A.N. Like I said chapter 8 should be up later :P

Anywho still seeing how the idea for a series of Icha Icha like omake's is handled by the crowd. If I do continue them they will most likely be centered around 'Akane' and her mischief. She's a millenia old demon people shes going to have the sex drive of a rabbit in heat after being couped up in Naruto for 13 years. Most likely they wont effect where the story is going to much... and the story will have its own lemons and etc. Oh well onwards!

If I keep em expect them to come out every 10 or so chapters.

Oh well random tangents.

Chapter 8

Tests and Teams

Naruto's "New" Apartment

'Fucking alarm clock!' Naruto screamed in his mind as he slammed a fist down upon the little screaming beast that sat on the night stand of his new apartment. With a crash and bang the plastic device of unholy terror was reduced to its elemental properties.

The hokage had given him the key the night before for a quaint one bedroom one bathroom set up. Naruto being the kind-hearted person that he was decided to trade rooms with the man that had been next door. After a minor scuffle the gentleman had accepted and Naruto earned a fully furbished apartment.

"Shut up meatsack! Pillows don't talk, mentally or physically!" Kyuubi in her adult form, growled out from her spot beside him. She was nestled into the crook of his armpit with her head on his shoulder, one of her slender arms draped over his belly and the other snaked around his neck. Her warm breath tickling the skin of his collar bone. He could feel the plump mounds of her breasts pushed against the side of his chest and her legs intertwined with his, the silky flesh of her thighs wrapped around his own.

The feelings and sensations were not helping a certain male morning 'trait' at all.

Still laying on his back Naruto deadpanned "You do this on purpose don't you?" he tried to pry himself free of her grip, to no avail she would just squeeze him tighter. He still couldn't figure out for the life of him why she always snuck into his futon in the middle of the night.

Not that he minded the advances she made towards him. He was a red blooded male after all, and Naruto definitely found her very attractive. It was just after traveling with her the past 6 years he had come to see her as a little sister kind of figure. Going past the platonic teasing relationship they had was something he couldn't see himself doing.

He had made this point known to her before, she would just laugh and wave it off.

"Of course I do, your more fun to tease than that white haired toad freak we met during our travels." she chirped happily into his ear as she nuzzled into his neck. "Now shut up and make like a pillow so I can sleep."

She had returned the other night looking far more worn and ragged than ever before. When Naruto had asked what happened she shot him a deadened look and replied simply "Girl talk, I'll never understand it."

When he questioned her gender shortly after Naruto had found himself flying towards the village's eastern gate through a window.

Naruto sighed at the memory and looked out the window he had graced the night before. He saw the sunlight beginning to gently crest the trees. It was most likely close to if not passed 5 A.M. not like his dusted alarm clock was going to be able to tell him the time ever again, but it was time for him to meet his team... after all what sort of impression would he make if he was late?

Rolling to face her he smirked, "Cut the crap and drop the demonic henge, we need you in top shape in case the council tries to pull something." he snaked an arm around her back and smacked her on the ass. Hard.

Kyuubi startled by his actions released him, hissing like an angry snake or fox perhaps. Naruto leaped from beneath the covers making his escape. Chuckling as he looked at the angry demoness's expression as she rubbed her sore behind on the bed. Throwing on his black hakama style pants and ninja sandals, Naruto shook his head as he walked out the bedroom door. "C'mon Kyuubi and remember from now on we call you Akane. No need to let them know everything."

Creating four seal less Kage bunshin he quickly handed them the copy of the scroll from the other night. "Read it, study it, learn the techniques. Once you learn three a piece dispell one by one the last of you standing I want you to hide the copy when you finish." Naruto ordered.

"Hai Taicho." with that said the clones got to work.

"Meatsack you are so lucky we aren't sure what would happen if I killed you!" Naruto heard Akane call from the bedroom as he rummaged through the fridge. grabbing a few apples for breakfast and donning his cloak at the door he threw his hood over his head as he walked out the apartment door.

