Book I Naruto: The Guardian Chapter 13: Grinning cat, a naruto fanfic

Hey all sorry for the long wait but here it is the next chapter of the story and the final chapter of the academy arc! Histories gone screwy and now Naruto gets to see the ramifications of messing with time. Not much else to say so Hinata-chan do me the honors of a disclaimer please.

Chapter 13 - Grinning Cat

Hiruzen steeled his eyes as the Mizukage sat in front of him, her three guards sitting on the couch in the other end of the room. The civil war was officially over, and she was her to seek aid from the Leaf. Behind him sat Danzo and Jiraiya, his own council if you will. He didn't know how to feel about this. He didn't doubt that Mei Terumi was an exceptional fighter, she managed to fight Yagura to a standstill. But was she an effective leader now that she didn't have a common enemy to unite her forces?

Jiraiya was all for this alliance, if they could help Kiri get back on it's feet, then they would have a powerful ally indeed. But Danzo aired on the side of caution, who knew if Kiri had other objectives. And Hiruzen was in the middle. He folded his hands and sighed "so Terumi-dono here you are in the Hidden Leaf, have you ever been here before?"

Mei peered past the three men towards the window of the evening view of Konoha, "once when i was very young, but i don't remember much of it, please lets start this meeting properly. I am Mei Terumi the Godaime Mizukage of the newly reestablished Kirigakure no Sato. These are my gaurds and trusted adviser: the old man is Ao, the young one is Chojuro, and the lady is Rozu."

Hiruzen looked back and forth the older man showed little to know emotions at all, the young boy was nervous and he couldn't read the girl at all. "Right, I am Hirizen Sarutobi the Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato, this is Danzo of the ninja council, and Jiraiya the Toad Sage. They will be my advisors for this meeting, from my reports it was Rozu over their that put the final nail in your predecessors coffin is that correct?"

Surprisingly Jiraiya and Danzo gave each other a look of agreement at this innocent question. It was always a good idea to know of your allies strengths. Mei bit her lip, she didn't want to give away all of her cards. "It was a tough battle, of the many times I've fought Yagura it had always been a tie, my lave release barley keeping up with the Sanbi's devastating attacks. Her bloodline gave her a unique advantage against Yagura. But if you will i wont be telling you what that is."

Hiruzen raised an eyebrow but for a few seconds said nothing preferring to look at Rozu. "Understandable Mei-dono. Tell me how are reparations going to fix Kiri itself and the many towns that were devastated by Yagura's purge, I had heard the damage was extensive?"

Mei sighed and looked towards the ground with a somber expression. "Yes there was a lot of damage and we're trying to fix it all, but progress is slow. The economy is shot, Yagura took all of the medical ninja into his ninja force so there are many injured and sick people, ninja and civilian alike. We have barely just enough food to feed everyone. I am here to seek aid for my people."

Hiruzen smiled and sat back in his chair "aid the Leaf would gladly give. I have a contingent of volunteer medical ninja ready to leave for Kiri whenever you are, there's only 25 but they're all young and ready to help. That part is out of kindness and free will, despite how this meeting turns out Mei-dono."

Chojuro stood up suddenly and bowed "thank you Hokage-sama that is very generous of you."

Rozu scowled and pushed him down by his shoulder "oy Chojuro sit down let the Kage's speak in peace."

Mei chuckled "it's alright Rozu let him be happy, but he is right that is very kind of you Sarutobi-dono." She noticed how Danzo scowled behind Sarutobi's back. 'So that's the type of man he his, and Jiraiya seems ok with this hmm...'

"Well these people volunteered to help others in need, i really couldn't say no. Later on we will need to discuss their protection detail and what not but we can go over those details later, instead let us focus on-" Hiruzen's eyes snapped to the doorway, as did the other ninja in the room as a commotion seemed to be happening behind it.

"No seriously this time he IS in an important meeting do not disturb him you little shit! Seriously why does nobody listen-"

The door opened and closed as a dark clothed blond kid walked through. Mei eyeing him up in seconds as he dismissed the assistant. Taking a moment to stare in shock at the red head 'he is a man after all though a little to young for my taste.'

