Chapter 1: Fox

Naruto was standing next to a tree wearing a black hoodie with an orange strap across his chest. Naruto was wearing black pants with a black mask around his neck. Naruto looked at his hand and sighed nervously, seeing a gift in his hands but he just put it in the small bag on his back. Naruto sighed then walked out of the trees into the opening. Naruto smiled looking around, seeing decorations with a cake and a table with presents on a table. Naruto looked at Sakura Haruno, the birthday girl. Naruto was about to take a step when he heard " Nar-r-rut-o-o-kun you-u ch-h-ha-an-nge-e yo-our ou-ut-tfi-it-te." Naruto turned around and smiled. Naruto looked at a pale skin girl with lavender hair and pale eyes. Naruto nodded and then said " Yea Hinata." " What is with the sword?" Naruto turned around and looked at Kiba then after a few seconds he saw Hinata standing next to Kiba, her face red and he pulled out his sword on his back. Naruto looked at his sword seeing a straight blade with both sides sharpened. Naruto saw it was orange and faded to black starting from the tip and going to the end.

Naruto looked at where the blade ended to see two pieces of metal with round edges coming out a couple of inches. Naruto looked past that seeing the handle wrapped in black rope and past that a hollowed circle that his finger can fit through like a kunai. Naruto smiled at the blade then said sheathing it " I have always been a sneaky kid so I have decided to start training in stealth for information gathering or assassination." Naruto smiled then looked at Hinata hearing " I-I wa-as pl-la-ani-in-ng to do-o th-ha-at as-s-s we-e-ell-l." Naruto nodded with a smile but confused why Hinata's face was so red but just said " Well we should train some time." Another word can't be said as he heard a loud cough and after looking at the person who made it seeing Sakura. Naruto smiled but was surprised seeing Sakura glare at him but just shrugged it off and looked around wanting to talk to a couple of people really quick before giving Sakura his gift.

Naruto's eyes landed on Kakashi but before anything could happen Naruto heard " Monster." Naruto looked at Sakura confused when his eyes widened hearing " What are you doing here your fucking monster." Naruto looked at Sakura in complete shock, not able to move when he heard " I think everyone should know the truth of what you are." Naruto just stood there when he looked at Shikamaru hearing " Sakura don't." Naruto's eyes widened more than said " You know?" Naruto saw Shikamaru nod then heard " Hokage-sama Sakura is going to tell no matter what even if she is executed for it but I would like to because I know the whole truth and not be punished." Naruto just looked at Shikamaru as Tsunade nodded and then heard " Naruto is the holder of the Kyuubi demon who attacked Konoha." Naruto nodded and started to move when he looked at Sakura hearing " You're a monster."

Hinata looked at Naruto then at Sakura and back at Naruto hearing " I trusted you Sakura." Hinata was heartbroken seeing her crush have tears down her face and then she grew angry and said stepping forward " Sakura he had done everything for you." Hinata then started walking to Naruto her the only one moving when she stopping shocked hearing " If he wants to do something for me then kill yourself Naruto." Hinata looked at Sakura in utter shock and just took a couple of steps then punched her in the face. Hinata looked at Sakura and grabbed a kunai about to stamp her when she felt herself restrained. Hinata looked seeing senseis of team 9,7 and her own with Shikamaru's shadow connected to hers with also Neji in front holding her arm away. Hinata still manages to give Sakura a deep cut. Hinata shook off everyone but before anything else could be said Hinata looked behind her seeing the back of Naruto's head disappear in the forest.

Hinata looked at Sakura with a glare and said angrily, " He trusted you." Hinata saw a grin form on the pink hair face then heard " That monster should die." Hinata just glared when her eyes widened and said, turning to Kakashi, " You know him best, how would he react?" Hinata could tell Kakashi's face turned sad and heard " I used to talk to him after training. He didn't just like Sakura, he loved her with all of his heart and it might break him." Hinata's eyes widened and just turned and ran after Naruto afraid of the worst.

Naruto looked over the village, the place he calls home or at least he thought it was home. Naruto hated this village and wanted to leave but there are people that don't think of him as a monster and Sakura. Naruto started thinking of him and Sakura and realized she is just like the rest. Naruto grabbed a kunai, his hand shaking and mumbled " Am I a monster?" Naruto moved the kunai closer to his chest until it was a few inches from his chest where his heart is. Naruto closed his eyes seeing everyone of his friends calling him a monster and then after opening his eyes he started to move the blade closer to his heart.

Hinata ran onto the mountain and when her eyes landed on Naruto she could see the kunai. Hinata's eyes widened as what she thought was happening and in an instant Hinata ran across fifty yards in just a couple of seconds and tackled Naruto to the ground as the kunai flew off the Hokage's head. Hinata looked over the edge then back at Naruto seeing him underneath her. Hinata grew a huge blush when she heard Naruto say " If you want to do it yourself just kill me already." Hinata's eyes widened and after a few seconds she hugged Naruto on top of him and said tears fell down her face " Naruto you're not a monster."

Naruto shook his head and used the replacement jutsu then after Hinata stood up he just said " I am one and you don't have to lie." Naruto then looked down and said, tossing his sword to her feet " Just kill me as you were planning." Naruto saw tears fall to the ground from his face then after a few seconds he looked up hearing " Naruto do you know what you have done for me?" Naruto looked up at Hinata and saw a smile on her face then saw her take a few steps then heard " You gave me hope through the academy with the way you are." Naruto looked at Hinata, completely shocked but his face didn't show it and when he saw her take a few more steps, he then heard the pale skin girl say " The energy you had with the happiness and your ninja way inspired me." Naruto was more shocked and really surprised and after seeing Hinata close the gap in between them their faces inches apart.