Time to meet his team.

Things were looking up for the blonde.

Hokage Tower

Standing in front of the Hokage's wooden desk, Hatake Kakashi sighed from behind his little orange book. The silver haired masked ex-ANBU captain knew that today was going to be a long day. His team hadn't even had a mission yet and he already had already been called to the Hokage Tower for new orders.

"Alright Hokage-sama. Your telling me that Naruto is back, Kyuubi is free, and now your putting him onto my team because he requested it?" Kakashi asked in his normal lazy monotone. Why did these things have to happen to him? It was bad enough that the Haruno showed near obsessive levels of fan-girlish tendencies over the Uchiha. While said Uchiha showed a psychopathic and 'I'm an avenger' as the brat put it mindset when it came to his elder brother Itachi.

Scratch that the kid was cracked like a wishbone.

Damn the council for forcing him to lead team 7, him being the only current Sharingan user in the village. They wanted Kakashi to cultivate the little shits Sharingan and dote upon him to keep him from turning rogue like his brother.

"That is correct Kakashi, Naruto completed his punishment of exile and returned the other night even stopping Mizuki and retrieving the scroll of sealing." the elder hokage stated picking up his pipe. "This next part is of course classified information Kakashi... we want you to keep tabs on him to make sure he has the good will of the village as his primary goal."

Kakashi's lone visible eye widened, why would the council want him to spy on one of his students? It wasn't like he was a threat. Sure the incident 8 years ago with Naruto was a wake up call but he had been doing a general good deed and payed for it if what the hokage was saying was true.

Something big was going on. Kakashi sighed. He didn't like this one bit. "Hai Hokage-sama, and if he plans to harm the village?"

"You're an ex-ANBU captain Kakashi, I'm sure you'll figure it out. Dismissed." was the hokages reply. Kakashi didn't like this at all, some really cloak and dagger shit was going on here and he was getting sucked into the center of it.

"Hai." with his orders Kakashi disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Time to meet the newest member of his team, well not quite yet. He still had his daily road of life tour to do.

Ichiraku Ramen Stand

Ayame laid in her bed, still unable to sleep. She was ecstatic, Naruto had returned! Thoughts of what to say when she found her blonde friend were racing through her mind, forcing all inklings of rest out.

'I wonder if he missed me?' she thought to herself as she rolled over beneath the blue covers of her bed. Ayame gave a heart felt sigh. 'I bet he's grown up well, he always took his training to a insane degree. I wonder what he looks like now, will he like how I look?' Her eyes widened with that thought. 'Where did that idea come from he's like a little brother to me!' she shook her head causing her brown locks of hair to fall over her eyes. 'I wonder if he still likes ramen as much as he used to?' she giggled into her pillow at the thought, the images of a five year old Naruto demolishing bowl after bowl of ramen running through her mind.

Tap. tap. tap.

Throwing the covers off her body, Ayame rolled over and walked to the windowsill. Opening it to find the faces of Anko and Tenten waiting behind the glass. Ayame's room had turned into the impromptu meeting place for the girls that held Naruto in high standing. They had met at other places and establishments but her room seemed to be the best, seeing as how Anko met nearly as much discrimination as Naruto did.

Plus food was easily accessible here, walk downstairs to the kitchen and presto! Dango ramen and sake. Ayame's father Teuchi had begun to cook up the little sweets specifically for Anko many years ago when she started to frequent the store.

"Ohayo, Anko-chan Ten-chan." Ayame greeted as the pair crawled into her bedroom, before shuffling over to the small kotatsu(1) she had in the middle of her room. "Ten chan don't you have a team meeting today?" she asked as the bun haired brunette got comfortable.

"You've met Gai sensei and Lee, I can only take so much spandex before I need a break." the girl said as she rested her head on her arms on the table. "So Anko filled me in a bit Naruto is back right?"