Meanwhile Naruto was staring in shock, what was Mei Terumi doing in Konoha? He knew some big wigs from Kiri were in town, but he thought they were from Yagura to ask for assistance, but she was wearing the Mizukage attire, and he saw sitting to his right Chojuro and Ao and some brunette he didn't recognize.

The Hokage coughed in his hand to get everyone's attention. "Sorry about that Mei-dono, this young man is Naruto he's about to take his gennin exams. Naruto this is Mei she's the Mizukage from Kiri."

That confirmed his thoughts, the civil war had ended and it ended way earlier than last time but how? He shot another glance to the brunette. 'I have a feeling she's involved, but why does she looked familiar?' He swore he recognized her from somewhere, but he couldn't place it. 'Any thought's Kurama?'

"Eh" he could mentaly feel Kurama shrug her shoulders "too much work, I'm going to sleep."

"Oh sorry Hokage-jiji i just need to ask for a favor from you."

Mei raised an eyebrow at Hiruzen "your academy students can ask favors of you Hiruzen-dono?"

Sarutobi laughed "not most of them, but Naruto's parents passed away during the Kyuubi attack, and they were good friends of mine so i have taken care of him for a while. What can i help you with Naruto, and please make it quick this is a very important meeting after all."

Naruto glanced at Mei before wording his request properly "the graduation exam is tomorrow, i was wondering if instead of doing the regular bunshin jutsu if i could do the kagebushin technique?i realized i have way to much chakra to ever be able to preform the bunshin and I was going over some of my dad's old journals and found it there."

Hiruzen looked at Naruto in surprise "can you preform this jutsu Naruto?"

Naruto put his fingers in a cross handsign, "shadow clone jutsu!" Two puffs of smoke appeared on either side of him revealing two identical clones. Leaving all but the brunette looking in shock.

"My, my Naruto being able to preform that jutsu so young, you have some special graduates Hokage-dono." Mei was impressed maybe it would be beneficial to keep an eye on the blond for a while at least.

"She is right Naruto, that is very impressive, but be careful that jutsu uses a lot of chakra, here" he wrote on a piece of paper "give this to Mizuki or Iruka, it says you have my permission. Please do get a good nights sleep, you have an exam tomorrow, and i have some thing important to do as well."

Naruto smiled brightly, before his eyes locked onto the mane of white hair behind Sarutobi that he failed to see when he first entered the room, having been too shocked by Mei. There sat Jiraya, though his face showed as much emotion as Danzo's was, his eyes showed pride in his achievement. Naruto locked up for just a second, a noticable second, before he left the room, intent on heading to see his girlfriend.

Danzo broke the ensuing silence "he grows stronger everyday Hiruzen."

Hiruzen nodded slightly having seen the look of devastation that had dawned on Naruto's face when he saw Jiraiya even though he did try and hide it. He knew Jiraiya was his godfather, probably felt betrayed. He'd have to fix that, "you are right Danzo, but back to our discussion, the Leaf is willing to trade lumber for precious and chakrw conductive metal..."

Naruto quickly, and far to quietly exited the tower, his fisted a pale white from the tightness he was gripping them with. He was barley holding back the tears. He knew Jiraiya was alive of course, hell he even tried to find Jiraiya a couple of times throughout the year but to no success. He hadn't expected his first time seeing the pervert since he...died would have been so sudden, so short.

He wound his way through Konoha's streets and back leys towards the Hyuga compound, intent to avoid as many people as he could, his mind going back to he many times Jiraiya was there for him and had helped him even though he(Naruto) had been to young and immature to see it at the time.

In little over ten minutes of carefully avoiding ninja and civilliwans alike Naruto found himself in front of the Hyuga clan compound. In front guarding the gate entrance was a Hyuga he knew, his name was Hanmaru, a side branch member who never really cared about Naruto's jinchuriki status. He smiled as Naruto approached. "Ah Naruto-san here to see Hinata-sama?"

