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Tritanor14
the author known as cornpuffs
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Now, onto the story...
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"Your...family?"
Secrets Revealed"Yep." Naruto confirmed happily. "My family, or at least part of it." The two siblings just stood there, side by side, smiling innocently.
"The brunette's hot, but the other one looks like a horrible imitation of you." Kiba whispered to Naruto. And at that, everyone laughed. Only Shintu tensed up and crackled his knuckles before approaching Kiba in an aggressive way scaring Kiba and Akamaru away from him.
"Hey, no hitting on my cousin now." Naruto joked.
"Wait you mean this one?" Kiba said pointing at Shintu. "Why would anyone want to?" Kiba added, getting Shintu even angrier.
"Haha, I know what you mean, he's not even good enough for the old hag in her regular form." Naruto laughed, pointing at Tsunade. "And she's like...50." At this everyone laughed, except for Shintu and for Tsunade who put Naruto in a headlock.
"No one, and I mean it, was supposed to find out about that." Tsunade told Naruto as she punched him to the other side of the room.
Finally, when the ninjas, Shintu and Tsunade especially, settled down a bit, and Shintu even began to laugh a bit at Naruto's friends jokes, he said, "Wow Naruto, I wouldn't thought that someone with a demon inside him had so many friends. How did you ge-"He was cut off by the surprised/nervous looks on the Genin's faces.
"They weren't supposed to find out about that," Tsunade told the confused Shintu to fill up the silence.
"Oh...hehe. Sorry Naruto." Shintu apologized as he tried to smile as innocently as possible.
'So, this means that this guy really isn't stronger than me. He's been cheating all of this time. I can't believe I even thought of him as my rival. All of that time, he was probably just using his demon's power.' Sasuke thought
'So, I'm not the only one, eh? That's a relief.' Gaara sighed in relief.
'To think that a demon like me?! EWWWWW' Inner Sakura said, shivering a bit.
"No guys, it's not what you think." Naruto tried to pull his friends back together and tried to keep them from bursting.
"Then what is it Naruto?" Neji asked. "And to think, a demon was behind the logic that I had believed.
"I had always thought you were strong Naruto, but apparently you've been cheating. Relying on you demons powers have you?" Shikamaru remarked while emphasizing on the word 'demons'.
"When were you planning on telling us?!" Kiba asked enraged. "I thought you were actually really strong, relying only on your own chakra to beat me. I guess I was wrong."
"No, I had only used my power then. I didn't find out that I could use Kyuubi's power until ero-sennin told me about it. Honest." Naruto tried to control the crowd of ninja that looked like they were about to explode, and the only person they would do it on right then, was Naruto. "Please, you've got to understand. I hadn't even found out until Mizuki told me."
"Kyuubi? Who's Kyuubi?" someone asked.
"Kyuubi is the nine-tails." Tsunade stepped in, leaving a beat up Shintu on the floor behind her.
"Wait, so you knew this to? And you didn't tell us?" Shikamaru asked.
"The 3rd wanted us to keep it a secret. Only the adults who were here when the nine-tails attacked know about this. That was the only chance Naruto had of making friends. If everyone knew about who Naruto was, then they would be just like their parents and despise him, make him feel lonely. That is the reason why your parents didn't approve of your choice of friends when they saw Naruto."
/ FLASHBACK /
"This is who you hand out with?!" Yelled a shocked mother. "Kiba, you should choose you friends better. And all this time I thought you were making the right choices at school. You might've also made some other stupid mistakes at school. Tell me Inuzuka Kiba, what other stupid thing have you done?"
"Arrrr." Akamaru barked in retreat.
"But mom, he's just a kid."
"Don't 'but mom' me. You are not to hang out with this...thing." She said pointing madly at Naruto. "UNDERSTOOD?!"
"But mo-"Kiba tried to protest.
"UNDERSTOOD?!?!" She repeated.
-half an hour later-
"Whose there?" A sweet voice asked as she came to open the door.
"Good afternoon Ms. Nara. Is Shikamaru home today?" Naruto asked.
All the mother could do was stand there in shock. All of her hair turned white as Shikamaru appeared from behind her.
"Hey Nar-"Shikamaru started. But then the door closed and Naruto heard a whole bunch of shouting. He left sadly.
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
"I heard that the fourth killed the nine-tails." Sakura had said.
"Well, the fourth had sealed it inside Naruto thinking that it might make Naruto a hero in the village. When the 3rd found out it didn't, he put up the decree to not allow the kids to know about it." Tsunade explained.
Everyone was silent. Finally, Koichi broke it, "Look kids, Naruto isn't really a demon. He just has a demon inside him. Did you hear what Hokage-sama said? 'the fourth had sealed it inside of Naruto." Koichi said with the emphasize on sealed. "The demon is sealed inside him. It has nothing inside his body. It has nothing to do with his personality. He is still Naruto, so shouldn't you treat him as Naruto, the friend that you had hanged out with when you were kids?"