Hinata looked at Naruto's blue eyes and after a few seconds she put a hand on her crushes chest and said in a whisper " That is what you have done to me. You not that fucking monster." Hinata looked down and said with a small blush " You have inspired me, a weakling." Hinata just smiled not caring when she felt a finger go under her chin then she looked up as her face was forced up gently and blushed looking at Naruto when he heard " You are not weak Hinata. You are the strongest ninja I know." Hinata looked at Naruto with a smile and then her smile grew when she saw him sadly smile when she heard " Naruto."

Naruto saw Hinata backup in embarrassment which made him chuckle and after a few seconds he looked at Kakashi hearing " We need to talk." Naruto nodded, then looked at Hinata and said with a sad smile, " Hinata can I talk to him alone." Naruto saw a nod and after Hinata disappeared Naruto sat down at the edge his legs dangling over the edge and after he saw Kakashi sit down next to him Naruto pulled his sleeve up just enough to expose his wrists and after looking at them seeing scars on top of each other when he heard " How long?" Naruto saw tears land on his wrist then he put his sleeve down and said " Years just a year after I joined the academy." Naruto looked down and heard " I thought you can't get scars easily like that." Naruto looked up and then back down and said " I have slit my wrist over fifty times over the years everytime it leaves a scar." Naruto sighed and said looking straight ahead, " I recently started talking to Kyuubi , just a few words, nothing serious but that fox told me that he could control the healing I get from him enough to give me a scare so everytime I try it heals but." Naruto then pointed to his chest and said looking down " When I was 12 I got so down I tried to gut myself. I have a huge scar on my chest."

Kakashi just looked forward and said " I know about that, I watched you and after dealing with some people came to attack you I found you doing that which then I knocked you out and took you to the hospital." Kakashi then looked at Naruto and said " Send a shadow clone to training and missions with the team and keep yourself away from Sakura. You won't get over her for a while and well I am not risking it." Kakashi then looked at Naruto and said pointing to his sword " I will send a shadow clone to you everyday at training ground 16 to train you with a sword." Naruto nodded and then said " Thank you Dog-sama." Naruto then looked at Kakashi and hugged him.

* The Next Day *

Naruto walked onto training ground 16 at 7 AM to train when he was surprised to find Hinata. Naruto jogged up to Hinata and after standing next to her he said scaring her " Hey." Naruto saw Hinata jump then heard her say turning around " Nar-ru-uto." Naruto nodded and said, " Hinata, you don't have to be nervous around me." Naruto saw Hinata nod but before anything else could be said Naruto heard " Ok you two are here." Naruto turned around at Kurenai, Kakashi and Jariya." Naruto got confused when he heard Kakashi say " The Hokage has decided in four months to tell everyone from the invasion to become chunin but she has also tasked every sensei to give a report of their skills and if not good enough won't be promoted." Naruto's eyes widened then he looked at Kurenai hearing " You both want to do information gathering and assassination." Naruto nodded then looked at Jariya hearing " I will be training you both in general stuff like taijutsu and ninjutsu with also information gathering while Kakashi is going to teach Naruto sword and some other stuff will Kurenai teach Hinata any skills."

Hinata nodded with a smile then after a few seconds she said " Ok then." Hinata nodded and then heard Kakashi say " Naruto, I would like you to send a clone to me for sword training and go with Jariya. He has a few things he would like to teach you." Hinata saw a nod from her crush then heard Kurenai say " I assume you're not going to do genjutsu which is why I want to ask what you want to get into?" Hinata smiled and after a few minutes thinking about it then said " I would just like to do poisons." Hinata saw Kurenai light up then heard " Ok well I have someone who will start training you in that then." Hinata nodded then walked off with Kurenai as the real Naruto headed with Jariya as the clone went with Kakashi.

Naruto walked into an opening with Kakashi and after a few seconds he saw Kakashi turn around holding a simple sword then heard " I am going to show you a few things but what we are mainly going to do is spar with each other only using swords which will just improve as we spar more." Naruto nodded as he made a shadow clone then said " Just in case you dispel me." Naruto saw a nod from his sensei and just smiled as he unsheathed his sword.

Hinata walked in an opening with Kurenai and after she stopped she saw her sensei turn around and heard her say " Hinata first we need to talk about your feelings including how you feel about Naruto." Hinata blushed at the name of her crush, then after a few seconds she took a deep breath and said " What do you want to talk about?" Hinata heard Kurenai sigh then heard " It's about Naruto and what you feel about him." Hinata just nodded then after a few seconds of silence she heard " When you and Naruto become chunin you both will be doing missions together by yourselves and you are really nervous around him and that could doubt yourself which could tell the mission to go differently." Hinata nodded nervously, then heard " I know your feelings about him but I personally think you should try and get over him."

Hinata looked at her and shook, then said angrily " Do you think he is not good enough for me." Hinata then looked down and said " Do you think I shouldn't be with someone who holds a demon?" Hinata looked up at Kurenai hearing " Hinata no it's just that I don't think your feelings will interfere with missions." Hinata stood up shaking her head then glaring at her sensei and said " I will not let my feelings about Naruto interfere. I am not that weak and never will be so if you ever accuse me about that again I will have someone else train me." Hinata saw Kurenai smile then heard " Ok well let's get started."

Naruto looked at Jariya with a confused look seeing Gamakichi, Gamabunta's son. Naruto looked at the small orange frog. Naruto looked at Jariya hearing " I want to teach you jutsu with toads and if you can do it with him you can do it on huge toads. Naruto nodded as the toad hopped on his shoulder then heard the toad say " My summoning clan you could say have a bloodline able to use jutsu with very flammable oil." Naruto nodded with a smile then said looking at Jariya " My affinities are fire, wind and lighting." Naruto saw Jariya a little shook so he grinned and said " I paid attention every once and a while at the academy.