Naruto forced a small smile "yeah is she here?"

Hanmaru nodded opening the gate "yes Naruto-san, i will send word ahead and she will meet you at the door." Naurto nodded and kept walking and had just gotten past the gates when Hanmaru spoke "oh before you leave good luck with your genin exams Naruto-san."

Naruto nodded curtly and continued deeper into the compound. He was a regular around here once it was known his friendship with Hinata was widely known. Most of the side branch members didn't care, seeing their plight similar, albeit drastically smaller, to his own. The only people who really minded were the clan elders and older retired Hyuga who could still remember the night of the Kyuubi attack.

But he didn't care, the old farts never amounted to anything in his future, not that he could remember anything. Naruto stopped and stared for a hard second. It was really hard to remember everything that happened in five years. He shook his head as his mind wandered back to Jiraiya, and more specifically the meeting he was in. With Mei Terumi. The Godaime Mizukage of Kirigakure no Sato following a brutal civil war.

But how? At best the civil war ended sometime after he and team seven fought Zabuza and Haku in Wave, which wasn't supposed to happen for another two months. And that brown haired woman, he had a vague feeling he had seen her somewhere, and that she was important to the question at hand, but he just couldn't remember.

'Hey Kurama, wanna lend a hand? We've got an unknown player on our board at the moment and i just can't tell how i know her.'

He heard Kurama snort "meh fine, I'm awake anyways, i will start combing through your memories and see if i can find her, best bet is she was some low ranking Kiri nin during the war."

'So why is she here now? Why is she one of the Mizukage's gaurds?'

"Remember kit, those two demons you barely managed to fight off went hiding in Kiri, probably got mixed up in the war, gave this chick a chance to shine and prove herself that she didn't have before. Anyways, pay attention there's Hinata's house."

'I doubt they were killed' having said that Naruto snapped back to reality as his hand was reaching for the knocker on Hiyashi's house. 'Right' he knocked on it three times as another side branch member answered.

"Ah Naruto-san, Hinata-sama is in the courtyard doing a little bit of light practice, shall i inform her of your arrival?"

Naruto shook his head "nah but inform Hiyashi, tell him if he wants a break from the boring paper work to take a look." He smirked as he followed the path to the courtyard, where Hinata had ditched her coat and was doing juken strikes on a wooden dummy. Some of the side branch members had stopped to watch her train but most were used to the sight, going about their daily lives. He decided he was gonna give them a show.

He pulled put one kunai and lazily arced it towards Hinata's exposed back. As it crept closer and closer one side branch member noticed it "Hinata-sama behind you!" In an instant Hinata turned around and saw the kunai, followed by a smirking blonde. She smiled and rather than catching it stepped back and took a breath before unleashing a powerful round house kick that shot the kunai back at Naruto.

He had already stepped forward, and to the side, catching the ring of the kunai on the tip of his sword he had drawn, in one fluid motion spun around sending the kunai towards Hinata. She, in return, threw two shuriken that knocked the kunai straight up and a kunai of her own that hit the first at an angle, so now two kunai were headed towards Naruto.

But he was already underneath them bringing the blunt side of his blade to slash Hinata, who ducked under the blade, using her left hand to hit the flat side away from her and her right thrusting forward in a palm strike. Naruto moved his head to the side, and tried for a sweeping kick. Hinata jumped over it and used Naruto's chest like a platform to backflip away creating some distance between them.

Naruto took a rather peculiar stance, his left arm was in front of him and bent at the elbow so his fist was next to his right pectoral muscle and the flat side of his sword rested on his arm. She recognized the stance from his fathers journals. It was a fighting style Minato Namikaze had tried making when he dabbled in swordplay for a very short time. He gave up on it when he put all of his focus on making the Flying Raijen. It was an uncompleted fighting style the relied upon speed to out maneuver your opponent, but still defensive enough to avoid major damage from foes faster than the user, but it wasn't an offensive style.

