When Sasuke returned, his personality had changed dramatically, which didn't really surprise Naruto. Not many people could see what he had and not be changed by it. The thing that pissed Naruto off the most was that he looked down upon everyone and treated them like shit. Despite this, or maybe because of it, every girl in the class, except Hinata, was swooning over him more than before. Every time one of them talked to him he just brushed them off. Kiba was just as pissed, the only difference was that he voiced his complaints daily, and very loudly to Naruto annoyance.

He had just done so and the girls were surrounding them. 'Why do I sit here everyday? I know this is going to happen, but I sit here anyway.' Naruto smiled. "Girls, would you mind if I got out of the way and take Akamaru with me?" They glared at him, but opened a path. "Sorry man, but you need to learn to keep your mouth shut. At least Akamaru isn't going to be hurt, and isn't worse when you get home and he is."

Kiba glared at him but nodded because his sister was ten times harder on him for letting Akamaru get beat up for something he did. Naruto took the small dog and moved outside the circle of girls, who started moving towards Kiba. "Take your seats, it's time to start class!"

The girls ran to their seats and Kiba sighed out of relief. When Naruto sat down he handed Akamaru back, Kiba glared at him. "You're an asshole, leaving me to them."

"Like I said, it's your own fault, you do that everyday and everyday you get beat to a pulp, then you go home get beat by your sister and I have to listen to you whine the next day. At first it was funny, now it's pathetic."

"Listen up, today we're going to be do some sparring, so everyone outside."

They arrived at the training ground just outside the academy and stood next to the building. "Okay, anyone want to volunteer to go first?" Sasuke immediately raised his hand. "Alright Sasuke, one more person." Kiba was about to raise his hand when Naruto's shot up. "Okay, Sasuke vs. Naruto."

Naruto smirked at Kiba. "Sorry, I get first shot at him."

"Fine, but get him good."

"Not a problem." He walked over to Iruka and stood across from Sasuke.

"Alright, I'll call the match when I think there's a determined winner, no weapons, and no jutsu. Ready?" They both nodded. "Begin!" Iruka leaped over to where the rest of the class was.

Naruto just stood there as Sasuke charge toward him and just before his fist hit, Naruto leaned to the side to avoid it. He grabbed Sasuke's arm and threw him, then chased after him. Sasuke flips in midair and lands on his feet, he sees Naruto running towards him and barely put up a block against the fist sent towards his chest, but fails to see the knee aimed for his stomach.

Sasuke stumbles backwards and Naruto continues his assault with a jab to the chest again. This one lands and knocks Sasuke back a bit more. He recovers quickly and kicks Naruto in the side, but most of the blow is absorbed by Naruto's arm. The kick still knocks the wind out of Naruto, and in the time it takes for him to recover, Sasuke lands a punch to the stomach. Naruto jumps back a little ways.

"What's the matter, running away?"

Naruto smiled. "Not a chance, I'm just starting to have some fun." Sasuke smirked and ran towards Naruto again. Sasuke attacks first, but every attack is blocked. Naruto tries to attack, but Sasuke blocks his kick with a knee and throws a punch to Naruto's chest, but it's caught. "You're not bad Sasuke, but not good enough."

"Good enough to beat you, but you're not that bad either." Naruto's eyes flash red and Sasuke's face betrays the surprise he feels. Naruto understands what just happened and jumps away.

"What do you say we finish this, there are other people who want to spar." Naruto showed a fox-like smile. "I don't care for these rules, want to heat it up a bit?"

Sasuke is getting over his shock and smirks. "Sounds good to me, but it's your loss."

"We'll see." They both start running through the same hand signs, mirror images of each other. As they finish, they both yell. "Gokakyu no Jutsu!" The two large fireballs shot towards each other. The explosion caused when they collided knocked both users to the ground.

"That enough you two! You both deliberately broke the rules of the match, go sit down now!" The two of them stood up and moved over to the wall and sat down next to each other.

"I'm impressed, you kept up really well Naruto."

"I just didn't want to show you up in front of your fangirls, I wouldn't have had the energy to fend them off afterwards."

Sasuke smirked. "What was that thing you did with you eyes, I only got a brief glimpse, but it looked like the Sharingan from my clan."