Anko pulled a small scroll out from her trench coat and laid it down on the table. Unrolling it she placed her hand over a bit of the Kanji and with a poof of smoke a small tea set appeared. Serving tray, kettle, cups, and all. "You two want any?"

Ayame had barely believed it when she learned that Anko, the most sadistic kunoichi in the ranks, had a passion for tea ceremonies. Though now both Tenten and herself knew that Anko made delicious tea.

"Yes please." Ayame accepted the still steaming cup with a nod of thanks. "So why are you guys here so early?" she questioned with an arched eyebrow. Watching as Anko poured another cup and handed it to Tenten who accepted it gratefully.

"I have no idea Anko burst into my room this morning and grabbed me saying we had to talk." Tenten took a sip from her own cup sighing happily with her eyes closed as she swallowed the blend of herbs and spices. "So I'm in the dark as much as you Ayame."

The two looked at their older friend expectantly, the purple haired woman was acting differently then her usual outspoken self. Fiddling with the cup in her hands Anko spoke in a soft whisper. "The gaki is different then before, a lot if what I've seen is true."

"You talked to him already?" Ayame cocked her head to the side as an unfamiliar sense of jealousy bubbled up from her chest. Naruto went to Anko before her? Why?

Tenten set her cup down again and asked. "What do you mean different?"

Instead of answering Anko tipped her head back and took a long gulp from her glass. Then looked at the other two women. "I went to the site where he took down Mizuki the other night, it looked like a massacre more then a fight between ninja." she answered despondently. "Also I was called to the I&T headquarters, they wanted to know if I did a field interrogation on Mizuki the other night, when I said no they showed me a rough copy of the seal that had been put on him." her voice became hollow. "it kept him alive and conscious when he should have died during physical torture. He was still breathing and catatonic from the pain alone when they got him to the department. The second they touched the seal Mizuki had a seizure so powerful his body literally tore itself apart, and the seal vanished." Anko looked at the other two women in the room her usually mirth filled eyes dead to the world. "The only person who could have put it on him was Naruto. Ibiki is having a field day trying to recruit the gaki."

Ayame and Tenten looked at her with wide eyes and horrified expressions. Their thoughts completely different but both unable to believe what they had heard.

Her little brother had been able to do something so atrocious to another human being. Impossible! Ayame looked at Anko as if waiting for the older girl to jump up with her hands in the air shouting "SURPRISE!" at the top of her lungs. When it didn't happen after waiting for nearly five minutes she looked down at the cup of tea that sat in front of her deep in thought.

Tenten stared at Anko as if she had grown another head. It wasn't possible all the stories Ayame had told her of Naruto were of a kid that loved life more then anything, incredibly loyal to his friends and willing to go to the ends of the world to become strong enough to protect them. The thought that he would willingly put someone through something so... wicked. She couldn't wrap her mind around it.

Silence filled the room, uncomfortable and tense. Ayame growing tired of it cleared her throat before speaking to the others. "I don't believe it, he wouldn't do something like that." she set the cup down and silenced Anko before she could speak again. "I'll talk to him he'll probably turn up here later today. Anyways I need to get ready for my shift at the hospital. I'll see you two later Ten-chan Anko-chan." moving away from the table Ayame heard the half-hearted goodbyes from her friends as she grabbed her supplies for her shower.

She had a lot to think about.

Training Ground #3

He wanted to kill something. Dear kami he wanted to gut something like a fish! Naruto knew he had arrived to the meeting spot late. For one he had no idea where it was and secondly Akane had held him up.

But this was just ridiculous!

It was nearly noon, and their damned sensei still hadn't shown up. Naruto was getting to the point where killing off his teammates and finding their sensei to beat the hell out of him was looking like a mighty fine option. Only his promise to Itachi stayed Naruto's now twitching hand.

Currently Naruto was leaning against a tree fiddling with a kunai he held. His white robe bunched up around his legs as he watched his new 'teammates' argue with each other.

