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Naruto was enjoying his date with Hinata, for the most part. He just had to push away the voices in the back of his head that told him she really hated him. The thing he liked the most was how she was quiet, not like sakura or Ino.
His thoughts went back to the red haired boy. What was his name? He thought for a few minutes "Gaara." He asked 'Kyuubi, Gaara's not a normal genin. What is he?'
Kyuubi said 'I sensed the Ichibi's presence. That boy is a jinchurichi, like you.'
Naruto was only a little surprised. He had expected something like this when he had felt and seen how powerful Gaara was. He realized someone was talking to him and refocused back to the real world. "Nani?"
Hinata blushed "Oh, I..I asked i..if y..you were ok."
Naruto said "Oh, I'm fine. I was just thinking." He smiled at her.
Hinata asked "Ano...a.are you g.going to t.train?"
Naruto thought. He had been going to go find the hermit and ask him to get rid of the stupid seal on his neck, but he couldn't tell her that and he couldn't tell her about going to seek him out. He said "You bet! I'm going to rule in the real fights!" he grinned one of his fake grins.
"W.who are y.you going to t.train with?"
Naruto said "Heh, I hadn't thought about that. I guess I'll ask Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said because he thought that's what would be expected of him though he really didn't want to train with the perverted Jonin. His team leader had done very little in helping him train, he had only helped and cared about Sasuke. He shook his head to clear his mind of the negative emotions that were starting to build up. He asked "What about you?"
Hinata said "I'll train with kurenai-sensei, and f.father." She paused and looked at him more closely "Do you know why Neji stopped like that during our fight? He was looking at you."
Naruto frowned. He had been hoping that she wouldn't ask that question. He shrugged "Beats me, Hinata-chan. Maybe the sun caught off my hair or something." He grinned at her. She blushed and they ate as their food got there. Hinata had let it drop after the chan comment. As Naruto walked back to his house, he thought back with a smile on the girl. 'She's nice, not at all like Neji. I wonder if she might still like me if I told her...'
He was assaulted with images in his mind of the girl running screaming, or standing there with horror. Naruto muttered "Ok, I get it. Shut up." He didn't know which one it was giving him the images, but he didn't want them right now. He sat on his bed when he got back home, thinking.
"How am I supposed to find the old guy anyway?" He lay back on his bed. It was something he hadn't really thought about until now. He guessed it wouldn't hurt to try to get some information out of Kakashi, though he'd have to be careful. He got up, deciding to go look for his perverted sensei. He knew of a good couple of places to check. He left and jumped across the rooftops. On his way to the bookstand where his sensei bought his orange books, he passed by the hotsprings. Standing outside the bath house was a man with long, spiky white hair. He said "Hey."
The man said "Quiet, kid."
"Who are you? I don't recognize you."
"Leave me alone. I'm busy."
"Too busy to talk for a minute?"
"Yes. Go away, gaki."
Naruto was annoyed. He knew what to do, though. He smirked and yelled "There's a pervert!" A scream went up and soon the women were out chasing the white haired man. Naruto watched from the building he had jumped up on top of. He laughed. Served the pervert right. He should know better than to spy at a bath house that kunoichi used. After a few minutes, the man doubled back. He was bruised up and looked like he had at least one black eye. Naruto laughed from his perch on top of the building.
Jiraiya looked up at the kid in annoyance. He had gotten him caught. "Get down here kid."
Naruto jumped down. "So, who are you, besides an old pervert?"
Jiraiya cried "I am Jiraiya, the mighty and powerful toad sannin..."
Naruto cut him off, introducing himself "Uzumaki Naruto."
Jiraiya looked down at the boy surprised. This was His son? He frowned. "Why are you outside the bath house anyway, kid? You called me a pervert, but you're kinda young aren't ya?"
Naruto blushed a little, despite himself and said "I was looking for my sensei."
"At a bath house? Who's your sensei?"
"Hatake Kakashi."
Jiraiya said "I know him. He's my best customer."
"Of what?"
"My books. The Icha Icha series."
Naruto was incredulous. The great toad sannin wrote those perverted books that his sensei was always reading instead of training them? Were all adults like that? He sighed. Meeting the sannin was unexpected. He hadn't planned out what to do. He couldn't just come up with it now, could he? He opened his mouth to talk to the sannin, then was struck with a headache and all went black.
Naruto found himself within his mind 'What's going on. Kyuubi?' He wasn't by the cage though. He was somewhere that was pitch back. He couldn't see anything.
A voice said "You cannot tell the sannin. The chunnin exams are not over. Do you want to be a genin forever?" Naruto frowned. "The sannin will report to the Hokage and you will become a threat."
Naruto frowned again "I'll use the oblivion jutsu."
"He is a sannin. He could undo it." Naruto frowned. Was that possible? He hadn't thought of that. Then he frowned "Who's talking?" He had thought it sounded like Kyuubi for a moment. Kyuubi's voice said "Wait until after the tournament."
"What then?" Naruto asked "I want to get rid of this seal!" There was a burst of pain from the seal. He winced "Kyuubi, you said you'd take care of it."
Kyuubi's voice said "I will try to control the seal as much as I can, but I can no longer control the pain all of the time." Naruto grimaced.
Kyuubi snarled in his cage. There was a blackness covering his cage now that he could no longer see through. He had thought he had taken care of the seal. Now, when he tried to talk to Naruto, he couldn't. He growled. He didn't have access to Naruto's senses anymore either, so he had no idea what was going on. He felt it was going to be bad, though.
"I can help you undo the seal if you get the scroll of sealing."