Everyone was even quieter after that was said. Finally, they began to understand everything and Naruto became their friend once again.
Finally, Tsunade began the pairings for the finals.
"Now, every one that lost, better luck next time. Winners report to the front of the room." The 5th announced as the losers sighed and made their way out of the building.The winners gathered at the front, waiting for their next instructions. '1 from sound and 9 from Konoha, interesting.' Tsunade smirked as she began the next instructions. "Okay, now each of you get a number out of the box," She said as Anko came by to everyone and held out a box. "From the left, tell me you number."
"6"
"4"
"10"
"8"
"1"
"3"
"7"
"5"
"2"
"9"
"Here are the pairings for the finals." Tsunade announced. The ninjas new to the finals gasped while the others just smirked. Anko showed them a piece of paper with the pairings. Then, she announced what was shown, "Lee vs. Dosu, Gaara vs. Gouchi, Sasuke vs. Shikamaru, Naruto vs. Shino, and Sakura vs. Kiba."
'I've been wanting a rematch with that guy again,' Lee thought, eyeing Dosu.
'I'll kill him for beating up Kankuro like that,' Gaara thought, as he smirked.
'I'm against Sasuke? So troublesome. I'm beginning to have second thoughts about signing up for this exam.' Shikamaru sighed.
'I'm against...that...bug guy?! He's so weird.' Naruto thought.
'I'll beat dog boy and prove to Sasuke that I'm the right girl for me.' Inner Sakura screamed.
"What? Another girl? The girls are getting annoying, eh, Akamaru?" Kiba asked.
"Arf! Arf, arf." Was the reply that only Kiba could understand. Kiba just smirked and said, "Yep."
On the way home, Naruto was in deep thought. When they got to the door of Naruto's apartment room, he asked, "Shintu? Is anyone else that's part of our family still alive?"
"Huh? Why did you ask me that all of a sudden?"
"I was just thinking that if there was anyone else in our family that was still alive, that I'd probably want to meet him or her." Naruto answered somewhat embarrassed.
"Ummm..." Shintu scratched his chin and tried to look like he was thinking. "All I can think of is me, Koichi, and Jiraiyi."
"NANI?!" Naruto yelled. "Yo...you mean...e...er...ero sennin?"
"Wait. You mean to tell me that you didn't know? That he never told you?" Shintu asked in complete shock.
Naruto couldn't speak. He could just shake his head to answer Shintu.
"I'm going to kill that perverted baka for not telling me." Naruto said.
"That liar going to die today." Shintu planned with Naruto.
"Oh, come on you two. Act more mature. So he didn't tell you Naruto, you don't have to get that worked up about it. Geez. I swear you both overreact way too much." Koichi sighed.
"Whatever. So, how is he related to me?" Naruto asked.
"He's your grandpa." Shintu told him.
"WHAT?! So that means that...some of his pervertedness has been passed onto me?" Naruto asked sadly. "Oh no...I'm perverted!" Naruto began to sob.
"Calm down. I swear you overreact more than me." Shintu told him.
"Haha. That's so funny Shintu." Koichi said sarcastically.
"What do you mean?"
"Naruto's not even close to you when it comes to overreacting. I remember that when our tree died, you cried nonstop for a week!" Koichi said.
"So? That tree had been in our family since the day I was born. And I was 9 then." Shintu argued.
"Shut-up...both of you." Naruto commanded. "Now I have one more question."
Shintu just nodded for him to go ahead.
"Okay, now why did your family choose me?" Naruto asked.
"Choose you for what?" Shintu asked back.
"Choose to seal Kyuubi into me."
"Oh heck, how would I know? My dad was always a complicated man." Shintu had responded.
"Fine, fine. Whatever." Naruto sighed deeply. "Now, ontu the most important question. Wh-"
"Wait, wait. I thought that was you last question." Shintu reminded him.
"Well, I thought of another one." Naruto replied sticking his tongue out at Shintu. Shintu just countered by sticking his own out.
"Please Shintu. Be more mature. Your supposed to be a role model for Naruto. Instead, you're acting worse than him." Koichi told him with an emphasis on 'supposed'.
"Okay, okay. What's your second question?" Shintu asked, with almost no enthusiasm in his voice.
"Well, who's going to be responsible for my training in the finals?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, that'll be the lovely me." Koichi replied putting her hand on herself.
"Oh. Oh no." Naruto complained. "Not her. She's scary. If she sacres you when you're not training, then how do you think she'll do when she is training?" Naruto began to whine.
"Oh, shut up you little brat. Come on, let's go pack." Koichi sighed.
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