Story: Konoha's Beautiful Red Beast…

Author: Soul Teller!

Disclaimer: No disclaimer...

Speech index: "Talking"
"Thinking/Mindscape/Flashback"
"Kyubi/Biju"

Summary: Chased out of the village at the age of 5 a boy must survive in the wild as an animal but will he survive, and return as a human, or a monster?

Author's Reply: All right I hope the last chapter explained somethings and gave some people a clue of what's to come. Nakuma is basically Akuma with an N in front, Akuma meaning 'demon' your gonna see that alot in future. I hope you get the idea of Nakuma, person who does will Beta read my chapter however the hell you do that... All right enough of this mushiness! THE FIRST EXAMS!!! Get ready for I, SOUL TELLER, Will try my best to keep you on the edge of your seat, wanting to see the outcome yet always wondering the possibilities. This my friends might kill you when I'm for I will keep guessing on what my DIABOLICAL Mind is think. NYA-HYA-HYA-HYA-HYA-HYA!!! Remember to review when your done! IT KEEPS THE FIRE GOING IN ME!!!

Panic! The first exams! Looking at the teams!

Naruto woke up to bright sunlight in his eye's, someone had pulled the curtains open. He looked around to find out who'd done it but found noone. Iruka was gone, Naruto assumed to get the grocery or something. He yawned and stretched, he rubbed the hat on his head sleepily, and yawned revealing his pointed teeth. He looked around again for Iruka however wasn't able to find him. Naruto scratched his head then he walked into the shower removing his pajamas.

After he had washed himself, he dried, got his clothes, and headband and put them on. He walked into the kitchen to get a bowl of Ramen ready when he saw a bowl sitting on the table. He sniffed and licked his lips, it was Naruto Ramen one that he loved even more than Miso Ramen. Naruto the noticed a note on the table, he picked it up.

'Naruto, good luck on the exams... don't give up... Iruka,' Naruto looked at the note then down at the Ramen bowl, he recognized the bit's of Naruto in it, however there was other stuff in there, that he couldn't recognize. Naruto looked at it, and knew that Iruka made it specially for him, he looked to his right to the stove and saw a large pot, that bubbled lightly. He could smell the ramen coming from the pot. Naruto smiled slightly, then he reached into the cabinets pulling out his special chopsticks, he set them on the table. Then he clapped his hands together.

"Thanks for the food! Iruka-sensei!"

Registration building

Sakura, looked around trying to find her comrades however they were nowhere to be found. She sighed, for some reason she seemed to be the early one lately. She wondered why, she looked up when she saw a shadow, Naruto was sailing down toward her. She leapt backward, Naruto landed hard cracking the ground slightly. He stood up.

"Yo! Sakura-chan! You got that sheet filled out? I got mine!" Naruto said holding up his examination sheet. Sakrua just nodded softly, footsteps were heard. She turned to see Sasuke walking up his hands in his pockets as usual.

"Sasuke-kun!"

"Sasuke! You got your sheet filled out?" Sasuke just walked past them.

"Frickin bastard..." Naruto grumbled. Sakura was about to hit him but stopped, what if she provoked that beast Naruto again? She didn't want that, nor be the reason for it. Naruto who had been cowering blinked, and stood, he looked at Sakura confused.

"Sakura?" Sakura just shook her head, and walked off after Sasuke. Naruto just shrugged, then he followed after her.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke walked up the winding stair to get to the first part of the Exam. Naruto had at this time chosen to transform into his golden fox form. He trotted up the stairs while Sakura and Sasuke walked next to him. Sakura looked down at the fox.

"Is it fun being like that," The fox looked at her then it produced all of it's shining teeth.

"Right..." She said, remembering what those teeth did to those men on the bridge. She turned her head forward just in time to stop herself from bumping into someone's back. She looked to see two Genins standing in front of the door that lead to the room. However something felt wrong.

"Y-You have to let us through!" A boy, who was trying to stand up, wearing a green leotard with black bowl like hair, and enormous eyebrows, said. The boy on the right who was wearing bandage's on his head just kicked the kid.

