Chapter 2

The Fox in the Leaf

Upon entering the village Naruto was only looking around with his chakra flowing around his body while hearing everything going on around him as well. For him, it was different coming home to a place that was once the center of his nightmares was interesting for sure. More so since he never really cared about what is going on since he heard that the village took a serious hit for their actions to him while he himself was safe in the Land of Blades. In the end, Naruto just approached the village with the same caution he did everywhere else more so because if they recognize him then he would have to be ready to fight. But it felt that no one recognized him but he did hear how everyone was surprised to see a samurai and two girls at his side.

Yuki just ignored them and settled for walking next to Naruto with a smile on her face. She looked like a child but in reality she was older than the village itself so she was just enjoying the feeling of nostalgia. Yeah she never liked her last two host due to what they did to her, she on the other hand was happy to see the village without being chained to a asteroid in the middle of the mindscape. At this same time, if she saw someone aiming for Naruto she was going to make sure it be the last thing they do. Karasuba was of the same mind set but they still argued over who would share a bed with him in the night but Naruto just ignored this and told them to figure it out on their own.

Upon entering the center of the village he paid for a hotel room and stated he was going to go out and see the sites again. Yuki quickly followed behind him to make sure no one dared try anything leaving Karasuba to secure their room. But when she did she saw an old man wearing a white robe and wearing a large hat on his head with three other elderly people following behind him and some masked men. The hotel owner bowed to the Hokage but she just stared at the old man,

"Greetings young lady."

"Greetings what can I do for you old man?" The people at the counter glared at her for her blatant disregard of their Hokage. But Hiruzen laughed remembering how Naruto called him that too when he was growing up and the first word he said was 'Jiji' and he warmed his heart.

"I see you definitely Naruto's traveling companion and someone that is close to him."

"Yes we are lovers." She smiled at the shocked looks on their faces and some of the hotel employees recognizing the name of the demon of the leaf.

"Wait that man was the de-," Karasuba appeared next to him with a sword at his throat and a blood thirsty smile on her face.

"A what?" She radiated killing intent and he soiled himself while falling on his ass.

"He meant he is happy to see Naruto and knows if anything happens to him, his room, or you and his other teammate then there will be an investigation correct?" He glared at the man who paled at the sight of the Hokage's anger pointed at him and nodded his head. Karasuba smiled at the old man while sheathing her blade but she noticed something was invading her mind. Looking over she saw it was the old man standing there with his eyes focused on her and something coming out of his bandages. She took out a kunai and said,

"This goes into your friends so called empty socket if he doesn't stop what he is doing now." Hiruzen glared at Danzo,

"What is she talking about Danzo?"

"Nothing Hokage-sama." He turned and walked away while cursing mentally of being pointed out and knew this is going to be bad if Hiruzen starts poking around in his personal affairs. He would have to contact Orochimaru later to confirm some changes to their plans down the line.

While Hiruzen and the others were talking to the Crow Naruto was walking around the village and heading to the entrance in the West while enjoying the feeling. He loved this feeling, the feeling of the air on his skin and the idea that tomorrow he is going to fight some powerful warriors and show them what he has. He had already sealed the Kitetsu blade to avoid it requiring a proper sacrifice on its blade. For him, he was happy his other blade was with him since it was not cursed like his original sword was but there was a required feeling of his blade being of higher maintenance than most of the other weapons he has seen. It was a powerful sword forged by his master but he warned him that taking care of the blade means the better the care the more powerful it will become in time.

He was brought out of his thoughts by shouting and thus dashed over that way to sense an amusings scene. In front of him was Sasuke standing in a nearby tree with a red hair teen hanging below him upside down and they were watching the scene. One was a black covered boy with makeup carrying some kind of wrap on his back while holding a kid wearing a helmet on his head and brown hair. Next to them was a girl with four pig tails he could feel out and at the same came carrying a very large fan on her back. In front of them was Sakura and Sai who was smiling at the scene while displaying no real emotions whatsoever.

Naruto landed on the ground while slowly walking up to the group and chuckilng at the scene.

The group turned to see the blond hair teen approaching them; earning a glare from Sasuke, Sakura, and a neutral look from Sai. Inside however he was scared, something he thought was not possible, of the teen in front of him. Without his eyes he managed to take down Zabuza and from the rumors around ROOT he heard is that he killed several shinobi in the process that belonged to Danzo-sama.