"C'mon Sasuke-kun, go on a date with me." the pink haired red clad banshee begged. Naruto found her familiar but couldn't place where he had met her before. When he had arrived she had screeched at him so loud for being late he swore his ear drums bled. He ignored her until it she pissed him off to the point he had decided to silence the girl, Sakura was her name, by throwing a kunai at her. Just barely missing the veins that ran through her neck. Since then she hadn't spoken to him opting to bug the other male member of their team.

Naruto was thankful for that.

"No." the single syllable reply probably the 50th consecutive one of the day came from the mouth of Sasuke. The boy was clad in a blue jacket with the Uchiha fan symbol embroidered into the back. His black hair styled like a ducks ass same colored pupil-less eyes, and an ever present frown. Typical Uchiha. Though Naruto found it funny how Sasuke said "Hn." like Itachi, he couldn't bring himself to like the boy.

'Hey meatsack smile a bit I can feel your frown from here.' Kyuubi's voice came through the mental link removing the thoughts of murder from his mind.

Naruto closed his eyes and strengthened the link. 'Shut it Kyuu-chan, if you were here you'd be doing the same. I have a fan girl and stick-up-his-butt avenger for teammates. I'm more surprised I haven't shut them up by now then you are.' Naruto answered and heard her snicker.

'Yeah well I'm bored and coming to watch the fireworks. How do I get there from the apartment?' she asked. 'and I still don't see why I need to keep who I am a secret... not like they could kill me anyways.'

Naruto sighed and responded. 'For a ageless demon you are really stupid sometimes.' he got a growl for his observation. 'I'm not worried about them killing you, I'm worried about them trying to control you. So because of that if we're alone I'll call you like I usually do but if we're in public your Akane from now on. Make sense?'

'Pshh, like any of these pathetic humans could control me.' was her angry retort.

Shaking his head sagely Naruto gave a short reply. 'It's happened before though.'

Silence.

'Ok asshole you made your point now tell me how to get there.' she snapped.

Naruto chuckled, she may be thousands of years old but she could act like a kid as much as any other. 'use the mental link to figure it out, I'm pretty sure I hear my new 'sensei' coming.' opening his eyes he saw Sakura shouting at a masked silver haired man in a jounin vest scratching the back of his head sheepishly. He smiled as he slowly stood and made his way over to the group.

'Fine but you better wait for me this time if there's a fight I wanna watch!' Kyuubi quipped.

Naruto nodded his head, for once hoping a scuffle would break out. He had a lot of tension he wanted to get rid of.

Wincing and massaging his bruised ears Kakashi looked at the group. Naruto his newest pupil was oddly dressed; a white hooded cloak with strange markings, Hitai-ate covering his eyes, red gloves appearing every so often from beneath his sleeves. He also noted that Sakura was giving the newest member odd looks, almost akin to fear. While Sasuke barely acknowledged him at all.

Giving them an eye smile Kakashi spoke. "Well since we're all here why don't we all reintroduce ourselves. You two," he pointed to Sakura and Sasuke. "already know who I am but Naruto here doesn't know who we are so why don't you start Sakura. Likes dislikes dreams and hobbies again."

Sakura smiled and started speaking in a excite voice. "Well I'm Haruno Sakura, my likes are." she looked at Sasuke and gave a giggle. "My dislikes are Ino-pig and Naruto baka!" she glared at her hooded teammate. "My dreams... and hobbies" another giggle and glance at Sasuke.

Shaking his head Kakashi pointed at Sasuke. "Ok you're turn."

"Uchiha Sasuke. My likes are training, my dislikes... hn. My dream, it's more of a passion. Is to kill a certain man and restore my clan." the broody member said as he crossed his arms.

Kakashi sighed, the kid had major issues. He looked over at Naruto who was shaking his head as if he could already tell. "Now your turn Naruto."

"Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto. I could care less about you knowing about my heritage even if the hokage told me not to tell you, you were going to learn sooner or later." Kakashi nodded he didn't approve of Naruto stating the information to his teammates, but having been clued in earlier by the hokage he had expected it. "My likes are training Akane-chan, Ayame nee-chan, ramen and my previous sensei's. My dislikes are rapists, traitors, bigots, and people that can't see beyond the cover of a book. My dream is to complete a certain task I was given. My hobbies are training and learning new techniques." he finished off.

"Sensei!" Kakashi looked at Sakura who was waving her hand in the air madly.

"Yes Sakura?"

"Wasn't Namikaze the name of the Yondaime? If so, why is Naruto-baka claiming to have the name as well?"

Sighing Kakashi addressed his students once more. "Yes Naruto is saying his name is Namikaze because he is the son of the Yondaime. This is an S-ranked secret so you can't go running around telling everyone." he looked at Naruto who was getting a look of awe from Sakura and one of interest now from Sasuke. "and I expect you not to tell anyone else Naruto, the hokage did ask you to keep that under wraps." Kakashi finished with an eye smile.

"Fine."

"Anyways as you two know I'm Hatake Kakashi, I have many likes and hobbies, few dislikes. My dream... well I don't think I'm going to tell you." he produced two silver bells from his pocket and attached them to his waist. "now then like I told Sasuke and Sakura yesterday even though you passed the gennin test you have to pass my test to become a true ninja of the leaf." before Sakura could reply he set a small alarm clock onto the wooden log beside him and continued. "the three of you have one hour to get these bells from me the two that get the bells pass the test while the one who doesn't gets sent back to the academy. Come at me like your trying to kill me or you will fail, begin!"

With that Kakashi slapped a hand down starting the timer and vanished appearing in a tree off to the left a good hundred meters away. He pulled out his favorite book and watched what his students would do from the corner of his eye.

Naruto looked around and sighed to himself, he had made a deal with Akane to wait for her. Looks like she was getting her wish, though he was to. He watched as the members of his team disappeared seeking cover. Taking off his cloak he started doing a few light stretches and calithstetics.

He already figured out that this was a test of teamwork. There had never been a two man gennin team before and Kakashi's test went entirely against the leaf's belief of camaraderie.

Oh well he could only pray that Akane got here soon.

Kakashi in his tree peered up from his orange book at the blonde boy, the cloak being taken off he could see his outfit in full veiw, the kid had a musculature that Gai would go nuts over! No shirt just the red gloves he had noticed earlier and black hakama pants, an interesting outfit indeed. Still Naruto just continued to do stretches and light workout's like he didn't care about passing at all.

Kakashi looked down at his watch, he'd been reading for nearly the entire duration of the test! Looking up and glancing around Kakashi spotted Sakura creeping around looking for Sasuke obviously. Putting his book back into his supply bag he jumped down from the branch he was in and snuck up behind the girl. A few hand-seals later and she was trapped in a genjutsu clutching her head and screaming about how Sasuke was dying...

Kakashi sweat dropped. Didn't the girl ever think of anything else?

Walking away from the sobbing girl he found Sasuke waiting expectantly in front of him. "Don't you think you should get help from your team Sasuke?" he asked.

The black haired youth snorted before answering. "I'm an Uchiha and an elite why would I need help from any of them!" Kakashi's lone eye widened as he saw the boy go through a series of familiar hand-seals ending in tora. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" A massive red and orange fireball tore up the ground between them and he could feel the heat from the jutsu washing over him even as he used kawarimi to escape. The poor log of wood he used to replace himself was utterly annihilated by the blast.

'Isn't this kid supposed to be a normal gennin what the hell!' Kakashi's thoughts were cut off as Sasuke engaged him in taijutsu he deflected a right straight arm punch to his stomach with an elbow, then caught a swift kick aimed at his head in his free hand. The boy in a incredible show of acrobatics then used his other leg to launch an axe kick aimed at his skull. He brought his arm he used to block earlier up to catch the blow.