'So Naruto-kun plans to make me come to him huh? Fine, have it you're way.' Hinata could feel herself grinning as in the split second she recognized Naruto's stance she charged him, blue chakra visible on the outline of her hands, Naruto grinned as when Hinata was close enough he changed his stance so his blade was pointed downwards vertically parallel to his body, an offensive stance meant to punish those who rushed in head one.

Like Hinata was doing now, he flicked his blade upward forcing Hinata to step to her right to avoid its sharp edge, and smirked as two quick palm strikes to the bottom side sent his sword careening into the air. Naruto pushed Hinata back and leapt catching the hilt, before coming down with a slamming strike wich Hinata dodged with a backflip.

Naruto proceeded with a swipe and a jab, both avoided, but then came a flurry of swipes up, down, left, right Hinata couldn't figure it out and all she could do was duck, dodge and weave. 'What style is this? Naruto-kun's never used this before.'

A sweat was building up on Naruto's brow as he stopped, using a spinning swipe attack to slide past Hinata. He stood up and fancily sheathed His sword grinning. "Hey Hina-chan."

Hinata was still on guard as she stared at Naruto huffing slightly "hey Naruto-kun what brings you here?"

Naruto held out his hands "calm down Hina-chan im not fighting anymore."

Hinata stared at Naruto her eyes narrowing, this wouldn't be the first time Naruto faked a surrender to get q surprise attack in, but he seemed to be telling the truth, she dropped her arms. He smirked and nodded his head in a direction behind and above Hinata.

She whipped around to see the smiling form of her father who gave Hinata a nod of approvement before returning back to his paperwork. "You think he enjoyed that?" Hinata walked over to Naruto giving him a hug before punching him in the arm.

"Jerk if you wanted to say hi all you had to do was-" she stopped as she saw it, no matter how hard he tried to hide it and play happy she was the only person he could never fool, the only person who always saw his pain, even now. "What's wrong Naruto-kun?"

He smiled weakly scratching the back of his head "i figured i couldn't hide it from you, went to the old man to ask about using the shadow clone jutsu, saw Jiraiya, speaking of which is your cousin Neji around?"

Hinata looked confused but pointed to a nearby building where he could see Neji walking down a hallway through some mirrors "over there Naruto-kun, why?" She was vaugley aware that amongst Narutos years in the academy he and Neji had shared a class but Neji really never talked about Naruto, well up until her and him(Naruto) started hanging out more.

Naruto shook his head and grabbed Hinata by her hand rushing in Neji's direction. "Don't worry about it Hinata, I'll explain in a minute right now we need to talk."

"Talk, what do you need to talk to-" they rushed inside and rounded a corner barley managing not to run into a startled Neji "Neji-nee about?"

Neji eyed the two cautiously "Hinata-sama, Naruto-san how can I help you?"

"Right" Naruto took the lead looking around and realizing he really didn't know his way around the Hyuga compound "anywhere private we can talk?"

Neji pointed to an open door that lead to a laundry looking room "This one isn't being occupied at the moment"

"Great!" Naruto grabbed Neji by his wrist and hurriedly walked in and turned to see the curious stares of the two Hyuga. "Right there's no easy way for me to say this without either of you getting major emotional whiplash so I'm just going to come out and say it, Hina-chan, Neji came back with me from the future. Neji, Hinata has all of her memories from the future" he clapped his hands together and took a deep breath "discuss!"

Both Hyuga stared in shock at one another as Hinata's trembling hand came to cup the side of Neji's face "Neji-neesan?" She hurriedly gave him a hug to stop herself from bursting out into tears. Neji's arms folded around Hinata's back almost on autopilot as his eyes continued to stare at the same spot.

"Hinata-sama, do you remember the future? The Akastuki attack, the hunt for Sasuke, ...the war?"

Hinata stepped back to take a good look at Neji, he saw her trembling hands form a shaking fist before...*SLAP* A bright red hand print followed Neji as he was staggered backwards. "How could you Neji?! You died taking an attack aimed at me!"

Neji smiled softly as he grabbed Hinata's hand "you are right Hinata-sama. And I would do it again and again a thousand times over before letting you get hurt. But we have a second chance to do things, so hopefully this time there won't be any need."