"Listen up! All of you! None of you are ready for this exam! The minute you enter it! You will fail! That is a guarantee! We've already tried three times! We failed all the time! It doesn't get easier it gets harder! You should wait till your stronger then try again!" He said. The boy on the left gave a snort, he had wiry black hair and three marks near his chin.

"Believe me we're doing this for your own good! Not ours!" He said, looking at the crowd as a whole. Sakura watched this then she heard a snort, she looked at see golden bushy tail vanishing beneath two legs of some Genin.

"Naruto!" She desperately tried to grab the tail but it was too late.

"Huh? What the hell is a fox doing here. She pushed her way through to see Sasuke and Naruto standing in front of the Genin. They were glaring particularly at Naruto. Naruto grinned then he gave a snarl and reverted back to a human surprising everybody. Naruto just looked at them.

"Are you just gonna stand there or you gonna get the hell out of my way? After all I gotta get to the exams, you should understand after all you guys are Chunnin right?" Naruto asked. They stiffened, then the boy with wiry hair gave another snort.

"Tch! Lucky guess!" he said as Sakura pushed her way through.

"Besides!" Sasuke began.

"This isn't the right floor to begin with! Right Sakura?" he said turning his eye's to Sakura. Sakura blushed when Sauske looked at her.

"You are our Genjutsu-expert and the smartest in our group? You should be able to see through this right?" He said giving her a wink. Sakura blinked in surprise.

"Sasuke-kun... Thank you" she the raised her head her eye's confident.

"Of course... this is obviously the second floor! Release!" she said putting her hands in the tiger symbol dispelling the Genjutsu. The boy from before snorted again.

"I'd Like to see you try that again!" He said and he swung out his leg. Sasuke swung out his own leg however there was a blur of motion and the boy from before was in between them there legs in his hands.

"That technique!" Naruto recognized that speed. Sakura was looking at the boy in shock. Sasuke was surprised.

"Just a minute ago he was down on the ground getting kicked around! Now his wounds have healed and he's back on his feet!" Sasuke thought staring at the boy who now seemed tired. The two Genins who were standing by the door vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Hey... I thought you said not to do too much..." A boy with long brown hair and white eye's said. The enormous browed boy just blushed then looked at Sakura then looked at his feet, shuffling them. A girl with brown hair, that was tied up in two bun's just sighed.

"Not this again!" She said rather tiredly. Naruto not wanting to find out what it was that was making the girl upset grabbed his two teammates and pushed them through the door.

"Let's go!" He said, Sakura and Sasuke went through the door and he went after glancing back at the bushy browed boy.. A few minutes later they saw Kakashi standing outside a door his back to the wall. He looked at them.

"Naruto..." he said, Naruto stopped, Sasuke and Sakura stopped looking at Naruto, however he waved for them go forward and they walked through through the door. Kakashi waited awhile then he leaned forward.

"Good luck... and don't lose yourself..." Naruto looked at him puzzled, however Kakashi just nodded and gestured to the door. Naruto still confused, walked to the door and pulled it open. The first thing he saw was Ino clutching to Sasuke and Sakura yelling at her. He then looked around to see Shikimaru, Chouji, Shino, Kiba, and Hinata. Naruto continued looking around, so many different Ninja's some from Konoha other's from who knows where. It was almost discouraging seeing all these people who were probably stronger than him!

It was then that he heard the door open and heard the scraping of something heavy and metallic being dragged on the floor. He turned to see the newcomers and felt his heart skip several beats. Standing in front of the door was a taller, paler, and skinnier version of Naruto. His blond hair reached only down to his shoulders, and unlike Naruto's which spiked in any direction this copy of Naruto spiked upwards. Naruto then noticed clutched in the copy's right hand was a rather large axe. The copy looked around with his blank pupilless eye's at the staring and gaping crowd. He then saw Naruto and he was suddenly in front of him, Naruto nearly fell back however he stood as tall as he could and looked up at the menacing figure.