Kakashi smiled beneath his mask. Sasuke definitely deserved his title of Rookie of the Year. His visible eye widened when he heard a soft jingle. Looking down he saw Sasuke's outstretched hand brush against the bells. Leaping away while running through his own hand-seals Kakashi called out his attack.

"Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu!" he vanished just as Sasuke reached him, the youth searched for where his sensei went. He heard a rumbling noise from beneath him and looking down his eyes widened exponentially as a pair of hands gripped his ankles. Sasuke hollered as he was pulled down into the earth up to his neck and glared venomously at Kakashi who squatted down besides his head, the only part of his body that wasn't underground.

Patting his students head Kakashi gave the furious boy an eye smile. "Well done Sasuke but not good enough now stay put and I'm going to see what your final teammate is up to." Angry shouts followed Kakashi as he walked back towards were he last saw Naruto.

Naruto shot Akane a glare. "You took your sweet time you know." he deadpanned at the once again six year old body of the demoness. "It's been nearly an hour and I haven't been able to do anything."

"Shut up meatsack it's your fault for not telling me where the hell you were!" Akane shouted as she punched him in the gut. He grunted but other then that showed no discomfort. "So, what are you doing sitting here alone anyways? Weren't you meeting you team or something?" she asked looking around the training field.

"Yeah we have a stupid test about team work, there's only two of these bells we need to get from our scarecrow of a sensei in order to pass. There's three of us so it's obviously to cause us to fight against each other and see if we're willing to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of others." Naruto said as he stretched his arms over his head. "Isn't that right sensei?" he called over his shoulder.

Light clapping could be heard and Naruto turned around and found Kakashi looking at him curiously. "Very good Naruto I'm impressed, your the first person to ever figure out the meaning behind my test. Though if none of you get the bells you still fail." Naruto watched as his new teacher pointed to Akane who had moved to sit on top of one of the logs that sat in the middle of the training field she was kicking her legs back and forth causing her pink kimono to flutter in the air. "whose the little girl? And shouldn't you take your headband off from over your eyes?"

"She's my traveling companion and the reason why I haven't participated in this exercise yet. Though now that shes here I can start. I can see you fine as well so don't worry about it." settling down in a lose stance with his right palm facing Kakashi his other hand gripped into a fist at his waist and feet spread out with a slight bend at his knees. "You would be wise to pull out all the stops sensei after all you told me to come like I'm trying to kill you." he said with a grin.

Kakashi chuckled at this and pulled out his book flipping it to the page he had left off on. "Nah, I think I'll be fine."

Naruto frowned and walked over to a large boulder nearly twice his height and probably the same in width. "Fine," he cocked his fist back and punched it, a dull roar broke out as a crater formed where his hand had impacted. The rock lurched back as miniscule cracks formed on its surface, with the sound of thousands of pieces of paper being torn at once it crumbled to the ground as dust, the particles billowing up around Naruto like an earthen cloud. "Just don't blame me if you die, sensei."

The only sound to follow Naruto's proclamation was the dull thump of Kakashi's book falling to the ground.

End chapter 8

A.N. GYAHAHAHAHA! Hate me yet?

Whew. It's done team 7 has made its appearance! Other then that I know I didn't do the entire "Test" by cannon but this story hasn't really followed it anyways. So I'm tweaking the thing the way I want to. So there!

The girls have met and talked to each other about Naruto as well and some of the changes that occurred with our favorite blonde.

Anyways note time! (by the way if I've done a previous techniques explanation or description for something in Japanese I'm not repeating it)

kotatsu- a low sitting heated table, their really nice and cozy to be honest. A blanket hangs down from the edges an there's a little electric heater under it built in. Good for cold days and snuggling up to your loved ones with :P

Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu- Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation- A ninjutsu where the user conceals themselves underground and drags the object of their attack down into the earth, robbing them of their freedom. In addition, they can start another attack. Yay for Naruto wiki!

Pr1nnyDUD3. Out.