Hinata opened her mouth to say something but Naruto interjected "i really hate to cut this moment short Hina-chan but there was a reason i needed to talk to you two." The two Hyuga noticed the serious look dawning on Naruto and separated Neji taking the lead.

"I assume this has to do with why we were sent to the past?"

"Partly Neji, i went to the Hokage to get permission to use the Shadow Clone for the graduation exam tomorrow, and he was in a meeting with Mei Terumi, the Mizukage of Kiri."

That caught both of them by surprise "but Naruto-kun the civil war isn't suppose to end for two or three months right?"

"Correct Hina-chan, but there's more, her guards, she had three of them. Not just Ao and Chojuro, some brunette I don't recognize. Those to demons that attacked us during the training exercise fled to Kiri so obviously they did something to muck up the civil war, or at least that's what Kurama thinks."

Neji interjected confused "I'm sorry Naruto, but demons?"

Naruto shook his head "right didn't tell you sorry, to make a long story short Shinigami sent two demons to make sure things weren't to easy after me, their the ones who attacked us, and hurt Hinata."

Neji nodded "ah ok, so, how is this going to affect things?"

"Well Neji-nee, if Kiri recovers enough they might join the chunnin exams this time, and that will affect the Suna/Oto invasion, and who knows how Iwa and Kumo are going to react to Kiri being the way it is this early. But Oto was always a small town so it really wasn't important after the invasion, but if Suna does invade this time around do you think Kiri will declare war on them?"

Neji shook his head folding his arms "no i don't think so, they just got out of a devastating war themselves, i don't think Mei-sama is going to be keen on jumping into another one."

Naruto nodded "that's why they're here in the first place, to ask for aid and resources to rebuild, that's going to take some time. If they decide to come to the chunnin exams at all it will be a show of force more than anything else."

Hinata crossed her arms and closed her eyes, tilting her head in the manner she always did when she was thinking hard, which Naruto always thought was cute but never vocalized. "What's on your mind Hin-chan?"

"Sorry to deviate off of topic here Naruto-kun, but i remember you telling me that in order to graduate you had to stop Mizuki-sensei from stealing the forbidden scroll from the Hokage tower, but this time around doesn't he seem different?"

Neji gave another look of confusion towards Naruto "remember that B rank mission Kabuto said i finished during the test exam? Stopping Mizuki-sensei was that. He convinced me that there was a secret test those who failed could take for a second chance at becoming a gennin. He was under orders from Orochimaru then, but Iruka-sensei said when i took that attack to protect the students it really changed his perspective of me."

"Yeah and this time around Naruto-san you're going to pass this test right?"

"Of course Neji, the written test and clone jutsu was what failed me last time, this time though I know the answers and have a work around for the clone jutsu. But we haven't done anything on Orochimaru yet so he's still going to have someone get a failed student to try and steal the scroll." .

"What do you suggest Naruto-san?"

Naruto waved his hand "ah after the exam tomorrow I'll have a clones monitor the students who fail, if any of the instructors go to them I'll send word to the Hokage and he can handle it from there." His eye twitched, Hinata almost missed it, but she saw it twitch, he was lying, but she didn't say anything, she trusted Naruto enough that he would know what he's doing.

"What about you Hina-chan feel like joining me?"

Hinata blushed and looked away "sorry Naruto-kun, father is holding a banquet in honor of me graduating as top female of my class, it's suppose to signify me taking another step to leading the Hyuga clan."

"You think anyone would mind if i came by?"

Hinata shrugged her shoulders "the clan elders maybe, but if i invite you as my guest then there's not much they'll be able to say or do without backlash from my father."

Neji smiled "I would join you Naruto, but Guy-sensei is taking us to some village near the border to deal with bandits."

"That's fine Neji thanks anyway, I'm going to head back to my house and read up on some of the family scrolls my parents left me. Good night" Naruto ran out of the room waving, Neji chuckled at his retreating form.

"What Neji-neesan?"