"What do you want?" Naruto growled out, the pale boy looked at him before turning and walking to one of the chairs and sitting in it. People scattered away from him. It was then that Naruto noticed his comrades. The girl had long, bright blue hair, and large violet eye's, she was wearing a rather revealing piece of clothing, or it would've been revealing if she had anything to reveal, she trying to engage conversation with her other partner. The other boy was strange everything about him was black save for his skin. He wore a black shirt, and black pants, his hair was black as well and his entire eye was black as well his collar was large enough to cover his mouth so that Naruto couldn't see. Even the cloth for his head band, which was currently tied to his neck, was black. Naruto instantly classified the guy as 'wierd and dangerous' despite that he wanted to see who these people were.

Nahati Yuugah was trying to get at least one word from her silent partner. Kurodo Matsura was almost as silent as Nakuma, this wasn't particulary a good thing since Nahati was a girl who thrived on noise and conversation, since it was just her, her brother, and sister. Now that she thought about it were was her good-for-nothing brother?

"Hey Matsura! Where's Johuga?"

"..."

"Tch! Silent bastard!" She muttered she turned to Nakuma however came face to face with blue eye's, whisker marks, and blond hair. She took several steps back. Matsura just looked down on the boy.

"Yo! The name's Naruto! Naruto Uzumaki! Who're you?" Nahati blinked then she opened and closed her mouth for a second then, to her surprise and indignation, Matsura answered.

"My name is Kurodo Matsura... I prefer Matsura if you please... And this is Nahati Yuugah... Pleased to meet you... Naruto Uzumaki..." He said bowing. His voice was silky and smooth almost feminine. Naruto looked into those strange pure black eye's that creeped him out. Somehow Naruto could feel the hostility and bloodlust in those eye's, they seemed to radiate off the boy powerfully.

"Whose that guy?" Naruto said pointing to Nakuma, Matsura stood up, behind the collar he smiled.

"Well now, that would be our delightful friend and partner Nakuma Uradashi..." He said. Naruto detected a slight hint of glee in Matsura's voice.

"And why is that a good thing...? You fricking quack?" Naruto turned to see another boy, he wore a skin tight white shirt, black baggy pants, small purple glasses, and his brown hair hung limply in front of his face. He wore his head band on his right arm.

"Ah... Mido-kun... Your entering as well...? I do hope I'll be able to see the legendary Jagan in action!" 'Mido' gave a snort.

"You would like that wouldn't you? Who's the shrimp?" Naruto instantly recognized the term shrimp as him.

"I am not a shrimp! I am Naruto Uzumaki! You better remember that name bub! Cause I'm gonna be the next Hokage!" Naruto said pointing at 'Mido.' Mido looked at him.

"Really? That's a good dream man!" He said putting a hand on Naruto's shoulder, and smiling. Naruto looked at him surprised.

"Y-You think so?" Mido nodded then he looked behind him.

"Ah Here comes the rest of us! I think this exam should start soon!" He said looking up front. Almost as if on cue there was a large explosion and an enormous cloud of white smoke. When the smoke cleared there were several people standing there all with the exam same uniform save for the man in front of them all, he wore a black trench coat over his uniform and had on black gloves. His face had what looked like three slash marks across his face a face Naruto recognized.

"Y-YOU! IBIKI WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" Naruto cried out. Everybody turned to look at Naruto, all their eye's questioning. One of the examiners leaned next to Ibiki whispering.

"you know this punk?" Ibiki's face was stone.

"yeah, I do but he's not really much... when he's calm..." The examiner looked puzzled at this but didn't say anything. Ibiki looked at all the of them gathered there before speaking.

"Thanks for waiting... As you all now know thanks to that loud-mouth back there, (hmph!) I am Ibiki Morino the examiner for Chunnin Exams first test." Some of the Genin were spooked just by looking at him. Ibiki smirked inwardly.

"Tch! I guess I'm still scary..."

"We will now start the first test in the exam, instead of you current seating arrangement..." He pulled out a small black with a number 1 on it.

"You will be given these tabs and sit in the seat assigned to you. We will then hand out the exams." A examiner walked forward a pile of papers in rustling in his hand. Naruto sat in his current seat letting go through his head then he saw the papers.

"WHAT!?!! A PAPER TEST?!!!!?" Ibiki glared at him.