"I didn't do anything as far as I know, maybe I have a kekkei genkai I don't know about."

"If you do, I want to fight you when you can use it."

"Only if you can use the Sharingan to its full potential."

"Deal, it will be one hell of a fight."

"That it will be, I look forward to it." Naruto smiled before turning and watched as Shino mopped the floor with Kiba.

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Naruto sat in tree again at lunch, with his eyes closed and a battered Kiba sat at the base. "I would have won if I could have used jutsu."

"Quit your whining. His bugs got you, even if you could have used jutsu you wouldn't have been able to stop them with your attacks."

"How would you know, you've never seen me fight." Kiba started laughing and Naruto didn't even open an eye. "Naruto, Hinata's checking you out again."

He opened one eye and looked around. "At least she visible today, last time she used the Byakugan to look through the wall."

"You should be happy, at least one girl is interested in you."

"She's not my type, in fact, none of them are. Most of them are bitchy, like Ino and Sakura, and Hinata too timid. We also know nothing about each other."

"I agree about them being bitchy, but shy girls normally grow up to be wild women. And I can tell you anything you need to know."

"Then why don't you go ask her out?"

"She has her heart set on you."

"She's wasting her time. The others girls here all waste their time on their looks, none of them use their time to become stronger."

"I don't think they need to get any stronger, the beatings hurt enough as it is."

"Didn't you watch the matches today, they all tired out way to quickly. They won't last long as ninja. There will be times where they could be fighting for hours, against multiple opponents, and getting tired will cause death."

"Like you would know Naruto."

"You'd be surprised what I go through living by myself." 'Maybe I should tell him. It'll have to wait till after class, but I think I can trust him with this.' Naruto wrote on a small piece of paper and wrapped it around the handle of a kunai.

He tossed it and it stuck into the ground between Kiba's legs. "Hey watch it, that's too close for comfort."

"Shut up and read it, but keep it to yourself."

Kiba grumbled, but unrolled the piece of paper and read the note. 'Meet me at the top of the Hokage Monument after class, I want to tell you something that I can't here.'

"If you gonna tell me you're gay, you can say that here."

"Fuck you. I'm not gay, or don't you remember the trip to the bathhouse? I believe you were caught while I got to see you beaten by all those beautiful naked women as you ran like a sissy."

"Not so loud, I get in to enough trouble here as it is. I'll be there, this better be good or you're going over the side."

'Wouldn't be the first time.' "Thanks Kiba, this is important to me." The bell rang and Kiba just snorted and walked back inside.

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"Why did you drag me up here Naruto?" Naruto had his back to Kiba as he looked around to see if anyone was around with his Sharingan.

When he was confident they were alone, he changed his eyes back to normal and turned around. "Sorry, I had to make sure no one else was around. What I'm going to tell you can't be repeated, to anyone. The old man told me not to make it public knowledge, but you should know."

"Know what?"

"I found out who my parents were, but neither wanted their families to know."

"That's odd, but there must have been a reason for it. So, who are they?"

"That's why I wanted to talk to you. It turns out that I'm related to you and one other person in class. My mom's name was Rin Inuzuka."

"If this is a joke, knock it off, it's not funny."

"It's not a joke. If you want I can take you to Kakashi, he was there when I was born."

Kiba saw that this wasn't the normal joking Naruto he had come to know, the Naruto in front of him was serious. "Sorry, it's just that Rin was my mom's half sister, their dad remarried after his first wife died on a mission. Most people in my family don't like to talk about her. All I really know about her is that she was disowned for something, but no one will tell me what. If she hadn't died in the fox's attack my mom would have brought her back into the clan when she became the head."

"It's alright, I expected you wouldn't believe me at first, but that's not why the old man told me to keep it to myself, this is."

Naruto started to channel chakra to his eyes, and then opened them. There was a gasp from Kiba and he smiled. "You're an Uchiha? How is that possible, they were all killed."

"Itachi knew that I was part of his clan, but he never tried to hurt me, in fact he protected me several times. My dad died in the war before the Fox's attack, his name was Obito Uchiha." He turned the Sharingan off and smiled. "So, was it worth coming up here for, or am I going over the side again?"

"Again?"

"That's the reason why I wasn't in class for three days, someone attacked me and I fell. I landed on one of the faces and woke up in the hospital."

"YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING DEAD!"

"Keep it down, someone might hear you!"

"Even if you didn't die from the fall, you wouldn't be walking around after only three days."

Naruto shrugged. "I've always healed fast. I could have a huge gash on my arm and it would be gone by tomorrow. The old man says that some people subconsciously use healing jutsu on themselves, but I don't think that's what I do since I don't know any healing jutsu."

"No, it was well worth the trip, but that also means that related to that asshole Sasuke."

"Yeah, but I still hate him for the way he treats other people, but not near as much as the branch and main houses of the Hyuga clan do. I don't know how the main house can keep the branch families from rebelling."

"I have no idea, but what ever they do, I don't want to be on the receiving end." Naruto nodded in agreement and they left for Ichiraku's for dinner.

"Remember, you can't tell anyone."

"Who would believe me?"

"Sasuke, he caught a glimpse of the Sharingan during our match today. He didn't recognize it, but if he heard what I told you, he'd probably put two and two together."

"Like I would say a damn thing to him. Don't worry, there are some thing that even I know should remain unsaid."

"Thanks, and because I'm feeling generous, I have a prank that will interest you."

Kiba's smile widened evilly. "Do tell."

"It will require yours and Akamaru's help to pull it off, and it's against the cold hearted bastard."

"I like it already. What do we need to do?"

"Can you do the Jujin Bunshin really well?" Kiba nodded. "Have Akamaru turn into you and you into Sasuke." Kiba opened his mouth to protest, but Naruto stopped him. "Let me finish before you complain. Looking like Sasuke, you follow Akamaru and me into the classroom, when the girls surround you, tell them that you're gay. They'll see Sasuke saying it and because it will seem that we're both in the room they can't blame us."

Kiba rubs his hands together, smiling again. "I like it, the only problem is if Sasuke walks in."

"We could tie him up before class, but then you and Akamaru would have to stay that way for the whole class, or at least till lunch."

"We could just stall him and have him show up late. I don't want to be him all day and I don't know if Akamaru could keep the jutsu going for that long."

"But how are you going to change back and switch places with Akamaru?"

"He could follow me into the hall and we switch there."

Naruto started laughing. "That would get you killed. You would have just used Sasuke appearance to say he's gay and then 'you' go into the hall with 'him'. They'll think the two of you are a couple."

"This is a lot of work for a prank."

"You're starting to sound like Shikamaru, besides the best ones require planning. There will always be obstacles to overcome, mainly Iruka-sensei and the target, but that just makes them more enjoyable."

"True, but is this worth the effort? Sure we get to brand him for life, but what else do we get from this?"

"The girls stop swooning over him, you don't get beat up on a daily basis, peace and quiet, take your pick."

"They will ignore him, but there will only be peace and quiet until they choose a new target, then it will be right back to the way it is now."

"I see your point, I don't think he would have cared anyway. He doesn't seem to enjoy the girls' attention. He'll suffer more if we leave him alone. The only difference is that you need to stop your damn complaining, start trying to win over Hinata or something, I don't care what as long as I don't get caught in the middle."

"If winning her over was so easy, I would have already."

"It's not like I said you had to tomorrow. You still have the rest of the academy and after that till one of you die. Preferable of old age, but the life of a ninja walks hand in hand with death."

"Speaking of death, you're one lucky bastard."

"I told you you'd be surprised by what I go through living by myself."

"I thought you meant starvation, not assassination. You must have done something to really piss that person off."

"I've pissed off a lot of people, I have on idea who he was, but he was a Uchiha. I saw his Sharingan, but it wasn't as strong as Itachi's."

"What do you mean?"

"Tomoes, little comma-like marks, the more there are the stronger it is. Three in each eye is the strongest, that's what Itachi had, this guy had one in one eye and two in the other."

"Then yours is stronger?"

"What are you talking about, I have one in each."

"No, when you showed me there were two in each."

"It shouldn't have advanced yet, I've only used it for a few minutes at a time at most. It doesn't really matter though, I don't plan on becoming dependant on it like they did. It seems that telling you was one of my best decisions."

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Gokakyu no Jutsu- Great Fireball Technique Jujin Bunshin- Beast Human Clone