The other group however was looking at the scene in confusion of the blind swordsman approaching them, except the red hair teen who could hear his mother screaming that he must have his blood. The brown hair child just thought this guy was a weirdo like the pink hair girl.

"So anyone going to explain why you are planning on striking the child of the Hokage?"

"What's it to you blind bastard?" Temari smacked him on the head,

"Kankuro cut it out, if that kid is the grandson of the Hokage it be better that you don't get us kicked out."

"Oh really, what is he going to do about it then?" Suddenly he felt something at his throat and saw it was a sword that glistened showing it being able to cut his throat. The teen was holding the boy out while putting him on the ground facing away from Kankuro.

"Run along child, this is something that is beyond your training for now."

"Thanks mister but what's your name?" The teen smiled,

"Ask your grandfather he knew me." The kid frowned before taking off with two more children joining him in his run.

"Hey bastard!" Naruto turned to the black covered teen,

"Yes?" He pushed his sword closer to his throat showing he was willing to cut him. "What is it I can do for you?"

"Who the hell are you to challenge us? You think your hot shit just becau-,"

"Kankuro that is enough."

The red hair teen appeared on the ground while staring down the blond hair teen.

"B-but Gaara-,"

"Shut or I'll kill you." Gaara turned back to the blond swordsman but what he saw in the background was something no one else saw. He saw a short, blonde haired girl standing there in the shadows while radiating a dark red aura with fox ears on her head. She glared at him and it seemed her red eyes just got darker and darker the more he focused on it.

'SHUKAKU! I dare you to harm him! You do and I promise as the oldest sibling I will tear you to shreds!'

'Fuck, sister got a crush, best to go now son.'

'Yes mother.'

Gaara quickly got out of the situation by saying,

"I'm Gaara Subaku I look forward to meeting you in the chunin exams,"

"Naruto Uzumaki, Fox of Ruin." The group paled at the title and he smiled bloodthirstily,

"Mother hungers for your blood."

Soon the teens were gone before Naruto was hit by a blond blur,

"Yuki found Naruto-kun!" She hopped in front of him, "Did you see how I sent that sand dumbass running for the hills!"

Naruto leaned down and scratched her head and she purred at the amazing sensation where her ears should be. "I did Yuki, I'm so proud of you."

"Hey hold on a minute!" Turning his head he put Yuki on his shoulders, his head getting clung to by the fox.

"Yes?"

"What the hell are you doing in our village! We could have you arrested for what you did to us in Wave!" Naruto shook his head,

"You can't, for one I was fighting Zabuza and then you guys decided to attack me. Next, while I'm not a Leaf citizen anymore I'm pretty sure you guys don't have a bounty out for me so you can't arrest me." Naruto turned away from them and blurred again down the street and finished, "Also the Chunin Exams are in your village this time around meaning I'm here to fight in them. Look forward to seeing if you guys are worth killing in this exam." With that he was gone and the group was terrified or angry that someone like him was in the village. How dare they disrespect them, they earned their respect for being born in the great clans of the village or being trained to be the best in the village.

Naruto had picked up some sweets and walked back to his room in the hotel while avoiding the many ANBU that were trying to watch him during his walk with Yuki. She was eating her sweets on his head while he had a bag for him and Karasuba to share. But the minute he opened the door he saw her sitting in a chair drinking some sake surrounded by the corpses of blank face ANBU agents.

"ROOT huh?"

"Yeah you think these bastards would cut it out given that if we go missing the Hokage is going to suspect him in a second."

"True but he doesn't care he is acting on what is good for the 'village' or more what is good for him to gain his title as Hokage. Oh well, we'll deal with him in due to him but for now enjoy the snack and let's get some sleep. I rather be awake while we are taking the exam and able to finally fight Akame after all these years." Soon the three ate the sweets and after putting up some seals had fallen asleep unaware that the ROOT trying to get to them were turn to ash the minute they tried to bypass the seal or mess with the seal formation around the room.

Time Skip

Naruto woke up and started his walk to the academy with Yuki at the front and Karasuba standing next to him on his left. Entering the building he was flooded with memories of promising to become Hokage, become a strong shinobi for the village. The reality of the situation however was that no matter how hard he tried he would never be accepted by the village. So he was content being here long enough to fight Akame and then leave without a second thought.

