Silver's only reply was to snap angrily at his hands. He dropped the pup, and held the abused hand, inspecting it for any signs of infections. He snarled at the Silver, and stomped angrily over to the pup, and with sudden impulse grabbed him, swiftly throwing the window open, and dropping him out.

Served him right.

He then felt immediately guilty for his rash decision.

Was Silver going to get hurt? Naruto was going to kill him. A thousand thoughts floated through Kenichi's head as he pushed the front door open.

He had to find Silver; he was too young to die.

He started out as a run, following the pup's paw prints. Where could he have gone?

He didn't get very far though, unfortunately. He didn't have time to react as the wind was knocked out of him and a figure twice his size was sent rolling through the dirt with him.

That hurt!

He turned to glare up at guy with silver hair…That's odd.

--
Iruka was in pain, it was like boot camp times ten, and then when you finish camp tell the camp instructor, he's allowed to shoot you three or four times without you suing him. That's what Iruka felt like right now.

He shrugged the pain off, as much as he could, wisely ignoring the blood pouring out of his shoulder into several different puddles.

He glanced slowly at the boy he crashed into, and blinked as his vision swam before him. He watched, as Mizuki tensed, before lunging at him with burst of speed. So this was how it ended. How insanely pathetic.

He waited vainly for the pain that never came.

--

Naruto snarled angrily at Mizuki, out of all things in the world a traitor
had to be the worst, and the most annoying.

She didn't flinch when the blade dug into her shoulder, but her face darkened considerably, while still maintaining a carefully neutral expression. When he noticed that Iruka was still very much alive, and that she had take the blow, his face split into a maniacal grin.

"This is so cute one weakling helping another weakling. What do you possibly think you could do against me demon child?"

Naruto stroked her chin thoughtfully, and started counting one finger at a time. "I could kill you, kick your , bury you headfirst in a pit full of acid. Give you to Anko as a Christmas gift…" The list is endless!

Mizuki snorted. "Clearly your confused as to what your position in life is you monster. You're the slowest, weakest student in the academy, a disgusting abomination. You have no friends or teammates and if you did have a family they didn't deem you worth keeping all because"

"Shut up Mizuki. It's forbidden." Iruka hoarsely coughed.

Mizuki smirked happily "Oh but Iruka this is the good part, all because the Kyuubi no Yoko needed a container, a prison keeper, they needed you, and now everyone hates you." He laughed gaily. "Isn't it wonderful?"

Naruto glared at him evenly, and felt the Kyu's hatred burn in her as fiercely as her own anger.

"Let me out!"

'No.

"Either you let me out, or I'll force you too!" He growled dangerously.

Naruto sighed exasperated. 'Moron. Don't you get it, he needs us to get mad, and when we do we'll prove him right, and he'll have won. I'm not a weak little girl anymore I can fight him and beat him, without giving him the satisfaction of getting what he wants."

Kyuubi growled softly, clearly the idea of bashing Mizuki's face in pleased him more. Stiffly he replied, "As you wish… If he wins I won't hesitate in killing him, and then coming back to kick your ass ."

'Unnecessary, I don't plan on losing.'

Naruto slowly got into a stance, ignoring everything except the task. She took a deep breath, and in the middle of exhaling disappeared in an explosion of wind. She reappeared directly behind Mizuki, taking advantage of her position, and directing a swift kick to the ribs, and a loud crack filled the clearing.

"One or two ribs?"

'Three.'

She grabbed his shoulder, wrenching it roughly out of its socket, and with an air of finality threw him into a tree, and a sickening thud echoed through the clearing.

'How long was I?'

Kyuubi expected his claws, feigning disinterest. "Two minutes. Your slipping."

"Damn it."

Kenichi stared at Naruto disbelievingly. She just knocked people out on the regular didn't she, and this one was trained. He blinked as she avoided his gaze. That's right the Kyuubi. That's why everyone was so mean to her, why she was so antisocial, and yet totally awesome.

If this was the effect of having a fox in you then they should start selling them at the store.

Did she honestly think he would treat her different for something as stupid as that? Yeah right, not when she was all he had left. He needed her. She was family.

He watched her expectantly as she walked towards them, and with foreign gentleness propped Iruka up by the tree, and asked the first thing that came to mind.

"Is he going to be okay?" Smooth.

--

Naruto smiled, and nodded, relieved that Kenichi hadn't changed despite his new found knowledge. She turned to Iruka eyeing his shoulder distrustfully.

That was going to be painful for awhile."Naruto!"She looked at him, and raised one elegant eyebrow. He looked to be fumbling for the right words. "Your not… you know your not the demon right? I mean you weren't' suppose to know…"

"Sensei, truthfully, I've known about Kyuubi since age four, he's like one of those voices you hope will shut up, but won't. What Mizuki said isn't anything new to me."

Iruka looked at her amazed. "Age four!"

She shrugged nonplussed. "He kept me alive."

Iruka's gaze softened. "Naru."

"Don't. I don't do pity." Her mouth set in a firm line, and Iruka chuckled softly.

"Of course, you wouldn't…" Iruka's eyes then gleamed as he thought of something. "Naruto close your eyes."

She blinked confused, "Why?"

"Just do it." Iruka said still smiling.

She shrugged complacently, and closed her eyes. She kept them closed as she felt a weight settle on her forehead."Open."Naruto blinked again, and briefly touched her forehead, cool metal covered the expanse of her touch. She
gaped at him in astonishment. She was now an official gennin of Konoha...

Hell had officially frozen over.

What'd you think R and R cuz insight is a very beautiful thing.