"Well Hinata-sama I was just thinking during this time I thought Naruto to be a worthless, clanless, loser whose only defining traits were his chakra reserves and his pig-headedness. But now he's someone important enough that even the gods have taken notice of him. And us two are somehow caught in the middle."

"I guess so Neji, but this time around we know what we need to do to get strong enough to face the challenges that are coming."

Up in Limbo

Shinigami was in his office doing paper work when a sudden burst of energy from someone materializing in the middle sent everything flying in the air. Shinigami looked nonchalant "hello sister, what do you URK-" his words were cutoff by Kami grabbing him by the throat and slamming him into the wall, her whit gold hair floating as literal fire burned righteously in her eyes.

"Brother dear" she said in a voice to quiet and calm, scaring Shinigami to his core, he had never seen her so mad before except when Kagyuya ate the damn fruit "you told me you only sent two demons to earth."

Shinigami raised his hands "alright, alright, calm down yeah I decided to send one more and-"

"AND YOU DECIDED TO SEND EN-EN?" She was screaming now, the fire in her eyes now running rampant in Shinigami's office burning all it touched to ash.

"What are you talking about? No I didn't send En-En, are you crazy? You know why he's locked away at the very edges of Hell. Not even my captains are allowed near his cell. Only you and I are allowed to see him."

Kami stared at Shinigami for three seconds before waving her hands, and the office shifted to the very cell they were talking about. Eight foot by 5 foot many runes and seals lined the outside and inside of the cell, at the very back a figure was chained from head to toe in bright burning fire. "then explain this!" Kami waved her hands again and the fire began to dissipate.

And as the light dimmed Shinigami saw Elandith, one of his man-bat captains, the very same on he had gone to for advice. He rushed into the cage to catch him as he started slumping "Elandith! What in the name of my sister are you doing in here? More importantly what in the name of me happened to En-En!?"

"I am sorry my lord, I was on my way to get the last demon as you had requested and he jumped me out of no were, he locked me up here and" Elandith stopped as he started coughing, as if he were trying to cough his lungs out. Kami knelt down and placed a slim finger on his arm and all his wounds instantly healed. "Thank you Kami-sama, after he locked me up in his cage, he took my spirit sigil and left. I'm sorry Shinigami-sama I tried to fight him but he was so strong."

Shinigami held up his hand and shook his head "do not apologize Elandith, you would never have stood a chance against him in a fair fight. Rest now me and my sister will handle this." Shinigami snapped his fingers and Elandith faded away, turning around he said "what do we do now Sister?"

Naruto had just walked into his house when his senses went on high alert, his eyes scanning the room which appeared to be enpty, but every instinct that kept Naruto alive the entirety of his life was telling him someone was here, and that person was dangerous. He slowly pulled put a kunai, and threw it at the shadow cast by a bookshelf.

It thudded into the floor lifeless, which confused Naruto, whoever it was inside his house was right there. Suddenly the shadow grew darker and a form started to emerge cloaked in shadows. It grew to about 6 foot when color started to emerge. It looked like a male, but he couldn't tell the figure was wearing a giant baggy light brown trench coat that hid most of it's features save for a dark green mask that looked like a giant grinning cat.

"Hello there" the figure said in a masculine voice, though light. He chuckled bringing the sleeve which extended past his hands to cover the 'mouth' of the mask as he laughed. "I'm surprised you found my hiding spot Naruto-kun. I was not expecting that."

Naruto narrowed his eyes "you know who I am, are you another demon sent by Shinigami?"

The figure chuckled again "oh I'm from hell, and I've been there long enough to have been turned into a demon but I'm not sent by the Shinigami, I'm the last person that fool would let free from hell. Speaking of, him and his sister seem to have a significant interest in you though I wonder why? You are just a human after all, but say I have a proposition if you care to listen?"

'Naruto I don't trust him, he radiates chaotic energy.'

Naruto was caught off guard by Kurama's sudden objection, and in that moment, that split second of surprise the figure disappeared, Naruto swung his fist around and his wrist was caught in the grasp(through the sleeve) of the man who was right behind him. 'How did he move so fast? I didn't even see him move!'