A Couple Minutes Later

Naruto sat in a seat that was pretty much near the end of the room. He was alone, Sakura was behind some ways away and Sasuke was on the other side.

"Just great! perfect! DANDY! A Fricking PAPER TEST!!!!! I curse the inventor of paper tests from here until KINGDOM COME!!!!" He thought angrily as he rested his forehead against the desk. He growled for a while when he head a scarping sound. He looked up and looked to his left to see...

"You! Your Nakuma!" Nakuma just stared down at him before saying.

"And your Naruto... Uzumaki..." He said, his voice was strange for it sounded as if several people spoke at once and his words came out at random sometimes before his mouth opened. Naruto stared at him for a while before he held out his hand. Nakuma looked at the hand before stabbing his axe into the ground and sitting down next to Naruto. Naruto retracted his hand as Nakuma 'stared' straight ahead. Naruto sighed then he turned to his right to see Hinata, she smiled softly.

"Hey Hinata! How you doing?" Hinata blushed.

"F-Fine Naruto-kun..." She said softly and say down.

"Do not turn your tests over. Listen closely to what I am about to say." Ibiki said causing all eye's to focus on him. He walked to the chalkboard in front and picked up a chalk and tapped it on the board.

"There are many important rules to this first test..." Naruto sat there.

3 minutes later

Naruto was dead... Well not literally but the feel of two people's death glares pierced into his skin. It was then that he heard someone say.

"So lemme get this straight we have to answer 10 questions each worth 1 measly little point. If we cheat we are deducted 2 points, if we lose all 10 points us and our team goes out the window... Right?" Naruto turned to see Mido standing up looking at Ibiki. Ibiki stared at him.

"That's what I said... Now will you shut up... The test will start..." The clock ticked.

"NOW!" Ibiki said, and with that everybody got down to their papers.

Naruto was sweating bullets.

"I'm screwed! ROYALLY there's no way I can pass this without cheating!" He inhaled then he exhaled.

"I just gotta calm down and look at the question!" He picked up said paper and looked at it.

"Okay first question! A cryptogram! Okay... It's like the one's Iruka made back at home! This'll be a cinch!"

Meanwhile...

Sakura looked at Naruto with worry.

"Is Naruto going to be all right?" She thought as she looked at him, she then shook her head.

"No I can't be worried about Naruto now! I gotta focus on this test!"

(Okay We already know how everybody cheated in the test. I'll Show you how the Soul Nin cheated!)

Mido Or Rejura Mido sat in his chair thinking.

"It's kind of obvious that we have to cheat I hope the other's get it though... Probably not since their thick skulls can't even figure out much... I wonder if that Naruto guy got it." He turned his blue eye's to Naruto to see the boy in a state of quiet panic. He closed his eye's.

"Apparently not..." He opened his eye's and looked at the completed sheet in his hand.

"Though..." He whispered.

"This was really easy." He mumbled. Then he leaned back and closed his eye's. 15 minutes to go before the final question. He could spare 15 minutes of rest.

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Nahati gazed at the paper, at a total lost. Well not really, she knew what she had to do, it was doing it that was the problem. She suppose she could separate herself from her for a while and then go back, or posses someone memorize the answer then go back. But both were risky. Well better getting answers than failing. She relaxed, loosening her muscles, slowing her breath. Her chest hardly moving her heart slowed... slowed... then it stopped.

Nakuma sat in his seat, his 'eyes' scanning around. He looked back down at the question's, and scowled. He raised a long pale arm, and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. He sat there, then leaned forward and rested his head on his hand lazily.

"The last question is the key..." He thought.

Johuga sat in his desk, he then heard light fluttering and heard whispering in his ear. It was a nymph, that he carried around when he was outside. Nymphs were about the size of a fairy except slightly smaller, that and Nymphs had the ability to become invisible at will due to the fact that they were tricksters. However this one he had tamed himself and she was quite attached to him... maybe a bit too attached he already had one person in his life that he would be bound to forever. He wrote down the Nymphs information onto the paper. He patted her and whispered.

"Thank you..."

Kurodo Matsura, looked at the paper with his black, blank eye's, he then smiled.