Walking up the stairs and entering the room he saw the room filled with shinobi of genin level and only a few having Jounin or even ANBU or Sanin level strength at this point. For him, it was an everyday thing given who his teacher was and the other masters he met over the years. But he eventually ran into a black hair girl with red eyes and wearing a black top and red skirt and armguards with a katana at her side. She looked at him with a small smile on her face with her two teammates a blond hair woman with a tight black singlet and some leg pants and a belt. The other was a man with black hair and a red and white spear on his back and a sword at his side.

"Akame it has been a while."

"Indeed Naruto-kun."

"Hey one shot." The girl frowned,

"Hello Sadist."

"Tiny chest." Akame frowned more,

"At least it is better than having breasts that can't match performance." Karasuba glared at the girl and was about to lash out but Naruto stopped them with his sword between them. Shocking the room never seeing him reach for his weapon or even remove it from its sheathe.

"That is enough Akame I think you can guess why I'm here yes?" She nodded her head,

"Word has gotten out you killed Zabuza and took his sword."

"Indeed. So I heard you be here so I've come to challenge you at some point and see who is stronger." She smiled,

"I accept either in this tournament or when the tournament is over."

"Good so do you know the whereabouts of the other students?" Akame tilted her head but then the blond girl asked,

"Hold on Akame how do you know these three?" She turned to her teammate,

"Oh right I haven't done introductions. Leone, Bulat this is my friend from the Land of Blades Naruto Uzumaki also known as the Fox of Ruin while her friend is the Sadist or Karasuba as she claim is her name. The other is Yuki and she is someone that usually is not too far from Naruto at any point."

"Oh I see well then nice to meet you guys." She shook their hands while Bulat smiled,

"Yeah nice to know that Akame has such a handsome friend."

"He's gay." The room heard this and was turned silent from the comment alone.

"Hey don't give people the wrong impression of me would ya Leone?" Naruto sighed and went back to Akame,

"The other students?"

"Well I heard Cloud is somewhere in the Land of Water, Esdeath is fighting out on the Northern Terrain, and I think I heard rumors that Coycutus was fighting somewhere near the land of Earth or Land of Snow."

"I see, that is interesting then. I'll probably stop by Land of Water since it is closer than the others. That way I can give Cloud the sword and fight him in a straight up match." Akame shoo her head,

"He won't fight you remember? It also has to be Samehada." Naruto tcked,

"Damn forgot about that."

"Don't worry I'm sure Esdeath shouldn't be too hard to fine given her love of carnage and mayhem. All you'll have to do is follow the corpses to the source."

"That and that dumbass Coycutus wouldn't be that much harder to find due to him probably taking someone's side in a war in Snow."

"Probably."

"Alright," Naruto sees Kabuto pull out a card and could hear something he said,

"Naruto Uzumaki, not much on him I'm afraid he apparently was once a child of the Hidden Leaf before he fled to the lands unknown, other than that nothing really stands out for him. Same for his two teammates and the other team."
Sasuke seethed and saw Naruto smile at him knowing he can't get anymore out about him so he just glared at him with his sharingan. Naruto just shook his head and then the boy, Kabuto, was attacked by Sound shinobi. From this point, Naruto heard the protector arrive and shout,

"Alright maggots I'm Ibiki and I'm here to start the exam! Hey Sound ninja's take a seat or I'll have you thrown out!"

"Sorry protector we got antsy won't happen again." Naruto watched through his chakra that the mummified man was with some kind of weapon on his arm to cause vibrations. He was unimpressed by anything else about him due to his chakra being almost none existent in any other sense. Next to him, his two teammates share the same distinction due to the girl only having some chakra less than the mummified guy and the other teammate. Finally the final teammate apparently had his chakra focused into his arms and right where his palms would be. This told him that he was pretty weak himself and had probably one good move he would use frequently.

From this point, Naruto took his seat and felt that he was next to the Hyuga girl and she was shivering in fear and confusion. On the other side was some teen that was from another village and not worth noting at this point.

'Naruto-kun, Yuki sense two of her siblings here.'

'Interesting who are they?'

'Yuki guess it is her youngest siblings Matatabi the Nibi and Shukaku the Ass Raccoon.'