"The one in the Hokage's office?"
"Yes, it's the one your father used."
The Kyuubi raged. Now he could hear what was going on, but nothing else. It was like being blind. He hated it. He growled as he heard what the curse was doing to his kit. How was the snake doing this? Did he leave a part of his mind behind or something, and how did he know that the yondaime was the kit's father?
Naruto paused, in shock. "What? What did you say?"
"Your father used the scroll of sealing. He created the seal."
Naruto frowned "My father used the seal, to seal you in me, but...the yondaime sealed Kyuubi into me. The fourth is my dad?!" Naruto felt a storm of emotions because of this. Anger, that no one had told him. Pride, that his father was such a powerful shinobi. Sorrow, that his father had done this to him. This soon turned to anger also. Memories arose of how alone he was, of how much pain he endured because of the villagers, all because the yondaime had chosen him, his own son, to be a sacrifice! Anger rose, turning into rage and Naruto felt pain surge through his whole being. He went back to the real world and saw the sannin poking him in the head. Naruto growled.
Jiraiya was startled when he saw the boy's eyes flash red. But as soon as he saw it, it was gone. The boy jumped up as suddenly as he had fell down and ran. While Jiraiya was thinking about whether or not he should go after him, he had dissapeared.
In an inn closeby...
Gaara was on the balcony of the apartment they were staying in, his mind on the blonde boy. Suddenly, his sand came up to protect him. He looked down. The boy from before! He scowled at the attack, but then grew excited. He wanted to fight him, to see his blood and now he had his chance.
Naruto's rage had directed him to a balcony where he saw the red haired jinchuriki. He was overcome with a desire to fight, to kill. He threw kunai and shuriken at him. "Come down!" He cried.
Gaara jumped down, the sand cushioning his fall. He grinned "I will enjoy this. You will prove my existence."
Naruto matched his grin "Nice words for someone who's going to soon be torn into shreds." His voice had gone lower, had a more feral ring to it now. All of a sudden the pain flared up and Naruto grunted, feeling a lot of his strength going with it, but then, after, there was this incredible feeling of power, much more potent than that of his or the Kyuubi alone. He revelled in it and then the bloodlust came back full force. He cried "Fight me!" He ran at the red haired boy.
Gaara saw that the boy now had claws and a red/purple chakra was wisping around him. Marks had come out to cover his body. He was too fast for the sand! He crashed into the side of a building as the boy struck. He picked himself up, grinning wider, an insane grin. He could transform too. His sand started to surround him.
Naruto attacked the ball of sand, starting to break through it, when he saw an eye looking back at him. He got through the ball of sand and was met with something half boy half monster and he was struck with a blast of sand. He crashed into another building. "Let's get serious."
Gaara grinned, bloodthirsty. Naruto matched it as the fight took its way into the middle of the city, managing to demolish at least one building.
After the first crashing noise, an anbu was sent out to invesigate and had reported back. The Kyuubi brat was fighting with one of the sand nin, who also seemed to be a monster. They were going to destroy the city.
Sandaime frowned. If Kyuubi had broken the seal...he gathered up ten of his best jonin and anbu by summons and lead them to the scene of the fight. When he got there, he saw a scene of destruction. Two buildings had been destroyed and there was damage to many more. What he saw horrified him. The sand nin was half transformed into some sort of demon and Naruto had red and purple chakra swirling around him. When he got a better look at him, he gasped, seeing swirls of black all over the boys' body. A curse mark! The anbu were already running in to interfere. The jonin he had called stayed back and watched the anbu get thrown back by the fight. They waited for the Hokage's order.
The third frowned, unsure what to do. He didn't know what was happening. The boy had one of Orochimaru's curse seals. That seemed to be what was happening. More chakra was purple than red. Why hadn't anyone mentioned this? In any case, this fight had to be stopped. He turned to the jonin and anbu still standing and said "Stop the fight. Be careful. Don't kill either of them unless absolutely necessary." They nodded.
Both Gaara and Naruto were angry at being interrupted. Naruto growled when he saw Kakashi come up to him. "Kakashi. You've been nothing but a hindrance to me." He struck him out of the way to continue his fight with Gaara, the one he was really interested in fighting. The jonin went flying, then picked himself up to regroup with the others. Then Naruto saw the Hokage. His rage flared up more. He broke from the fight with Gaara for a minute and yelled "How could you not tell me! My father!" He struck out at the Hokage and was surrounded on all sides by anbu and jonin. He growled and threw them off. "He did this to me! Why me! Why?! You never told me!"
The Hokage grew alarmed as the red chakra started to mix in evenly with the purple and as the boy kept throwing anbu away. He supposed he should be grateful that the men were still alive, that the possessed Naruto seemed more interested in continuing his fight with the sand nin than killing the men. They needed a better technique. Maybe someone could still appeal to the boy. He had it. "Uminno Iruka. Kakashi," He turned to look for the Jonin.
Kakashi was already gone, showing up within minutes with the academy teacher.
As Naruto got back into the fight with Gaara, he ran into someone in front of him and paused for an instant before he tore into him. He focused with a look of some confusion on his face. It was someone familiar..a friend?
'You have no friends.'
"Naruto, please, stop this!"
Naruto shook his head, trying for a moment to clear it of rage. The voice, he trusted it. It was a good voice. Who did it belong to? The marks began to recede. "Iruka? Iruka-sensei?" Naruto clutched his shoulder.
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Another cliffhanger, I hope you guys don't kill me for this one. At this point, Naruto could go either way. What do you guys think should happen? RandR. Ciao.