"Aww does the big bad fox not like me, oh I know how about we do this properly" he gribbed Naruto's arm tight, Naruto grunted as he felt his wrist bone crack and he was pulled forward as the man's other hand, palm thrusted and repulsed Naruto into the shelf in his living room. When his vision cleared Naruto saw a red chakra outline where he had been standing.

The chakra coagulated and grew until it formed Kurama in her human form, and as he recognized that a searing pain went through Naruto's entire body as it realized Kurama was physically gone. He gasped as his natural healing factor tried to compensate. Kurama looked back in shock at Naruto, realized he was in pain and spun around to face the man.

"Who are you?" She growled out her hands flexing as her nails grew into claws.

The figure laughed "I am someone so old I've forgotten my own name but you may call me Niyari to Neko or En-En for short and-"

His words were cut off as the door slammed open and two figures rushed in, one was a woman who had a golden aura around her form and two white wings on her back, and the second was a pale man wearing dark robes and had skeletal wings coming from his back.

En-En chuckled and began sinking into a shadow "that's my cue to leave Naruto-kun, but I'll be back."

"No!" The dark robed man shouted and leapt into the shadow following En-En.

Kami rushed over to Naruto, waving her hand making Kurama dematerialize into red chakra that swiftly glided into Naruto via his seal. As Kurama and her chakra made it's way back into Naruto's body he sat up huffing and sweating. "Kami-sama...what just happened?"

Kami laid a hand on Naruto's cheek and all his pain suddenly left, he felt renewed and invigorated. "I am sorry my child, that was En-En, I will explain more later but right now all you need to know is that he is mine and my brothers problem, and someone you will never be strong enough to beat. Focus on passing you're exam tomorrow and I will tell you a story much older than chakra or ninja. For now i have to assist my brother in tracking him down." She helped Naruto onto his feet before flashing away in a bright light.

Naruto grabbed the side of his head 'Kurama can you shed a little light on this please?'

"Well kit I wish I could but I'm just as confused as you are, but I don't know I feel like I've heard that name before, Niyari to Neko. I know I have but were?"

'Couldn't be from you're time with me right? I know I've never heard that name before.'

"Hmm that brunette is gonna have to wait, I'm sorry Naruto but figuring out how I know this En-En is prioity at the moment."

'Understood Kurama, this whole thing has left me mentally exhausted.' Naruto went up the stairs and flopped onto his bed, but not before making four clones and having them stand guard throughout the night. What sleep he could get that night was filled with dreams of massive battles and great slaughter.

Naruto woke up in the morning ti find his clones were he left them. He had woken up in a cold sweat, so he quickly got out to take a shower, school started in an hour, so he had enough time to get to the Hyuga compound and walk with Hinata to the Academy, then it was time to take the exams. He breathed deeply, he wasn't nervous per se but the events of the day before had left him slightly shaken.

'That guy, En-En, Kami-sama said i would never be strong enough to fight him, but that's what people said about Neji. But none of them were Kami-sama, at least I dont think so? What do you think Kurama?'

"I think you need to realize this is someone that Kami and Shinigami both went after and who both think is a serious threat. Honestly if we ever see him again, don't even think about fighting, just run."

"You're probably right Kurama"

Time skip to the academy an hour later

All the students were being seated as Mizuki and Iruka were leaving from a faculty meeting "well Iruka-san how well do you think our students are going to do?" Mizuki asked with a sincere smile?

Iruka had been genuienly surprised at Mizuki's personal development over the year, he had gone from a stereotypical Naruto hater to a decent teacher and that made Iruka happy. "Well Mizuki-san, I think the civilian students might have trouble but the clan heirs won't have to much difficutly."

Mizuki grinned "and the current bet for who will be top male? Of course you're going to pick Naruto right?" Iruka nodded "i want to pick him as well but something happened to Sasuke and he's been working his butt off to so I don't know who to pick."