'Huh I know about Shukaku given I ran into him yesterday but what about Matatabi?'

'She is sitting behind you, apparently she has a red hair dark skin girl with her and a boy with white hair and they all carrying swords.'

'Well then Yuki keep me informed if they are trying anything.' He could feel her give a mock salute to him.

'Yes Yuki will complete the objective that is set out for her and then you might reward Yuki?' Naruto smiled,

'I will.' The connection was cut and soon the whole class was starting on the exam while some are cheating obviously but others are doing it more discreetly. For them, they were either using chakra or creative means of cheating on the tests while trying to discern the real goal of this test. Naruto didn't care about the test and just left his paper blank while he practice some mental tricks in his head. He learned about training in the mindscape and while physical activities don't translate from his mind into real life, learning moves and techniques that require chakra was a different story.

While he was focusing on this task Yuki gathered up her chakra and with her eyes turning red under a genjutsu to hide it she contacted her sibling Matatabi,

'Hello sister Yuki has not seen you in a while.'

'Yuki! What are you doing sister I did not know you left your seal.' Matatabi stood as a massive blue and black flame cat with gold eyes and having two tails swinging behind her.

'My master allowed me to leave the seal after we learned to trust each other. I wanted to know about your host and why they are here.' Matatabi gulped when in the mindscape she saw her sister glaring at her daring her to lie to her. Growing up when the old man died Yuki was the one that took care of her and the rest of the younger siblings and made sure they were ready for the real world. While she was part of one of the villages that did not abuse the Jinchuriki there was still their fair share of problems that came up from time to time. She still feared Yuki who was the strongest of them and one of the few people that after acting out could put her and the rest of them in their place if the time calls for it.

'Orders from her Raikage, their objective is to infiltrate the village and see if they can make off with the seed of a Hyuga. The girls are to try and seduce one while the boy is going out of his way to try and see if he can woo one of the women of the Hyuga clan. Apparently he is still obsessed with getting the Byakugan for his village, or at least that is what it seemed. Yugito was told to do this by the village elders and thus she had to do it or be punished for disobeying them.'

'How sad sister, can't even protect your host even if you can leave the seal?'

'Not all of us have a wish of being known as powerful enough to leave their seal.'

'Regardless, tell your host this; I'm watching you both and if I find your team performing any evil task I will remove your forcibly and punish you myself.' Matatabi saw her sister turn into her real demon form and this scared her shitless because it seemed she had gotten even stronger since she was sealed all those years ago.

'I will sister.'

'Good.'

After leaving the mindscape Nibi sighed and started getting in contact with her host warning her of Yuki, her host, and the fear of going through this mission even if this might cost them everything in the end.

All around the room everyone was either spotted too many times or just decided to quit after finding the test too hard. In time, the examiner shouted them to stop and that he was about to unveil the final question. From there he asked if anyone wanted to drop out and then told them they fail this question then they would never be allowed to become Chunin.

In the end, he turned to Naruto who he was told was back in the village and glared at the teen.

"So what about you brat? I heard you were back. Pretty ballsy that you are taking the exam with no eyes? You think you're ready to fail and never reach anything in life?" Naruto smiled at the man and opened his eye sockets showing how hollow they were. This caused him to flinch and back away from the teen who then said,

"You think your little intimidation tactics work? I'm sorry they don't after all this village did do this to me." He took one of his hands and put it into the empty socket of his left eye and rolled it around the rims. This freaked some of the students out, some passed out, others blanched at his basic disregard of his injury, and finally the shocking fact that he was just talking about having his eyes gouged out like nothing. "Losing my eyes has been one of the hardest things I had to deal with along with having to learn to fight and kill without them. But then again I enjoy not having eyes again, that way when I kill someone they know I saw them as a warrior rather than what they look like." Naruto then pulled his hand out of his eye, "So why don't we finish this and move on."

Ibiki had done and seen many things in life that either freaked him out or just made him immune to weird shit like this. In the end, this is the creepiest thing, the Hokage told him to evaluate Naruto while testing him. From what he could see the kid is just uncaring, he stopped caring about the world around him and was just enjoying the road he was taking. To him, if he died today it meant nothing because he was still not going to let anyone take away the choice of his life. That is what it boiled down to, he wanted to have complete control of his life and no one was going to take this from him and it freaked him out a bit. This kid, he was not normal something not even the ROOT could reach, he was a monster, no a demon of the highest order.