"Well now it certainly was a very interesting test..." he said softly. He held the paper then he looked at his palm, a shining white object appeared from it.

"Very interesting indeed..." he said as the object sank back into his skin. He turned his eye's to the corner of the sheet.

"Question 10 will be revealed after 45 minutes into the test." Matsura raised his head to the clock.

"5 minutes to go..." he said softly resting his hands over each other and placing them on the desk.

"5 Minutes to go!" Rang through the heads of all the Genins currently remaining.
Naruto was still sweating bullets!

"Dammit! I'm done for! I have to cheat! But how? No I can't! I'll get caught and then thrown out!"

It was then that he heard a voice, a small, quiet, shy voice.

"Naruto-kun... You can... copy off of... my test..." Naruto turned slowly to Hinata.

"What?" Hinata blushed, and figetted slightly.

"As we're rookies we need to stick together!" She said, she scooted the piece of paper under her arm, just enough so Naruto could copy enough of the answers to pass. Naruto however heard the sound of a pencil hitting a clipboard and looked to see an examiner writing on his clipboard. The examiner looked up and smirked at Naruto. Naruto looked at Hinata shaking his head.

"Nah! Don't worry about me! I'm a super ninja! This test is a cinch! I don't need to cheat!" He whispered to her confidently.

"Besides you might get in trouble as well!" He whispered seriously... Hinata looked at him.

"Naruto-kun... he really does care..." She thought, slightly elated. Naruto turned to face the front again his grin sliding off.

"I'm an IDIOT!!!"

A Room inside the Exam building

"Well... It sure is boring without my team..." Was all that Kakashi said as he slouched forward.

"Don't worry you'll be busy again soon." Kakashi leaned forward, interested.

"Why is that?" Asuma looked at him.

"I heard the first examiner is Ibiki Morino," Kakashi frowned underneath his mask.

"Not that sadist" he said, Kurenai just sighed.

"Now that I think about doesn't he and Naruto have a bit of a special relationship?" Kakashi gave a snort.

"'Special' is an understatement! I've never seen a pair of sadistic bastards so well matched especially when Naruto's pissed off!"

"What do you mean?" Kurenai asked. Asuma and Kakashi gave a man's look before Kakashi said.

"Now you know about that Naruto's had a bit of talent as a rather accomplished prankster..." Kurenai nodded.

"Naruto also has a bit of a vengeance obsession... Meaning if you do something against him, such as stealing his last ramen pack. Then you will be the target of a prank and a bit of a torture session with Ibiki... if your lucky..." Kurenai gulped.

"If your unlucky?" Kakashi dug into his vest pocket and pulled out a picture, and handed it to Kurenai she looked at it paled and handed it back to him silently.

"I see..." was all she said. Kakashi just closed his eye's.

"I just hope Naruto doesn't get too pissed off about the second examiner..." Asuma looked at Kakashi.

"Oh he will and he'll be screaming at her when she does!" He said chuckling slightly. Kakashi smiled under his mask.

"Yeah... he will... Wanna go see it when it happens?" Asuma shook his head.

"I got Ino to make up for that!" He said chuckling nervously. Kurenai smiled at him. Kakashi looked up at the clock on the wall.

"Well it's almost time..." He said standing up.

"Later..." He walked out the door.

Ibiki turned his eye's to the clock on the wall.

"All right it's about that time now. Time for the main event!" Ibiki turned to all of them.

"All right it's time for the tenth question!" He said.

"Finally we can get the blasted question over with now!" Sasuke thought.

"All right the final hurdle!" Sakura thought.

"This is it! My chance!" Naruto thought. Ibiki looked at them and said...

! I LEFT A CLIFF HANGER!? UGHRA! I know you probably hate me now! I also realize that I gave a very cage description of some of the Soul character that's because I'm highlighting important characters who will come in future. I MIGHT highlight more of them... The minute I can come up with some jutsu's... Feel free to submit some jutsu names and ideas! Remember I have a forum! Check it out! It's about this story! It's also good if you want to put suggestions up okay!? Ah yes! I'll be finishing the first test next chapter and onto the beginning of the second test! And more introductions!!!! And explanations as well!