Iruka was going to respond but a voice from behind them interrupted him "hey Mizuki-san could I talk to you?" It was Tai Lung, one of the first year teachers.

"Go on Iruka-san I won't be long" he turned around and walked towards Tai "hey Tai-san, how can I help you?" Something was off he could tell by the gleam in Tai's eyes. He was a shorter man with a mop of brown hair on his head wearing a basic chunin uniform.

"You're about to give your class the graduation exam right? Including the" he looked around before whispering "demon?"

Mizuki narrowed his eyes, he didn't like were this was heading. "If you mean Naruto then yes, why do you ask?"

Tai not noticing the drop in Mizuki's voice and the look he had on his face passed Mizuki a piece of paper "got this from a friend of mine, give it to the demon."

Mizuki quickly grabbed the piece of paper, and almost crushed it in his hands "is this the jonin written exam? How did you get this?"

Tai laughed evily "I have a friend who knows a guy, give this to the kid and when it's time to grade just say he didn't do it at all. What do you think?"

Mizuki had to tread carefully here, if it got around he was a Naruto supporter life would get difficult real quick. He quickly folded the paper and put in his pocket and put on his best smile "thank you Tai-san, I'll make sure it happens."he hurriedly walked to his class just as Iruka was about to open the door. "Sorry Iruka-san he just wanted some advice on his class is all. Are you ready?"

Iruka smiled sadly "these kids are about to take one big step to becoming adults. All I hope for is that what we taught them is enough." Having said that he slowly opened the door. "Sorry for the wait students, but now yojr genin exams can officially begin, Mizuki here is going to pass you your teat when you finish turn your paper over and wait for everyone else to get done."

Mizuki passed the tests around and soon the sound of pencil on paper filled the room. Naruto found the test almost glaringly easy compared to the last time he did this. Then again the last time he took this test he was actually taking the jonin test so yeah, this is what he expected. He finished just after Shikamaru did.

Moving on tk the thrown weapons test he and Sasuke tied on the kunai and shuriken portion and when it came to the jutsu test well...

"Naruto please come into this room" Mizuki said gesturing to the empty room he and Iruka were grading in.

Naruto walked in and over to Iruka "here Iruka-sensie, this is from the Hokage it gives me permission to hse the Kagebunshin instead of the regular bunshin." Both teacehrs stared at Naruto befre quickly examining the note.

Mizuki spoke first "Naruto can you even do the Kagebunshin?"

Naruto grinned and made a cross sign before smooe filled the room and there were five Naruto's standing there, before the one in the middle slowly punchedthe other for to show they were physical copies. "Yes Mizuki-sensei I have ALOT of chakra."

Iruka clapped "very impressive Naruto-san, now please do a hing and a substitution for us."

Naruto looked at the door before he was replaced by a sleeping Shikamaru who promptly feel to the ground with a surprised scream. "Ahh"

All the students who had been quietly talking to themselves looked towards the room, before realizing it had been Shikamaru who screadm and looked back at his seat to see Naruto leaning back in his chair. "Yo." Shikamaru looked out with a glare "sprry Shika couldn't resist." He only got a muttered 'troublesome blondes before he walked to the door and hinged into a perfect copy of Iruka and wLked through the door.

"And for my hinge I choose you Iruka-sensei" he dropped the hinge and Iruka and Mizuki smiled as Mizuki picked up a navy blue headband.

"Congradulations Naruto-san you are now officially a gennin of Konoha."

Naruto put the headband on and grinned brightly. "Thanks Iruka-sensei, but i gotta go bye!" Hinata had already left to go to her fathers banquet and he needed to leave, two clones had already been left to monitor the failing students, once they spotted the culprit one would pop itself and the other would go warn the Hokage. He had some place he needed to be...

Bum...bum..bum.. who is the brunette? Who the hell is En-En? And why the fuck did it take so long to upload this? Answers in more next time on Naruto the ...wait wait no next chapter is going to be what went down in Kiri...oh well guess you guys are just gonna have to wait and see what Kami has inmind to tell Naruto...mwahahahah

Ja Ne!