Ibiki walked away from him and shouted,

"All who have stayed, you passed the first phase of the Chunin Exams." Everyone start questioning the point of the exam and he went into detail about it. Eventually they were interrupted by a black blur hitting the wall and revealing,

'The Sexy and Single Anko Mitarashi has arrived!" Standing there was a purple hair woman wearing a fishnet shirt, brown leather jacket, brown eyes, and a shinobi skirt.

"Alright brats don't celebrate because it is time for the second exam!" Ibiki came from behind the tarp,

"Anko your early again." The woman frowned,

"Woah more than 60 people left you lost your touch Ibiki."

"Or we just have a tough group this year." Looking at where he was staring she saw the blind swordsman and smiled,

"Oh did the blind kid bump you off as terrifying?" She was teasing but then she found herself the target of potent KI coming from a small yellow hair girl with gold eyes. She glared at the woman and she sweated from the feeling of her unrivaled power coming off her body.

"Well it doesn't matter because when I'm done I should cut this more than in half easy!" She licked a kunai and soon shouted, "Head for the Forest of Death if you don't know where that is better asked for directions. If you are not there in a hour then you'll be disqualified." Naruto smiled,

"Very well, come Karasuba, Yuki." Both appeared at his side and soon were gone in a blur. She was shocked by the pure speed that he displayed and seemed like he was moving faster than Hiraishin. More so to the point that he was moving at the speed that he can take others with him.

Soon the class piled out and in that time only three teams did not make it to the Forest of Death and Anko was staring them all down. She explained how this part of the exam was going to work while Naruto was sensing around and felt a disturbance in the area. More from the Kusa woman who apparently had a dark taint in her chakra and gave off the feeling of snakes that Yuki confirmed her sent. Naruto only knew of one person that had that kind of sent other than the examiner and if it was them he could take the Kusanagi back with him today. Otherwise he could finally test himself against an actual S-class shinobi and see if they match up to him. While some carry the title of S-class in the shinobi world, the masters of the Land of Blades were higher than them and carry the same title. So he got around to the idea of calling the two groups either entitled S-class or Master S-class. Entitled means just because they have a S-class rank on their name they get a swell head about it and might not have the skills to actually back up the rank. Other than that the Master S-class are real monsters and can slaughter entire armies on their own without people getting in the way of the mix.

Anko saw that Naruto was not paying attention was settling for petting his younger teammate. So to mess with him she pulled out a kunai but before she could throw it she saw Naruto in front of her with his hand on her hand preventing it from throwing. Next he had his other hand on her throat and she froze in fear of the smile on his face. It was not a warming smile, more it was smile that was radiating evil intent.

"I hope you were not planning on throwing that at me now. That would be ill advised since I could easily just kill you for that." He let his aura radiate wildly.

Anko, undisturbed by this, let the kunai fly.

Naruto smirked.

Anko's eyes widened as her kunai disappeared and reappeared next to Naruto in Yuki's mouth as she was squatting next too Naruto.

"Good girl." Naruto said blandly as Yuki shattered the kunai with her teeth while glaring menacingly at Anko before tensing and slinking into Naruto's arm like putty when he started to pet her.

"Sorry I guess you are better than the normal genin's around here." Anko stated with a shrug while Yuki laughed lightly at this comment as Naruto petted her head.

If her tails were visible they would be wagging madly.

"Of course, while I practice the sword I have other talents and I'm sure the rest of the world will see soon."

In this time he went back to his team and they signed the waivers before having their own scroll handed to them with a sneer from the chunin. Naruto knew this is one of the demon haters and that he was planning on faking his scroll, so he quickly blurred past him and took his own scroll along with the other scroll they needed before appearing back in place. It was a few seconds but he did it thanks to his new speed move he developed that moves faster than the brain can process and in those split moments makes it look like you never took your eye off the person.

Naruto eventually arrived at his gate and smiled at the feeling of excitement. HE wondered if he should go after the snake first, his little buddy that had too much information not to be a spy, the kumo team, or just go wild? The possibilities are endless for him.

"Alright everyone start!" Naruto and his team took off in a blur and proceeded into the forest. The second Exam has begun.

Chapter End